As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say https://t.co/YOdjX6c7QA
— Scientific American (@sciam) July 26, 2024
As a daughter of a math teacher, I have some bad news.
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Clarissa's Blog 
As the granddaughter of both a chemical engineer and a submarine navigator… dang I wish.
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These are the people who say that MAGAs are a cult. But what’s this slavish adulation of Harris, then? When I was a kid, we were told this kind of stories about Grandpa Lenin. What an embarrassment.
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Until 7 days ago, the only discourse about Kamala has centered around how much of a liability to the democratic party she is, with CNN even saying at one point that the reason why Biden’s ratings are down because of Kamala. Democrats have long considered her a dud.
Until 7 days ago, that is. Now she’s the most popular political candidate of all time. White women are going crazy over her (you posted a few examples in a previous post), though millions of views on tiktok don’t necessarily correspond to vote, so it may be all fake, who knows.
Most of all, I’m afraid of the unmarried white women demographic. They have the potential to do the most damage lol.
What do you think?
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propaganda machine, engaged. Coordinated U-turn.
The great wonder is that anyone still trusts the press.
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Exactly. Now that Kamala has become the de facto Democratic nominee, the anti-Trump press has no choice but to praise her to the skies.
(Obama is reportedly ENRAGED that she managed to get the nomination despite his private efforts to prevent that. He’s certain that she can’t beat Trump.)
Dreidel
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Whoever puts out those talking points that they all follow so slavishly that they use the same dang phrases over and over and over right across networks, all at the same time… that is who actually runs the media, which isn’t supposed to be a dang monopoly.
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I really don’t get why more people aren’t angry at being constantly treated like stupid pawns by the press. Why isn’t it prompting them into being at least a little less gullible?
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They can’t handle the idea of giving up on institutions they have regarded as authorities… without a replacement authority. None is forthcoming. Most people can’t handle simply *not having* an authority. Press-as-authority is a big timesaver. You don’t have to track down information, come up with your own opinions, information, narratives, conclusions, it’s all done for you and you can go on with your life. Which is great as long as that authority is basically on your side. It’s a really big cognitive leap to do anything *else*.
It’s not so hard for those of us who naturally have problems with authority.
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This was April 26, 2024. Look at them now.
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I remember this historian from some of your posts a few years ago. He’s gone batshit insane. “Biden benediction” lol
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“the Biden benediction”
Biden is a practicing Catholic, so there’s always the possibility that the Pope will make him a saint after he croaks.
Dreidel
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As we used to joke, Comrade Stalin is a great scientist. He can turn any great scholar into a pile of shit and any pile of shit into a great scholar.
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I haven’t seen this one but I’ve seen another terrible one today, as well. So sad. I’m starting every public talk in Ukraine with “please, I beg you, do not listen to Timothy Snyder.” He’s doing great damage to us. I’m sure he doesn’t mean it but oh God.
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“Scientific American”
The extent to which once revered american institutions have been defaced by this cult over the last decade is mind-boggling. This used to be a great magazine.
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They will make a laughably flimsy case of heritability to bolster their preferred political candidate but will reject rock solid scientific evidence of heritability of IQ at the same time.
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The degree to which the mainstream media has disgraced itself with its lightspeed adoption of the Cult of Kamala is mind boggling. Never seen anything remotely like it.
Am I crazy or where a bunch of dems hoping/planning to remove her from the ticket a few months ago?
Now she’s the second coming of buttered popcorn….
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Please don’t mix up her race.. caramel popcorn please, not buttered popcorn.
What are you… a bigot!?
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“don’t mix up her race”
Okay…. they’re treating her like the second coming of jerk chicken roti….
I’m fearless!
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People are so subservient, it’s extraordinary. They need somebody to idolize, and they’ll crawl across the Gobi desert to do so.
On both sides.
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But the Dems are the party of science!
Amanda
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On a separate note, looks like Biden’s gonna pack the courts. Party of science and the party of democracyyyyy!
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A constitutional amendment?? The dude is more senile than anybody suspected if he thinks it’s going to happen.
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“I am not fit to campaign for president, my own party deposed me through a twitter post while I was isolating from COVID, but I have the political mandate to change the constitution.”
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It’s done to signal that he’s competent to finish up his term. “Look, he’s undertaking an ambitious long-term project! He’s extremely capable!”
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As the son of a high-school English teacher, I have some good news:
I learned excellent grammatical skills as a child, and never make common grammatical mistakes when I speak or write, not even usually omni-present comma splices.
My mother was not only a teacher but also a karate expert, and every time I misspoke grammatically. she’d deck me with a judo chop.
Dreidel
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Didn’t notice the funniest part until now.:
“Experts say”
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LOL, as a retired scientist, that was the first comment that I noticed ;-D
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One would like to see their credentials. Perhaps they are experts on the manufacture of chenille textiles? Pop culture of the 1890s? Crowd surfing dynamics?
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