Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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Mulberry Heel said:
... I will say one thing for right-wingers, they never, ever give up and they are incredibly tenacious and persistent. These people have been fighting the New Deal for nine decades now, have never really surrendered to it, and are now finally in a position to abolish most of it. Hell, there are even discussions of abolishing progressive reforms enacted by Teddy Roosevelt 120 years ago. They just don't stop. And unfortunately most Americans are clueless and just keep smiling and complacently saying "it surely won't be that bad, it wasn't last time."
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They've been fighting the Civil War for 21 decades!
 
TitanNC said:
My parents live off of their social security payments and Medicare covering most of their medical costs. They would still find a way to blame the godless Dems.
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That is sad but true no doubt
 
Ramrouser said:
I think it’s good to have talented, successful businessmen and women in the cabinet.
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Except, as someone else already pointed out, in Loeffler's case "successful" needs some clarification. Loeffler's "success" came after she married a billionaire businessman and then spent her entire "successful career" working in said husband's business empire. I mean, if you want to call that successful then by all means go ahead, but don't pretend that she worked herself up the hard way - she basically managed several of her husband's business subsidiaries. Maybe she would have gotten there on her own, maybe she wouldn't.
 
So I'm wondering what impact the NIH director will have for dook** and UNC who receive hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH research grants...

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'Cancel culture' colleges could soon see money targeted by Trump's NIH pick: report

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institute of Health is ready to settle a score – and he’s revving up a fight against campus culture at elite universities, according to a new report.And that could mean Stanford professor and economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya uses the power...
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heelinhell said:
So I'm wondering what impact the NIH director will have for dook** and UNC who receive hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH research grants...

www.rawstory.com

'Cancel culture' colleges could soon see money targeted by Trump's NIH pick: report

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institute of Health is ready to settle a score – and he’s revving up a fight against campus culture at elite universities, according to a new report.And that could mean Stanford professor and economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya uses the power...
www.rawstory.com www.rawstory.com
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Given UNC's historic reputation as a liberal university I would imagine that it won't be good. I was wondering which one of Trump's appointees would fire the first shot of what will almost certainly be a major government effort to move (or just force) America's public and private universities in a rightward direction, much as Orban did in Hungary. As a private university it will be harder to go after dook, although withholding NIH grants would certainly hurt even them, although likely not to the extent it would at UNC.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Given UNC's historic reputation as a liberal university I would imagine that it won't be good. I was wondering which one of Trump's appointees would fire the first shot of what will almost certainly be a major government effort to move (or just force) America's public and private universities in a rightward direction, much as Orban did in Hungary. As a private university it will be harder to go after dook, although withholding NIH grants would certainly hurt even them, although likely not to the extent it would at UNC.
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Courts won't let him do that. Not even SCOTUS. It's not the job of the NIH to police university culture. Congress did not give it the authority to make determinations about research funding based on those types of considerations.
 
superrific said:
Courts won't let him do that. Not even SCOTUS. It's not the job of the NIH to police university culture. Congress did not give it the authority to make determinations about research funding based on those types of considerations.
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I wish I could believe in your confidence that the courts under the Trump administration will protect us from the control of the billionaire oligarchs and all efforts that Trump and his minions will seek to exercise in the establishment of an autocratic/fascist state.
 
superrific said:
You're just now wondering that?
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I was being more than a little sarcastic. But the total absence of logic in Trump’s positions really does still surprise me sometimes.

ETA — Also, I think this speaks to the way labels impact Trump. Dreamers = good. Anchor babies = bad. If you flipped the terms, he would flip his policies.
 
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