Has your DC’s fed govt internship been canceled/rescinded?

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Anonymous wrote:The entire administration is led by abusers so I guess no surprise. The question for me is what do we DO. Seems that the only way is to get the remotely gutsy republicans in senate and house to help stop this?
Any other ideas?

Yes.

And this is why voting for Harris/Walz was so critical. They weren't ideal candidates on all fronts, and it was a truncated campaign, but they were a hundred million times better than these corrupt men in office now.

Try to get through to the remotely sane Republicans in office who still have a conscience and backbone.

But also throw some money NOW into Dems who are running for Senate and House in the mid-terms in 2 years. We need to take back our country.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't b#tch and moan about Trump. Look around at the half that voted for him for whatever reason. Including because they wanted a white guy.

It wasn't half who voted for this current President, it is more like 25% of eligible voters.

He only got 49% of those that voted.

Half of eligible voters were non-voters and stayed at home. And their kids are losing opportunities and our social security and other services are being lost.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire administration is led by abusers so I guess no surprise. The question for me is what do we DO. Seems that the only way is to get the remotely gutsy republicans in senate and house to help stop this?
Any other ideas?

Yes.

And this is why voting for Harris/Walz was so critical. They weren't ideal candidates on all fronts, and it was a truncated campaign, but they were a hundred million times better than these corrupt men in office now.

Try to get through to the remotely sane Republicans in office who still have a conscience and backbone.

But also throw some money NOW into Dems who are running for Senate and House in the mid-terms in 2 years. We need to take back our country.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:The entire administration is led by abusers so I guess no surprise. The question for me is what do we DO. Seems that the only way is to get the remotely gutsy republicans in senate and house to help stop this?
Any other ideas?

Yes.

And this is why voting for Harris/Walz was so critical. They weren't ideal candidates on all fronts, and it was a truncated campaign, but they were a hundred million times better than these corrupt men in office now.

Try to get through to the remotely sane Republicans in office who still have a conscience and backbone.

But also throw some money NOW into Dems who are running for Senate and House in the mid-terms in 2 years. We need to take back our country.

Wait, didn’t state Democrats target moderate Republicans in the Rep Primary? Dem strategists thought a Trumpy Republican would be easier to defeat.

Whoops.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, my Law School kid had his internship rescinded at DOJ…

Oh well….we deserve what we get…..

Not those of us that didn’t vote this

No, but if you had worked harder, gone into the office, and continued to do your fair share of the lifting during the past 5 years, we wouldn’t have reached such an extreme imbalance in our society, which is exactly what empowered Trump to sweep in and win. FAFO.

What extreme imbalance do you refer?

The new budget bill and tax cuts will widen any income imbalances.

It really is comical that the vast majority of Harris voters (you know…people with money) will end up dramatically better off financially than Trump’s voters.

At some point it becomes clear that losers in life will always be losers in life…it’s not due to immigrants or federal workers or whichever boogeyman you want to pick.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I am honestly shocked that there isn’t more outrage or organized reaction to all of this. Where is the DNC? Do people not see where Trump is headed? I would assume there are Trump voters in the civil service… are you happy now? Maybe that needs to wait until your fruit is $20 per pound.

You wonder why there isn’t more organized outrage to college internships being eliminated, in light of everything else that is going on?

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Yes.

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My high school kid was getting ready to apply for an unpaid internship with MITRE, with a vacancy announcement that was supposed to be open until Feb. 10, but that announcement (along with the parallel college announcement) has been pulled down. Anyone know if this was a result of the spending freeze/uncertainty regarding government contractors?

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Anonymous wrote:My high school kid was getting ready to apply for an unpaid internship with MITRE, with a vacancy announcement that was supposed to be open until Feb. 10, but that announcement (along with the parallel college announcement) has been pulled down. Anyone know if this was a result of the spending freeze/uncertainty regarding government contractors?

Well, MITRE is a big federal contractor, so probably.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, my Law School kid had his internship rescinded at DOJ…

Oh well….we deserve what we get…..

Not those of us that didn’t vote this

If we pick a better candidate and stop running on our craziest of the left wing agenda maybe we can win an election next time. We need to come back towards the middle.

Agree 100%.

Blame the Dems for running an idiot.

The R’s “could” have run someone towards the middle but choose not to. That means they didn’t want a candidate in the middle. Either they didn’t believe having a candidate in the middle would win or the candidate they backed is doing exactly what they want. They also in theory “could” govern in the middle because they have control of the government and have tech billionaires backing them but again have chosen not to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't b#tch and moan about Trump. Look around at the half that voted for him for whatever reason. Including because they wanted a white guy.

Yes, I'm more angry at the Trump voters than I am at him. They knew what might happen and voted him in anyhow.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire administration is led by abusers so I guess no surprise. The question for me is what do we DO. Seems that the only way is to get the remotely gutsy republicans in senate and house to help stop this?
Any other ideas?

Yes.

And this is why voting for Harris/Walz was so critical. They weren't ideal candidates on all fronts, and it was a truncated campaign, but they were a hundred million times better than these corrupt men in office now.

Try to get through to the remotely sane Republicans in office who still have a conscience and backbone.

But also throw some money NOW into Dems who are running for Senate and House in the mid-terms in 2 years. We need to take back our country.

+1 Read yesterday that in just a few days, 2/3 of Trump's actions align perfectly with the goals of Project 25. Harris' campaign and surrogates warned us repeatedly about this. And it was met with a collective shrug from half of the electorate.

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Doesn't Biden have a hand on this? He campaigned for the 2020 election on being a transition president to make sure the 2016 election won't ever be repeated again. But then his ego got on the best of him ...

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Internships are being cancelled. Many agencies pulling them, stopping applications, and putting notices up on websites. Even if they are unpaid and still available many are going to suck because people are so demoralized, confused about what they can and can’t do, and soon to be overworked. Soo much winning.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire administration is led by abusers so I guess no surprise. The question for me is what do we DO. Seems that the only way is to get the remotely gutsy republicans in senate and house to help stop this?
Any other ideas?

There has to be another mechanism for funding research. Obviously there's private corporations doing research. What kind of private foundations fund research and how do we get more money to them ?
You have to get away from any money that Trump can get his hands in so that you can do some proper research.

Private research does almost zero primary research…it’s just not a feasible use of private funds to throw billions at say 10 different wild theories on how to create sustainable nuclear fusion.

A country needs to decide if primary research is in its best strategic interests or not.

China and Russia certainly believe in it.

Many decades ago IBM had its Watson lab that was more of a free floating research lab. I think it’s dwindled down to nothing along with most of IBM’s R and D. Private equity and Wall Street don’t want to invest in research that may take decades to pay off, or may end up being a dead end. It’s really sad to think that America may stop being an engine of ingenuity because that is what has driven out success for the past 200 years, since at least the cotton gin.