Max Boot: The Trump war against science and research universities dangerously imperils America's status as a super power... but then, that appears to be the objective. It's a revolver to the head strategy. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... - ThreadSky

robertscotthorton.bsky.social • 24 days ago

Max Boot: The Trump war against science and research universities dangerously imperils America's status as a super power... but then, that appears to be the objective. It's a revolver to the head strategy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/02/trump-science-cuts/

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bullbearjeff.bsky.social•23 days ago

When will people realize Trump is working with and for Putin to destroy the US.
Project 2025 is getting ready to reset society. Together the US, as we knew it, is finished.

karlnintendostar.bsky.social•23 days ago

If blue wins 2028, will Putin be so enraged that he will invade the USA with bullets fired on US soil? How can we prepare?

bullbearjeff.bsky.social•23 days ago

That assumes we have fair elections going forward. Project 2025 is making sure we don't have those either.

karlnintendostar.bsky.social•23 days ago

If we defeat Trump's Project 2025, and blue wins 2028, Trump will give his "If you don't want chaos, I'll give it to you anyway...!" speech. That would show if Trump can't have America forever, he won't let anyone have it ever foreshadowing J6 2029.

We gotta be ready for the worst-case scenario...!

bullbearjeff.bsky.social•23 days ago

That's above my pay grade. But seeing how there was no plan for fascism in America, I am not hopeful there is any plan.

ggsd530.bsky.social•23 days ago

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American. This is the headline republicans feared under Obama, yet it's becoming reality under this administration. Where's the 2A crowd outrage? They're only using our credit score, gun ownership and other data to compile this database. Huh.

maraki.bsky.social•23 days ago

Would love this to be a gift article!

geneahern.bsky.social•23 days ago

Author Max Boot focuses on only one metric: science. It’s enough, but there are so many others.
“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide.” - Abraham Lincoln The Lyceum address, 27 January 1838

liam-hughes.bsky.social•23 days ago

Has anyone taken an oath to protect the Republic against all enemies?

daglock.bsky.social•24 days ago

Who needs science. The Bible explains almost everything. And what it doesn't explain, we'll make up on the spot. FFS.

generaldisussion.bsky.social•23 days ago

They secretly hate smart people

marymng.bsky.social•23 days ago

Anyone think it's obscene that a flaming idiot is killing off our science and research universities?

jillreed.bsky.social•23 days ago

It's obscene but sadly a routine part of the authoritarian playbook.

karlnintendostar.bsky.social•23 days ago

The suicide of a superpower? Will it take 50-65% to bring America back to its superpower status?

ehacke.bsky.social•24 days ago

It continues to be impressive a substaintial majority of Trump's policies are supported by virtually no one, if not often outright opposed by a notable majority of the public.

And yet the GOP universally support him and the Dems are still fence-sitting in many cases.

Nothing he does is popular.

ehacke.bsky.social•24 days ago

Like who is the constituency for self-destructing US scientific leadership? Who is voting for a military parade and open bribery? Who wants a universal 10-20% tax on all products?

And yet, the Dems seem unable to lead any opposition. It's insane.

petervieth.bsky.social•24 days ago

They’ve been useless for a long time. They win elections based on how awful the GOP is. Except the awfulness is no longer shocking. “Save democracy!” Except then they just sit around and do nothing if they win.

mikedolam.bsky.social•24 days ago

There’s a brand new school built down the street (named after a great man) from me via the infrastructure bill Joe Biden signed into law that says you are wrong, but that this is a perception is problematic in of itself and I get what you’re saying.

petervieth.bsky.social•23 days ago

Regarding communication, By most measures the economy at the end of Biden’s term was doing great yet the polls showed most people thought it was bad.

petervieth.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yep, they did some stuff but communicated it very poorly. WRT to saving democracy, there were two periods— pre Trump and the inter Trump years to prepare for the inevitable and those were wasted.

deliaking.bsky.social•22 days ago

I want to ask you a question. I don’t know if it’s convenient now.

paradigm317.bsky.social•23 days ago

Max Boot's spouse is Sue Mi Terry. On July 16, 2024, Terry was indicted and arrested for allegedly acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the South Korean government.

chort0.bsky.social•24 days ago

Huh, who would want USA to cease being a superpower? Could there be any clues, like trying to buy their way into conservative circles and spreading torrents of misinformation?

Guess we'll never know...

petervieth.bsky.social•24 days ago

Someone should put in some thought about that

tilmane.bsky.social•24 days ago

if you want to win against the woke, you need to bring some sacrifices

actuary92637.bsky.social•24 days ago

MAGA: Whatever it takes to get rid of them coloreds

claudiamw.bsky.social•23 days ago

You know what? Maybe that's not such a bad thing.

We've reveled in our superpower status all my life, and look where we ended up.

Maybe it's time to get off our high horse and fix some of this shit. ⬇️

quixotetheidiot.bsky.social•23 days ago

Science costs money. They want the money. It doesn’t seem more complex than that.

chibebe5.bsky.social•24 days ago

America is no longer a superpower. America is being devoured from the inside out as the world laughs at us

lovesdaryl.bsky.social•23 days ago

Believe me, we’re not laughing.

chekovsgunman.bsky.social•24 days ago

I think I speak for everyone when I say 恭喜你，中国，你需要一个没有技能的人吗

arbiteriapetus.bsky.social•23 days ago

The 22 Republican members of the Senate who voted last summer to provide continued aid to Ukraine, in defiance of instructions from Trump, know this is happening. They need to grow their spines back.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in…

arbiteriapetus.bsky.social•23 days ago

Apropos nothing in particular…

https://youtu.be/HzSU1r3ZTw8