An NIH director joins MAHA, gets replaced by JD Vance’s close friend
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A year ago this would have been utterly shocking news.
Today, it's just Thursday. There is no floor when it comes to their assault on science.
Today, it's just Thursday. There is no floor when it comes to their assault on science.
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Well, when the budget is slashed to $0 when the Institute is disbanded will he be fit then?
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Every time I read one of these types of articles, I need to remind myself that the new-hires are qualified and vetted. Not for the nominated role, but how flexible they can be to accommodate Mr. Trump's ever changing whims.
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Meanwhile, your president investigated the Chicago mayor's hiring practices.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ent-civil-rights-division-black-b2754824.html
Swamp 2.0 is back!
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Just more Trump/Vance/MAGA/MAHA cronyism. If this kind of thing happened within a democrat administration, people (i.e. repubs) would be howling about it. But in the sad real world where Republicans control close to all sectors of government, it's just normal acceptable b.s.
The decline of American democracy continues unabated.
The decline of American democracy continues unabated.
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Romans got to hear the fiddle, we get to hear the constant prattle of experts saying dogs can't play basketball.
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Donald's whims never change. He makes decisions based on one factor and one factor only: Does this benefit ME?
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Sigh. Back in the early/mid 19th century, this sort of thing was par for the course; look up the "spoils system" for the gory details. Basically, winning an elective office with appointment power (President, Governor, etc.) meant that you could install your cronies or the people who bribed you or whatever into government jobs. Then, with a lot of effort starting in the late 19th century, this was reformed into an actual professional civil service with odd ideas like "maybe we should hire people who are actually qualified to do their jobs" and shit like that.
The clean-up, if it's possible at all, will take generations.
The clean-up, if it's possible at all, will take generations.
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Just so you know, using 'democrat' as a adjective is a GOP pejorative. The correct word is democratic. Don't play into the extremists game.
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At the rate things are going, I would not be surprised if a shaman is appointed as some NIH director.
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Ironically enough, he is right about the "mass surveillance" bit. Almost certainly not in the way he thinks about it, of course.
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I mean, he's right about the last part, but that was the case prior to 5G
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I hear NPR reporters using eg "democrat senators" unironically too. I choose to see it as a "we're taking the word back" situation. Can't fight anyway, might as well make it a normal word
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Oh I don't know. The French seemed to have had a good idea some time ago about how to clean up this sort of thing in short order.
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that, and who was the last guy he talked to? because that's the thing he's fully interested in right now.
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I would love for the trump regime to outlaw 5G. The people it would hurt most are the very sociopathic billionaires who installed him specifically to benefit themselves.
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The French went from an autocratic kingdom, to a revolution, to a reign of terror, to a war on all fronts, to an empire, did some more war, back to a kingdom because they lost the "more war" part, and eventually got around to a few republics.
The clean up took a fucking minute.
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So we'll continue to happily ignore decades of actual, valuable data, and instead allow cranks to set policy based on nothing but feels. RFK specifically said recently that we need to spend less time listening to experts (tacitly handing massive power to people who don't know shit, of course).
It's shocking how far we've fallen.
It's shocking how far we've fallen.
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Howling? Hell, they'd be shooting politicians by now, setting fire to government buildings and schools and colleges and killing anyone who disagreed with them.
Oddly the National guards would be out, of course, but they'd be actively protecting people instead of (mostly) passively oppressing them in support of agencies that desperately need to be cleansed of racists motherfucking thugs and replaced with people of principle and law.
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Corruption isn't a bug with this administration, it's a feature. The Trump admin will easily win most corrupt administration ever. They take it for granted that the rich and insiders get special access and consideration. They see nothing wrong with it. They think that's the way government should work. It's their blind spot.
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I gotta say, I do not have any “spiraling fears that science is being deeply corrupted by politics under the Trump administration”. At this point, that’s just a plain fact, as obvious as the fact that my toe will hurt if I drop a sledgehammer on it.
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What about DARPA replacing all the birds with robotic surveillance birds? Aren't they going to do anything about that? I guess that's next after the contrail/chemtrail investigation...
I feel like I'm living in the movie 'Idiocracy'.
I feel like I'm living in the movie 'Idiocracy'.
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In three years, when King Donald refuses to allow re-election.
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This disturbs me. I would not have thought that James Donald Bowman had close friends.
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Science will not be corrupted by these morons. The administration of science in the USA is being corrupted. Science is but a method of moving closer to truth using observation and algorithms that go back to Francis Bacon and Galileo Gallilei.
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Useless post, but I don’t care:
The headline reminded me of Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam:
“Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.”
The headline reminded me of Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam:
“Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.”
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Pfft. LIES. FAKE NEWS!!!
Everyone knows dogs can't play basketball because they were all eaten. The King said so. All the cats, dogs, pets were being eaten so they aren't around any more like the dodo bird or wolves. Except for the big beautiful wolves that ate the climate. They're still around because they ate the dodos and their big beautiful puppies weren't pumped full of vaccine and they injected their ivermectin bleach far away from 5G towers, except they couldn't avoid the chemtrails so they're extinct because they also ate the climate which hasn't changed!!! No one debates dogs playing basketball any more. Many people say no one talks about it anymore. Covfefe
/s???
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I realize that the whole US way of life is undergoing active destruction. and I do sympathize, but I miss Dr. Mole's articles on the strange and scary world of parasites, diseases, and medical botches.
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Gotta laugh or you’ll cry!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM
Dr. Strangelove - Water Fluoridation
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM
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Counting JD Vance as a close friend is probably as much experience as one would need to run a toxicology program, oh wait that's experience a toxic wasteland, my mistake.
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Chicagoan here: Brandon's hirings/appointments, especially for public transit roles, have been absolutely corrupt.
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Not the slightest bit surprising with all of the nepotism and grifting going on in the Orange Reich.
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Nepotism in the federal governemnt who would have thought that it would exist under the King Trump administration.
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