The Shakedown Continues

[jstell]

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-seeks-make-harvard-ineligible-federal-funding-2025-09-29/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/politics/harvard-university-trump-deal-trade-schools
 
The president broadly described the contours of the deal, describing it as a "series of trade schools" that "would be run by Harvard."

"This is something that we're close to finalizing. We haven't done it yet, but they put up $500 million interest, and everything else would go to that account, meaning, go to the trade school. And, you know, it's a big investment in trade school done by very smart people, and then their sins are forgiven," he added.

I forget which fairy tale says if you give the orange idiot half a billion $, your sins will be forgiven.

Columbia, Brown, University of Pennsylavania, now Harvard, and they're going after UCLA for a billion $.

This is how the current administration pretends to fight antisemitism.

[Bucky Cornstarch]

The administration is waging war against an educated voter pool, nothing more.

[Brian]

The president broadly described the contours of the deal, describing it as a "series of trade schools" that "would be run by Harvard."

Here's my chance! I can get a degree from a "prestigious accredited institution" to be an automatic screw machine operator!

(I'm gonna have to find a link to the "What's My line?" episode with the "I love my wife very much" quip!)

[Brian]

The administration is waging war against an educated voter pool, nothing more.

Haven't you heard? Knowing how to think is dangerous!

[gcode]

The administration is waging war against an educated voter pool, nothing more.

True.
the intrinsic value of a 4 year degree in queer basket weaving is immeasurable.... but the student loan payments go on forever.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

the intrinsic value of a 4 year degree in queer basket weaving is immeasurable...

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[mowens]

The administration is waging war against an educated voter pool, nothing more.

So you are saying people who go to trade schools are uneducated and therefore untrustworthy to vote?

[beej]

Haven't you heard? Knowing how to think is dangerous!

which is why they are told, "what to think" 

[Del.]

So you are saying people who go to trade schools are uneducated and therefore untrustworthy to vote?

He's saying if Trump is for it, he is against it.

[jstell]

which is why they are told, "what to think" 

I think you are confusing liberal arts colleges with monastaries  edit: seminaries.

[neurosis]

The administration is waging war against an educated voter pool, nothing more.

He did say that smart people don't like him. 

[jstell]

He did say that smart people don't like him. 

Toxic narcissism has that affect on people.

[Jeff]

but the student loan payments go one forever.

Nah, the left prefers their student debt to be forgiven. Because even a degree at Harvard doesn't teach them about accountability.

[Brian]

I forget which fairy tale says if you give the orange idiot half a billion $, your sins will be forgiven.

This is kinda like buying an indulgence-you get to reset the shot clock. No sin is unforgivable if you can splash the cash!

[Brian]

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NSFW!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Origine_du_monde