What Trump has done these past few days far exceeds my most fervent dreams about his administration's entire term. As a Gen X conservative, so accustomed to mealy-mouthed backstabbing Republicans, I never thought such a robust riposte to liberalism was even possible.
Absolutely incredible that none of this was leaked prior to taking office.
President Trump's EO from the 21st, especially Section 4.b.(iii) and Section 5, are good signs that university salad days see darkening skies ahead. With luck, many institutions' endowments will be reduced to offset student debt (that we, the Taxpayers, are already on the hook to pay due to Federal insurance of those loans).
The EPA will require disentanglement from improper direction to Agencies given by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) for purposes of enforcing and managing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). President Carter's direction for CEQ to write regulation in 1978 was not legal, and many CEQ directives were incorporated into the Federal Register and interpreted to be based upon law, when they likely were not. EPA is going to have to remove these CEQ fake regulations, then coordinate with many other agencies to ensure they are also in compliance with law and actual regulation. Almost 50 years of environmental policy has to be re-woven.
More below. That attached decision by the DC Court of Appeals is hilarious to read.
I’ve read a guidance document from the CEQ from back in the day that said Environmental Impact Assessments should be limited to 30 pages. lol. That somehow morphed into 30 volumes in practice.
The comedy is that the CEQ has the same inherent regulation-making authority as the Council on Economic Advisors -- namely, none. Carter gave them admin control over the agencies relative to agency focus and activities, but then went on to say they were to direct writing of regulation that was binding in manners the went outside the scope of Congressional law.
Imagine being Trump's EPA and being told you have to untangle this ... I think rather than a lawnmower, a backhoe-led reseeding approach may be taken.
Recently surfing through television channels, it was impossible to avoid the fact that most TV programs and almost all commercials are dominated by blacks and a couple of other minorities. You'd think the white race was extinct. So I stick with pre-21st-century programs on vintage channels like MeTV and movies. Also enjoying binging on the Doctor Kildare series the demographics of which are exceptional.
Sorry, still don’t believe it. The language may change but the effects will not; DEI will just be described as meritocracy. As long as liberalism rules over us, DEI will remain the ultimate goal and standard of measurement.
Based on statistics I have seen, Harvard cut its DIEing about 50% in the last class admissions...That's progress...It's strange though, that it went from the most freethinking school in the world in the 1960s, when I attended, with for example classmates openly mocking Jewish obsession with the holocaust, to the least in less than 40 years...Maybe the worm is turning again....
Or was free thought perhaps the licence to say anything that came to mind, without too much thinking actually, just as DIE but not DEAD yet is just a fashion of using the right words for fashionable issues, without having paid them much thought?
So glad you tell it like it is! The femininization of American society (Western!) started our slide past EO into DIEing. But the particolor-coiffed screechers who burden society from Walmart’s denizens to the boards of our struggling corporations, from Academia to Hollywood, will unfortunately be there for a very long time until Universities stop turning them out to populate and ruin our secondary education system.
There's going to be some pushback, but the dominoes could soon fall the other way. The university system went woke because meeting government diversity quotas was JOB ONE. There are few private universities which don't rely on federal money. Fail to meet implicit quotas and your institution could be without federal student loans.
This led to frantic efforts.
If the Trump Administration successfully makes the bureaucrats do a turnaround, the universities are going to be frantically turning around.
Alas, thanks to tenure, the net effect is going to be less than what a frantic effort should result in.
I'm glad you´re happy, but you´re WRONG. It´s not ideology that causes DIE. It´s bureaucracy. Bureaucracy has a survival instinct more tenacious than any organic life form. To destroy it you must first wipe out the ORGANIZATION CHART ITSELF, all those little boxes and connecting lines and labels.
You hit the bullseye. Bureaucracies are self-perpetuating and parasitic on the citizenry. They contribute to the collapse of societies such as Rome and China.
What Trump has done these past few days far exceeds my most fervent dreams about his administration's entire term. As a Gen X conservative, so accustomed to mealy-mouthed backstabbing Republicans, I never thought such a robust riposte to liberalism was even possible.
Absolutely incredible that none of this was leaked prior to taking office.
And if Congress gets off their asses, some of these EOs can become actual laws. EOs are too easily reversed.
Right, making actual laws is imperative because EO's are so easily revoked by the next president.
President Trump's EO from the 21st, especially Section 4.b.(iii) and Section 5, are good signs that university salad days see darkening skies ahead. With luck, many institutions' endowments will be reduced to offset student debt (that we, the Taxpayers, are already on the hook to pay due to Federal insurance of those loans).
The EPA will require disentanglement from improper direction to Agencies given by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) for purposes of enforcing and managing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). President Carter's direction for CEQ to write regulation in 1978 was not legal, and many CEQ directives were incorporated into the Federal Register and interpreted to be based upon law, when they likely were not. EPA is going to have to remove these CEQ fake regulations, then coordinate with many other agencies to ensure they are also in compliance with law and actual regulation. Almost 50 years of environmental policy has to be re-woven.
More below. That attached decision by the DC Court of Appeals is hilarious to read.
https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2024/11/23-1067-2084381.pdf
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/11/12/court-vaporizes-50-years-of-environmental-law-leaving-trumps-epa-to-build-on-the-ashes-n2181905
I’ve read a guidance document from the CEQ from back in the day that said Environmental Impact Assessments should be limited to 30 pages. lol. That somehow morphed into 30 volumes in practice.
The comedy is that the CEQ has the same inherent regulation-making authority as the Council on Economic Advisors -- namely, none. Carter gave them admin control over the agencies relative to agency focus and activities, but then went on to say they were to direct writing of regulation that was binding in manners the went outside the scope of Congressional law.
Imagine being Trump's EPA and being told you have to untangle this ... I think rather than a lawnmower, a backhoe-led reseeding approach may be taken.
If DEI is so great...
Why aren't HR departments and Managers proclaiming their DEI hires?
Where are the proud DEI hires saying "I am a DEI hire!"?
Nonexistent, because it's shameful. No one wants to be known as a DEI hire.
Some things push Pride 24/7 because certain acts are shameful, others just fade away.
Recently surfing through television channels, it was impossible to avoid the fact that most TV programs and almost all commercials are dominated by blacks and a couple of other minorities. You'd think the white race was extinct. So I stick with pre-21st-century programs on vintage channels like MeTV and movies. Also enjoying binging on the Doctor Kildare series the demographics of which are exceptional.
"Death, thou shalt die!"
Any principle that interferes with the promotion and protection of what or who works, is suicidal.
We win bigly when we call DIE what it is: Antiwhiteism.
Sorry, still don’t believe it. The language may change but the effects will not; DEI will just be described as meritocracy. As long as liberalism rules over us, DEI will remain the ultimate goal and standard of measurement.
yankee occupation force pays for it all
chop the grants and the tree will fall
Antiwhiteism is the root of our problems. We must claim the moral high ground, no?
Based on statistics I have seen, Harvard cut its DIEing about 50% in the last class admissions...That's progress...It's strange though, that it went from the most freethinking school in the world in the 1960s, when I attended, with for example classmates openly mocking Jewish obsession with the holocaust, to the least in less than 40 years...Maybe the worm is turning again....
Or was free thought perhaps the licence to say anything that came to mind, without too much thinking actually, just as DIE but not DEAD yet is just a fashion of using the right words for fashionable issues, without having paid them much thought?
So glad you tell it like it is! The femininization of American society (Western!) started our slide past EO into DIEing. But the particolor-coiffed screechers who burden society from Walmart’s denizens to the boards of our struggling corporations, from Academia to Hollywood, will unfortunately be there for a very long time until Universities stop turning them out to populate and ruin our secondary education system.
Although, I must admit a certain fondness for "DEI" as an anacronym for "Didn't Earn It". (Not my creation)
Milei tells the WEF that DEI and woke are crazy....https://x.com/capitalnewshq/status/1882417352677134423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1882417352677134423%7Ctwgr%5Eaa713b8eca05a86eb1f6fa928bc1f8fd42541a31%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fmilei-gives-blistering-wef-speech-slams-dei-calls-woke-ideology-cancer-and-calls
Lol, I love "the death of DIE" and "femanned".
There's going to be some pushback, but the dominoes could soon fall the other way. The university system went woke because meeting government diversity quotas was JOB ONE. There are few private universities which don't rely on federal money. Fail to meet implicit quotas and your institution could be without federal student loans.
This led to frantic efforts.
If the Trump Administration successfully makes the bureaucrats do a turnaround, the universities are going to be frantically turning around.
Alas, thanks to tenure, the net effect is going to be less than what a frantic effort should result in.
Doesn't tenure depend upon the departmental nest remaining?
It's triage, return the cherished idiocy chairs to Mao.
Yes, you can get rid of dumb departments, but to get rid of woke history, economics, anthropology, etc. professors, you have to wait for retirement.
Just create new ones. Look at how the commies got away with their long march. Traitorous contrivances are intentionally malleable.
I'm glad you´re happy, but you´re WRONG. It´s not ideology that causes DIE. It´s bureaucracy. Bureaucracy has a survival instinct more tenacious than any organic life form. To destroy it you must first wipe out the ORGANIZATION CHART ITSELF, all those little boxes and connecting lines and labels.
You hit the bullseye. Bureaucracies are self-perpetuating and parasitic on the citizenry. They contribute to the collapse of societies such as Rome and China.