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Pompeos whopper: Team Trump is the most science-friendly in history
09/09/19 11:13 AMUpdated 09/09/19 12:06 PM
By Steve Benen
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke at an event Kansas on Friday, where he fielded a question from a Kansas State University physics professor who asked a very good question.
My question is: Do you support the suppression of scientific reports from within the U.S. Department of State? If not, how did this happen? And if so, why?
Pompeo was less impressed with the question than I was.
We turn to scientists and facts-based approaches to every single difficult challenge we face every day.
I realize the cabinet secretary was able to say all of this with a straight face. Thats part of the problem. The idea that the Trump administration has set a historically high bar, relying on science in ways that exceed every administration in the history of the country, is completely bonkers.
Indeed, the timing of Pompeos comments was almost comical: the same day the Kansas Republican praised Team Trumps handling of science, Trumps National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threw National Weather Service scientists under the bus for daring to tell the public truths the president didnt like.
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PJMcK
(21,921 posts)He's perfect for Trump.
Like Trump, Pompeo is an idiot.
3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)...are lousy liars. Pompeos claim is not even remotely credible.
Pro-science my ass!
Caliman73
(11,694 posts)That is the point. Tell such an obvious bold faced lie that you dare people to prove it. When they do. So what? Your supporters have already bought the lie and think that any fact checking is a conspiracy to destroy an obviously brilliant man by obviously jealous people. The average citizen isn't tuning in so they don't hear all of this. The moderately interested people are so overwhelmed by the volume of lies that they may be glazed over, and the rest of us, though wanting to call them out, know that there may be little consequence.
Trump and his people lie big, lie bold, and lie often, on purpose. They aren't bad at lying. They know what they need to do to keep opponents on the back foot.
Hopefully enough people will wake up and realize that not one person in the Trump administration is worth a damn and we will get rid of the lot of them, plus the GOP in 2020.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Bright, extremely well-educated but a Fundie Dominionist who believes that we should hurry the Rapture and sees Trump as the ideally idiotic vessel to carry out that charge to Armageddon.
JDC
(10,084 posts)spanone
(135,636 posts)ego_nation
(123 posts)Its like punctuation for flaming liars.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's so blatant. There isn't even a grain of truth in that statement. It is just patently false. It's not a matter of opinion. They make me absolutely sick!
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)I'm shocked! Shocked that there's gambling in this institution!