As we stand by watching in horror at Trump further destroying the future of the United States.
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To be fair, RFK jr. probably thinks the board has 600% more members now.
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Despite being immensely incompetent and scientifically illiterate, Trump and his allies have convinced their voters that they are more knowledgeable and trustworthy than the vastly more educated scientific community.
Among many other funding cuts to science-based research, agencies and operations, Trump has already proposed cutting NASA’s budget and its science division multiple times since returning to office.
His most recent proposal was put forward April 3rd while the Artemis mission was underway.
These cuts would amount to the largest single-year cut to science funding in the agency’s history.
The audacity is mind blowing considering how Trump and his White House press core touted the recent mission as a huge achievement of the Trump administration while crediting Trump with its success.
How do you think staff at NASA who have been working their asses off to engineer, organize and conduct these missions feel about the proposed cuts?
How do you think the people who are actually behind these impressive feats (not Trump or anyone in this administration who supports defunding scientific research) feel about Trump’s influence on a far right, lunatic fringe movement that trivializes and denies science?
Our current administration has chosen to politicize science at the expense of public health, scientific innovation, environmental conservation, pandemic preparedness, and basic trust in medicine and scientific expertise and research.
Reminder that there is no scientific basis for the Trump administration’s recent decision to repeal the endangerment finding.
Even big oil and gas industries have admitted that these pollutants pose a danger to public health and the environment. This is backed by a massive body of scientific evidence
These efforts are about the partisan, ideological and irrational convictions of MAGA more than anything else.
They deny legitimate science and insist that their ass-backwards views about climate change, medicine, biology, vaccines, infectious diseases, even the shape of the earth, etc, are more informed than the leading and relevant scientific research.
Also note that Trump’s big ugly bill includes non-defense discretionary spending caps that reduce funding for agencies like NASA and the National Science Foundation, among others.
This administration has been brainwashing their voters into ideologically opposing climate and renewable energy projects, EPA regulations, public health initiatives, environmental conservation efforts, and even experts within the scientific community—especially during disease outbreaks.
This ongoing agenda is also defunding and eroding the independence of public health and environmental agencies while stripping qualified civil servants of their protections, only to replace them with incompetent loyalists who are committed to reversing decades of scientific progress.
The Trump administration is rolling back EPA regulations and ending climate programs while catering to the interests of the fossil fuels industry.
The government’s actions are desecrating our national parks, polluting the environment, tarnishing the land, squandering taxpayer money on corporate agendas and all while disrupting years of scientific advancements and innovation in multiple fields of research.
Republicans might view this whole campaign as some sort of “win,” but in reality they’re risking our global competitiveness in these fields.
While Trump is cancelling renewable energy contracts at the taxpayers expense and bombing and/or invading other countries for oil, China is investing heavily in modern energy technologies and scientific advancements.
China is on pace to far surpass the US in these science-based endeavors in the years to come, and may even try to poach our scientists and researchers.
RFK Jr’s HHS department has also been intentionally derailing important research and dismantling agencies and organizations that play a crucial role in protecting the environment and maintaining public health and safety.
The Trump admin is cutting billions of dollars worth of funds for scientific and medical research, including research into life threatening illnesses like cancer, HIV, ALS, diabetes, Parkinson’s, and deadly infectious diseases.
To make matters worse, “vaccine skepticism” has become federal policy, and modern medical science is being rejected in favor of adopting the views of amateur “health influencers” and “MAHA” crackpots.
This is a crisis of incompetence at nearly every level of government that will have devastating consequences for our future and the even the future of generations to come.
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Disdain and suppression of intellectuals is #11 on Dr. Laurence Britt’s list of the early signs of fascism.
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And we wonder why people keep trying to shoot him?
JTBaptistA on
The fossil fuel funded Republican solution: Fire the scientists
Add it to the pile of things that must be undone in January.
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And you wonder why educated people are starting to move to Canada.
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Unbelievable
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And in 3 months once all the lawsuits are done they’ll have their jobs back if they want them but the story won’t get nearly as much traction.
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Republicans in Congress are complicit in this. Vote them out. They no longer represent the majority. Absolute dereliction of duty to represent the well-being of their constituents and the children of their constituents.
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We are fucked
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Someone missed again.
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Purging the academics is always part of authoritarianism.
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Fucking ghouls
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This is bad
milkshake0079 on
Are we great yet? Oil greed has funded so much human misery on this earth. Its why we needed to break away from it. The bought out GOP are doing the bidding of thier corporate donors. All brought to the voters under conservative news outlets, brainwashing the idiots to cheer on the crumbling of america. Well done patriots.
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We are a shithole country
As we stand by watching in horror at Trump further destroying the future of the United States.
To be fair, RFK jr. probably thinks the board has 600% more members now.
Despite being immensely incompetent and scientifically illiterate, Trump and his allies have convinced their voters that they are more knowledgeable and trustworthy than the vastly more educated scientific community.
Among many other funding cuts to science-based research, agencies and operations, Trump has already proposed cutting NASA’s budget and its science division multiple times since returning to office.
His most recent proposal was put forward April 3rd while the Artemis mission was underway.
These cuts would amount to the largest single-year cut to science funding in the agency’s history.
The audacity is mind blowing considering how Trump and his White House press core touted the recent mission as a huge achievement of the Trump administration while crediting Trump with its success.
How do you think staff at NASA who have been working their asses off to engineer, organize and conduct these missions feel about the proposed cuts?
How do you think the people who are actually behind these impressive feats (not Trump or anyone in this administration who supports defunding scientific research) feel about Trump’s influence on a far right, lunatic fringe movement that trivializes and denies science?
Our current administration has chosen to politicize science at the expense of public health, scientific innovation, environmental conservation, pandemic preparedness, and basic trust in medicine and scientific expertise and research.
Reminder that there is no scientific basis for the Trump administration’s recent decision to repeal the endangerment finding.
Even big oil and gas industries have admitted that these pollutants pose a danger to public health and the environment. This is backed by a massive body of scientific evidence
These efforts are about the partisan, ideological and irrational convictions of MAGA more than anything else.
They deny legitimate science and insist that their ass-backwards views about climate change, medicine, biology, vaccines, infectious diseases, even the shape of the earth, etc, are more informed than the leading and relevant scientific research.
Also note that Trump’s big ugly bill includes non-defense discretionary spending caps that reduce funding for agencies like NASA and the National Science Foundation, among others.
This administration has been brainwashing their voters into ideologically opposing climate and renewable energy projects, EPA regulations, public health initiatives, environmental conservation efforts, and even experts within the scientific community—especially during disease outbreaks.
This ongoing agenda is also defunding and eroding the independence of public health and environmental agencies while stripping qualified civil servants of their protections, only to replace them with incompetent loyalists who are committed to reversing decades of scientific progress.
The Trump administration is rolling back EPA regulations and ending climate programs while catering to the interests of the fossil fuels industry.
The government’s actions are desecrating our national parks, polluting the environment, tarnishing the land, squandering taxpayer money on corporate agendas and all while disrupting years of scientific advancements and innovation in multiple fields of research.
Republicans might view this whole campaign as some sort of “win,” but in reality they’re risking our global competitiveness in these fields.
While Trump is cancelling renewable energy contracts at the taxpayers expense and bombing and/or invading other countries for oil, China is investing heavily in modern energy technologies and scientific advancements.
China is on pace to far surpass the US in these science-based endeavors in the years to come, and may even try to poach our scientists and researchers.
RFK Jr’s HHS department has also been intentionally derailing important research and dismantling agencies and organizations that play a crucial role in protecting the environment and maintaining public health and safety.
The Trump admin is cutting billions of dollars worth of funds for scientific and medical research, including research into life threatening illnesses like cancer, HIV, ALS, diabetes, Parkinson’s, and deadly infectious diseases.
To make matters worse, “vaccine skepticism” has become federal policy, and modern medical science is being rejected in favor of adopting the views of amateur “health influencers” and “MAHA” crackpots.
This is a crisis of incompetence at nearly every level of government that will have devastating consequences for our future and the even the future of generations to come.
Disdain and suppression of intellectuals is #11 on Dr. Laurence Britt’s list of the early signs of fascism.
And we wonder why people keep trying to shoot him?
The fossil fuel funded Republican solution: Fire the scientists
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24042026/gop-leaders-claim-national-academies-conflicts-of-interest/
Add it to the pile of things that must be undone in January.
And you wonder why educated people are starting to move to Canada.
Unbelievable
And in 3 months once all the lawsuits are done they’ll have their jobs back if they want them but the story won’t get nearly as much traction.
Republicans in Congress are complicit in this. Vote them out. They no longer represent the majority. Absolute dereliction of duty to represent the well-being of their constituents and the children of their constituents.
We are fucked
Someone missed again.
Purging the academics is always part of authoritarianism.
Fucking ghouls
This is bad
Are we great yet? Oil greed has funded so much human misery on this earth. Its why we needed to break away from it. The bought out GOP are doing the bidding of thier corporate donors. All brought to the voters under conservative news outlets, brainwashing the idiots to cheer on the crumbling of america. Well done patriots.
I’m surprised that took trump this long actually.
And people still wonder what’s going wrong