When you fire the chief scientist at NASA, you are not a serious country — you are a joke that attacks science and expects the riches to keep flowing into your coffers as you loot everything science and civil society has built.
You are the idiot who eats the seed corn and thinks you're clever.
@susankayequinn It is a wonder to behold. Shaking my head from across the Atlantic.
@susankayequinn and most notably they're not just firing the chief scientist, they are eliminating the role.
@chris_hayes and proposing to cut the entire NASA budget 50%
@susankayequinn 50%?! That's ludicrous.