It’s hard to imagine how the firings can be legal if the head of the agency didn’t participate.
At least in one court case another agency head said they “did not know” who ordered firings at their agency.
They're coming for the vaccines now, it's still cloaked in scientific-sounding language, but in the end they will make vaccines less available and potentially even completely prevent access. This doesn't have to be direct, the current strategy seems to be to demand unreasonable and unscientific levels and types of evidence to recommend them or even making them available.
Vaccines are the first target, I strongly doubt they're the only one.
I sense a lot of fear. But the curious thing to see is how people just try to keep calm and carry on as if nothing was happening otherwise, while the government is killing the best parts of American science.
Who would have thought it was that easy to turn the 'land of the free ' around.
In close living societies that favors those with money and power.
Incompetent bureaucracy is an expression of the competency of those working it. That's rarely the temporarily assigned political figurehead, assigned to that organization
MOARDONGZPLZ•8mo ago
duxup•8mo ago
It also helps that he can use any of these folks as fall guys, they’re not smart enough to realize it …
Reminds me of the attorney who signed the paperwork declaring that they checked Trumps home and he didn’t have any secret documents. Ambition got the better of them and Trump could discard them as needed.
maeil•8mo ago
It is the only requirement. Loyalty to the party and not a hint of anything suggesting shared views with any of its opponents.
The "defense of the West" narrative has become entirely laughable. The only places left to defend are parts of Europe, Taiwan and Japan, and maybe Korea at a stretch. And those now need to defend against the US, which has become a bigger threat than Russia.