From: richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com   
      
   On 13-Mar-25 23:01, RonO wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Why Russia would interfere with the elections is obvious: They figured   
   out how to wage war in the social media battlespace earlier and better   
      
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