McCarthy enlists MIT in prep for speakership

[applegrove]

McCarthy enlists MIT in prep for speakership

Mike Allen, author of Axios AM

https://www.axios.com/kevin-mccarthy-mit-house-midterm-165f099d-f7b2-42f4-b604-d6ea39bc4ce9.html

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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is enlisting MIT to help his conference bone up on complex issues changing the world — drones, AI, hypersonic weapons — in hopes they'll be in charge next year.

Why it matters: McCarthy's alliance with MIT is designed to add a future-focused dimension to the GOP agenda if the party wins the House majority in midterms, and he becomes Speaker.

What's happening: McCarthy and several of his likely committee and subcommittee chairs spent Monday at the MIT School of Engineering, with in-person instruction from professors who are experts in:

* Artificial intelligence (including applications for government and military) ... Quantum computing ... Life sciences (including vaccines) ... semiconductors ... and cybersecurity.

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[HUAJIAO]

1. Is he really expecting to understand any of this?

[applegrove]

2. They are going to try and hide their anti-science platform with this.

[ck4829]

3. Bronze Age but with guns is not "future-focused". That's dystopia.

[C_U_L8R]

4. How about starting with Evolution for Dummies

And if they get that far, they can try Immunology 101 and a lab in Applied Renewable Energy.

[applegrove]

5. We know it.

[Turbineguy]

6. The republican party wants a future?

When did they acquire this taste for luxuries?

[zuul]

7. Why would anyone at MIT have anything to do with that anti-science piece of shit?

[Jim__]

8. With McCarthy, they'll need to start with the abc's. - n/t

[maxrandb]

9. What a fucking elitist, latte sipping pansy!

"Real" Retrumplicans and 'Murikans get their science from Pat Robertson's Regent University, their ethics and values from Donnie Dipshit U, and foreign policy advice from my drunk uncle down at the VFW.

[LeftinOH]

10. They want to learn more about voting machines, and

how voting machines can be hacked; how computerized voting can be manipulated, etc.

Let's not pretend the GOP is interested in technology for anything other than how to establish & maintain political control.

[Ohio Joe]

11. So... One whole day on all those topics...

I have no doubt they wrote down many things out of context.

[UTUSN]

12. Can't fix stupid.