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Setting aside how completely made up this sounds, how could that possibly be what "shattered" credibility in mainstream science for you?
The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
What scares me is that even if a slim Pro-Sanity coalition exists in both houses, Trump can simply continue to violate the Constitution willy-nilly if a core of Republicans remain complicit and block removal from office. After all, we're not just talking about an illegal retroactive on-demand line-item veto here, but plenty of other data-points, like a President that has blanket-pardoned criminals who already violent…
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Hah, is your Ministry of Truth so strong that you have already forgotten his past and contemporary crimes, so that the lack of new ones in the future renders him retroactively innocent?
The man could keel over quite morally-blamelessly from a coronary tomorrow, and the record of words and deeds left behind would still be that of a crook, a corrupt politician, and a wannabe dictator.
Mere inaction in a 78-year-old is not reform. If it were, A Christmas Carol would have been a much shorter story.
Re: The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
What scares me is that even if a slim Pro-Sanity coalition exists in both houses, Trump can simply continue to violate the Constitution willy-nilly if a core of Republicans remain complicit and block removal from office. After all, we're not just talking about an illegal retroactive on-demand line-item veto here, but plenty of other data-points, like a President that has blanket-pardoned criminals who already violent…
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"TDS" and "orange man bad" are thought terminating cliches at this point. Do try to understand that people's criticisms and concerns are not unfounded
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#224Practically speaking, when the majority of people who decided to vote voted for the person applying these policies, what mitigations are left? The courts are themselves slow and ultimately roll up to allies of the despot. People say that the midterms are crucial, but the midterms are only likely to be won if Democrats truly unify and apply winning strategies. Sadly the only winning strategies now seem to involve tell…
My sentiments exactly. The level of despair I’m feeling is palpable. Especially when I think that to counter Trump it will take a unified Democratic Party with consistent messaging … (unlikely)
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California has half the population of Germany and twice the GPD. We can't pretend the US is some dinky country in Europe that can be ruled the same way.
How long will California maintain GDP dominance when major parts of business are in the pocket of Trump? Won't they just pack up and leave, tanking Californias economy with it?
Longer than Germany at the rate things are going in Germany.
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Setting aside how completely made up this sounds, how could that possibly be what "shattered" credibility in mainstream science for you?
That ideology is being masqueraded science. That these individuals are abusing their scientific authority in such a flagrant way. Eliminating taxpayer-funded DEI programs is not "white supremacist ideology".
And even if you believe it is, and that the SCOTUS — which ruled that DEI admission requirements at Ivy League universities discriminated against Asian applicants — is part of this white supremacist conspiracy, you should not be making that case in a scientific journal as if your scientific expertise has anything to do with that opinion.
It reminds me of when 1,000 "medical professionals" wrote an open letter saying that protests against lockdowns were a public health threat, but that protests promoting the BLM narrative were not:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/health/health-care-open-lette...
“However, as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States. We can show that support by facilitating safest protesting practices without detracting from demonstrators’ ability to gather and demand change. This should not be confused with a permissive stance on all gatherings, particularly protests against stay-home orders.”
It sounds like right-wing hyperbole until you actually read their own words.
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FWIW a lot of people didn't vote for this even if they voted for Trump and the GOP.
No, they did. Absolutely nothing about what's happening is a surprise. Anyone claiming otherwise is either lying or so uneducated that they shouldn't be voting.
There are plenty of examples of people who wanted to vote conservative but "didn't have time to do the research" and now they're about to be caught up in the billionaire looting of the government. Low information voters, people busy with their jobs, lots of ads and propaganda.. and voila.
That said, both the Dems and the GOP are there doing the bidding of lobbyists and the wealthy... if we had an actual populist party in the US we wouldn't have ended up here. At least, not so quickly.
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Why do you seem to believe anything I'm talking about involves the Senate mattering? I've discussed how the House had its membership artificially capped roughly 150 years into this country's history
Because the senate does matter. The system is setup to balance out two competing interests - the large cities (with large, concentrated populations) and the states (most of which are not so heavily populated, but have most of the land and resources). It’s a compromise. And necessary for the Union to be balanced - unless Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, etc. should now just become (defacto) vassals to Los Angeles…
Again: why do you seem to think I don't understand how the senate works.
The senate works the way it does. The house is intended to be the chamber of the populace. Roughly 100 years ago we artificially limited the house of the commons. The senate never changed.
So why do you keep bringing up the senate?
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
More people voted against Trump than voted for. • 77,302,580 voted for this administration (49.8%) • 77,935,722 voted against this administration (50.2%) From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43191410
You're being a little deceptive here, by summing votes for all candidates combined as "against". What really matters is Trump v Harris, and Trump won that both in the electoral college and in the popular vote.
The point is that the media immediate glommed on to a "popular mandate" with Trump. Yet, it was very much not true.
He arguably won a popular vote. That's barely a pop;lar vote mandate.
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The constitutional remedy for abuse of pardon power is impeachment. In the model where any two branches can check the 3rd if two are of the same mind then there's nothing to do.
> The constitutional remedy for abuse of pardon power is impeachment. It is not. The constitution allows impeachment for treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors only.
Would that not be treason?