Make America Dumber

 

Interesting choice

For someone who seems to do everything he can to remove freedoms, this seems an odd choice.

President Trump on Saturday signed an executive order seeking to hasten research into the therapeutic benefits of LSD, Ecstasy, psilocybin and other mind-altering drugs by ordering federal agencies to ease restrictions that have long limited the ability of scientists to study them.

The measure also provides $50 million for state-level research into ibogaine, a powerful psychedelic made from the root of a Central African shrub that has been drawing interest from researchers for its potential to treat opioid use disorder and other forms of substance abuse.

  NYT

They'll take what they want

 And do what they want.  Congress won't stop them.  And neither will the Supreme Court.

Destruction of health and disease prevention infrastructure, education, and pretty much everything good

This will be one of the most disastrous effects of Trumpism, and among the hardest to restore.  In fact, there will be an entire body of research missing.  Hopefully, some other countries will be picking up the slack until (and if) the United States comes back on line.

As for layoffs in the government during shutdown specifically...

Right out loud.

This will be exhibit A in all the lawsuits for wrongful termination.

Rural hospitals shutting down is starting to break through.  So what to do?  They lie.  ALL THE TIME.  There has been some instance of rural hospital closings for several decades, but nothing to compare to what's happening after the Big Beautiful Billionaire Bonus.  It wasn't Joe Biden's policies that shut them down.

And that $50 billion?

SNAFU...

 

Didn't need SCOTUS

 

If you don't collect data, it doesn't exist

 

This is how they're going to excuse all their shit.  And destroy years of research in the bargain.  They won't collect data on anything that goes against them.

Remember how Trump wanted to keep a ship full of covid-infected people from debarking?  How he didn't want to count covid cases because the numbers would look bad for him?

This is the worst timeline

 

Yeah, like Epstein.

UPDATE 08/07/2025:

Jerome Adams, Trump’s Surgeon General in his first term: “I’ve tried to be objective and non-alarmist in response to current HHS actions – but quite frankly this move is going to cost lives. mRNA technology has uses that go far beyond vaccines - and the vaccine they helped develop in record time is credited with saving millions.”

Lincoln Project’s Stuart Stevens: “At every point, RFK Jr has made disastrous and destructive personal health choices. He was a drug dealer in college. He spent a large portion of his adult life shooting heroin. He’s shot so much steroids into his body, his voice is destroyed. His drug use has helped alienate him from his own family. His 10 siblings have called him a national threat. Now he’s trying to destroy America’s health. This is a sad and broken man with deep self-destructive pathology.”

Trump was asked about it: “Q - These mRNA vaccines are the gold standard. Now your Health Secretary is pulling back all the funding for research - what is going on? Trump: Research into what? Reporter: mRNA vaccines. Trump: We're onto other things.”

Mehdi Hasan: “I would pay good money for a reporter to ask Donald Trump to explain what an mRNA vaccine is and what his administration’s exact objection to it is.”

  Meidas Touch

For future reference

I once read a paper showing that Republican elites were consciously destroying the environment in order to line their pockets because they believe that it's too late to save the earth, so they'll get what they can until it's over.  I have not been able to find that article, even though I think I posted a link to it some years ago.

So, with that in mind, I'm going to post this in hopes I can find it when I need it.  I've long said that the idea that the Democrats lose because they don't go far enough to the right, or they cater to the progressive wing of the party, is bunk.  They haven't yet tried to go further left, which is where, I believe, their success lies.  

Here's a study implying that...

 The trick will be if I can find it.

Destroying ourselves

 

That's great, but how many will apply in this climate?

Total and complete bullshit.

Worse than useless

 

How much crypto do those folks own?

Christ.

And, WTF, Cory Booker?

So was that 25-hour speech a mere stunt for a 2028 presidential run?  We thought it meant he was coming out fighting. 

Shame on you, Adam Schiff.  Is this that comms strategy you're trying to preserve?

Why businesses are starting to worry

 

RFKJ and DOGE didn't get to this research soon enough

 

Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis in honor of the Yaquina tribe of Native Americans that once lived in and around Yaquina Bay, where the bacteria were found.

Discovered in Oregon.  And the Tesla Chainsaw Massacre will put an end to American research slashing funding and firing people.

Also, DEI name.  

Who could have imagined?

 They're threatening.....

Medical Journals!

MAGA: Back to the dark ages

 We don't need no steenkeen science.

Agency priorities.

Also, we don't need no steenkeen doctors.

The Trump regime is going to set America back decades.  Our best and brightest are going to leave the country to work elsewhere.  

Burn it all down

 

For the umpteenth time, they don't actually care about babies AFTER they're born.  They are not pro-life, only anti-abortion.

Why do RFKJ and the rest of the Trump administration hate the world?  They're overwhelmingly from the privileged class.  What has the world ever denied them?  Is it because, despite their feeling of entitlement, the world doesn't like them? 

What in God's name is he doing?

 

The lights are going out over America

 

UPDATE 03:24 pm:  Fox News!

There's ONE Fox host who won't be given a job in the Trump administration.

MAGA regrets

 MAGA voters didn't seem to care much about viruses during Covid, but even red states universities got research grants.

UPDATE 12:58 pm:

Technology & science

Stop using mice, use Dan Patrick instead

Straight to human testing will speed things up, and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick should be happy to volunteer.

Story here.