Shiftless2
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Cross posted from the "Second Term" thread
Trump has ordered a complete data blackout from all federal agencies
Trump has ordered a complete data blackout from all federal agencies
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Cutting back on expenditures in research may be penny wise and pound foolish, but the fig leaf is $savings.
What ostensible benefit from data blackout? Security?
Shiftless2
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If they're still collecting the data but not publishing it there can't be any savings.
Don't think that's the reason - much more likely he doesn't want data released that might make him look bad. After all, he fired the last person who released numbers that weren't flattering to him claiming that she had falsified the data to reflect badly on him.
Indeed. Yet MAGA doesn't seem to care. Elon Musk reportedly laid waste ... under guise of?
It's actually worse than this S2.
For while precisely as you acknowledge "there can't be any savings" some of the research cut short already consumed substantial resources. The payoff is completing the process, reaping the benefits.
Interruption before completion renders what's already been spent, essentially wasted.
Thus my point and yours, needless waste under the guise of savings.
Still not entirely clear to me whether Trump is outright lying (knowingly stating falsehoods) or whether Trump is so delusional he's stating his actual view.
Shiftless2
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That's always been the case. And it's not just with data. When he says that "the other country" is paying the tariffs it's no clear if he actually believes that or if he just figures his followers will believe it because he said it.
Shiftless2
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ANCHORAGE (The Borowitz Report)—Sarah Palin’s tenure as the dumbest person to set foot in the state of Alaska came to an abrupt end on Friday.
Speaking to reporters, the former governor was philosophical about losing her crown of idiocy, declaring, “I had a good run.”
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ANCHORAGE (The Borowitz Report)—Sarah Palin’s tenure as the dumbest person to set foot in the state of Alaska came to an abrupt end on Friday.
Speaking to reporters, the former governor was philosophical about losing her crown of idiocy, declaring, “I had a good run.”
Watching the newly-minted king of stupid ramble incoherently at a press conference in Anchorage, Palin observed, “Whoa—now there’s a moron!
”As for how he clinched the title, Palin opined, “Even I know the difference between Alaska and Russia.”