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EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff

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Re: EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff

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Post by _m8fo »

All of these changes that Trump is making in his first week are making me wonder: what's the population limit, really, for a well functioning democracy? I'm no historian, but didn't the United States go around saying how great democracy is? I don't know about you, but to me it definitely feels like it doesn't work quite as intended.

As for the article at hand, all I can offer is this" Trump's blatant distrust for climate change is just mind boggling. What exactly is he afraid that'll happen? [1] Why all of the resistance? These aren't rhetorical questions. I'm genuinely curious.

[1] http://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13/

Re: EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff

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Post by notpc »

Like it or not, increasing fossil fuel extraction and cutting environmental regulations is now the policy of the President of the United States. The public communications of the executive branch are under his authority and he's not just going to let the EPA run its public relations and releases contrary to his agenda.

Like others have pointed out, there are other ways the public can get the information. But it won't be the EPA running a press office counter to the President's.

Re: EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff

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Post by txru »

Seems like an interesting similarity to the Soviet 'politruk'[0], a Communist Party official assigned to maintain the political control of the armed forces. A familiar example is the politruk who voted to launch nuclear warheads during the Cuban Missile Crisis with his submarine Captain, but First Officer Vasili Arkhipov voted to wait for orders from Moscow.

Similar functions also existed in their academic structures, but the official-ness of this order certainly smacks of the politruk.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commissar

Re: EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff

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Post by cmdrfred »

_m8fo wrote: post #3

All of these changes that Trump is making in his first week are making me wonder: what's the population limit, really, for a well functioning democracy? I'm no historian, but didn't the United States go around saying how great democracy is? I don't know about you, but to me it definitely feels like it doesn't work quite as intended. As for the article at hand, all I can offer is this" Trump's blatant distrust for cli…

What other form of government do you propose?

Re: EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff

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Post by dragontamer »

_m8fo wrote: post #3

All of these changes that Trump is making in his first week are making me wonder: what's the population limit, really, for a well functioning democracy? I'm no historian, but didn't the United States go around saying how great democracy is? I don't know about you, but to me it definitely feels like it doesn't work quite as intended. As for the article at hand, all I can offer is this" Trump's blatant distrust for cli…

Horrible comic and completely misses the point.

Trump was voted in by coal miners. Coal Miners whose jobs have been slipping away and towns devastated by the "Heroin Epidemic"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/white-death...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-h...

Continuing to ignore rural America will only make them more angry and continue to vote in assholes like Trump. Clinton lost precisely in the rural states that mattered: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, etc. etc.

As long as liberal Americans are unable to understand that coal miners are literally losing their jobs and dying in their hometowns, then the discussion will not move forward.

The numbers aren't pretty for rural America. It's a legitimate problem, and those citizens are blaming the EPA.

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