Neil DeGrasse Tyson goes on CNN to make fun of Trump, Musk, RFK Jr. and regular Americans for – LIKING SCIENCE?!

Ostensibly to promote his new (old) book, Neil DeGrasse Tyson was on CNN with Kasie Hunt this morning. The real purpose of his visit, though, in keeping with the only science he really cares about – public wokeenness – was revealed almost immediately: Mocking Trump.

Hunt started out the segment by playing a clip of Donald Trump and making faces about it. That’s her main CNN gig now as I noted earlier.

So she shows Trump talking about the truly breathtaking sight of Musk’s SpaceX landing a rocket coming back from space – those videos blow my mind, seriously – and at the end of the clip, he’s describing to a rally crowd what it looks like.

“And those beautiful arms came and they hugged it like you would hug your little beautiful baby,” he said. Which I think is a perfect description but also – shouldn’t they be JAZZED about Science! being celebrated?

Apparently not. Instead, Hunt and Tyson laugh it up derisively as the physicist – who, remember, super cares about people becoming interested in Science! – does a mock hug. HA. HA. HA. VERY. HUMOROUS. JOKE. MISTER. SCIENTIST. GUY.

Kasie welcomes him, says she WOULD say his visit is a “respite” from campaign news, and then goes “but I guess it’s not.” Like, what, she’s being victimized by her own selection of topics and clips? YOU CHOSE WHAT TO TALK ABOUT, KASIE!

But they weren’t done. In the clip below from our good friends at PoliticalTVClips on Rumble, the middle part where they blabber about his book is blessedly cut (thanks guys), and so the next part you see is when they play a clip of Musk and Trump discussing alien life.

Again, I want to point out deGrassehole is supposedly an ASTROPHYSICIST whose media schtick is bitching that Americans don’t get into science enough. Keep it in mind as you watch.

“So I have another set of sound from Donald Trump and Elon Musk,” says Hunt. She references his book again and then says, “let’s watch.”

She shows two quick cuts with no context – Trump speaking to Joe Rogan, and Musk speaking at a rally. Here’s what happens in the clips:

TRUMP: There’s no reason not to. I mean, there’s no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don’t have life.

MUSK: Maybe the aliens will come visit us. Maybe. I mean, maybe they are here right now.

MUSK: I haven’t seen any, like, sort of green aliens with antennas on the head or anything like that. And maybe they are. They’re just very subtle.

When the camera comes back to the CNN peanut gallery, they’re laughing again.

“So are aliens here?” Hunt says mockingly.

The Tyson sphere answers:
Aliens with antennas? The only people who imagine them that way are those who remember the antennas on TV sets. The rabbit ea– remember back when that was how you communicated through space? Our aliens that we drew had antennas. So that’s an old-fashioned way to think about aliens. Elon is wondering whether they’ve already visited us. I’m pretty sure have had they visited us, that they ran home, concluding that there’s no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

So rather than, as a true scientist might, answering about the possibilities of alien life or that we, as humans, do not know everything, he instead chooses – BECAUSE OF WHO SAID IT – to echo orthodoxy and trash the idea, and throw in a joke trashing everyone but him as an idiot while he was at it.

In the next question, Hunt singles out The Economist for an article about what Trump and Harris’s horoscopes say about the election. She does this to mock them as stupid. And while she is doing this to mock them as stupid, she says this:

“So serious publication, the Economist wonders what astra … astrolo … astro-loggers? Is that you say it? Astrologers? Astrologers! … Are predicting the result of America’s election.”

So serious network CNN wonders how to pronounce the word ASTROLOGERS. Brilliant work Queso .. Castille .. Khe Sanh? Is that how you say it? Kasie? Kasie! Brillian work, Kasie.

Tyson of course had nothing positive to say about astrology, and you can’t blame him there. Hokum is as hokum does — although he does still manage to invert the actual causal relationship hypothesized by astrologers, in keeping with the liberal tradition of it never being good enough to mock what someone actually thinks, you have to make up something even worse, in order to mock it extra nasty.

Then, for good measure, they close out mocking RFK Jr. and extolling the virtues of covid controls, mandates, and lockdowns.

KASIE: Look, I have one serious question for you, and it goes to what we had heard from RFK Junior there. Are you concerned about the way Americans are willing to believe or not believe science in this day and age, especially in the wake of Covid?

DEGRASSIE: Yes! It would be the the extent to which science is either denied or rejected or ignored, will be the unraveling of an informed democracy at a time when when so much of who and what we are our health, our wealth, and our security pivots on the advances in science that surround us. To the extent that that’s ignored or rejected, we just give up. Just forget our leadership in the world and let’s watch the rest of the world take over because they embrace science in ways that scares me here the way I see people talking about it and reacting to it.

SO after mocking the interest in science of Trump and world technological leader, innovator, and genius Elon Musk, smugly turning their noses up at the curiosity people have about aliens, and mocking everyone as idiots, Tyson then turns around to woefully and direly intone about the danger to DEMOCRACEH posed by boneheaded, incurious, science-ignoring Americans.

I don’t know what you call that it celebrity astrophysicist circles, but here in the real world we call it hypocrisy and self-contradiction. From a circle of jerks.

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