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SpankMe

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7. America's slow death
Fri May 23, 2025, 12:01 PM
May 23

Future foreign leaders getting their higher education in the US is one implementation of US "soft power" that the Orange Asshole® is slowly beating to death.

Europe is full of great universities, but many Europeans - including royalty and the offspring of current leaders - still opt for getting their higher education in the US.

This is coming to an end under Trump. He's beating down US colleges and universities that don't submit to his agenda. He's flushing all foreigners out of US institutions. He's scaring US academics into working for non-US academic and industrial entities, and into leaving the country. He's glorifying and flattering "the uneducated" and elevating them into high places of government power. He's the leading general in the war on science.

If these aren't the actions of someone trying to destroy America, then I don't know what is.

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