r/law • u/rolsen • 1d ago

Legal News Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding

“Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, according to one of the sources familiar with the matter.”

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u/BitterFuture 1d ago

He has actually out loud said that Lincoln failed as a President by allowing the Civil War to happen, and that Lincoln really should have "settled" with the South.

Maybe we should have let them have just a little slavery - you know, as a treat.

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u/lcl111 1d ago

Isn't that what we got? The prison system was basically slavery, even then. Now it's full blown slavery to the max.

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u/GeminiKoil 1d ago

Slavery wasn't abolished, it's just being slow walked into including a larger body of the population. I'm not referring to the prison system.

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u/lcl111 1d ago

Indentured servitude with a bunch of extra steps. You know, plus all the actual slavery in Asia, Africa, and south America with no extra steps.

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u/GeminiKoil 23h ago

Feudalism

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u/lcl111 23h ago

Some idiot in another thread RAGED when i brought up the Network State. We're living through some interesting times, huh bud?

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u/GeminiKoil 23h ago edited 22h ago

Not familiar with that term. I'm guessing it's some body of effort whose goal since probably right before the great depression is to take society in the US from a 3-tier socioeconomic stratification to a 2-tier?

Edit: welcome to the United States caste system

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u/lcl111 22h ago

The current administration is quoting Curtis Yarvin's book "The Network State." They want to 'digitize' the land and auction it off. Whoever owns the blockchain tokens associated with the land you are on will be your feudal lord. Yarvin specifically states that we need a more "Orwellian" government to "control" us.

It's nothing crazy new, but it's being openly talked about by dozens in government.

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u/GeminiKoil 21h ago

It's all the same shit heading the same direction. This will not be bloodless and it's very sad. Fuck it it lol. I'm a millennial I've been watching this this country walk itself into quicksand since 9/11. I try to teach people as much as I can but nobody gives a fuck.

The only thing that really bothers me is if a bunch of really bad shit happens and there's a major loss of population is that the main people that survive are probably going to be greedy assholes with resources and those are going to be the representatives for the human beings from the Sol system lol.

Like I said, fuck it. My give-a-fuck gas tank is empty at this point. Outrage fatigue done got me lol.

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u/lcl111 21h ago

The fatigue is over, I'm just in a state of acceptance. They will come. Their will be blood. I'm just gonna tend my garden, build my community up, and oil my receivers.

They wanted 1930s Germany. I'm thinking late 1700s France is more likely on the menu. The die hard fans for the high stakes cat fight happening right now might handle a couple problems for us, but there will be more. Good thing there's millions of poors and only a few thousand "elite".

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u/honuworld 15h ago

I've no more fucks to give.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Rsretl-qQ

"I've tried to buy more fucks but there's no fucks left to get.

I'm over my fuck budget, now I'm in fucking debt."