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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Members of the Trump Administration
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[Fishmalk Observer]

NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science​

My older colleagues in scientific community are dead scared of indirect costs cuts, which are costs not related to a project (the janitor, security cost, utilities, salaries); some departments are dependent on a lot of indirect costs (biochemistry is ~55%, chemistry too).

I know the Don likes to leverage before negotiating, but I'm concerned about I pursuing doctorate in genetics soon. With how liberal the biology department can be (they love their DEI initiatives), how screwed am I?

>biology

Why aren't you in a real science? Are you a woman?

 

[oh no its pipkun]

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One of us! One of us! One of us!

it's an anti sikh question right? best to avoid that when the genocider of sikhs is standing next to you.

 

[Necrosan]

Why aren't you in a real science? Are you a woman?

How fucking dare you, I WILL KILL YOU, I'LL KILL YOU WHERE YOU STAND. BIOLOGY IS HOW YOU WERE MADE.
(jokes aside it's really cool and I would recommend it even as a hobby)

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

It's wild because I am a Republican and I understand the need for a restricted, but functional, federal government. Crying that everything is woke as an excuse for gutting integral national defense programs is a relatively new phenomenon.

Absolutely Jebcore

 

[SpergioLeonne]

>biology

Why aren't you in a real science? Are you a woman?

The main thing that has stalled math is a deficiency in material science, like the intersection of chemistry and physics.

Everything is conjecture past the point you can apply it

 

[Dead Lion]

I disagree with this part. Russia isn't le big bad that it's made out to be and I question if it ever was le big bad and not a psyop for infinity-funding of Operation-paperclip Nazis to experiment on the American people. (MK Ultra for one, popular example).

Russia has been a menace to Europe long before 1945. They literally started ww2 alongside Germany.

As to modern times, sans Ukraine they have active territorial disputes with two other countries, Georgia and Moldova. Ukraine was kinda in the same boat before it boiled over into the current war and I have no doubt that they would’ve invaded Moldova and Georgia as well if Ukraine fell over and died like they hoped it would.

It’s actually Poland who has been calling the alarm on the Russian Federation ever since we joined NATO. Germany basically ignored us (and later the US) and started getting cosy with Russia believing they have abandoned their barbarism.

They were of course wrong.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

I fall more in love with Tom Homan every day

AOC, the retarded Democrat bartender, has been holding "webinar's on how to avoid ICE and what to say if your confronted by them" on her You Tube channel.

Homan said on Fox last night:

I sent an email today to the Deputy Attorney General, at what level is that impediment? Is that impeding our law enforcement efforts? If so, what are we going to do about it?' Homan said.

'Is she crossing the line? Maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now, but I need the AG to opine on that, because there's an impediment, it's impediment in my opinion, I'm not a prosecutor, but we need some further guidance on that.'

The border czar admonished Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow Squad members who have provided information to immigrants and those seeking to help them evade federal officials and the new laws that govern them.

'This is about public safety, this is about community safety. You're putting the public at great risk, you're putting our officers at great risk, you're even putting the illegal alien at great risk, because anything can happen on arrest on the street,' Homan said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...m-homan-warn-aoc-trouble-migrant-webinar.html

Oh God please let this happen, the shock it will send through the political system will be fucking amazing.

edit: more news New York governor Hochal has now said that she will invoke her civil power to remove Adams as mayor of NYC for co-operating with the Trump Administration. Thanks to a retarded law as governor Hocal does indeed have the power to remove an sitting mayor of any city in the state of New York although it's never been used.

Oh God please do this, please yank Adams out of NYC just because he's working with Trump there is zero chance that that will backfire at all! Do it Hocal, that will really show Trump whose the real boss of New York!!

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science​

My older colleagues in scientific community are dead scared of indirect costs cuts, which are costs not related to a project (the janitor, security cost, utilities, salaries); some departments are dependent on a lot of indirect costs (biochemistry is ~55%, chemistry too).

I know the Don likes to leverage before negotiating, but I'm concerned about I pursuing doctorate in genetics soon. With how liberal the biology department can be (they love their DEI initiatives), how screwed am I?

You will not receive any sympathy in this thread or even the entire website, so don't ask stupid questions like that. My personal advice would be to emigrate and pursue a doctorate in Australia, Switzerland or the Nordics. Netherlands may become an option as well provided that its current government falls.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Right, and to maintain the appearance of fairhandedness, they are also reviewing the security of the system, because they’re taking the dem talking point literally

That fairhandedness thing is really amusing to me, because if the Dems knew of any republican biased 'inefficiencies', and raised them to Doge, I'm confident they'd investigate and correct them. But they seem so adamant to avoid giving doge any 'wins' that they refuse to try to use the new process in their favor, for fear of vindicating it.

Its just so goddamned petty.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I respectfully disagree on your first point. It's an open secret that Putin had something to do with the 1999 apartment bombings which catapulted him to political office. He is not a good guy and, ever since his election, he has refused all NATO and Western cooperation unless it had to do with killing Chechens not under the control of Kadyrov. I 100% agree with critics that expanding NATO at the exclusion of Russia in the 90's was a fucking terrible idea, but post-Soviet Russian leadership never showed an interest in "joining the club" so to speak, and they either never made security guarantees to post-Soviet states - or they outright reneged on their assurances (e.g. Ukraine).

We can agree to disagree on this point. I can't blame post USSR Russia to not want to join the group of people that opposed them for 60 years.

As for all the weird energy policies, I do agree with you there. A lot of green and renewable energy people are serious innovators. There is a lot of strategic value in renewable energy. However, that industry has become a giant incestuous government slush fund boondoggle.

There are limits set on how much energy a solar panel can produce.
When you look into wind power on a local level that builds a network, you realise how amazing and cheap it is at generating electricity. Which is why it is vilified by the people who push it.

Russian energy sanctions really only benefited countries like India and China that were able to get dirt-cheap energy from Russia. My opinion on the Ukraine War is this started out as a EU mistake that snowballed into globohomo nation-building.

Russia made bank from selling their energy to India, which was sold back to Europe at a mark-up.

Edit to add: the Ukraine War was also a way for the US to do "penetration testing" of Russian military capabilities and study the results. We learned a lot about Russian warfighting - at the expense of the Ukrainians, but data is data. I don't think it's right, but there is a silver lining.

I agree, though the results must have come back as horrifying to the incompetent US military, otherwise a peace and negotiation deal wouldn't be on the table.

OT: Every once-great country has been hit by a competency crisis across all walks of life. No one in the west would win a war against an old school world power.
I bet USA 1940 would walk all over USA 2024, even with the technological advantage that the latter has.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

He's challenging a old'ish ruling (Humphrey's v Exector 1935) that forbids him from firing certain leaders of certain regulatory commissions. Mostly the FTC, because the Democratic DC judges are leaning heavily on this old ruling to stop Trump from getting rid of any heads of regulatory bodies.

The only thing FDR ever "deserved" was Polio, and it's a shame it only crippled him and didn't kill the fucker.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Russia has been a menace to Europe long before 1945. They literally started ww2 alongside Germany.

Germany basically ignored us (and later the US) and started getting cosy with Russia believing they have abandoned their barbarism.

I appreciate the reply, but this is historical revisionism. Britain attempted an alliance with Russia in both world wars. Stalin had figured his best chance of survival was the Nazi-Soviet pact - even though they hated one another. Hence this famous cartoon at the time: (the guns are symbolic)

I don't mean to be rude, but I won't reply to WW2 posts, not that I don't want to, but because this thread oft goes on a spergalicious tangent of WW2 and it derails the thread. I apologise to the thread for going down that route again with this post.

 

[Deep Th0ts]

Look at this fucking headline:
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You just don't hate them enough.

And yet, they chose a photo of him with a halo like a saint. He's gotten into their subconscious.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

modifying plant to express antivirals on command with a simple molecule

okay, so we blame you when The Happening happens, got it

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

We can agree to disagree on this point. I can't blame post USSR Russia to not want to join the group of people that opposed them for 60 years.

Fair enough.

There are limits set on how much energy a solar panel can produce.
When you look into wind power on a local level that builds a network, you realise how amazing and cheap it is at generating electricity. Which is why it is vilified by the people who push it.

As I said: a lot of the green economy stuff is bullshit designed to suck in government money for do-nothing jobs. It's honestly sad.

Russia made bank from selling their energy to India, which was sold back to Europe at a mark-up.

They got around the sanctions this way, yes, but that does not translate to a victory when you look at per capita GDP in Russia. Russia is not doing well.

I agree, though the results must have come back as horrifying to the incompetent US military, otherwise a peace and negotiation deal wouldn't be on the table.

OT: Every once-great country has been hit by a competency crisis across all walks of life. No one in the west would win a war against an old school world power.
I bet USA 1940 would walk all over USA 2024, even with the technological advantage that the latter has.

Actually, it came back as a pleasant surprise because it showed that the Russians have not innovated their military in decades. The Russian offensive stalled and they failed their strategic goals of toppling the Zelenskyy government. Peace talks are on the table because, contrary to globohomo caterwauling, the US cannot bankroll the entire Ukrainian government forever.

In 1940, USA had not even developed a full-fledged combined arms doctrine. You are dead wrong about that. The US also switched from bullseye targets to silhouette targets between 1940 and now which increased soldier lethality by training them to shoot at human-shaped targets.

 

[Dead Lion]

I appreciate the reply, but this is historical revisionism. Britain attempted an alliance with Russia in both world wars. Stalin had figured his best chance of survival was the Nazi-Soviet pact - even though they hated one another. Hence this famous cartoon at the time: (the guns are symbolic)

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I don't mean to be rude, but I won't reply to WW2 posts, not that I don't want to, but because this thread oft goes on a spergalicious tangent of WW2 and it derails the thread. I apologise to the thread for going down that route again with this post.

The post wasn’t about ww2 I’m just demonstrating Russias consistent behaviour. We can go back even further to the Polish-Bolshevik war of the 1920’s, or the Crimean War.

For the last 200 years they only want to expand their borders and they cannot be reasoned with.

 

[Billow Riley]

Trump and Elon getting rid of the woke nuclear National Nuclear Security Administration. Fully retarded. Imagine if Biden did this and the amount of whining in this thread.

It's wild because I am a Republican and I understand the need for a restricted, but functional, federal government. Crying that everything is woke as an excuse for gutting integral national defense programs is a relatively new phenomenon.

The Department of Energy has paused the firings of hundreds of employees who work for a key agency maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, multiple sources tell ABC News.
Managers with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are frantically calling employees back and telling them that -- as of right now -- they're not fired, despite some receiving termination emails and phone calls on Thursday. Their badges are getting turned back on and access to federal systems is being restored, at least temporarily.
Hundreds of probationary employees were terminated Thursday night in the mass Trump administration layoffs. The move prompted concerns of a national security risk because the agency is responsible for maintaining U.S. nuclear weapons, transporting them, and nuclear counterterrorism, among other missions.
NNSA held an all-staff meeting Friday morning, announcing the DOE had agreed to pause the layoffs, due to the agency's national security mission.
NNSA staff tell ABC News they are in a holding pattern. They're still bracing for firings, but possibly not as widespread.
-ABC News' Jay O'Brien

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-2nd-term-tariffs-trade-war/?id=118643360&entryId=118833343

(https://archive.is/FMeQ2, https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ShnPS)

 

[ZMOT]

It was no surprise most people in the room didn't applaud him. The "free speech" problem in the EU and the annulling of Romania's election were dead on. You can throw money at military hardware, but you can't fix low morale. Not in this current absolute state of the union, who the fuck would even fight for it? If the EU military leaders try to force the dissident population into dying for them, they shouldn't be even surprised in the slightest when a mutiny or outright civil war happens. Personally, I'd rather fuck off to another country and tell the commies to go fuck themselves and laugh at them.
The parallels between the EU and USSR, yesterday's happening and the uncontrolled migration (that nobody voted for) was just the icing on the cake. Vance's speech was beautiful and he's right on every single point.

now that I've listened to it I'm getting jelly not having such a politician. the brass balls directly calling out germany like that

 

[Delany's Donkey]

Russia has been a menace to Europe long before 1945. They literally started ww2 alongside Germany.

the British are far more responsible for WW2 than the Russians were and i believe the soviets and their red army were without exaggeration one of, if not the most evil force in the history of the world.

Hitler was a retard doing things way to fast but had Churchill just let him negotiate with Poland for Danzig and not made the insane promise of "polish sovereignty no mater what" (a promise that was broken anyway when they let the soviets subjugate them for 50 years afterwards) it's doubtful WW2 happens especially not the way it did.

 

[northstar747]

The value of such a system could be incredible, allowing farmers to prevent entire plantations from a sure death.

fix the american chestnut tree!!