The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so.

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  • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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    At this point there will be nothing left of the government. It will have to be built from the ground up. Maybe this time we can each the rich and outlaw bribary properly.

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      That’s sort of the point. But those pulling the strings want to rebuild American government as they envision, not what was working.

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        No, why did the Dems help break everything in the name of bipartisanship instead of trying to fix anything?

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          I see you’ve progressed from “not fixing it fast enough” to “they broke everything!1!1” The progression is fascinating to watch.

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        More like, “Why did the Dems run interference for Republicans for 50+ years running?”. If you think our problem with Democrats is that they weren’t “good enough” then you have fundamentally misunderstood the arguments.

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        Under the current system, I don’t think they can fix it. The last 70 years has been Republicans recking shit and democrats either being too distracted or just too limited by the system to fix things before Republicans take power again. Republicans with fill a government(local, state, or federal) with corruption and then point at it and say “see how Ineffecient the government is!”

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          The Dems need all 3 (house of reps, Senate and presidency) to pass literally anything. They have had that for, drumroll please, 6 years out of the last 44 years. The fix is for people to vote them in on all 3.