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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-s-order-slash-number-science-advisory-boards-blasted-critics-n1017921
Trump's order to slash number of science advisory boards blasted by critics as 'nonsensical'
"It's no longer death by a thousand cuts. It's taking a knife to the jugular, one science advocate said of the order to eliminate a third of the advisory boards.
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Trump orders slashing of science advisory boards (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Jun 2019
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. Who needs science when we have an insane dictator.
Our dictator's gut will tell US all we need to know.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)2. Given the trend, the US will eventually be a shit hole if tRump has his way. Other countries will be
flying past the US and into the future. Some already are.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. Fuck him!
Just fuck him!
Skittles
(153,160 posts)4. fuck Russia and the people who voted for that ass clown
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)5. yeah
patphil
(6,176 posts)6. The purpose of science is to discover truth.
Now why would Trump, or the rest of the right wing anti-christians that support him want that?
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)7. He motivates me everyday to work to make the GOP lose
Every race and every office from dog catcher on up. The party needs to have its ass kicked for generations to come.
Of course all his climate change denial wont stop it or the science studying it from continuing on.
I think of the joy we will feel watching fired Trump appointees pack their bags in January 2021.