From: 69jpil69@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 22:50:03 +0000, Ernest Major   
   <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote:   
      
   >On 24/03/2025 16:02, Mark Isaak wrote:   
   >> 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    
      
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