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am_Unition · 1906 days ago · link · · parent · post: How Trump is profiteering off the coronavirus (covid-19) outbreak in 10 simple steps
At least the Justice Dept. has begun looking into this. But it's probably true that this is just Hanlon's Razor. The way this process played out was really (x100) stupid. We have (or at least had) expertise for the federal gov't to deal with this sort of thing, but it was considered "bureaucratic bloat", or " big government", whatever, so we got rid of most of those chumps. Money-grubbing scientists, amiright, guys? We can't be that smart, if we didn't figure out that being a scientist doesn't pay well, because the only thing that could possibly motivate people is wealth, and altruism is some commie feverdream, aaaaaaaand I've worked myself up again, gotta go