White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires

1252 points by DoremusJessup 4 hours ago on reddit | 47 comments

Either-Patience1182 | 3 hours ago

And this is why a lot of those doctors are leaving the country

StrobeLightRomance | 12 minutes ago

"Smart people don't like me." is the most self aware quote I've heard from this administration.

cloudystateofmind | 3 hours ago

Ok, so they are planning another pandemic. Time to stock up on toilet paper and canned goods.

Peripatetictyl | 3 hours ago

Bidet

Migmatite | 2 hours ago

Unless you're in the US southwest, then you might want to conserve a bit more water this year.

ph30nix01 | an hour ago

Grey water systems ftw!

monkeyamongmen | an hour ago

I don't think I want dishwater on my butt or butt water on my dishes. The bidet stays black water.

unknownpoltroon | 56 minutes ago

Lawn.

Mountain_carrier530 | 3 hours ago

If I wasn't in such a niche community, I'd be looking for work in a different country.

Unfortunately, I don't any country that accepts a nuke technician with just an associate's degree.

EternalNewCarSmell | 3 hours ago

I'm in a similar boat. My career is just not very profitable in other countries. Like, it's perfectly fine if you're from there, but wouldn't really meet the standard of "you need to be able to support yourself and family to move here" if I was going to immigrate.

AtomicShart9000 | 2 hours ago

Homer?

Mountain_carrier530 | an hour ago

D'oh!

ZoomZoom_Driver | 3 hours ago

Putin bought trump to destroy america. This aligns 100% with the desire of putin to have America destroyed or neutered so completely we can't help win ww3. ... or that we'd be on the axis side this time...

Kuova_ | 2 hours ago

Trump isn't Putin's doing, it's America's. No time to point outside of the country when the rotting was from the inside.

I_AM_FERROUS_MAN | an hour ago

It's both. And the billionaire class.

There are many powerful interests that think they will benefit by demolishing the very systems that made the US great.

PsychoCrescendo | an hour ago

It’s everyone’s. That’s the problem. The most evil and corrupt circles of the Earth have a legal means of buying the US government, because it’s legal to do so here.

ScoffersGonnaScoff | 2 hours ago

Cambridge analytica called, they said to go back to sleep

there's another country with much more influence on the US than russia..

miriamtzipporah | an hour ago

How quickly everybody forgets the foreign country that actually colluded with Trump’s 2016 campaign (hint: Cambridge Analytica)

unknownpoltroon | 56 minutes ago

Stop hinting spell this shit out every time.

Mono_Aural | an hour ago

Debatable. Putin got away with 2016 scot-free and his hold over MAGA has only gotten stronger.

Other autocracies are fighting for second place.

ZoomZoom_Driver | an hour ago

Putin bought trump in the 80s.

Israel bought America in the 40s and 50s, when 1 middle eastern shiek and the US government cut up the middle east post-ww2 and, when asked about where to place displaced jews, they decided palestine was the place.

Xi bought trimp in the 2010s so trumps daughter could sell handbags in China.

Unique-Coffee5087 | an hour ago

The Confederate States?

shmoopidy | an hour ago

Israel**

Excellent-Ask-4247 | 3 hours ago

Can we reclassify Trump as a terrorist instead of a President? Like what would have happened in a government that wasn't broken.

ScoffersGonnaScoff | an hour ago

Everything that is happening to the science community/infrastructure because of this admin is a threat to public health and national security.

Glum_Material3030 | 3 hours ago

I am so glad I decided to go into academia and then industry instead of federal science. They are destroying American science for generations.

miriamtzipporah | an hour ago

I’m not sure academia is safe either.

Glum_Material3030 | an hour ago

It isn’t. And that is why I left.

taktaga7-0-0 | 3 hours ago

So they can fire you for finding politically inconvenient data?

useless83 | 11 minutes ago

Bingo

SolidSnake-26 | 3 hours ago

Speed run of how to ruin a great country and world power

stackered | 3 hours ago

This administration is pure evil and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them from implementing their nefarious plan to transfer all power to billionaires

longhairPapaBear | 3 hours ago

The "stumped" administration. They've no idea.

ahmtiarrrd | 3 hours ago

Not at all surprising.

"Rand argued that in a period of intellectual and cultural bankruptcy, if the anti-intellectual mentality is on the rise, tribalism will be ascending culturally and, politically, a country will drift toward authoritarianism and ultimately dictatorship."

I am no fan of Ayn Rand, but she was sometimes right in the way a broken clock is right twice a day.

https://ari.aynrand.org/the-anti-intellectuality-of-donald-trump-why-ayn-rand-would-have-despised-a-president-trump/

Pandemonium_Fallen | 2 hours ago

You know why don't you? They've been practically rabid about classifying autism as a disease so they can "cure" it, which translates to:

Brutal inhumane experimentation and extermination. 😮‍💨

I'm so tired of this shit show.

NRX Pharmaceuticals is already ready to shove needles in our brains and inject them with various chemicals to try rewiring the brain for their MK Ultra Project 2.0.

And ICE has already spent $55 billion on a crematorium network across the US.

CommonConundrum51 | 2 hours ago

Converting them from scientists to political hirelings. Nothing that emanates from this administration is to be trusted.

superliver1211 | 2 hours ago

Just robbing every avenue the government has

_freckles__ | an hour ago

If they can do this randomly, what guarantee is there they will not do this for all so called stable government jobs

Aquilonn_ | an hour ago

They already went for the so called stable government jobs ages ago with DOGE.

equals_peace | an hour ago

This is how you destroy a country bit by bit

shortcircuit21 | 58 minutes ago

Is there a database somewhere that tracks everything that will have to be reversed once this pedo is out of office?

This is democracy dying. For those that do not believe it, you need to look at history of dying democracy. Our press is controlled, science is now taken over by the whims of people who will take our money and not care if we live or die. The truth will be kept from you, and we will be fed endless parade of their propaganda.

Baselines_shift | 18 minutes ago

Can a New POTUS reverse that and new House make it permanent

TWJunkman | an hour ago

Every day the Trump administration brings us more excellence, and improved public safety. We’re lucky to have such gifted and overly active people in charge of important matters. America’s finest are at the helm.

I got downvoted for warning that this would happen years ago after covid. People in these positions made themselves obsolete the moment they kow-towed to political whims and made science based institutions political.

Biden had every opportunity to reverse this but instead he decided to keep them as they were and took advantage of the changes.