This is just embarrassing.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Macron is gonna need an appropriate baseball cap.
I actually find this to be pretty fuckin’ hilarious as well as sad and embarrassing. I’m sharing with my best friend’s wife: she works for USAID and is worried about funding as well.
BooMan, what do you find embarrassing about this?
from the Guardian (I ran out my free days on WashPo already this month).
Trunp and the GOP have be cutting funding for climate science projects. Macron is treating them like the UK and US treated German and Central European Jewish scientists in World War II.
Thanks, TarheelDem.
I get that, but I don’t get what’s embarrassing about this. It’s having an ignorant sociopath like Trump as our president that’s the embarrassment, not the scientists “defecting” to France.
And maybe it’s wrong, but I kind of like the way France threw that in Trumps face by calling it “Make Our Plant Great Again”.
Obviously I can’t speak for your husband, but I personally find it embarrassing that so many of my fellow countrymen are so thoroughly ignorant that a knuckle dragger like Trump could win the presidency and that he’s anything but an anomaly. So much of the country is in the thrall of a degenerate political philosophy and that’s not just embarrassing but also truly frightening. It equally distresses me that so many so-called progressives convinced themselves that the smart move was to pick up marbles and go home.
If there’s any silver lining in this, it’s that perhaps something new can be born of it. Of course I’m an inveterate optimist, forever seeking out silver linings. God help me if I ever lose that because things aren’t looking so hopeful based on facts alone right now.
How does all of this show up for you, WG?
I dont find that particularly embarassing either. Brexit. Merkel in a minority government. The Harper era in Canada. The Abbot era in Australia. The illiberal democracies in Hungary, Turkey, Poland. Fearing outsiders is human nature. Losing power is a real fear. No one is any better than us. No one has been able to beat back the tide.
Yes these leaders are not as stupid as Trump but the basic politics is moving in the same direction. We’re all in the same fire.
Awesome, this is my field and I lost my USAID funded project, which suddenly lost its funding.
Good for France! And hopefully our allies, recognizing the state the US government is in, will continue to step up and carry the ball.
And, as expected, in the comments thread of the piece the brainwashed wingnuts are cheering this on, decrying that its only 13 scientists. One theme is we are the most powerful military in the world, we don’t need scientist.
If this situation weren’t so serious this shyte would be hilarious.
The good news is that climate science (as will all the sciences) will continue to advance. The sciences have built up so much momentum that the rate of new discoveries is and will continue to be mind-boggling. The bad news is that the US may well end up without any leadership role in the development of the sciences once all is said and done. Undoubtedly, that role will be reduced regardless at this point. It’s simply a matter of degree, and we’ll have some idea about that over the next few years as to how much damage we will have done to ourselves.
Not right away anyway. A lot of climate science does not depend upon the EPA or DOE or even NSF funding though the GOP/Trump is a disastrous hit on all of them. OTOH, we are still on Obama’s budget because of the continual CRs so there is some climate work going on.
Also, the international donors, US cities and states and large NGOs have maintained funding. No question that pulling out of the Paris Agreement (officially effective 2020) is a big hit because the Orange Monster and Congress is defunding climate work.
But the work goes on because it has to. And it will.
Embarrassed? I’m pleased and relieved.