You know what else negatively impacts scientific communication? Sites like nature.com that require a login to read a full article.

To be clear, the return of Trump is a disaster for the planet. But also a lot of important information is behind paywalls or requires that you give up privacy to read it.

He’s the shiny puppet that distracts you from the criminal fascist republican party which exists to increase their own power and wealth by undermining democracy.

Tariffs would be gone tomorrow if republicans in congress wished it. Trump would be impeached and removed from office within a few weeks if the republicans in congress wished it.

Are they performing their duty to control tariffs? Are they performing their separation of powers duties to stop a criminal who keeps violating the constitution?

No, they are not. Instead they are praising him and passing budget plans and laws that transfer even more wealth to billionaires and further weaken separation of powers.

The republican party is a criminal organization.

Apparently young people aren’t going to save us. Young men are farther right than the previous generation. Boomers aren’t listening to Joe Rogan.

Doesn’t matter, it’s still unconstitutional and unethical for him to take it.

Articles like this seem to be “bribewashing”. Also articles that pretend the plane is going to be used as Air Force One.

They believe in global warming. They just say they don’t because they’re lying psychopaths who would kill millions for their own gain.

Story from The Independent on May 5:

Trump announced Alcatraz reopening just hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on a South Florida PBS station

The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand that the prison be reopened

That’s all true but it’s shocking how bad they are at judging character. Trump is such an obvious phony conman that it’s astounding that anyone over the age of 6 believes a word that comes out of his orange face. And he keeps fooling them over and over.

He’s a scorpion and his supporters are frogs.

The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable which teaches that vicious people cannot resist hurting others even when it is not in their own interests and therefore should never be trusted. This fable seems to have emerged in Russia in the early 20th century.

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: “I am sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s my character.”

Well yeah it isn’t a perfect analogy. Replace FDR with Churchill if you want.

But also America joined the war in December 1941 so it wasn’t at the very end. And sent a huge amount of equipment to England and Russia, like was done for Ukraine under Biden.

Remember when FDR tried to stop Hitler’s invasion of France by tweeting at Hitler?