New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof slightly overreacted to President Donald Trump’s budget Thursday morning.
Nicholas Kristof (Getty Images)
Kristof tweeted that while reading over the plan, he felt “as the Romans must have felt in 456 A.D. as the barbarians conquered and ushered in the dark ages.
Reading through the Trump budget, I feel as the Romans must have felt in 456 AD as the barbarians conquered and ushered in the dark ages.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) March 16, 2017
Thankfully, Twitter was there to let him know that in no way whatsoever are cuts to federal spending at all comparable to an impending Vandal horde.
@NickKristof Reducing the size of government by 10% is exactly the same as an encroaching horde of Vandals looting the land.
— Razor (@hale_razor) March 16, 2017
@wmsglobetrotter
Causes of fall of Roman Empire:
* High taxes
* Complacency of elites
* No extreme vetting of Visgoths@NickKristof— Razor (@hale_razor) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof Reading your tweets I feel like every kindergarten teacher ever. Be a man for crying out loud.
— tom vintzel (@tomvintzel) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof btw this is coming from an individual who sees actual 4th c barbarians at the gates and decides “come on in, don’t assimilate”
— Loren C (@LorenSethC) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof so, are we supposed to take you seriously?
— Sebastian Sandell (@Zejho) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof oh please hyperbole much?
— Karla Lomiglio (@KLomiglio) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof Don’t you support bringing in thousands/millions of third world illiterate people to a first world advanced civilization?
— Derecha Alternativa (@Hispanogoyim) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof Funny, thats how i feel when liberals let refugees flood in.
— American Mike (@DeplorableMikeX) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof apparently you never read an Obama budget
— Matthew C Feiker (@TheFeikster) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof And today’s award for “Most Melodramatic and Historically Inaccurate Analogy” goes to….
— Shauna Johnson (@ShaunaJ1776) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof or maybe as Syrian detainees must have felt as they used chicken bones & blood to write names of detainees on scraps of shirts? pic.twitter.com/23tSE2eZAD
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof Actually, if you knew history Trump is trying to stop that. Roman elite became detached, government was wasteful, and they had open borders.
— Joe Matthew (@KoenigJojo) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof says it all pic.twitter.com/moSSqSgEYw
— Marian Chasse (@ChasseMarian) March 16, 2017
It should also be noted that the Vandals actually sacked Rome in 455 AD, not 456.
Just sayin’…