On July 14^th, 2025, roughly around 10PM, X, formerly known as Twitter, crashed. If you tried to log in, you received an error message. If you were already logged in, you noticed lags in post, likes, and messages. A few short years ago, a crash like this would have been corrected by Twitter’s support team. However, some wealthy young lad who felt he knew everything about everything, went in, and took a hatchet to Twitter’s staff. He re-branded it as X, and just after a few short days, proclaimed that the platform was running better than it ever had.

It wasn’t long before reality set in. Users noticed various glitches starting to appear. Musk reinstated of users like Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, Andrew Tate, and many others with checkered past. Jones proudly proclaimed that everything from Sandy Hook to the West Webster assault that killed two firemen were all actually false flag events. Laura Loomer, never one to pass up a fine conspiracy, echoed Jones’ lies. Then comes Andrew Tate, currently facing multiple felony charges. Tate verbally attacked every from the LBGT community, to women. All three were reinstated and their past was wiped clean. Advertisers fled, not wanting to be associated with some of the mess going on. So Musk, instead of cleaning up the website, sued those companies, and demanded that they be forced against their will, to run ads on his platform.

Which brings us to July 14^th, 2025. At one time, Twitter had a fully staffed IT department that could have cured the crash in moments at best, a few hours at worse. Instead, the crash lasted well into the next day. Musk has defended his staff cuts, even though the evidence has shown time and time again, that cutting a staff to the bone might make fiscal sense, but it fails in reality.

 

Which leads us to the recent supreme court decision that has given President Trump the power to fire as many employees from the Board of Education as he sees fit. Elections have consequences. And one of those consequences is that Trump has stacked SCOTUS with judges friendly to Trump’s desire to acquire more and more power as president. Yeah, there have been a few push backs. However, as soon as Trump’s minions on social media and in the media as a whole grumbled, SCOTUS went right back to giving Trump whatever he desires.

The cuts in the board of elections are going to effect Tap and Pell grants, funding for school for students with challenges, and essentially the educational system as a whole. Early morning breakfast programs for children from poor families? That’s out. Next! Programs to help children with learning disabilities? That’s a goner. Properly staffed school to help your child? Sorry, maybe next time.

Linda McMahon has already stated her desire to attempt to do away with the board as a whole. She wants the states to foot as much of the bill as possible. And then toss up a Hail Mary and hope that the penny-pinching government can toss them a few bucks. Funny how there is  always money for defense spending under a Republican government, but very little for education and helping the poor.

Over the next few years, parents are going to express frustrations over lagging time in approving educational grants. Teachers will continue to be underpaid, and staff vacancies will go unfilled because the district simply can’t squeeze another cent from an overly extended state budget. Some students will be unable to go to college. Others may have to drop out of school Instead of being helped with their disability, they’ll quite and get a job to support their family. Well, let’s be blunt, Republicans have always preferred they do that anyways.

We already have dangerous lag times with the VA because of Trump’s cuts. And as he continues to cut the size of the government, he’ll boast that he’s saving tax payers billions of dollars. Of course, leaving out that “savings” will be offset in many aspects, as many states may have to raise taxes in order to keep schools open, To keep hospitals open, and to fix roads.

Trump’s hostile immigration policies have already led to what experts call a severe “brain drain”. Meaning that instead of coming to America to further their education, many are choosing to stay in their homeland and attend schooling there instead. With some schools actually advising students against coming to America to further their education. Because those schools are run by smart people who grasp that Trump loves to deport people.

Which brings us full circle to the proposed education cuts and the impact they will have. Quality of education in American schools will decline even further. Something the country can not afford. America is already behind almost every other industrialized nation when it comes to math. We rank 12^th in science, and 8^th in the world when it comes to students completing their general education.

It won’t be long before the fallout of these policies have the U.S. ranked at the bottom of most list. And as America stumbles with the fallout, every other country would have bolted past us, knocking us off the world stage. America will no longer be looked at as a world leader. It will be looked upon as a empire that crumbled because of a dictator with delusions of godhood. A man who simply cut programs not because he wanted to save the tax payers money. Nay, it was because he simply didn’t like them

Americans may think they are going to benefit by the millions saved in reduced staffing. However, they are going to pay for it with lost education, and perhaps, many, many lost lives.