President Shitstain Wants To Head USDA Science With Talk Radio Host w/o Any Science Background

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The Trump administration is planning to nominate Sam Clovis — the Department of Agriculture’s senior White House adviser — as head of USDA’s Research, Education and Economics division, according to individuals briefed on the decision. The move would mark a break with recent Republican and Democratic administrations alike, which have previously reserved the high-level position for scientists with expertise in agricultural research.

Clovis — a former economics professor and talk radio host in Iowa who served as one of the Trump campaign’s first policy advisers — has bachelor’s degrees in political science and government, a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration, according to his LinkedIn page. In other public biographies he’s emphasized his 25-year stint in the Air Force and expertise in national security and foreign policy.

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In the past, Clovis has challenged the scientific consensus that human activity is the primary driver of climate change over the last 50 years. In a 2014 interview with Iowa Public Radio, Clovis suggested that “a lot of the science is junk science. It’s not proven; I don’t think there’s any substantive information available to me that doesn’t raise as many questions as it does answers. So I’m a skeptic.” In the same radio interview, Clovis said, “I have enough of a science background to know when I’m being boofed,” though he did not detail any past research experience involving the hard sciences.

As the undersecretary, issues related to climate change would fall under Clovis’s purview. A 2010 Agriculture Department report, “A Roadmap for USDA Science,” states that “agricultural and forestry ecosystems are climate dependent and could be affected in myriad ways by a changing climate” and suggests that the agency “anticipate and accommodate climate change effects such that agriculture, forestry, and U.S. producers realize net benefits.”

While Clovis does not appear to have conducted extensive research in the hard sciences, he is a veteran Republican Party activist who joined Trump’s presidential campaign. In addition to working as a talk radio host, he served as a professor of economics at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 2014.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/13/trumps-expected-choice-for-the-leading-usda-science-job-isnt-a-trained-scientist/?utm_term=.847054bf63de

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Yep, lost the Senate to Joni Pigballs. Now we get this.... thing in USDA. He's gonna starve us.

[Siwsan]

2. This is like like hiring termites to do carpentry work!

Don't ANY of these positions have strict and appropriate mandatory qualifications?

I mean, Judas Priest! The company that I worked for required applicable college degrees and work experience for almost every job opportunity they posted, above the entry level mail room jobs.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Makes total sense.

In Trump world.

[Judi Lynn]

4. This article is the only thing similar I have ever heard:

Tibetan Monks Forgive Boy For Ruining Sand Sculpture
By ABC NEWS May 25, 2007


A two-year-old boy in Kansas City was just having fun when he stomped on a sand sculpture, but he was unknowingly destroying a delicate piece of art, created by a group of Tibetan monks for Kansas City's Union Station.

Over two painstaking days, sitting with their legs crossed, the monks created a sculpture of colored sand, called a mandala, meticulously placing each individual grain and never expecting anyone to tamper with it.

The little boy snuck right under the rope surrounding the sand and started stomping as though the sculpture was his own personal sandbox.

Security cameras showed the boys mother grabbing him by the arm and leading him off the sculpture and out of camera view.

More:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3212013

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I see Donald Lump as that child.