This is an excerpt from a Washington Post editorial regarding the frightening course Trump has set us on. Honestly, I think he's so anti-science because he doesn't understand it, and it intimidates him, because he's really not smart, at all. But at least he's straightened out gender identification, plastic straws, and gutting the VA while throwing himself a lavish birthday parade behind the painfully obvious insistence that it's the Army's parade. "Since the 1940s, when the University of Chicago, Columbia University and the University of California played a central role in the Manhattan Project, the engine driving U.S. economic and military competitiveness has been federal support of research universities. That partnership has produced most of the key inventions of the information age, including the internet, GPS, smartphones and artificial intelligence." "Federal support of university research has also made possible the success of the United States’ world-leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Advances enabled by federal support include magnetic resonance imaging, the Human Genome Project, LASIK surgery, weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, and drugs that have saved countless AIDS and covid-19 patients." "Now Trump is sabotaging a research and development pipeline that is the envy of the world. The Trump budget would cut the National Science Foundation budget by 55 percent. Already, the U.S. DOGE Service has terminated more than 1,600 active grants from the foundation, worth $1.5 billion. According to the New York Times, the science foundation’s grants this year are being disbursed at the slowest pace in at least 35 years. The NSF directly supports 357,600 researchers and students; many of them will now be out of luck." Full editorial here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/02/trump-science-cuts/
From the people who believe Biden simply “talking bad about the oil industry” was a disaster. You crack me up man.
I have no confidence that you are correct. And even if, best case, we can recover from Trump's war on innovation and knowledge, imagine how much further advanced we'd be if he actively promoted it. Armies and nukes won't win the future, scientists and science will. I think what Trump is doing isn't just misguided, but treasonous. A foreign enemy couldn't be doing a better job at weakening any technological edge we might have.
Said nobody who has seen what is happening in terms of research grants, international student visas, or research and university budgets.
If the goal is an America First Isolationism, so be it. What comes with that is an obviously weaker America on the world stage. Less influence. Less buying power. Less allies. That can't be debated.
the goal is the announcement and headline. MAGA is now conditioned to only look at very short-term, and unfortunately, “owning the libs”.
That's their highest card... the race-card has been played, and they do NOT have the Trump card. Lol... they are jealous. They're a dying Party that moved too far and too fast to the extreme Left. Plus they're just whistling past the proverbial graveyard... because when the Big Beautiful Bill passes they are up crap creek.
You could not create a better Manchurian candidate if you wanted. Destroy/Damage relationships with key allies - Check! Dump fuel on an already divided populace - Check! Interrupt regular commerce - Check! Find an enemy to stoke hate in your faithful - Check! Gut the intelligence agencies - Check! Destroy what makes the country great - Check! Put incompetents in key positions like defense - Check! Destroy the Constitution - Check! Putin really got his money's worth here. And MAGA is just too blind with hate to even see what is happening.
Except for the part about "a weaker America". That is definitely debatable. Seems to me that letting fenty, sex traffickers, drugs of all sorts, terrorists, drug dealers, gangs bangers, on and on, through the border, to the tune of >20 million in 4 years... Spending >1 Trillion/ year, with dick to show for it... ...having a senile ol'geezer as POTUS by invisible committee in turn via auto-pen... ...having our largest political party bought and paid for by the Chicoms... ...having our domestic manufacturing hamstrung with foreign tariffs while we bolster our trading partners' manufacturing with our consumer dollars... ...having our military tainted with transgender bender bullshit that drives down recruitment... ...etc... ...make us weaker. Trying to remedy these things might weaken us in the short term (as all adjustment phases are prone to do), but should make us stronger in the long run.
Maybe it's just me but I'm not sure how this is going make America Great. Trump’s proposed budget details drastic cuts to biomedical research and global health New Details of Trump’s Budget Cuts Alarm Researchers China Really Wants to Attract Talented Scientists. Trump Just Helped. Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts. Foreign universities want to hire them U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
The election of Donald Trump was the greatest gift that the American voters could give to Xi Jinping. Vladimir Putin approves of the outcome, too. Manchurian candy?
