Anti-Science Moron Calms The Waters
Trump has gutted our disaster preparedness when it comes to disease control. Why? Because Obama created a task force and organization to specifically fight the Ebola threat and future potential disasters like the coronavirus (which Trump cannot even spell correctly). Trump is driven by the pathetic need to obliterate Obama’s legacy because it makes him look bad in comparison. The Trump administration removed approximately 600 key people form Obama’s highly qualified and motivated pandemic preparation organization. But don’t worry Pence is going to pray the COVID-19 virus away.
Check out Dumpster Fire Don’s latest budget proposal. It cuts the funding for the Center For Disease Control (CDC) by about 16%, if I remember correctly.
Here is Michael Halpern’s (Union of Concerned Scientists) take on the Trump administration’s disease control approach. “[I]t’s so troubling that the White House has taken over communication around the coronavirus COVID-19.”
“While this move would be worrisome under any president, this administration creates unique challenges. Under this president, global disease surveillance systems were weakened, research programs were abandoned, and senior global health experts left the government. The president’s budget requests routinely seek extreme cuts at federal health agencies, including CDC. In the midst of this leadership vacuum, the president will say whatever he wants about virtually any topic without evidence, sometimes even contradicting the experts standing at his side.”
Trump and his enablers are anti-science. That alone should make them all unfit for office in the 21st century. Come November we better get rid of these losers before they wreck our democracy and our environment and our health and our economy.
Bernie is right: we need some major house-cleaning and systematic changes if we are to right this sinking ship with a mad man at the wheel.
- “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
- H. L. Mencken (1920)
- “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class — it is the cause of humankind and the very birthright of humanity.”
- Anna Julia Cooper