Biden-Harris administration conditioned NASA research funding on DEI

| August 28, 2024

Team Biden placed conditions on funding for NASA’s advance research. Funding for NASA research related to Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine (STEMM) was conditioned on DEI requirements. Anna Krylov, originally from the USSR, warned about the negative consequences of this policy, indicating that these actions were similar to those implemented in the USSR.

From Fox News:

From day one, the Biden-Harris administration announced it would overhaul every single agency with the ideals of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). It ensured there were DEI bureaucracies in place to impose its agendas regularly.

Not only did the DEI mission affect training, internal policies and hiring, but also how federal agencies selectively funded and advanced scientific research, according to academics who spoke to Fox News Digital. They added that the DEI mandates are a risk to national security as it depletes America’s competitive edge against adversaries.

“This is a very, very bad idea. It’s corrupt, and it is corrupting,” Princeton professor Robert George told Fox News Digital, adding the DEI agenda “came on like gangbusters.”

“Our science has to be the best in the world,” he said. “If we are not in a position to defend ourselves and to deter that kind of aggression [from adversaries], we’re going to be very, very badly harmed. Our people are going to be very, very badly harmed.”

Those inclusion plans would then be scored, according to NASA’s Amanda L. Nahm, a program officer in the Planetary Science Division. She said that proposals which do not have the “inclusion” agenda will not be considered because they are “non-compliant proposals.”

When asked about the consequences of filling out a statement of refusal, she said, “it would not be reviewed well,” but then added that it wouldn’t affect the scientist’s merits of being given funds.

“At their core, inclusion plans are designed to raise awareness of barriers to creating and sustaining positive, inclusive working environments and to get proposers actively thinking about ways to foster inclusive practices for their research teams,” Nahm said.

Additional Reading:

Grossman, H. (2024, August 27). Biden-Harris admin requires ‘corrupt’ DEI ‘ideological litmus test’ on NASA innovation funding, scientists say. Fox News. Link.

Category: DEI, Government Incompetence, Joe BIden, Kamala Harris, SJW Idiocy

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Fyrfighter

There really is no limit as to how far the left will go to destroy our Republic.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

Or Western Civilization

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Skivvy Stacker

Okay, now you have to employ scientific people who are able to calculate variables to the closest possible fractional denominator of the miniscule number of POTATO!

jeff LPH 3 63-66

With Mr. Potato head teaching the course. One potato two potato three potatos more, your out., once twice three shoot.

SFC D

“At their core, inclusion plans are designed to raise awareness of barriers to creating and sustaining positive, inclusive working environments and to get proposers actively thinking about ways to foster inclusive practices for their research teams,” Nahm said.

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5JC

An actual Nazi (and $300B in 2024 dollars) got us to the moon in the 1960s. DEI got us planes that can’t fly safely, one way spacecraft and imploding underwater vehicles. Not saying Nazis are better or even good but DEI hasn’t helped at all.

Odie

Nope. Your just pointing out what should be obvious.

HT3

DEI Bureaucrats are the Soviet Union-style commissars of the 21st century.
“Say, Comrade Musk. You don’t have enough non-binary lesbian trans-females of color that identify as cats with Gender Studies degrees to put that rocket into space now do you?”
Musk “Go fuck yourself”

RCAF-CHAIRBORNE

Elon Musk is arguably greatest, most brilliant African-American in history

5JC

Certainly the richest and smartest.

KoB

DEI…Didn’t Earn It or Damn Every Idiot.

Someone should make me another drink 🍹!

Deckie

Destroys Everything Instantly

Destroying Every Incentive

Doesn’t Equal Improvement

Anonymous

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5JC

It’s little early but SOB, here you go. My favorite whiskey sipping song.

Anonymous

Precision, urgency– you know, being effective and getting sh*t done– is “acting white” and should be eliminated there now:
https://x.com/watchTENETnow/status/1827757093526421679

Fyrfighter

I quit watching after the 10th time she said “UM”… If you want to sound stupid and have people discount what you’re saying, that’s a good way to go about it.. it’s often also a sign of lying, as it’s the brain taking a second to recall / construct the lie..

Forest Bondurant

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are the astronauts stranded on the ISS because they haven’t completed their DEI training.

Green Thumb

Word.

DEI is probably WHY they are stranded in space.

Anonymous

Boeing product… notice how, interestingly, “better” ain’t said anywhere in this:

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rgr769

I like what Judge Jenine Piro said yesterday: “If it’s a Boeing, I’m not going.”

Odie

Both oddly unavailable for comment at the moment. Since both are working out of the country, look atall the taxes they don’t have to pay.

Hack Stone

Hack Stone is all for dispatching the DEI hires to a remote planet for an extended period of time. In space no one can her you be triggered.

ChipNASA

I’m not saying anything BUT, removing the urinals and making the 3rd floor Men’s room a “Gender netural” bathroom, even going so far as removing the urinals after they put bags over them and someone kept ripping them off and kept using them 😀 and then they put signs up to STOP THAT!! and then the just removed them oputright, SURE has improved the work space (no pun intended) around here. Yep, just a HUGE difference. YAY!!!!!!!
(*ROLLS EYES SO HARD, I saw my own brain stem.*)
Also, FUCK BOEING!!!

Odie

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26Limabeans

I try to lubricate the hinges.

Deckie

C5 when sober. Otherwise my piss stream is off the grid like Lewis and Clark.

JustALurkinAround

I will not sink your Battleship with piss unless that grid is over the sink.

Now if I were to shit, my grid coordinates are all of those squares.

BennSue

I’ll take “Why 2 Americans Are Stranded In Space” for $200, Alex.

JustALurkinAround

How does NASA have time for this?

Their priority since Jan. 20, 2009 has been Muslim Outreach.

AW1Ed

Diversity and Inclusion (boeing.com)
Nothing to see here citizen. Move along.
Boeing employees ‘humiliated’ that upstart rival SpaceX will rescue astronauts stuck in space: ‘It’s shameful’
Exclusive | Boeing employees ‘humiliated’ that SpaceX will save astronauts stuck in space (nypost.com)

KoB

Welcome Home to ya, Kid Squid (ht2 Ol’ Poe).

Odie

Look who tried to sneak in.

Anonymous

Shoulda built it better, kids.

KoB

Prepare…

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Tallywhagger

Leave it Biden and the bimbo to queer it up and stick Americans for the bill. May his last breath be occluded by DOKTOR Jill’s fat tit.

Anonymous

It’s for “social justice,” you know. /sarc
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TJ

DEI substitutes merit, excellence, industry, expertise, inquiry, for left handed, gypsy accordion playing eskimo Islamic black dwarfs who are handicapped but have IQs below 80. Now you tell me which candidate you want wiring your home, building a bridge or operating on your liver.