Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., the ranking member of the Science Committee, said in a statement, “This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. The NSB is apolitical. It advises the president on the future of NSF. It unfortunately is no surprise a president who has attacked NSF from day one would seek to destroy the board that helps guide the Foundation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won’t stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries? A real bozo the clown move.”
Call me crazy, but I don’t think the president should have the ability to fire all of these supposedly apolitical positions. The president should be walled off from those kind of decisions specifically to prevent the office from being able to hand out positions based on political loyalty and bribes. But maybe I’m just a kooky go nuts crazy guy.
Isn’t that the whole problem here? We have all these walls to limit authoritarians, fascists, royalists but are discovering how easily they shatter when someone has no shame, no morals, no allegiance to anyone but themselves ignores their existence. We have this system of checks and balances to keep fascists in place, but are discovering how quickly they abdicate their responsibility and how symbolic that defense is
Call me crazy, but what a stupid political system that puts the entire executive in the hands of one person.
Any typical monarchy.
We historically called those people Cesar, or Emperor, or King, and in Africa they call themselves President. I like to think he is more of a Robert Mungabe because of the ethnic cleansing, incompetence, and scapegoating with crimes against peace & humanity. Americans should start learning about Zimbabwe’s history. There will be no outside force to occupy America and prevent lawlessness.
Everyone should know the 14 points of fascism, in this case its #11.
https://public.websites.umich.edu/~rsc/Editorials/fascism.html
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free _expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
Guess who’s speedrunning to the stone age.
That’s not fair the people back then where trying to innovative and grow, nothing like whatever the us is doing.
Once US is back in stone ages they will innovate. For the second term it is merely the dark ages.
Well I hope they use the correct sacred oils when trying to make the railgun on the USS stupid name work. Do you think they will pray to the machine or to the Donald?
This administration would fuck up and pray to The Deciever.
Separation of mythologies and State, please.
Well to be fair that would track with their current apparent values.
Is this what he faked an assassination attempt to distract the news cycle from?
Trump: We can’t let China surpass us in science and technology!
Also Trump:
American Conservatives: China is an enemy nations bent on destroying us!
Also Conservatives: Votes for man with campaign promise to systematically destroy America.
I genuinely don’t think the next election will happen.
The takeaway for the next government here is essentially: we can do what we want, send anyone to jail, kill people on the street and nothing bad will happen, and no one in power will suffer any consequences.
If there is any way trump can achieve that, he will.
This last decade has driven home the fact that America isn’t a “rule of law” so much as “prevailing norms that mainly get broken on the quiet” type of country.
WW3?
Well that seems like the next logical step if today’s “assassination” doesn’t bring up his polling numbers.
WW3 will only occur if the US attacks a country that is capable of actually hitting the mainland.
So Canada or Mexico… Oh wait.
Unfortunately, too many other Americans think it will, and by the time they realize it won’t it’ll be even more too late.
They will tell you that you are clearly overreacting, that whatever bullshit excuse given is legitimate.
Later (way past anyones ability to act) they will claim that it was bullshit and they knew it all along.
He can’t handle the truth shadowing his own propaganda.
MAGA isn’t a left vs right agenda.
MAGA is a truth vs lies agenda.
dj just turned the GOP into a party of lies.
This is what he needs to cover up his accusations: people he can puppet into submission.
These fucking freaks really are absolutely intent on dragging us back to the dark ages.
They told you this to your faces the first time you elected him.
I had nothing to do with voting them into power. I voted for decent people. Unfortunately myself and millions of others were drowned out by people who bought into the grift or saw them as an in to be able to say slurs and hate women, since that seems to be what they wanna do.
Yeah but she had ovaries
BLACK ovaries. Eww, can you imagine if there was a black ovary in charge?? /s
The dems really screwed the pooch with that one. If it had been a flipped ticket, trump would have lost by a landslide.
A black man being president is what started the MAGA movement, the US is still far too racist and sexist to have a black female president.
Its bullshit, but it’s reality.
But Kamala was going to support Israel or something…
Yes, and Trump gave no indication he would do anything different with regards to Israel
Someone should write a Dr Seuss style book about this circular debate on voting so people can move on and argue about more pertinent stuff.
If you don’t move on and find it in yourself to be angry at the system as a whole then you’re still going to be ranting about this in 20 years. It’ll become a part of who you are.
The system catered to white suprrmacy and wealth, exactly as it was designed.
You can be angry at more than one thing.
Didn’t she wear a suit covered in mustard ?
Yes, and Trump does too?
Whoa! whoa! whoa! Are you saying she should have a differentiating position on supporting genocidal countries to convince voters to vote for them?
Are you saying she should have a differentiating position
I’m saying when it’s the same for either candidate, then it cannot be a deciding factor.
But it’s not the same for both sides when one merely supports the actual aggressors while the other also has a plan to drive the survivors out of their homeland to redevelop it for the Epstein class, to abuse their piwer to personally enrich themselves by the death and misery of millions of people and potentially of an entire culture
You strongly reminds me of Savonarola.
I guess they told that to you as well, given you are right here
its not individuals, its systemic.
unless we change the game, there will be no “good” result, no matter if red guy, blue guy, green guy or whatever.
(Capitalist) Nations in competition are the fundamental issue for ever-returning crisis based on fundamental (scientifically analyzed) contradictions… …Capital and Labor (one side wants profit, the other wants fair wages), … Usage and Exchange value (things are meant to be useful, but are sold primarily as commodities), …Production and Consumption (too much is produced, but many - and an increasing number - cannot afford the goods). …Competition and monopolies (everyone fights for market share until a few dominate everything) .technological progress and job losses (machines replace people, even though the economy is growing)…
Ah and North Korea is in a better place because they have no capitalism. Clearly competition is the issue.
Or perhaps we need to put some boundaries like other countries do and of course not let powerful people amass more and more power. But power also corrupts soooo many people, is there a solution?
May you please make one argument after another, or just one please.
The only argument I can reconstruct out of your brainfart could be “Capitalism is good because North Korea has no capitalism”. Just because (their own) people say its not communist doenst mean it is. Or do you really think they have no (ruling) classes, no money?
Does NorthKorea not strive for “interests” (word is misleading us normal people btw, as its not yours/ours but the interest of ruling ones) of nationhood? So extending borders for example (as they are currently actively in war with South Korea under cease-fire)
They were about to prove, using science, that the second assassination attempt was a fake.
Trump vowed to replace all the members and rename the board to the National Shit Someone Posted To The Internet Board
All science will now be based on old wives tales, as interpreted by old men.
it will be based on pseudoscience, and homeopathy/naturaopthy bs.
They hate culture, knowledge and education, because they have none.
Yep. Not big surprise. I’ll keep my books and be sure to share them with those who wish to continue to do proper science. I didn’t trust the government before the orange, now I know that I’m dealing with the mentality I’ll and will treat them as such.
