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Ain't that the truth!

Bidenomics

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4th and Inches said:

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J.R. said:

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Married A Horn said:

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Assassin said:

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This will tick off JR for sure, even the View notices that our new press secretary is HOT!

THE VIEW'S JOY BEHAR: Karoline Leavitt was only hired by Donald Trump because she's a '10.' You know that what it is.

How disrespectful.pic.twitter.com/bwjXQY8yIB

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2025

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I dont agree with her as usual. Press secretary is only a 9.

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you need to adjust your scale, son. 5 tops.

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yall are both wrong..

She is not a 9 or a 5

Probably like a 6.8 or so.. generally attractive but not stunning. Definitely

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https://www.newsweek.com/republican-women-more-attractive-democrats-christina-bobb-marjorie-taylor-greene-1731532

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MTG????

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cowboycwr said:

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So I must have missed that there is a memo that has frozen all money for grants to everything including universities which means all grant funded research might be coming to a halt soon. Not just DEI stuff but everything. But I can't find any good source that explains it without it getting into the political weeds. Anyone have a good link for an explanation of this.

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I don't know about the accuracy...

A friend of mine has skin cancer and was about to start a clinical trial at MD Anderson after his other treatments did not work.

Trump's decision to temporarily halt funding for medical research also applies to clinical trials.

His treatment is now canceled. pic.twitter.com/7L8cxrwND5

— Eric Koch (@EricDKoch) January 24, 2025

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Seems about right from what I have been hearing.

My wife works at a university doing research and it has been halted. All research at the university. In every field. Medical, education, business, history, etc. if they have grant money they now have to prove it is not DEI research.

Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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So I must have missed that there is a memo that has frozen all money for grants to everything including universities which means all grant funded research might be coming to a halt soon. Not just DEI stuff but everything. But I can't find any good source that explains it without it getting into the political weeds. Anyone have a good link for an explanation of this.

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90 days pause so they can review all the grants and see what is being funded.

There is a lot of LGTBQ+, DEI, Social engineering stuff in the grants

After 90 days the grants for basic university research will be freed up.

And the other stuff hopefully axed

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The problem is that during those 90 days the people who are paid through grant money are NOT going to get a paycheck.

J.R. said:

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Married A Horn said:

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Assassin said:

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This will tick off JR for sure, even the View notices that our new press secretary is HOT!

THE VIEW'S JOY BEHAR: Karoline Leavitt was only hired by Donald Trump because she's a '10.' You know that what it is.

How disrespectful.pic.twitter.com/bwjXQY8yIB

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2025

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I dont agree with her as usual. Press secretary is only a 9.

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you need to adjust your scale, son. 5 tops.

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Wait….. by you rating her you have just done what you called another poster creepy for…..

cowboycwr said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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So I must have missed that there is a memo that has frozen all money for grants to everything including universities which means all grant funded research might be coming to a halt soon. Not just DEI stuff but everything. But I can't find any good source that explains it without it getting into the political weeds. Anyone have a good link for an explanation of this.

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90 days pause so they can review all the grants and see what is being funded.

There is a lot of LGTBQ+, DEI, Social engineering stuff in the grants

After 90 days the grants for basic university research will be freed up.

And the other stuff hopefully axed

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The problem is that during those 90 days the people who are paid through grant money are NOT going to get a paycheck.

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Yea there will be pains

I guess Academia should not have jumped all in on the bandwagon of racist, biased, and politically extreme ideology.

Now other grants have to suffer because of that choice the universities made.

They laid down with dogs….and have now gotten up with fleas

cowboycwr said:

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boognish_bear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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So I must have missed that there is a memo that has frozen all money for grants to everything including universities which means all grant funded research might be coming to a halt soon. Not just DEI stuff but everything. But I can't find any good source that explains it without it getting into the political weeds. Anyone have a good link for an explanation of this.

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I don't know about the accuracy...

A friend of mine has skin cancer and was about to start a clinical trial at MD Anderson after his other treatments did not work.

Trump's decision to temporarily halt funding for medical research also applies to clinical trials.

His treatment is now canceled. pic.twitter.com/7L8cxrwND5

— Eric Koch (@EricDKoch) January 24, 2025

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Seems about right from what I have been hearing.

My wife works at a university doing research and it has been halted. All research at the university. In every field. Medical, education, business, history, etc. if they have grant money they now have to prove it is not DEI research.

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Originally, everything stopped. OMB corrected themselves. It is only Ex Order spending, which POTUS does have the right to stop. Anything approved by Congress is approved. The Ex Branch can review for alignment with current administrations policies, but not eliminate it. Congress is a co-equal branch not subordinate to Executive.

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pic.twitter.com/WgBxkUJYCz

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 28, 2025

pic.twitter.com/eM9tDktGKA

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 29, 2025

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The graphic says that is an average daily rate. So at that pace in a year there would be about 350,000 arrests. I'm not sure it the plan is to ramp up daily numbers even more.

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Trump has asked it to be 1850 daily, is what I heard yesterday. And to be ramped up quickly

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During Biden's open border reign we had about 6,000 to 12,000 come in each day.

(No idea how many they flew directly into the heartland)

[In May, Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said that the number of migrants at the US southern border had halved from a peak of 12,000 a day to 6,000 a day.]

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/30/republicans-trump-tax-cuts-cost-deficit-cbo

House GOP explores alternative math on Trump tax cuts

Hans Nichols

House Republicans are actively exploring how they can score the deficit cost of extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts by using multiple sets of accounting standards.

Why it matters: Depending on the standard, the cost of extending Trump's signature Tax Cut and Jobs Act for 10 years could be $4.6 trillion ... or $0.

That will give Republicans a great deal of flexibility and a set of alternative numbers to tell their constituents how much all of the proposed tax cuts are going to add to the deficit over 10 years.
Driving the news: House Republicans spent the last three days at their retreat in Miami struggling to agree on top-line spending cuts.

"There could be different assumptions that we can look at, all of which have to be defensible, credible, doable," House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) told Axios.
"I think that's a healthy thing, especially when assumptions from the government scorekeepers have been so off in the past in this regard."
Republicans have yet to make a final decision on the kind of accounting tactics they are going to use, but they are in active discussion with the House parliamentarian about using several different measures.
Zoom out: Republicans and Democrats when they are in power have long criticized how the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation score the costs of a given tax cut.

The most traditional debate centered on dynamic versus static scoring.
Dynamic scoring factors in the economic growth that tax cuts can create. When used, it makes most tax cuts appear less expensive.
Static scoring doesn't assume any GDP growth and makes tax cuts appear more expensive.
Zoom in: This year, Republicans are adding another wrinkle to the scoring debate as they contemplate directing CBO to use a different starting point for the budget baseline.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) wants to assume that extending tax cuts that are currently in place like the Tax Cut and Jobs Act won't cost anything to extend.
It's "current policy," the Republicans say. Therefore, it should not be considered a change. Cost = $0.
But the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires that Congress use "current law" to account for how much a tax cut will cost.

Since current law assumes Trump's tax cuts will expire this year, CBO has to assume that extending them will add $4.6 trillion to the deficit.
The bottom line: There's one number that's harder to fudge: the deficit to GDP ratio. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to bring that down to 3%.

Under President Biden's last budget, officials said the ratio would be 6.1% in fiscal year 2025.

cowboycwr said:

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J.R. said:

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Married A Horn said:

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Assassin said:

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This will tick off JR for sure, even the View notices that our new press secretary is HOT!

THE VIEW'S JOY BEHAR: Karoline Leavitt was only hired by Donald Trump because she's a '10.' You know that what it is.

How disrespectful.pic.twitter.com/bwjXQY8yIB

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2025

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I dont agree with her as usual. Press secretary is only a 9.

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you need to adjust your scale, son. 5 tops

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Wait….. by you rating her you have just done what you called another poster creepy for…..

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JR's a woke female I tell you. A lesbian might call her a 5, she's not butch enough. Certainly not a red blooded American male

Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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So I must have missed that there is a memo that has frozen all money for grants to everything including universities which means all grant funded research might be coming to a halt soon. Not just DEI stuff but everything. But I can't find any good source that explains it without it getting into the political weeds. Anyone have a good link for an explanation of this.

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90 days pause so they can review all the grants and see what is being funded.

There is a lot of LGTBQ+, DEI, Social engineering stuff in the grants

After 90 days the grants for basic university research will be freed up.

And the other stuff hopefully axed

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The problem is that during those 90 days the people who are paid through grant money are NOT going to get a paycheck.

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Yea there will be pains

I guess Academia should not have jumped all in on the bandwagon of racist, biased, and politically extreme ideology.

Now other grants have to suffer because of that choice the universities made.

They laid down with dogs….and have now gotten up with fleas

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Pains???

Wow.

People not receiving paychecks is not pains.

That is such a dismissive attitude to have.

Someone in a department that had/has nothing to do with the DEI crap doesn't deserve anything like this.

Your claim is on par with claiming that since the board of Costco is clinging to DEI the cashier that loses their job because of it "deserves it."

FLBear5630 said:

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cowboycwr said:

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boognish_bear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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So I must have missed that there is a memo that has frozen all money for grants to everything including universities which means all grant funded research might be coming to a halt soon. Not just DEI stuff but everything. But I can't find any good source that explains it without it getting into the political weeds. Anyone have a good link for an explanation of this.

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I don't know about the accuracy...

A friend of mine has skin cancer and was about to start a clinical trial at MD Anderson after his other treatments did not work.

Trump's decision to temporarily halt funding for medical research also applies to clinical trials.

His treatment is now canceled. pic.twitter.com/7L8cxrwND5

— Eric Koch (@EricDKoch) January 24, 2025

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Seems about right from what I have been hearing.

My wife works at a university doing research and it has been halted. All research at the university. In every field. Medical, education, business, history, etc. if they have grant money they now have to prove it is not DEI research.

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Originally, everything stopped. OMB corrected themselves. It is only Ex Order spending, which POTUS does have the right to stop. Anything approved by Congress is approved. The Ex Branch can review for alignment with current administrations policies, but not eliminate it. Congress is a co-equal branch not subordinate to Executive.

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As of now that is not how the universities are reading it. They have stopped all grants.

cowboycwr said:

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J.R. said:

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Married A Horn said:

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Assassin said:

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This will tick off JR for sure, even the View notices that our new press secretary is HOT!

THE VIEW'S JOY BEHAR: Karoline Leavitt was only hired by Donald Trump because she's a '10.' You know that what it is.

How disrespectful.pic.twitter.com/bwjXQY8yIB

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2025

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I dont agree with her as usual. Press secretary is only a 9.

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you need to adjust your scale, son. 5 tops.

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Wait….. by you rating her you have just done what you called another poster creepy for…..

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Lol. awesome.

Good financial rule: 6 to 12 months standard of living in reserves. My clients all have it.

boognish_bear said:

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https://www.axios.com/2025/01/30/republicans-trump-tax-cuts-cost-deficit-cbo

House GOP explores alternative math on Trump tax cuts

Hans Nichols

House Republicans are actively exploring how they can score the deficit cost of extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts by using multiple sets of accounting standards.

Why it matters: Depending on the standard, the cost of extending Trump's signature Tax Cut and Jobs Act for 10 years could be $4.6 trillion ... or $0.

That will give Republicans a great deal of flexibility and a set of alternative numbers to tell their constituents how much all of the proposed tax cuts are going to add to the deficit over 10 years.
Driving the news: House Republicans spent the last three days at their retreat in Miami struggling to agree on top-line spending cuts.

"There could be different assumptions that we can look at, all of which have to be defensible, credible, doable," House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) told Axios.
"I think that's a healthy thing, especially when assumptions from the government scorekeepers have been so off in the past in this regard."
Republicans have yet to make a final decision on the kind of accounting tactics they are going to use, but they are in active discussion with the House parliamentarian about using several different measures.
Zoom out: Republicans and Democrats when they are in power have long criticized how the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation score the costs of a given tax cut.

The most traditional debate centered on dynamic versus static scoring.
Dynamic scoring factors in the economic growth that tax cuts can create. When used, it makes most tax cuts appear less expensive.
Static scoring doesn't assume any GDP growth and makes tax cuts appear more expensive.
Zoom in: This year, Republicans are adding another wrinkle to the scoring debate as they contemplate directing CBO to use a different starting point for the budget baseline.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) wants to assume that extending tax cuts that are currently in place like the Tax Cut and Jobs Act won't cost anything to extend.
It's "current policy," the Republicans say. Therefore, it should not be considered a change. Cost = $0.
But the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires that Congress use "current law" to account for how much a tax cut will cost.

Since current law assumes Trump's tax cuts will expire this year, CBO has to assume that extending them will add $4.6 trillion to the deficit.
The bottom line: There's one number that's harder to fudge: the deficit to GDP ratio. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to bring that down to 3%.

Under President Biden's last budget, officials said the ratio would be 6.1% in fiscal year 2025.

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If only we had an unofficial task force with a pet-like name that could spend the first 90 days combing through grant funding to determine which ones should be eliminated. Ah, but cutting the power off to the entire house in order to turn the bathroom lights out is a much better approach…

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It is not as bad as they are making it out, they updated the criteria, removed terminology and increased economic development. The grants that Congress appropriated will go out, they will be restructured to fit the current Admin. Future grant programs will be more at risk. POTUS cannot undo a Congressional act, which is known as a "law".

Stopping everything or even most of it, will cause more issues than just instructing the PM's on the new criteria. If the PMs can't show how it meets the criteria, pause those. Actually, give that money to those of us that can accomplish it...

Sen. @BillCassidy asks about data on vaccines and autism: "Will you ask, 'No, I need even more' or will you say, 'I unequivocally and without qualification say that this does not cause autism?'"

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: "Not only will I do that, but I will apologize for any… pic.twitter.com/aiNZKTgFs5

— CSPAN (@cspan) January 30, 2025

Trump doing a press jaunt right now, mainly on the crash. Questions flying from all sides. When one reporter keeps talking, Trump goes 'hush, hush'... you know who is in charge with Trump

Trump: "When I left office and Biden took over, he changed them back to lower than ever before. I put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first. And they put politics at a level that nobody has ever seen, because this was the lowest level. Their policy was… pic.twitter.com/oxnMivhwEX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 30, 2025

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cowboycwr said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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So I must have missed that there is a memo that has frozen all money for grants to everything including universities which means all grant funded research might be coming to a halt soon. Not just DEI stuff but everything. But I can't find any good source that explains it without it getting into the political weeds. Anyone have a good link for an explanation of this.

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90 days pause so they can review all the grants and see what is being funded.

There is a lot of LGTBQ+, DEI, Social engineering stuff in the grants

After 90 days the grants for basic university research will be freed up.

And the other stuff hopefully axed

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The problem is that during those 90 days the people who are paid through grant money are NOT going to get a paycheck.

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Yea there will be pains

I guess Academia should not have jumped all in on the bandwagon of racist, biased, and politically extreme ideology.

Now other grants have to suffer because of that choice the universities made.

They laid down with dogs….and have now gotten up with fleas

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Pains???

Wow.

People not receiving paychecks is not pains.

That is such a dismissive attitude to have.

Someone in a department that had/has nothing to do with the DEI crap doesn't deserve anything like this.

Your claim is on par with claiming that since the board of Costco is clinging to DEI the cashier that loses their job because of it "deserves it."

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Tell them to learn computer coding like Obama did.

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Ai will be taking that job soon enough. Or a better way to say it, is there won't be as much growth because AI will aid existing developers and make them more productive.

🚨NOT MY JOB: Mayor Brandon Johnson doesn’t believe it’s his job to keep illegal alien s*x offenders off the streets of Chicago:

Reporter: "Tom Homan showed up in Chicago and within 24 hours, found a convicted s*x offender who has been living in our city since 2009. If he can do… pic.twitter.com/mV5mJwrzpj

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 30, 2025

Married A Horn said:

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Good financial rule: 6 to 12 months standard of living in reserves. My clients all have it.

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Serious question. What percentage of American workers can set aside a year in reserve?

I'm guessing not that many.

Smart to drop that on the feds "yeah we knew, we told them multiple times they just didn't do anything about it". Probably just about enough half truths there to be sellable.

Bernie caught lying AGAIN

From 2019. This past year he was the largest big Pharma recipient in Congress

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-accepted-pharma-executives-donations-prior-pledge/story?id=64390750

If you’re a pharmaceutical executive, or a health insurance lobbyist, keep your money. I don’t want it.

What I want is for every person in this country to have the dignity of being able to get the medical care they need, when they need it. I want #MedicareForAll.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 17, 2019

cowboycwr said:

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San Francisco leaders vow to break the law by harboring illegal aliens: pic.twitter.com/wPaXwVM7Kq

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 29, 2025

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Good. Arrest them for obstruction and I'm sure since they have announced they will do it some other charges can be added.

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TH said he could do that, right?

But how about before doing that, deliver the ten most hardened criminals to the front doorsteps of those numbskulls. And don't leave until they have taken them into the "safety" of their homes.

When they start crying, remind them they are a sanctuary city. Which means safety, right? At least in their feeble mindsets.

The reason that screeching woman at the beginning is all for being sanctuary is because she's thinking she's gong to house some hot studs who are here illegally from Eastern Europe. She'll take them in.

Nope, sweetie, you're taking THESE two. And when we come back for them in a week, you're more than welcome to head back to Venezuela with them.

cowboycwr said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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cowboycwr said:

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So I must have missed that there is a memo that has frozen all money for grants to everything including universities which means all grant funded research might be coming to a halt soon. Not just DEI stuff but everything. But I can't find any good source that explains it without it getting into the political weeds. Anyone have a good link for an explanation of this.

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90 days pause so they can review all the grants and see what is being funded.

There is a lot of LGTBQ+, DEI, Social engineering stuff in the grants

After 90 days the grants for basic university research will be freed up.

And the other stuff hopefully axed

---

The problem is that during those 90 days the people who are paid through grant money are NOT going to get a paycheck.

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Yea there will be pains

I guess Academia should not have jumped all in on the bandwagon of racist, biased, and politically extreme ideology.

Now other grants have to suffer because of that choice the universities made.

They laid down with dogs….and have now gotten up with fleas

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Pains???

Wow.

People not receiving paychecks is not pains.

That is such a dismissive attitude to have.

Someone in a department that had/has nothing to do with the DEI crap doesn't deserve anything like this.

Your claim is on par with claiming that since the board of Costco is clinging to DEI the cashier that loses their job because of it "deserves it."

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I have been let go and not had a job or any way to pay for rent or groceries. And at the time I had a wife and child to feed. Talk about stressful as heck.

Spare me

We are talking a 90 day pause in funding so we can figure out what is going on and how much money has been funneled into radical DEI, LGBTQ, & other Leftist activist nonsense.

In 12 weeks let's check back

Until then let's calm down

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So have I. So yes to me it is not a "pain." But something much larger.

The problem is that these are NOT DEI grants that are paused. All grants.


So medical research has paused. Research about issues in rural America. Research about any other issue that has nothing to do with race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. has been paused.

This isn't just a review of DEI but right now is a blanket pause on all funding.

So no I will not "calm down" because this is just flat wrong. Pause the DEI nonsense, but not the others. If after review it is found that some research that isn't DEI is actually DEI then shut it down at that time. But to pause all funding just to get at one wrong thing is bad.

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It looks like today they pulled the memo back anyway


I still think we need a long term top to bottom review if the entire Federal grant process