Trump disputing words, facts and a special prosecutor
Vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus. Evidence-based. Science-based.
Attendees at a meeting confirmed researchers at the Centers for Disease Control were told not to use those words. Days later, CDCs head issued a non-denial denial, claiming reports mischaracterized what was said. Either way, its hardly Trumps first attack on knowledge.
The Environmental Protection Agency website scrubbed references to climate change and links to resources for understanding it. Ryan Zinke just upbraided a national park superintendent for using the phrase. On Monday, though the Pentagon disagrees, Trump removed global warming from the list of security threats to our nation. Leadership! Problem solved.
Is it hot in here? Feels like 451 degrees Fahrenheit.
None who still support Trump will find this disturbing. Certainly not Congressional Republicans, whose latest secretion is a greedy, grift-, graft-, and loophole-laden, dishonestly sold, economically unsound (see: Kansas) tax bill, refusing input from experts, holding no hearings, addressing concerns of none but their corporate benefactors. Overstated? Well find out. Maybe even before its too late.
How obvious is their disregard for you, Trumpophiles; how cheaply bought they believe you to be? Temporary trifles for you; permanent payola for the corpocracy.
In happier times, liberals and conservatives wanted the same thing: the best future for America and its children. Differences lay in how to achieve it; especially the role of government in protecting and providing. The end, if not the means, was shared. If it still applies to some, it most surely does not to Congressional Republicans currently in our employ, nor to the temporary indweller of the Gold House.
If you act to silence scientists, defund and ignore their research, youre not concerned about your kids future. More so if you choose to allow widespread poisoning of their forever home. Whitewashing history books, diverting taxpayer funds to Bible schools and Scientology-based charter schools steals from kids intent on learning to think for themselves. Thats not forward-looking, either.
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BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)I will bring the matches.
czarjak
(11,287 posts)"All I can tell you, he denies it."