Great work. Hope there are strong enforcement mechanisms in place with the threat of additional punishment. Leftists always lie. Full reform and conquest may not be possible without mass firings of commissars. They view these fines as slaps on the wrist and will continue grooming red guards covertly. Look at how the weather underground subverted our institutions after they were let off the hook.
The institution where I work did react appropriately, but pay attention to state laws: some states require DEI (or DEI-like programs). So this doesn’t do mich to change the state laws (as in New Jersey). I’m currently watching them in other institutions change the names of DEI to “centers for belonging” and other shell-game word salads while casually saying, “We’ll just wait them out a few years. Don’t worry. Nothing changes.” They’re not taking this seriously at all. Something has to happen to an institution that’s playing the shell game before it REALLY gets their attention. These not-so-smart academics think they’re smarter than everyone else. Are they? They are unless this word salad shell game has consequences.
Yes sir, when people intuitively know that they are not speaking or acting truthfully, they act that out. That only makes things worse, and the people have less and less faith in their leaders. Sadly, more and more people have tuned out to politics so it just keeps getting worse and worse.
It's a great start, however, I didn't believe the people should be funding any private universities with our taxes. The Dems are always crying about the rich paying their fair share..... But crickets when universities are given tax exemptions while sitting on massive endowments and charging hundreds of thousands to students for worthless degrees, burying them in mountains of debt. Which of course is also partially funded by the government( tax payers).
You want real reform? Get the government out.... Make all loans either personal or funded by the university and allow students and parents to sue when their useless degrees can only land them jobs they could have gotten without it. Watch how fast the free market transforms the playing field. The students have competed to get in to these schools for too long.... Let the schools compete for students. Government loans have enabled that because the schools have zero skin in the game ... They get guaranteed payment no matter what shoddy product they produce and the tax payer and students are left holding the empty bag.
Really? Who is paying for the school? If they pay for their own education, more power to them. If parents cover the bill, their kids will go where the parent decides. So, yes, it is the parents' fault.
They are not fully adults untill they have experienced life at 25 your brian does not have all of its fold yet.So how can you say an 18 year old is an adult.
The age of majority is 18 in most countries, including the USA. Legally one is an adult at that age, even if one still lacks adult maturity.
The decision on whether to attend a university or not, and if so which one, is that of the student. Of course a parent may apply financial leverage to try to influence the decisions but ultimately they do not “send” their offspring to university; the student decides.
One thousand percent correct! The Ivies and public universities have billions in endowments - they do NOT need our tax dollars which would be better spent on trade schools, apprenticeships and mentoring programs that lead to actual jobs with solid wages.
Yes the idea you go to college or universities and become ruler of the universe is not always the case.Especially if you study mickey mouse courses ie gender studies.
Nicely put! Let them maintain their own colleges. I find it interesting that these prestigious colleges are nothing more than an elitist diploma mill for the rich families to perpetuate their children's ability to maintain their elitist status; get those careers which keep them within the elitist enclave. It's something which has been maintained for centuries.
This is a good start but it doesn’t solve the problem of the faculty who push their ideological fantasies into their courses. I would be interested to hear how this problem is solved.
I propose that it does begin to solve the problems of faculty ideologists who bamboozle their students. The requirements for pursuing truth, and for transparency in administration, are two good steps in that direction.
I've gotta believe that the only thing that will make the Universities who perpetuate this nonsense will only listen when their money is taken away from them.
They are a big part of the reason we have to put up with this nonsense:
But can there be anything more dangerous than the child-killing ideologies of Zionism and "Christian" Zionism and the irrational Russophobia and Sinophobia taught on most campuses?
Actually, Arab countries, having had enough of the KGB-sponsored PLO terrorism and Hamas terrorism, are moving towards the Abraham accords. The anti-Israeli aggression is now driven by Iran and global woke left, in full cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood, banned in most Arab countries as a terrorist organization.
Scuse me, but it was the 3 "founding" European Jewish terror groups, Irgun, Lehi and Haganah, that denied Palestinians their ownership rights to the land that gave rise to the pseudostate of "Israel," and now they've turned it around and claimed only THEY, the usurpers, have a right to exist. Here is the history of "Israel": https://yandex.ru/video/preview/3485800108677787020
Sorry Don but the history doesn’t help you. The UN mandated a two state solution to this very problem in 1948, the 2 states being Israel and Transjordan. Arabs who stayed in Israel became Israelis. Arabs who couldn’t accept the existence of Israel having been losing wars ever since. Israel will survive.
The UN made this decision under pressure from the US, whose grassroots are imbued with the Satanic death cult of “Christian” Zionism. The Arab dictators, under pressure from the US, turned on their brothers. 90+% of street Arabs surveyed oppose normalization with the pseudo-state of Israel under the Abram Accords. The Gulf “kingdoms” are not true Arabs or Muslims. But NOW, after the ubiquitous photos and videos of dead and starving Palestinians, everyone with a human beating heart and compassion is revulsed by the Zionazis and even the Arab dictators are forced to listen to their people and are no longer “standing with Israel.” The world is undergoing a seismic upheaval and little MAGA fans won’t stop it.
Everyone with a human beating heart and compassion realised after WW2 that creating the state of Israel was the right thing to do. If you have a moral bone in your body you could see that.
Whatever Don, perhaps it was Ottoman land, perhaps it was British land, perhaps it was the UN's land, perhaps it was the land of the arab and jewish peasants and merchants, perhaps it was the land of Jewish settlers, it's Israel now. But you keep banging your head against this wall, it's gone well for 80 years now.
Sorry Dan. I do not agree at all. I can imagine in some extreme cases that I might agree. Certainly you are correct to say that the Jews, the Russians, and the Chinese have many many people we could easily love.
But leftist systems are just bad. Murderous is the nice way of putting it.
See what Putin is doing in Ukraine right now. (Yes, Zelensky is not a saint.)
See the many bad things Xi and the CCP are doing now.
If you could make a fact-based argument, we would consider it. But leftism has failed over and over again. We have zero hope in leftism with a wave of the hand.
Nowadays, the people referred to as leftists by the MAGA all seem to be the ones with consciences who object to genocide. Do you think of all compassionate people as leftists?
Great place to start as Columbia has been the vanguard of Marxism and Progressive policy since the Frankfurt School moved there in the 1930's. They've been spreading that poison throughout academia ever since.
And embodied in folks like the Weather Underground, who become violent domestic terrorists. They are all cut from the same cloth.. with the intent to destabilize the United States and usher in some type of socialist utopia.
Predatory capitalism controls America. Salaries have fallen ever since 1987 because the billionaires control the government. AIPAC is also a destroyer of real democracy. Americans are so gullible. And yet, when the government threatens their social security -- a socialist construct -- they squeal bloody murder.
I am disappointed. I expected nothing less than the dismantling of these treasonous institutions.
Decades of student ideological corruption forgotten with a $200 million fine. How long do you think these luminaires will wait to return to their old ways once a democrat gets to be president again?
Vance will keep 'em in line for awhile. A couple of full-term student matriculations will at least serve as a start, if the admissions rules are rigorously enforced, towards a student body that could provide some needed pushback against the Marxist faculty. I myself would advise enforcement auditors throughout the schools. Another idea that would provoke flaming rage -- but so did this agreement...
According to Mike Benz and the faculty list at Columbia- ex intelligence officers teach their international studies at Columbia. All the conspirators to get Trump teach our future leaders to become a part of furthering the status quo international interference for the sake of George Soros type agendas. A cia cut out if you will. This keeps the university’s finances, budgets entangled with federal grants to pay for research and is how their endowments keep growing. The universities have lost the plot of their core mission and just perpetuate the actions that keep the same folks in power and in riches.
Give Benz a listen he explains it way better than me.
I would have liked to have seen mass firings, even those responsible for approving the widespread DEI (mass-discrimination) programs. Hopefully, there is also a mechanism to ensure the ideology doesn't creep back in.
I think the hope is some of these true believer left-wing faculty members eject themselves. Kind of like what happened in the New College of Florida.. did you ever see some of the videos that were produced showing the faculty flipping out over Rufo being there? They essentially eject themselves when the institution folds, like Columbia has. But I agree with your sentiment. Some of these folks won’t give up their dirty dog critical consciousness propaganda.. they’ll still be sucking on the nipple of this garbage trying to spread it to students behind the scenes. I think the administration knows this, but you can only show so much your hand to start with.
I'm sure glad I went to college back in the late 60s and early 70s. We didn't have any of this nonsense and aside from partying, we were there to actually learn facts, not propaganda crap. Here's something I learned a lot about in College:
The Columbia agreement is significant and hopefully the Trump administrative appointees are not corrupt and will be ever vigilant in monitoring the university’s compliance
There is one huge problem with the Columbia settlement, and I hope a courageous student or faculty member with take a lawsuit to SCOTUS to strike down that clause. It is unacceptable that the university has to adopt the ridiculous Zionist claim that criticizing Israel or comparing its actions (rightly) to Nazi actions is 'antiSemitism.' That is unacceptable 1A violation, and needs to be struck down by SCOTUS.
Wave that flag. Just come out and say it. I’d suggest you go to the Holocaust Museum and take a a few hours. Maybe you’ll think before you open your mouth about the Nazis.
Oh dear, that old trope. Sorry, doesn't work. The Zionists have debased the Nazi Holocaust by perpetrating the Zionist Holocaust and using the Nazi Holocaust as cover. Principled people have no interest in any Nazi Holocaust museum now - I will visit the Zionist Holocaust museum wherever in the world it gets built. To remind us that the people yelling Never Again have their hands drenched in genocidal blood.
The Zionist Holocaust started in 1967 with Israel's invasion of Palestine, and is now at the Final Solution stage in Gaza, and long past the Kristalnacht stage on the West Bank.
So can your professional victimhood. It's long past its sell-by date
Ha ha, professional victimhood - very droll Paulette, but the trick is to leave Israel alone, and it's a lesson that some have finally learnt (Egypt, Saudi, UAE), but some just don't seem to be able to learn, such is their hatred. What is happening in Gaza is called "war". Hamas started the war on October 7th 2023, a generation after Israel withdrew from Gaza. War sucks, especially when you lose! If Hamas want the war to end, they need to surrender.
Paulette, Hamas effed around and found out, as they say, and the Palestinian people are paying the price for Hamas' treachery.... But you blame the Israelis... You are pathetic... And, I'm guessing, in some way tied to the university, where idiotic ideas such as yours are incubated. But you can (partially) redeem yourself by joining me in calling for Hamas' immediate and unconditional surrender. That, and that alone, will end this. You can do that, can't you? I'll await your reply.
Yeah, and I bet you get your news from the NY Times... they of the fake news front page story about the "genocide" in Gaza... Give it up, the genocide lie has been debunked. But I'm sure you will still faithfully repeat it.
"Debunked" only by genocidal Zionists. Who have no credibility outside of their genocidal bubble. But keep up the Zionist Holocaust Denial, why don't you.
Paulette, interesting that you say this “Zionist Holocaust” started in 1967. As if Jews didn’t already live in a country called Israel. What is REALLY interesting is that from 1948 to 1967 Gaza and the West Bank (those areas now referred to as “occupied” by Israel) were in Arab hands. They were completely made Judenfrei & yet no state of “Palestine” was created. It was all theirs. No one to blame for not creating their utopia but themselves & fellow Arab-Muslims. Instead what did they do? Launched yet another unsuccessful war against Israel. Which they lost & in which Israel gained those territories. Ah well. Too bad history didn’t actually start just 15 minutes ago.
You really think we don't know ISRAEL started the 1967 war? To occupy Palestine? Attacked the USS Liberty and killed Americans to try to cover that up?
Jews are most certainly NOT indigenous to Palestine - your own Torah says they were genocidal conquerers. Still are. Israel is a horrific racist genocidal country - which is what its founding ideology of Zionism is.
Utter disgrace, the bunch of you, and the world rightly despises your genocidal state and its ideology. Not even the Nazis yakked up raping people with hot rods, as your Knesset members have. And your cabinet ministers proudly announced, 2 years ago, they were going to starve Gaza.
And of course, the West Bank is far past the Kristalnacht stage, with daily Brownshirt settler pogroms, IDF murders, and mass land grabs and evictions, along with apartheid and brutality
Get lost, despicable Zionists. We condemn you and despise you, as principled people should.
HILARIOUS. The Germans were also extremely advanced scientifically and culturally. Didn't prevent Nazism, did it? No more has any intellectual pursuit prevented the rise of genocidal Zionism, adopted by apparently 80% of all Jews.
Beating up janitors does not equate to criticism of anything, it is violence.
Criticizing Israel doesn't equate to supporting its destruction. Columbia allowed widespread calls for violent destruction of Israel, from the river to the sea, which in Arabic literally means "from the river to the sea Palestine will be Arab". I have not seen calls from the left to destroy Myanmar for their genocide of Rohinga, or calls to destroy Russia for their 17 years of war on Georgia, 11 years of war on Ukraine- none of which is in self-defense after a genocidal unprovoked attack like the one on October 7. Your hypocrisy is on full display.
Finally, I don't recall violent attacks by the Jews on the Nazis as a trigger and explanation of the genocide that followed and reduced Jewish world population by 50%. Gaza population increased since 2023 even by Hamas official numbers. Jews in Palestine were subjected to massacres long before Zionism even existed. Stop siding with the Nazis and Hitler's personal friend Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was an SS officer.
People who insist that opponents of genocide are anti-Semites are inadvertently claiming that genocidal behavior is a Jewish trait. Now THAT is anti-Semitic.
The IHRA working definition of antisemitism does not consider criticism of Israel to be antisemitic. Double standards and demonization, yes, just as it would be Sinophobic to do the same to China. Your Holocaust inversion claim, however, is classic late-20th century antisemitism from well before the IHRA definition.
I get it. If you have a conscience and are tired of seeing pics and vids of children starving to death you are a bad person. The Bible says woe unto those who put good for evil and evil for good. That is America today!
Yes, the pics of starving children are tragic.. Problem is, you don't seem to get it that it is Hamas--and Hamas alone--who is responsible for the suffering. Join me in calling for their immediate and unconditional surrender. Then we'll see whether or not you are truly concerned about "genocide."
This lame justification for genocide is rejected by everyone but genocidal Zionists, but Zionists keep repeating it. I suppose they hope the Goebbellian claim that if they repeat the Big Lie often enough people will start believing it will hold true. Sadly for them, we believe our own eyes, and Israel and Zionism are now seen for what they are - a genocidal racist state and a genocidal racist ideology.
Wrong, wrong, and more wrong. You believe Hamas? You think Hamas has been helpful to their constituents? Do you think attacks killing women and children happen in a void, without repercussions? Your Jew hatred is pathetic. Hamas has caused their own genocide.
Hamas is one of several RESISTANCE groups in the ME. Resistance is NOT terror though they kill terrorist. The only terrorists in the ME are the US and Israel. ISIS and Al-Qaeda are western constructs. You will note that neither of them has ever attacked Israel.
The only starving child that was paraded as evidence on the front pages of all the leftist press was the one with a genetic disorder who was evacuated by IDF and is now at the clinic in Europe. Even NYT admitted that it was a fake. However, the photo of this child was on the front page while retraction is in small print and buried in the back. This is how woke propaganda works.
NPR CEO readily admitted that their entire editorial board are Democrats, not even a single independent, let alone Republican. As an independent voter myself who voted for both Democrats and Republicans in the past, I concluded that NPR was a leftist organization, and stopped donating to them.
Plenty of starving children. And the IDF shoots people for sport, uses children as sniper targets, has bombed every hospital, executed numerous medical personnel, run tanks over crowds.... The SS could learn something about callous brutality from the IDF. And who needs gas chambers when starvation will do? And it's so much more painful - a plus for genocidal Zionists. But I repeat myself - just 'Zionist' would do.
I see. People who oppose genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder and unprovoked attacks on sovereign countries are evil. I think that opinion is obsolescent and will soon be put out to pasture. Polls show that Americans no longer support the war against babies in Gaza.
Sorry, Paulette, the only Nazis I see are Hamas, AKA The Gaza Nazis... Join me in calling for their immediate and unconditional surrender. That is the only thing that can end this.
Oh that tired old trope from the professional victims. Sorry, the fact that the Germans murdered 10m people of whom 6m were Jews (I notice all the Zionists leave out the other 4m - of course they don't count, per the Talmud) does not in any way whitewash the Zionist Holocaust in Gaza and on the West Bank.
The world sees Israel and Zionists for what they are. Genocidal racists whose hands are drenched in blood.
But as I understand, it was not just a monetary settlement. I think we all need to hear more details about the settlement. And, as suggested earlier, a better understanding of how it will be enforced (or how we check that they really do what the agreement says).
Speaking of enforcement, the cap on tax-exempt status for university endowments contained in the BBB sent a powerful message to university boards that their tax exempt money printing machines are not sacrosanct, and must serve the public interest.
Great work. Hope there are strong enforcement mechanisms in place with the threat of additional punishment. Leftists always lie. Full reform and conquest may not be possible without mass firings of commissars. They view these fines as slaps on the wrist and will continue grooming red guards covertly. Look at how the weather underground subverted our institutions after they were let off the hook.
The institution where I work did react appropriately, but pay attention to state laws: some states require DEI (or DEI-like programs). So this doesn’t do mich to change the state laws (as in New Jersey). I’m currently watching them in other institutions change the names of DEI to “centers for belonging” and other shell-game word salads while casually saying, “We’ll just wait them out a few years. Don’t worry. Nothing changes.” They’re not taking this seriously at all. Something has to happen to an institution that’s playing the shell game before it REALLY gets their attention. These not-so-smart academics think they’re smarter than everyone else. Are they? They are unless this word salad shell game has consequences.
Google makes it look like there's "no statewide DEI law in New Jersey." But then if you dig, you find things like this: https://www.nj.gov/education/standards/dei/faqs/
And this: https://www.nj.gov/education/standards/dei/
How's that for no DEI? It's like this everywhere. It would be nice if leftists stopped lying.
Leftists stop lying....Now that's the funniest thing I've heard in 2025!
Here's another problem the left has created:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/every-climate-prediction-has-been
Yep usa and all western countries are becoming nations of liars.
Yes sir, when people intuitively know that they are not speaking or acting truthfully, they act that out. That only makes things worse, and the people have less and less faith in their leaders. Sadly, more and more people have tuned out to politics so it just keeps getting worse and worse.
So true be truthful and honest.God is watching and we know in our souls how to behave.
How did WU “subvert our institutions?”
Yuri, the Soviet Union is defunct. Don't worry. It is NOT coming back.
Its not dead either just changed its face.
It's a great start, however, I didn't believe the people should be funding any private universities with our taxes. The Dems are always crying about the rich paying their fair share..... But crickets when universities are given tax exemptions while sitting on massive endowments and charging hundreds of thousands to students for worthless degrees, burying them in mountains of debt. Which of course is also partially funded by the government( tax payers).
You want real reform? Get the government out.... Make all loans either personal or funded by the university and allow students and parents to sue when their useless degrees can only land them jobs they could have gotten without it. Watch how fast the free market transforms the playing field. The students have competed to get in to these schools for too long.... Let the schools compete for students. Government loans have enabled that because the schools have zero skin in the game ... They get guaranteed payment no matter what shoddy product they produce and the tax payer and students are left holding the empty bag.
Also, don't send your kids there.
No one in this thread has offspring that could get in.
lmao well theres an example of stupidity right there.
University students are adults. They are not ‘sent’ there by their parents. They choose to go, where to go and what course to follow.
Really? Who is paying for the school? If they pay for their own education, more power to them. If parents cover the bill, their kids will go where the parent decides. So, yes, it is the parents' fault.
So true whoever is paying the bill has a lot of sway.
They are not fully adults untill they have experienced life at 25 your brian does not have all of its fold yet.So how can you say an 18 year old is an adult.
The age of majority is 18 in most countries, including the USA. Legally one is an adult at that age, even if one still lacks adult maturity.
The decision on whether to attend a university or not, and if so which one, is that of the student. Of course a parent may apply financial leverage to try to influence the decisions but ultimately they do not “send” their offspring to university; the student decides.
One thousand percent correct! The Ivies and public universities have billions in endowments - they do NOT need our tax dollars which would be better spent on trade schools, apprenticeships and mentoring programs that lead to actual jobs with solid wages.
Yes the idea you go to college or universities and become ruler of the universe is not always the case.Especially if you study mickey mouse courses ie gender studies.
Nicely put! Let them maintain their own colleges. I find it interesting that these prestigious colleges are nothing more than an elitist diploma mill for the rich families to perpetuate their children's ability to maintain their elitist status; get those careers which keep them within the elitist enclave. It's something which has been maintained for centuries.
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Very thoughtful comment, Sue. Keep saying it.
This is a good start but it doesn’t solve the problem of the faculty who push their ideological fantasies into their courses. I would be interested to hear how this problem is solved.
I propose that it does begin to solve the problems of faculty ideologists who bamboozle their students. The requirements for pursuing truth, and for transparency in administration, are two good steps in that direction.
I've gotta believe that the only thing that will make the Universities who perpetuate this nonsense will only listen when their money is taken away from them.
They are a big part of the reason we have to put up with this nonsense:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/every-climate-prediction-has-been
Washington's ideological fantasies are FAR more dangerous.
But can there be anything more dangerous than the child-killing ideologies of Zionism and "Christian" Zionism and the irrational Russophobia and Sinophobia taught on most campuses?
There can! Denying Israel's right to exist is clearly much more dangerous. Perhaps one day the left and the Arabs will learn this!
Actually, Arab countries, having had enough of the KGB-sponsored PLO terrorism and Hamas terrorism, are moving towards the Abraham accords. The anti-Israeli aggression is now driven by Iran and global woke left, in full cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood, banned in most Arab countries as a terrorist organization.
Very interesting take on things. I like your theory!
Here's one I wrote about today:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/every-climate-prediction-has-been
Good to know.
The Abram Accords ignored the main obstacle to peace, ie, the Israeli terror and atrocities against Palestinians. ONLY the Arab dictators (mostly kings, unelected) accepted these accords because of the incentives Trump offered. The street Arabs refused them. Poll results: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/01/07/695904/Palestine-Israel-Arab-countries-oppose-normalization-relations-survey
Don't hold your breath waiting for the Left and the Arabs to learn ANYTHING!
This is why we have to put up with this nonsense:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/every-climate-prediction-has-been
Scuse me, but it was the 3 "founding" European Jewish terror groups, Irgun, Lehi and Haganah, that denied Palestinians their ownership rights to the land that gave rise to the pseudostate of "Israel," and now they've turned it around and claimed only THEY, the usurpers, have a right to exist. Here is the history of "Israel": https://yandex.ru/video/preview/3485800108677787020
Sorry Don but the history doesn’t help you. The UN mandated a two state solution to this very problem in 1948, the 2 states being Israel and Transjordan. Arabs who stayed in Israel became Israelis. Arabs who couldn’t accept the existence of Israel having been losing wars ever since. Israel will survive.
The UN made this decision under pressure from the US, whose grassroots are imbued with the Satanic death cult of “Christian” Zionism. The Arab dictators, under pressure from the US, turned on their brothers. 90+% of street Arabs surveyed oppose normalization with the pseudo-state of Israel under the Abram Accords. The Gulf “kingdoms” are not true Arabs or Muslims. But NOW, after the ubiquitous photos and videos of dead and starving Palestinians, everyone with a human beating heart and compassion is revulsed by the Zionazis and even the Arab dictators are forced to listen to their people and are no longer “standing with Israel.” The world is undergoing a seismic upheaval and little MAGA fans won’t stop it.
Everyone with a human beating heart and compassion realised after WW2 that creating the state of Israel was the right thing to do. If you have a moral bone in your body you could see that.
Interesting. But it was NOT their land.
Whatever Don, perhaps it was Ottoman land, perhaps it was British land, perhaps it was the UN's land, perhaps it was the land of the arab and jewish peasants and merchants, perhaps it was the land of Jewish settlers, it's Israel now. But you keep banging your head against this wall, it's gone well for 80 years now.
I think I may have omitted to post the link to one of the few documentaries on the Nakba (aka founding of “Israel”). If so, my apologies. Here it is: https://yandex.ru/video/preview/3485800108677787020
Sorry Dan. I do not agree at all. I can imagine in some extreme cases that I might agree. Certainly you are correct to say that the Jews, the Russians, and the Chinese have many many people we could easily love.
But leftist systems are just bad. Murderous is the nice way of putting it.
See what Putin is doing in Ukraine right now. (Yes, Zelensky is not a saint.)
See the many bad things Xi and the CCP are doing now.
If you could make a fact-based argument, we would consider it. But leftism has failed over and over again. We have zero hope in leftism with a wave of the hand.
Nowadays, the people referred to as leftists by the MAGA all seem to be the ones with consciences who object to genocide. Do you think of all compassionate people as leftists?
"Child-killing ideologies," huh? Are you including the ideology of abortion on demand that is prominent on most campuses? I'm guessing not.
Yeah. You are more dangerous. You're a mini-Hitler.
"Mini-Hitler"? Is that all you got as a response? Pitiful.
You're pitiful! Me? I'm palatable! So...there!
You, quite simply, aren't very bright.
How tall do you think I am?
Great place to start as Columbia has been the vanguard of Marxism and Progressive policy since the Frankfurt School moved there in the 1930's. They've been spreading that poison throughout academia ever since.
And embodied in folks like the Weather Underground, who become violent domestic terrorists. They are all cut from the same cloth.. with the intent to destabilize the United States and usher in some type of socialist utopia.
Correct. The words socialist and utopia have no meaning when combined into the same sentence.
Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis! Evil duo.
Predatory capitalism controls America. Salaries have fallen ever since 1987 because the billionaires control the government. AIPAC is also a destroyer of real democracy. Americans are so gullible. And yet, when the government threatens their social security -- a socialist construct -- they squeal bloody murder.
Conspiracy theorist in action. What a waste of human life.
I smell a university-type!
You're a genyes. Yes, I teach the widespread acceptance of feminism in the Muslim world at Haaarvard.
So that's your comeback, huh? Pitiful.
Satire doesn't work re: today's university, when there's nothing too crazy to be true. ..
Good point. You're obviously a univeristy-type!
Should there be a hyphen between university and type?
Some conspiracies are real and some are fake. Which theory did I allude to that you thought was fake"?
I am disappointed. I expected nothing less than the dismantling of these treasonous institutions.
Decades of student ideological corruption forgotten with a $200 million fine. How long do you think these luminaires will wait to return to their old ways once a democrat gets to be president again?
Defund academia and pull the plug on academia’s foreign student-visa cash machines!
May I make a small change" "Defund, dismantle, and re-invent academia."
How about we just Defund and dismantle?
Maybe we just need to destroy and start all over again...
Agreed. The place is infested with the Marxist ideologues, with no diversity of thought even possible.
You know this how?
Good point.
Rufo’s point: if we can use this deal to log roll lots of other institutions, this “momentum” could have a substantial effect.
Yes, I agree, more is needed.
Vance will keep 'em in line for awhile. A couple of full-term student matriculations will at least serve as a start, if the admissions rules are rigorously enforced, towards a student body that could provide some needed pushback against the Marxist faculty. I myself would advise enforcement auditors throughout the schools. Another idea that would provoke flaming rage -- but so did this agreement...
Nonsense from a Rufo-sock
According to Mike Benz and the faculty list at Columbia- ex intelligence officers teach their international studies at Columbia. All the conspirators to get Trump teach our future leaders to become a part of furthering the status quo international interference for the sake of George Soros type agendas. A cia cut out if you will. This keeps the university’s finances, budgets entangled with federal grants to pay for research and is how their endowments keep growing. The universities have lost the plot of their core mission and just perpetuate the actions that keep the same folks in power and in riches.
Give Benz a listen he explains it way better than me.
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I would have liked to have seen mass firings, even those responsible for approving the widespread DEI (mass-discrimination) programs. Hopefully, there is also a mechanism to ensure the ideology doesn't creep back in.
I think the hope is some of these true believer left-wing faculty members eject themselves. Kind of like what happened in the New College of Florida.. did you ever see some of the videos that were produced showing the faculty flipping out over Rufo being there? They essentially eject themselves when the institution folds, like Columbia has. But I agree with your sentiment. Some of these folks won’t give up their dirty dog critical consciousness propaganda.. they’ll still be sucking on the nipple of this garbage trying to spread it to students behind the scenes. I think the administration knows this, but you can only show so much your hand to start with.
I'm sure glad I went to college back in the late 60s and early 70s. We didn't have any of this nonsense and aside from partying, we were there to actually learn facts, not propaganda crap. Here's something I learned a lot about in College:
https://hiddentruthsbysunny.substack.com/p/every-climate-prediction-has-been
The Columbia agreement is significant and hopefully the Trump administrative appointees are not corrupt and will be ever vigilant in monitoring the university’s compliance
Forget Columbia. Go to Hillsdale.
Princeton next, please....
Chris, Donald John Trump, the gift that keeps on giving.
There is one huge problem with the Columbia settlement, and I hope a courageous student or faculty member with take a lawsuit to SCOTUS to strike down that clause. It is unacceptable that the university has to adopt the ridiculous Zionist claim that criticizing Israel or comparing its actions (rightly) to Nazi actions is 'antiSemitism.' That is unacceptable 1A violation, and needs to be struck down by SCOTUS.
Wave that flag. Just come out and say it. I’d suggest you go to the Holocaust Museum and take a a few hours. Maybe you’ll think before you open your mouth about the Nazis.
Oh dear, that old trope. Sorry, doesn't work. The Zionists have debased the Nazi Holocaust by perpetrating the Zionist Holocaust and using the Nazi Holocaust as cover. Principled people have no interest in any Nazi Holocaust museum now - I will visit the Zionist Holocaust museum wherever in the world it gets built. To remind us that the people yelling Never Again have their hands drenched in genocidal blood.
The Zionist Holocaust started in 1967 with Israel's invasion of Palestine, and is now at the Final Solution stage in Gaza, and long past the Kristalnacht stage on the West Bank.
So can your professional victimhood. It's long past its sell-by date
Ha ha, professional victimhood - very droll Paulette, but the trick is to leave Israel alone, and it's a lesson that some have finally learnt (Egypt, Saudi, UAE), but some just don't seem to be able to learn, such is their hatred. What is happening in Gaza is called "war". Hamas started the war on October 7th 2023, a generation after Israel withdrew from Gaza. War sucks, especially when you lose! If Hamas want the war to end, they need to surrender.
Leave Israel alone? So should we leave ALL mass murderers alone, Thomas?
You're cracking me up! I hope I'm not annoying you and taking years off your life.
Don’t worry. Annoying people don’t take years off my life. They just annoy me.
Iran and the Houthis may decide when the war ends and who is left standing.
You're a silly-billy.
Paulette, Hamas effed around and found out, as they say, and the Palestinian people are paying the price for Hamas' treachery.... But you blame the Israelis... You are pathetic... And, I'm guessing, in some way tied to the university, where idiotic ideas such as yours are incubated. But you can (partially) redeem yourself by joining me in calling for Hamas' immediate and unconditional surrender. That, and that alone, will end this. You can do that, can't you? I'll await your reply.
History didn't start Oct 7, contrary to Zionist hasbara. The Zionist Holocaust started in 1967 with steadily accelerating viciousness. Now genocidal.
Yeah, and I bet you get your news from the NY Times... they of the fake news front page story about the "genocide" in Gaza... Give it up, the genocide lie has been debunked. But I'm sure you will still faithfully repeat it.
"Debunked" only by genocidal Zionists. Who have no credibility outside of their genocidal bubble. But keep up the Zionist Holocaust Denial, why don't you.
Paulette, interesting that you say this “Zionist Holocaust” started in 1967. As if Jews didn’t already live in a country called Israel. What is REALLY interesting is that from 1948 to 1967 Gaza and the West Bank (those areas now referred to as “occupied” by Israel) were in Arab hands. They were completely made Judenfrei & yet no state of “Palestine” was created. It was all theirs. No one to blame for not creating their utopia but themselves & fellow Arab-Muslims. Instead what did they do? Launched yet another unsuccessful war against Israel. Which they lost & in which Israel gained those territories. Ah well. Too bad history didn’t actually start just 15 minutes ago.
You really think we don't know ISRAEL started the 1967 war? To occupy Palestine? Attacked the USS Liberty and killed Americans to try to cover that up?
Jews are most certainly NOT indigenous to Palestine - your own Torah says they were genocidal conquerers. Still are. Israel is a horrific racist genocidal country - which is what its founding ideology of Zionism is.
Utter disgrace, the bunch of you, and the world rightly despises your genocidal state and its ideology. Not even the Nazis yakked up raping people with hot rods, as your Knesset members have. And your cabinet ministers proudly announced, 2 years ago, they were going to starve Gaza.
And of course, the West Bank is far past the Kristalnacht stage, with daily Brownshirt settler pogroms, IDF murders, and mass land grabs and evictions, along with apartheid and brutality
Get lost, despicable Zionists. We condemn you and despise you, as principled people should.
Paulette, do you identify more with an Ottoman, an Islamist or a Nazi?
I am a principled person, which is not a breed Zionists understand.
Yes, Zionists are known for bein stupid. I mean look at how shitty Israelis are at technology. So. Very. Stupid. Bwahahahahahahahahaha....
HILARIOUS. The Germans were also extremely advanced scientifically and culturally. Didn't prevent Nazism, did it? No more has any intellectual pursuit prevented the rise of genocidal Zionism, adopted by apparently 80% of all Jews.
You're wise beyond your years. Are you three years' old?
Beating up janitors does not equate to criticism of anything, it is violence.
Criticizing Israel doesn't equate to supporting its destruction. Columbia allowed widespread calls for violent destruction of Israel, from the river to the sea, which in Arabic literally means "from the river to the sea Palestine will be Arab". I have not seen calls from the left to destroy Myanmar for their genocide of Rohinga, or calls to destroy Russia for their 17 years of war on Georgia, 11 years of war on Ukraine- none of which is in self-defense after a genocidal unprovoked attack like the one on October 7. Your hypocrisy is on full display.
Finally, I don't recall violent attacks by the Jews on the Nazis as a trigger and explanation of the genocide that followed and reduced Jewish world population by 50%. Gaza population increased since 2023 even by Hamas official numbers. Jews in Palestine were subjected to massacres long before Zionism even existed. Stop siding with the Nazis and Hitler's personal friend Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was an SS officer.
Oh please, your Zionist hasbara is not interesting and the world is not buying it any more. Your genocidal Zionism is on full display.
Oh please, quit boring us with your simpleton's mantra.
Ok, but do you pro-genocide folks have any RATIONAL arguments based on logic and facts? Even monkeys can sling poop.
Sling poop? That's a good one. You must hang out with monkeys a lot.
"Hasbara," huh? Oh this one is definitely "woke." She knows all the cool terms.
Sure. Paulette should never get facts get in the way of her hatred of the Jews. Just like Fuhrer, just like Stalin, just like Sinwar.
People who insist that opponents of genocide are anti-Semites are inadvertently claiming that genocidal behavior is a Jewish trait. Now THAT is anti-Semitic.
Anti-genocide and anti-ethnic cleansing is Jew hate? Epic self-own! And yet Zionists keep trotting out that self-indictment!
The IHRA working definition of antisemitism does not consider criticism of Israel to be antisemitic. Double standards and demonization, yes, just as it would be Sinophobic to do the same to China. Your Holocaust inversion claim, however, is classic late-20th century antisemitism from well before the IHRA definition.
I get it. If you have a conscience and are tired of seeing pics and vids of children starving to death you are a bad person. The Bible says woe unto those who put good for evil and evil for good. That is America today!
Yes, the pics of starving children are tragic.. Problem is, you don't seem to get it that it is Hamas--and Hamas alone--who is responsible for the suffering. Join me in calling for their immediate and unconditional surrender. Then we'll see whether or not you are truly concerned about "genocide."
This lame justification for genocide is rejected by everyone but genocidal Zionists, but Zionists keep repeating it. I suppose they hope the Goebbellian claim that if they repeat the Big Lie often enough people will start believing it will hold true. Sadly for them, we believe our own eyes, and Israel and Zionism are now seen for what they are - a genocidal racist state and a genocidal racist ideology.
Wrong, wrong, and more wrong. You believe Hamas? You think Hamas has been helpful to their constituents? Do you think attacks killing women and children happen in a void, without repercussions? Your Jew hatred is pathetic. Hamas has caused their own genocide.
Hamas is one of several RESISTANCE groups in the ME. Resistance is NOT terror though they kill terrorist. The only terrorists in the ME are the US and Israel. ISIS and Al-Qaeda are western constructs. You will note that neither of them has ever attacked Israel.
The only starving child that was paraded as evidence on the front pages of all the leftist press was the one with a genetic disorder who was evacuated by IDF and is now at the clinic in Europe. Even NYT admitted that it was a fake. However, the photo of this child was on the front page while retraction is in small print and buried in the back. This is how woke propaganda works.
I don’t know the names of any leftist media. Which one are you referring to?
NPR CEO readily admitted that their entire editorial board are Democrats, not even a single independent, let alone Republican. As an independent voter myself who voted for both Democrats and Republicans in the past, I concluded that NPR was a leftist organization, and stopped donating to them.
Right now the world is divided between compassionate people and the heartless. These have no particular places in the right left spectrum.
Plenty of starving children. And the IDF shoots people for sport, uses children as sniper targets, has bombed every hospital, executed numerous medical personnel, run tanks over crowds.... The SS could learn something about callous brutality from the IDF. And who needs gas chambers when starvation will do? And it's so much more painful - a plus for genocidal Zionists. But I repeat myself - just 'Zionist' would do.
It is extremely clear that you have NEVER read anything about WWII. You need reassess your ability to think. Or non-ability.
Isn't it ironic an evil person quoteing Isaiah about evil people. You have eyes but cannot see.
I see. People who oppose genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder and unprovoked attacks on sovereign countries are evil. I think that opinion is obsolescent and will soon be put out to pasture. Polls show that Americans no longer support the war against babies in Gaza.
Are you saying that Americans no longer support Hamas who uses babies as human shields?
Hamas doesn’t need human shields. No one knows where they are. Until they blow up a tank.
Your hasbara is a fail.
I actually believe you are even more of an imbecile than Paulette
I don’t mind being somewhat less intelligent than Paulette.
Yawn.
LOL. That is FALSE. Typical Zionist hasbara.
And fyi, even your lying version is a 1A violation.
yawn...
Sorry, Paulette, the only Nazis I see are Hamas, AKA The Gaza Nazis... Join me in calling for their immediate and unconditional surrender. That is the only thing that can end this.
Genocidal Zionist opines....
Maybe you need to spend a week at the original Auschwitz. Then we'll hear what you have to say about this matter. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Oh that tired old trope from the professional victims. Sorry, the fact that the Germans murdered 10m people of whom 6m were Jews (I notice all the Zionists leave out the other 4m - of course they don't count, per the Talmud) does not in any way whitewash the Zionist Holocaust in Gaza and on the West Bank.
The world sees Israel and Zionists for what they are. Genocidal racists whose hands are drenched in blood.
Paulette, do you identify as a woman or man?
Unlike you, I know sex is not something to be "identified with." It's determined at conception. Educate yourself.
So you're cis then?
You are a game changer for this country, Chris Rufo. Thank you for your work!
Let’s Flipping GOOOO!!!
Monetary settlements do not necessarily have an effect on the underlying social and academic culture at these institutions
But as I understand, it was not just a monetary settlement. I think we all need to hear more details about the settlement. And, as suggested earlier, a better understanding of how it will be enforced (or how we check that they really do what the agreement says).
Speaking of enforcement, the cap on tax-exempt status for university endowments contained in the BBB sent a powerful message to university boards that their tax exempt money printing machines are not sacrosanct, and must serve the public interest.
Trump should have also fired much of Columbia's workforce and hired freedom-loving patriots, for the purposes of equity and diversity, of course.
As much as I would love to see that happening, it would be impossible as Columbia is a private U.