The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Angrboda]

If you’re wondering how such an idea even reached the Trump administration in the first place, it’s worth emphasizing for context that it originated with — you guessed it — the Project 2025 blueprint.

Making matters far worse is the degree to which this is a battle in a larger war on science. Consider the related developments that have unfolded as Donald Trump’s second term as president has gotten underway:

• Online information critical to scientists and physicians has been taken down.
  
• Scientific research funding is being restricted through keywords that Republicans find objectionable.
  
• Taxpayer-subsidized scientific information was withheld from the scientific and medical communities for the first time in generations.
  
• Prominent proponents of discredited scientific ideas, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have been chosen for powerful leadership positions in the administration.
  
• Team Trump has reportedly “unleashed chaos” at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the scientific agency commonly known as NOAA that provides weather forecasts through its National Weather Service.
  
• Political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency fired all of the members of the EPA’s most influential science advisory panels.

Did I mention that we’re not yet one month in Trump’s second term in the White House?

Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California recently said, “My fear is that the chaos the new administration is sowing will be enough to leave our science and technology enterprise in ruins, with Chinese Communist leaders in Beijing popping champagne corks.”

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show...rcna191468