How Trump is like Stalin

So, you can't back your original thesis here with anything of substance beyond that op ed piece in the NYT that's behind a paywall.
"On Feb. 19, weeks after taking office, Mr. Trump signed an executive order that called for the downsizing and elimination of the advisory panels. The order affected panels that oversaw vaccines, astrophysics, fisheries, mathematics, space, the geosciences, the environment and artificial intelligence.

 
If you say so. I think he's not terrible as President and a damn sight better than Biden or Obama were.
Then in May, the administration made public its proposed cuts to next year’s federal science budget. Independent experts found that the category of basic research would fall to $30 billion from $45 billion, a drop of roughly 34 percent.

On the chopping block were studies focused on nursing, clean energy, climate change, air and water quality, chemical safety, minority health disparities, green aviation, the global carbon cycle, the atmosphere of Mars, the planet Jupiter, and the boundary in outer space where the solar system meets the cosmos, among other subjects.

 
Politics v. science: How President Trump's war on science impacted public health and environmental regulation

“listen[ing] to the scientists” as something only a fool would do"

 
"On Feb. 19, weeks after taking office, Mr. Trump signed an executive order that called for the downsizing and elimination of the advisory panels. The order affected panels that oversaw vaccines, astrophysics, fisheries, mathematics, space, the geosciences, the environment and artificial intelligence.

So? Government advisory panels that do no actual science, just hand out grants and funding? Seems to me he got bureaucrats and other stuffed shirts out of the way of science.
 
In a recent essay, Dr. Josephson of Colby College cast Mr. Trump’s acts as brazenly totalitarian. He cited the firing of thousands of scientists, the support of anti-vaccine propaganda, and the elevation of unqualified officials to science management.

“Trump once said he wanted the generals that Hitler had,” Dr. Josephson wrote. “He’s certainly working on getting the science that Hitler and Stalin had.”

 
Politics v. science: How President Trump's war on science impacted public health and environmental regulation

“listen[ing] to the scientists” as something only a fool would do"

Of course, what actually happened once Biden was elected was he ignored the science and went straight to implementing dictatorial programs like mandatory vaccines and mask wearing, Leftist environmentalism, and other political dogma of the Left.
 
In a recent essay, Dr. Josephson of Colby College cast Mr. Trump’s acts as brazenly totalitarian. He cited the firing of thousands of scientists, the support of anti-vaccine propaganda, and the elevation of unqualified officials to science management.

“Trump once said he wanted the generals that Hitler had,” Dr. Josephson wrote. “He’s certainly working on getting the science that Hitler and Stalin had.”

So, a Leftist academic at some unknown college in Waterville Maine, who is a Sovietophile and specializes in the history of fish sticks, the "irreversible" environmental damage done by jet skis, snowmobiles, and ATV's along with various rants on the typical things environmentalists hate has published an essay on "Mr. Trump's acts as brazenly totalitarian."

I found his original essay over on Common Dreams, an extremist, radical, Leftist blog site that often veers off into conspiracy theories.


If anything Trump does doesn't align with radical Leftist dogma, Josephson berates it as "totalitarian."

Just another radical Leftist foisting his useless opinion on a sympathetic website that got picked up by the Leftists at the NYT and parroted as gospel.
 
So, a Leftist academic at some unknown college in Waterville Maine, who is a Sovietophile and specializes in the history of fish sticks, the "irreversible" environmental damage done by jet skis, snowmobiles, and ATV's along with various rants on the typical things environmentalists hate has published an essay on "Mr. Trump's acts as brazenly totalitarian."

I found his original essay over on Common Dreams, an extremist, radical, Leftist blog site that often veers off into conspiracy theories.


If anything Trump does doesn't align with radical Leftist dogma, Josephson berates it as "totalitarian."

Just another radical Leftist foisting his useless opinion on a sympathetic website that got picked up by the Leftists at the NYT and parroted as gospel.
Indeed
 
Government advisory panels that do no actual science, just hand out grants and funding?
Advisory panels are government's way of deciding what science and engineering to put funds behind. They should be made up of scientists and engineers who are experts in the field, but not involved in the projects getting the funding.

They will often order preliminary experiments done, and sometimes will be the ones who do the experiments. That would be actually doing science. And just picking which projects based on scientific results is a form of science.
 
Advisory panels are government's way of deciding what science and engineering to put funds behind. They should be made up of scientists and engineers who are experts in the field, but not involved in the projects getting the funding.

For the most part the government shouldn't be deciding that.
They will often order preliminary experiments done, and sometimes will be the ones who do the experiments. That would be actually doing science. And just picking which projects based on scientific results is a form of science.

Again, it isn't something the government should be doing. NASA can't even launch a serious space vehicle anymore. They have to rely on civilian companies like Space X to do it.
 
For the most part the government shouldn't be deciding that.
Government should not be deciding where government funds go? Then who should?

I could understand if you said government should be spending less... I would disagree, but understand. You are saying that government should not decide where it spends its money. That makes no sense.

NASA can't even launch a serious space vehicle anymore. They have to rely on civilian companies like Space X to do it.
And they need advisory committees to decide which civilian company to rely on.
 
Government should not be deciding where government funds go? Then who should?

The people. Government represents the people. It isn't an entity unto itself.
I could understand if you said government should be spending less... I would disagree, but understand. You are saying that government should not decide where it spends its money. That makes no sense.

The government should be spending less, far less.
And they need advisory committees to decide which civilian company to rely on.
Why? Does a government agency that does some specific thing they're supposed to know how to do need a separate committee of advisors to tell them how they should do their job? That's in essence what you're claiming.
 
Paywall. Old, this is from Trump's first term as well. It tries to broadly compare Trump's approach to science as supposedly equivalent to Stalin's approach to science, but ignores the Grand Canyon sized differences in ideology between the two.
 
More and more what it seems like is that the NAMBLAcrat party is less about likening trump to stalin as much as making stalin out to be a pretty decent guy....92933d15-bbbf-4de5-ab41-8bb7f13835fc.jpeg
 
Few if any analysts see Mr. Trump as a Stalin, who crushed science, or even as a direct analog to this era’s strongmen leaders. But his assault on researchers and their institutions is so deep that historians and other experts see similarities to the playbook employed by autocratic regimes to curb science.

he is a nazi in philosophy.
So? Government advisory panels that do no actual science, just hand out grants and funding? Seems to me he got bureaucrats and other stuffed shirts out of the way of science.
Another thing you are clueless about. The panels ,tehre are more than 1, have to review the applications and find the ones they think will do the most good in the shortest time. It is a process that thy approve on lower levels, then move them up after a slightly different scrutiny.
 
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