Trump: You'd all better rise up and vote this sucker out...

TWO THINGS ESPECIALLY  Let's call this, a Blue Monday Post.

A Quote from an article in the New York Times:

" ' WASHINGTON — In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in federal policy making while halting or disrupting research projects nationwide, marking a transformation of the federal government whose effects, experts say, could reverberate for years.

Political appointees have shut down government studies, reduced the influence of scientists over regulatory decisions and in some cases pressured researchers not to speak publicly. The administration has particularly challenged scientific findings related to the environment and public health opposed by industries such as oil drilling and coal mining. It has also impeded research around human-caused climate change, which President Trump has dismissed despite a global scientific consensus.

But the erosion of science reaches well beyond the environment and climate: In San Francisco, a study of the effects of chemicals on pregnant women has stalled after federal funding abruptly ended. In Washington, D.C., a scientific committee that provided expertise in defending against invasive insects has been disbanded.  In Kansas City, Mo., the hasty relocation of two agricultural agencies that fund crop science and study the economics of farming has led to an exodus of employees and delayed hundreds of millions of dollars in research.

“The disregard for expertise in the federal government is worse than it’s ever been,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, which has tracked more than 200 reports of Trump administration efforts to restrict or misuse science since 2017. 'It’s pervasive.' "

If you would like to read the whole article, You will have to log into the New York Times .. the title is below:

Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work

Hatred Rules this man.  He hates people who don't agree with him, don't grovel, and ones who are smarter and better educated than he is.  We needed this mutant in the Presidency like we need another war for our children to fight and die in.

And then there is this.....It's about NOT saving birds. 

 A link: From the Salt Lake City Tribune

And a further article on the same issue from the New York Times.