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Harvard capitulation:
The fact that institutions like Harvard were so quick to capitulate to Trump’s shakedowns should alert you to the fact USA is in much more trouble than most folks seem to realize.
— Noel Casler Comedy (@noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social) 2025-08-11T21:15:34.459Z
Applegrove:
The funny news is that whomever are the MAGA professors Harvard has to hire are, they are going to be snowed by the brilliance of the liberal professors there. Trump already is getting agency heads to lead more than one US government agency because smart(?) talent is so sparse in MAGA/Heritage ecosphere. The kids will follow brilliance. My brother went to Harvard. He read Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead the same week Arthur Laffer showed up and drew his Laffer Curve trick on a napkin to my brother and his friends in a bar/restaurant (did Laffer used to hang out there?). My brother went libertarian for a full 3 weeks and then went back to being a liberal and environmentalist for the rest of his life.
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