Look at all those people stuck in a real bad spot if there's one bomb-thrower or mass shooter in that bunch of terrorist boosters.
This should have been anticipated by law enforcement and the school. WTF.
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This should have been anticipated by law enforcement and the school. WTF.
jward
passin' thru
That's the real fear here, for me.Look at all those people stuck in a real bad spot if there's one bomb-thrower or mass shooter in that bunch of terrorist boosters.
This should have been anticipated by law enforcement and the school. WTF.
It's a perfect set up for making martyrs, and if it could be laid at the feet of fans of the orange-man-bad, so much the better.
..and you certainly can't put it beyond our dot.govs to orchestrate such a chit show eh? : (
Folks who're happy to twist the knife in the back of friends w/o provocation positively drool at the thought o' doing so to their perceived enemies.
Either way, think our standard forecasts of 'a hot summer' will prove understatements this year.
Cacheman
Ultra MAGA!
I was just reading about financial aid for college, 9 out of 10 students rely on one form or another to attend college. Three years ago the process began to revise the entire application process and when it rolled out this year it was an epic disaster and still isn't really functioning. May 1 is normally 'College Decision Day' when students can finally choose which college to accept an offer from based on financial aid offers they receive from the schools they applied to. Many schools still cannot access the system in order to put the offers together, few high school seniors have been able to finally make a decision and it looks like it will still be weeks away. As of the last day of March applications are down 42% from a year ago. It will be really interesting how this issue combined with these protests affect enrollment in the fall semester. Sounds like many schools are expecting a free fall for the next semester.
@CollinRugg
JUST IN: Chaos breaks out at University of Virginia as Virginia State Police spray tear gas and arrest pro-Palestine protesters.
The incident was triggered after the protests at the school hit a “turning point” on Friday evening.
After the school refused to comply with all of the protesters’ demands, the protesters turned their demonstration into an encampment.
The school reportedly denied many of their requests including the request to cut academic ties with Israeli institutions.
View: https://twitter.com/collinrugg/status/1786859288612479308?s=61
JUST IN: Chaos breaks out at University of Virginia as Virginia State Police spray tear gas and arrest pro-Palestine protesters.
The incident was triggered after the protests at the school hit a “turning point” on Friday evening.
After the school refused to comply with all of the protesters’ demands, the protesters turned their demonstration into an encampment.
The school reportedly denied many of their requests including the request to cut academic ties with Israeli institutions.
View: https://twitter.com/collinrugg/status/1786859288612479308?s=61
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
The local two-year colleges are seeing a major increase in applications around here. While not cheap, the community colleges still have much lower tuition than the universities. Also, so far, they aren't putting up with nonsense. I hope that trend continues.
I'd send my grandchildren to one, help pay for a two-year degree in a medical program or auto tech certification and let them go work for awhile. If they want more education, they can pay for it themselves, or they can go work for a hospital that offers tuition assistance.
In any case, I'm not supporting any multi-colored haired freaks in a woke program that have time to terrorize the campus.
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jward
passin' thru
until he's "incensed" enough to show zero tolerance for the leftist amongst us, and to strike at the head of the beast, those supercilious coastal elitist and their institutions o' indoctrination, nothing will change. He knows that. Until something changes, nothing changes.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Bill Maher says he is “incensed” that his tax dollars are going towards paying off the student loans of “Jew hating” students.
All this criticism of Biden and he will still vote for him.
“I’m so incensed about some of this stuff, because, when I read about the college loans… Biden administration’s student debt cancellation will cost a combined 870 billion to 1.4 trillion.”
“So colleges constantly raise tuition, then the kids take out more loans, then the government comes by and pays those loans. Okay, so, my tax dollars are supporting this Jew-hating? I don’t think so.”
View: https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1786761546850529626
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Bill Maher says he is “incensed” that his tax dollars are going towards paying off the student loans of “Jew hating” students.
All this criticism of Biden and he will still vote for him.
“I’m so incensed about some of this stuff, because, when I read about the college loans… Biden administration’s student debt cancellation will cost a combined 870 billion to 1.4 trillion.”
“So colleges constantly raise tuition, then the kids take out more loans, then the government comes by and pays those loans. Okay, so, my tax dollars are supporting this Jew-hating? I don’t think so.”
View: https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1786761546850529626
jward
passin' thru
How do you propose we working wimmin stop doing that- even the SC saying biden's buyoff of student loans was unconstitutional did not stop him- but I'm guessing if I hadn't wrote out that fat arse check last month, they'd have already initiated consequences for me
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
I have control over how much I give or don't give to college-age relatives. One wants to study English Literature at some college out East. She won't be getting a dime from me. If everyone does that, it'll help stem the tide.
Knoxville's Joker
Has No Life - Lives on TB
And this is what we will start seeing and the colleges will cry uncle and many will go under. Perhaps if it happens enough we may see a return to actual education.
We are already having these conversations with our kids and they are only 12 & 9. They know that there are only certain careers that you actually need a college education for. If they choose to pursue one of those careers (medicine, engineering, sciences, law & a few others) we will support them. We will also support them if they decide to go into a trade.
They are both excellent students. Right now one wants to be a doctor and the other an astrophysicist. We are considering moving to the South so that we will be eligible for in state tuition when the time comes. Schools in the North East are not options.
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jward
passin' thru
oh. yes on a personal level we still- so far- have a bit of control.
That would be an example of my treatment plan of zero tolerance for the leftist
I was thinking more of the taxes and scholarship committees I'm on, which afford me very little, to no, levels of control.
-the college savings accounts I initiated for nephews/nieces/godchildren/those we mentored were all free will gifts- though y'all know I wasn't shy about sharing my hopes and standards, and reasons behind them
That would be an example of my treatment plan of zero tolerance for the leftist
I was thinking more of the taxes and scholarship committees I'm on, which afford me very little, to no, levels of control.
-the college savings accounts I initiated for nephews/nieces/godchildren/those we mentored were all free will gifts- though y'all know I wasn't shy about sharing my hopes and standards, and reasons behind them
"George Washington Students Hold ''People's Tribunal', Call for Faculty's Deaths"
On my phone, so could someone bring this over? Whole new phase when protesters openly call for EXECUTIONS.
On my phone, so could someone bring this over? Whole new phase when protesters openly call for EXECUTIONS.
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jward
passin' thru
There were a few suits filed/discussed earlier that are beginning to hit back, and now this one- I think we will see the right is better organized and willing to push back in kind this time around.
- the only trouble is that many of those parents are the donors to those colleges themselves, employed in areas that still require spouting the party line, or are in fact, true believers.
Michael Tracey
@mtracey
Alan Dershowitz vows he will engage in "massive offensive lawfare" against allegedly "anti-Semitic" student protesters. He threatens to have their dorm rooms taken away, take their cars and boomboxes, and "bankrupt" them. He says this is necessary to "deter" the return of Hitler
View: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1786794102056521976
jward
passin' thru
George Washington Students Hold 'People's Tribunal,' Call for Faculty's Deaths
Grayson Bakich
What is it with these people?
In the latest instance of these antisemitic, hate-spewing, miseducated twerps treating their intrusive thoughts like honored guests, students (and probably more than a few professional agitators, as we have learned) at George Washington University held a "People's Tribunal" putting many of the school's faculty on symbolic trial and demanding their deaths.
Yes, really.
X account Stu Stu Studios posted footage of the scene featuring a girl speaking through a megaphone, leading chants calling out GWU Provost Christopher Bracey and accusing him of assault on top of the support for Israel and Zionism accusations, chanting, "Bracey, Bracey, we see you, you assault students too."
At the George Washington University Gaza Solidarity Encampment today, the protesters held a "People's Tribunal" where they put President Ellen Granberg, Provost Christopher Bracey, the Board of Trustees, @GWPolice, and many others on trial.
Is it normal for students to want to… pic.twitter.com/M8F543q0MV
— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 3, 2024
I do not know if they are confusing the title of "provost" within George Washington University's faculty as the academic supervisor with a supervisor of law enforcement (like "provost marshal"), but accusing Mr. Bracey of assault just adds another element of absurdity to this "tribunal" these kids are hosting.
Right after, the girl on the megaphone proclaims, "Off to the m*****f***ing gallows with you."
But hold on, it gets stupider.
The girl on the megaphone then accuses GWU's Board of Trustees of profiteering off the "genocide" of Palestinians, and after the other students loudly proclaim them "guilty," she yells, "To the guillotine!"
Finally, they also call for GWU President Ellen Granberg and her apparently "f****** bob [haircut]" to be under the guillotine as well for "using [their] tuition dollars to fund genocide."
Stu Stu Studios also posted a longer version, but the fact that these kids are openly and publicly calling for the deaths of specific people who can very likely hear them just underscores how insane these "protests" really are.
After all, these are the same students who vandalized the statue of George Washington on campus with a keffiyeh, Palestinian flags, and anti-Israel stickers, as my friend Catherine Salgado wrote about earlier this week.
For Our VIPs: Antisemites Deface Statue of Washington, Friend of the Jews
That same day, Rick Moran wrote about the occupation of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University by students and agitators, complete with barricading the entrances and holding the maintenance workers in the building hostage for a few hours.
I had also written about students at the University of Wisconsin supposedly hailing Hitler at passing Jewish students, where they had also chanted, "There is only one solution: Intifada revolution."
The next day, I mentioned how Travis County authorities in Austin, Texas, discovered apparent weapons caches of chains, mallets, mallets, bricks, and even guns hidden throughout the site of the University of Texas's site of protest on the campus.
We have already seen students at UCLA get into fights from behind the little barricades they had built, and like Moran said earlier today, if you think everything we are seeing is bad now, just wait till summer.
Grayson Bakich
What is it with these people?
In the latest instance of these antisemitic, hate-spewing, miseducated twerps treating their intrusive thoughts like honored guests, students (and probably more than a few professional agitators, as we have learned) at George Washington University held a "People's Tribunal" putting many of the school's faculty on symbolic trial and demanding their deaths.
Yes, really.
X account Stu Stu Studios posted footage of the scene featuring a girl speaking through a megaphone, leading chants calling out GWU Provost Christopher Bracey and accusing him of assault on top of the support for Israel and Zionism accusations, chanting, "Bracey, Bracey, we see you, you assault students too."
At the George Washington University Gaza Solidarity Encampment today, the protesters held a "People's Tribunal" where they put President Ellen Granberg, Provost Christopher Bracey, the Board of Trustees, @GWPolice, and many others on trial.
Is it normal for students to want to… pic.twitter.com/M8F543q0MV
— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 3, 2024
I do not know if they are confusing the title of "provost" within George Washington University's faculty as the academic supervisor with a supervisor of law enforcement (like "provost marshal"), but accusing Mr. Bracey of assault just adds another element of absurdity to this "tribunal" these kids are hosting.
Right after, the girl on the megaphone proclaims, "Off to the m*****f***ing gallows with you."
But hold on, it gets stupider.
The girl on the megaphone then accuses GWU's Board of Trustees of profiteering off the "genocide" of Palestinians, and after the other students loudly proclaim them "guilty," she yells, "To the guillotine!"
Finally, they also call for GWU President Ellen Granberg and her apparently "f****** bob [haircut]" to be under the guillotine as well for "using [their] tuition dollars to fund genocide."
Stu Stu Studios also posted a longer version, but the fact that these kids are openly and publicly calling for the deaths of specific people who can very likely hear them just underscores how insane these "protests" really are.
After all, these are the same students who vandalized the statue of George Washington on campus with a keffiyeh, Palestinian flags, and anti-Israel stickers, as my friend Catherine Salgado wrote about earlier this week.
For Our VIPs: Antisemites Deface Statue of Washington, Friend of the Jews
That same day, Rick Moran wrote about the occupation of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University by students and agitators, complete with barricading the entrances and holding the maintenance workers in the building hostage for a few hours.
I had also written about students at the University of Wisconsin supposedly hailing Hitler at passing Jewish students, where they had also chanted, "There is only one solution: Intifada revolution."
The next day, I mentioned how Travis County authorities in Austin, Texas, discovered apparent weapons caches of chains, mallets, mallets, bricks, and even guns hidden throughout the site of the University of Texas's site of protest on the campus.
We have already seen students at UCLA get into fights from behind the little barricades they had built, and like Moran said earlier today, if you think everything we are seeing is bad now, just wait till summer.
"George Washington Students Hold ''People's Tribunal', Call for Faculty's Deaths"
On my phone, so could someone bring this over? Whole new phase when protesters openly call for EXECUTIONS.
Cascadians
Leska Emerald Adams
Can't believe all the parents across USA haven't gotten together and mass sued the colleges for tuition reimbursement and pulled their kids. When it goes quickly to Agitators for Armageddon it's time to withdraw.
Echo 5
Funniest guy on TB2K
Yeah, they literally have no idea what they're asking for. This is a pathetic LARP with consequences they can't imagine."George Washington Students Hold ''People's Tribunal', Call for Faculty's Deaths"
On my phone, so could someone bring this over? Whole new phase when protesters openly call for EXECUTIONS.
They're hoping to revive the Cultural Revolution of Mao's followers.
I find it interesting that the NYPD Chief of Patrol is being this honest about what is going on. If he is willing to say this much, they know more. Also, he Isn’t putting this out there without the backing of the Commissioner and Mayor Adams.
@NYPDChiefPatrol
Good evening, from NYC to Chicago and I’m sure for a few other cities, Who is funding this? What is happening? There is an unknown entity who is radicalizing our vulnerable students. Taking advantage of their young minds. As parents and Americans we must demand some answers! I can’t speak for the rest of America, but in NYC we won’t rest until we find out! We will broadcast what we see and find. We will use the might of our Intelligence Bureau and our Federal partners to quite simply connect the dots. Follow the money!!!!!!
View: https://twitter.com/nypdchiefpatrol/status/1786938774544400506?s=61
@NYPDChiefPatrol
Good evening, from NYC to Chicago and I’m sure for a few other cities, Who is funding this? What is happening? There is an unknown entity who is radicalizing our vulnerable students. Taking advantage of their young minds. As parents and Americans we must demand some answers! I can’t speak for the rest of America, but in NYC we won’t rest until we find out! We will broadcast what we see and find. We will use the might of our Intelligence Bureau and our Federal partners to quite simply connect the dots. Follow the money!!!!!!
View: https://twitter.com/nypdchiefpatrol/status/1786938774544400506?s=61
jward
passin' thru
ThePersistence
@ScottPresler
I HAVE GREAT NEWS
Seth Weathers, CEO of Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right Beer, is throwing an event
at the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity house at UNC-Chapel Hill on Tuesday.
This is the way: Let’s reward heroism with an event dubbed the “Frat Boy Summer Kickoff.”
Hey, @sethweathers
. Can we have a voter registration table there?
CC: @ultrarightbeer
View: https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1786866481046991241
@ScottPresler
I HAVE GREAT NEWS
Seth Weathers, CEO of Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right Beer, is throwing an event
at the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity house at UNC-Chapel Hill on Tuesday.
This is the way: Let’s reward heroism with an event dubbed the “Frat Boy Summer Kickoff.”
Hey, @sethweathers
. Can we have a voter registration table there?
CC: @ultrarightbeer
View: https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1786866481046991241
jward
passin' thru
Dozens arrested in weekend of protests on US campuses
Maria Caspani
May 4 (Reuters) - Police on Saturday arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the University of Virginia, the university said in a statement, as U.S. campuses braced for more turmoil during graduation celebrations.
Tensions flared at UVA's campus in Charlottesville, where protests had been largely peaceful until Saturday morning, when police officers in riot gear were seen in a video moving on an encampment on the campus' lawn, cuffing some demonstrators with zip-ties and using what appeared to be chemical spray.
Students across the U.S. have rallied or set up tents at dozens of universities to protest the months-long war in Gaza and call on President Joe Biden, who has supported Israel, to do more to stop the bloodshed in Gaza. They also demand their schools divest from companies that support Israel's government, such as arms suppliers.
The University of Virginia said in a
news release, opens new tab
that protesters had violated several university policies including setting up tents on Friday night and using amplified sound.
Jim Ryan, UVA's president, wrote in a message that officials had learned that "individuals unaffiliated with the university" who presented "some safety concerns" had joined protesters on campus.
It wasn't immediately clear how many of those arrested were UVA students.
A group called UVA Encampment for Gaza that said earlier this week it had set up the encampment condemned the university's decision to call in police in a post on Instagram.
Dozens of people were arrested for criminal trespass outside the Art Institute of Chicago at a demonstration on Saturday after the institute called in police to remove protesters it said were illegally occupying its property, the Chicago Police Department said on X.
Elsewhere, confrontations did not escalate into arrests. In Ann Arbor, pro-Palestinian protesters briefly disrupted a commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan.
Videos shared on social media showed dozens of students wearing the traditional keffiyeh headdress and graduation caps and waving Palestinian flags as they walked down the center aisle of Michigan Stadium among cheers and boos from a crowd of thousands.
The ceremony continued and campus police escorted the protesters toward the back of the stadium, but no arrests were made, according to Colleen Mastony, a spokesperson for the university.
"Peaceful protests like this have taken place at U-M commencement ceremonies for decades," Mastony said in a statement. "The university supports free speech and expression, and university leaders are pleased that today’s commencement was such a proud and triumphant moment."
College students protest on University of Michigan campus
A coalition of University of Michigan students camp in the Diag to pressure the university to divest its endowment from companies that support Israel or could profit from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, on the University of Michigan college campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., April... Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab Read more
Contrasting views over Israel's war in Gaza have erupted, sometimes violently, across U.S. campuses over the last couple of weeks.
Many of the schools, including Columbia University in New York City, have called in police to quell the protests.
Police have so far arrested over 2,000 protesters at colleges around the country.
The University of Michigan is one of the many universities which altered their security protocols for graduation ceremonies.
The anti-war protests have been staged in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza, which it launched after a Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that Israel says killed 1,200 people. Israel has killed over 34,000 people in retaliation, according to Gaza health authorities, and flattened the Palestinian territory.
OUTRAGE AT OLE MISS
Campus protests have emerged as a new political flashpoint during a hotly contested and deeply divisive U.S. election year.
On Thursday, a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi was met by a larger crowd of counter-protesters singing the national anthem and carrying U.S. flags.
The events at Ole Miss, the state's flagship university, drew widespread outrage and condemnation after a viral video showed a group of mostly white students taunting a Black female protester. Some shouted racist remarks and one individual can be heard making what sounded like monkey noises at the Black student.
While the university's chancellor condemned the "racist overtones" of the incident and said an investigation was underway, Georgia Republican U.S. Representative Mike Collins shared the video on his X account on Friday, writing "Ole Miss taking care of business".
A spokesperson for Collins said he was pointing to examples of "regular everyday students ... pushing back against the very small group of leftist agitators who care only to disrupt and destroy."
Another Republican, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, on Saturday said he was sending Chick-fil-A, a popular U.S. fast food chain, to the counter-protesters who "protected our flag and stood up for America" on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earlier this week.
"The actions of these young men make me hopeful for the next generation’s love for our country," Graham' X post read.
Maria Caspani
May 4 (Reuters) - Police on Saturday arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the University of Virginia, the university said in a statement, as U.S. campuses braced for more turmoil during graduation celebrations.
Tensions flared at UVA's campus in Charlottesville, where protests had been largely peaceful until Saturday morning, when police officers in riot gear were seen in a video moving on an encampment on the campus' lawn, cuffing some demonstrators with zip-ties and using what appeared to be chemical spray.
Students across the U.S. have rallied or set up tents at dozens of universities to protest the months-long war in Gaza and call on President Joe Biden, who has supported Israel, to do more to stop the bloodshed in Gaza. They also demand their schools divest from companies that support Israel's government, such as arms suppliers.
The University of Virginia said in a
news release, opens new tab
that protesters had violated several university policies including setting up tents on Friday night and using amplified sound.
Jim Ryan, UVA's president, wrote in a message that officials had learned that "individuals unaffiliated with the university" who presented "some safety concerns" had joined protesters on campus.
It wasn't immediately clear how many of those arrested were UVA students.
A group called UVA Encampment for Gaza that said earlier this week it had set up the encampment condemned the university's decision to call in police in a post on Instagram.
Dozens of people were arrested for criminal trespass outside the Art Institute of Chicago at a demonstration on Saturday after the institute called in police to remove protesters it said were illegally occupying its property, the Chicago Police Department said on X.
Elsewhere, confrontations did not escalate into arrests. In Ann Arbor, pro-Palestinian protesters briefly disrupted a commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan.
Videos shared on social media showed dozens of students wearing the traditional keffiyeh headdress and graduation caps and waving Palestinian flags as they walked down the center aisle of Michigan Stadium among cheers and boos from a crowd of thousands.
The ceremony continued and campus police escorted the protesters toward the back of the stadium, but no arrests were made, according to Colleen Mastony, a spokesperson for the university.
"Peaceful protests like this have taken place at U-M commencement ceremonies for decades," Mastony said in a statement. "The university supports free speech and expression, and university leaders are pleased that today’s commencement was such a proud and triumphant moment."
College students protest on University of Michigan campus
A coalition of University of Michigan students camp in the Diag to pressure the university to divest its endowment from companies that support Israel or could profit from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, on the University of Michigan college campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., April... Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab Read more
Contrasting views over Israel's war in Gaza have erupted, sometimes violently, across U.S. campuses over the last couple of weeks.
Many of the schools, including Columbia University in New York City, have called in police to quell the protests.
Police have so far arrested over 2,000 protesters at colleges around the country.
The University of Michigan is one of the many universities which altered their security protocols for graduation ceremonies.
The anti-war protests have been staged in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza, which it launched after a Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that Israel says killed 1,200 people. Israel has killed over 34,000 people in retaliation, according to Gaza health authorities, and flattened the Palestinian territory.
OUTRAGE AT OLE MISS
Campus protests have emerged as a new political flashpoint during a hotly contested and deeply divisive U.S. election year.
On Thursday, a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi was met by a larger crowd of counter-protesters singing the national anthem and carrying U.S. flags.
The events at Ole Miss, the state's flagship university, drew widespread outrage and condemnation after a viral video showed a group of mostly white students taunting a Black female protester. Some shouted racist remarks and one individual can be heard making what sounded like monkey noises at the Black student.
While the university's chancellor condemned the "racist overtones" of the incident and said an investigation was underway, Georgia Republican U.S. Representative Mike Collins shared the video on his X account on Friday, writing "Ole Miss taking care of business".
A spokesperson for Collins said he was pointing to examples of "regular everyday students ... pushing back against the very small group of leftist agitators who care only to disrupt and destroy."
Another Republican, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, on Saturday said he was sending Chick-fil-A, a popular U.S. fast food chain, to the counter-protesters who "protected our flag and stood up for America" on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earlier this week.
"The actions of these young men make me hopeful for the next generation’s love for our country," Graham' X post read.
jward
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Ryan Saavedra
@RealSaavedra
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The crowd cheers at the University of Michigan's commencement ceremony on Saturday as police remove the pro-Palestinian protesters who disrupted the event.
View: https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1786896829042360831
@RealSaavedra
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The crowd cheers at the University of Michigan's commencement ceremony on Saturday as police remove the pro-Palestinian protesters who disrupted the event.
View: https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1786896829042360831
jward
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| @Zahra here are a few of those lawsuits we spoke of being in the works- hopefully just the first o' many... |
Camp Intifada: Students for Theocratic Authoritarianism
By Clarice Feldman
I’m old. So old that I still believe that classic Western liberalism is the best system for assuring prosperity and peace, and authoritarianism, particularly of a theocratic nature, is a disastrous governance style. Watching the encampments and riots on college campuses, I see that too many young people have missed this lesson and instead support violent, barbaric, theocratic authoritarianism. I think these participants are not representative of a majority of students or voters and that the weak responses of some universities bode ill for their futures.
Moreover, I think the Administration’s failure to act on the side of Western civilization is seriously damaging President Biden’s reelection prospects, indeed, the prospects for the Democratic party itself. In the absence of a federal response, private litigation is likely to prove particularly damaging to those who have funded and encouraged or tolerated these campus outrages.
Several lawsuits are in the works. At least three have already been filed. The most significant was a suit filed in Virginia this week alleging that the National Students for Justice in Palestine coordinated with Hamas, an organization federally listed as a terrorist organization, to orchestrate these campus attacks. The suit claims that NSJP “has effectively become the campus arm of Hamas” and is “directly aiding and abetting the terror group on American colleges” and “facilitating the conditions necessary for Hamas to continue carrying out acts of terror and the holding of hostages, including American nationals.” If successful, the lawsuit would permanently shut down NSJP and American Muslims for Palestine, a reincarnation of a previous outfit that provided material support for Hamas.
Two significant lawsuits related to these campus outrages are directed at Northwestern University. In the first, brought by three students, the university is charged with breach of contract.
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I think it safe to assume that more lawsuits will be filed against more colleges and universities in the coming weeks.
Wretchard T. Cat is correct: not every university response has been identical.
Nevertheless, too many of the affected colleges and universities have failed in their mission to protect a safe learning environment for their students. The reasons are many, including reliance on foreign donations, particularly from Hamas-supporting Qatar, faculty rolls stuffed with anti-American and anti-Israeli ideologues, the DEI staff and humanities departments’ opposition to Jews and Israel, the large number of full-freight paying foreign students who do not share Western values, and the always present faculty and administrative psychological inability to handle conflict.
Still, it seems clear to me that the continued Camp Intifada ruckus and outrageous behavior are seriously damaging not only the Administration’s planned student debt relief but also the president’s reelection and the fate of his party. Rasmussen Reports notes that Trump has widened his lead over Biden by ten points (46% to 36%), and the plan to have Trump jailed on one of the numerous baloney cases recedes even further. (Among other things, Judge Aileen Cannon this week unredacted material in the Mar-a-Largo documents case showing prosecution coordination with the White House, DoJ, and NARA, and the Jack Smith team was forced to a tardy admission it had tampered with the evidence.)
My favorite senator, John Kennedy, nailed it when criticizing the President’s response to anti-Israel demonstrations on American college campuses.
The College Democrats of America have stated their support for the anti-Israeli protestors.
As if to underscore the Administration’s cluelessness and incompetence, the Department of Education called a high-level conference on antisemitism on Friday, only notifying participants at the last moment that far-left groups that supported the campus protests had been invited to participate. The Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Federation of North America, Hillel International, the Orthodox Union, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations withdrew, as they should have. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, White House domestic adviser Neera Tanden, and other senior officials who were representing Biden in this “outreach” are responsible for this perfectly predictable public-relations pratfall.
Image: MichaelRamirez.com
Camp Intifada: Students for Theocratic Authoritarianism
I’m old. So old that I still believe that classic Western liberalism is the best system for assuring prosperity and peace, and authoritarianism, particularly of a theocratic nature, is a disastrous governance style. Watching the encampments and...
Zahra
Veteran Member
They're absolutely complicit. All our agencies, government bureaucracies, judicial offices, DA offices, educational institutions, media etc are riddled with pro-communist plants. These "students" are the DNC's red guard -- granted, most of the actual students are just unwitting idiots, but their Islamic-Communist organizers are are being paid by "progressive" groups that all work hand in glove with the Democrat party. This IS part of the communist revolution they've wanted. This campus ruckus is a mere practice drill for summer & fall... buckle up!
jward
passin' thru
It's exactly what they want, and need- a martyr for the cause- not to take a cold hearted view of human life, but they'd be worth far far more dead than alive.
if we're not luckier than we deserve, someone will ensure that a couple o' em reach room temp with the right villians credited with the deed.
Zahra
Veteran Member
Adding thoughts to my previous post ---
Notice how the radicals from the 60's went into academia & politics? The same Ayres & Dorn types now inhabit professorships, seats on the bench, DA offices, and with the election of Obama & the installation of his puppet in 2020 to continue his agenda into a third term the takeover is close to being complete. It's been a long march through the institutions, but their prize is nearly in hand unless we get another breather by managing to take the white house again.
Notice how the radicals from the 60's went into academia & politics? The same Ayres & Dorn types now inhabit professorships, seats on the bench, DA offices, and with the election of Obama & the installation of his puppet in 2020 to continue his agenda into a third term the takeover is close to being complete. It's been a long march through the institutions, but their prize is nearly in hand unless we get another breather by managing to take the white house again.
Doughboy42
Veteran Member
It was the Ohio National Guard.
Doughboy42
Veteran Member
We'll still have to deal with the Obama Shadow "White House" and his minions.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
I'd pay for Eng Lit if and ONLY if she was intending to become a HS english/lit teacher, preferably at a private school. We need people who can teach reading and writing, instead of gender studies. A former church friend is teaching Eng/Lit and also coaches female sports at a private HS in one of the Carolina's and is making six figures.
Zahra
Veteran Member
And somehow manage to purge a zillion unelected bureaucrats from their civil servant positions in agencies ---
Draining the swamp is near to impossible ...
Doughboy42
Veteran Member
After Biden converts political appointees to Civil Service status to make firing almost impossible. Just like Obama did.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
True, but I also know a lot of them who got dead-end jobs at state agencies and city offices. They are annoying but they have no real power. For every go-getter, there's at least two dozen lazy commies. Their only real danger: they vote.
Intestinal Fortitude
Have Faith
Let's play that game
@sfmcguire79
NEW: Statement by George Washington University President Ellen Granberg on the encampment:
“What is currently happening at GW is not a peaceful protest protected by the First Amendment or our university’s policies. The demonstration, like many around the country, has grown into what can only be classified as an illegal and potentially dangerous occupation of GW property.”
“It is clear that this is no longer a GW student demonstration. It has been co-opted by individuals who are largely unaffiliated with our community.”
“As a university, we are not equipped to single-handedly manage an unprecedented situation such as this.”
View: https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1787211869683421220?s=61
NEW: Statement by George Washington University President Ellen Granberg on the encampment:
“What is currently happening at GW is not a peaceful protest protected by the First Amendment or our university’s policies. The demonstration, like many around the country, has grown into what can only be classified as an illegal and potentially dangerous occupation of GW property.”
“It is clear that this is no longer a GW student demonstration. It has been co-opted by individuals who are largely unaffiliated with our community.”
“As a university, we are not equipped to single-handedly manage an unprecedented situation such as this.”
View: https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1787211869683421220?s=61
@AGHamilton29
Insane videos from MIT…
In Arabic they chant that “Palestine will be Arab” and “Death to Jews,” then in English they chant “we don’t want no Zionists here” and that “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution”
Don’t look away.
View: https://twitter.com/aghamilton29/status/1787229073124560897?s=61
Insane videos from MIT…
In Arabic they chant that “Palestine will be Arab” and “Death to Jews,” then in English they chant “we don’t want no Zionists here” and that “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution”
Don’t look away.
View: https://twitter.com/aghamilton29/status/1787229073124560897?s=61
jward
passin' thru
I would go a step further, and often have when climbing upon my soapbox, and suggest it isn't even the organized and intentional efforts of the commie-red-rat-bastards that we're up against, but perhaps more importantly, the legion of lifelong losers.
Those who've never had a place they were welcomed, anyone who listened to them, valued their opinions et al, who make up the rank and file of low level bureaucracies all across the nation. They've finally got the littlest smidge o' power, and are happy to wield it by putting their thumbs on the scale and slow rolling any reforms or new laws or policies, and thwarting them at every turn.
Think of a nation full o' DMV quality policy and people, and it's easy to see how America still ends up dying of 1000 cuts, whether she is able to change out those in the top positions, or not.
jward
passin' thru
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
Several of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Largest Donors, including George Soros and Bill Gates, appear to be Supporting and Bankrolling the Pro-Hamas Encampments that have been Established within the last few months at College Campuses across the United States like Columbia, UCLA, Emory, as well as Hundreds of others Universities.
According to Politico, the Two Primary Organizers of these Protests; Jewish Voice for Peace which is a Left-Wing Donor Fund and IfNotNow a Far-Left Group which is considered Anti-Israeli, are both Heavily Funded by George Soros and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as several other Well-Known Democratic Donors such as David Rockefeller Jr. and the Pritzker Family.
@sentdefender
Several of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Largest Donors, including George Soros and Bill Gates, appear to be Supporting and Bankrolling the Pro-Hamas Encampments that have been Established within the last few months at College Campuses across the United States like Columbia, UCLA, Emory, as well as Hundreds of others Universities.
According to Politico, the Two Primary Organizers of these Protests; Jewish Voice for Peace which is a Left-Wing Donor Fund and IfNotNow a Far-Left Group which is considered Anti-Israeli, are both Heavily Funded by George Soros and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as several other Well-Known Democratic Donors such as David Rockefeller Jr. and the Pritzker Family.