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Sardines said:
It might not be quite stupid enough.

I think Trump needs to stroke out live on TV. Then when the part of his brain that controls his language skills is destroyed he might start making more sense. Only then will his cultists realize just how stupid the **** he says is.
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You’re probably right. lol
 
This might be the darkest take I’ve ever read. But it also might be the most accurate. You can’t fire scientists and doctors, harass college professors, alienate allies, and roll with ridiculous economic policy without there being consequences. Stupid and failed policies is what’s led to the brain drains we’ve seen in other countries and states. There’s a reason why no one actually wants to move to Arkansas or Mississippi or Belarus and El Salvador.

www.thebulwark.com

The American Age Is Over

Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
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The world will move on without us.

Economically this means that international trade will reorganize without the United States as the central hub. Relationships will be forged without concern as to our preferences. The dollar may well be displaced as the world’s reserve currency. American innovation will depart for other shores as the best and brightest choose to make their lives in countries where the rule of law is solid,secret police do not disappear people from the streets, and the government does not discourage research and make economic war on universities.

There’s a reason why countries like Belarus and El Salvador aren’t tech hubs.

All of this will mean slower growth at home and declining economic mobility. The pie will shrink and people will become more desperate to hold on to their slices.

If you want a small preview, look at what has happened to the British economy since Brexit.

The drag we experience will be much greater, because we had much further to fall.
 
The Thriller said:
This might be the darkest take I’ve ever read. But it also might be the most accurate. You can’t fire scientists and doctors, harass college professors, alienate allies, and roll with ridiculous economic policy without there being consequences. Stupid and failed policies is what’s led to the brain drains we’ve seen in other countries and states. There’s a reason why no one actually wants to move to Arkansas or Mississippi or Belarus and El Salvador.

www.thebulwark.com

The American Age Is Over

Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
www.thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com

The world will move on without us.

Economically this means that international trade will reorganize without the United States as the central hub. Relationships will be forged without concern as to our preferences. The dollar may well be displaced as the world’s reserve currency. American innovation will depart for other shores as the best and brightest choose to make their lives in countries where the rule of law is solid,secret police do not disappear people from the streets, and the government does not discourage research and make economic war on universities.

There’s a reason why countries like Belarus and El Salvador aren’t tech hubs.

All of this will mean slower growth at home and declining economic mobility. The pie will shrink and people will become more desperate to hold on to their slices.

If you want a small preview, look at what has happened to the British economy since Brexit.

The drag we experience will be much greater, because we had much further to fall.
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We're going down fast. I'm thinking of getting a place in Europe, mostly because it's awesome for travel and there's some good value, but also because I can't stand the thought of living full-time surrounded by Trumptards. Been over here most of the winter and you can't get away from Trump. People watch him on TV like driving by a car wreck. And they want to talk about him the second they learn you're American. The world is in shock that the USA became a cult.
 
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str8line said:
We're going down fast. I'm thinking of getting a place in Europe, mostly because it's awesome for travel and there's some good value, but also because I can't stand the thought of living full-time surrounded by Trumptards. Been over here most of the winter and you can't get away from Trump. People watch him on TV like driving by a car wreck. And they want to talk about him the second they learn you're American. The world is in shock that the USA became a cult.
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Looking from outside, it's a mix of embarrassment and anger.
I'm originally from Peru but went to an Ivy school in USA. There is no way I'm going back. I'm now living in Spain...salaries are not as high but you can have a very comfortable life, not having to worry about a screwed up healthcare system, gun violence, student debt, bipartisanship, etc. USA is becoming a banana republic, a bad reality show.
 
I love seeing posts about trump from living in other countries or who have spent lots of time in other countries.
100% of them see that trump sucks ***.

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The Thriller said:
This might be the darkest take I’ve ever read. But it also might be the most accurate. You can’t fire scientists and doctors, harass college professors, alienate allies, and roll with ridiculous economic policy without there being consequences. Stupid and failed policies is what’s led to the brain drains we’ve seen in other countries and states. There’s a reason why no one actually wants to move to Arkansas or Mississippi or Belarus and El Salvador.
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Open letter, to the American people, signed by over 1900 scientists: “The undersigned are elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, representing some of the nation’s top scientists, engineers, and medical researchers. We are speaking out as individuals. We see real danger in this moment. We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated”.


TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE​

We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive across bridges and fly in airplanes. Businesses and farmers rely on science and engineering for product innovation, technological advances, and weather forecasting. Science helps humanity protect the planet and keeps pollutants and toxins out of our air, water, and food.

For over 80 years, wise investments by the US government have built up the nation’s research enterprise, making it the envy of the world. Astoundingly, the Trump administration is destabilizing this enterprise by gutting funding for research, firing thousands of scientists, removing public access to scientific data, and pressuring researchers to alter or abandon their work on ideological grounds.

The undersigned are elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, representing some of the nation’s top scientists, engineers, and medical researchers. We are speaking out as individuals. We see real danger in this moment. We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated.

The administration is slashing funding for scientific agencies, terminating grants to scientists, defunding their laboratories, and hampering international scientific collaboration. The funding cuts are forcing institutions to pause research (including studies of new disease treatments), dismiss faculty, and stop enrolling graduate students—the pipeline for the next generation’s scientists.

The administration’s current investigations of more than 50 universities send a chilling message. Columbia University was recently notified that its federal funding would be withheld unless it adopted disciplinary policies and disabled an academic department targeted by the administration. Destabilizing dozens of universities will endanger higher education—and the research those institutions conduct.

The quest for truth—the mission of science—requires that scientists freely explore new questions and report their findings honestly, independent of special interests. The administration is engaging in censorship, destroying this independence. It is using executive orders and financial threats to manipulate which studies are funded or published, how results are reported, and which data and research findings the public can access. The administration is blocking research on topics it finds objectionable, such as climate change, or that yields results it does not like, on topics ranging from vaccine safety to economic trends.

A climate of fear has descended on the research community. Researchers, afraid of losing their funding or job security, are removing their names from publications, abandoning studies, and rewriting grant proposals and papers to remove scientifically accurate terms (such as “climate change”) that agencies are flagging as objectionable. Although some in the scientific community have protested vocally, most researchers, universities, research institutions, and professional organizations have kept silent to avoid antagonizing the administration and jeopardizing their funding.

If our country’s research enterprise is dismantled, we will lose our scientific edge. Other countries will lead the development of novel disease treatments, clean energy sources, and the new technologies of the future. Their populations will be healthier, and their economies will surpass us in business, defense, intelligence gathering, and monitoring our planet’s health. The damage to our nation’s scientific enterprise could take decades to reverse.

We call on the administration to cease its wholesale assault on U.S. science, and we urge the public to join this call. Share this statement with others, contact your representatives in Congress, and help your community understand what is at risk. The voice of science must not be silenced. We all benefit from science, and we all stand to lose if the nation’s research enterprise is destroyed.

The views expressed here are our own and not those of the National Academies or our home institutions.



Richard N. Aslin, PhD

Senior Scientist

Yale School of Medicine



Paula Braveman, MD, MPH

Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine

Founding Director, Center for Health Equity

University of California, San Francisco



Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH

Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology

Director of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative

Dean Emerita Dornsife School of Public Health

Drexel University



Marthe Gold, MD, MPH

Senior Research Scholar

New York Academy of Medicine

Professor Emerita, CUNY School of Medicine



Kathleen Mullan Harris, PhD

James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



Barbara Landau, PhD

Dick and Lydia Todd Professor

Department of Cognitive Science

Johns Hopkins University



Charles F. Manski, PhD

Board of Trustees Professor in Economics

Department of Economics and Institute for Policy Research

Northwestern University



Douglas S. Massey, PhD

Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Emeritus

Princeton University



Lynn Nadel, PhD

Regents Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Cognitive Science

University of Arizona



Benjamin David Santer, PhD

Climate scientist

Formerly at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory



Kevin Struhl, PhD

David Wesley Gaiser Professor

Dept. Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Harvard Medical School



Ray Weymann, PhD

Carnegie Institution for Science



Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH

Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health

Director Emeritus, Center on Society and Health

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine


eos.org

1,900 Scientists Warn Of "Real Danger" In Open Letter - Eos

In an open letter to the American people, more than 1,900 scientists sent an “SOS” that the Trump administration’s actions have “decimated” the nation’s scientific enterprise and censored scientific work. “We see real danger in this moment,” the scientists wrote.
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abcnews.go.com

Over 1,900 researchers describe 'assault' on science by White House: 'We see real danger'

Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to the Trump administration calling for a stop to the “assault” on science.
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trump administration has no plan for when we hit bottom. They are just hoping that taxing American consumers and companies is somehow going to create a new renaissance in domestic production.

Even if it could work, the result would still be higher prices or lower wages.

And with unemployment so low, where would we get the people to fill this theoretical domestic production boom?

Gonna have to empty out them insane asylums again. Bring back the pet eaters. Welcome home the rapists and murderers. That's what we would need to fill all these new positions.

Or maybe the plan is to get kids out of school (RIP department of education) and put them to work (hello new laws allowing more child labor in Florida) and since kids are still living at home they don't have bills to pay so we can pay them minimum wage!

This is government by the uneducated for the uneducated.
 
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fishonjazz said:
trump administration has no plan for when we hit bottom. They are just hoping that taxing American consumers and companies is somehow going to create a new renaissance in domestic production.

Even if it could work, the result would still be higher prices or lower wages.

And with unemployment so low, where would we get the people to fill this theoretical domestic production boom?

Gonna have to empty out them insane asylums again. Bring back the pet eaters. Welcome home the rapists and murderers. That's what we would need to fill all these new positions.

Or maybe the plan is to get kids out of school (RIP department of education) and put them to work (hello new laws allowing more child labor in Florida) and since kids are still living at home they don't have bills to pay so we can pay them minimum wage!

This is government by the uneducated for the uneducated.
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Normally the keys to a dictatorship are handed to the dictator when things are a mess and society is at their lowest, or they are in great peril. Since we are the 800 lb gorilla in the world, militarily speaking, the peril part isn't an option. So all they are left with is to destroy societal security, drive unemployment to pandemic levels, and drive the economy into a depression deep enough to generate panic and chaos. This gives them the option to swoop in and take over in a coup (remember, bloodless if the regular people allow it) and take full dictatorial control to "fix" the **** that they themselves broke. And do it right, generate enough panic and chaos, and they expect to be welcomed as saviors, and frankly if it gets bad enough, many will do exactly that. Almost like Stockholm Syndrome. That has been the aim all along, and so far the plan is going swimmingly. Musk thought he could glamp on in the middle, not really understanding what the deeper purposes were, and enrich himself even further while playing Nazi to feed his deeply held racist and sexist beliefs, until the people took action against him directly and now he wants out as it took his own wealth in the opposite directly. But he proved a very valuable distraction for the real actions of the administration. As long as Musk was taking the heat, they could continue along the lines of their blueprint and keep bringing Project 2025 to fruition with little fanfare and little dissent. Which is what they want in the end. Hopefully everyone wakes up in time to stop the coup. I have a lot of concern that we won't.
 
fishonjazz said:
trump administration has no plan for when we hit bottom. They are just hoping that taxing American consumers and companies is somehow going to create a new renaissance in domestic production.

Even if it could work, the result would still be higher prices or lower wages.

And with unemployment so low, where would we get the people to fill this theoretical domestic production boom?

Gonna have to empty out them insane asylums again. Bring back the pet eaters. Welcome home the rapists and murderers. That's what we would need to fill all these new positions.

Or maybe the plan is to get kids out of school (RIP department of education) and put them to work (hello new laws allowing more child labor in Florida) and since kids are still living at home they don't have bills to pay so we can pay them minimum wage!

This is government by the uneducated for the uneducated.
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At Least it’s entertaining and getting clicks. Sure, you might lose your job, home, and starve. But, you know, clicks. Clinton, Biden, and Harris were just too boring. Trump is nonstop entertainment for a country just awash with nonstop junk internet and teevee. Life is entertainment!
 
LogGrad98 said:
Normally the keys to a dictatorship are handed to the dictator when things are a mess and society is at their lowest, or they are in great peril. Since we are the 800 lb gorilla in the world, militarily speaking, the peril part isn't an option. So all they are left with is to destroy societal security, drive unemployment to pandemic levels, and drive the economy into a depression deep enough to generate panic and chaos. This gives them the option to swoop in and take over in a coup (remember, bloodless if the regular people allow it) and take full dictatorial control to "fix" the **** that they themselves broke. And do it right, generate enough panic and chaos, and they expect to be welcomed as saviors, and frankly if it gets bad enough, many will do exactly that. Almost like Stockholm Syndrome. That has been the aim all along, and so far the plan is going swimmingly. Musk thought he could glamp on in the middle, not really understanding what the deeper purposes were, and enrich himself even further while playing Nazi to feed his deeply held racist and sexist beliefs, until the people took action against him directly and now he wants out as it took his own wealth in the opposite directly. But he proved a very valuable distraction for the real actions of the administration. As long as Musk was taking the heat, they could continue along the lines of their blueprint and keep bringing Project 2025 to fruition with little fanfare and little dissent. Which is what they want in the end. Hopefully everyone wakes up in time to stop the coup. I have a lot of concern that we won't.
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Great post.
 
Rubashov said:


Is there a better time for a hero like Bernie?
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Fantastic video. Bernie laid it out clearly and honestly like usual.

I'm now googling if and when he is coming to my neck of the woods as I would like to come out and support him.
I have never went to any political event previously in my life but I think this is the right time and Bernie is the right person for me to go show my support.
 
fishonjazz said:
Fantastic video. Bernie laid it out clearly and honestly like usual.

I'm now googling if and when he is coming to my neck of the woods as I would like to come out and support him.
I have never went to any political event previously in my life but I think this is the right time and Bernie is the right person for me to go show my support.
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Dang, Denver, Vegas, Tempe, Tucson are the closest to me and under trumps economy I can afford to commute that far.
Maybe he will add an slc stop later on. Hope so.
 
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