Trump wastes no time in assembling anti-science administration

[ronburgundy]

Trump has picked a leading climate change denier and corporate apologist to head his EPA transition team, and named a corporate lobbyist (for Koch, Dow Chemical, and others) to head the Department of Energy.

You can guarantee his NSF, and Department of Education appointees will be similarly anti-science.

Just a few of the infinite ways that Trump will do far more lifelong damage than Hillary would have to the interests of nearly every person that didn't vote for her because she was "just as bad".

But hey, at least they get to say vacuously stupid things like "I didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils."

 

[untermensche]

He claimed global climate change was a Chinese hoax.

But when you're dealing with Americans the level of ignorance cannot be underestimated.

 

[ronburgundy]

He claimed global climate change was a Chinese hoax.

But when you're dealing with Americans the level of ignorance cannot be underestimated.

I actually don't think that most voters even understand what the President's powers are and that he doesn't need to get bills passed in order to instantly change the entire nature of these agencies and what their goals are.

 

[laughing dog]

Trump has picked a leading climate change denier and corporate apologist to head his EPA transition team, and named a corporate lobbyist (for Koch, Dow Chemical, and others) to head the Department of Energy.

You can guarantee his NSF, and Department of Education appointees will be similarly anti-science.

Just a few of the infinite ways that Trump will do far more lifelong damage than Hillary would have to the interests of nearly every person that didn't vote for her because she was "just as bad".

But hey, at least they get to say vacuously stupid things like "I didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils."

I would guess that most of his supporters don't give a rat's ass about dealing with climate change.

 

[J842P]

"I didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils."

I think, if anything, the Third Party vote *helped* Clinton, because a lot of Republicans voted Libertarian instead of voting for Trump.

 

[ZiprHead]

Giuliani for Attorney General. Fuck no!

 

[untermensche]

Giuliani for Attorney General. Fuck no!

He's a big supporter of these aggressive tactics now used by the police all over the place. Began the stop and frisk policies in NY. Aggressive policing of "undesirables". Racial profiling.

No bigger asshole in the world.

Thanks Trump voters. (How many times will I say that in the next 4 years?)

 

[credoconsolans]

Giuliani for Attorney General. Fuck no!

He's a big supporter of these aggressive tactics now used by the police all over the place. Began the stop and frisk policies in NY. Aggressive policing of "undesirables". Racial profiling.

No bigger asshole in the world.

Thanks Trump voters. (How many times will I say that in the next 4 years?)

I prefer "Making America great again, eh?" every time anything stupid is done or Trump's lies fall through in the next 4 years.

 

[fast]

Trump has picked a leading climate change denier and corporate apologist to head his EPA transition team, and named a corporate lobbyist (for Koch, Dow Chemical, and others) to head the Department of Energy.

You can guarantee his NSF, and Department of Education appointees will be similarly anti-science.

Just a few of the infinite ways that Trump will do far more lifelong damage than Hillary would have to the interests of nearly every person that didn't vote for her because she was "just as bad".

But hey, at least they get to say vacuously stupid things like "I didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils."

I would guess that most of his supporters don't give a rat's ass about dealing with climate change.

That sounds like something we can agree on.

 

[Philos]

Trump has picked a leading climate change denier and corporate apologist to head his EPA transition team, and named a corporate lobbyist (for Koch, Dow Chemical, and others) to head the Department of Energy.

You can guarantee his NSF, and Department of Education appointees will be similarly anti-science.

Just a few of the infinite ways that Trump will do far more lifelong damage than Hillary would have to the interests of nearly every person that didn't vote for her because she was "just as bad".

But hey, at least they get to say vacuously stupid things like "I didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils."

Folks,

Feeding time for special interests and corporate insiders. Its the 'American way'.

Nothing new to see here.

Alex.

 

[DBT]

Here comes the latest version of the Dark Ages, rapidly in progress even as we speak.

 

[barbos]

Yes, that's bad. I think academia should collectively express their disapproval.

 

[Harry Bosch]

"I didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils."

I think, if anything, the Third Party vote *helped* Clinton, because a lot of Republicans voted Libertarian instead of voting for Trump.

Link?

 

[ronburgundy]

Trump has picked a leading climate change denier and corporate apologist to head his EPA transition team, and named a corporate lobbyist (for Koch, Dow Chemical, and others) to head the Department of Energy.

You can guarantee his NSF, and Department of Education appointees will be similarly anti-science.

Just a few of the infinite ways that Trump will do far more lifelong damage than Hillary would have to the interests of nearly every person that didn't vote for her because she was "just as bad".

But hey, at least they get to say vacuously stupid things like "I didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils."

I would guess that most of his supporters don't give a rat's ass about dealing with climate change.

I'm not talking about people that voted Trump, but the other 50% of American's that didn't vote for either one but care a great deal about Climate Change (plus all Jill Stein supporters).

I think, if anything, the Third Party vote *helped* Clinton, because a lot of Republicans voted Libertarian instead of voting for Trump.

Again, it is more about the non-voters, especially the idiots who claim there is no meaningful difference. However, exit polls showed that more Third party voters would have voted Hillary over Trump, including those who voted for Johnson.

 

[ronburgundy]

Yes, that's bad. I think academia should collectively express their disapproval.

The scientific community already expressed their disapproval over Trumps many anti-science, and climate change denial statements throughout the last year. Sadly, most people that pretend to care about climate change were too busy making false equivalences between Trump and Hillary to hear them.

 

[barbos]

Yes, that's bad. I think academia should collectively express their disapproval.

The scientific community already expressed their disapproval over Trumps many anti-science, and climate change denial statements throughout the last year. Sadly, most people that pretend to care about climate change were too busy making false equivalences between Trump and Hillary to hear them.

They did not, I mean they did but nobody paid any attention to it, so effectively they did not. In order to get attention they need to use stronger language trump voters understand, with words like "fuck", shit, etc.

 

[ronburgundy]

Trump has picked a leading climate change denier and corporate apologist to head his EPA transition team, and named a corporate lobbyist (for Koch, Dow Chemical, and others) to head the Department of Energy.

You can guarantee his NSF, and Department of Education appointees will be similarly anti-science.

Just a few of the infinite ways that Trump will do far more lifelong damage than Hillary would have to the interests of nearly every person that didn't vote for her because she was "just as bad".

But hey, at least they get to say vacuously stupid things like "I didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils."

Folks,

Feeding time for special interests and corporate insiders. Its the 'American way'.

Nothing new to see here.

Alex.

More false equivalence of the sort that got Trump elected. It isn't the American way. It is the anti-science way of Trump and the GOP.
Trump's likely appointee has zero education in any field related to environmental science or any science at all. Obama's appointee has a graduate degree in Environmental Engineering and decades of experience at the state level in environmental policy.

So, while not unexpected for a GOP appointee, it is "new" and it is drastically different than the application of science to policy we would have had under Hillary.
The public commons is about to be stolen and sold for profits to a handful of billionaires.

 

[ronburgundy]

The scientific community already expressed their disapproval over Trumps many anti-science, and climate change denial statements throughout the last year. Sadly, most people that pretend to care about climate change were too busy making false equivalences between Trump and Hillary to hear them.

They did not, I mean they did but nobody paid any attention to it, so effectively they did not. In order to get attention they need to use stronger language trump voters understand, with words like "fuck", shit, etc.

Again, the fault isn't Trump voters. They have no regard for the environment and most of them don't believe in climate change either. Trump was elected because of the petulant imbeciles on the left and the middle who do pretend to care about the environment and climate change, but not as much as they wanted to claim they are disenfranchised by falsely equivocating the Hillary and the Trump (or the Dems and GOP more generally), and thus not voting for Hillary.
As was certain and known to all non-morons, the interests and goals of these people are already being negatively impacted by their choice (because "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"). They had all the power needed to greatly impact environmental policy, but they refused to use it so they could make bullshit claims of injustice about their lack of power.

 

[Derec]

I disagree with this move by Trump.
I liked Obama's initial "all of the above" approach.

Yes, climate change is real and we need to transition to non-carbon forms of energy, including nuclear. But transition will take decades and thus we need oil and gas having ample domestic production is a good thing.
Unfortunately he caved to the left wing of his party later on. He stopped offshore drilling expansion he once supported. He killed the Keystone XL pipeline for purely political reasons. He delayed the Dakota Access pipeline and wants to reroute it now even though majority of it has been completed already.

 

[barbos]

They did not, I mean they did but nobody paid any attention to it, so effectively they did not. In order to get attention they need to use stronger language trump voters understand, with words like "fuck", shit, etc.

Again, the fault isn't Trump voters. They have no regard for the environment and most of them don't believe in climate change either. Trump was elected because of the petulant imbeciles on the left and the middle who do pretend to care about the environment and climate change, but not as much as they wanted to claim they are disenfranchised by falsely equivocating the Hillary and the Trump (or the Dems and GOP more generally), and thus not voting for Hillary.
As was certain and known to all non-morons, the interests and goals of these people are already being negatively impacted by their choice (because "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"). They had all the power needed to greatly impact environmental policy, but they refused to use it so they could make bullshit claims of injustice about their lack of power.

It does not really matter who's fault is this now, Trump was elected and Hillary was a crappy candidate as far as GW concerned.
If Trump starts appointing people who have no business to be appointed then degreed experts should tell him and his appointees what they think about it, preferably using words which would make people uncomfortable.
This is not fucking democracy, it's science.