Posts like these can be no fun to write sometimes, now that social media has compelled all entertainers to share their political views online. We remember finding comedian Michael Ian Black kind of funny in that thing he was in that one time, so you’d think someone who makes a living from their wit would throw better punches than these.
In short: Republicans don’t believe in science.
As a massive hurricane bears down on us, please remember that one American political party literally does not believe in science.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Glad he threw in that “literally,” although when we think of people keeping politics and science completely separate, the group that comes to mind is the group who held an intimate Wiccan prayer ritual in Portland in support of Bernie Sanders.
Hang on … this rant goes on a bit.
So don't fucking tell me there's no difference between the two parties. One party DOES NOT BELIEVE IN SCIENCE.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
By the way, they also don't believe in economics except insomuch as economic "theory" benefits them personally.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Some other things they don't believe in: environmental regulations, public education, right of citizenry to have access to good healthcare.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Add to the list as you see fit, but if you want to determine a political party's fitness to govern, ask: do they believe in science?
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
We don’t know — this Democratic Congressman thinks he knows something about science. Check the lab coat.
Can we stop for just a minute, since there’s a recurring theme here? What did it mean when candidate Hillary Clinton said at her acceptance speech in Philadelphia, “I believe in science”? Seriously, what did that mean? She believes in the scientific method? She believes “settled” (i.e., generally accepted) theories?
Or did it mean that if you are wearing a white lab coat and tell her something, she’s compelled to believe you? Were she elected, would she surround herself with the same high-profile scientific minds like Bill Nye the failed improv comic and his assistant Clock Boy to advise her on policy.
Sorry to go on, but this really grates. Everyone knows that “believing in science” is shorthand for believing in man-made climate change, and most people’s belief in that is predicated on consensus — and even that study that found that consensus can be shot full of holes.
So now, ironically, it’s the people who are still asking questions about the world around us who are branded the science “deniers.”
We warned you; this goes on:
Disbelieving in science allows them to disbelieve in data. Disbelieving data allows them to support their royalist belief system.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Disbelieving in data when the data’s been cooked is a good thing.
When science is inconvenient, much easier to find fault with the data than with your beliefs. Why is so-called "faith" so important to them?
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Hang on; here’s comes the hard turn into “faith” vs. “science” — like any good roller coaster, you know it’s coming, but you still get a queasy feeling every time you round it.
Because faith requires no evidence? Faith actually spurns evidence; lack of evidence actually strengthens faith. It's the POINT of faith.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
The more you invest your political party is "faith-based education," or "faith-based solutions" or faith-based fuck-all the more you can…
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Disregard the actual fucking scientific method. Helpful for determining things like whether a hurricane is going to level your city.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Or whether lower tax rates actually grow the economy or whether one racial group is superior to another.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Scratch the surface of any GOP policy prescriptive and you will find some "faith-based" rationale. This is purposeful and potent.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
OK, forget faith: ask an atheist scientist when life begins — at conception, viability, or birth — and then tell us politics doesn’t enter the equation.
And yes, royalist. If we can't have an actual monarchy endowed by the creator to rule, we can have the next best thing. Oracles of the right
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Wait, he’s not done. Now he’s on to “junk science” … like the study that “proved” 97 percent of scientists agree on climate change being man-made.
Pushing junk science and faith-based propaganda designed to provide cover for a snatch and grab agenda designed to make a tiny group
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Of billionaires ever richer. To what end? I suspect they don't even know. It's a game. A stupid fucking game.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
We know, right? After all of those attempts to set up nations where there are no economic classes went so well, too.
At best. At worst, and I suspect this is closer to the truth – some of them believe their own insane rhetoric and believe they themselves
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Have actually been endowed by God to rule.
Look at Betsy Devos or Mike Pence or any of that ilk and tell me I'm wrong. They believe it.— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
And they will never stop justifying their own bullshit. People are going to die in Florid in the next few days and they're going to offer
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Thoughts and prayers and go back to raping the country they claim to love in the name of Jesus fucking Christ on high. Fuck them.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
And if you support this bullshit, fuck you too.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) September 9, 2017
Guess that means Micheal Ian Black won’t be going for coffee with us anytime soon. It’s over. Or maybe not; what if we set up a science fair … Michael Ian Black vs. whomever on the Twitchy staff has a white lab coat. Baking soda and vinegar volcanoes at dawn.
Here’s our theory: people say they “believe in science” to sound smart, because “I believe in science” has no inherent meaning. Science doesn’t care if you believe in it or not. Science doesn’t change based on consensus or faith or politics … and yet some political types think it does.
https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/906599610268844032
I just read all his other posts after that. Wow. It is almost sad.
— CShields (@CShields3) September 9, 2017
TDS makes people unfunny
— Snad (@Levidog) September 9, 2017
There another scientific theory that’s been floated: Trump Derangement Syndrome does put stress on comedy writers to be funny.
https://twitter.com/r_kibblehouse/status/906602284859060225
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/906597360071045121
He’s an actor … but he’s not a Republican, so he believes in science. You might work in science, but he believes in science. You know what believing in something you can’t prove is? Faith.
Science isn't a belief system. https://t.co/ADlJatkFhD
— Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) September 9, 2017
Talk to me about science when you stop strip mining nickel and shipping it halfway across the world to make your "green" hybrid cars.
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) September 9, 2017
The truth is that idiots in this country deny scientific findings when it suits their agenda or worldview. It's not a partisan problem.
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) September 9, 2017
In fact, "science denial" is a dumb term. It should be called "science disregard" because people ignore it when it disrupts their argument.
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) September 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/906599678950694913
https://twitter.com/CounterMoonbat/status/906603421385592833
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