Harvard Refuses All of Trump's Demanded Reforms; Trump Freezes $2 Billion in Funding for the Antisemitic University and Seeks to Undo Its Status as a Tax-Exempt Charity

The antisemites of Harvard decided to play tough-guy for their media and Democrat friends.

Harvard University on Monday announced that it will not comply with demands from the Trump administration, even as the administration threatens to withhold federal funding.
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Harvard President Alan Garber told the university in an email that it has received an updated list of demands from the current administration, which includes reforming its acceptance of international students who are "hostile to the American values and institutions."
"It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner," Garber said. "Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the 'intellectual conditions' at Harvard."
Another demand was allowing the government to audit programs offered at the school "that most fuel antisemitic harassment or reflect ideological capture."
Garber claimed that the demands were "unprecedented" and were a federal overreach because the government was trying to control the school. He added that the university has formally rejected the demands through legal counsel.

Trump has responded to the entitled antisemites of Harvard.

President Donald Trump has called for Harvard University to lose a valuable tax break, hours after his administration announced it is freezing more than $2bn (Ł1.5bn) in federal funds for the elite institution.
The White House has demanded the oldest university in the US make changes to hiring, admissions and teaching practices which it says will help fight antisemitism on campus.
Since returning to office, Trump has pushed to reshape top universities by threatening to withhold federal funds that are mostly designated for research.
Harvard became the first major US university to reject his administration's demands on Monday, accusing the White House of trying to "control" its community.
In a Tuesday morning post on social media, Trump threatened to go beyond withholding the federal funds and targeted Harvard tax-exempt status.
Universities, as well as many charities and religious groups, are exempted from paying federal income taxes. This valuable tax break, though, can be removed if the groups become involved in political activities or move away from their stated purposes.
"Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting "Sickness?" he wrote on Truth Social. "Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!"
Losing the exemption could cost Harvard millions of dollars each year.
The sweeping changes demanded by the White House would have transformed Harvard's operations and ceded a large amount of control to the government.
Its letter to Harvard on Friday, obtained by the New York Times, said the university had failed to live up to the "intellectual and civil rights conditions" that justify federal investment.
The letter included 10 categories for proposed changes, including:
reporting students to the federal government who are "hostile" to American values
ensuring each academic department is "viewpoint diverse"
hiring an external government-approved party to audit programs and departments "that most fuel antisemitic harassment"
checking faculty staff for plagiarism
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Shortly after his letter of resistance was sent, the education department said it was freezing $2.2bn in grants and $60m in contracts to Harvard immediately.
"Harvard's statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation's most prestigious universities and colleges," the Department of Education said in a statement.

The first gay black president Barack Obama stuck up for the antisemites, of course.

Former President Barack Obama says Harvard University has "set an example" for how colleges should respond to President Trump's demands for change -- even at the risk of losing billions in federal funding.
He posted his thoughts on social media late Monday, after the Trump administration called for Harvard to make changes including an end to antisemitism. After the Ivy League school said no, the administration froze $2.2 billion in federal grants and $60 million in contracts.
"Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions -- rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect," Obama wrote on the social media platform X.

The absurd leftwing hack Ross Sorkin, who championed censorship by the left-wing Biden government at every turn, now whines that we need to respecc Harvard's right to be antisemitic on the taxpayers' dime.

CNBC panelists descended into a shouting match Tuesday as host Joe Kernen called out the left's double standard when it comes to defending free speech.
President Donald Trump's Department of Education (ED) is set to freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants to Harvard University after the Ivy League university refused to agree to its new terms and conditions, which included auditing antisemitism, improving screening of international students for "hostile" views and enforcing disciplinary processes. CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin tussled with his fellow "Squawk Box" co-host, Kernen, as he argued that the freeze in funding is a violation of free speech.
"I'm a Jew, I hate the antisemitism piece of this more than anything, more than anybody," Sorkin began. "Do I think that people can scream from the rooftops if they want? I hate to say that, but I think that they can and in the same way that we think it was not right for the [former President Joe] Biden administration to go after tech companies, around whether you think it was laptops or COVID, or this or that ... What I'm saying is, to the extent that, if we're trying to have a consistent view about free speech."
"But it wasn't consistent then," Kernen said. "Again, we're calling what-about-ism instead of calling it for what it is, which is hypocrisy. It's hypocrisy. Why didn't the left care that we couldn't read about the lab origin of Wuhan or the [Hunter] Biden laptop? Not a peep."
Sorkin, who said he agreed with Kernen's point, argued that the same standard should be applied to speech for all presidential administrations. Kernen told Sorkin that the left, along with these universities, only defend free speech when it suits them.
"We can't go back in time and decide to it now!" Kernen said. "You let it go back then. You let it go back then."

Video at the link.

If you take government money then yes, the government will dictate what you teach, whom you admit, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue. @Hillsdale figured out the solution to this problem a long tim ago: don’t take government money. https://t.co/DSnoWvTjOG
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) April 15, 2025

The federal government is not "taking over" Harvard; it is simply enforcing civil rights law. If Harvard would like more "independence," it is free to follow Hillsdale College and refuse to accept federal funds. Until then, it has reciprocal obligations that must be honored. https://t.co/GbArPnWFMr
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 14, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:27 PM

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1 I just can't seem to get the tears flowing on this one.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 02:27 PM (VSht7)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:28 PM (tjClK)

3 Still lacking lacrima.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 02:28 PM (VSht7)

4 It's The Holocaust all over again.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 02:28 PM (kgjcL)

5 Why the F*CK is Harvard getting $2bn of our tax dollars anyway? F*CK that.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:29 PM (tjClK)

6 The absurd leftwing hack Ross Sorkin, who championed censorship by the left-wing Biden government at every turn, now whines that we need to respecc Harvard's right to be antisemitic on the taxpayers' dime.

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The left should be paid to do whatever they want.

The right should be destroyed for trying to be left alone.

Them's the rules.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

7 Sweet.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 02:29 PM (pMi6S)

8 Cut all funding to all universities.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 15, 2025 02:29 PM (u73oe)

9 Garber claimed that the demands were "unprecedented" and were a federal overreach because the government was trying to control the school. He added that the university has formally rejected the demands through legal counsel.

Damn, if only I'd thought to accuse my parents of unprecedented overreach when they told me what to do as a condition of getting my allowance!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 02:29 PM (xCA6C)

10 Why are they getting 2 billion in funding again? Do they not charge tuition? WTF is going on here?

Posted by: A dude in MI at April 15, 2025 02:29 PM (/6GbT)

11
"Demands," Ace?

I prefer...reasonable conditions.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 02:30 PM (fRB6z)

12 The Bee added.

Posted by: ace at April 15, 2025 02:30 PM (KRtlO)

13 Why are they getting 2 billion in funding again? Do they not charge tuition? WTF is going on here?

I'm not sure, but a good chunk of it may be for research.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 02:30 PM (xCA6C)

14 The entire academy has been anti-white and anti-Christian for decades but the only hatred that gets their funding pulled is anti-Semitism.

It's all so tiresome.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at April 15, 2025 02:30 PM (rfas+)

15 “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber https://hrvd.me/GarberRespond347t

Absolutely true. Of course, no private university should be given public money.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 02:30 PM (VSht7)

16 What I don't get is how a school with hundreds of billions in their foundation somehow needs government funds anyway? TAX FREE foundations, I should note.

Look, HahVahd, if you want to go on being racist and hateful in your bigotry against Jews, Asians, and White people okay. Just don't expect to do so on my dime.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 02:30 PM (ehZkr)

17
Former President Barack Obama says Harvard University has "set an example" for how colleges should respond to President Trump's demands for change

I hope you shove your change up your ass.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:31 PM (tjClK)

18 Harvard has a huge endowment -- why do they even want Fed money?

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 02:31 PM (pMi6S)

19 and yet I dimly recall Barry's admin going after Hillsdale DESPITE them not taking any federal funds, trying to force them to follow Woke Piety.

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 15, 2025 02:31 PM (Pv3Rg)

20 18 Harvard has a huge endowment -- why do they even want Fed money?
Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 02:31 PM (pMi6S)

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Because money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

21 Why the hell are they getting money and why is the president who is Jewish ok with antisemitism?

Posted by: keena at April 15, 2025 02:31 PM (sEgd8)

22 How much does a FAFO degree from Harvard cost?

Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

23
I like how Harvard is now all about "free speech."
But if a student, right now, put up "white lives matter" flyers all over campus, he'd be expelled.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 02:32 PM (fRB6z)

24 Former President Barack Obama says Harvard University has "set an example" for how colleges should respond to President Trump's demands for change

Oh, just STFU, you irrelevant, twee little monster.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 02:32 PM (xCA6C)

25 btw my Hahhhvard pals are all crowing annoyingly about this on social media. to give UPenn grads some credit, if this were us we'd say nothing. For a variety of reasons but still!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 15, 2025 02:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

26 Make it hurt.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 15, 2025 02:32 PM (N1tpc)

27 "checking faculty staff for plagiarism"

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LMAO...I wonder how many of the staff are sweating bullets over this condition. Too funny.

Posted by: Orson at April 15, 2025 02:32 PM (dIske)

28 And conservative speakers are denied access to many colleges and universities due to "security concerns".

Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 02:32 PM (rj6Yv)

29 They are trying so hard to frame this as some violation of free speech and academic freedom: you're free to do whatever you want, idiots. Just not at the taxpayer expense. Its a violation of MY free speech to subsidize your lunacy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 02:33 PM (ehZkr)

30 It would be even better if they made Harvard students ineligible for guaranteed student loans.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 02:33 PM (VSht7)

31
Defund them all, defund them all.

Let their best buddies carry their weight.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 15, 2025 02:33 PM (xG4kz)

32 Why does the federal government borrow money only to give it to the well to do and monied scum that run Harvard? Eminent Domain Harvard and turn it into an insane asylum for the public good.

Posted by: E.D. Is Good at April 15, 2025 02:33 PM (cnVbw)

33 What's funny is they had no problems with the government tyring to force things on schools that they didn't like, (i.e. Hillsdale) but NOW it's a massive outrage.

I guess Harvard doesn't teach classical ideas like the dangers of hubris anymore...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 15, 2025 02:33 PM (N1tpc)

34 No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.

yeah, well, your students were committing acts of violence against the Jewish members of your student body.

Speech stops when the fists fly.......

F*ck you all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (tjClK)

35 Why are they getting 2 billion in funding again? Do they not charge tuition? WTF is going on here?

I'm not sure, but a good chunk of it may be for research.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 02:30 PM (xCA6C)
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Yep. The vast majority of those funds will be for government-funded research projects which can be cancelled at will by the feds at any time.

Shoulda read the fine print...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (7fElN)

36
Ross Perot tried to rescue carter's hostages in Iran.
It did not end well
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 02:22 PM (fRB6z)

Perot put together a team of former military EDS employees and they went into Iran and rescued his employees.
Posted by: Beartooth

Yes, yes. Details, shemtails.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (fRB6z)

37 The same commie oozing scabs who cheered Obama and Biden when they were using federal power and money to force colleges to adopt preferred policies are now screeching at Trump for ... doing the exact same thing.

Good luck with that. This is another 80-20 issue, or maybe 90-10. It's great that normal people are finding out how many billions and billions of taxpayer money is going to these "elite" colleges that hate them, and that their kids have no prayer on earth of getting into.

The government has no business giving a rat's edge cent to any college. No business at all. If any "research" being funded is worth a sliver of piss (it's not), then the private sector can fund it.

These "research grants" are just another corrupt massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to a few lucky -- and leftwing -- commie scumbags who steal most of the money so they can give it to Trixie the Intern to keep fucking them.

Die, motherfuckers. Die.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

38 I’ll take a different tact. I think Harvard has a right to be antisemitic. But I also believe we shouldn’t pay for it nor should they receive tax breaks. They have multi billion dollar endowments. Pay for your ugliness with that, minus the exempt tax status.

These colleges largely educate less than 1% of the workforce. Why are the other 99% paying for it?

Posted by: Marcus T at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (za++S)

39 The battle is actually being fought on a meta-level-- and Harvard is losing.

The fight here is is not about mney -- it's about reputation.

Harvard, by defying Trump, wants to boost its left-wing bona fides. Trump, in contrast, want to highlight Harvard's institutional anti-Semtism and anti-Americanism.

Harvard won a tiny victorty among its Marxist fans.

Trumo won a huge victory with the general public's view of Harvard.

Harvard is now a sullied institution.

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (pMi6S)

40
Harvard has a huge endowment -- why do they even want Fed money?

Posted by: zombie

They lack 'uge tracts of land.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (xG4kz)

41 But if a student, right now, put up "white lives matter" flyers all over campus, he'd be expelled.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 02:32 PM (fRB6z)

First hauled before a number of star-chamber "hearings" with the administration, the aim being to catch him out. Then expelled and his good name trashed, to be made unemployable for his best earning decades.
And no he doesn't get a lawyer you big silly. Lawyers are for courts, the hearings are just to clarify some things.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (gKWVE)

42 Let me get this straight-- Trump is upset at Harvard because the university is mistreating Jews?

Worst Nazi Ever!

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (VSht7)

43 Harvard has a $51B endowment, Grambling State's endowment is $7M, why doesn't Harvard share its money with Grambling State?

Is it racism?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2025 02:35 PM (k1E2D)

44 This is the Eff Oh part of the equation.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 15, 2025 02:35 PM (rUU8O)

45 "If you take government money then yes, the government will dictate what you teach, whom you admit, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

Now, let's extend this line of reasoning to NGOs, NPR/PBS, and elementary education. This is the risk one takes when taking government money of any sort. You don't like it? don't take the funds.

Man, W's decision to direct government money to churches and other orgs sure paid dividends, didn't it?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 15, 2025 02:35 PM (WVPNA)

46 I'm for defunding really every college when it comes to federal dollars. We already subsidize federal loans. Also, start taxing endowments.

But not over "behavior", just as a practical matter. Harvard doesn't need federal taxpayer dollars to survive.

But just curious, if Trump can just cut off funding for "antisemitism", what's to say a Dem President can't just start mandating all kinds of Woke/DEI craziness in order for any institution to get federal dollars.

Posted by: Leupold at April 15, 2025 02:35 PM (4pwAx)

47 Harvard should annex MIT.

Posted by: Von Hollen at April 15, 2025 02:35 PM (d7ais)

48
Look, fats, the point is Ross Perot rescued an innocent illegal gang member from a Nicaraguan prison camp and Democrats can do it, too!

Operation Gangbanger Claw

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 02:36 PM (fRB6z)

49 From last thread:

Just because I have a withered arm and my cuz has a kid that bleeds out a lot doesn't mean this cousin screwin' is bad. Oh, yeah, those eyes with the Limey side of the family.

Kaiser Wilhelm, Proud Luger Carbine Owner
Posted by: bill in arkansas

The Kaiser's withered arm was due to the something the midwife attending his birth did wrong. So not genetics.

And Tsrevich Alexis' hemophilia was caused by a rogue mutation inherited from his great-grandmother Queen Victoria.

So neither affiction can be blamed on inbreeding.

Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

50 Yes, yes. Details, shemtails.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (fRB6z)

Shemp is an underrated Stooge.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:37 PM (tjClK)

51
So neither affiction can be blamed on inbreeding.

Posted by: Bulg

Now do the Hapsburgs

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 15, 2025 02:37 PM (xG4kz)

52
In a Tuesday morning post on social media, Trump threatened to go beyond withholding the federal funds and targeted Harvard tax-exempt status.

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (y9nCu)

53 >Harvard has a huge endowment -- why do they even want Fed money?
Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 02:31 PM (pMi6S)

The American ruling class get a certain frisson from confiscating the hard-earned wealth of the American middle class and using it further their own power. It's a two-fer.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (fdR2p)

54 Of course, Trump COULD say the education is not among the enumerated powers, so the feds have no constitutional way to fund it.... Why that's so hard is a puzzlement.

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (029Oi)

55 51 Now do the Hapsburgs
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 15, 2025 02:37 PM (xG4kz)

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Not even hot, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (GBKbO)

56 Former President Barack Obama says Harvard University has "set an example" for how colleges should respond to President Trump's demands for change

For once I agree with him: absolutely, cut off all federal funding to colleges and universities. No more grants, no more subsidies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (ehZkr)

57 Ivy league brains walking willingly into the trap. Gracious.

Yeah, let's talk about funding...How much in your endowment now? 55 billion you say.

Posted by: Francis at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (bbuBP)

58
Not craw. CRAW!

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (fRB6z)

59 We get a bunch of hard ass IDF, maybe Shin Bet or Mossad guys. They change their names to Smith, Jones, or the old stand by Kennedy, rig the exams and show up at Hahvahd. And the fun starts at the next demonstration.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (gm9Sb)

60 Who cares if you have many billions of dollars, why use your own resources if you are able to strip mine your enemies?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (fdR2p)

61 Not even hot, though.

I dunno, maybe they were like six generations ago. The paintings don't seem to indicate that, though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (ehZkr)

62 Shemp is an underrated Stooge.
Posted by: Sponge

Yeah, I like Shemp. The other third stooges that came after him, not so much.

Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

63 Posted by: Marcus T at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (za++S)

Wasn't Harvard founded as a Christian seminary? Arguably it has a duty to oppose this or that Jewish tenet. Same as a yeshiva has a duty to counter Christianity.
I still don't want to pay for an ersatz postChristian seminary. Also if Harvard is going to admit Jews (or the Irish, whatever) then it can't treat them like shit especially if they're just there to learn and not proselytize the administration.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (gKWVE)

64 I couldn't find this at Babylon Bee.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (d7ais)

65 Just to reiterate; academia is now churning out actual "home grown" terrorists. It's all cosplay now, but given the chance to participate in an actual terror attack more than a handful of these people would gladly do it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (Q4IgG)

66 But just curious, if Trump can just cut off funding for "antisemitism", what's to say a Dem President can't just start mandating all kinds of Woke/DEI craziness in order for any institution to get federal dollars.

Posted by: Leupold at April 15, 2025 02:35 PM (4pwAx)

This is EXACTLY what Obama already did. Fifteen years ago.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (rUU8O)

67 The fight here is is not about mney -- it's about reputation.

Harvard, by defying Trump, wants to boost its left-wing bona fides. Trump, in contrast, want to highlight Harvard's institutional anti-Semtism and anti-Americanism.

Harvard won a tiny victorty among its Marxist fans.

Trumo won a huge victory with the general public's view of Harvard.

Harvard is now a sullied institution.
Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (pMi6S)
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Among higher ed, REPUTATION is the true coin of the realm. It's why universities claw all over each other to get a higher ranking on U.S. News and World Report's "Best Colleges" list. Higher ranking means better reputation, which leads to increased recruitment and retention among students and faculty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (7fElN)

68 I’ll take a different tact. I think Harvard has a right to be antisemitic. But I also believe we shouldn’t pay for it nor should they receive tax breaks. They have multi billion dollar endowments. Pay for your ugliness with that, minus the exempt tax status.

These colleges largely educate less than 1% of the workforce. Why are the other 99% paying for it?
Posted by: Marcus T at April 15, 2025 02:34 PM (za++S)
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In theory, I agree. But in reality, why should Harvard get to discriminate against Jews -- that's what antisemitism is -- even if not receiving any federal money, when Harvard can't legally discriminate against minorities, or Muslims, or women, or gays, or pretty much anyone who isn't white straight and male?

Harvard would never in 5 million years shit on its black students. Why should it get to shit on its Jewish students?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

69 We could cover a few seconds of federal spending by taxing Harvard's endowment 100%.

Maybe a full day if we tax all university endowments at 100%.

There's no reason not to try it.

There are gay cowboy poetry readings to fund in Peru.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

70 The first gay black president Barack Obama stuck up for the antisemites, of course.
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Are we sure he also wasn't the first gay, black muslim president?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (Dv3i1)

71 18 Harvard has a huge endowment -- why do they even want Fed money?
Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2025 02:31 PM (pMi6S)

They have a huge endowment because they use other peoples' money instead of their own.

Much like GM became a pension plan that occassionally built autos, Ivy League schools have become hedge funds that award degrees.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (k1E2D)

72 I thought the point of the Habsburgs is that you didn't get to do Habsburgs unless you were a Habsburg.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (gKWVE)

73
Old and busted: shouting down conservatives.
New and cool: shouting down Jews.

Posted by: 13times at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (cpDdh)

74 12 The Bee added.

Yeah? Well, let's see it divide fractions.

I'll see myself out.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (Y1sOo)

75 Perhaps Harvard should just change its name to Caliphate College and only admit wealthy Muslims/ and other anti semites

Seriously: John Harvard was a devoted Christian and he ‘d be turning over in his grave at what the school named after him had become. Why would any Jewish parent support their kid in going to Harvard or Columbia? And I’m surprised at this point that any parent who isn’t a crazy leftist would allow their kids to to go there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (vVgPo)

76 Cartels, like the Ivies, that take pride in the number of applicants that they reject, shouldn't be shocked when they find they have fewer friends than they had assumed.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 15, 2025 02:41 PM (rJ48h)

77 Ivy league degrees don't have the academic weight they used to in society.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 15, 2025 02:41 PM (IifOV)

78 56 Former President Barack Obama says Harvard University has "set an example" for how colleges should respond to President Trump's demands for change

For once I agree with him: absolutely, cut off all federal funding to colleges and universities. No more grants, no more subsidies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (ehZkr)

This is why we can't have nice things. After WWII, the US government financed all sorts of research coming out of universities, such as breakthroughs in semiconductors and information technology. Stanford, Harvard and MIT were the main beneficiaries at the time, and their results ushered in the Silicon Revolution that we benefit from today. I struggle to think of the innovations that have been government-financed to a similar extent today.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 15, 2025 02:41 PM (WVPNA)

79 moar
of
this!

no more of our tax money
no more non-profit status for these people

go ahead and be antisemitic & insurrectionary on your own nickel
that's your free speech rights right there.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 15, 2025 02:41 PM (/Ghsb)

80 Just multiply by the reciprocal.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 15, 2025 02:41 PM (d7ais)

81 But just curious, if Trump can just cut off funding for "antisemitism", what's to say a Dem President can't just start mandating all kinds of Woke/DEI craziness in order for any institution to get federal dollars.

Posted by: Leupold at April 15, 2025 02:35 PM (4pwAx)

This is EXACTLY what Obama already did. Fifteen years ago.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating
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That's why really the only solution here is defunding.

We can't ever manage liberal institutions and bend them to our will, best you can do is not fund them at all.

Even if Harvard stamped out all antisemitism, I still don't think they should have a nickel of my tax dollars.

Posted by: Leupold at April 15, 2025 02:42 PM (4pwAx)

82 You can't possibly get more elitist than Harvard.
To properly look down their noses at the proles and littles, they should be able to do it on their own.

They don't need Jeff the welder's tax dollars.

Posted by: Oly and Olaf at April 15, 2025 02:42 PM (FCbAQ)

83 Among higher ed, REPUTATION is the true coin of the realm. It's why universities claw all over each other to get a higher ranking on U.S. News and World Report's "Best Colleges" list. Higher ranking means better reputation, which leads to increased recruitment and retention among students and faculty.
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Or, just add "The" in front of the name.

Posted by: The, You Know Who, University at April 15, 2025 02:42 PM (Dv3i1)

84 82 You can't possibly get more elitist than Harvard.
To properly look down their noses at the proles and littles, they should be able to do it on their own.

They don't need Jeff the welder's tax dollars.
Posted by: Oly and Olaf at April 15, 2025 02:42 PM (FCbAQ)

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I think the Oxford/Cambridge divide is more elitist. Just a tad more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

85 Related. Trump releases partial list of sparks of the divine.

https://shorturl.at/aqTT5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 15, 2025 02:42 PM (L/fGl)

86 Grambling State's endowment is $7M, why doesn't Harvard share its money with Grambling State?

Is it racism?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2025 02:35 PM (k1E2Yes!!

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 15, 2025 02:43 PM (P4Pk9)

87 Are we sure he also wasn't the first gay, black muslim president?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (Dv3i1)

The muslhams don't condone homosexuality. You're only allowed to be right before martyrdom as you're immediately forgiven for killing the infidel and invited a seat next to allah (Satan).

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:43 PM (tjClK)

88 Taxing endowments is something VDH promotes at every turn on his podcasts.

Posted by: 13times at April 15, 2025 02:44 PM (cpDdh)

89
checking faculty staff for plagiarism

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Oh, shit...

Posted by: African American Studies, Women's Studies, etc at April 15, 2025 02:44 PM (QwK6F)

90 There was a movie with Brendan Fraser about antisemitism at Harvard in the 30's wasn't there?

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 02:45 PM (KQk9m)

91 But government:
Demanding censorship of social media posts for Covid
Shutting down businesses for Covid
Arresting people for being outside for Covid
Firing people for not taking the Covid vax

was not an infringement of any rights whatsoever.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2025 02:45 PM (JpbSW)

92 62 Shemp is an underrated Stooge.
Posted by: Sponge

Yeah, I like Shemp. The other third stooges that came after him, not so much.
Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

Even Curley?

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 02:45 PM (VSht7)

93 I posted this in the previous thread but perhaps too late to be noticed. Sorry for the repeat. I will repeat it one more time on the ONT for the nightwalkers.

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Donate to Shep's Place in memory of Jewells. Put "Jewells" or "Julie" in the memo box or send them a separate email.

https://www.shepsplace.org/donate/
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Posted by: Oddbob at April 15, 2025 02:45 PM (/y8xj)

94 David 'Camera' Hogg would have made a fine U-boat commander.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 02:45 PM (x/V3P)

95 89 Oh, shit...

Posted by: African American Studies, Women's Studies, etc at April 15, 2025 02:44 PM (QwK6F)

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Who knew that James Baldwin could be considered primary author in 50% of papers written over the past 30 years?

100% in the AA Studies alone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

96
For once I agree with him: absolutely, cut off all federal funding to colleges and universities. No more grants, no more subsidies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (ehZkr)

This is the best solution. We have too many schools anyway, so this is the perfect opportunity to cull the herd, so to speak. Vocational schools/trade schools, on the other hand...I have no problem supporting institutions that actually teach a real skill that produces a good. I just learned my alma mater (Baylor) now has certification in the Enneagram. That is just batsh1t stupid for a university, especially one saying it is Christian.

Posted by: Moki at April 15, 2025 02:46 PM (wLjpr)

97 I wish the muzzies would make up their minds about going to sit with Allah. These Friday night Date Nights are getting painful.

The Goat

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2025 02:46 PM (gm9Sb)

98 I struggle to think of the innovations that have been government-financed to a similar extent today.

There's been a bunch of little stuff like a new variety of apple or a different variety of paint that is even more black than before but yeah.

It does bother me though that it took stupid pro-Hamas protests to get a reaction to a school that by admission and by policy has been shutting out asians and white people simply because of their ethnic background for like 30 years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 02:46 PM (ehZkr)

99 I know George Orwell gets a lot of credit but this is more Philip K. Dick.

The British government is legit developing a "Minority Report" to identify murderers before they kill anyone

https://shorturl.at/A5kwv

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 15, 2025 02:46 PM (L/fGl)

100 Taxing endowments is something VDH promotes at every turn on his podcasts.
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HE IS A JEALOUS BITCH.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 15, 2025 02:46 PM (qlIEW)

101 Former President Barack Obama says Harvard University has "set an example" for how colleges should respond to President Trump's demands for change

For once I agree with him: absolutely, cut off all federal funding to colleges and universities. No more grants, no more subsidies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (ehZkr)

This is why we can't have nice things. After WWII, the US government financed all sorts of research coming out of universities, such as breakthroughs in semiconductors and information technology. Stanford, Harvard and MIT were the main beneficiaries at the time, and their results ushered in the Silicon Revolution that we benefit from today. I struggle to think of the innovations that have been government-financed to a similar extent today.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 15, 2025 02:41 PM (WVPNA)
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Yes, but all that was before the massive growth of VC and PE funds with endless money to invest. Today, any technology or research that could conceivable be worth a quirt of piss -- and many that could not -- will be funded by VC and PE. There's no need for a penny of taxpayer money to go into any of this.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

102 Next, cut the feds out of the student loan business and make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

103 I thought the point of the Habsburgs is that you didn't get to do Habsburgs unless you were a Habsburg.
Posted by: gKWVE

The Hapsburgs did do some outbreeding, but most of the couples were fairly closely related to each other. Their big concern was keeping all of their vast land-holdings in the family, and make sure that the spouses were sufficiently high on the royalty/nobility scale to uphold the prestige of the dynasty.

Poor Sophie Chotek, Franz Ferdinand's wife, wasn't high enough on the nobility scale. So, FF's marriage to her was morganatic, and she was largely shunned and treated horribly by the Hapsburgs.

Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:47 PM (77rzZ)

104 Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions -- rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom

Actually, Mr. Obama, our government is requiring Harvard to stop stifling academic freedom.

Why are you saying the opposite of what is true?

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 15, 2025 02:47 PM (Sf2cq)

105 Hey Gaylord,

How is that Presidential Library scam going?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 02:49 PM (x/V3P)

106 The dollar amounts I see getting thrown around, it truly is sickening. One elite college getting $2 billion in federal funds is just outrageous.

I'm not a fan of really any public education, but just think what that much money would do for a state's K-12 system instead of going to a bunch of elites at Harvard.

Posted by: Leupold at April 15, 2025 02:49 PM (4pwAx)

107
Actually, Mr. Obama, our government is requiring Harvard to stop stifling academic freedom.

Why are you saying the opposite of what is true?
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 15, 2025 02:47 PM (Sf2cq)

Because he's a Democrat. All they have is lying and gaslighting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:50 PM (tjClK)

108 Yeah, I like Shemp. The other third stooges that came after him, not so much.
Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

Even Curley?
Posted by: tankdemon

Curley was before Shemp, at least in the movies. Shemp replaced him when he died. Coincidentally, Curley had previously replaced Shemp in their stage act when Shemp tried to strike out on his own.

Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)

109 David 'Camera' Hogg would have made a fine U-boat commander.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 02:45 PM (x/V3P)

I see him more as the drummer on a Roman bireme.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2025 02:50 PM (VNX3d)

110 Wasn't Harvard founded as a Christian seminary? Arguably it has a duty to oppose this or that Jewish tenet. Same as a yeshiva has a duty to counter Christianity.
I still don't want to pay for an ersatz postChristian seminary. Also if Harvard is going to admit Jews (or the Irish, whatever) then it can't treat them like shit especially if they're just there to learn and not proselytize the administration.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 15, 2025 02:39 PM (gKWVE)

Most of the colonial colleges were founded for religious reasons. Most have distanced themselves in the last 100 years from those institutions that provided the funding.

They would prefer getting funding from Qatar and China than from the Methodists or Presbyterians.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2025 02:50 PM (k1E2D)

111 Yes, but all that was before the massive growth of VC and PE funds with endless money to invest. Today, any technology or research that could conceivable be worth a quirt of piss -- and many that could not -- will be funded by VC and PE. There's no need for a penny of taxpayer money to go into any of this.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

Absolutely correct. For example, the foundational paper that established the feasibility of the current generation of AI tools was financed by...Google.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 15, 2025 02:50 PM (WVPNA)

112 I think Curley Joe was a closet homo into young boys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (tjClK)

113 My field is barren.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (W2Pud)

114 90 There was a movie with Brendan Fraser about antisemitism at Harvard in the 30's wasn't there?
Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 02:45 PM (KQk9m)

I think that was a boarding school where all the students were trying to get into Harvard. School Ties, I beleive.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (VSht7)

115 Wtf "research" is Harvard doing for $2 billion -- with a "b" -- a year??????????

Are they building an interstellar colony ship?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (iFTx/)

116 Harvard has a huge endowment -- why do they even want Fed money?

Many mentions of a huge endowment, and not a single Paolo joke? Do better, people, do better.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (xCA6C)

117 I'd love a real list of what actual inventions have come out of Ivy League Schools over the last 30 years and what sort of return the taxpayer is getting.

It's a bunch of white papers to employ woke layabouts that couldn't get hired anywhere else.

Posted by: Leupold at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (4pwAx)

118 Harvard is blowing smoke. In March they issued a hiring freeze. Additionally, their private endowment took a little dive due to alumni having the same concerns brought forth by freeze of public grants. Also, and not widely understood is that the private endowment is targeted. Let's say you donate $1 Million to Harvard. YOU get to dictate where that money goes. So, Harvard has their hands tied in appropriating that money.

By holding up the Federal grants, Trump can wait them out while certain "problem curriculums" dry up on the vine due to funding. Because, those programs that breed the DEI and anti-Semitism are going to find themselves short of funding not only from public grants, but private endowment.

Posted by: Orson at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (dIske)

119
I see him more as the drummer on a Roman bireme.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2025 02:50 PM (VNX3d)

He's more catcher at a cock throwing contest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (tjClK)

120 "Trump has responded to the entitled antisemites of Harvard."

Is it ever any concern, Ace, that your entire worldview is "Jews good, anything at all whatsoever against the Jews bad"?

Are you yourself Jewish?

It's weird that this whole Trump project is supposed to be about restoring America, but we're talking an awful lot about doing what Jews want, and rooting out alleged anti-Semites. That's a lot of lifting for 2% of the population.

I don't know, I just figure at some point you'd ask what Jews have done for you, lately or ever, and wonder why you have such steadfast eternal devotion to them, and reflexive disdain for anything that remotely criticizes them.

This is for Ace, but the whole board should think about this. It's not natural to be this beholden to a group of people who, by any measure, are small in number and not representative of historic America.

Posted by: The Eternal Boomer at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (ImD0v)

121 108 I saw a photo of The Stooges, Larry, Moe, and Shemp, out of character and dressed in period suits. Guys looked like they could have been the heavy doormen at the meeting of the Five Families.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (gm9Sb)

122 Grambling State's endowment is $7M, why doesn't Harvard share its money with Grambling State?
Is it racism?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper

Yes! And The Northern Poverty Law Center is investigating this matter as we speak!

Posted by: Morris Dees at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (cnVbw)

123 115 Wtf "research" is Harvard doing for $2 billion -- with a "b" -- a year??????????

Are they building an interstellar colony ship?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (iFTx/)

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Well, at least 35% was going directly to the university for "administrative" costs.

That's at least $600 million to fund...what? That's a lot of salaries.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

124 Harvard was getting $2 Billion per year? How much is Princeton and Yale getting?

Whatever the reasons for the grants, gut them. Uncle Sugar hasn't got the money, but those schools can fund whatever they want from their other income.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (vPz0i)

125 My field is barren.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (W2Pud)

Do I need to send you the jar back? There are still a few left in it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (tjClK)

126 So much our society and a good deal of the rest of the world has been assimilated into what Benz calls the blob. The money is helpful, more to some schools than other, but the real goal is to indoctrinate and graduate the next generation of public policy leaders all having the right views.

It isn't be accident that all of these elite universities became breeding ground of anti-semitism and pro-Hamas overnight. Just like the Obama administration. Just like the Biden administration.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (LkLld)

127 Why am I reminded of that scene from Ghostbusters when they are evicted by the college?

"I've worked in the private sector, they expect results."

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 02:53 PM (x/V3P)

128 "If you take my money, you wear my brand," of course. More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 15, 2025 02:53 PM (QSrLX)

129 94 David 'Camera' Hogg would have made a fine U-boat commander.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 02:45 PM (x/V3P)

His torpedo tube would certainly be filled with a bunch of seaman.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2025 02:53 PM (k1E2D)

130 I see him more as the drummer on a Roman bireme.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2025 02:50 PM (VNX3d)

He's more catcher at a cock throwing contest.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (tjClK)

Well, I was going to place him as part of the team driving the propeller, with his bicycle experience, but that wouldn't make the U-boat very fast.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2025 02:54 PM (VNX3d)

131 Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions

They certainly will...

Can't thank Barry enough for encouraging the other schools to get into the public eye.

Posted by: t-bird at April 15, 2025 02:54 PM (ueHpO)

132 Yes, but all that was before the massive growth of VC and PE funds with endless money to invest. Today, any technology or research that could conceivable be worth a quirt of piss -- and many that could not -- will be funded by VC and PE. There's no need for a penny of taxpayer money to go into any of this.

Sorry, but no. VCs fund something that will make money for them. Most government research is on the more basic side, and is not expected to make money, but may well provide the foundation needed for someone else to make money.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 02:54 PM (xCA6C)

133 *points and laughs*

(ImD0v)

Go back to Der Sturm unt Drang ja?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 02:54 PM (x/V3P)

134 108 Curley was before Shemp, at least in the movies. Shemp replaced him when he died. Coincidentally, Curley had previously replaced Shemp in their stage act when Shemp tried to strike out on his own.
Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)

Curly replaced Shemp when the latter went off on his own. Shemp returned after Curley had medical issues. There is one short which features both of them (Curley returned to play a heavy in one that featured Shemp as one of the Stooges.)

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 02:54 PM (VSht7)

135 So, the Stormfront crew has a representative here now

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 02:54 PM (ehZkr)

136 Oh right it was a prep school.

Posted by: steevy at April 15, 2025 02:55 PM (KQk9m)

137 WTF are we paying for Cultural Marxism Seminaries?

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2025 02:55 PM (ypFCm)

138 Trump has pushed to reshape top universities by threatening to withhold federal funds that are mostly designated for research.

How they lie.

Didn't we have this discussion here a while ago, that 60% or more of "research grants" went to "overhead?"

So it's "mostly designated for DEI bullshit."

Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2025 02:55 PM (Al73L)

139
Former President Barack Obama says Harvard University has "set an example" for how colleges should respond to President Trump's demands for change -- even at the risk of losing billions in federal funding.

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"Let's you and him fight."

Cheap worthless grandstanding. Obama has nothing at risk. Harvard has a great deal at risk. He's done this crap for his entire career.

It's like getting written advice from an auto-signature machine.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 15, 2025 02:55 PM (QwK6F)

140 Sorry, but no. VCs fund something that will make money for them. Most government research is on the more basic side, and is not expected to make money, but may well provide the foundation needed for someone else to make money.
Posted by: Archimedes

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Most real innovations come from the private sector, they don't come from government grants to Ivy League colleges.

Posted by: Leupold at April 15, 2025 02:55 PM (4pwAx)

141 There is one short which features both of them (Curley returned to play a heavy in one that featured Shemp as one of the Stooges.)
Posted by: tankdemon

Wow, I did not know that. Title?

Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

142 It's all money laundering. Liberal money laundering.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:56 PM (tjClK)

143 Why the actual F*** we're giving a university 2 billion dollars in the first place?

I guess we should ask the judicial branch, they're the ones in charge of running the country.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 15, 2025 02:56 PM (ERYKL)

144 Shemp, Moe and Larry find Curly sleeping under a hat on a train ride in one clip.

Posted by: DaveA at April 15, 2025 02:56 PM (FhXTo)

145 Obergruppenfurher Boomer, what are you doing? I told you not to bring the AMC pacer to the Skokie rally!!!! Dumkopf!!

Posted by: Glorious leader at April 15, 2025 02:57 PM (qlIEW)

146
This is for Ace, but the whole board should think about this. It's not natural to be this beholden to a group of people who, by any measure, are small in number and not representative of historic America.
Posted by: The Eternal Boomer at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (ImD0v)

Because threatening, beating, refusing access to one group because of their ethnicity can translate to doing that to any group the most vocal, hate-filled misanthropes (Democrats, but I repeat myself) decide must be othered. Stop it now with Jews or it gets worse and worse for everyone.

Posted by: Moki at April 15, 2025 02:57 PM (wLjpr)

147 Why are they getting 2 billion in funding again? Do they not charge tuition? WTF is going on here?
Posted by: A dude in M

For the thousandth time - research grants.

The feds offer money to colleges to do research that the feds want done because it's more efficient than having federal laboratories for all this stuff.

But the feds have too much money, so they also offer grants for researching stupid stuff that no one needs to research.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 15, 2025 02:57 PM (hB7mE)

148
They're not government funds.
They're not federal funds.
They're taxpayer funds.

Posted by: Battles always begin with language at April 15, 2025 02:57 PM (9Ls9M)

149 Harvard Refuses All of Trump's Demanded Reforms; Trump Freezes $2 Billion in Funding for the Antisemitic University and Seeks to Undo Its Status as a Tax-Exempt Charity

Remember when the left complained about the rich getting richer? Taking away Harvard's federal money and bullshit tax exemptions is a great way to reduce that...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 02:57 PM (t0Rmr)

150 So Commie Bastard Obama opens his peihole yet again…we probably have decades of his meddling to loook forward to….

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2025 02:58 PM (PCK5/)

151 David Hogg would have made a good cabin boy for Captain Ned

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 15, 2025 02:58 PM (6TePA)

152 It isn't be accident that all of these elite universities became breeding ground of anti-semitism and pro-Hamas overnight. Just like the Obama administration. Just like the Biden administration.
Posted by: JackStraw
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The US, through taxes plus money borrowed from China, has funded a massive, mostly ignorant, Aristocracy. What a huge waste of money.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2025 02:58 PM (Dv3i1)

153 Wtf "research" is Harvard doing for $2 billion -- with a "b" -- a year??????????

Are they building an interstellar colony ship?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (iFTx/)

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Well, at least 35% was going directly to the university for "administrative" costs.

That's at least $600 million to fund...what? That's a lot of salaries.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
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I'll bet any amount of money -- my own money -- that these grants are really just another USAID-like handout to commies and America-haters.

Just like with USAID, taxpayer money gets funneled to an ostensibly legit agency or organization (Harvard in this case), and from there the money gets (1) stolen by corrupt Harvard scumbags and (2) shuffled around back and forth to various corrupt scumbag "charities" and NGOs who (i) steal a nice chunk of the money and (ii) distribute the rest to hard-left and commie causes.

Any takers on this action?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

154 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
Congratulations to Harvard for refusing to relinquish its constitutional rights to Trump’s authoritarianism.

Other universities should follow their lead.

And instead of doing pro bono work for Trump, cowardly law firms should be defending those who believe in the rule of law.
2:10 PM · Apr 14, 2025
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University News | 4.14.2025

Harvard Magazine, 'Reinforcing Harvard’s Finances'
The University heads back to the bond market.
by John S. Rosenberg

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One way or the other...🎵

Posted by: L - No nic, adores Musk and Miller at April 15, 2025 03:00 PM (NFX2v)

155 But the feds have too much money, so they also offer grants for researching stupid stuff that no one needs to research.
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Research on Lasers >>>>>> Research on dietary habits of lesbians

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2025 03:00 PM (Dv3i1)

156 I'll bet any amount of money -- my own money -- that these grants are really just another USAID-like handout to commies and America-haters.

You need to stop painting with such a broad brush. Sure, there's lots of woke nonsense, but there is lots of top-tier research coming out of Harvard and the like.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:00 PM (xCA6C)

157 Harvard University on Monday announced that it will not comply with demands from the Trump administration, even as the administration threatens to withhold federal funding.
...

Did they write the statement themselves or did some high-ranking black employee plagiarize it from somewhere else?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:00 PM (bk+Z+)

158 Our tax dollars at work…

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2025 03:00 PM (PCK5/)

159 156 You need to stop painting with such a broad brush. Sure, there's lots of woke nonsense, but there is lots of top-tier research coming out of Harvard and the like.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:00 PM (xCA6C)

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Remember the outroar when the Trump administration announced a max of 15% of grants going to administrative costs?

I suspect the skimming off the top is...really bad and really common.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

160 The university system, as it's currently administered, is a malignant cancer infecting the country. There are no means too extreme to excise this threat.

IMHFO

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 15, 2025 03:01 PM (U4hpE)

161 Has Harvard produced a paper yet on the literary brilliance of Vogon poetry?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 03:01 PM (x/V3P)

162 Which is more? The tax exemption or the federal grants? Or is it the principle of the thing that matters most?

I'm just kidding about that last part.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 15, 2025 03:01 PM (wBaIH)

163 Harvard University on Monday announced that it will not comply with demands from the Trump administration, even as the administration threatens to withhold federal funding.

I'm really not sure how they think they're going to win this battle. Trump can cut their funding and it won't affect the vast majority of people a whit, but it will devastate Harvard.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:01 PM (xCA6C)

164 They took that $2 Billion from someone who earned it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 15, 2025 03:02 PM (d7ais)

165 Well, at least 35% was going directly to the university for "administrative" costs.

Who then funds various "programs" which have their own "administrative" costs.

Posted by: t-bird at April 15, 2025 03:02 PM (4Nep/)

166 So Commie Bastard Obama opens his peihole yet again…we probably have decades of his meddling to loook forward to….
Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2025
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Not decades. He's probably smoking two packs a day.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 15, 2025 03:02 PM (Dm8we)

167 164 They took that $2 Billion from someone who earned it.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 15, 2025 03:02 PM (d7ais)

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A large chunk was just borrowed from the Treasury.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

168 You need to stop painting with such a broad brush. Sure, there's lots of woke nonsense, but there is lots of top-tier research coming out of Harvard and the like.
Posted by: Archimedes

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+1

Seems like industries would pay for that sort of thing.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:02 PM (bk+Z+)

169 Has Harvard produced a paper yet on the literary brilliance of Vogon poetry?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 03:01 PM (x/V3P)

They haven't found a source to plagiarize - yet.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2025 03:02 PM (VNX3d)

170 Has Harvard produced a paper yet on the literary brilliance of Vogon poetry?

Don't be silly. It's well known that Vogons are anti-trans.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:02 PM (xCA6C)

171 I'll bet any amount of money -- my own money -- that these grants are really just another USAID-like handout to commies and America-haters.

You need to stop painting with such a broad brush. Sure, there's lots of woke nonsense, but there is lots of top-tier research coming out of Harvard and the like.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:00 PM (xCA6C)
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Like what? What are we getting for billions of dollars a year? Serious question. And the more important question is why isn't the private sector funding this research? Why am I -- and you, and everyone else here -- funding it? We take all the risks but get none of the rewards.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

172 I've worked in university contracts. There's all kind of verbiage about complying with federal law, and the penalties if you don't.

They also say the govt can emend whenever it wants to.

Posted by: Ette from Tex at April 15, 2025 03:03 PM (SNf74)

173
Other universities should follow their lead.

And instead of doing pro bono work for Trump, cowardly law firms should be defending those who believe in the rule of law.
2:10 PM · Apr 14, 2025

What law says the federal government has to give money to libtard shithole universities? Does that law also state the money can't be revoked at any time? I mean, Jew bashing tends to be unlawful when violence is involved.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 03:03 PM (tjClK)

174 Harvard, and every university, owes to their values, principles and mission the obligation to hold the line and refuse to give in to Trump's extortion. They've been teaching for more than a century that these are the basic principles that underlie their education and their philosophy. If they give in to appease an autocrat, then they have succumbed to greed and are nothing but weak-kneed hypocrites.

Columbia could very easily have filed suit and got an injunction to prevent Trump from stripping it of Federal funds on First Amendment grounds. Trump is so far out on a limb with this there is no cogent defense they can present.

I don't think "cogent defense" is their concern, as much as having the Judiciary stacked in their favor. I wouldn’t say the current SCOTUS lineup is known for reasoned arguments.

Good, tell the Feds that they can keep all their $$$. That is what Hillsdale College did in the 80's. Sometimes principle is way more important than money.

Oh, fuck YEAH, Harvard! A thousand thanks for this crucial, way-overdue response to trump and his thugs! Let's see more of this principled courage from our educational establishment!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 15, 2025 03:03 PM (XtGhS)

175 The US, through taxes plus money borrowed from China, has funded a massive, mostly ignorant, Aristocracy. What a huge waste of money.

Almost $40T in debt to get trannies, jihadis and racial discrimination against white people.

TBH this is why we need to formally just take all the wealth the Oligarchs, their clerisy and the Deep State have squirreled away.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:03 PM (t0Rmr)

176 All of this just funding eventually finds its way into elections. I'd love to see how many of these people working on these research projects are involved in political campaigns.

There really is no funding system like this on the Right, even big corporations no longer will fund anything remotely conservative.

Posted by: Leupold at April 15, 2025 03:03 PM (4pwAx)

177 I'm not a fan of really any public education, but just think what that much money would do for a state's K-12 system instead of going to a bunch of elites at Harvard.
Posted by: Leupold

Ruin it more thoroughly than it's already been ruined by overfunding?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 15, 2025 03:03 PM (hB7mE)

178 Seems like industries would pay for that sort of thing.

Some used to; think Bell Labs. But most businesses can't afford to fund basic research. The costs are borne entirely by the business, but the benefits are diffuse.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:03 PM (xCA6C)

179 125 My field is barren.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (W2Pud)

Do I need to send you the jar back? There are still a few left in it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (tjClK)

Nah. You keep it. I can always borrow one if need be.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (W2Pud)

180 174 Harvard, and every university, owes to their values, principles and mission the obligation to hold the line and refuse to give in to Trump's extortion. They've been teaching for more than a century that these are the basic principles that underlie their education and their philosophy. If they give in to appease an autocrat, then they have succumbed to greed and are nothing but weak-kneed hypocrites.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions b

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Is Trump the first president to use federal funds to "extort" actions upon private entities?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

181 Addendum:

That was sarcasm and I suspect the Pareto principle is well in effect, with only 20% of the research anywhere near "top tier", and likely similar to things happening at state schools around the nation, and all the rest money laundering and job creation because Hahvad

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (bk+Z+)

182
Good, tell the Feds that they can keep all their $$$. That is what Hillsdale College did in the 80's. Sometimes principle is way more important than money.

What ? A rational thought from the DU ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (VE6XX)

183 >>>Feeling 100% better today.
Posted by Ace at 12:24 PM

YAY!

Posted by: m at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (CQE5S)

184 stop painting with such a broad brush.

Just because they're second to the MIC in fungibilling doesn't make them not crooked.

Posted by: DaveA at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (FhXTo)

185 FedGov funds research throughout higher education as well as the putative private sector. Perhaps to some extent the taxpayers are subsidizing what should be private sector research in order to give US business an edge over other countries. It's sort of like the military providing "free" protection of Exxon's foreign interests.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (MMp6W)

186 174 Columbia could very easily have filed suit and got an injunction to prevent Trump from stripping it of Federal funds on First Amendment grounds. Trump is so far out on a limb with this there is no cogent defense they can present.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 15, 2025 03:03 PM (XtGhS)

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Weird that their Journalism school wasn't full of experts who could have crafted such a response.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

187 It's a bunch of white papers to employ woke layabouts that couldn't get hired anywhere else.
Posted by: Leupold at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (4pwAx)

Yup...a friend of mine has a "genius" son who has been to every college for almost everything including Oxford and is now in law school to become a lawyer like his mom. Almost 40 and has never worked a real job in his life but he's a "genius".
Big lefty who thinks everyone is rayciss. Hopefully he is sterile.

Posted by: Watching The Wheels Go Round and Round at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (cnVbw)

188 "Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions -- rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect," Obama wrote on the social media platform X.
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Ah. You see, there we have it. Obama's perspective is that the passive activity of refusing to fund his alma mater is by his standard 'stifling'.

An objective example of entitlement mentality.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (XeU6L)

189 You need to stop painting with such a broad brush. Sure, there's lots of woke nonsense, but there is lots of top-tier research coming out of Harvard and the like.

Yeah but both can be true at the same time. There can be tremendous graft and misuse of funds that also manages to produce something useful and valuable. I'm hard pressed to come up with any at the moment, but I am sure it can happen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (ehZkr)

190 points and laughs*

(ImD0v)

Well, he's no Dov Fischer ( rabbi who writes for the American Spectator ) . That's for sure

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (42Vb+)

191 Harvard University on Monday announced that it will not comply with demands from the Trump administration, even as the administration threatens to withhold federal funding.

I'm really not sure how they think they're going to win this battle. Trump can cut their funding and it won't affect the vast majority of people a whit, but it will devastate Harvard.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:01 PM (xCA6C)
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[Riotous laughter]

-- Hawaiian Judges

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (iFTx/)

192 He's probably smoking two packs a day. More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (QSrLX)

193 Good, tell the Feds that they can keep all their $$$. That is what Hillsdale College did in the 80's. Sometimes principle is way more important than money.
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Your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (Dv3i1)

194
You People do know what this is ALL about, yes?
What this is all building to, yes?

All this DOGE stuff and exposing and ending funding is to make sure RINO's can't say "we can't afford tax cuts" next month.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (fRB6z)

195 The university system, as it's currently administered, is a malignant cancer infecting the country. There are no means too extreme to excise this threat.

IMHFO
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 15, 2025 03:01 PM

I would subscribe to this

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (ypFCm)

196 >> Wasn't Harvard founded as a Christian seminary?

Major universities founded by Christian’s and ostensibly, or perhaps arguably committed to promoting those values through education spend more time nowadays distancing themselves from those tenets. It’s why they’ve all become subversive, left wing paper mills. They lack a soul and a truthful, identifiable purpose.

Harvard has on its crest “veritas” that is in Latin, “truth” which is a fundamental Christian value promoted by the Brothers who established our entire education system. The search for truth and the journey of enlightenment is essential to learning. Yet none of that or hardly any of that is found within most universities today. They’ve become something else, which is disposable, unenlightening and useless. I don’t know why anyone would want their child to be part of that.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (za++S)

197 Has Harvard produced a paper yet on the literary brilliance of Vogon poetry?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 15, 2025 03:01 PM (x/V3P)

I think they've thrown in the towel on that one.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (U4hpE)

198
Like what? What are we getting for billions of dollars a year? Serious question. And the more important question is why isn't the private sector funding this research? Why am I -- and you, and everyone else here -- funding it? We take all the risks but get none of the rewards.
Posted by: Elric Blade

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How dare you speak about Hahvad that way!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (bk+Z+)

199 141 There is one short which features both of them (Curley returned to play a heavy in one that featured Shemp as one of the Stooges.)
Posted by: tankdemon

Wow, I did not know that. Title?

- The short is called 'Hold that Lion', and the clip (just a cameo on Curly's part) is on ewe-tube or wherever you find your videos..

Posted by: dev2000man at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (vjSNN)

200 Like what? What are we getting for billions of dollars a year? Serious question. And the more important question is why isn't the private sector funding this research? Why am I -- and you, and everyone else here -- funding it? We take all the risks but get none of the rewards.

See my #178. The benefits are diffuse, but they can be very real. Much of the cutting edge medical research, biochemistry, and materials science comes from places like Harvard.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (xCA6C)

201 Free College for All!

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 03:06 PM (kgjcL)

202 I'm overjoyed that Harvard refused! I don't want to be giving any money to them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2025 03:06 PM (uWKK8)

203 The feds offer money to colleges to do research that the feds want done because it's more efficient than having federal laboratories for all this stuff.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 15, 2025 02:57 PM (hB7mE)
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Not just being pedantic here, but this unintentionally reverses the real process. The federal government does initiate SOME research (like DARPA does) but the vast majority of university research starts in the reverse fashion.

Professors want to do research, so they apply for grants. Universities support these applications with an entire "eco-system" of sorts: grant-writing staff, lobbying, relationship cultivation with federal grant authorities etc.

Universities do this because the grants professors attract include overhead funds for universities, so the university does not care what the substance of the research might be, only that the professor is adept at attracting grants.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 15, 2025 03:06 PM (CI6lS)

204 154 I love the way Bernie sputters out the word oligarchy. Someday he may take the time to look up what it means.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 15, 2025 03:06 PM (wBaIH)

205
btw, how stupid were the Democrats & RINO's in 2017 for demanding the Trump Tax Cuts be temporary because "we couldn't afford it?"

Now they've given President Trump the opportunity to Cut Taxes TWICE!

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (fRB6z)

206 Yeah but both can be true at the same time. There can be tremendous graft and misuse of funds that also manages to produce something useful and valuable.

No argument. I'm not opposed to holding Harvard accountable and making it more cost-effective, but it's silly to say they produce nothing of value.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (xCA6C)

207
My list of demands and manifesto for federal funding are well known to the Federal government. Not paying up helps America.

You wouldn't want that, would you?

Posted by: Auspex at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (j4U/Z)

208 204 154 I love the way Bernie sputters out the word oligarchy. Someday he may take the time to look up what it means.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 15, 2025 03:06 PM (wBaIH)

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It means anyone with money who's to the right of Che.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

209 All of this just funding eventually finds its way into elections. I'd love to see how many of these people working on these research projects are involved in political campaigns.

Yep, pay some hack a serious salary to be a federal/NGO/college bureaucrat with little actual work and plenty of free time on Zer's hands, and Zer will use that to go campaign for Democrats who will then give Zer more money.

Its a sick, corrupt, self-reinforcing system.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (t0Rmr)

210 179 125 My field is barren.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2025 02:51 PM (W2Pud)

Do I need to send you the jar back? There are still a few left in it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 15, 2025 02:52 PM (tjClK)

Nah. You keep it. I can always borrow one if need be.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (W2Pud)
______

uhm...nevermind.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (Dv3i1)

211 Wasn't Harvard founded as a Christian seminary?

Sure, most of the really big and old colleges and universities in the USA were founded as Christian organizations. Princetown started as a seminary in one building, and ended up producing like 80% of the great leaders of the first century of US existence. Then they went corrupt and evil.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (ehZkr)

212 Our endowments total hundreds of billions of dollars.

* points middle finger towards Trump

Posted by: Harvard at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (/U5Yz)

213 Man, I hope Hahvad can find some innovative medical innovation like how to charge $1200 for a unit of blood that people donate for free

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (bk+Z+)

214 141 There is one short which features both of them (Curley returned to play a heavy in one that featured Shemp as one of the Stooges.)
Posted by: tankdemon

Wow, I did not know that. Title?
Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

Now you're expecting actual knowledge of stuff....

Okay, Curly wasn't a heavy, just a hapless bystander. The episode is Hold That Lion. (Curly appears 8:42 into the episode.)
http://tiny.cc/b7og001

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 03:08 PM (VSht7)

215 185 FedGov funds research throughout higher education as well as the putative private sector. Perhaps to some extent the taxpayers are subsidizing what should be private sector research in order to give US business an edge over other countries. It's sort of like the military providing "free" protection of Exxon's foreign interests.
Posted by: Oglebay at April 15, 2025 03:04 PM (MMp6W)

There hasn't been a single piece of worthwhile "research" done at any major university in the US for 30 years, at least. It's all just different versions of trying to understand how their own farts smell.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2025 03:08 PM (uWKK8)

216 Babylon Bee picture would be funnier if the rowers were sitting on/in the Unterseeboot instead of the shell.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 15, 2025 03:08 PM (w9Wax)

217 How do you deal with antisemitism in a cooperative manner? Is there an acceptable amount of antisemitism? Help me out here.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 15, 2025 03:08 PM (kTd/k)

218
All This, All of It, has been about the upcoming Tax Cuts.

The DOGE, the Tariffs, everything. It's all for getting the biggest Tax Cuts in history passed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:08 PM (fRB6z)

219 All of this just funding eventually finds its way into elections. I'd love to see how many of these people working on these research projects are involved in political campaigns
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Burn it down. It's completely corrupt. Start over. Zero reason tax money needs to go to private university. If you are getting 2 billion tax dollars you ain't private.

Our country is a giant bust out operation. He stops billions in bullshit funding, be prepared for more negative inflation.

Posted by: Glorious leader at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (qlIEW)

220 Harvard sets on billions upon billions in endowments, yes?? And yet, we meaning you and I pile more money into their coffers. Ridiculous AND obscene.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (PCK5/)

221 a group of people who, by any measure, are small in number and not representative of historic America.
Posted by: The Eternal Boomer

There was a Jewish fur trader at Fort Michilimackinac at the time of Pontiac's Rebellion.

Jewish financier Haym Solomon helped finance the American Revolution.

Uriah P. Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the US Navy, bought and restored Monticello.

Judah P. Benjamin was a prominent figure in the government of the Confederacy.

To say nothing of all the Jewish musicians, composers, actors, and film directors that have enriched our culture.

I could go on and on.

They have been a large part of "historic America."

Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (77rzZ)

222 See my #178. The benefits are diffuse, but they can be very real. Much of the cutting edge medical research, biochemistry, and materials science comes from places like Harvard.

I don't think there is any serious arguments that whatever benefits are coming out are dwarfed by the negative outcomes, less alone the massive costs.

The average American would be better off if we just immediately shuttered every Ivy League college and sold off their assets.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (t0Rmr)

223 Like what? What are we getting for billions of dollars a year? Serious question. And the more important question is why isn't the private sector funding this research? Why am I -- and you, and everyone else here -- funding it? We take all the risks but get none of the rewards.

See my #178. The benefits are diffuse, but they can be very real. Much of the cutting edge medical research, biochemistry, and materials science comes from places like Harvard.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:05 PM (xCA6C)
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Examples? I'm very skeptical of your claim, but let's assume for sake of argument you are correct that this is very important stuff. Stuff that potentially can make private companies billions of dollars. Great! Let private funding fund it then. There's no reason whatsoever that taxpayers should fund it, so someone else can be made rich.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

224 >>The US, through taxes plus money borrowed from China, has funded a massive, mostly ignorant, Aristocracy. What a huge waste of money.

Benz recently dropped a video of how groups like USAID, Soros and a few other leftist money laundering groups were running an international "justice" program to shape the laws and courts overseas. That how we get so many populist candidates subject to lawfare not just here in the US but around the world. Same playbook because it was taught by the same people.

This is a big reason leftists were always so arrogant about their idiotic policies. The game has been rigged against us for a long time by our "elites".

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (LkLld)

225 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 15, 2025 02:40 PM (k1E2D)
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Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.

Posted by: Ben Kenobi at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (N7FRo)

226 This is from November 2023.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (d7ais)

227 Hillsdale doesn’t take any government money, and don’t allow their students to have any kind of government backed loans. That came as a result of the government demanding all the metrics on their students of color, sex, socioeconomic status. They saw what was coming and didn’t want anything but merit based students.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2025 03:10 PM (AaBk+)

228 I am fine with tax cuts but honestly of all the things congress could do maybe it should be down the list a bit more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:10 PM (ehZkr)

229 Yes a lot of private billion dollar biomedicine patents are bought with public tax dollars.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 15, 2025 03:10 PM (wBaIH)

230 They have been a large part of "historic America."
Posted by: Bulg

*scribbles furiously*

Posted by: Adam Sandler at April 15, 2025 03:10 PM (w9Wax)

231 209 All of this just funding eventually finds its way into elections. I'd love to see how many of these people working on these research projects are involved in political campaigns.

Yep, pay some hack a serious salary to be a federal/NGO/college bureaucrat with little actual work and plenty of free time on Zer's hands, and Zer will use that to go campaign for Democrats who will then give Zer more money.

Its a sick, corrupt, self-reinforcing system.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:07 PM (t0Rmr)

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Hogg's antigun NGO saw its fundraising completely vanish after USAID cut him off.

That NGO funded "outreach" and "messaging" that was supposed to be separate from party politics, but since the whole system was designed to help Democrats, it surely wasn't actually separate. That's millions and millions of dollars used to create an ecosystem, hitched to the hip with the Democrat Party, constantly pushing out an anti-Republican message, funded by the federal government.

And that's just one NGO.

The whole ecosystem created by that NGO structure has warped politics across the Western World that it calls into question everything we know about how government functions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

232 There hasn't been a single piece of worthwhile "research" done at any major university in the US for 30 years, at least. It's all just different versions of trying to understand how their own farts smell.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2025 03:08 PM (uWKK

We learned how to turn bat viruses into virulent strains of material that is infectious toward humans.

But that has admittedly had some pros and cons to it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2025 03:11 PM (dGCAG)

233
Harvard should stop with the whining.

Their endowment is YUGE. They can pay for everything easily with it, and-

then have all the independence to be creepy bigots that they want.

Now, away with you, Ivytards. We don't need to pay for your Right to Be Asshoe.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 15, 2025 03:11 PM (iJfKG)

234 226 This is from November 2023.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (d7ais)

The TOP photo is from Nov 3, 2023; the text mentions "Harvard President Claudine Gay" (no longer Harvard President).

Posted by: m at April 15, 2025 03:11 PM (CQE5S)

235 218
All This, All of It, has been about the upcoming Tax Cuts.

The DOGE, the Tariffs, everything. It's all for getting the biggest Tax Cuts in history passed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:08 PM (fRB6z)

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More about the rescission bills Congress will be able to pass with bare majorities in the Senate once a budget is passed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

236 Let private funding fund it then. There's no reason whatsoever that taxpayers should fund it, so someone else can be made rich.
Posted by: Elric Blade

If it's something that someone has decided is in the general interest, then not letting a single company have a complete lock on it is probably the benefit of doing it with public funding.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 15, 2025 03:11 PM (hB7mE)

237 A new JL Partners poll has Trump's approval at 54%.

https://tinyurl.com/3r9k7jkc

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 15, 2025 03:11 PM (paSBy)

238 I'm sure the communists are shrieking their cunty little faces off about this.

News flash, faggots: nobody in real America would give a damn if Trump ordered the Navy to shell Harvard into nothing more than a series of craters.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2025 03:12 PM (BI5O2)

239 Examples? I'm very skeptical of your claim, but let's assume for sake of argument you are correct that this is very important stuff. Stuff that potentially can make private companies billions of dollars. Great! Let private funding fund it then. There's no reason whatsoever that taxpayers should fund it, so someone else can be made rich.

I've already addressed this. Private funding is great for something that's getting close to commercialization, but no VC will touch basic research - for a reason. You can argue that the taxpayer isn't getting his money's worth, but you can't realistically say that VCs will pick up the slack if government stops funding basic research.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:12 PM (xCA6C)

240
Tax Cuts MUST be the priority.

Tax Cuts = less govt power & less influence & less vote buying.

Tax Cuts pull the rug out from under politicians and give that power back to The People.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:12 PM (fRB6z)

241 Jews have always been small in number but oversized in terms of contribution and importance to world history. My brother fought the makers of Civilization for a year trying to get them to include Israelites as one of the ancient cultures you could start as, to no avail. I mean, we're not Jewish but it does not take a very deep dive to see how significant that ethnic background has been.

Just look at the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes over the years. Same ethnic stock as Arabs (Abrahamic) but there's been like one Arab ever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:12 PM (ehZkr)

242 Examples? I'm very skeptical of your claim, but let's assume for sake of argument you are correct that this is very important stuff. Stuff that potentially can make private companies billions of dollars. Great! Let private funding fund it then. There's no reason whatsoever that taxpayers should fund it, so someone else can be made rich.

CRISPR research and development are funded through a mix of public and private sources. The discovery stage of CRISPR, from understanding it as a biological phenomenon to its use as a gene-editing tool, was largely funded by American universities with public funding from agencies like the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:14 PM (xCA6C)

243 Haarvard had more money than 1/2 the countries on the planet I bet

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2025 03:14 PM (ypFCm)

244 Just look at the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes over the years. Same ethnic stock as Arabs (Abrahamic) but there's been like one Arab ever.

I suspect there is a pretty strong separation between Jews and Arabs - while the Arabs conquered Israel and ruled it for a long time, it was never a particularly important region for them to colonize like Egypt or Syria, so I suspect the intermarriage rates were low.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:14 PM (t0Rmr)

245 Tax Cuts = less govt power & less influence & less vote buying.

We have a thirty something trillion dollar debt because they don't bother worrying about tax revenues when it comes to spending.

The real way to cut power and influence is to cut spending, as in codify the cuts DOGE has suggested. Make Trump's work permanent, and then you'll see the changes you want.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:14 PM (ehZkr)

246
LOL

"Women astronauts match Chimpanzee feat"

https://is.gd/c5QPlt

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:15 PM (fRB6z)

247 Let private funding fund it then. There's no reason whatsoever that taxpayers should fund it, so someone else can be made rich.
Posted by: Elric Blade

If it's something that someone has decided is in the general interest, then not letting a single company have a complete lock on it is probably the benefit of doing it with public funding.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 15, 2025 03:11 PM (hB7mE)
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It will all eventually be controlled by one or a few companies. Any patents or research will eventually be sold to a private company. So ultimate control will be no different than if the private companies funded it themselves. Taxpayers pay, but someone else makes all the money from it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

248 Lets just say that Ishmael and Esau didn't get the blessings that Jacob and Isaac did.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:15 PM (ehZkr)

249 >>They have been a large part of "historic America."

Newport, RI was a very important port in the colonies before the Revolution. There were a large number of Jewish ship owners and merchants that started arriving in the 1600s and the first synagogue in the US was established in Newport. Truro Synagogue. Still there.

George Washington even wrote a letter to the Jewish community of Newport promising them freedom from religious persecution.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2025 03:15 PM (LkLld)

250 Antisemitism does have a positive side. The US would not have been the first country with nuclear weaponry without it.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 15, 2025 03:16 PM (MMp6W)

251 CRISPR research and development are funded through a mix of public and private sources. The discovery stage of CRISPR, from understanding it as a biological phenomenon to its use as a gene-editing tool, was largely funded by American universities with public funding from agencies like the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

So can you give a rough estimate of how much value this has given America compared to the costs of COVID, the clot shot, and the lockdowns? And this should include the election of Joe Biden, Bidenflation, and Bidenspending

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:16 PM (t0Rmr)

252 You need to stop painting with such a broad brush. Sure, there's lots of woke nonsense, but there is lots of top-tier research coming out of Harvard and the like.
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No disagreement re research, but...that is a deflection.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2025 03:16 PM (XeU6L)

253 Why are they getting 2 billion in funding again? Do they not charge tuition? WTF is going on here?
Posted by: A dude in MI at April 15, 2025 02:29 PM (/6GbT)

This reminds me of the story a few weeks ago where all of Australia's universities were going to go bankrupt due to the cancellation of USAID money. The media reported it as a "look what Bad Orange Fascist is doing!" story. And then abruptly buried it when they realized that even LIVs would like to know why they're paying for universities in a completely other country.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 15, 2025 03:16 PM (2ocoG)

254 See my #178. The benefits are diffuse, but they can be very real. Much of the cutting edge medical research, biochemistry, and materials science comes from places like Harvard.

I don't think there is any serious arguments that whatever benefits are coming out are dwarfed by the negative outcomes, less alone the massive costs.

The average American would be better off if we just immediately shuttered every Ivy League college and sold off their assets.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:09 PM (t0Rmr)

We're pretty good at making dick pills and fat injections.

So we got that going for us.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2025 03:16 PM (dGCAG)

255 Public vs Private has been pretty well muddied in our America….

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2025 03:16 PM (PCK5/)

256 Harvard should stop with the whining.

Their endowment is YUGE. They can pay for everything easily with it, and-

then have all the independence to be creepy bigots that they want.

Now, away with you, Ivytards. We don't need to pay for your Right to Be Asshoe.
Posted by: naturalfake

Rule #1 for all the slow people and the people in the back:

Federal money ALWAYS comes with strings attached.

ALWAYS.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2025 03:16 PM (s8sOe)

257
Disclaimer: First, I need to point out I hate fucking chimps.

Yeah, it's true, 65 years ago, chimps did what these "historic women" did.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:17 PM (fRB6z)

258 Sorry, wrong link to the Three Stooges "Hold That Lion"

Here is the proper one. Curly shows up at 8:42.

http://tiny.cc/o8og001

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 03:18 PM (VSht7)

259 This is for Ace, but the whole board should think about this. It's not natural to be this beholden to a group of people who, by any measure, are small in number and not representative of historic America.

I mean, divorced from whatever agendas people have, paying students at a university deserve not to be attacked by smelly hippies.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 15, 2025 03:18 PM (2ocoG)

260 Examples? I'm very skeptical of your claim, but let's assume for sake of argument you are correct that this is very important stuff. Stuff that potentially can make private companies billions of dollars. Great! Let private funding fund it then. There's no reason whatsoever that taxpayers should fund it, so someone else can be made rich.

Much of the founding work on high purity wide bandgap semiconductors like GaN and SiC was done at federal labs and universities.

Gallium nitride (GaN) is used in a wide range of applications, primarily due to its unique semiconductor properties. It's a key material in light-emitting diodes (LEDs), particularly for blue, green, and UV light production. Additionally, GaN is crucial in power electronics, including high-power transistors and RF components. It's also finding increasing use in optics and related fields, like lasers and photonics

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:18 PM (xCA6C)

261 I've already addressed this. Private funding is great for something that's getting close to commercialization, but no VC will touch basic research - for a reason. You can argue that the taxpayer isn't getting his money's worth, but you can't realistically say that VCs will pick up the slack if government stops funding basic research
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Wrong. Cut it to zero. Then you can come to us on a project by project basis for funding of hard science. Not social science or gender studies. And the hard science is coming out of MIT not fucking harvard.

Posted by: You are biased on this one at April 15, 2025 03:18 PM (qlIEW)

262 227 Hillsdale doesn’t take any government money, and don’t allow their students to have any kind of government backed loans. That came as a result of the government demanding all the metrics on their students of color, sex, socioeconomic status. They saw what was coming and didn’t want anything but merit based students.
Posted by: Jen the original
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It was the older Grove City College in PA that created the need for stand alone no federal funds status. Grove City won its Scotus case where DoE attempts to control the institution because it accepted federal student aid. Scotus limited DoE authority to only the student aid department. As a result, Grove City and a few others including Hillsdale eschewed government funding altogether.

As a result Congress, led by Teddy Kennedy amended the law to require the whole institution, if they receive one federal dollar, to be obeisant to the Feds. And there was Bob Jones University where the IRS removed its non profit status during the Reagan administration for its policies on black students.

Have friends and former colleagues teaching at both colleges.

Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:18 PM (ctrM5)

263
We sent chimps in "space" that did the same thing as waht Katy Perry did yesterday -- sat there and endured the ride.

Soviets sent dogs in rockets that did more than gayle king did yesterday.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:19 PM (fRB6z)

264 There might be not be an institution I give fewer fvcks about than Harvard.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2025 03:19 PM (RIvkX)

265 You need to stop painting with such a broad brush. Sure, there's lots of woke nonsense, but there is lots of top-tier research coming out of Harvard and the like.
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No disagreement re research, but...that is a deflection.

How so?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:20 PM (xCA6C)

266
We're pretty good at making dick pills and fat injections.

So we got that going for us.

I read lefty boards occasionally and ran across the fact feminists HATE HATE HATE Viagra.

Partly because it is something for men and they hate that in general, but mostly because AWFLs have to deal with husbands they have to keep turning down for sex later in life. And this is seriously the way they frame it - absent Viagra and related drugs Lib Hubby would be done with sex when they were...now he still wants it at least twice a month!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:20 PM (t0Rmr)

267 ‘ Harvard Refuses All of Trump's Demanded Reforms; Trump Freezes $2 Billion in Funding’

He’s going after Harvard like he should be going after lawfare democrats.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid Trump thinks he has too weak a hand for that. Maybe if they really, really piss him off…

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 15, 2025 03:20 PM (jbnUc)

268
Sandy Koufax was Jewish.

On the other hand, there's Hollywood.

Posted by: Auspex at April 15, 2025 03:20 PM (j4U/Z)

269 Those monkeys couldn't put the "ass" in "astronaut."

Posted by: Katy Perry at April 15, 2025 03:21 PM (paSBy)

270 Active shooting at a HS in Dallas, TX.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 15, 2025 03:21 PM (lIio7)

271 51 Now do the Hapsburgs
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 15, 2025 02:37 PM (xG4kz)

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Not even hot, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 02:38 PM (GBKbO)

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Pro boxing tip: Hapsburgs always lead with their chin.

Posted by: mrp at April 15, 2025 03:21 PM (rj6Yv)

272 Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas

Posted by: bonhomme at April 15, 2025 03:22 PM (lIio7)

273 Don't the fat injections come from Denmark?

Posted by: Oglebay at April 15, 2025 03:22 PM (MMp6W)

274 Wrong. Cut it to zero. Then you can come to us on a project by project basis for funding of hard science. Not social science or gender studies.

You mean like DARPA, ONR, DTRA, and NSF?

And the hard science is coming out of MIT not f***ing harvard.

Tell me you have no idea what you're talking about, without telling me you have no idea what you're talking about.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:22 PM (xCA6C)

275 Oh, Harvard is an important part of American culture, eh? So are lots of places I'd wall off and turn into history's most feared open air prisons.

I'm unmoved by institutional defenses of the past they shit on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2025 03:22 PM (BI5O2)

276 Old Lefties: Why are we spending money to go to the Moon when there are hungry people in America?

New Lefties: Thank Gaia we spent billions sending Katy Perry into space to break the Patriarchy! Hungry people? What does that have to do with important things like gender equality?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:22 PM (t0Rmr)

277 Disclaimer: First, I need to point out I hate fucking chimps.

Yeah, it's true, 65 years ago, chimps did what these "historic women" did.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:17 PM (fRB6z)

So...this group of Brave and Stunning Women achieved the Historic First of

Breaking the Chimpanzee Glass Ceiling for Space Travel?

Outstanding!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 15, 2025 03:23 PM (iJfKG)

278 The DOGE, the Tariffs, everything. It's all for getting the biggest Tax Cuts in history passed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:08 PM (fRB6z)

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More about the rescission bills Congress will be able to pass with bare majorities in the Senate once a budget is passed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Both. The existing 2017 tax cuts sunset due to reconciliation limits placed on them in 2017 which would cause a pretty large tax increase after this year in 2026 tax year.

A budget bill has to be passed in order to push through Rescission acts under that 1990's law. And due to the rules adapted at time of passage, these cannot be filibustered in the House as TJM says.

Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:23 PM (ctrM5)

279 We sent chimps in "space" that did the same thing as waht Katy Perry did yesterday -- sat there and endured the ride.

Soviets sent dogs in rockets that did more than gayle king did yesterday.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2025 03:19 PM (fRB6z)
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Yea. But none of chimps or dogs sucked dicks to get their rocket seat. I'll bet any amount of money at least half -- and probably all -- of the women on that flight got their tix the Kamala way.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

280 I've worked with Harvard grads. They are very, very good at networking and hitting up their contacts for funding.

Anything else? Well...they can tell you why Trump is Hitler and that's about it.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:24 PM (t0Rmr)

281 Nothing Harvard produces can possibly outweigh the damage its graduates have done.

Seize it by main force, dismantle it brick by perfidious brick, raffle off its salable physical plant, clap its inhabitants into iron masks, and send them to face the knout.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2025 03:24 PM (BI5O2)

282 I'll bet any amount of money -- my own money -- that these grants are really just another USAID-like handout to commies and America-haters.

Just like with USAID, taxpayer money gets funneled to an ostensibly legit agency or organization (Harvard in this case), and from there the money gets (1) stolen by corrupt Harvard scumbags and (2) shuffled around back and forth to various corrupt scumbag "charities" and NGOs who (i) steal a nice chunk of the money and (ii) distribute the rest to hard-left and commie causes.

Any takers on this action?
Posted by: Elric Blade
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👍

>Deloitte has been a significant recipient of funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the past including international development, energy, and AI implementation in health systems.

>April 11, 2025, Pentagon to end $5.1 billion in contracts with Accenture, Deloitte, others (Reuters) -
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the termination of several information technology services contracts valued at $5.1 billion, including companies such as Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte, according to a Pentagon memo.

Accenture wins its first USAID contract 2023.

Posted by: L - No nic, adores Musk and Miller at April 15, 2025 03:24 PM (NFX2v)

283 278 And due to the rules adapted at time of passage, these cannot be filibustered in the House as TJM says.
Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:23 PM (ctrM5)

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Filibusters can't happen in the House, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

284 How many Ivy leaguers worked on making COVID? How many worked on the clot shot? How many came up with and enforced the mandates?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:25 PM (t0Rmr)

285 I've worked with Harvard grads. They are very, very good at networking and hitting up their contacts for funding.

So have I. Some are good at networking, and some are horrible at it. Most of those I've worked with were very good at science.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:25 PM (xCA6C)

286 Pro boxing tip: Hapsburgs always lead with their chin

Yeah but its such a small target, its not an easy hit

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:25 PM (ehZkr)

287 We sent chimps in "space" that did the same thing as waht Katy Perry did yesterday -- sat there and endured the ride.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Bet the chimps didn't sing, though.

Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

288 This reminds me of the story a few weeks ago where all of Australia's universities were going to go bankrupt due to the cancellation of USAID money. The media reported it as a "look what Bad Orange Fascist is doing!" story. And then abruptly buried it when they realized that even LIVs would like to know why they're paying for universities in a completely other country.
Posted by: Ian S.

Bullshit research paid for by Uncle Sam has created the entire bloviated world of university research and perverted it to study what CIA asshats running AID wanted it to be.

Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:25 PM (ctrM5)

289 We will not surrender our independence but give us Federal tax dollars haters!

Didn't these sacks brag about how much money they get from private donations? It's all good then right?

Posted by: Cheri at April 15, 2025 03:25 PM (oiNtH)

290 OT-

Maybe folks who don't care about "wimmens" in space should stop talking about it .. it's been two days of "I don't care"

And I don't care either but this is the first time I've mentioned them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 15, 2025 03:25 PM (42Vb+)

291 Sandy Koufax was Jewish.

On the other hand, there's Hollywood.
Posted by: Auspex at April 15, 2025 03:20 PM (j4U/Z)

I'm pretty sure he still is.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2025 03:25 PM (dGCAG)

292 >The whole ecosystem created by that NGO structure has warped politics across the Western World that it calls into question everything we know about how government functions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:

What good are university political science departments if nobody published anything about the NGO structures?

Posted by: mr tmz at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (rJ48h)

293 We sent chimps in "space" that did the same thing as waht Katy Perry did yesterday -- sat there and endured the ride.

Possible not EVERYTHING the ladies did. As i mentioned last night, sometimes women have extremely, uh, "pleasurable" reactions to Zero G. It must hit the g-spot, IYKWIM.

https://tinyurl.com/5xfc29p2
You can skip to 3:10 for the best part.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (XtGhS)

294 Tell me you have no idea what you're talking about, without telling me you have no idea what you're talking about.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:22 PM (xCA6C)

Literally nobody believes they're doing any research there that doesn't involve transgender fruit bats. If they actually are doing useful things, maybe they oughta tell people.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (2ocoG)

295
Federal money ALWAYS comes with strings attached.

ALWAYS.
Posted by: rickb223
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And, in ways that one would not imagine. My post-storm experience with FEMA has made that clear.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (XeU6L)

296 Continued:

AI Overview:

iBooz Allen Hamilton has a long-standing relationship with USAID, supporting various projects across diverse areas like economic development, public health, and technology modernization. They've worked on initiatives in Eastern Europe and the Middle East/North Africa, focused on tax reform and other fiscal policies. Additionally, Booz Allen has collaborated with USAID on public health challenges, such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and helped introduce modern technology-based management systems in countries like Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates.

Posted by: L - No nic, adores Musk and Miller at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (NFX2v)

297 Bet Australia Universities are as Leftist as ours are

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (ypFCm)

298 Literally nobody believes they're doing any research there that doesn't involve transgender fruit bats. If they actually are doing useful things, maybe they oughta tell people.

Check the refereed literature.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (xCA6C)

299 I'm sure the communists are shrieking their cunty little faces off about this.

I'm having trouble visualizing a cunty face. The closest I get is Adam Schiff.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 15, 2025 03:27 PM (kTd/k)

300 I read lefty boards occasionally and ran across the fact feminists HATE HATE HATE Viagra.

Partly because it is something for men and they hate that in general, but mostly because AWFLs have to deal with husbands they have to keep turning down for sex later in life. And this is seriously the way they frame it - absent Viagra and related drugs Lib Hubby would be done with sex when they were...now he still wants it at least twice a month!
Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:20 PM (t0Rmr)

Part of me can't wait until I reach nursing home age. I'll be taking my boner pills, and raking in the poon.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2025 03:27 PM (dGCAG)

301 292 What good are university political science departments if nobody published anything about the NGO structures?
Posted by: mr tmz at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (rJ48h)

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It's a good question.

It's driven politics for decades, and is there serious research coming out of poli-sci departments about how these federally funded organizations are operating as a quasi-government to influence the electoral process?

There's got to be...something...right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

302 Space the Final Frontier > Pigs in Space > Pop Tarts in Space

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:27 PM (t0Rmr)

303 To be fair, Jews have done a crapload of damage to the world as well, probably related to the good they do: the same level of cleverness and drive. Its easy to list the Jewish names that have been tremendously destructive like Karl Marx and the many who inexplicably work hard to promote the very people who hate them most these days.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:27 PM (ehZkr)

304 Bet the chimps didn't sing, though.

Did they fling poo?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 15, 2025 03:28 PM (CG+VL)

305 I'm needing some full disclosure up in the piece.

Posted by: Francis at April 15, 2025 03:28 PM (bbuBP)

306 Interesting what finally gets the dogeater to open his big stupid muslim trap.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 03:28 PM (kgjcL)

307 >>>The first gay black president Barack Obama stuck up for the antisemites, of course.

>'Gay' as in 'happy,' or 'gay' as in 'my wife's cock is bigger than mine?'

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 15, 2025 03:28 PM (fY84s)

308 "We can't go back in time and decide to it now!" Kernen said. "You let it go back then. You let it go back then.""

Reminds of the media saying, "yes, in retrospect we went too easy on the Biden administration. But don't worry.. We're going to be much tougher on Trump. "

Yeh, dumb fucks you always go easy on demoncrats and get tough on Republicans.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 15, 2025 03:28 PM (2J/Lj)

309 Can Harvard really do anything they want, if they don't take the Government Money? Do civil rights laws no longer exist for them?

Normally those laws were to protect some racial quota, generally to keep blacks from being locked out. Now it would be for whites and Asians, I suppose. (and for conservatives)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 15, 2025 03:28 PM (Cus5s)

310 Literally nobody believes they're doing any research there that doesn't involve transgender fruit bats.

Yeah and that is the problem. They probably are doing good work in some areas, but they are also putting a lot of money and time into idiotic and even corrosive crap. Its bad publicity, to say the least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:29 PM (ehZkr)

311 Its easy to list the Jewish names that have been tremendously destructive like Karl Marx and the many who inexplicably work hard to promote the very people who hate them most these days.

"Fun" Fact: Marx also wanted to solve "the Jewish problem" and in his letters sounds just like a Hamas-hole.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 15, 2025 03:29 PM (t0Rmr)

312 No one cares about or is in any way impressed by the women not accomplishing anything.

Making fun of it, however, has a LOT of mileage left in it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:29 PM (bk+Z+)

313 Filibusters can't happen in the House, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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As long as the House rules do not allow unlimited debate or amendments (they never do as a rule).

The Senate Rule committee like most Senate committees is not that important. The House Rules Committee runs how each piece of legislation is considered on the floor of the House. They can do as much as the majority on that committee want to do (in past years, the Speaker picked the majority members but nowadays, due to recalls, they have some informal agreements as to representation). During the seg era, a VA Congress critter controlled and bottled up most desegregation legislation because committee chairs were determined by seniority rather than the Speaker.

Forget the guy's name though.

Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

314 What chance does a Georgia Man have to attend Harvard?

Posted by: Mohammad M. Muhammad at April 15, 2025 03:29 PM (G5+As)

315 I'm having trouble visualizing a cunty face. The closest I get is Adam Schiff.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 15, 2025 03:27 PM (kTd/k)

Those guys with the pussy on their faces.

Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 15, 2025 03:29 PM (FZn/N)

316 I suppose no matter how rancid an institution may be, there will always be a contingent on the right who will defend it, because institution.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (BI5O2)

317 313 During the seg era, a VA Congress critter controlled and bottled up most desegregation legislation because committee chairs were determined by seniority rather than the Speaker.

Forget the guy's name though.
Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

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Probably a Todd.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

318 It's not natural to be this beholden to a group of people who, by any measure, are small in number and not representative of historic America.
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Small in number, but have made vastly disproportionate contributions to just about every field of endeavor.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (Dm8we)

319 Its easy to list the Jewish names that have been tremendously destructive like Karl Marx and the many who inexplicably work hard to promote the very people who hate them most these days.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 15, 2025 03:27 PM (ehZkr)

I was gonna say Joy Behar, but then I looked her up.

Nope. She's a Papist.

Who don't have a spotless track record either.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (dGCAG)

320 Wrong. Cut it to zero. Then you can come to us on a project by project basis for funding of hard science. Not social science or gender studies.

You mean like DARPA, (NOT HARVARD), ONR,(NOT HARVARD) DTRA,(NOT HARVARD)and NSF (NOT HARVARD?
I'm sure there are schools that aren't raging woke antisemitic hot beds that will be happy to pick up the slack, and researchers will go where the money is.

Posted by: You are biased on this one at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (qlIEW)

321 Before Trump announced the freeze, how many people knew the federal government was giving Harvard two billion dollars? That’s one institution. Two fucking billion dollars. I don’t care what it’s for, we can’t afford it. We’re 36 trillion in debt, adding nearly 2 trillion a year. Maybe once we get our fiscal house in order we can revisit grants, but right now it needs to go.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (u73oe)

322 . And the hard science is coming out of MIT not fucking harvard.
Posted by: You are biased on this one at

Wait, what? Harvard is a research university.

Posted by: Piper at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (QzINz)

323 cunty face

A Dick Tracy villain.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (CG+VL)

324 Literally nobody believes they're doing any research there that doesn't involve transgender fruit bats.

Yeah and that is the problem. They probably are doing good work in some areas, but they are also putting a lot of money and time into idiotic and even corrosive crap. Its bad publicity, to say the least.

I couldn't agree more.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (xCA6C)

325 301 292 What good are university political science departments if nobody published anything about the NGO structures?
Posted by: mr tmz at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (rJ48h)

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It's a good question.

It's driven politics for decades, and is there serious research coming out of poli-sci departments about how these federally funded organizations are operating as a quasi-government to influence the electoral process?

There's got to be...something...right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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There is. Keyword search term for research are issue networks, the older research before NGO's flowered was termed the iron triangle.

Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:31 PM (ctrM5)

326 "Fun" Fact: Marx also wanted to solve "the Jewish problem" and in his letters sounds just like a Hamas-hole.

Marx also used the N word more than an aspiring indie rapper.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 15, 2025 03:31 PM (2ocoG)

327 Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (u73oe)

What you said

Posted by: It's me donna at April 15, 2025 03:31 PM (VE6XX)

328 OT-

Maybe folks who don't care about "wimmens" in space should stop talking about it .. it's been two days of "I don't care"

And I don't care either but this is the first time I've mentioned them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 15, 2025 03:25 PM (42Vb+)

The women in spandex can't hold a candle to Suni Williams, or even Sally Ride. THEY were astronauts, and earned the title.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 15, 2025 03:31 PM (VNX3d)

329 Wait, what? Harvard is a research university.

Rumor has it.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:31 PM (xCA6C)

330 Wait, what? Harvard is a research university.

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Dang right, it says so right there on their paperwork!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:31 PM (bk+Z+)

331
Barry and Big Mike. Still together.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Still together.

Katy Perry and her monkey. Still together.

Posted by: Auspex at April 15, 2025 03:32 PM (j4U/Z)

332 I wonder if modern Hahvahd figured out that the best way to launder money was to pretend to be a research university.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:33 PM (bk+Z+)

333 "Fun" Fact: Marx also wanted to solve "the Jewish problem" and in his letters sounds just like a Hamas-hole.

Hitler read Marx. Agreed with him completely about the Jews.

Posted by: Bulg at April 15, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)

334 Wait, what? Harvard is a research university.

Well, that's what it says on the letterhead anyway. Sort of like how USAID was supposed to be read as "US AID" but it's actually "US Agency for cIa Development".

They also announced remedial math and English classes for the results of their highly selective admissions, which makes you wonder what they're selecting for.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 15, 2025 03:33 PM (2ocoG)

335 Imagining tears of sadness from every Haavaaad liar...
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 15, 2025 03:33 PM (QuDWu)

336 322 . And the hard science is coming out of MIT not fucking harvard.
Posted by: You are biased on this one at

Wait, what? Harvard is a research university.

Posted by: Piper at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (QzINz)

Not for any research we care about. They research DEI, transgender health, climate change, the evils of conservatism, the tragedy of boyhood, the problems being white, etc...I think we can live without all of that...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 15, 2025 03:33 PM (tOcjL)

337 Christopher Rufo points out SCOTUS affirmed in 1983 that universities which practice racial discrimination can be stripped of their non-profit status. Harvard and many other universities practice racial discrimination in admission.

http://tiny.cc/yaog001

Posted by: bonhomme at April 15, 2025 03:33 PM (lIio7)

338 "It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner,"

That's because Harvard has shown itself incapable of of addressing antisemitism in a constructive manner.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 15, 2025 03:33 PM (VSht7)

339 News flash, faggots: nobody in real America would give a damn if Trump ordered the Navy to shell Harvard into nothing more than a series of craters.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2025 03:12 PM (BI5O2)

are you mad? Do you know how many noise complaints that would generate?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 03:34 PM (D7oie)

340 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 15, 2025 03:34 PM (u73oe)

341 Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (u73oe)

But what about Our Democracy!!!

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2025 03:34 PM (kgjcL)

342 What you all don't understand about the multi-billion dollar endowment:

That's THEIR money.

You can't expect them to use THEIR money for whatever bullshit they claim the grants are for--if the public is going to "benefit," then the public should pay for it.

PS:
Note also how they were all recently screaming bloody murder at the new rule that administrative expenses cannot be more than 15% of any grant.
Because they are skimming 30%+ off the top, directly for Harvard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2025 03:34 PM (JpbSW)

343 I wouldn't put it past these mega funding projects are just no work jobs.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2025 03:35 PM (ypFCm)

344 Hahvahd is 17% white males.

And also a research university.

Shut up, they explained.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:35 PM (bk+Z+)

345 304 Bet the chimps didn't sing, though.

Did they fling poo?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 15, 2025 03:28 PM (CG+VL)

----'
Do bears shit in the woods?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 15, 2025 03:35 PM (LPS7w)

346 If Trump cuts off our funding, we'll have to put down our foreign students! Why is Trump killing foreign students??!!??

Posted by: Harvard Yooniversity at April 15, 2025 03:35 PM (qUkBO)

347 If not for university-based research, MK Ultra would have been futile.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 15, 2025 03:36 PM (MMp6W)

348 329 Wait, what? Harvard is a research university.

Rumor has it.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025

Ha! I mean it is. They do medical research and everything! 😂 But that doesn’t mean we should fund all that is happening there. It’s not like this is the first time they have buddied up with the wrong side of history, being an Ivy you would think they would have learned.

Posted by: Piper at April 15, 2025 03:36 PM (QzINz)

349 Harvard: burn it down, scatter the ashes, salt the earth upon which it stood.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2025 03:36 PM (8zz6B)

350 What you all don't understand about the multi-billion dollar endowment:

That's THEIR money.

You can't expect them to use THEIR money for whatever bullshit they claim the grants are for--if the public is going to "benefit," then the public should pay for it.

Right, it's THEIR money in the same way that they're defending THEIR democracy. Not yours.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 15, 2025 03:36 PM (2ocoG)

351 Wait, what? Harvard is a research university.

Posted by: Piper at April 15, 2025 03:30 PM (QzINz)

Not for any research we care about. They research DEI, transgender health, climate change, the evils of conservatism, the tragedy of boyhood, the problems being white, etc...I think we can live without all of that...

*sigh*
It doesn't help us when people, for ideological reasons, say things that are demonstrably untrue. Let the left do that.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:36 PM (xCA6C)

352 If you are really interested (slight pun) in interest group politics which includes ngos, E.E. Schattschneider during the 50's came out with a book describing what he called pressure groups.

Notably, he indicated how the upper middle class aka strivers, were key in those groups in staffing and running them to get power and wealth.

Other work has found basically the same thing. Last time I dealt with any pac funding research, a colleague and I found out that receiving a contribution during the week of a vote by labor unions was stronger than ideology as to whether they would vote for pro labor legislation. Huge tedious model that consumed several working years of my life. Quit doing heavy empirical stuff requiring massive datasets shortly afterwards with voting fraud research being the last of it.

Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:36 PM (ctrM5)

353 309 Can Harvard really do anything they want, if they don't take the Government Money? Do civil rights laws no longer exist for them?

Posted by: illiniwek at April 15, 2025 03:28 PM

In 1957, violent racist Democrats blocked black students from entering the schoolhouse doors in Little Rock. Democrats at all levels of governance supported the racists, until the problem reached the desk of a Republican President (Ike).

He sent in the 101st Airborne to throw the racist Democrats out of the way.

In 2024, violent racist Democrats at Columbia and UCLA blocked the Jewish students from entering the schoolhouse doors. Once again, no Democrats in power opposed the actual racists.

I think Trump should start utilizing the 101st again, as it is part of their storied history.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 15, 2025 03:37 PM (HlyYF)

354 I hear artillery parctice where I live. Best tax money ever spent. I don't know the number for auto grenade launcher, but i hear that too.

Posted by: Francis at April 15, 2025 03:37 PM (bbuBP)

355 Ha! I mean it is. They do medical research and everything! 😂 But that doesn’t mean we should fund all that is happening there.

I agree completely.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2025 03:37 PM (xCA6C)

356 What good are university political science departments if nobody published anything about the NGO structures?
Posted by: mr tmz at April 15, 2025 03:26 PM (rJ48h)

There are articles on Researchgate going back more than a decade.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 03:37 PM (D7oie)

357 Instagram

drcarolmswain
Harvard has a $53 BILLION endowment — and they’re STILL selling bonds?
On Cow Guy Close, I exposed how the elite spin the story to blame Trump while mismanaging massive funds.
It’s time for accountability in higher ed.

22 hours ago

Posted by: L - No nic, adores Musk and Miller at April 15, 2025 03:38 PM (NFX2v)

358 Probably a Todd.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Howard Smith from VA. Howard was the Greatest Generation version of Todd.

Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:38 PM (ctrM5)

359 Ha! I mean it is. They do medical research and everything!
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It's neat how medical stuff costs so much when it's the universities using taxpayer dollars to fund the research.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Men's resources matter to women, women's weight matters to men at April 15, 2025 03:39 PM (bk+Z+)

360 I always thought 'cunty face' was a reference to Katy Perry's husband, that dirtbag Russell Brand.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 15, 2025 03:39 PM (fY84s)

361 drcarolmswain
Harvard has a $53 BILLION endowment — and they’re STILL selling bonds?
On Cow Guy Close, I exposed how the elite spin the story to blame Trump while mismanaging massive funds.
It’s time for accountability in higher ed.

22 hours ago
Posted by: L
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Carol Swain did good research before she ran afoul of Vanderbilt's snooty desires to be like the Ivies. She got treated like shit there after she got hired when she had other job offers.

Posted by: whig at April 15, 2025 03:40 PM (ctrM5)

362 Possible not EVERYTHING the ladies did. As i mentioned last night, sometimes women have extremely, uh, "pleasurable" reactions to Zero G. It must hit the g-spot, IYKWIM.

Now there's a Zero-G spot?
I'm having trouble enough finding the One-G spot.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 15, 2025 03:40 PM (w9Wax)

363 The Zero-G Spot. Very nice.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 15, 2025 03:42 PM (fY84s)

364 I guess Harvard's insult was enough for Barky Obungo to pop his head up like a demented gopher to emit words that won't matter.

Sort of similar to his error of being preznit.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 15, 2025 03:43 PM (6PCLE)

365 Now there's a Zero-G spot?
I'm having trouble enough finding the One-G spot.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 15, 2025 03:40 PM (w9Wax)

Technically, it is the "micro-G spot" which might be the source of some of your troubles

Posted by: Kindltot at April 15, 2025 03:44 PM (D7oie)

366 And today is Tax Day.
Pay up, peons!

Posted by: wth at April 15, 2025 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

367 I guess Harvard's insult was enough for Barky Obungo to pop his head up like a demented gopher to emit words that won't matter.

Barky's afraid Trump will use his new leverage to demand Harvard publish his transcripts.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 15, 2025 03:47 PM (2ocoG)

368 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith just wants to vote for Vance at April 15, 2025 03:57 PM (1oLgW)

369 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith just wants to vote for Vance at April 15, 2025 04:03 PM (1oLgW)

370 340 Nood
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 15, 2025 03:34 PM (u73oe)

Posted by: m at April 15, 2025 04:09 PM (CQE5S)

371 Don't fight the scientific grants (and only the actual scientific research, not a cent for queer cowboy poetry in Argentinia.)

Just don't issue student loans or grants to students attending those schools. They can do whatever they want, but we aren't going to pay students to go there. (The government pushed out all private lenders for school loans and are the only option? Gosh, that's sad.)

Likewise, no loans, grants, or scholarships for any school claiming that 1 of 5 women attending are raped during their time there. If you want to go to one of those 3rd-world hellholes, you're on your own.

Posted by: bittergeek at April 15, 2025 05:06 PM (NFXcl)

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