I saw a thread a while back talking about how Germany was at the forefront of world science until Hitler showed up, and even today Germany is still rebuilding their internal talent base after so many of their brightest either fled the country or got murdered.
New outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. American medIcal team has been let go due to USAID dismantling. Scary to think of how Trump will not handle this to be prepared. So not only will we be fighting Avian flu and TB, but the threat of a resurgence of AIDS and Ebola overseas. It's a perfect storm.
Your article on RFKjr & MAGA this morning was you at your best, tying together a bunch of threads into a readable whole. A keeper.
Looking forward to poss adding more on religion and financial conflicts of interest to the mix. E.g connex btwn USAID and religious groups’ foreign assistance.
It's worse than you think.
Those who will have blood on their hands seriously do not give a s**t.
They may say the right things on live mic for the cameras but, deep down, they. Seriously. Do. Not. Give. A. Flying. F.
Mr Krugman, I don't think Richie Rich gives a damn anymore. They have no national allegiance. They are just out to steal whatever they can before they die. The bilkionaires have personal physicians. The only way out of this is to tax their fortunes out of existence, as we did with the Vanderbilts.
There's an overwhelming sense of heading backwards - women out of the army, the police; safety regulations removed; DEI removed. They want to unravel the Great Society, the New Deal and even Anti-Trust.
What is the direction of travel? To a Christian nation, without birth control or suffrage.
It goes back further. Women as chattel. No constitutionally protected speech. No rule of law. Soon there will be extrajudicial arrests and executions, as in the Philippines. Collapse of the financial system where only the very wealthy are protected.
Panama Canal - He said USA ships need to go thru free. What USA ships? Biggest users are shipping lines registered elsewhere. Then he said USA military ships. Navy use of the canal is about 40 vessels annually, excluding aircraft carriers, which are too big. His golfing costs the USA way more.
Sell Tesla - Bring Elon down. Tesla stock could be hiding in your ETFs - make sure you sell those and get Tesla out of your portfolio. Elon operates with debt backed by Tesla stock. If the stock gets low enough it will trigger his ruin. How many people hate this guy? If enough of us act together…
The U.S. ranks 54th in the world re. infant mortality. "Not being dead" is an important factor in the quality of life - but I guess we won't be able to poll those dead infants about how life worked out for them.
What happens with the Ebola outbreak in Uganda with USAID shut down and RFK Jr in charge?! Not only are Trump and Musk destroying this Country they seem hell bent on destroying the world 😢
Yup, China is waiting to eat our scientific lunch. And meanwhile, dangerous flu strains percolate through our animal population, mixing and matching, road testing which strain will work best in humans.
Not that long ago, these people said NIH/NSF discovered everything and pharma just marketed it. Now, not worth funding NIH/NSF. Guess we have all the drugs we need? Has pharma discovered discovering?
"Some of them know that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health will effectively condemn many of their fellow citizens to unnecessary death. Yet they’ll vote to confirm him anyway, OUT OF SHEER PERSONAL COWARDICE. And when they do, they’ll have blood on their hands." 🩸🩸☠️
"What many people don’t understand about science is that it isn’t a set of Truths handed down from above."
And that is a problem for religious dogmatics who think that only what has been "handed down from above" is true. Everything has to agree with what they read (& how they read it) in the Bible.
"Yet the modern Republican party is deeply hostile to the idea of making sacrifices, or even incurring some minor inconvenience, in order to help others."
However, they ARE insistent on sacrifices made by OTHERS for the benefit of the rich and (certain select) churches.
It's all carrots and no sticks. If they really want marriage they wouldn't turn women back into chattel and make it harder to get out of an abusive marriage. If they want to increase childbearing, they would boost women's health care and benefits to children.
I really enjoy your musical codas, but I need to offer a corrective.
"Fever," was written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell (who also wrote "All Shook Up," Breathless" and many other songs) and was first a hit by Little Willie John.
I love Peggy Lee's version, but it's a cover, too.
COVID could have been less deadly, several combined deathtolls from 9/11 less deadly. It would not have been technically difficult to contain it far better than what was done.
It is also the case that biomedicine is a frontier of science in the 21st century, much more than rocketry. By shutting down biomedical research, the United States condemns itself to being a second class technological power in this century.
Part of white supremacy is the concept of purity of body, which means no vaccines, no seed oils apparently (not too familiar with this), no sunscreen, etc. Getting sick just means you’re weak is all. Does it make sense? No of course not
Well more to the present moment. I remember catching an anti-Covid vaccine protest in Florida. One woman interviewed said “if you look at the demographics, we’re not affected by this outbreak” which I took to be “I’m not putting something in my body that would help *them*”
This idea of the physical body as some pure perfect thing is a huge error; physical bodies are, well, physical. It isn't only a white European idea; it occurs in Asian cultures too.
The carnage will be worldwide; some immediate such as USAID food relief not being distributed; some more long-term, from termination of USAID vaccination and disease surveillance programs. The toll will be in the millions.
It is hard to believe that the GOP has managed to poison the well so thoroughly. But they have. If you are college educated you have become an elitist even while most of the leaders of the GOP are Ivy educated. The very definitionof elitist.
This is, as usual, terrific. One key point is missing: Many intuitionists think they are being rational. Even for quite intelligent people it can be depressingly easy to buy into false information that seems intuitively correct. Intelligence does not guarantee intellectual standards.
The fact is that there will incredible damage, needless death and destruction. Those who are MAGA and who support them are just as susceptible to disease, misery and death as those they hate.
We really are alone in this mess. Our elected officials are useless
The Arab world was well advanced technically and scientifically for several centuries. After the capture of Baghdad by the Turks and their fundamentalist Islam, the decline was fast.
These obscurantists must be stoped. Now.
Of all countries in 2020, the United States possessed the highest infant mortality rate at 5.4 deaths per 1000 live births, which is markedly higher than the …Jan 31, 2023.
Great to see you unfiltered. Do you have any thoughts on the economic cost of decimating the environmental and DEI industries? Combined, or separately, are they large enough to have an impact on the economy as POTUS cedes the field to overseas competitors, friendly and not so friendly?
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Looking forward to poss adding more on religion and financial conflicts of interest to the mix. E.g connex btwn USAID and religious groups’ foreign assistance.
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Those who will have blood on their hands seriously do not give a s**t.
They may say the right things on live mic for the cameras but, deep down, they. Seriously. Do. Not. Give. A. Flying. F.
https://medium.com/@tonygoldenhawaii/entheogens-and-spective-bicaroe-331772c828b1
What is the direction of travel? To a Christian nation, without birth control or suffrage.
I was always very wary of the Republican party, but I certainly didn't think they would become the enemy of America
The Republicans don't really care about America as long as they get what they want
Meaning corporations getting what they want!
Thank you.
so why are you there ?
you think it is ok cause you are a big shot, to use a platform that is home to Nazi filth ?
fuck you
~P. J. O'Rourke
Traitors have taken control of our government.
It’s not too late to arrest them all.
Here again, intuition seems to prevail ?
bffr. They will blame it on the Dems like they always do. And no one will check them on it.
And that is a problem for religious dogmatics who think that only what has been "handed down from above" is true. Everything has to agree with what they read (& how they read it) in the Bible.
However, they ARE insistent on sacrifices made by OTHERS for the benefit of the rich and (certain select) churches.
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head”
Jefferson Airplane has never been more prescient.
The worst of the worst are GOP physicians voting for RFK Jr. Makes me sad there is no hell.
"Fever," was written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell (who also wrote "All Shook Up," Breathless" and many other songs) and was first a hit by Little Willie John.
I love Peggy Lee's version, but it's a cover, too.
"Make America sick again."
"The Life-and-Death Cost of Conservative Power"
https://prospect.org/health/2023-12-08-life-death-cost-conservative-power/
Republicans are dirty filthy stupid savages. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9126409/MAGA-mob-rioters-smeared-POO-Capitol.html
We really are alone in this mess. Our elected officials are useless
These obscurantists must be stoped. Now.
Problem solved.
We havenot been a shinning performance at home
https://www.ajmc.com
The world is placating Trump, while they make unions and pacts without the US.