Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Wesleyan?

It’s hard to tell how much each school gets but Alabama, for all that GOP pushing, doesn’t seem near 1 Billion.

And all the press? How do we think the poor voters who were reliably D votes, but bailed in 2024, or worse voted for Trump, how do you think they feel when hearing the Government gives Harvard $2,000,000,000? Harvard gets 2 B?

What are we doing here, Hank? Do you have a concern with Harvard getting research grants, or are just worried that some voters won’t like it? There are a lot of voters, and some of them think all sorts of things. Are you saying that Harvard should surrender its First Amendment rights and let Trumpy MAGA wingnuts decide what they teach because fighting the feds might hurt Dems in elections late next year?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So to cut gov spending, set up a department to evaluate research to determine what to cut?

How about we do what the Constitution says, which is for Congress decide how to appropriate money for stuff? What do you have against the Constitution? It works pretty well, and is much more popular than letting a ketamine-addled South African billionaire and a bunch 4chan teenagers go wild.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

What are we doing here, Hank? Do you have a concern with Harvard getting research grants, or are just worried that some voters won’t like it? There are a lot of voters, and some of them think all sorts of things. Are you saying that Harvard should surrender its First Amendment rights and let Trumpy MAGA wingnuts decide what they teach because fighting the feds might hurt Dems in elections late next year?

1) I was asking if it isn’t problematic that a few elite schools get a shit ton more money than other schools. In my post before I’d asked if such a distribution wasn’t the opposite of encouraging DEI.

Then;

2) My second thought was that a ton of voters have got to be seeing how much money is going to universities that wouldn’t let their families take a shit on campus, and thinking “thank you President Trump!”


The second was just an observation that in Trump’s seemingly crazed attacks he may actually be building his block.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

1) I was asking if it isn’t problematic that a few elite schools get a shit ton more money than other schools. In my post before I’d asked if such a distribution wasn’t the opposite of encouraging DEI.

I guess it’s problematic if you think that the point of grants for scientific research, is to spread money around the country like butter on warm toast, as opposed to supporting scientific research. I suspect that there has been plenty of data available about those grants for a long time, and no one has been troubled.

2) My second thought was that a ton of voters have got to be seeing how much money is going to universities that wouldn’t let their families take a shit on campus, and thinking “thank you President Trump!”

Harvard Yard is open to the public every day of the year except one, commencement day. I bet there are a ton more people who know someone who has had cancer and don’t understand why Republicans are cutting funds for medical research.

The second was just an observation that in Trump’s seemingly crazed attacks he may actually be building his block.

His approval scores are below any other President’s at this point, but sure, he’s a sneaky political genius. Do you believe that, or are you just trying to play Devil’s Advocate to the prevailing view that he’s nuts?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

How about we do what the Constitution says, which is for Congress decide how to appropriate money for stuff? What do you have against the Constitution? It works pretty well, and is much more popular than letting a ketamine-addled South African billionaire and a bunch 4chan teenagers go wild.

Congress studies and approves research grants?

EDIT

And now the admin is saying the Harvard letter was a mistake? It takes several days to get that?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Congress studies and approves research grants?

You said, "So to cut gov spending, set up a department to evaluate research to determine what to cut?"

If the problem is that Congress spends too much, or on the wrong stuff, then let's fix that the way the Constitution says, which is for Congress to spend less, or on the right stuff. What the Trump Administration is doing is -- blatantly -- unconstitutional. It's a matter of time before Congress decides that it likes to spend money, and takes its power back, but in the meantime the MAGA crowd is doing a lot of damage because Republicans in Congress are too scared of Trump and Musk to stand up to them. They are gutless cowards.

And now the admin is saying the Harvard letter was a mistake? It takes several days to get that?

It's a clown show, and it would be funny if they were hurting so many people.

[Hank Chinaski]

I know none of you have stayed in a Trump hotel in the last 10 but have any of you ever? Are they nice?

Where I stay in Chicago is across the street from the Trump hotel and watching people walk in I’m sort of sickened by them. I get poor people thinking he’ll help them financially, or at least get the trans off their daughter’s b-ball team. But wealthy people staying there are making a pretty clear greedy statement.