I remember a time in this country when everyone would have gasped at such a callous and ridiculous statement by ANY government official, let alone a president.
I blurred this response to half-heartedly self-censor myself:
I think there should be an investigation into how a “low IQ DEI hire” [to fill a cognitively-declining orange-people quota] might explain the country’s new chief executive.
I normally don’t like to see political topics arise in science forums but I am deeply concerned that we are seeing the kinds of deeply destructive processes underway in our nation’s governance which have obvious parallels to 1930’s Germany (e.g. the 1933 amnesty of hundreds of violent felons who supported the new government.) And I say that as someone who considered himself “conservative” for most of his life and even attended a Republican convention a half-century ago. Now, in my deeply MAGA zip code, I am under considerable pressure to remain silent but don’t feel that it is right to do so. Our nation is on a dangerous path.