I recently reported that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. fired the newly appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
What I left out of my analysis was the ginned-up hysteria from the mainstream media over the news. As noted by many on social media at the time, the press and our public health officials lost a great deal of trust by the poor choices they made (like appointing a BDSM-practicing, gay-orgy-going, LGBT advocate to the position of monkeypox czar).
Poor choices have consequences now, in this FAFO world.
The elite media have lost their power to persuade Americans on any subject, especially one touching upon the personal medical choices made by American citizens.
This brings me to the latest attempts to induce panic in its readership, as the Trump administration has fired individuals who are not aligned with its policy visions. Legal Insurrection recalls that over the July 4th holiday, I reported that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) placed 144 staffers on paid leave and launched an inquiry into their participation in signing a letter that accused the Trump administration of politicizing the agency.
It turns out eight of them are enjoying the “FO” phase of the FAFO cycle.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday fired at least eight employees who signed a letter criticizing the agency’s leadership under Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump.“Following a thorough internal investigation, EPA supervisors made decisions on an individualized basis,’’ an EPA spokeswoman said Friday in a statement.The so-called declaration of dissent, signed by more than 170 employees in late June, “contains inaccurate information designed to mislead the public about agency business,’’ spokeswoman Molly Vaseliou said. “Thankfully, this represents a small fraction of the thousands of hard-working, dedicated EPA employees who are not trying to mislead and scare the American public.”The EPA “has a zero-tolerance policy for career officials using their agency position and title to unlawfully undermine, sabotage and undercut the will of the American public that was clearly expressed at the ballot box last November,’’ she added.
I suspect that the eight ex-staffers were the blue-haired, tattoo-bearing, big-glass-wearing environmental justice warriors who were the main instigators in this fiasco. The Trump team is more compassionate than I would have been: I’d have canned all 144.
Now the elite media is trotting out a whole cast of supporting characters to assert these firings were “unfair” and “intimidation”.
“The Trump administration and EPA’s retaliatory actions against these workers was clearly an assault on labor and free speech rights,” Justin Chen, president of AFGE Council 238, said in a statement to the Post.“It is clear that the actions taken by management were baseless and meant to punish any modicum of dissent identifying potential harm to the American Public and violation of the Agency’s mission.”Another AFGE president said the move was meant to intimidate fellow employees from speaking out against the current administration and agency heads.“They are trying to intimidate employees into doing the agency’s bidding and making sure that they don’t go public when there is a time that the agency is not looking after human health and the environment,” Nicole Cantello, president of AFGE Local 704, which represents 1,000 EPA workers in Chicago, told the Post.
Most Americans are unmoved by this ill-conceived argument, which is devoid of logic, reason, and grounding in recent political history.
Meanwhile, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin continues to roll back destructive Obama-Biden era policies.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to disapprove California’s latest attempt to regulate heavy-duty vehicles, specifically its Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) requirements for out-of-state and out-of-country trucks.The EPA argues that this move, which seeks to apply California’s standards to any heavy-duty vehicle driven within its borders, is an unconstitutional “power grab.”In a strong statement, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin asserted that California’s actions violate both the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause and Section 110 of the Clean Air Act.“California was not, and has never been, duly elected by the American people to run our great country,” Zeldin said. He further claimed the state’s policies are part of an “extreme climate ideology” that drives up costs for American consumers who rely on truck drivers for goods.The EPA’s disapproval also addresses concerns about California’s attempt to regulate foreign vehicles, stating that powers related to foreign affairs are exclusively vested in the federal government. The agency maintains that California’s approach is a “yet another attack on truck drivers and engine manufacturers” and threatens to eliminate affordable transportation options.
One day, our press will realize it is no longer relevant to Americans in its current form. But clearly, based on all the angst and drama in these reports, today is not that day.
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