I'm struggling to understand why Trump and Musk are conducting an all-out siege on American medical research. I understand the corrupt and/or ideological reasons for a lot of the other things they're doing, but the systematic assault on NIH et al feels like destruction purely for destruction's sake.
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disrespected him
made fun of him
contradicted him.
Blocking a malignant narcissist is DANGEROUS.
Nixon was bush league, compared w Muskrats.
https://bsky.app/profile/aozorasf.bsky.social/post/3li3xpvj2y22i
2-payback by those angry about COVID policies
3-some of them believe cancer research is fraudulent (‘The Cancer Industry’)
There’s more, but this is part of the GOP base (& as everyone notes, one sounds bonkers just describing it)
sounds nutty but no less nutty than the Cathedral
https://bsky.app/profile/broadwaybabyto.bsky.social/post/3li6smssfts2c
https://www.vcinfodocs.com/unregulated-medical-experimentation
https://www.vcinfodocs.com/unregulated-medical-experimentation
If you’re sick, you’re just not trying hard enough to be well.
Also, “We got ours, fuck you.”
Yeah, they think that all the work that brought us up to where we are today means nothing. Just be ‘good’ and you’ll not only be healthy but wealthy, too.
The wealthy don’t get how much their wealth has to do with their health.
Others think modern medicine is too effective and must be destroyed so that inferior humans will die as nature intended.
Both are evil and stupid and they don't care that they contradict each other.
Last administration they killed an extra one million.
I suppose they're pissed at NIH because of information about vaccines, conspiracy theories about COVID & Wuhan, supplements, etc.
And no actual knowledge of NIH work.
It's stupid, but so is he.
Trump hates the NIH because of Covid and the last year of his presidency
Elon thinks capitalism is supreme, and basic science research is just wasted money. After all, the scientists the NIH are funding aren’t billionaires, so what value could their work have?
In general people in academia and public health are not big MAGA supporters...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSKPpGiJvA
https://www.vcinfodocs.com/unregulated-medical-experimentation
https://youtu.be/KU-6URq8IOo
If not, wtf are we doing laying people off from the national institute of cancer? What are we doing???
How the public reacts is key.
If they accept it, then the leader continues on his merry way.
If not, then the leader is in trouble.
It literally ask for the 15 percent overhead cap!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trump-college-academia-woke.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
they think sickness kills off the weak and makes the genetic future stronger. They see mass death as natural and they hate disabled folks
Lots of people think that, too, who *aren't* fucking fascists, but the fascists also believe cruel actions are strength, which is *good*.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnih4science.bsky.social/post/3li6p2ti2hs25
• the only things worth doing are things the private sector can do
• there should be no government / Network State Yarvinism
• Own the libs and libs like research
I doubt they have any idea what they are doing other than establishing a dictatorship and looting as much as quickly as they can. We are now the third world.
He’s a child of apartheid and grandchild of Nazis.
Eugenics is in his blood. Let the sick die. Stronger gene pool. Evil, twisted, drug-addled lunacy.
This isn’t some new thing Trump is doing. He’s just the one man without any shame to hold the government down while his friends fill up the tub.
They’re dismantling the system to build a new autocracy, basically.
it 100% is destruction for destruction's sake
Medical science stands in opposition to that, it gives miracles here and now, so who needs gods?
https://bsky.app/profile/sisresister.bsky.social/post/3li5wcvm2fc2u
Also, in Trump's case, he was mad that some Republicans booed him for the covid vaccine program, so I think there's some personal animus. He views science as disloyal to him now, somehow. He rewards/punishes.
See Russia 1990s
Coupled with irrational and unscientific beliefs that AI will support their 21st Century Frat Boy Eugenic fantasies, TrumpandCo are repeating the self-destructiveness of human megalomaniacs throughout history
The object of terror is terror.
Big Brother may have purposes in addition, but those are the first.
3. Supplanting valid science before manufacturing a basis to justify the hatred they are going to unleash against targeted people who have committed no crime.
We need to pressure governments into opening avenues of asylum. Gor the targets of American fascism.
#Musk
#Republicans
#Vance
#RFK
Syria. Syria. Syria.
Look what Bashir did to his own people. That’s a recent timeline.
Stop trying to make it make sense.
It doesn’t. It’s sinister. It’s about power, coercion, greed, and issues a lifetime of therapy & a warehouse full of Prozac can’t fix.
What can ye not grasp?
What's happening is friend-enemy politics, which is an entirely distinct mode of doing politics w a fundamentally distinct end: accumulating publicly legible tokens of domination