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The Trump Administration tells Harvard it can no longer enroll foreign students

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by g8orbill, May 22, 2025.

  1. ncargat1

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    Harvard has research and teaching campuses in 20 countries around the world including China, India, France, Germany and parts of Africa and South America. I am not saying that students will be attending class at the Harvard Institute for Public Health Policy in Botswana. However, since even the groundskeepers at Harvard are more intellectually capable than Trump, Noem and the rest of the MAGAs, I am pretty sure Harvard will maneuver around this by using their international campuses and research facilities on a temporary basis until this band of idiots and grifters robbing our government is all deported or in prison.
     
  2. GratefulGator

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    Regulations. So. Many. Regulations.
     
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    No offense taken, CHF. Although I was close when you mentioned me and Theil together. :emoji_joy:

    On the issue of corporations as people, clearly they aren’t people. Entity sounds much better. Still, I am not sure how to limit the speech of such an entity. I am a person, so my rights to speech are guaranteed. You are also a person, and so too are your 1A rights secured. And what if you and I pooled our money to buy a billboard? That seems protected by the first amendment too, right? Let’s say we get a third person to help us afford two billboards. You can probably see where I’m going. If we keep adding people one by one, we can eventually become Amazon or a super PAC. At what point should our group’s speech rights no longer be protected?

    But overall I have no problem with the liberal ideals. I just don’t like the idea of concentrating power in order to enact those ideals. Clearly as we are seeing now, two can play at that game. I would prefer that significant actions, like enacting tariffs, require building cross-party coalitions. Of course, congress clearly doesn’t give a crap what I think, or even Madison.

    PS pragmatism is my favorite school of philosophy. It similarly to Madison, recognize that truths are those that are socially recognized, again noting the flaws of individual authorities.
     
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  4. chemgator

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    This article explains why Trump's attacks on universities will destroy the U.S. economy in the long term.

    Trump is killing the goose that laid America’s golden eggs

     
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  5. chemgator

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    Remarkably, from the article above, Trump is even screwing his own alma mater. What could Penn have done to anger our dictator?

    1) Had a professor with the gall to tell everyone that Trump was the dumbest student he ever had (and possibly the dumbest in the university's history).

    2) Developed an mRNA vaccine under Joe Biden that helped make Biden the hero during the Covid crisis, in comparison to the inept and clownish Trump.
     
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  6. CHFG8R

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    It's really as simple as perspective. The "entity" viewed no differently than a dignitary from France, not an actual citizen with actual rights protected by the Constitution. It's solely counterfactual at this point, as the damage was done in the 1860s.
     
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  8. gator_jo

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    We're at the point where my signature pic says it all.

    Anyone who hasn't seen Idiocracy needs to. We literally may as well have President Camacho in office would be better off with President Camacho in office because he would steal less and destroy less.
     
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  9. WC53

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    Too many of the offspring of those hippie children came too roost in Universities. Meanwhile, Gen X,Y, Z, hold my non alcoholic white clawish spritzer.
     
  10. citygator

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    Link?
     
  11. docspor

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    Most Billion-Dollar Startups In The U.S. Founded By Immigrants

    Tomas Gorny grew up in Poland under communism. But after moving to the U.S. and taking odd jobs like washing dishes and saving money from small ventures, he cofounded the tech company IPOWER in 2001, which he sold 10 years later for $1 billion to Warburg and Goldman Sachs. In 2006, he cofounded Nextiva, a phone and videoconferencing platform valued at $2.7 billion where he’s now CEO.

    Gorny is hardly alone: More than half of the most valuable startups in America were founded by immigrants, according to a new analysis by the National Foundation for American Policy. The new research, which I authored, shows how vital immigrants have become in founding America’s most valuable companies.

    “Immigrants have started more than half (319 of 582, or 55%) of America’s startup companies valued at $1 billion or more,” the analysis. “Moreover, nearly two-thirds (64%) of U.S. billion-dollar companies (unicorns) were founded or cofounded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. Almost 80% of America’s unicorn companies (privately-held, billion-dollar companies) have an immigrant founder or an immigrant in a key leadership role, such as CEO or vice president of engineering.”
     
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  12. mdgator05

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    This guy literally doesn't know what tuition is. Or how to numerically write out 52 billion dollars.

    [​IMG]
     
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  13. mikemcd810

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    It's hard to overstate how dumb he is. What an embarrassment that our country twice elected him as president.
     
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  14. gator_jo

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    Most definitely.

    But there are now 10s of millions of Americans who have added Harvard to their bad bad list of bad things that are Other. "Things We Hate."

    Ya know : Fauci, FBI, vaccine, media, Mattis, Haley, brown people, immigrants, Canada, Ukraine, Springsteen, California, bud light ....

    It's exhausting! Trying to keep up with the Trumpy MAGA-hated Others is like a full-time job! :(
     
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  15. vaxcardinal

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    Is bud light still on the list?
     
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  16. chemgator

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    Does Donald Trump sh!t in a gold toilet?
     
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  17. vaxcardinal

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    No
     
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  18. chemgator

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    You think his gold toilet(s) are just for display?
     
  19. vaxcardinal

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    Wasn’t aware the White House had gold toilets
     
  20. chemgator

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    His other homes do. (Don't know if he had them installed in the W.H.)