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   On 3/14/25 7:23 PM, Kestrel Clayton wrote:   
   > 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.   
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