ScathingAtheist 621: Outrage Fatigue Edition
Added 2025-01-23 03:16:02 +0000 UTCIn this week’s episode, Donald trump ORDERS trans people to stop existing, a Tennessee local ordinance demands the CORRECT version of dumb plastic crap on your lawn, and American Atheists’ legal director Geoffrey Blackwell will be here to tell us exactly how fucked we are.
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Headlines:
Trump declares trans people nonexistent: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-line-by-line-analysis-of-trumps
Proposed North Dakota law would force students to say the Pledge of Allegiance: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/proposed-north-dakota-law-would-force
TN woman taken to court for Christmas decorations being too Halloweeny: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/style/halloween-decorations-tennessee.html
Comments
This is definitely a candidate for best diatribe ever. I've re-listened to it several times over the last couple of weeks and it both inspires and brings tears to my eyes every time.
Furious Typist
2025-02-06 21:13:31 +0000 UTCAs a former fed and casualty to a January 20 executive order, I was dismayed by the 'Farnsworth' quote. Are there civil servants who do nothing? Yes. Are there contractors who do nothing? Also, yes. The government is made up of more than just NASA. Now is not the time to pit feds against contractors; you can be damn sure they will be affected by these EOs, and many already have been with rolling back DEI hiring. I am all for criticizing the government. I am all for discussing waste on both sides. But the discussion at this time shouldn't be what the government did wrong last year - it should be the hiring freeze, the closure of DEI and workplace raids of related material, the potential firing of countless probationary employees and forced retirements of career servants, the freezing of federal contracts. Unfortunately, most people won't care until they're affected. And by then, it'll be too late.
Hugh Mongo Johnson
2025-01-27 23:19:19 +0000 UTC
