WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:02.960 Hey, Michael, just wanted to summarize the minutes from the 2 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:06.559 emergency Goober meeting we just had about the potential for 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:10.080 airing the view live. Turns out none of us really 4 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:13.240 care about the content of your show. If we cared 5 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:15.519 about the content, we probably would have stopped listening a 6 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:16.280 long time ago. 7 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:18.120 So you do you. 8 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:25.760 If we really cared about the content, we would have 9 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:30.719 stopped listening a long time ago. You're listening to the content, 10 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:35.119 so you don't care about the content, so therefore. 11 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:37.960 We can just do whatever we down. Well, please, right, Okay, 12 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:39.359 I just want to make sure I. 13 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:44.759 Understood the logic of the dumb ass freezing his ass off. 14 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:49.679 An Alaska lawyer had to say about listening to the content. 15 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:52.119 Jimney Christmas. 16 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.280 He's listening so he doesn't have to listen. 17 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.920 Right, And he's listening because he doesn't care, right, Yeah, 18 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:04.959 because he's soache that he just we we're so bad. 19 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:08.280 We make him feel good. That's what we do. 20 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:19.280 On Monday, the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon send a 21 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:24.040 letter to Harvard University. Dear doctor Garber, the federal government 22 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.319 has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important 23 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:31.760 steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a 24 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:35.560 largely tax free fifty three point two billion dollar endowment 25 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.719 larger than the GDP of more than one hundred countries, 26 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:44.000 receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largest every year. Receiving 27 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:48.560 such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet 28 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:51.120 instead of using these funds to advance the education of 29 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:54.760 its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of 30 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:59.079 violating federal law. Where do many of these air quotes 31 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:02.439 here students come from? Who are they? How do they 32 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.439 get into Harvard or even into our country? And why 33 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.360 is there so much hate? In all caps the word hate. 34 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.159 These are questions that must be answered, among many more. 35 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.159 But the biggest question of all is why will Harvard 36 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:20.240 not give straightforward answers to the American public. Harvard University, 37 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:22.879 she writes, has made a mockery of this country's higher 38 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:26.360 education system. It has invited foreign students who engage in 39 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.199 violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of 40 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:32.879 America to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed 41 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:37.159 to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical in fiduciary duties, 42 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:43.159 its transparency, responsibilities and any semblance of academic rigor. It 43 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:47.840 had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. 44 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:51.479 This year, Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing remedial 45 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:55.520 math program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask that 46 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:58.879 Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics when it 47 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:02.439 is supposedly so hard to get into this acclaimed university. 48 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:07.080 Who's getting you in under such low standard when others 49 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:11.680 with fabulous grades? Did Trump write this letter with fabulous 50 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:14.080 grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of 51 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:18.240 mathematics are being rejected? I don't I don't want to 52 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:21.719 say too much about the content letter yet, I would 53 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:27.639 just say this as a grammar punctuation kind of sentence structure, Nazi, 54 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:28.759 this is a. 55 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:32.000 Horribly written letter. Yeah. 56 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.039 As I'm looking for the letter to post to Michael 57 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:38.680 saysco here dot com, I'm finding so many not spoof sites, 58 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.719 but so many people doing with that red pen and 59 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:42.879 English teacher. 60 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:44.919 Which just like I'm doing in my head as I'm 61 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:45.719 reading exactly. 62 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:47.759 Yeah, things are circled and then there's the you know, 63 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:51.080 misspellings and punctuation, and yeah, it's it's it's it's all 64 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:51.599 over the place. 65 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:53.639 Yeah, and some of it just doesn't make any sense. 66 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.840 But nonetheless, the letter continues, Harvard has embroiled in humiliating 67 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:04.080 plagiarisms exposed clearly and plainly in the media with respect 68 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:07.080 to your then university president, who was an embarrassment to 69 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:11.080 our nation. Much of you know, because again, now that 70 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.960 I'm thinking about that, even more dragon, why is the 71 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:19.279 word nation capitalized? Much of Harvard's hateful discrimination was revealed 72 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.040 last year by the great work of Congresswoman Elise Stefani 73 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:26.079 and her committee. As if it were trying to embarrass 74 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:32.160 itself even further, Harvard hired failed mayor's Bill de Blasio 75 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.240 and Lloyd Lightfoot, perhaps the worst mayors everage to preside 76 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:38.879 over major cities in our country's history, to supposedly teach 77 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:43.240 leadership at their school of Public Health. This is like 78 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.480 hiring the captain of the Titanic to teach navigation to 79 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:48.040 future captains of the sea. 80 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:53.560 This really does like it was dictated by Donald Trump. 81 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.720 This incomprehensible and I'm going to get to a point 82 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:58.480 about this in the minute. 83 00:04:58.480 --> 00:04:59.600 I just want you to hear the letter. 84 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:06.000 This incomprehensible failure becomes more understandable after reviewing Harvard's management. 85 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.079 The Harvard Corporation, which is supposedly to competently and professionally 86 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:15.079 manage Harvard's vast academic, financial, and physical resources, is run 87 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:20.319 by strongly left leaning political appointee Penny Pritzker. By the way, 88 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:22.319 I think a relative or maybe even the wife of 89 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:27.920 Governor Pritzker of Illinois, a Democrat operative who. 90 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:36.759 Is CATASTROPHI I do mean catastrafi running the institution in 91 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:38.079 a totally chaotic way. 92 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:42.240 Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman 93 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:46.399 noted that under her leadership, Harvard has become a political 94 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:50.519 advocacy organization for one party. Agman has called for the 95 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:54.519 resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the mismanagement here is Penny 96 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:58.000 Pritzker and noting that any serious corporation would have removed 97 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.639 her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, 98 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:04.360 incredibly quote, Harvard is not in a good financial position. 99 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:08.000 According to Atman, one of the world's foremost financed experts, 100 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:13.240 Harvard's so called fifty three billion dollar endowment is massively 101 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:16.959 overstated as far as what it's really worth, and Harvard 102 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:21.600 has irresponsibly taken out eight billion dollars in debt. If 103 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.360 this is true, she writes, it is concerning evidence of 104 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:28.800 Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform, 105 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:33.439 not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, 106 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:36.800 then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing of 107 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:40.040 endowment to fund its blow to bureaucracy. At its best, 108 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:43.199 a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our. 109 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.480 Nation and enlighten the thousands. 110 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:49.279 Of hopeful students who walk through this magnificence gate magnificent gates. 111 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.879 But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Bob, you know, I'm 112 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:58.519 getting bored with this letter. They continue, the administration have 113 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:02.759 previously been willing to maintain federal funding to Harvard so 114 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:06.079 long as Harvard committed to complying with long settled federal law, 115 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.800 including to protect and promote student welfare and the landmark 116 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:12.680 decision of the Supreme Court against racial preferencing. 117 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.399 The proposed common Sense reforms. 118 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:18.199 Which the Administration remains committed to, include a return to 119 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:22.319 merit based admissions and hiring, and into unlawful programs that 120 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:28.000 promote crude identity stereotypes, disciplinary reform, and consistent accountability, including 121 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:32.000 for student groups, cooperation with law enforcement and reporting, compliance 122 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:34.800 with the Department of Ed, the Department of Homeland Security, 123 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:37.839 and others. And it just kills on and on and on. Well, 124 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:43.360 if they want to cut off funding to Harvard, a 125 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:50.160 private institution, you can do that. Harvard's just say grantee, 126 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:56.120 they just receive. They make applications for grants, just like 127 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:01.959 CU Boulder makes applications for grants, or makes applications for grants, 128 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:06.759 or Podunk University in Podunk State makes applications for grants. 129 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:13.720 It's not an entitlement, it's not a requirement. And if 130 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:17.560 there's proof or there's evidence that they are not in 131 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:22.720 compliance with the grants, then you can rescind the grant, 132 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:28.319 or you can refuse to grant any more grants. The 133 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.439 whole letter thing, to me seems to be a whole 134 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.600 lot of grand standing. And there's something else that bugs 135 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:39.919 me now I watched. In fact, I think I may 136 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.559 have reposted. I did repost. This is in my Twitter 137 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:47.919 feed of a student at Columbia who's wearing a cafe 138 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:53.080 who is vandalizing. I don't know whether it's the library 139 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:57.159 or I'm sorry, the library, the library or the student union. 140 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:01.600 But they're actively engaged while being filmed. They're actively engaged 141 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:10.919 in vandalism. Now that's a crime. That student ought to 142 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:17.120 be expelled. If that is a foreign student on a 143 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:21.679 foreign visa, on a foreign student visa, then the State 144 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:28.320 Department has the unequivocal, unassailable right to revoke that visa 145 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:32.360 with about let me be very clear here, with or 146 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:35.279 without a hearing, in other words, without any due process. 147 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:40.039 We see you engaged in violence. Now, whether the state 148 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:44.480 or the FEDS or local police department decides to arrest 149 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.000 you and file charges. 150 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:46.519 That's up to them. 151 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:49.600 But that has nothing to do with the State Department 152 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:53.879 revoking the visa. They can just look at your actions 153 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.600 and of their own accord, because that visa does not 154 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:01.320 attach that visa does not attach any due process rights 155 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:05.120 to that student. Now, the same is true for Harvard. 156 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:09.639 If now, I want to be very clear here about 157 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:14.679 something very clear about something. You know that I'm pretty 158 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:19.519 much a Zionist. I fully support Israel. I've got a 159 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:23.120 lot of Jewish friends. I support the state of Israel. 160 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:29.679 I support Jews having their own state. But I also 161 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:33.960 support the right of people to go out and shout 162 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:42.279 anti Semitic tropes, to actually not to engage in physical 163 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:45.320 anti semitism. You can't go beat up Jews because they're 164 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:47.840 Jews anymore that you can go beat up white people 165 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:50.399 because they're white, anymore. That you can beat up dumb 166 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:55.480 people because they're dumb. That's assault and battery. That's a 167 00:10:55.759 --> 00:11:01.720 criminal violation. But if I want to engage in anti 168 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:07.919 Semitic propaganda, anti Semitic statements, then the First Amendment allows 169 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:11.519 me to do that, even if I'm here on a 170 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:18.639 student visa. Now, the State Department may not approve of 171 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.320 the anti Semitic statements, and they could revoke my visa 172 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:28.519 because that visa, again is a privilege, not a right. 173 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:34.240 The reason I point that out is I'm confused by 174 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:39.000 the letter. Are you upset about Harvard because they're allowing 175 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.919 students to protest against Israel. Now, as long as they're 176 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:48.639 doing the protests lawfully, they can do that. Now if 177 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:53.600 they're engaged in violence, or they're vandalizing, or they're doing 178 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:56.240 something else that's a violation of the rules, then you 179 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.600 can do that. So there's a very fine distinction here 180 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:09.519 between protests, anti Semitism, and criminality. I think all of 181 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:13.000 this has been conflated, and I think Linda McMahon has 182 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:15.600 actually kind of made a fool of herself with this letter. 183 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:21.679 But having said all of that, if indeed they wanted 184 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:29.320 to revoke the tax exempt status of Harvard University, guess what, 185 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:35.399 I think they have the right to do. That tax 186 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:40.399 exempt status is not something that once given, remains forever 187 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:44.639 and you can't take it away. You actually can take 188 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:50.759 it away. And this idea that you can't do it, 189 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.600 or that it's wrong or I mean, however you want 190 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:59.000 to phrase it, I really don't get. But I also 191 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.720 don't get why we can't be a little more specific 192 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:06.559 about what's going on with Harvard. And if indeed you 193 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:10.559 want to revoke a five O one C three status 194 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:16.240 for violating the tax laws by perhaps engaging in, oh 195 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:25.600 I don't know, the prohibit activities like engaging in outright politics, 196 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:29.559 then do it. So in that regard, Trump is right. 197 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.120 I think Linda McMahon's letter m probably should have somebody 198 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:38.360 that had a I don't know, maybe a basic understanding 199 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.519 of the English language and punctuation and how they compose 200 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:44.200 a letter. Maybe review it before you send it to Harvard, 201 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:45.440 of all places. 202 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:45.759 But Trump. 203 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:47.639 You can see that letter at Michael says go here 204 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:49.519 dot com, and you can see those having a. 205 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.240 Little bit of fun with that. Michael says, go here 206 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:52.919 dot com. 207 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:57.879 So, Harvard University, whatever the amount is, Bill Agman, you 208 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:00.840 say it's mismanaged. I don't know, but the the generally 209 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:05.639 accepted figure is somewhere between an endowment of between fifty 210 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:07.200 and fifty three billion dollars. 211 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:09.879 Now, they do have. 212 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:15.279 An unaccountable corporate board because they don't have shareholders. It 213 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:19.120 functions Harvard does. It functions less like an institution of 214 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:22.600 higher learning. It actually functions more like a hedge fund, 215 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:28.919 with the school as its public relations are. Its continued 216 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:32.240 status as a five oh one C three public charity 217 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:36.679 does seem a little incongruous, and it does seem a 218 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:41.159 little indefensible. When any elite institution fails to uphold the 219 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:47.240 most basic principles of civil rights, embraces in systemic discrimination, 220 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.960 and then conceals all of those wrongdoings beneath the veil 221 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:57.600 of its its academic prestige, it really does forfeit the 222 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:01.480 privileges that come with taxpayer substance does they You're not 223 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:02.960 entitled to those subsidies. 224 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:05.720 You're not in you're not entitled to those grants. 225 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.399 The Internal Revenue Service has both the authority, and I 226 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:13.320 would argue the obligation to revoke a tax exempt status 227 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:18.279 if they are violating the the box within you getting 228 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:22.519 a fight. Anyone, anyone in this audience who's ever established 229 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.519 a true Fible one C three charity knows that when 230 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:28.279 you fill out your nine to ninety, when you go 231 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:32.720 through the application process, you you agree to adhere to 232 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:36.759 certain standards and certain restrictions, and that if you don't 233 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:40.200 do that, then that Fible one C three status can 234 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:44.320 be revoked. And in this case, if you want to 235 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:49.080 make your point with Harvard, just quit writing stupid, dumbass 236 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:55.480 letters and revoke their FIVELE one C three status. Now 237 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:03.240 that's not a partisan statement, it's actually legal precedent. In 238 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:08.000 nineteen eighty three, the United States Supreme Court upheld the 239 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.679 Internal Revenue Services revocation of the five O one C 240 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:16.200 three status the tax exempt status of Bob Jones University. 241 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:23.120 Why because if it's racially discriminatory policies, even though those 242 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:28.120 even though their policies were nominally based on sincerely held beliefs. 243 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:35.879 You can engage in those discriminatory policies, but you can't 244 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:39.240 at the same time have five ON one C three status. 245 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:43.120 In other words, if you want to be a religious 246 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:47.519 institution like Bob Jones University and you've got to meet 247 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:50.679 all these particular religious requirements, okay, then go do that, 248 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:55.600 but don't ask the taxpayers to subsidize you by giving 249 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:58.519 you a tax exempt status. And the Supreme Court said 250 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:03.399 exactly right, exactly what they said, the principle established was 251 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:09.240 very clear discrimination even when it's quote in a private 252 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:15.079 autonomous institution is incompatible with the public interests that would 253 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:20.400 justify or permit permit is the right verb tax exemption. 254 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.559 Harvard is not any more exempt from that standard than 255 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:28.039 was Bob Jones University, because Harvard is not above the 256 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:31.000 law and Harvard is not above any sort of accountability. 257 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:37.279 So let's think about the facts that might justify revoking 258 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.319 Harvard's FIBER one C three status. And then, as ask 259 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.559 ourselves this question, if you really are pissed off at Harvard, 260 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:47.200 and they really have violated the tenets of their five 261 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:49.759 O one C three status, then why not just revoke it? 262 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:51.759 Why are you writing stupid. 263 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.440 Letters Michael, which Poe? Don't you talking about the one 264 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:59.119 in Sage Township or the one in Redland Township, both 265 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.880 of which are in Michigan and Ruttling. 266 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:10.400 Yeah, dunk, bo dunk. So let's think about the facts 267 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.119 of what's going on at Harvard. So go all the 268 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:19.240 way back to the attacks by the Palestinians by Hamas 269 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:25.400 back in October of twenty twenty three. Jewish students at 270 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:33.039 Harvard are subjected to a a climate of hostility and intimidation. 271 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:40.440 Even according to Harvard's own task force, students started reporting 272 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:44.279 that they had to hide the religious identity. Some feared 273 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:51.200 retaliation for just expressing moderate mainstream political views. So in 274 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:55.720 the university, private or public doesn't mean the difference to me. 275 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:01.240 Where you're committed to free inquiry, that should be at 276 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:03.960 least a cause for alarm. That should that's going to 277 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:07.759 at least draw the attention of regulators, in this case 278 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:13.359 the Internal Revenue Service. But instead Harvard's response was very 279 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:17.319 procedural and cosmetic. Well, this form a task force, let's 280 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:21.160 have some listening sessions, let's just do something that's symbolic. 281 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:24.640 All of which was just trying to evade the real issue. 282 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:29.079 So Jewish students were left in that to navigate this 283 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:33.319 climate of exclusion because the faculty, in the stat will, 284 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:39.200 the administration, the Harvard administration, they were just preoccupied with 285 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:46.519 their dei orthodoxy. It's it is an irony that's lost 286 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:50.480 on nobody that the same institution that was found to 287 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:54.799 be discriminating against Asian American applicants in defiance of the 288 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:59.160 Constitution of the Supreme Court continues to elevate and use 289 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:05.960 race in it hiring decisions. That alone that I don't 290 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.799 have to go any further, That alone is enough to 291 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:13.559 revoke their five to one three status, which makes the question, 292 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:19.960 then why not? Then you had the investigation into the 293 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:25.000 Harvard Law Review selection practices that underscored that very contradiction. 294 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:35.119 They were actually discriminating against Asian Americans. Merit becomes subordinated ideology. 295 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:41.279 It's no longer a meritocracy. Excellence gets filtered through the 296 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:43.720 lens of racism. 297 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:44.880 That's not inclusion. 298 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.880 The color blind principles that underpin the Civil Rights Act 299 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:57.240 have been displaced by their bureaucratized concept of equity. And 300 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:59.640 I know people will want to talk about how Harvard 301 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:04.559 is trying to make reforms. The question is whether Harvard 302 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:09.799 at this moment qualifies for the extraordinary benefit of a 303 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:12.960 tax exemption, And I think the answer is that they 304 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:13.319 do not. 305 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:16.079 The I R S is not in. 306 00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:20.119 The business of subsidizing civil rights violators hoping that maybe 307 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:21.839 in the future they're going to reform. 308 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:24.559 Do you think if it was do you. 309 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:28.960 Think that if this were a conservative five oh one 310 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.559 C three engage in whatever activity it might be, but 311 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.640 lawful activity was doing this kind of stuff, that the 312 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.960 RS would waste one second in at least starting the 313 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:44.599 process to revoke their five oh one C three status. 314 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:49.359 Of course they wouldn't. And then when you think about 315 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:58.240 the fifty plus plus billion dollar endowment, how can Harvard 316 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:07.119 claim that it's by necessity designated a charity as at 317 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:10.160 least one thing the letter points out that was accurate. 318 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:16.039 They have assets that surpassed the gross domestic product of 319 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:21.519 one hundred countries or more, and the Harvard Corporation generates 320 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:27.119 annually turns into billions. And it's so much so that 321 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:33.400 the Harvard Corporation has professional investors, and those professional investors 322 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.000 get paid the equivalent of what many Wall Street executives 323 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:42.279 get paid, and then that returns an inordinate amount of 324 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:47.000 money back to the administrative bureaucracy of Harvard itself. It's 325 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:53.759 not an Harvard's not a charity, it's an empire. But 326 00:22:54.400 --> 00:23:00.160 their insistence on institutional autonomy leave us alone, grantest the 327 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:05.440 tax exempt status will leave us alone is particularly disgusting 328 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:11.519 when rebuffing the calls by the Department of ed or 329 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:16.559 by the administration or anybody else, even even me, that 330 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:23.720 you need to protect Jewish students from physical harassment. Need 331 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:30.119 you can allow anti Semitic language and speeches on your campus, 332 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:34.359 and I'll defend those till the cows come home, as 333 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:38.240 long as it doesn't spill over into violence or intimidation 334 00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:44.839 or actual discrimination against Jews. If Harvard is private when 335 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:47.519 it comes to oversight, it should be private when it 336 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:51.880 comes to taxation. We can't accept the privileges of a 337 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:58.559 taxpayer subsidy while rejecting the responsibilities of getting that taxpayer subsidy. 338 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:04.880 Otherwise you got double standard that privilege that privileges elite 339 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:11.839 institutions over the Constitution. Now, the legal basis for revoking 340 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:15.079 five O one C. Three is not just something that 341 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:17.079 you can make up out of ten air, you've got 342 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:20.799 to have some reasons for doing it. Under Section five 343 00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:23.599 O one C three, the Internal Revenue Service is empowered 344 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:27.920 to revoke the tax exempt status of any institution, any 345 00:24:28.039 --> 00:24:33.839 organization that violates public policy, including civil rights statutes. Go 346 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:37.519 back to the Bob Jones case, where the Supreme Court 347 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:41.079 said that the government has a quote fundamental overwriting interest 348 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:46.119 in eradicating racial discrimination and education that substantially outweighs whatever 349 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:50.240 burden denial of tax benefits places on the university's exercise 350 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:54.000 of religious beliefs. Now, if that applies to religious doctrine, 351 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:59.759 it certainly applies to Harvard's secular dogma. Now some will 352 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:05.160 argue you that if you revoke Harvard's tax exempt status, 353 00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:09.759 you're politicizing the tax code. Well that's a total red herring. 354 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:15.200 The high horss is already politicized because it favors progressive 355 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:20.559 organizations progressive causes. We know that from the lowest learner cases. 356 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:27.119 It grants exemptions to countless left wing NGOs that engage 357 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:31.359 in advocacy in violation of the tax tax exempt status 358 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:38.960 that actually that advocacy is electioneering. In my opinion, the 359 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:43.279 IRS turned a complete blind eye to flagrant abuses by 360 00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:51.279 activists or foundations that indoctrinate and don't educate. The only 361 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:55.559 novelty in Trump's proposal is the idea that elite institutions 362 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:57.839 ought to be held to the same standard as their 363 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:04.039 less pedigree counterparts, the Podux of the world. Now, I 364 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.400 know they're going to invoke academic freedom as if somehow 365 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:13.759 that principle absolves the university of all their other legal obligations. 366 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:21.200 But academic freedom is not a license for institutional impunity. 367 00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:24.480 Academic freedom doesn't mean that you can just go violate 368 00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:30.920 whatever rules, regulations, policies, or statutes that exist that preclude 369 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:34.440 the activity or prohibit the activity that you're engaged in. 370 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:39.839 You're trying to use academic freedom as a shield for 371 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:42.960 In fact, it is a shield for individual scholars, But 372 00:26:43.079 --> 00:26:52.000 it's not a cover for bureaucratic malpractice. Should American taxpayers 373 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:53.240 simple question? 374 00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:54.000 Should it? 375 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:58.440 American taxpayers be compelled to subsidize a multi billion dollar 376 00:26:58.599 --> 00:27:02.920 corporation that discriminates on the basis of race and religion, 377 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:12.759 that actively encourages, allows and permits physical hostility, not just 378 00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:20.039 ideological hostility, but physical hostility toward Jewish students in flaunx 379 00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:23.440 its defiance of public accountability. Trump says no, and I 380 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:27.880 think he's right, and the IRS ough to act, and 381 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:30.160 it's certainly going to take more than just a letter 382 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:36.400 from a poorly written letter from the Secretary of Education. Charity, 383 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:40.279 and in particular now charity as opposed to five O 384 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:43.839 one C three status. Five O one C three status 385 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:47.920 is not a given. You are not entitled to five 386 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:52.119 O one C three status. It is a privilege, a cloak, 387 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:57.279 a status that is granted by the government, and it 388 00:27:57.319 --> 00:28:01.960 is grounded in public trust and certain legal tenants that 389 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:07.480 by which you have to abide. Harvard's broken those, and 390 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:10.920 so the IRS need to step in and revoke their privilege. 391 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:13.839 Michael, I believe this lady is correct. She can steal 392 00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:17.519 anything she wants. She's so downtrod. You know what it's called. 393 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:21.920 I got a new word for it. It's called anti privilege. 394 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:25.079 I'm sorry, who is correct? 395 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:28.720 I missed the lady that was stealing from the target, because. 396 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:31.440 That's anti privilege. 397 00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:35.079 That's okay, all right, So that's the new standard, anti privilege. 398 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:35.839 Got it? Got it? 399 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:37.359 So? 400 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:42.640 Jd Vance was on CNN recently, and I'm always amazed 401 00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:46.200