Show threadpetersuberFeb 5, 2025

Update. "Staffers with Elon #Musk’s [#DOGE] entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA)…today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters

What's the #Trump or #Trumpist interest here?

1. "#Project2025…called for the agency to be 'broken up and downsized', claiming the agency is 'harmful to US prosperity' for its role in #climate science."

2. Andrew Rosenberg, a former NOAA official, "noted it had been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on NOAA data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services."

PS: Rosenberg is right. During the GWBush admin, Senator #RickSantorum (R-PA) repeatedly tried to take down NOAA's open weather data, to benefit AccuWeather, the for-profit weather forecaster in his state. I wrote about it often at the time and may have to dig out and reup those old pieces.

#OpenData #USPol #USPolitics

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

The Guardian
Bin Chicken 🗑𓅠Aug 11, 2024

Remember that slimy, racist, sexist, LGBTI-hating GOP senator, Rick Santorum? And, how activist Dan Savage, coined a neologism is his honour that's become what people first think of when they hear Santorum's name? The phenomenon was known as "Santorum's Google problem".
That was all the way back in 2003, and the Internet wasn't quite what it was compared with today.

Today, there are billions more people on the Internet, Google has a monopoly on online search, memes travel far and wide at the speed of light, and information in our news-cycle is amplified and accelerated by AI.

If you're searching for delight in this 2024 election circus, J.D. Vance has cemented his place in people's minds for all of history as the Couch Fucker.

#USPol #Santorum #RickSantorum #CouchFucker #Vance #JDVance #HillbillyElegy

U.S. Politics in Real TimeNov 17, 2023

#Ohio ballot measures, backed by #RickSantorum and the #GOP, aim to curb #Democracy by enabling partisan control over redistricting and election processes. These initiatives reflect a broader #Republican strategy to influence electoral outcomes, echoing similar efforts in other states.

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/ohio-ballot-measures-rick-santorum-gop-democracy

Rick Santorum Just Came Out and Said What Conservatives Really Think of Democracy

Conservatives have never much liked democracy, but the unpopularity of the modern Republican Party’s agenda has made them more contemptuous. The other day, Rick Santorum even denounced ballot measures on “very sexy things” like abortion and marijuana.

DARLENE RYAN 🇨🇦Nov 9, 2023
Gotcha’! 😆👍😁 “#RickSantorum saying the quiet part out loud.” https://www.threads.net/@lincolnproject.us/post/CzZgWfFSrKU/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
joe•iuculano Nov 9, 2023

#RickSantorum:
"Pure democracies are not the way to run a country"

#WhatAnAHole
#Democracy
#SaveDemocracy
#RepublicansAreTheProblem
#VoteBlue

U.S. Politics in Real TimeNov 9, 2023

Rick Santorum Says Quiet Part Out Loud After Republican Election Losses: Republicans are annoyed that democracy is working.

https://newrepublic.com/post/176741/rick-santorum-blames-very-sexy-issue-abortion-republican-election-loss-democracy

#RickSantorum #RepublicanElectionLosses #DemocracyWorking #AnnoyedRepublicans #QuietPartOutLoud #AbortionIssue #Politics #News

Rick Santorum Says Quiet Part Out Loud After Republican Election Losses

Republicans are annoyed that democracy is working.

The New Republic
Art SmartNov 8, 2023

Republican #RickSantorum said the quiet part out loud, that #GOP policies are very unpopular, and so the will of the voters must be suppressed.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4299354-santorum-ohio-results-pure-democracies/

Bemoaning Ohio results, Santorum says ‘pure democracies’ aren’t how to run a country

After a particularly disappointing night for Republicans, Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) lamented “pure democracies,” where major decisions are left up to voters rather than their elected officials. “Thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot because pure democracies are not the way to…

The Hill
BeePSJul 7, 2023
“Ron DeSantorum.” That’s it!
It’s eluded me for a while, but THAT suits the jackass perfectly — for more than a few reasons.
#RonDeSantorum #RonDeSantis #RonDeRacist #RonDeBigot #MAGA #GOP #RickSantorum #Santorum #LGBTQIAphobia
realcaseyrollins ✝️Jun 24, 2022
Oh I forgot that #RickSantorum got fired from #CNN and now works for #NewsmaxTV
bs2May 29, 2022
#uspol
If the anti-abortion politicians (and other people) were also against capitol punishment and for funding orphanages, pre-natal care, Head Start and a lot of other life-affirming policies I'd be able to take them seriously. I want to say in-coherency is irritating, but there is a hidden(? or just unspoken?) coherency under the policies...
https://www.juancole.com/2012/02/top-ten-catholic-teachings-santorum-rejects-while-obsessing-about-birth-control.html
#JuanCole #Santorum #USA #RickSantorum #PApol
Top Ten Catholic Teachings Santorum Rejects while Obsessing about Birth Control

The right wing Republican politicians who have been denouncing the requirement that female employees have access to birth control as part of their health benefits as an attack on religious freedom completely ignore the church teachings they don't agree with. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are both Catholics, and wear their faith on their sleeves, but they are hypocritical in picking and choosing when they wish to listen to the bishops. 1. So for instance, Pope John Paul II was against anyone going to war against Iraq I think you'll find that Rick Santorum managed to ignore that Catholic teaching.

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