Trump Directs Government to End All Contracts With Harvard

In a letter sent Tuesday, the Trump administration is directing all federal agencies to terminate or transition away from their contracts with Harvard University, citing racial discrimination, anti-Semitism, and violations of federal law.
Key Details:
The letter, dated May 27th, was issued by Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum and sent to senior procurement officials across the federal government.
The letter criticizes Harvard's race-based admissions practices, referencing the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, where admissions rates reportedly varied significantly by race: 56% for African Americans, 31% for Hispanics, 15% for Whites, and 13% for Asians.
It also cites reports of antisemitic incidents on campus, unlawful hiring practices, and decisions by Harvard committees approving student leaders with histories of violent behavior--calling the leadership's actions a "clear signal of tolerance for, if not outright endorsement of, student-on-student violence."

He also said he might divert all money formerly earmarked for Harvard to trade schools.

President Trump proposed reallocating $3 billion in federal funding from Harvard to U.S. trade schools, calling the university "very antisemitic" and saying the funds would be better spent elsewhere.
Key Details:
Trump said investing in trade schools would be "a great investment" that is "so badly needed!!!"
Harvard rejected Trump administration demands tied to civil rights and merit-based policies.
Trump has already pulled over $2 billion in federal funds and is seeking accountability for Harvard's foreign student list.
Diving Deeper:
President Donald Trump announced Monday that he's weighing the possibility of shifting a $3 billion federal grant earmarked for Harvard University toward U.S. trade schools, escalating an ongoing standoff between his administration and the Ivy League institution. Trump made the statement in a post on Truth Social, describing the idea as "a great investment" for the country and one that is "so badly needed!!!"
The proposal follows months of back-and-forth between Harvard and the Trump administration that began with an April letter demanding the university justify its public funding by complying with federal civil rights laws. That letter called on Harvard to foster a campus environment conducive to "intellectual creativity and scholarly rigor" while instituting specific reforms--such as merit-based hiring and admissions, increased transparency, and addressing longstanding concerns of antisemitism and political bias within certain programs.
Harvard pushed back against those demands, asserting that it was "not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration." In response, Trump moved to pull more than $2 billion in federal funding from the university, according to reporting by the Daily Caller.
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security attempted to revoke Harvard's authorization to admit and host foreign students, but a federal judge swiftly blocked the measure. However, the broader termination of grant funding remains in place.

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1 Yay Ace!

Posted by: IMF at May 27, 2025 12:44 PM (w9Wax)

2 is this new ? "The Trump Administration has ordered US embassies to halt all student visa applications as the president cracks down on America's higher education business.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed officials to stop scheduling appointments with student visa applicants as they prepare to implement a social media vetting process, according to a cable obtained by Politico."

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 12:44 PM (g47mK)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 27, 2025 12:44 PM (bKqAu)

4 He also said he might divert all money formerly earmarked for Harvard to trade schools.

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Nothing will enrage a Karen more than her idealized college experience suffering in an effort to help burly men who fix her electrical issues.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

5 (sweating and scratching skin slowly subsides)

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 27, 2025 12:45 PM (sUd6q)

6 Violations of federal law ... so prosecutions forthcoming?

Posted by: illiniwek at May 27, 2025 12:45 PM (vbXSk)

7 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 12:45 PM (ypFCm)

8 Using that money for trade schools is a brilliant idea. People need to know how to do things. The country needs people who know how to do thing.s

Posted by: huerfano at May 27, 2025 12:46 PM (n2swS)

9 Nooded

Posted by: Creepy Old guy at the Gas Station at May 27, 2025 12:46 PM (pIfcn)

10 I'm over 1.5hrs north of Harvard and I could hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from here.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 27, 2025 12:46 PM (N39Ws)

11 /off sock

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (pIfcn)

12

Bill Ackman went into, at length, what those poisonous vipers have been up to.

Turn it into a community college.

Have them teach welding or automatic transmission repair. They would hate that.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (et1vG)

13 Cut off the head of the Cultural Marxists
But some Commissar Judge will come along and demand they get their funds

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (ypFCm)

14 Bill Ackman has a lot to say on this today on X, calling out the marxist anti-American faculty and leadership at Harvard.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (I69rP)

15 Bad week for Harvard. NY Post headline: "Star Harvard business professor stripped of tenure, fired for manipulating data in studies on dishonesty"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (eb5mD)

16 Call me naive, but what contracts would the federal government even have with a university? Does this include DOE/DARPA/NSF grants as "contracts"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (VoAdT)

17 Contracts? For what?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2025 12:48 PM (bss/y)

18 Warai beat me to it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2025 12:48 PM (bss/y)

19 12

Bill Ackman went into, at length, what those poisonous vipers have been up to.

Turn it into a community college.

Have them teach welding or automatic transmission repair. They would hate that.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (et1vG)

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"I'm sorry, you have to take another semester to graduate."
"But I took all of my gender studies courses and wrote all of my papers about the patriarchy."
"Yes, but you did not learn how to fix basic plumbing issues."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

20 18 Warai beat me to it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2025 12:48 PM (bss/y)

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 12:48 PM (VoAdT)

21 Ackman today

https://tinyurl.com/4ezkndsx

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2025 12:49 PM (I69rP)

22 "Yes, but you did not learn how to fix basic plumbing issues."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

But I already know all there is to know about glands and nipples!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 12:49 PM (VoAdT)

23 Teamwork makes the dream work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 12:48 PM (VoAdT)

It is a good question.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2025 12:49 PM (bss/y)

24 Harvard reportedly is retaliating by setting up online courses in how Trump is a dictator. LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

25 But I already know all there is to know about glands and nipples!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 12:49 PM (VoAdT)

I could stand to hear/see more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2025 12:50 PM (bss/y)

26 Mornin' Ace.

You solve the Harvard Problem with the Kelo Decision / Eminent Domain.

We need a site for those Immigration Courts.

Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 12:50 PM (hJb7m)

27 Bad week for Harvard. NY Post headline: "Star Harvard business professor stripped of tenure, fired for manipulating data in studies on dishonesty"
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (eb5mD)

She has a promising future in "journalism".

Posted by: mrp at May 27, 2025 12:50 PM (rj6Yv)

28 Hillsdale college doesn't take any federal money.

There is no reason Harvard has to either.

Posted by: Harun at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (IuIym)

29 Trump parked his boot in Harvard Ass.

Posted by: zombie at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (pMi6S)

30 24 Harvard reportedly is retaliating by setting up online courses in how Trump is a dictator. LOL.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

And students will still use AI to finish their homework, which will consist entirely of "Dick around on reddit for a couple minutes".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (VoAdT)

31 I read somewhere that they are looking at shifting to a social media vetting effort, rather than what they claim on paperwork.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (2VST1)

32 Have them teach welding or automatic transmission repair. They would hate that.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (et1vG)

Ivy Tech was what it used to be called in southern Indiana. My uncle went to study there to learn maintenance, welding, all that kind of thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (bss/y)

33 All they had to do was obey the law. But they thought that never applied to them. And to be fair, they were right up until now.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (BpO1e)

34 prosecutions forthcoming?
Posted by: illiniwek

TRO first!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (RzqcG)

35 Another thing to note:

The House bill included language that ended federally backed loans for graduate school educations.

If signed into law, it means that graduate educations have to be privately funded.

Can you imagine a harsher blow to things like law schools with the need for employment that justifies the cost...an inflated cost because interest rates will skyrocket on those specific loans?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

36 By the way, the "long standing concerns of antisemitism" date back to the 1920s.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (D1vbu)

37 Trade schools? Paging Mike Rowe.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at May 27, 2025 12:52 PM (fgmuN)

38 Bad week for Harvard. NY Post headline: "Star Harvard business professor stripped of tenure, fired for manipulating data in *studies on dishonesty*"
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 27, 2025 12:47 PM (eb5mD)

Lol. Saw a claim on Twitter yesterday that the vast majority of irreproduceable studies are being done by foreign graduate students who are simply fabricating the results of their experiments. If true, that has a lot of follow-on effects as current "knowledge" veers further and further from reality.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 27, 2025 12:52 PM (lFFaq)

39 "FCPS doesn't have due dates for assignments - they are more like suggestions. A student can turn in assignments late and still get credit. If it comes down to a student from FCPS with a 4.5 and one from, say, Andover with a 4.0, FCPS isn't competitive."

WitchDoktor, if you're still here and referring to Fairfax County Public Schools, that wasn't the case in the 70's and 80's. FCPS was one of the best school systems in the country. Until 1981, it was 100-94 = A, 93-87 = B, 86-80 = C, 79-73 = D. No + or - and you had to turn work in on time.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 27, 2025 12:53 PM (KAi1n)

40 Have them teach welding or automatic transmission repair. They would hate that.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS

Send them to that sheet metal shop down the street, Massachusetts Institute of something something

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 27, 2025 12:53 PM (w9Wax)

41 "We are not anti-Semitic," said Professor Achmed bin Laden of Harvard's Leni Reifenstahl Center for Film Criticism. "It's just that the tentacles of the Zionist octopus control Hollywood. Is that our fault?"

Posted by: zombie at May 27, 2025 12:54 PM (pMi6S)

42
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Who cheesed my move?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2025 12:55 PM (63Dwl)

43 Harvard is the most arrogant, subversive, and wasteful US institution I can think of.

any pain they feel amuses me

hey guys! hope you all had a lovely long weekend

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 27, 2025 12:55 PM (Pv3Rg)

44
But where is the next generation of networking careerists and smarmy suck-ups going to come from?!?!?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2025 12:56 PM (QnmlO)

45 Simple solution - to gain admission, all students must take the SAT. This is a blind test - the graders don't know you name or address. Students scoring about a certain level gain automatic admission. Students scoring below a certain level do not gain admission. the middle group goes to a lottery and gains admission randomly.

Your diversity is based on who applies. It's all merit based. No legacy admissions. No essays. No team of reviewers.

If you want more black people, then Harvard must go to places where they are and tutor them so they can pass the SAT test and gain admission.

Simple. Fair. Honest. Transparent.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 27, 2025 12:56 PM (D1vbu)

46 Harvard has produced most of the people in power right now: most of the Supreme Court, most of the congressional leadership, etc. Skull and Bones club basically controls America, and I think that's their primary allegiance, not political parties, constituents, or America.

For the first century it was mostly Princeton but that place really corrupted and lost its way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 12:56 PM (2VST1)

47 Excellent. This guy gets it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 27, 2025 12:57 PM (i24o9)

48 Simple. Fair. Honest. Transparent.

canadian unis are like this

completely numbers-based, blind admissions

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 27, 2025 12:57 PM (Pv3Rg)

49 What cracks me up is that for 40+ years, Hollywood put out endless films depicting upper crust, ivy league, snooty arrogant college types as the worst in humanity, the fascists, the bullies, the corrupt, the cruel.

But that's who they are defending the most.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 12:57 PM (2VST1)

50 Company I once worked fore hired a Harvard MBA. He informed me he was a Harvard grad within minutes in our first meeting. He as a penny loafer no socks kind of guy.

Posted by: javems at May 27, 2025 12:58 PM (8I4hW)

51 Have them teach welding or automatic transmission repair. They would hate that.

Tangentally related, Massachusetts state senator Cynthia Creem said the quiet part out loud: EVs aren't doing enough to stop the plebs from moving around without government permission, so the state will allocate everyone a small number of miles they're allowed to travel in a week and then their car should refuse to move.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 12:58 PM (2ocoG)

52 My favorite part about all this is how the tyrant judge with their illegal writ of mandamus orders will lie and deceive how this is a First Amendment issue.

And they're saving the Republic and defending the Constitutions by ... ordering Trump to spend our money.

The same judges that told you to fuck off when your First Amendment rights were really, actually violated by the FBI having a secret back-door in to Twitter to delete, ban and stifle posts questioning Covid lockdowns.

I'm getting pretty sick of these tyrant assholes jumping to attention every time the left whines and then wrapping their illegal orders in some phony concern for the Constitution, that they murdered barely 5 years ago.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 12:58 PM (zOK4u)

53 We had a president who was the president of the Harvard Law Review and he never wrote an article for his own publication. What a prestigious university.

Posted by: mrp at May 27, 2025 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)

54 Harvard has produced most of the people in power right now: most of the Supreme Court, most of the congressional leadership, etc. Skull and Bones club basically controls America, and I think that's their primary allegiance, not political parties, constituents, or America.

Senator Blutarsky went to Faber College.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 27, 2025 12:59 PM (wb3Pi)

55 Rubio was challenged at a press conference about the visa cancellations and he smacked the sh*t out of the reporter.

Little Marco is wearing big-boy pants now!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 27, 2025 01:00 PM (+BR1Z)

56 Harvard is the most arrogant, subversive, and wasteful US institution I can think of.

Posted by: Black Orchid

How dare you.

Posted by: Charles Emerson Winchester III at May 27, 2025 01:00 PM (PNgTt)

57 50 Company I once worked fore hired a Harvard MBA. He informed me he was a Harvard grad within minutes in our first meeting. He as a penny loafer no socks kind of guy.
Posted by: javems at May 27, 2025 12:58 PM (8I4hW)

I told an intern a few weeks ago: 'Do not be a pussy. If you have a question: ask. A lot of retards don't ask a question because they do not want to look like an idiot. The thing is if you are good, you'll prove that. If you're an idiot- you can't hide that forever.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2025 01:00 PM (bss/y)

58 Trade schools do OK already. They don't need federal help. Take the money that was to be allocated to Harvard to help reduce the deficit for the year.

Posted by: Ralph at May 27, 2025 01:00 PM (8WZD4)

59 We had a president who was the president of the Harvard Law Review and he never wrote an article for his own publication. What a prestigious university.

Trump should tell Harvard they can have some money back if they produce Obama's complete unedited transcripts.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:01 PM (2ocoG)

60 Two hobos are riding the rails at dusk, eating pork & beans from a rusty can as the landscape rumbles by. One says "I ran away from home at 14, started stealing cars, ended up in juvie, got out, became addicted to meth, been in and out of jail my whole life -- that's how I ended up homeless and broke. What's your story?" The other hobo replies, glumly, "I got a PhD from Harvard." The first hobo shakes his head, saying, "Man, that's rough. My sympathies. And I thought I had it bad!"

Posted by: zombie at May 27, 2025 01:01 PM (pMi6S)

61 Harvard just go Litt up!

Posted by: Harvey Spector at May 27, 2025 01:01 PM (wb3Pi)

62 15% white and 56% black. Sounds diverse

Posted by: Eyegore at May 27, 2025 01:01 PM (o5gk2)

63 Afternoon ace.
Love the old line "you can always tell a Harvard man , but you can't tell him much"
You can now tell him " you ain't getting any more money Trip Wellborn III"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 01:02 PM (eDGGN)

64 Who cheesed my move?

Who cut the cheese?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 27, 2025 01:02 PM (WXok8)

65 if you want to be entertained, Reddit's foreign-fakery-focused "Applying to College" sub is a dumpster fire of hilarity right now

.. Indian high-caste kids freaking OUT

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 27, 2025 01:03 PM (Pv3Rg)

66 "Bad week for Harvard. NY Post headline: "Star Harvard business professor stripped of tenure, fired for manipulating data in studies on dishonesty"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnel"

i saw that and was wondering has any grievance study professor been dismissed for their phony data on oppression by white males? Not a one of those supposedly scholarly papers could stand up to the any scrutiny.

Posted by: Ripley at May 27, 2025 01:03 PM (GUOwU)

67 The Trump Administration has ordered US embassies to halt all student visa applications as the president cracks down on America's higher education business.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed officials to stop scheduling appointments with student visa applicants as they prepare to implement a social media vetting process, according to a cable obtained by Politico.

'Effective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued septel, which we anticipate in the coming days,' the cable states.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 27, 2025 01:03 PM (Y1sOo)

68 Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2025 12:49 PM (I69rP)

Thanks for providing a link. Very incisive essay by Mr. Ackman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2025 01:03 PM (YguxL)

69 Bring back Metal, Plastic and Wood shops in JR High and High School. There is a lot of us old guys who would like to impart some knowledge on the youths.
I once had a kid working for me who, as a kid caused trouble every time they sent him back to school so he could stay in Job Corp and build houses. He's a pretty big contractor now.
Make school fun again. The kids are interested. I gather a crowd every time I break out a welder or grinder.
So many lost arts that are dying off with the people who know how to do it.

All I need is a 4000sqf building and about $300,000 in stuff and I'll make some real workers and builders you wouldn't need to sent to trade school.

Posted by: Reforger at May 27, 2025 01:03 PM (xcIvR)

70 I think it is interesting that per DEI if a group does below average in something it is racism, but the fact men go to college at a lower rate then women is because they are failing.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:03 PM (t0Rmr)

71 I don't understand why Harvard gets *any* federal money in the first place. Much less BILLIONS.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 27, 2025 01:03 PM (wb3Pi)

72 the judges can't make state give out visas

definitly not QUICKLY, and it is admissions time right now (actually it's pretty much over)

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (Pv3Rg)

73 Breaking on Twitter: the Dobbs decision was leaked by Mary McCord's husband Sheldon Snook, who was on John Roberts' staff.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (2ocoG)

74 Personally, I think some of what the Turmp administration is asking for is absurd. But then again, Harvard's behavior has been absurd. If they had acted swiftly and decisively regarding the racial incidents don campus, they wouldn't be in this predicament. And Trump gave them ample opportunities to correct the problem. It's their own dick headed obstinance, and insistence in doing things their way, that has created this crisis.

Jewish students WERE assaulted and harassed on campus, and you never punished the people who did that. Classes WERE disrupted by protestors. Harvard keeps acting like this is negotiable - no, it isn't. Students who participated in that behavior should be expelled, and if they are foreign students sent home, full stop. There is no negotiation on this.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (D1vbu)

75 The letter criticizes Harvard's race-based admissions practices, referencing the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, where admissions rates reportedly varied significantly by race: 56% for African Americans, 31% for Hispanics, 15% for Whites, and 13% for Asians.

One might argue that their admissions policies have a disparate impact.

Posted by: toby928 at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (jc0TO)

76 Trump should make his inevitable SCOTUS appointment a non-legal non-judge non-lawyer.

The Constitution is not beyond the understanding of normal folk, nor should it be.

The Supreme Court could stand a carpenter, a fisherman, and maybe a gynecologist.

Posted by: Minuteman at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (AJ+HC)

77 cost...an inflated cost because interest rates will skyrocket on those specific loans?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

Banks aren't stupid. They would require a cosigner. Mom and dad and their house would be on the hook.

No more lesbian studies! Engineering or accounting will make a comeback.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (+BR1Z)

78 Now it can be told.

Tony Seruga@TonySeruga
It sure is looking like Sheldon Snook leaked the Dobbs decision.
He is the husband of Mary McCord who’s the center of every op to get Trump.
Snook was on John Roberts’s staff.
Roberts protected Snook because he wanted to damage Trump.
Just like Roberts protected the Ukraine

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Available In Super Size! at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)

79 MTCA Make Them Cry Again

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 27, 2025 01:05 PM (NzdRN)

80 71 I don't understand why Harvard gets *any* federal money in the first place. Much less BILLIONS.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 27, 2025 01:03 PM (wb3Pi)

The entire system of university research is funded almost entirely by federal grant money. If that's what they're talking about, at least.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:05 PM (VoAdT)

81 The president of the Law Review is the guy who gets the kegs
The Editor of the Law Review is the one with the brains

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 01:05 PM (eDGGN)

82 Perversion of marxism, if that is even possible. Then the "oppressed" were economically disadvantaged classes, now the oppressed are emotional cripples and mental midgets whose feelings are hurt.

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:05 PM (g47mK)

83 77 Banks aren't stupid. They would require cosigner. Mom and dad and their house would be on the hook.

No more lesbian studies! Engineering or accounting will make a comeback.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (+BR1Z)

=======

Eh...banks can be really stupid.

Still, I do think different interest rates for different majors would be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

84 73 Breaking on Twitter: the Dobbs decision was leaked by Mary McCord's husband Sheldon Snook, who was on John Roberts' staff.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (2ocoG)

Next you're gonna try and tell me Beyonce is an award winning Country singer

Posted by: I't worked on Triffids at May 27, 2025 01:05 PM (VE6XX)

85 Meanwhile NPR sues the president for... cutting off their funding which is totally a small part of their budget so it doesn't matter anyway but if you cut anything you are killing Big Bird who is owned by Netflix now anyway so shut up hater.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:06 PM (2VST1)

86 in my mind that McCord link and leak is enough to impeach Roberts. he knew and approved of ALL of it

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 27, 2025 01:06 PM (Pv3Rg)

87 So Trump cut the gubmint cheese?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 27, 2025 01:06 PM (kUHMM)

88 what did Roberts know and when did he know it ?!

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:06 PM (g47mK)

89 For the most part colleges don't really teach much, and this is especially true of the Ivies. You don't go to Harvard to learn...you already know everything right?

So why do rich foreigners send their kids to Harvard? To make connections with rich Americans.

Ironically, forcing the Ivies to stop this sort of match making the kids of American and foreign elites could be a major win for normal people in a couple of decades.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:06 PM (t0Rmr)

90 Still, I do think different interest rates for different majors would be hilarious.

It would make sense, some majors present a greater risk for default than others.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:07 PM (2VST1)

91 Nuke Harvard.

Posted by: XTC at May 27, 2025 01:07 PM (UnA8+)

92 Still, I do think different interest rates for different majors would be hilarious.

when loans were private it did matter, at least it mattered where you were going and the amount

art school students were NOT getting the same as premed state school students

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 27, 2025 01:07 PM (Pv3Rg)

93 How dare you.
Posted by: Charles Emerson Winchester III at May 27, 2025 01:00 PM (PNgTt)

Actually, if Mr. Winchester were an actual person and alive now, he'd probably think Harvard is now a dumpster fire.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2025 01:07 PM (YguxL)

94 The Constitution is not beyond the understanding of normal folk, nor should it be.

The Supreme Court could stand a carpenter, a fisherman, and maybe a gynecologist.
Posted by: Minuteman at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (AJ+HC)

The law as a whole shouldn't be, either.

Make sitting on the Supreme Court the same process as sitting on a jury. Every case, pick nine random Americans through a kind of lottery + voir dire. If the schlubs can't follow the case, the lawyers need to argue better.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:07 PM (VoAdT)

95 Harvard reportedly is retaliating by setting up online courses in how Trump is a dictator. LOL.
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While an unelected, unaccountable, unrestrained federal judge ordering the President to act is an actual dictatorship.

We have, in this country, a de facto dictatorship, a politburo of 10 to 15 federal judges who have usurped all Legislative and Executive authority to themselves.

They are denying the will of the voters.
They are destroying the rule of law.
They are tyrants who have seized control of the nation on behalf of a radical minority, a leftist cabal of quasi-royalty.
They have taken to themselves and stolen the authority to rule this nation--above Congress, above the President and above all, the People.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 01:08 PM (zOK4u)

96 DEI is going to kill Harvard like it killed the United States Post Office.

I knew a couple of Post Office employees who would utilize their access to 'company' resources to facilitate the distribution of illicit pharmaceuticals.

Sweet gig, if you can get it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 01:08 PM (dqmL3)

97 Great, keep the judiciary busy with TRO's until they run out of judges and/or TRO's.

Not sure about the merits of this strategy, but whatever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2025 01:09 PM (Q4IgG)

98 The university system is an evil, anti-American entity eating away at our national soul. The Left set their eyes on infiltration and transformation by tenure decades ago and has largely succeeded. David Horowitz made it his own mission to expose this and wrote a number of books ("Indoctrination U" his best). If Trump could break Harvard, make them beg and actually reform, it would ne something.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (vsTPo)

99 89 For the most part colleges don't really teach much, and this is especially true of the Ivies. You don't go to Harvard to learn...you already know everything right?

So why do rich foreigners send their kids to Harvard? To make connections with rich Americans.

Ironically, forcing the Ivies to stop this sort of match making the kids of American and foreign elites could be a major win for normal people in a couple of decades.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:06 PM (t0Rmr)

This. Janie can't do math but Janie expresses the modern woke ideology so she should be able to take engineering management to monitor engineering projects without know much about engineering.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (OA79/)

100 Heartwarming story. If only there were more men like him.

School bus driver takes time to share the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ with students on bus, gives students hats with "I Am With You Always" and Cross on them.

https://tinyurl.com/7ed3xz8r

Posted by: New America at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (7QPFF)

101 I don't understand why Harvard gets *any* federal money in the first place. Much less BILLIONS.

I was watching a video on why the state of Mass has become so wealthy.

And its funny the video was trying to sell the virtues of MA of which there are few but the ultimate answer to the question was: graft - taking federal dollars for "research and education".

There is BIG BIG money in this. And most connected people get a seat at this trough...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (t0Rmr)

102 SpaceX - Starship - Suborbital Test Flight 9 - OLP-A
Launch Date: March 27, 2025 (CDT)
Launch Status: The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CDT, 2330 UTC - May 28, 01:30 CEST.
Launch Window: Open until 8:00 p.m. CDT
Status: Scheduled & Announced

https://www.youtube.com/live/YOJKZYSOsGs

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (VNX3d)

103 Like I give a shit about Harvard.

Posted by: guy who doesn't give a shit at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (v0R5T)

104 [oi]Trade schools do OK already. They don't need federal help. Take the money that was to be allocated to Harvard to help reduce the deficit for the year.
Posted by: Ralph at May 27, 2025 01:00 PM (8WZD4)

OK, the thing to remember is that this is not Trump doing an open and honest discussion of proper allocation of federal grants. This is Trump kicking Harvard in the nuts.

Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 01:11 PM (D7oie)

105 This. Janie can't do math but Janie expresses the modern woke ideology so she should be able to take engineering management to monitor engineering projects without know much about engineering.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (OA79/)

They ain't even commisars. They're the commisar's pimps.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:11 PM (VoAdT)

106 96 DEI is going to kill Harvard like it killed the United States Post Office.

I knew a couple of Post Office employees who would utilize their access to 'company' resources to facilitate the distribution of illicit pharmaceuticals.

Sweet gig, if you can get it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 01:08 PM (dqmL3)

‐--------

But look what it's done for the US military!

Posted by: Adm. Rachel Levine (Ret.) at May 27, 2025 01:11 PM (V0QQp)

107 Harvard reportedly is retaliating by setting up online courses in how Trump is a dictator. LOL.
Posted by: Ian S

The fact that Harvard brass isn't playing catch with field artillery proves he's not a dictator.

Right Kim Jong Il?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 01:11 PM (UmrY7)

108 103 Like I give a shit about Harvard.
Posted by: guy who doesn't give a shit at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (v0R5T)

Yeah.. I don't think this is the hill to die on for the Dems...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:11 PM (VE6XX)

109 Turn it into a community college.

Have them teach welding or automatic transmission repair. They would hate that.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Mille
+++
Automatic transmission repair at Harvard.
Trannys working on trannys.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 27, 2025 01:11 PM (Lo97M)

110 Company I once worked fore hired a Harvard MBA. He informed me he was a Harvard grad within minutes in our first meeting. He as a penny loafer no socks kind of guy.
Posted by: javems at May 27, 2025 12:58 PM (8I4hW)

Ivies get the round file. Don't even take a chance.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 27, 2025 01:12 PM (i24o9)

111 The biggest problem at universities regarding admissions - you have an admissions office the feels the need to DO a lot of things. Have interviews and essays, have committee meetings where they debate admissions.

The SAT has been proven for decades to be a VERY good indicator of college success. That is all you need to determine admissions. Which means a couple of secretaries could run the whole damn thing.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 27, 2025 01:12 PM (D1vbu)

112 Does harvard still have its tax exempt status ? because why ??

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:12 PM (g47mK)

113 I wonder what my father in law would think about Harvard these days. He died alone per covid policy but he was very dedicated to his alma mater. Classes of 48
and 50.

A kid from Tulsa who did very well.

Posted by: DanMan at May 27, 2025 01:13 PM (8uzBS)

114 Not good enough. Bondi needs to get off her ass and file suit. Let a federal judge supervise compliance with the CRA and EEOC for decades.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 27, 2025 01:13 PM (WWpK6)

115 Harvard reportedly is retaliating by setting up online courses in how Trump is a dictator. LOL.

Its funny how dictators used to put their opponents in prison, but apparently now refusing to fund them makes your Hitler Part Duex

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:13 PM (t0Rmr)

116 Like I give a shit about Harvard.
Posted by: guy who doesn't give a shit at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (v0R5T)

It's in a good location. They should sell it to a developer to turn into illegal housing, er, apartments.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 27, 2025 01:13 PM (VNX3d)

117 112 Does harvard still have its tax exempt status ? because why ??
Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:12 PM (g47mK)

Exactly. Bondi has not even started to do what is available to her.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 27, 2025 01:14 PM (WWpK6)

118 Yeah.. I don't think this is the hill to die on for the Dems...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:11 PM (VE6XX)

Which given recent history means the Dems will 100% die on that hill.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:14 PM (2ocoG)

119 All I need is a 4000sqf building and about $300,000 in stuff and I'll make some real workers and builders you wouldn't need to sent to trade school.
Posted by: Reforger at May 27, 2025 01:03 PM (xcIvR)

1st secure access to the space there is a lot of vacant area under roofs right now due to our bounding economy; then get prospective students and any teaching staff to go scrounge equipment.
I have found that 20-30 YOs are now pretty competent at scrounging, especially the types you are trying to gather.

Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 01:14 PM (D7oie)

120 Company I once worked fore hired a Harvard MBA. He informed me he was a Harvard grad within minutes in our first meeting. He as a penny loafer no socks kind of guy.
Posted by: javems
___________

Chuck Schick.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 27, 2025 01:14 PM (UBKzV)

121 There is nothing at Harvard that 98% of students can't get at a respectable state school.

If you're doing something really specialized, then maybe. But even then, there are lots of R1 institutions that offer much the same thing. And as I've said before, "Harvard University Press" is an absolute joke as far as the quality of its publications is concerned.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 27, 2025 01:15 PM (jGGMD)

122 113 I wonder what my father in law would think about Harvard these days. He died alone per covid policy but he was very dedicated to his alma mater. Classes of 48
and 50.
Posted by: DanMan at May 27, 2025 01:13 PM (8uzBS)

My Dad was '46 undergrad and '51 (B School). He was devoted to Harvard, and I wonder the same.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2025 01:15 PM (vsTPo)

123 Which given recent history means the Dems will 100% die on that hill.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:14 PM (2ocoG)

LOL.. You're right.... See: Maryland Man...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:15 PM (VE6XX)

124 Looked up Mary McCord. Dug into the leftist lawfare world like an Alabama tick. Asst AG , did a podcast about getting Trump with Andrew Weissman, writes for the Atlantic, WAPO, NYT, grad of Georgetown Law. Hubby Sheldon Snook, though his name is missing a ch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 01:15 PM (eDGGN)

125 110 Company I once worked fore hired a Harvard MBA. He informed me he was a Harvard grad within minutes in our first meeting. He as a penny loafer no socks kind of guy.
Posted by: javems at May 27, 2025 12:58 PM (8I4hW)

Ivies get the round file. Don't even take a chance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 27, 2025 01:12 PM (i24o9)

Couple of the ivy mbas I met were smart enough, but hooboy did they expect a lot of deference for their big ideas. Everything they came up with had a plus two in the decision matrix cause ivy.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:15 PM (OA79/)

126 Can we have one fucking thread without a reference to what Bondi should or should not do and file (whatever that means) , who she should arrest, or throw in jail, and how fast she needs to do it to meet your exacting standards? thanks in advance.

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (g47mK)

127 The Dems die on every hill.

The GOPe rarely finds a hill worth defending.

Odd how that works isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)

128 Fuck Harvard. They have a $52 billion endowment. They shouldn't be getting one dime of taxpayer money. They're like the parable of the rich man who takes the poor man's one beloved lamb to slaughter for dinner.

Posted by: Prophet Nathan was spittin' facts at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (TbWk/)

129 Using that money for trade schools is a brilliant idea. People need to know how to do things. The country needs people who know how to do thing.s
Posted by: huerfano

Yeah, but can you envision the kind of absolute cluster the feds would make of trade schooling?

And with unlimited federal funding, suddenly trade school tuition will balloon, just like university tuition did.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (hB7mE)

130 * hides trauma kit *

Let'em bleed.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (Uzn0I)

131 56% admission rate for blacks that are 12% (yes thanks to Biden's 20 M+ illegal invaders) means they are favored 14 to 1 with population normalizing. The best we van get. Remember this when choosing professional services.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (17s+e)

132
114 Not good enough. Bondi needs to get off her ass and file suit. Let a federal judge supervise compliance with the CRA and EEOC for decades.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 27, 2025 01:13 PM (WWpK6)

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I just watch youtube and it seems like Bondi is on Fox too much. Does she need that much affirmation?

Posted by: Adm. Rachel Levine (Ret.) at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (V0QQp)

133 121 There is nothing at Harvard that 98% of students can't get at a respectable state school.

If you're doing something really specialized, then maybe. But even then, there are lots of R1 institutions that offer much the same thing. And as I've said before, "Harvard University Press" is an absolute joke as far as the quality of its publications is concerned.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 27, 2025 01:15 PM (jGGMD)

The point of Harvard is to establish a caste system. It has nothing to do with education, training, skills or knowledge.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (WWpK6)

134 Bondi Derangement Syndrome.

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (g47mK)

135 This reads like a comedy

@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Democrat pitches the idea of a ‘shadow cabinet’ to help thwart President Trump’s agenda, which includes:

- Bill Nye (Shadow Environmental Protection Agency Admin.)
- Mark Cuban (Shadow Sec. of Commerce)
- Letitia James (Shadow AG)
- Gov. Katie Hobbs (Shadow Sec. of Education)
- John Fetterman’s wife (Shadow Sec. of Homeland Security)
- Jon Stewart (Shadow Sec. of Veteran Affairs

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (mlg/3)

136 69 All I need is a 4000sqf building and about $300,000 in stuff and I'll make some real workers and builders you wouldn't need to sent to trade school.

and insurance. don't forget insurance.

Posted by: lawyer liberation front at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (sGtp+)

137 The Trump Administration has ordered US embassies to halt all student visa applications as the president cracks down on America's higher education business.

Heeeey! A logical and sensible policy change in response to the incentives provided by the legal system!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:17 PM (hB7mE)

138 Which given recent history means the Dems will 100% die on that hill.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:14 PM (2ocoG)

They will stand on that hill laughing as the GOP bayonets itself in the dick halfway up it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:17 PM (VoAdT)

139 Posted by: New America at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (7QPFF

Attention. New America is s troll and the person who who posts about is anti semetic

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2025 01:17 PM (1cykI)

140 Does harvard still have its tax exempt status ? because why ??

Likely going to be revoked. The reason they are getting funding cut for foreign students is they would not provide required information of same. Trump is correct, why should we subsidize teaching foreign students to hate us while their sponsors pay Harvard to do so?

Posted by: DanMan at May 27, 2025 01:17 PM (8uzBS)

141 Honestly whatever Trump can do to stick a finger in the eye of the smug, preening, holier-than-thou liberal "elite" establishment asshats, I'm good with it no matter the stated reason.

Because fuck 'em, that's why.

Posted by: ballistic at May 27, 2025 01:17 PM (3BwY8)

142 Sheldon Snook sounds like a character from Harry Potter. He's a mid-level guy at the Ministry of Magic giving Harry a hard time.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 27, 2025 01:18 PM (eb5mD)

143 135 - Bill Nye (Shadow Environmental Protection Agency Admin.)
- Mark Cuban (Shadow Sec. of Commerce)
- Letitia James (Shadow AG)
- Gov. Katie Hobbs (Shadow Sec. of Education)
- John Fetterman’s wife (Shadow Sec. of Homeland Security)
- Jon Stewart (Shadow Sec. of Veteran Affairs
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (mlg/3)

==========

I love how the left is all, "Kennedy isn't even a doctor and he heads HHS!" but then they're also, "This mechanical engineer should be in charge of the EPA and this comedian should be in charge of the VA!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

144 Harvard will still be around, long after trump is nothing more than a shameful memory. And Most of that grant money is appropriated by Congress for the National Institutes of Health to disburse to fund biomedical research, however, which is not typically done at trade schools.

The MAGAots want worker bees, not scholarly intellectuals and top ranking attorneys

So basically, stuff like cancer research, mental health research, etc may be scrapped so we can train more plumbers and electricians?

In a Harvard vs Krasnov fight I like Harvard. This will not end well for Krasnov. Remember when Krasnov went up against E. Jean Carroll and her attorneys and he wound up 85 million dollars in the hole and was found guilty of sexual assault?

Harvard has some really good lawyers, shit piles of $, in this right vs wrong dispute Harvard is in the right, and the law is on Harvard’s side too.

If complicit and enabling Republicans were not in power we could rid the country of this criminal bastard through impeachment and removal.

Do not cave to this little tin god, Harvard. Fight for what's right.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 27, 2025 01:18 PM (JCZqz)

145 what contracts would the federal government even have with a university? Does this include DOE/DARPA/NSF grants as "contracts"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Probably. The office that handles them is frequently called "grants and contracts". And the grants themselves involve contracts.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:18 PM (hB7mE)

146 Skull and Bones club basically controls America, and I think that's their primary allegiance, not political parties, constituents, or America.

For the first century it was mostly Princeton but that place really corrupted and lost its way.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 12:56 PM (2VST1)
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Skull and Bones is Yale, isn't it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 27, 2025 01:18 PM (7fElN)

147 Sheldon Snook, a staffer for John Roberts, leaked the Dobbs decision.

Roberts protected Snook because he wanted to damage Trump.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 27, 2025 01:18 PM (nbLbZ)

148 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
This former Democrat and immigrant (who has a brother that went to Harvard) absolutely nailed it!

https://tinyurl.com/fz8xh68p

Posted by: redridinghood at May 27, 2025 01:18 PM (NpAcC)

149 Bondi should or should not do

************

Bondi absolutely should spank me, because I’ve been bad

Preferably with a nerf bat, since I bruise easily

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (HYKHz)

150 144 The MAGAots want worker bees, not scholarly intellectuals and top ranking attorneys

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 27, 2025 01:18 PM (JCZqz)

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Do scholarly individuals need cry rooms when someone they don't like wins the presidency?

Asking for a Harvard grad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

151 More like Pam Barrndi, if we're being honest.

Posted by: New America at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (7QPFF)

152 Harvard reportedly is retaliating by setting up online courses in how Trump is a dictator. LOL.

One of their top administrators told the students to give all Trump supporters hell until the policy is changed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (2VST1)

153 Why should Harvard be singled out? Columbia is same.

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (g47mK)

154
The point of Harvard is to establish a caste system. It has nothing to do with education, training, skills or knowledge.

I worked at a start up a while back.

The CTO was a brilliant guy, trained at MIT.

The CEO? Harvard educated. Ehh, he didn't bring much technically and wasn't even much of a leader...but he did bring a big, loaded, rolodex full of connections that would invest money in the company.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (t0Rmr)

155 The MAGAots want worker bees, not scholarly intellectuals and top ranking attorneys

Absolutely...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (VE6XX)

156 "Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed officials to stop scheduling appointments with student visa applicants as they prepare to implement a social media vetting process, according to a cable obtained by Politico."

I could well be wrong for various reasons and don't of course know all the mechanics and back-story here, but seems this directive should have been as closely-guarded as possible. Just imagine the terabytes of social media stuff being deleted since this became public!

Imagine this cable was at a low level of classification, as most consular traffic is (where's moki to edumucate me?). Anyway. Elon should have his hamsters at Twitter closely monitor deletion activity in the likely demos.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (1m82a)

157 "This reads like a comedy

@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Democrat pitches the idea of a ‘shadow cabinet’ to help thwart President Trump’s agenda, which includes:

Posted by: weft-cut loop"

They forgot David Hogg as Commissar of Young Male Outreach

Posted by: Ripley at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (GUOwU)

158 Skull and Bones is Yale, isn't it?

Might be but you can bet there's an equivalent in Harvard

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (2VST1)

159 I just saw a headline "Harvard Revokes Tenure for Ethics Professor Accused of Fraud".

You can't make this stuff up, can you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (dPfyF)

160 Teamwork makes the dream work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I'm to leverage this lead pipe upside your head.

Posted by: Six Sigma Black Belt muthafucka at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (TbWk/)

161 139- who he posts about. plus he's a moron- and not in a good way -if he thinks that most conservative Christians are anti semetic,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (1cykI)

162 what contracts would the federal government even have with a university? Does this include DOE/DARPA/NSF grants as "contracts"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Probably. The office that handles them is frequently called "grants and contracts". And the grants themselves involve contracts.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:18 PM (hB7mE)
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Where I work, the Office of Sponsored Programs handles all the federal research grants and contracts, of which we have A LOT. The upper admin is freaking out over the cutbacks from 56% overhead to a maximum of 15%.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (7fElN)

163 off topic: thank you president biden! a great success! headline seen at a canadian website called the walrus:

The Taliban Are Turning Boys’ Schools into Jihadist Training Grounds

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (CWTWj)

164 I just saw a headline "Harvard Revokes Tenure for Ethics Professor Accused of Fraud".

==

LOL!

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (g47mK)

165 78 Now it can be told.

Tony Seruga@TonySeruga
It sure is looking like Sheldon Snook leaked the Dobbs decision.
He is the husband of Mary McCord who’s the center of every op to get Trump.
Snook was on John Roberts’s staff.
Roberts protected Snook because he wanted to damage Trump.
Just like Roberts protected the Ukraine
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Available In Super Size! at May 27, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
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That would be something if proven true.

No wonder Patel is opening an investigation at SCOTUS after all the bad decisions from Roberts regarding illegal immigrations.

Posted by: WisRich at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (G0vdT)

166 Denied!!
- Hawaiian Judge

You it’s coming.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (Y7qnM)

167 Does this MXMNews have Harvard grads in its employ? That might explain their grating “you’re too stupid to read our news” style.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (dSBTP)

168 - John Fetterman’s wife (Shadow Sec. of Homeland Security)

Outside the best places to pull a train in Sao Paulo what the hell does she bring to the team?

Posted by: I mean really? at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (t0Rmr)

169 Skull and Bones is Yale, isn't it?

*************

I saw Skull and Bones perform Yale at the Red Rocks Concert in 82

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (HYKHz)

170 The soft disciplines at our universities once served as culture carriers from one generation to the next. This is no longer true.

The hard disciplines expanded our understanding of the physical world which often paid momentous dividends. This is becoming less true.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (Gqoy+)

171 I'm to leverage this lead pipe upside your head.
Posted by: Six Sigma Black Belt muthafucka at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (TbWk/)

That's not very synergistic of you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:21 PM (VoAdT)

172 All trolls are Average Joe.

Posted by: toby928 reminds you at May 27, 2025 01:21 PM (jc0TO)

173 Snook rhymes with...

Posted by: Like a limerick at May 27, 2025 01:21 PM (cPemv)

174 The MAGAots want worker bees, not scholarly intellectuals and top ranking attorneys

So basically, stuff like cancer research, mental health research, etc may be scrapped so we can train more plumbers and electricians?

You can just taste the elitism here. "What do those little people matter? They aren't even college educated!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:21 PM (2VST1)

175 I just saw a headline "Harvard Revokes Tenure for Ethics Professor Accused of Fraud".

You can't make this stuff up, can you?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Ethics departments are almost entirely composed of devout leftists who seek to justify every immoral and unethical thing.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 27, 2025 01:21 PM (mlg/3)

176 There are a half dozen judges elbowing their way into a scrap to be the first to slap injunctions.

Badge of honor.

The Resistance is a religion.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 27, 2025 01:22 PM (KiBMU)

177 Posted by: New America at May 27, 2025 01:10 PM (7QPFF

Maybe somebody knows what that nickname for Bondi meant. I don't, troll.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2025 01:22 PM (1cykI)

178 We have 2 professional trolls and two amateur trolls.

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:22 PM (g47mK)

179 All trolls are Average Joe.

And Average Joe ..... .... .. ......

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:22 PM (t0Rmr)

180 174 So basically, stuff like cancer research, mental health research, etc may be scrapped so we can train more plumbers and electricians?

You can just taste the elitism here. "What do those little people matter? They aren't even college educated!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:21 PM (2VST1)

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"All the trillions spent on cancer research hasn't lead to a cure, but that doesn't mean that there should be any change at all to the system of research around it. Also, my toilet is overflowing, and I have no idea how to fix it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

181 I could well be wrong for various reasons and don't of course know all the mechanics and back-story here, but seems this directive should have been as closely-guarded as possible. Just imagine the terabytes of social media stuff being deleted since this became public!

I have to imagine some Federal agency has been sucking up and storing social media postings from around the world for intelligence gathering purposes. It'll be funny to see it repurposed for this use lol.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 27, 2025 01:22 PM (JCZqz)

182 4 He also said he might divert all money formerly earmarked for Harvard to trade schools.

That just might help with manufacturing more than anything else.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 27, 2025 01:23 PM (dSBTP)

183 There is nothing at Harvard that 98% of students can't get at a respectable state school.
......

Except for exceptionally virulent strains of Monkey Pox.

Posted by: wth at May 27, 2025 01:23 PM (UjdFS)

184 If you put 1000 "intellectuals" on a functioning farm how long before they all starve to death?

I give them 3 weeks.

Posted by: Reforger at May 27, 2025 01:23 PM (xcIvR)

185 Why should Harvard be singled out? Columbia is same.

Columbia's administration is leaning on its loony HAMAS types though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:23 PM (2VST1)

186 Strategic Meme Reserve?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:23 PM (VoAdT)

187 Daily Mail-

The Trump Administration has ordered US embassies to halt all student visa applications as the president cracks down on America's higher education business.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed officials to stop scheduling appointments with student visa applicants as they prepare to implement a social media vetting process,
according to a cable obtained by Politico.

https://tinyurl.com/2ymjbz4n

Posted by: redridinghood at May 27, 2025 01:23 PM (NpAcC)

188 One of their top administrators told the students to give all Trump supporters hell until the policy is changed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM

Hostile learning environment, Exhibit A....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:23 PM (dPfyF)

189 In fairness there has been progress in fighting various cancers, though obviously the current system has failed to produce a general cure...which it has been promising for 30 years now is just around the corner.

Though to take this in a different direction, the clot shot has probably killed more people via cancer, already, then all those saved with the various cures and treatments developed over the last 30 years.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM (t0Rmr)

190 > LeadingReport
BREAKING: Democrat pitches the idea of a ‘shadow cabinet’ to help thwart President Trump’s agenda, which includes:
--------
Sounds sorta' insurrectionary....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM (Q4IgG)

191 185 Why should Harvard be singled out? Columbia is same.

Columbia's administration is leaning on its loony HAMAS types though
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:23 PM (2VST1)

======

It's Alinsky.

Choose a target. Freeze it. Personalize it. Polarize it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

192 171 I'm to leverage this lead pipe upside your head.
Posted by: Six Sigma Black Belt muthafucka at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (TbWk/)

That's not very synergistic of you.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:21 PM (VoAdT)

But it is my core competency.

Posted by: Six Sigma Black Belt muthafucka at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM (TbWk/)

193 Sheldon Snook, a staffer for John Roberts, leaked the Dobbs decision.

Roberts protected Snook because he wanted to damage Trump.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider,

Snook is Roberts minder.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM (Uzn0I)

194 as they prepare to implement a social media vetting process,
according to a cable obtained by Politico.

And how did they "obtain" it ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM (VE6XX)

195 fight fiercely harvard, fight fight fight

tom lehrer c maybe 1960

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM (CWTWj)

196 Posted by: redridinghood at May 27, 2025 01:23 PM (NpAcC)

HA! @2

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM (g47mK)

197 4 He also said he might divert all money formerly earmarked for Harvard to trade schools.

###
Call Mike Rowe.

Posted by: Dirty Jobs at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM (cPemv)

198 If you put 1000 "intellectuals" on a functioning farm how long before they all starve to death?

I give them 3 weeks.

Nah. Some bioethics professor will declare cannibalism is a moral imperative and he and his best buddies will be fat and happy 3 weeks in

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:25 PM (t0Rmr)

199 Harvard has elite "finals" clubs ike Porcellian. And Princeton has its eating clubs. They do without the silly rituals of Yale's secret societies.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2025 01:25 PM (Gqoy+)

200 Breaking: Trump announces another geographical name change...

Harvard Square will henceforth be known Trump Square

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 27, 2025 01:25 PM (w9Wax)

201 The Dems have had a shadow government since forever.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 27, 2025 01:25 PM (NVNRw)

202 I have to imagine some Federal agency has been sucking up and storing social media postings from around the world for intelligence gathering purposes. It'll be funny to see it repurposed for this use lol.
Posted by: Military Moron at May 27, 2025 01:22 PM

I want to hear them howl about it after NY demanded access to social media accounts for firearm permit applicants.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:25 PM (dPfyF)

203 Fuck Harvard and all the commie bastards within it.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 27, 2025 01:25 PM (wtvvX)

204 Speaking of trolling, the Democrats spent 20 million on studying how young men talk, culture, speech patterns, etc. That money sounds like a hilarious waste by elitist idiots but people aren't seeing this clearly.

They spent it to train AI so they can flood the internet with AI bots that seem like young men.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:25 PM (2VST1)

205 24 Harvard reportedly is retaliating by setting up online courses in how Trump is a dictator. LOL.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

How do they square that with Trump leaving office in 2021 and reentering via precious “democracy” (institutions of a republic) in 2025?

Must take a Hahvahd education to understand, I’m just a dummy that went to a public u.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 27, 2025 01:25 PM (dSBTP)

206 "I'm to leverage this lead pipe upside your head.
Posted by: Six Sigma Black Belt muthafucka"

We need more thinking outside the box like this.

Posted by: Ripley at May 27, 2025 01:26 PM (GUOwU)

207 Massachusetts state senator Cynthia Creem
Posted by: Ian S.

She's using her OnlyFans handle in real life?

Posted by: mikeski at May 27, 2025 01:26 PM (MLShG)

208 I like the idea of shadow cabinets. Since personnel is policy, the opposition should tell the voters what they would be getting.

Posted by: toby928 at May 27, 2025 01:26 PM (jc0TO)

209 shadow cabinet: because of her shape debbie wasserman schlitz will be secretary of the dept of cellos

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 27, 2025 01:26 PM (CWTWj)

210 No wonder Patel is opening an investigation at SCOTUS after all the bad decisions from Roberts regarding illegal immigrations.
Posted by: WisRich at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (G0vdT)

Prosecuting Roberts. The notion is too delicious.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2025 01:26 PM (vsTPo)

211 They spent it to train AI so they can flood the internet with AI bots that seem like young men./i]

This is what they've been invaliding elections on in Europe. "The other guy had Russian bots posting memes!"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:26 PM (t0Rmr)

212 The MAGAots want worker bees, not scholarly intellectuals and top ranking attorneys

Absolutely...
Posted by: It's me donna

We have seen their top ranking attorneys and judges.

Not impressed.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (UmrY7)

213 I like the idea of shadow cabinets. Since personnel is policy, the opposition should tell the voters what they would be getting.

That's an excellent point.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (s8j++)

214 Bring back Metal, Plastic and Wood shops in JR High and High School.

You know why those went away?

First: schools decided that all kids would go to college.
Second: schools didn't want the liability of their undisciplinable babysitees goofing off around power tools.

It only takes one future screw up "accidentally" shooting his "friend" with a nail gun to cause lawsuits that no school district wants to deal with.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (hB7mE)

215 20 18 Warai beat me to it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2025 12:48 PM (bss/y)

Teamwork makes the dream work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 12:48 PM (VoAdT)

heh

Posted by: m at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (CQE5S)

216 Yvonne Craig is playing the hot but crazy green Orion girl on the Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" on H & I.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2025 08:12 PM (omVj0)

He should name all the trade schools after Harvard. Harvard Plumbing, Harvard electrical wiring

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (8avO+)

217 re 208: bugs bunny: i already have a bad name for the easter bunny

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (CWTWj)

218 it is known that many companies comb social media of their prospective hires

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:28 PM (g47mK)

219 harvard school of pole dancing

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 27, 2025 01:28 PM (CWTWj)

220 How do they square that with Trump leaving office in 2021 and reentering via precious “democracy” (institutions of a republic) in 2025?
**
How does the Left square anything? They don't. They just say FU and move right along with their plans.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2025 01:28 PM (vsTPo)

221 fight fiercely harvard, fight fight fight

tom lehrer c maybe 1960
Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 27, 2025 01:24 PM

Bright College Days (To the tables down at Morrie's, wherever that may be...)

Never fails to make me laugh.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:28 PM (dPfyF)

222 The letter criticizes Harvard's race-based admissions practices, referencing the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, where admissions rates reportedly varied significantly by race: 56% for African Americans, 31% for Hispanics, 15% for Whites, and 13% for Asians.

I don't understand this. The admission rate overall for Harvard is 3.2 %.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:28 PM (s8j++)

223 @191

How do you thrive in GenPop prison?

On your first day, you pick out the seeming baddest prisoner (this would be Harvard) and then beat him over the head with a folding chair until he's senseless. Then you throw in a few boot stomps for good measure.

Then you tell the others they're next if they piss you off.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2025 01:29 PM (Gqoy+)

224 220 How do they square that with Trump leaving office in 2021 and reentering via precious “democracy” (institutions of a republic) in 2025?
**
How does the Left square anything? They don't. They just say FU and move right along with their plans.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2025 01:28 PM (vsTPo)

======

"He chose to run for election again instead of accepting his loss. That proves he hates the people and their choices. I can't wait to vote for Kamala to beat Vance."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

225 181 I have to imagine some Federal agency has been sucking up and storing social media postings from around the world for intelligence gathering purposes.

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: nsa data farm in draper, utah at May 27, 2025 01:29 PM (sGtp+)

226 as they prepare to implement a social media vetting process,
according to a cable obtained by Politico.

And how did they "obtain" it ?
Posted by: It's me donna

... look it upon the Internet like everyone else does?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:29 PM (hB7mE)

227 The MAGAots want worker bees, not scholarly intellectuals and top ranking attorneys

Absolutely...
Posted by: It's me donna

We have seen their top ranking attorneys and judges.

Not impressed.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (UmrY7)

"scholarly" - need to be redefined to mean ignorant and terrorist supporting

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:29 PM (8avO+)

228 Mike Rowe not long ago said he was contacted by an industry group desperately looking for thousands of machinists. Specific issue? Building our submarines (two classes). He said he had little to help them with.

A pretty stark if not shocking measure of our situation.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 01:30 PM (1m82a)

229

I got to say, I love the nature of the fight (implement meritocracy), and I love that it's Harvard (go big or go home), but we all know that some judge is just going to put a hold on it for no good, articulatable reason. If that's the case, how much of this is just political theater, stuff like the Republicans used to do in the House when Obama was president?

Posted by: imp at May 27, 2025 01:30 PM (g6TN6)

230 183 There is nothing at Harvard that 98% of students can't get at a respectable state school.
......
Except for exceptionally virulent strains of Monkey Pox.
Posted by: wth

Except for the insufferable smugness of saying you went to Harvard.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 27, 2025 01:30 PM (JCZqz)

231 Bring back Metal, Plastic and Wood shops in JR High and High School.

You know why those went away?

First: schools decided that all kids would go to college.
Second: schools didn't want the liability of their undisciplinable babysitees goofing off around power tools.

It only takes one future screw up "accidentally" shooting his "friend" with a nail gun to cause lawsuits that no school district wants to deal with.

Then we need to let them learn on safer stuff like electrical wiring.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:30 PM (s8j++)

232 "scholarly" - need to be redefined to mean ignorant and terrorist supporting
Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:29 PM (8avO+)

Scholiosis.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:30 PM (VoAdT)

233 Can we have one fucking thread without a reference to what Bondi should or should not do and file (whatever that means) , who she should arrest, or throw in jail, and how fast she needs to do it to meet your exacting standards? thanks in advance.
Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:16 PM (g47mK)

Of course not, that would lose a single chance to wedge MAGA against itself and Trump.

Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 01:30 PM (D7oie)

234 212 The MAGAots want worker bees, not scholarly intellectuals and top ranking attorneys

Absolutely...
Posted by: It's me donna

Intellectuals who convince themselves that boys can become girls cause they want to. Or switch back.

Saw an internet video once about how highly intelligent and educated people can come to hold the most preposterous ideas. Wish I knew how to link it. Kinda went like witches are made of stone or weigh as much as a duck thinking.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:31 PM (OA79/)

235 Tangentally related, Massachusetts state senator Cynthia Creem said the quiet part out loud: EVs aren't doing enough to stop the plebs from moving around without government permission, so the state will allocate everyone a small number of miles they're allowed to travel in a week and then their car should refuse to move.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 12:58 PM

Ah, yes...Cindy. One of our most virulently anti-gun pols. Can't have the subjects armed, can we?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:31 PM (dPfyF)

236 233
Of course not, that would lose a single chance to wedge MAGA against itself and Trump.
Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 01:30 PM (D7oie)

======

I've gone full anti-Trump because he hasn't yet undone the Life+70 copyright regime.

He's a hater of America!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

237 Harvard, where admissions rates reportedly varied significantly by race:

56% for African Americans,
31% for Hispanics,
15% for Whites, and
13% for Asians

!!!

Posted by: m at May 27, 2025 01:31 PM (CQE5S)

238 Military Moron, of course I thought of that, and hope that No Such Agency has room in UT for all the online ravings of the daughter of that MidEast interior minister who's always assumed she's Harvard-bound. Guess we'll see (or maybe we won't - we shouldn't know unless we're involved).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 01:31 PM (1m82a)

239 How do you know she's a witch?

Posted by: Monty Python at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (cPemv)

240 234 Saw an internet video once about how highly intelligent and educated people can come to hold the most preposterous ideas. Wish I knew how to link it. Kinda went like witches are made of stone or weigh as much as a duck thinking.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:31 PM (OA79/)

=======

The best version of this is the original:

Plato's Republic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

241 Can we have one fucking thread without a reference to what Bondi should or should not do and file (whatever that means) , who she should arrest, or throw in jail, and how fast she needs to do it to meet your exacting standards? thanks in advance.
Posted by: runner

It would be nice if the same applied to random, irrelevant slurs against Ukraine. I don't expect that either.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (s8j++)

242 The left will scream that trade school aid won't help with anti semitism because no Jewish kid wants to be a plumber. Maybe, but Jews have a history in the carpenter trades.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (gm9Sb)

243 - John Fetterman’s wife (Shadow Sec. of Homeland Security)

Outside the best places to pull a train in Sao Paulo what the hell does she bring to the team?

She hates Jews and Israel. That's a solid qualification in today's Democrat Party.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (2ocoG)

244 It only takes one future screw up "accidentally" shooting his "friend" with a nail gun to cause lawsuits that no school district wants to deal with.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (hB7mE)

Hey. It WAS an accident and we didn't even tell the damn teacher.

Posted by: Reforger @ 13yo at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (xcIvR)

245 241 It would be nice if the same applied to random, irrelevant slurs against Ukraine. I don't expect that either.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (s8j++)

======

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

246 About 6 years ago I worked on putting together a facility for boys to come and learn very basic skills. Read a tape measure, handsaw and drill usage, learn to drive nails. Had the facility and all the tools. Insurance killed that project dead.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (NVNRw)

247 What are the odds that Roberts retires alleging that his his of "seizures" has worsened"? If he protected Snook after the leak , which caused that crazy kid to try and kill Kavanaugh there is no way he can stay on. His fellow Republican named judges will ask him to leave

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (eDGGN)

248 It would be nice if the same applied to random, irrelevant slurs against Ukraine. I don't expect that either.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (s8j++)

It's not Ukraine.. It's Zelenskyy for me... I feel badly for the Citizens

Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (VE6XX)

249 Then you tell the others they're next if they piss you off.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2025 01:29 PM (Gqoy+)

You kick a guys ass, everyone else lines up to be the guy who kicks your ass.

You tear off a pinky and start gnawing on it like a chicken wing, sure you'll spend some time in the hole, but no one's gonna wanna mess with that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (VoAdT)

250 I like the idea of shadow cabinets. Since personnel is policy, the opposition should tell the voters what they would be getting.

That's an excellent point.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (s8j++)

That works in a parliamentary system where the other side needs to be ready to go at a moments notice, but less so in the US where the all policy flows from the President who is often not even in government.

Would you want to see a shadow cabinet run by Mitch McConnell?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (8avO+)

251 You know why those went away?

First: schools decided that all kids would go to college.
Second: schools didn't want the liability of their undisciplinable babysitees goofing off around power tools.

There's a third reason:

They wanted the budget for that to move into other areas like wymyn'd studies and Pride Month

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (2VST1)

252 The Guardian: US federal judges consider creating own armed security force as threats mount. Federal judges are discussing a proposal that would shift the armed security personnel responsible for their safety away from the Department of Justice (DoJ) and under their own control, as fears mount that the Trump administration is failing to protect them from a rising tide of hostility.

That would involve bringing the US marshals service under the direct control of the head of the judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts. At present, marshals fall under the remit of Pam Bondi, the US attorney general. Bondi was appointed by the president and is a Trump loyalist. She has made clear she will be guided by him – breaking a decades-long norm that kept the White House at arm’s length from the DoJ to ensure law enforcement and prosecutorial independence.

US Marshals showed themselves from day one as Trump's Nazi Gestapo. Helping Musk illegally break into buildings and harassing people.

This is what judges get for coddling Trump. As a convicted felon he shouldn't have been allowed on the ballot but John Roberts and crew failed to follow the Constitution.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (JCZqz)

253 I hope we see double digit school closings before the start of the new school year, mostly because colleges can't get foreign students.

We have too many colleges.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

254 re 240: how many really intelligent people reject western religion as fantasy but firmly believe in marxism? lots i bet

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 27, 2025 01:34 PM (CWTWj)

255 252 This is what judges get for coddling Trump. As a convicted felon he shouldn't have been allowed on the ballot but John Roberts and crew failed to follow the Constitution.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (JCZqz)

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wut?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

256 216 Yvonne Craig is playing the hot but crazy green Orion girl on the Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" on H & I.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2025 08:12 PM (omVj0)

He should name all the trade schools after Harvard. Harvard Plumbing, Harvard electrical wiring
Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (8avO+

Lol. But spell it Havahd.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:34 PM (OA79/)

257 It would be nice if the same applied to random, irrelevant slurs against Ukraine. I don't expect that either.
Posted by: Archimedes
......

My mail order bride has still not shipped.

Posted by: wth at May 27, 2025 01:35 PM (v0R5T)

258 184 If you put 1000 "intellectuals" on a functioning farm how long before they all starve to death?

Douglas Adams did it

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at May 27, 2025 01:35 PM (F/35S)

259 I've gone full anti-Trump because he hasn't yet undone the Life+70 copyright regime.

He's a hater of America!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

two words, DST

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:35 PM (g47mK)

260 That works in a parliamentary system where the other side needs to be ready to go at a moments notice, but less so in the US where the all policy flows from the President who is often not even in government.

Would you want to see a shadow cabinet run by Mitch McConnell?

I'm not suggesting they'd take power immediately, but it would provide a history to point to when it's time to run. Yes, I would like a shadow cabinet run by MM. That would let us know that we don't want an administration run by MM, so the GOP better get off its ass and find someone better.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:35 PM (s8j++)

261
US Marshals showed themselves from day one as Trump's Nazi Gestapo. Helping Musk illegally break into buildings and harassing people.

This is what judges get for coddling Trump. As a convicted felon he shouldn't have been allowed on the ballot but John Roberts and crew failed to follow the Constitution.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (JCZqz)

It's scary to think that there is anyone who believes this crap...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:35 PM (VE6XX)

262 You go to Harvard to network. Anything else is incidental

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2025 01:35 PM (Gqoy+)

263 It would be nice if the same applied to random, irrelevant slurs against Ukraine. I don't expect that either.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:32 PM (s8j++)

It's not Ukraine.. It's Zelenskyy for me... I feel badly for the Citizens
Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (VE6XX)

Yes, the troops, even the Nazi ones don't deserve to just be bled out holding every podunk town to the death for a line on the map Z can boast about to the EU leaders while he begs for money the troops hardly see.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:35 PM (8avO+)

264 We have too many colleges.

Yup. We also have way too many stores and malls.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:36 PM (s8j++)

265 He should name all the trade schools after Harvard. Harvard Plumbing, Harvard electrical wiring
Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:27 PM (8avO+

Lol. But spell it Havahd.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:34 PM (OA79/)
----
Yep. That way you avoid any lawsuits over trademark infringement. "Harvard" is a brand like "Trump." The NAME is important, but if you spell it and pronounce it slightly different, you can get away with a lot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (7fElN)

266 Harvard, where admissions rates reportedly varied significantly by race:

56% for African Americans,
31% for Hispanics,
15% for Whites, and
13% for Asians

!!!
Posted by: m at May 27, 2025 01:31 PM

(Mumblemumble) years ago when I was applying to law schools, I recall Yale's catalog having a breakdown of their acceptance rates by GPA/LSAT score. My first thought was, now show me the racial numbers. There will be a non-favorable to Yale correlation.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (dPfyF)

267
There's a third reason:

They wanted the budget for that to move into other areas like wymyn'd studies and Pride Month
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:33 PM (2VST1)

This. There is so much about public "education" that has nothing to do with preparing a student for some gainful employment skills. Just indoctrination.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (OA79/)

268 We had a shadow cabinet run by Newt Gingrich. It gave voters a "contract with America" which Republicans could run on. Right now we just have the usual protection-racket "vote for us or a Dem might win".

Posted by: gKWVE at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (gKWVE)

269
BREAKING: Democrat pitches the idea of a ‘shadow cabinet’ to help thwart President Trump’s agenda

They sure pitched a bitch when Rush Limbaugh said he hoped Obama failed.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (63Dwl)

270 Would you want to see a shadow cabinet run by Mitch McConnell?

I'm not suggesting they'd take power immediately, but it would provide a history to point to when it's time to run. Yes, I would like a shadow cabinet run by MM. That would let us know that we don't want an administration run by MM, so the GOP better get off its ass and find someone better.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:35 PM (s8j++)

What use is a history by people who will not be doing the job themselves and might even be in opposition?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (8avO+)

271 264 We have too many colleges.

Yup. We also have way too many stores and malls.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:36 PM (s8j++)

=======

Well, in the case of stores and malls, they're not federal subsidized through loans that aren't dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

272 DU is bots.

Posted by: Change my mind at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (cPemv)

273 >>We have too many colleges.

>Yup. We also have way too many stores and malls.

Don't get me started on Deoderants!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (hJb7m)

274 It's scary to think that there is anyone who believes this crap...
Posted by: It's me donna

It's so tiring. I don't know how anyone can be a preschool teacher.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (UmrY7)

275 (Mumblemumble) years ago when I was applying to law schools, I recall Yale's catalog having a breakdown of their acceptance rates by GPA/LSAT score. My first thought was, now show me the racial numbers. There will be a non-favorable to Yale correlation.

My daughter did her part. HLS offered her a slot, but she turned them down.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (s8j++)

276 I like the idea of shadow cabinets. Since personnel is policy, the opposition should tell the voters what they would be getting.

Think of the possibilities- twice the opportunity to lie to you!

Posted by: The GOPe at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (0w7Of)

277 We are ready to step into the breach.

Posted by: Carefully focused, pertinent slurs against Ukraine at May 27, 2025 01:38 PM (1m82a)

278 This. There is so much about public "education" that has nothing to do with preparing a student for some gainful employment skills. Just indoctrination.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (OA79/)

A lot of this is because the teachers have never had gainful employment themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:38 PM (8avO+)

279 > Mike Rowe not long ago said he was contacted by an industry group desperately looking for thousands of machinists. Specific issue? Building our submarines (two classes). He said he had little to help them with.

Machinists have been getting fooked on salary for a long time. People with two years of school and a decade of experience are getting less than standard office drone jobs.

Pay varies wildly by region, but $32-35 per hour seems pretty standard. Lots of guys report they can get all the OT they want, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 27, 2025 01:38 PM (lIio7)

280 We have too many colleges.

>Yup. We also have way too many stores and malls.

We have too many democrats.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 01:38 PM (UmrY7)

281 Had the facility and all the tools. Insurance killed that project dead.
Posted by: Ben Had

One would think that the same kind of waiver that lets people participate in sports would be adequate...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:38 PM (hB7mE)

282 163 off topic: thank you president biden! a great success! headline seen at a canadian website called the walrus:
The Taliban Are Turning Boys’ Schools into Jihadist Training Grounds
Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (CWTWj)

At least Congress has bills ready-to-go to quit funding them...
...ah crap.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 27, 2025 01:39 PM (gKWVE)

283 What use is a history by people who will not be doing the job themselves and might even be in opposition?

At the very least, you can grill them when they're actually running. For example, "In 2024, you said you'd do X. In fact, now you're saying you'll do Y. Explain why I should vote for a prevaricating liar."

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:39 PM (s8j++)

284 Pay varies wildly by region, but $32-35 per hour seems pretty standard. Lots of guys report they can get all the OT they want, though.
Posted by: bonhomme

... how the hell is $32-35 per hour less than a standard office drone job?

Posted by: $17.50 per hour office drone at May 27, 2025 01:40 PM (hB7mE)

285 How on earth are the courts supposed to change law and change how the US Marshal service is structured? LOL I believe the Guardian might be that ignorant of the way America works but allegedly Americans at the DU should know betrer

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:40 PM (2VST1)

286 271 264 We have too many colleges.

Yup. We also have way too many stores and malls.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:36 PM (s8j++)

=======

Well, in the case of stores and malls, they're not federal subsidized through loans that aren't dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

Too many degrees that have no career path other than government drone. Blank studies.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:40 PM (OA79/)

287 I've no doubt that Roberts is Deep State, having made his career with early connections to Bush 41 and Bush 43. "W" nominated him for SCOTUS and then upgraded his nomination to Chief Justice when Rehnquist stepped down. Roberts oversees the FISA court and gave it license to spy using all the resources of the NSA.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (Gqoy+)

288 Harvard, where admissions rates reportedly varied significantly by race:

56% for African Americans,
31% for Hispanics,
15% for Whites, and
13% for Asians

Those aren't even comparing equal candidates. Asian candidates know not to even apply unless their GPA is over 4.0 and their SAT/ACT is in the top 3%. AA candidates give it a shot even with 3.5 GPA and SAT/ACT in the top 15%.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (lIio7)

289 Pay varies wildly by region, but $32-35 per hour seems pretty standard. Lots of guys report they can get all the OT they want, though.

As of May 2025, the average annual salary for employees at IAM Boeing in the United States is $94,246. This translates to an approximate hourly wage of $45. Salaries at IAM Boeing typically range from $82,417 to $107,843 annually

https://www.salary.com/research/company/iam-boeing-salary

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (s8j++)

290 How on earth are the courts supposed to change law and change how the US Marshal service is structured? LOL I believe the Guardian might be that ignorant of the way America works but allegedly Americans at the DU should know betrer
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 01:40 PM (2VST1)
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These days, all it takes is one Hawaiian Judge issuing a decree to make it so.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (7fElN)

291 Had the facility and all the tools. Insurance killed that project dead.
Posted by: Ben Had

One would think that the same kind of waiver that lets people participate in sports would be adequate...
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Waiver:
You follow the rules, you might get hurt.
You fuck around, you will get hurt.
Same as on a job site. Do you accept these possibilities?

Yes ___
No ___
Signature: __________

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (UmrY7)

292 Where I work, the Office of Sponsored Programs handles all the federal research grants and contracts, of which we have A LOT. The upper admin is freaking out over the cutbacks from 56% overhead to a maximum of 15%.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (7fElN)

I suspect the various Unis are going to have to justify their overhead, and why the grants are the only possible source for them.

Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (D7oie)

293 It's not Ukraine.. It's Zelenskyy for me... I feel badly for the Citizens

OTOH, the citizens thought Z's dick piano act was high comedy. On video it's more like Gallagher except the people in the front row *really* don't want to get splashed with any fluids that happen.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (2ocoG)

294 Who thinks we'd have the same number of colleges today if the federal government hadn't subsidized student loans for decades?

Who thinks the market would bear the same number of colleges?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

295 We have too many colleges.
>Yup. We also have way too many stores and malls.
We have too many democrats.

We have too much life.

Posted by: Thanos, snapping fingers at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (w9Wax)

296 253 I hope we see double digit school closings before the start of the new school year, mostly because colleges can't get foreign students.

We have too many colleges.
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My Alma Mater is closing cuz of shrinking demand. My son's college saw a 34% drop in this year's freshman class. It is already happening. Funny how inflation kills everything.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (n17eQ)

297 It's scary to think that there is anyone who believes this crap...
Posted by: It's me donna

It's so tiring. I don't know how anyone can be a preschool teacher.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM (UmrY7)

They are less spoiled at that age. In HS we had a program to introduce Latin to the elementary schools and the young class was wildly interested. In another year we had to do it to the discipline/learning difficulty class in the HS which was a lot tougher.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (8avO+)

298 > ... how the hell is $32-35 per hour less than a standard office drone job?

Sorry, my Seattle area bias came through.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (lIio7)

299 My Alma Mater is closing cuz of shrinking demand. My son's college saw a 34% drop in this year's freshman class. It is already happening. Funny how inflation kills everything.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (n17eQ)

Men are checking out and the ladies looking for men will follow.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM (8avO+)

300 I'm shocked. 82 yr old David Geffen is divorcing his 32 yr old former go-go dancer husband. Outside of sodomy what could they have in common.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM (eDGGN)

301 My daughter did her part. HLS offered her a slot, but she turned them down.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:37 PM

A wise move. I have a colleague from HLS. Apparently they don't teach writing skills there anymore (I'm the office go-to proofreader and grammar/style Nazi. Let me tell you...I've seen things...horrible things...).

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (dPfyF)

302 The upper admin is freaking out over the cutbacks from 56% overhead to a maximum of 15%.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Same at my place. The universities are going to have to start making service contracts with their faculty specifying how much building and low-level admin support they get, instead of just charging a percentage.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (hB7mE)

303 Skull and Bones Society is Yale. A lot of evil coming out of there too.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (wBaIH)

304 You're paying an awful lot of college tuition for basic classes I can give you free of charge.

Posted by: YouTube at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (cPemv)

305 > As of May 2025, the average annual salary for employees at IAM Boeing in the United States is $94,246. This translates to an approximate hourly wage of $45. Salaries at IAM Boeing typically range from $82,417 to $107,843 annually

Boeing is a top tier machinists job. Anything aerospace is going to be creme de la creme.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (lIio7)

306 I'm shocked. 82 yr old David Geffen is divorcing his 32 yr old former go-go dancer husband. Outside of sodomy what could they have in common.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM

A love of rum?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (dPfyF)

307 I recommend this post. It's really well written.

When every professor votes the same way, thinks the same way, and enforces the same narratives you don’t have a university. You have a priesthood.

https://is.gd/fMvacW

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (s8j++)

308 divorcing his 32 yr old former go-go dancer husband. Outside of sodomy what could they have in common.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM

A love of rum?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Don't forget about me!

Posted by: The lash at May 27, 2025 01:45 PM (JCZqz)

309 Where I work, the Office of Sponsored Programs handles all the federal research grants and contracts, of which we have A LOT. The upper admin is freaking out over the cutbacks from 56% overhead to a maximum of 15%.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (7fElN)

I suspect the various Unis are going to have to justify their overhead, and why the grants are the only possible source for them.
Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (D7oie)

There is no justification for those overheads. In the 90s I got a personal federal grant. University took out half of everything I bought with it. Others took more.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:45 PM (8avO+)

310 Boeing is a top tier machinists job. Anything aerospace is going to be creme de la creme.

Do you have to pay extra for bolting the doors on a plane.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (s8j++)

311 nood, anything for democracy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

312 Don't forget about me!
Posted by: The lash at May 27, 2025 01:45 PM

I deliberately left that one for someone else.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (dPfyF)

313 It is already happening. Funny how inflation kills everything.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Inflation, 40 years of aborting future college students and tax payers, active hostility to an entire half of the human race and the subtle encouragement of self-destruction of the other half...

It's kind of a perfect storm of chickens leaving the barn

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (hB7mE)

314 Even with a waiver the insurance cost was outrageous and since I was paying for all of this out of my own pocket they priced me out of doing it.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 27, 2025 01:47 PM (NVNRw)

315 It's possible the most inaccurate, misleading, or just plain stupid common term in use today is "activist" as applied to lawless judges. It simply has no descriptive value for what it purports to name.

These judges are just capricious political actors, typically lawless, at best just playing with the stupid court-made law they themselves have confected - and now not even following their own procedural guidelines. Their actions constitute sabotage of the (residual) constitutional system - brazen and indefensible sabotage.

"Activist" doesn't begin to convey anything of importance about their malfeasance. But like with so much else, even the "right" side of the discussion is addicted to poor language and false frameworks (because even they bring limited intellectual firepower to the table).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (1m82a)

316 Great move, but get rid of all of these payments to any colleges, and don’t give any to trade schools. That will just lead to more corruption. Let the free market do its thing.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (yT7Wa)

317 As of May 2025, the average annual salary for employees at IAM Boeing in the United States is $94,246. This translates to an approximate hourly wage of $45. Salaries at IAM Boeing typically range from $82,417 to $107,843 annually

Boeing is a top tier machinists job. Anything aerospace is going to be creme de la creme.
Posted by: bonhomme

I wonder how much SpaceX pays vs Boing Boing.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (UmrY7)

318 he upper admin is freaking out over the cutbacks from 56% overhead to a maximum of 15%.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Same at my place. The universities are going to have to start making service contracts with their faculty specifying how much building and low-level admin support they get, instead of just charging a percentage.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (hB7mE)

They definitely don't want to do that...because everyone will see how little they do for that money. Once when trying to get a custom set up computer using a real time Unix OS I had to go to war to keep the purchasing from trying to use his cousin's PC place which was charging double market rates.

I'd have paid to get them to leave me alone.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:49 PM (8avO+)

319 I'm shocked. 82 yr old David Geffen is divorcing his 32 yr old former go-go dancer husband. Outside of sodomy what could they have in common.

His money. Which I'm sure they both knew was the deal from the start just like Anna Nicole Smith and her billionaire geezer. I don't get why people seem so shocked by that kind of stuff as long as both parties are adults and know what they're getting into.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (/y8xj)

320 Boeing is a top tier machinists job. Anything aerospace is going to be creme de la creme.

Mechanical assembly... not so much.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 27, 2025 01:52 PM (/y8xj)

321 Pay varies wildly by region, but $32-35 per hour seems pretty standard. Lots of guys report they can get all the OT they want, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 27, 2025 01:38 PM (lIio7)

My son is doing $40 per hour in an Aviation shop. They turned me down and I taught him everything he knows. I'm too old I guess.
After 40 years doing that heavy crap I'm happy for my desk job.
Work is trying to get me into their maintenance department as I work swing and they figured out what I'm capable off. They are constantly making me do side projects. "When you have time could you..."
"Sure".
I knocked out 8 huge rolling double computer stands in about 2 hours and the whole maint dept took 8 to do 3. AND I cleaned up my (and their) fucking mess.
I just really don't want to do that crap anymore so I hauled ass and unintentionally made them look bad.

Posted by: Reforger at May 27, 2025 01:52 PM (xcIvR)

322 It's scary to think that there is anyone who believes this crap...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:35 PM (VE6XX)

They are talking about the US Institute of Peace (USIP) and if you want to find crazy stuff, go to Mike Benz' Twitter page and see his video on USIP and "regime change"

Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 01:53 PM (D7oie)

323 Let the trade wars begin! Many people forget that some of the dumbest, most unethical fucksticks are contractors in the trades.

Do you think all of these smarty pants college kids can handle what's going to happen with the unions and all of goons pretending to be contractors? The trades are filled with hacks and they're not going to give up their piece of the pie so readily.

The smartest guy in the room is always the guy who barely passed his GED. There will be lawlessness and violence.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (dqmL3)

324 Mike Benz' Twitter page and see his video on USIP and "regime change"
Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 01:53 PM (D7oie)

Peace is just English for "Islam".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (VoAdT)

325 309 Where I work, the Office of Sponsored Programs handles all the federal research grants and contracts, of which we have A LOT. The upper admin is freaking out over the cutbacks from 56% overhead to a maximum of 15%.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 27, 2025 01:20 PM (7fElN)
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Cleaning up the mess on aisle 9 that Barry Obama made. I like Trump killing the wounded. This is how you fight.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (n17eQ)

326 153 Why should Harvard be singled out? Columbia is same.
Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:19 PM (g47mK)

Columbia's worse.

Posted by: front toward enemy at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (TIizU)

327 OTOH, the citizens thought Z's dick piano act was high comedy.

We have no room to criticize, having made Jackass and Pauly Shore big hits.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:00 PM (2VST1)

328 have you tried my mom's bull's runny shit?
delicious

Posted by: aliassmithsmith at May 27, 2025 02:12 PM (ItFTg)

329 45 No legacy admissions.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 27, 2025 12:56 PM (D1vbu)

This is never going to happen.

Posted by: m at May 27, 2025 02:20 PM (CQE5S)

330 Re: Rubio announcing changes in visa review process.

Yes, this is the way to get around nosey judges. Just let government do it's normal practice of being an impediment of getting things done. And if it just so happens that Harvard's visa applications get especially slow, well sorry, not sorry.

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (2Dncg)

331
GREAT!

Now let's do the same thing to ALL universities and stop any new student loans, and ship the 99% of foreign students out of the country.

Then, we can watch as tuition prices go DOWN for...get this...

AMERICANS!

Posted by: Sapwolf at May 27, 2025 02:50 PM (5pS45)

332 Elon should have his hamsters at Twitter closely monitor deletion activity

Hopefully already was and the announcement was just to flush out problems. Why read everything every Tom, Achmed and Raj wrote when you can just skim what they're afraid of you finding.

Posted by: DaveA at May 27, 2025 02:54 PM (FhXTo)

333 Skull and Bones is Yale, not Harvard. You haven’t seen enmity until you have seen what Harvard men and Yalies think of each other.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 27, 2025 03:33 PM (wbjP0)

334 If Harvard Closes up for good we can turn it into a Homeless Shelter and the UN Facility as well

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 27, 2025 04:47 PM (wGqjj)

335 You don't have to be anti-Semitic to get into Harvard, but it helps.

Posted by: Claudine Gay at May 27, 2025 05:32 PM (47/pr)

336 You don't have to go to Harvard to be anti-Semitic, but it helps.

Posted by: Adolph Hitler at May 27, 2025 05:33 PM (47/pr)

337 For NemoMeImpuneLacessit: Some of the greatest comebacks in history occurred at the Harvard-Yale "The Game" Football games since 1875.
For example:
(1912): "I know you are, but what am I?"
(1937): "If you won't, maybe you should!"
(1983): "That's what yo Mama said!"

Good Golly!!!

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 27, 2025 07:44 PM (LKMDZ)

338 Trump is still sore that the Lampoon, (founded 1876) tricked him and his early naive staff during the first weeks of his nascent campaign to believe that the campus rival (and even more liberal) daily newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, would ENDORSE Trump. They did a fake photoshoot at Trump Tower with Trump sitting in the, ahem, stolen, Crimson's large oak "presidents'" chair giving a thumbs-up. Pretty good college prank. However, as fair play, they should throw him an honorary member dinner just to get back at Harvard. He would then join James Montgomery Flagg, John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Randy Macho Man Savage, Mr. T., Linda Lovelace, Brooke Shields as honoraries. Even the Hawk Tu'ah girl got invited.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 27, 2025 08:02 PM (LKMDZ)

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