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Probe makes historic comet landing

Climate Denier Ted Cruz Is Poised to Become a Lead Senator on Science

Congratulations, Voters. You Just Made This Climate Denier the Most Powerful Senator on the Environment.

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[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. We're a third world country now. We are no longer the leader in space.

Russia, China and Europe are the leaders now.

And the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, has a Ph.D. in physics. That's what they elect for politicians.
And the Germans all speak perfect English. They speak better English than Americans.

[KansDem]

22. "We are no longer the leader in space."

Just the space between our ears.

[MattBaggins]

33. Physical Chemistry

and if you think Germans speak English better than us, you have not heard my wife speak.

[Plucketeer]

2. And when we find the particular cinder that God calls home

he's gonna be pissed - seeing as how we're trashing the home he gave us.

[geardaddy]

3. Here's Louis CK's response to these eejits

[EEO]

4. USA! USA! USA!

Pathetic.

[FSogol]

5. K&R. n/t

[rtracey]

6. This is what we seem to be heading into......remember this

I almost can see Ted Cruz as the President in the Dead Zone Movie......"The Missiles are Flying....hallelujah....hallelujah" If you don't know what I am talking about... rent or watch the movie.. Stephen King - The Dead Zone......scary......

[Central Scruitinizer]

8. (Un)fortunately

America's missile launch system is a disgrace. General security and system failure virtually guarantees the Air Force is unable to launch a silo based ICBM/

[Martin Eden]

10. Martin Sheen was a much better president in the West Wing

I wish life would imitate that art a little more.

[jillan]

12. Who is going to be our Christopher Walken to stop him?

That is one of my all time favorite movies.

[geretogo]

7. It would not surprise me if these two idiots write a bill to outlaw science in the public schools

and replace it with mandatory intense Bible memorization to counter the idiots memorizing
the Koran . Each side must prepare the sheeeple to kill for their God .

[turbinetree]

9. Yeah Right

What we have is Dips**t 1 and Dips**t 2

[kairos12]

11. Talk about Flat Earthers. They probably get their science from Doc in

"Back to the Future." Still waiting on that banana peel powered car.

[Liberal Lolita]

34. They would be a little less clueless if they did.

I mean there are some fairly far out ideas in the movie, but at least Doc wasn't totally clueless like these two.

[berni_mccoy]

13. We're fucked.

[irisblue]

14. ^^^^^^this^^^^^

[tclambert]

15. What if God gave us the Earth as a test of our stewardship?

Maybe He wants to see if we can take care of our wonderful home and not ruin it. I think we have made Him very disappointed in us, which in the Old Testament would lead to horrible retribution. Let's hope that ultra-liberal New Testament guy can talk up some mercy for us.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

16. Can they turn America into a dystopia in two years? If anyone could, it would be these idiots. nt

[santamargarita]

17. They have no shortage of damn fools!

[Fred Sanders]

18. As powerless now as they ever were, just now their idiocy will be in the spotlight, the same light

that killed fearbola.

Science versus firmly held beliefs, you know how this turns out, it will be fun.

[The Blue Flower]

19. A nation that's a laughingstock

The rest of the world will never take us seriously again.

[adirondacker]

20. To no surprise, a floating rock in space makes more sense than these idiots...

A singing comet...
https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Our country is very much fucked with these science/knowledge-hating and -fearing assholes

who are soon to be in charge of everything. And when a Republican is "put in charge" of something, that means in charge of destroying it or changing its definition.

I'm nervous for the next two years. I keep feeling that America is going to wake up to the chicanery and the asshattery, and every election, they go farther and farther down the rabbit hole of insanity.

And what's weird is that all over the place we're voting for increases in minimum wages, funding for healthcare, legalization of pot, money for schools... while at the same electing politicians who are absolutely opposed to all of those things.

[Liberal Lolita]

35. Are we electing them?

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but election stealing is one I could buy into.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. that's a rabbit hole of unprovable despair that I prefer to ignore.

But it could likely happen.

Though the real election stealing was the simple in-your-face fuck-you gerrymandering the Republicans did after 2010. Once you've rigged the election process itself and basically guaranteed a win, no need to go through the hassle of election stealing.

[czarjak]

23. Here it comes....

Right wing social engineering. So much for progress.

[Thor_MN]

24. When I heard that they were doing another Dumb and Dumber, I didn't think they meant in Real Life.

[Initech]

25. WTF is wrong with this country?????

[SoapBox]

26. How fucking depressing...

America...home to the stupid and crazy.

[LeftishBrit]

27. They are certainly no rocket scientists!

[awoke_in_2003]

28. My IQ dropped reading that...

K&R

[LAGC]

29. This nation is so fucked for the next 2 years.

Screw everyone who sat this election out, thinking it didn't matter.

If there is one (and only one) reason to vote, keeping these ignoramuses out of positions of power and influence ranks right up there at the top of the list.

So sick and disappointed at the level of apathy in this country.

[Matariki]

30. And in Other News -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-congressional-leaders-denounce-us-china-deal-on-climate-change/2014/11/12/ff2b84e0-6a8d-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html

There should be some kind of fucking intelligence test to be allowed to serve in Congress. Arrrgh.

[valerief]

31. We are IN Hell in a handbasket. We're long past going there. nt

[Prophet 451]

32. Climate deniers make me want to hurt people

It should be physically painful to be as stupid as Inhofe and Cruz is just plain lying. It's a common soundbite among climate deniers but a moment's research shows it's just not true.

[Old Nick]

37. The last half