US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Current members of the House of Representatives
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Current members of the Senate
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Current members of the US Supreme Court
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Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/
 
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Every day feels like Christmas morning since inauguration. Sometimes you just get socks, other times you get an ugly shirt in the wrong size your parents will force you to wear, but some days it feels like 1999 and you get a Nintendo 64 mixed in with your presents.
I think it's all gonna be okay, buddy.
 
Tons of fresh salt from Redditors mad that their DEI grants are being cut:

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Muh diversity grant:
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"My salary is 100% funded by grants for LGBTQ+ research":
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Move to another country (but every other country sucks):
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TIME TO UNIONIZE! (but wait, if they want to stop funding us, then won't strikes be useless?)
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Red states won't have science:
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I'll move to China (but the Chinese are racists who only hire other Chinese)!:
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Someone tries to tell them that if they're doing actual science they have nothing to worry about:
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Unddit
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Turns out that granting the government unlimited power isn't such a great idea when someone you don't like is in charge:
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Muh Fascism:
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Tell your Trump supporting friends that this will collapse the economy:
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The forced meme about egg prices:
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Big Pharma Lobbyists will save us and bankrupt Musk:
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Contact your represenatives:
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Though OP discovers that their colleagues are blackpillers:
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A leaf tells Americans to #resist:
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Another dumb leaf:
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Get out of the lab and into the streets (to protest):
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The US is turning into a third-world country:
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This is idiocracy:
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Muh Project 2025:
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This is anti-intellectualism:
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Auditing research grants is the same thing as taking away food stamps:
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I want to get involved politically, but muh mentals:
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Based Brother:
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Muh Nazis:
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Apparently DEI and climate change "research" (what the memo targets) is what makes the US a world leader:
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They don't want independent thinkers:
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Well, DeepSeek supposedly only spent $5 million, so there's a lot of cost savings on the table...:
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An employee of a California university says their employer plans to resist Trump:
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Trump wants to steal endowments to fund the government:
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"HIV is God's punishment on whores and sodomites":
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"Education is the enemy of fascism":
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Wishes he moved to Europe:
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Oh no, we won't have any more paid friends:
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All of their grants had DEI statements...oops:
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Someone points out that useful research will have more money available after useless DEI grants are cut. They really touched a nerve:
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It's just like Mao's China:
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Actually, it's McCarthyism:
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Trump and Elon are Temu Lee Kuan Yew (founder of Singapore):
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If you're an academic, it's time to apply for asylum:
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Muh troons:
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Time to #MarchForScience:
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Remember, all of this is due to a temporary pause and audit of grants. Anyone with a real project should be overjoyed because there will soon be a lot more money available for actual science, but for some reason, all of these "scientists" are afraid...
 
"but muh eggs"

I know it's a meme, but I've seen the left on various social media sites try to use this as a gotcha.

"We can't afford anything but he's more worried about XYZ?!"

Niggers, how long has he been in office? Do you understand how much he has to unfuck?
 
Yeah, the Women's Temperance League, right? It was something like that. I did have it completely backwards. Been way too long since I've studied up on prohibition-era things.
I believe the organization is called:
The Women's Christian Temperance Union.
and they are the source of many modern evils in the USA.
 
Unfortunately, Einstein’s theory has been shown effective. GPS is as accurate as it is because it compensates for relativistic effects

Which is to say, the equation works
I don't remember the whole argument off the top of my head, so you should research it if you want to read more, but the logic was that even if it gets the right results, it's NOT because it's right. Like, Ptolemaic Cosmology believed that the earth was fixed in one particular spot, never moving, but it was still able to make accurate enough predictions to help sea navigation.
i'm not familiar with this. did tesla posit what he thought? i know this is off-topic but i'm really fascinated because if there's an alternative to relativity, i'd like to read about it and understand how it might have been tested, see if it's used in science today in place of relativity in any active fields. fun new knowledge to have!
Here is the article that started me down this rabbit hole. It's pretty interesting stuff, really.
 
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"but muh eggs"

I know it's a meme, but I've seen the left on various social media sites try to use this as a gotcha.

"We can't afford anything but he's more worried about XYZ?!"

Niggers, how long has he been in office? Do you understand how much he has to unfuck?
ARE EGGS A PENNY A DOZEN YET CHUD? It has been a week, he said he would solve a three year conflict in 24 hours chud?
 
I feel like we don't really know each other that well in this thread.

Let's have an ice breaker, shall we?

Actually, no, let's have 40 brand new icebreakers. YUGE ones.

Actual infrastructure and problems being planned for, instead of reacted to? Mister Trump, what are you doing? It's like you want to make a functional government people won't mind paying for!
Lefties: "but how can we make this about brown people"
 
Anyone with a real project should be overjoyed because there will soon be a lot more money available for actual science, but for some reason, all of these "scientists" are afraid...
To my understanding it doesn't even effect grants that were already awarded. So it ends up being a delay before the next grant.
It sucks that there has to be a delay but I guess it has to happen because all these departments would panic under an audit and start issuing "free money for retards" grants before the whole department gets axed.
Looking forward to more money being available for meaningful R&D in the future.
The last few years have seen a record low taxpayer funds being spent on R&D due to foreign aid and other spending.
 
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