More dust to wait for

Via DailyMail, with the usual caution about DailyMail’s usual wild exaggerations.

Trump, working with ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST RFK, has ordered several agencies to stop their Twitter and other public output for a while. We don’t know yet what this means. He undoubtedly remembers how the agencies spent most of their PR time bashing Trump. I noticed it in early 2017. The Weather Bureau paused their Climate hoax output for a month or two until they realized Trump was a paper tiger, then resumed the “rebellion”.

The three agencies in the order are NOT identically bad. CDC is pure harm, and worked WITH Trump in 2020 to imprison and strangle the country. CDC should be deleted and imprisoned. FDA is mostly good. It controls unsanitary food production and tries to insure safe drugs. At times it’s too strict or too loose about drugs, but on average it does much more good than harm. NIH is mixed. It sponsors a lot of neutral science, and also works with CDC to promote fake panics.

Again, we’ll have to wait for two forms of dust to settle.

Trump’s dust: If Trump is doing this for RFK, the result will be purely bad. RFK wants to bring back raw milk, undoing 200 years of REAL public health before 2020 turned the profession backwards. He also wants to ban most vaccines, which are the single most effective lifesaver in history. Before 2020, RFK was a Climate Crusader, suing to make EPA even nastier, and trying to destroy the energy sources that keep modern life going.

Agency dust: If the pause strengthens their need to rebel, they will run wild.

Possible non-dusty result: The agencies could rebel in a genuinely productive and helpful direction, instead of just screeching about Democracy and January 6. They could stop wasting time and effort on tyranny and fashionable crap, and stick to their originally assigned missions. CDC could work for REAL public health, fighting RFK and fighting Trump’s efforts to shut down all business. FDA could get rid of Climate crap, which RFK loves, and stick to protecting food and drugs, which RFK would hate. NIH could do the same. Get rid of fashionable research and stick with unfashionable but productive topics.

Bureaucracies rarely revert to real problem-solving. Parkinson is THE law. But during the New Deal they were forced to work for the public good, and they mostly did.