This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.
And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.
Record-breaking temperatures.
A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.
The response?
Yank out the instruments and walk away.
That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.
For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.
The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.
That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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@sgh956@marceelias trump votes by mail. But you are correct. Paper ballots are harder to hack, though not impossible. In 2020, more people voted by mail because of covid and Elon didn’t expect that. Now, they use Starlink to upload totals and Elon changes that.
@dirtyjersey701@marceelias I’ve done that for nearly a decade now. I google ballot drop boxes and take it to the closest one. I don’t trust USPS anymore
HE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE HIS NAME COME DOWN
BREAKING- The Trump name is coming down today from Kennedy Center- at least that what appears to be happening behind this blue tarp. Someone ordered the tarp be used, to prevent photographs of Trump's name be chiseled away.
It was found in Texas. It destroys cattle too. It was still in other countries and the US put in programs to ensure it wouldn’t enter the US again. 60 years of success.
Until Trump cut the funding, and now it’s back in the US. Are we Great Again yet?
@realDonaldTrump You’ve gutted funding and now we have diseases like measles returning and the screwworm is back after it was eradicated in the 60’s. Eradicated means ended. It’s so obvious you are a complete failure at everything
🚨 🔥 SHOCKING REVELATION: DOGE Cut Funding For Screwworm Monitoring Programs.
Now a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated from the United States in 1966 has been detected in Texas.
The question practically asks itself.
How much money was saved…
and what did it cost?
@realDonaldTrump Face it old man, only one third of this country is brainwashed into liking you. The rest of the country sees you for the traitor pedophile you are.
@swd2@SusanCarver19 Republicans don’t care about people, not even fetuses. They use a fetus to control women. But republicans will never help a child or anyone else.
So all of you guys who were in my comments last month talking about how food assistance should not include candy and soda but actual healthy foods, I suppose you’re going to call your members of Congress and the White House about this?