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Cletus: "Ewwww learning"

If Oct. 7th had never happened, Trump would have lost. What a nightmare we are in.

The investigations were begun over a year ago.

They hate universities because they create educated individuals who can critically think and intellectually challenge policies and policy makers…

O hai, let me introduce you to Ohio! Senate Bill 1, which was just signed into on Friday, aims to turn my adopted state into the new Florida, with less humidity as our only advantage.

If Oct. 7 had never happened, Trump would be under house arrest pursuant to a guilty verdict in one of his criminal cases.

Yep

If Oct 7 had never happened he might not be president.

I am with you. There has been horrible degree inflation also. A profession you could do with a BS years now required a doctorate.

Mama always said the word but was magical, that you could ignore everything a person said before the word but because they didn't mean it

The "antisemitism" charge is just a Trojan Horse that wheels in a host of ideological repression and targeting the primary bastion of critical thought in American society: Higher education.

Yep I saw that too!

For once trump was telling the truth. He loves the uneducated

They don’t plan on suffering. That’s for the poors.

Exactly

I don’t think they hate universities, they hate what they don’t have dominion over.

Yes, but this way they get a twofer - attacking academia and undermining civil rights law. Unmasking the DEI and Civil Rights Bounty Hunter: Christopher Rufo’s Coordinated Assault effenus-henderson.medium.com/unmasking-th...

The conservative movement wants to destroy universities because students having different beliefs than their parents can only be "indoctrination," and authoritarians want to destroy then as independent centers of power and truth. The rest is window dressing.

They know tariffs on automakers will lead to teslas being the cheaper option after they raise the automotive tariffs to ridiculous heights while writing exemptions for Tesla. Mark my words... we'll be forced to only be able to afford Tesla's.....

Thank you

Anyone who proudly lists their education on FB as "School of Hard Knocks, University of Life" is suspect 🤦‍♀️

Are these universities currently protecting their students?

Except Penn!

They’d probably have less Dem support in doing so tho. Oct 7th really pulled the mask off the rainbows and smiley faces half of the war machine

How is he, they, getting away with this monarchical withholding of money. This is not trump's money..

I wonder if Trump can spell pretext?

Disgusting!

One step from that to actual blaming the Jews, and the subsequent destruction of them. Being against anti-semitism from these folks is just projection.

It was never about antisemitism. It is/was a pretext to get conservative Jews to rationalize their support of Trump. Wake up and smell the coffee people.

Surprising and disappointing to see such a disciplined group of thinkers forget to mention the thing they’re pretending to be mad about.

Here’s what MAGA needs to understand: most Jewish people in this country have no connection to the State of Israel. Condemning the Israeli government’s mass murder is NOT condemning Jews; showing support for the Palestinian people is NOT supporting the terrorist Hamas organization.

Universities, Stand together or fall together. Those are the choices. That’s it.

He is trying to provoke protests that will allow him to deploy the 82nd airborne. Recall that Nixon gained the presidency on a law and order platform promising to bring the hippies in line

Wondering if all that lovely collegiate💰is mysteriously finding it's way into numbered Swiss accounts or has been parked offshore. Greedy people, given half a chance, will steal from a kid's cancer charity. Far too great a temptation. Greedy, amoral people. No one to tell them NO. 💯 done deal.

The tyrant dictator wants them all to be run just the way he would run them … which is as incompetently as anyone could imagine in their wildest dreams.

Fight, Cornell, fight.

Cold Florida, gross

Doubtful. This is a demand from some of Trump’s deepest pocketed donors who also have tight connections with prestigious universities like Miriam Adelson. She ordered Trump to disappear anyone who is antiIsrael.

Universities will stand together or fall together. They have great strength—strong alumni networks numbering in the hundreds of thousands, even millions; great importance to local businesses; etc. How many parents won’t to see their kids harmed by their collapse? Fight now or Trump will kill you.

My hot take is that we may be in Biden’s second term if Oct 7 didn’t happen

He might have still been elected president. Unfortunately we still have a lot of people who believe women are too stupid to hold positions of power.

They hate education because it encourages critical thinking; thinking outside the box and wanting proof before you believe something🤔…It’s why GOP is always blaming higher education for making people “woke”….because it makes it too hard to manipulate people once you develop these thinking skills.

The Right hates education; period.

They hate educated people.

It’s not that they hate universities. They hate education because as TraitorTrump has stated: he LOVES the UNeducated.

Oh, I thought you were hinting that the Israel genocide not happening still wouldn’t keep him from winning. And I agree with that, too.

It’s from his role model Orban”s playbook.

Yet they think they are intellectual geniuses.

Trump is not king material. He might be able to function as a LORD OF MISRULE, under some other system: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of...

They only want universities for white men. They hate them for all others.

They’re full of smartypants who know things.

Universities and colleges, public or private need to rise up and speak out against all these harmful policies. Now is the time to show up before we’re silenced.

The use of antisemitism as a cudgel to bring universities to ruin is of course a subterfuge to unleash resentment and hostility to education. It is also ironic given the status education was given in my home and the Jewish home of everyone I knew and everyone I know now.

Reagan planted the modern seeds of this hell.

But this way it can be blamed on the Jews. The university sanctions are no more about combating antisemitism than the trans bigotry is about protecting women.

Trump doesn't give a sh*t about anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is a convenient pretext for harming liberal academic institutions. I assume convenient because it coincides to some extent with what some powerful Jewish donors want. How long do we have to give these pretexts any credence?

It's a very specific hate with a very specific target: It's the hate of a white male racist for brown and black people. The targets are those people at elite universities (how uppity!) and the targets are Gazans who caanot be allowed to raise their heads. Fight the white male racism please.

DJT despises universities & particularly prestigious universities because they have really smart ppl. & that’s threatening to him.

The Universities and law firms need to all band together and fight back in unity.

It’s simple, universities are where oligarch tax dollars are turned into discoveries they don’t own, so naturally they hate them.

Exactly. They hate that their political opinions never took hold in most colleges. Exposure to different ideas and critical thinking leads to more liberal politics. They've been out for revenge ever since. It's either victory or resent fueled revenge for them

False. He may have still WANTED TO. He would not have been able to. If Oct. 7th never happened, Trump almost certainly would have lost to Harris. It was anti-Zionist propaganda that ensured Trump's victory as so many idiot White saviors thought Harris "supported genocide."

Yes. Look at Florida.

Will shares. Thanks

If October 7 didn’t happen, Harris would be President right now and Trump would be in prison, where he belongs.

Educated people are their kryptonite.

The trial run for this was British Labour’s purge of Corbyn and the left, as if they were somehow more anti-semitic than the Tories or centrist Labour. It worked, though, and showed the US’s own bigots how they could get away with it.

*tactics not texts

Bingo. It's not supposed to be. "Agree to disagree" should be our watchword.

Just in case, here’s a great primary source account of what it was like under Mao. Can’t recommend it enough.

Right. The plan is to pull funding from universities regardless. It's all a game. Heads I win; Tails you lose. Appeasement is a lose-lose proposition with this "administration." The only real choice is to RESIST EVERYTHING.

There probably wouldn't even be another Trump administration. Even though I suspect another version of the "Uncommitted" movement would have been conceived.

Obama’s alma mata. Hardly a coincidence.

Valid point. It wouldn’t not have mattered. The end goal was always to disrupt higher education. Especially in Blue States.

The least that liberals can do is acknowledge this, and stop the bleeding by changing course. No more entertaining false accusations of antisemitism against defenders of Palestinian dignity and agency. Instead, assail the false accusers. As you were mistaken not to have done in the first place.

And yet the universities keep conceding the premise 🙄

They like the uneducated. They are their base.

It gets curious in the last few days before the last election (which could turn out to be the last election), when it wasn't clear who was winning: some of their hacks musing that maybe democracy isn't so great if the great mass of fools can vote for unacceptable candidates.

The GOP has been waging war on education since before Dept of Ed was spun off from HEW. Attacking universities is simply more nails in the coffin. An uneducated public is easier to (mis)lead.