I'm not 100% against this idea but have zero confidence on the current administration creating and administering a program in a productive and fair fashion.
Theft, grift, fraud, and violence. That's all these people know how to do. They produce nothing, and they add nothing to society or culture or our nation. It's like if the Ringwraithes had carried the day at the gates of Gondor.
Lud Dick thinks the mob should get a taste! Of course
This is a organized criminal cult run by a organized crime family
What’s up with the 5 million dollar Orange Gold card? How many sold? Have the suckers been sworn in as citizens? Did Little Marco vet all?
The Trump regime is basically a criminal protection racket. He might as well open his conversation with company CEOs with "gee be a real shame if someone's hand got caught in that door..."
Well I think I should get 10% of whatever you guys are getting through the back door from your Republican monsters. Also, I'd like 10% of Google, Tesla, Nvidia, Amazon, Walmart, Target, oil and gas make that 20% for them. I would also like 20% from the Supreme Court. Please make that happen Nutlick
The tax dollars used as investments do not belong to this administration
That money is our money and I don’t want any government dictating how those investments are spent and what the company does as long as it is legal and honors our constitution
I don’t believe in kickbacks which enrich who?
I watched the clip provided, when does he say "taste"? That's such a drug culture specific term that I focused on it, coming from our Sec of Commerce. Who does seem like a sleazebag.
This is a REGIME – an authoritarian government – not an administration! Government administration is "the planning, coordination, and oversight of public services and government operations to serve the public interest." They are not doing a single thing to serve the public interest!
That’s private enterprise for you, always wanting to privatize the profits of public investment on the backs of a public they’ve already bled dry. They figure they can always squeeze a few more drops out of us poor working saps.
These thieves keep talking about Americans getting a cut we won’t see one dollar of that money. This is called the art of fleecing your country.Don’t be fooled.
I don’t necessarily disagree with this in theory.
If research is funded by our taxes, I’m ok with a portion going to the government, but only if it goes back to help fund more research.
I see no reason why someone who benefits in the funding should get all the reward.
That’s not the role of a federal government.
Fed government: provides safety, security, welfare of the people.
Not for profit. Issuer of money.
Corporations: profit at any cost. User of money.
On the surface, its a valid point. We shouldn't have privatized profits off socialized costs.
But it's *this* administration. So the proceeds aren't going to future research or public good. I'm sure next decade's scandal will be all the shenanigans Trump officials got up to with the funds.
They are all communists who want a theocratic autocracy. They get away with it because their supporters are too stupid to recognize communism when they see it.
Howie "Nutlick" acting like Don Fanucci from Godfather II: 🎬 #TrumpRegime
"Hey.... I just wanna wet my beak a little..... You won't refuse me, will you." 💰💸🤏🏻
*** Oh yeah... In light of breaking U.S. news...
Release the rest of the Epstein files!
Top to bottom, this cabal of thieves, grifters and incompetents should be in prison along with a Supreme Court that is supremely corrupt. Is this your "more perfect union", or perhaps you're golden age? Release the Trump-Epstein Files and maybe start to take your country back.
I disagree with the sentiment that this is thuggery. If the government underwrites research, it should get a cut of resulting profits. Plain and simple.
-and MUCH better than "shaking them down", as Trump has been doing.
No, the U.S. is the one that grants patents. Most result in nothing. Why not attack a warrant to each patent that can be converted if the patent results in a very profitable product. The government support a ton of academic research - why should the research use the results of gov’t paid research
To go out and form companies. That make millions. This very clearly happens with biotech. It is only a few people who can do this but they never admit how they started their companies!
Lutnick means he, as in some privatized financial venture, should be able to exploit government connections to get a piece of universities' patent revenue.
Oh, so only going after the patent revenue for universities? What happens when it's developed as part of an internship? I know 3M in MN holds the patents for their employees, because we have a friend who developed a cellphone film while working there; they kept the patent.
18 U.S.C. § 872 (Extortion by federal employees): Federal officers or employees who commit or attempt to commit extortion under color of their office.
Here’s all options:
-All universities self-funded
-All universities for-profit
-All universities are extorted, you go to prison
Wait! What? Universities get patents for the inventions they create. Yes, they get federal funds for R&D, however, it's never written that the funds received are a loan when they ARE written as a grant...So suck it Lutnick!
This is nothing but a lying, dangerous,deadly criminal regime - lying,attacking & extorting Universities,law firms & every business & industry they can, in the “biggest shakedown” ever done by a crime syndicate. They are also making plenty off of our families with tariffs & higher costs to us all.
That’s socialism without question. And then they will want not a chunk but all of it. That’s when socialism turns into communism. And they they use that money to lower the taxes on the billioners. That’s when communism turns into plutocracy.
Lutnatick is genius
Letting the ruling class demand a cut of universities’ patents isn’t just rent-seeking, it’s history-writing. Control the revenue, control the curriculum, control the truth.
Their front doors were so close that each could see who visited the other. I'm not quick to accuse someone, but in this case, where Epstein's neighbor is in Trump's cabinet, something stinks.
ARPA research contracts to fund new public-domain knowledge contained a clause that said, in effect, “any results used in future government projects shall be free of royalties.”
We flourished.
Best example: ARPAnet, a communications experiment, evolved to become the Internet.
Outcomes vary.
The #WWMobO (World Wide Mobster Oligarchy) is flexing it's muscles. They want their greedy dirty little fingers in every piece of pie they can get them in.