New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
I don't understand. Congress is supposed to decide how we spend money and how much we tax. Why is the president doing those things?
Because the United States is a genuine dictatorship. The only thing that matters is spat out by royal decree.
Congress the rubberstamp org ?
Why do we even need that,
to sell positions has favour to the king ?
obviously nobody believes in that parasitic institution
Why do the Russians keep the Duma ?
To shove the edicts of the king
down the throat of the population ?
The broken remains of the "country" need to face it
FEDUSA is dead
It's not just this Congress rolling over to expose their bellies. The Legislative has been ceding power to the Executive for several decades, Republican and Democrat alike. They seem to think this is OK as their guy will get the power.
Having said that, I've never seen such cowardice. The Judicial is hanging in there, and yes, even this SCOTUS has voted against Trump. But our entire system is predicated on a 3-way balance of powers. Now that two of those powers are in absolute collusion, we're collapsing.
Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
Talk about a short-sighted admin.
It’s easy for old people to be short-sighted. They don’t have to take responsibility for fucking things up in the long term, because they’ll be dead.
Stable governments should elect people that have a reason to plan long term.
Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
It's actually much worse than that. Those who fail to understand history are condemned to repeat it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
We've already got RFK doing that. The State Dept has also adopted pseudohistorical stances, and the Education Dept being cut is so they can teach those stances as fact.
he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
Like ivermectin?
Every fucking day these pieces of shit show us new and creative ways of destroying this country.
And everyday, they are getting away with it...
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Traitorapist Trump and the MANGA crowd are systematically enshitifying everything that made America great.
MAKE AMERICA NOT GREAT AGAIN
Fuck Trump. Fuck his supporters. I hope they all die.
In the end the US will look like late stage USSR, with apparatchiks having to sign off everything, years of waiting time and mile long waiting lines to have a chance to get whatever the supermarket currently has in stock, and it's never what you actually need, so most people have to use facebook marketplace to barter goods
Look at the Pythia rat to see how badly this affects real science. Unreality makes it quite difficult to observe reality
If you don't get rid of that government soon (the whole thing, the democrats are complicit), you won't get rid of them anymore.
This doesn't belong in this community, does it?
Guess Trump is OK with China being the dominant scientific force in the world though.
MIT gets plenty of grants.
I know people whose grants have been put on hold and these people don't even know if they have health insurance anymore, since grant money pays for that too. This is wild.
Somewhere in there, Ars should have noted that this does not mean literally ALL grants, but all federal grants as defined in 2 CFR 200.1 (which isn't to say they won't change that definition).
We will be going to floppy disks, fax machines, typewriters and snail mails
But they're gonna kill the US post so you'll have to pay more to ship by FedEx.
They are going to make their own Post Office "Fox Post" and it will charge us ten times more
Aka: a Politruk