To the reader who sent me this meme, I ask, with all due respect: Are you serious?

When we re-elected Trump, we chose to receive a masterclass in ruining things — in the most clearly absurd conceivable manner.

This is true across the board, whether we’re talking about women’s and LGBTQ rights, environmental protection, education, government services that help the common American, and relationships with our allies.

We conduct aggressive wars in violation of domestic and international law, and we support the world’s great dictators.

Is it really a surprise that we’ve installed a crackpot in our government to attack human health?

Ruining things.  It’s what we do now.

We Ruin Things

Here in the United States, our political leaders thumb their noses at the International Court of Justice.  This isn’t new, btw; when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney waged an aggressive war against Iraq in 2003, and no one said a thing.

What’s happening now in Venezuela is far more egregious, but it’s hard to imagine that Trump and Hegseth are too worried about it.

Pete Hegseth — Mass Murderer

First of all, I believe there are far fewer of these crackpots than are commonly thought to exist. The presence of social media serves to distort this.

To answer the question, there are QAnon conspiracy theorists who simply believe that science of all types is a web of lies.  The theory goes that scientists in all disciplines, health, climate, transportation, infrastructure, etc., are paid to publish papers proving ideas that profit the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet.

If you will recall, someone has supposedly invented a carburetor that enabled cars to get 200 miles to the gallon, but it was buried by the auto industry.  This whole phenomenon isn’t new.

On top of all this, we live in a time that features an appalling lack of scientific education.  If you go on Facebook right this minute, you’ll run across dozens of different fraudulent claims for devices that generate electricity out of thin air, and tons of other crap that violate the laws of thermodynamics.

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