the president mused about redirecting $3 billion in research grant funding that his administration has frozen or withdrawn
It plays to his anti-intellectual base: “See? We are finally pw0ning those effete libs and putting the money into the trades.”
(You know you could put a lot of people through trade school for the cost of one big military parade, and not have to give up f’ing cancer research)
We just randomly increased military spending by 150 BILLION this year.
That could have paid for a lot of trade schools
Hell you could take double what Hartford gets, out of the military budget and put that into trades and the military would hardly notice. If my math is correct, 6 billion is not even 0.75% of the military’s budget from last year.
$2 billion to Trump Academy 2.0 … $1 billion in a jar somewhere that no one remembers and is slowly being siphoned off into trumps personal slush fund.
If this dopey motherfucker actually did this, I’d support it. Harvard can survive on less, and trade schools should be cheaper to encourage people learning trades.
But that’s not what’s happening, not even a little bit. The money isn’t being redirected to where it will do more good. It’s being withheld for corrupt personal reasons, and the “thought” of using it for so me thing productive is half-formed horseshit that is never going to materialize.
This is a technique Trump uses to deflect criticism, although I think it’s too stupid to have a name. Let’s call it the Ball Gargle. It’s an idea that, in retrospect, sounds like it might be a good idea, but it’s probably impossible and definitely never going to happen. So Trump does something obviously corrupt and deeply unpopular among people who aren’t total fucksticks. When the people who aren’t total fucksticks complain, Trump suggests ball gargling, and the fucksticks go “Yeah, see, that sounds good!” But Trump isn’t going to gargle any balls, and even if he tries it wouldn’t be any form of anything anyone anywhere wants.
Grants often cover research, including equipment and salary for student researchers. So it might be that they pivot away from any science or medical field, which certainly seems like a desirable outcome for this administration.
My wage for peer tutoring at my university was also grant funded, although that program (TRIO) has essentially been destroyed by Trump at this point.
If this dopey motherfucker actually did this, I’d support it. Harvard can survive on less, and trade schools should be cheaper to encourage people learning trades.
You think we should take money for cancer research and spend it making trade school cheaper?
I think we have enough money for both, and we don’t spend enough on either.
lol no he doesn’t. Not really.
No, he does. It’s just that most of the schools will have a single facility, which is an empty office in a business park.
He wants 3 billion he can get a kickback on. Let’s not fool anyone.
WHO THE FUCK IS GOING TO HIRE A PLUMBER WHEN THERE’S YOUTUBE AN NO ONE HAS A FUCKING JOB?
The people who did not learn correctly from the YouTube videos and now have a flooded house.
I don’t think homeless people without a job can afford a plumber more.
Trump University
since trades, are predominately blue collar/ republican leaning men, it would make sense why.
every maintenance person that goes into a store to fix some machine, they always hada grayed out flag or thin blue line flag on them persons.
