How Qualified Are Trump’s Appointees?
To the reader who sent me this meme, my answer: It depends on how we define “qualified.”
Every single one of these people is uniquely qualified to do precisely what Trump appointed him/her to do: make the president wealthier and more powerful–without any regard whatsoever as to the devastating impact on the economic or moral health of our nation.
Of course, that means something different in each case:
• Destroying public education, making the electorate less capable of critical thinking with each passing year
• Rejecting science as the core of policymaking, especially in matters of the environment and human health
• Weaponizing the Justice Department against the president’s enemies
• Ending NPR, PBS, and any other news institution that could be critical of Trump and his administration
• Rewarding wealthy donors with tax breaks, paid for, in part, by killing public services that formerly benefitted the common American
• Extending the life of fossil fuels as far as possible into the future by revoking support for renewables
It’s by far the most corrupt regime ever seen in U.S. history, and it’s possible that there is no turning back.
Common Dreams report: “The Trump administration will stop at nothing to rip coverage away from American families, even kids they claim they want to protect.”
The world’s 200+ sovereign nations have that precise number of leaders, and it’s impossible to say how many of them are totally lucid–or completely senile–or anywhere in between. Is it possible that important decisions around the globe are being made by underlings, acting behind the scenes? Of course.
We need to accept that, in general, the people of the Deep South actually don’t care if their government isn’t helping them achieve healthier and more productive/affluent lives. As long as white people dominate their part of the world, socially and politically, they are quite happy to remain at the bottom of the rankings in terms of longevity, education, etc.
Admiral McRaven’s words at left focus on Trump’s effect on America and our country’s effect on the rest of the world.
In Santa Barbara County, where 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” makes its home, PBS and NPR are hardly under threat. We at “2GE” make regular monthly contributions to the local affiliates of both, and those organizations have money coming out their ears from like-minded listeners and viewers. The criminal insanity of the Trump administration could no more shut us off from quality information and entertainment than it could put out a wildfire with a squirt gun.
Let’s imagine that the assertion at left is true–even the most extreme version. There are astrophysicists who believe that the universe in which we live that began 13.7 billion years ago is just one of an endless number of universes that come into being, expand, contract, and implode, only to give rise to the next.
I’m a Pennsylvanian, and I believe the answer is corn.
The “Other 98%” reports: Trump is literally sabotaging America’s booming Clean Energy industry for his billionaire oil-tycoon donors.
Dissenters against autocrats in Hungary, Serbia, and Turkey see the same “democratic backsliding” in the U.S. “Americans think this is something that also only happens to others,” said an opponent of Hungary’s Viktor Orban. “That mindset has to be fought.”
