Morford: Week One of Go to Hell, America
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Week One of Go to Hell, America
By Mark Morford on January 27, 2017 at 5:17 PM
Signing America's death warrant, over and over again
Signing America's death warrant, over and over again
The Trumpocalyse so far, in a grotesque – and rather terrifying – nutshell…
Trump issued largely unconstitutional global gag order on international NGOs providing women’s health care and family planning services (“policy experts predict this will mean 6.5 million more unintended pregnancies, 2.2 million more abortions, 2.1 million more unsafe abortions, and the deaths of 21,700 pregnant women.” – The Nation)
Froze all research grants for, and issued gag order on the EPA, with promise to defund and destroy agency that provides invaluable research and protects water supply, air quality, everyday life, the planet itself. Nominated EPA-hating Scott Pruitt to run ruin the agency, promised to tear the 14,000-strong agency into “little bits” in favor of pollutive corporate cronies and poisonous deregulation
Gag order on USDA scientists, HHS, National Parks, many other agencies, threatened to defund NASA climate satellites, resulting in 50+ “rogue” Twitter accounts created by infuriated, muzzled government scientists and their colleagues
Sabotaged vital final week of ACA signups by yanking pre-paid ads for Heathcare.gov at the most crucial registration time, out of sheer spite, even though signups are still surging
Hiring freeze on all federal employees, except the 4,000 he’s hiring for his own snarling administration
Promise to completely defund Planned Parenthood, decimate Roe v. Wade, cut back on Title IX enforcement, eliminate all funding for Violence Against Women grants in the Department of Justice
Called for review of all “multilateral treaties,” such as Paris Climate and many others, which will wreak harm on allies and dangerously undermine America’s ability to be a good and humane global citizen
Proposed massive 40 percent reduction in U.S. support for the United Nations and other global bodies, equaling billions of dollars, which “includes international peacekeeping missions and U.S. support for development work under the U.N. umbrella,” and which will more radically isolate U.S.
Narrowed list of possible Supreme Court nominees to a handful of ultraconservative, anti-choice white males
“Torture works,” even though it doesn’t
Threatened Mexico with huge import tax/trade war
Threatened Chicago with martial law
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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2017/01/27/week-one-of-go-to-hell-america/
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