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Your response refers to the mission of the CDC. That's a misdirect. No one said that the mission has changed. What the article states is that "the Trump adminis
by ddoran 7y ago
Your response refers to the mission of the CDC. That's a misdirect. No one said that the mission has changed. What the article states is that "the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it"
Also, every budget that Trump has proposed has cut CDC funding and the current proposal is to cut it by 16%. Fortunately Congress has interceded every time.
These are verifiable facts, not opinions.
The term "fake news" used to annoy me, until I realize that it always means "a truth disliked by Trump / his minions". (Minion: "a follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one"). I've been at peace with the phrase ever since, having a better understanding of the person who used the phrase and why they used it.
- grayed-down 7y agoNo. It's a shared mission. Both the NSC and CDC have significant national security crossover. And I would encourage curious people to research the reasoning behind some of the proposed CDC budget reductions. I can see how the term "fake news" annoys certain people as I'm sure it invokes a certain discomfort in knowing that it refers to the immoral fabrications and contextual transformations needed to maintain mass discontent with one individual person. It's got to make at least some of its creators and consumers feel dirty.
- mr_overalls 7y ago> it refers to the immoral fabrications and contextual transformations needed to maintain mass discontent with one individual person. It's a bit amazing to me that we live in the same reality. I can listen to Trump speak for perhaps 30 seconds because it's transparently in some new way that he is malignantly narcissistic, corrupt, and proudly uninformed about every subject he opines about. No "fake news" needed.
- grayed-down 7y agoI'm equally amazed; perhaps even more so. And I've felt the same way about other presidents, so we've been in the same boat.
- krapp 7y ago>And I've felt the same way about other presidents, so we've been in the same boat. Let me guess - all of those presidents have been Democrats?
- grayed-down 7y agoYou guess wrong.