From: rokimoto557@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/13/2025 11:06 AM, Kestrel Clayton wrote:   
   > On 13-Mar-25 11:17, RonO wrote:   
   >> On 3/11/2025 12:03 AM, JTEM wrote:   
   >>> On 3/7/25 10:21 PM, RonO wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I don't   
   >>>   
   >>> Canada's new PM is assuming emergency powers just to deal with   
   >>> a trade war that they created.   
   >>>   
   >>> What do you think Trump is going to do, if you succeed in   
   >>> whipping up hysteria?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> What a nut job.  Trump is already responsible for the politics   
   >> responsible for the CDC and USDA not doing their jobs.  He and his   
   >> Republican cronies had already burned the CDC and USDA as they   
   >> attempted to deal with Covid.  The USDA was warned repeatedly that   
   >> they were limited on messing with the food system, and they wanted to   
   >> prosecute employees of the CDC just for doing their jobs and making   
   >> the Trumpies look bad.  When the Dairy epidemic started they were   
   >> already gun shy about doing the right thing.   
   >   
   > And the USDA has been badly understaffed for ages. I don't know about   
   > the CDC specifically, but I suspect they are facing the same problem.   
   > Many regulatory agencies are so severely understaffed that they're   
   > forced to rely on the "Trust Me Bro" approach to compliance   
   > verification. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer not to go back to   
   > the bad old days of needing to cross my fingers and hope the meat in my   
   > frankfurter is actually from pigs or cows.   
   >   
   > The truth is the federal civilian workforce is too small, and has been   
   > for decades. The size of the federal workforce has shrunk since 1990,   
   > despite the total labor force growing by more than a third. All the   
   > bafflegab about "bloated government" is coming from plutocrats who don't   
   > want us peons receiving any government services at all.   
   >   
   Shorter staffed now.  What Trump and DOGE have done is pretty moronic.   
   They aren't cutting waste by mass firings and closing down departments.   
   They are wasting billions of dollars that have already been spent.  Just   
   what he has tried to do with science will likely disrupt science in this   
   country for decades.  All the new researchers that have lost funding or   
   aren't getting it could be lost to science in the future.  Shutting down   
   the programs the way that he has is wasting billions of dollars that   
   have already been spent to get those programs working, and what they   
   currently have in production is being lost.  Projects will never be   
   completed that would have done the country good, and had already cost a   
   lot to get going.   
      
    From my perspective Trump could be the worst national security breech   
   in the history of the United States.  Putin's influence over Trump was   
   apparent in his first administration.  How could an enemy nation ever   
   get the president of the United States into a private conference with   
   Putin with only a Russian interpreter present?  It is no secret that   
   Russia interfered with all three of Trump's presidential election bids   
   in order to get Trump elected.  Trumps policies seem to have always been   
   Russia first.  Trump spent most of his first term alienating our long   
   time allies and disrupting NATO.  His activities this term have been   
   more overt in favoring Russia. His policies have not been America first,   
   but to weaken our world position, stop humanitarian aid, alienate our   
   long term Allies, disrupt NATO and attempt to disrupt the US by   
   weakening our economy and trashing our scientific future that has made   
   our country what it is today.  US citizens pay for the Tariffs that he   
   is imposing, and what is that going to do for inflation?  All the major   
   science journals are published in English, Trump's policies are designed   
   to reverse that.  China is building a science juggernaut, and has   
   started creating Chinese science journals.  Some of the last few papers   
   that I reviewed had started citing papers in those Chinese journals.  It   
   might not be long before our graduate schools will have to reinstitute   
   the foreign language requirement.   
      
   We likely should try to figure out why Russia interfered with all the   
   elections trying to get Trump elected.  Trump needs to have a good   
   explanation for why a leader of a Western free nation would be suckered   
   into a private conference with a leader of an enemy nation with no US   
   interpreter present.  Why would Trump be claiming that the Covid   
   epidemic wasn't so bad and that testing wasn't needed, and at the same   
   time he was sending covid equipment to his friend Putin.  Trump is even   
   said to be working up a military plan for Panama.  What will that do to   
   the US status among the free world?  Trump has even claimed that he   
   admires Putin.  Would dictator worship have been tolerated by the   
   Republican party 20 years ago?  It would certainly not have been   
   tolerated in the Reagan era.  This is just my political observation, but   
   something stinks.   
      
   Ron Okimoto   
      
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