0:00

A. Good gag would be that you consistently

0:02

think we're talking about Columbia Country throughout. This

0:04

is that. Wouldn't even be any the first time and

0:06

would get less money. As the Abyss hook. Up

0:09

a joy to what if. What

0:12

if a bit is that you're

0:14

very racist throughout. that about towards

0:16

Colombians. Are

0:19

trying to give up hundred like Zionism.

0:22

I can't wait to see how close to

0:24

the anti semitic gray area you land with

0:26

this one. Way I want to have a do do do

0:28

do to. Michael Peter What do you

0:30

know about the protests at Columbia University?

0:33

All I know is that none of the

0:35

chance and none of the signs at any

0:37

of the protests have made me as uncomfortable

0:39

as recommending a song by Macklin More. I

0:54

guess we have to frame this

0:56

a bit of top because as

0:58

we are recording, were in the

1:00

midst of a surge of student

1:03

protests at universities across the country

1:05

and protests are about the Israeli

1:07

attacks on Gaza and more specifically

1:09

they are a call on universities

1:11

to divest from companies and organizations

1:13

that profit from Israeli war crimes.

1:16

It's. Largely been my opinion

1:18

and experience that the media coverage

1:21

of this has been awful atrocious,

1:23

and in recent days we've gotten

1:25

a heavy dose of police propaganda

1:27

with a bunch of cameos from

1:30

my boy Eric Adams. Who.

1:32

I've decided will be a a recurring character

1:34

on our Pack have skewed. Despite this

1:36

podcast is undefeated with like predicting

1:39

moral panics in advance. Remember.

1:41

We did retail crime. And. Then

1:43

the actual retailers like retracted their number.

1:45

Target actually sent me a gift card

1:47

as an apology for that. One. And then

1:49

and now it's like we're time at all this

1:51

like deranged propaganda. And how these fucking

1:54

police departments have like more pr

1:56

people than entire newsrooms and we

1:58

get a huge wave. Propaganda immediately

2:00

after these crackdowns. If Eric Adams

2:02

gets arrested in the next couple

2:04

of months I do think that

2:06

we did it has been are

2:08

we have never talked about his

2:10

various actual crimes. For him, his

2:13

money at this party has goals.

2:15

I wanted to limit this discussion

2:17

to Columbia University for the most

2:19

part because I think the fact

2:21

that these protests have spread out

2:23

across the country and have all

2:25

sorts of serve different valence his

2:27

in different areas as made the

2:29

coverage more confusing. And I

2:31

want to sort of do

2:33

a case study in so

2:35

to contextualize this. Student protests

2:38

obviously have been ongoing since

2:40

October Seventh when Hamas first

2:42

attacked and things recently escalated

2:44

in April when be President

2:46

of Columbia University Minutiae Feet

2:49

appeared before the Republican controlled

2:51

House Committee On Education in

2:53

New and the Workforce in

2:55

a hearing ostensibly about anti

2:57

semitism on him com his

3:00

campus. This is the same

3:02

committee that Harvard President Claudine Gay

3:04

and Pen president Ms. Mcgill appeared

3:06

before last December where they were

3:08

like peppered with. Bad. Faith

3:11

questions and ultimately both of

3:13

them had to resign. Why

3:16

do we keep showing up in front of the

3:18

like? Obviously bad faith? Committees as is by

3:20

far the most baffling thing to me. Yeah,

3:22

it feels like for university presidents, this is.

3:25

Some. Sort of mandatory psycho sexual

3:27

humiliation ritual. It's like everyone agrees

3:30

to interview with Isaac Newton or

3:32

let let everybody else does. Got

3:34

the clowns? Might it might work?

3:37

Site? Yeah, sure. Fecal. I think

3:39

she thought she was being crass

3:41

the right. She's like I can

3:44

learn from their mistakes. Nan.

3:46

It's do the perfect testimony so see

3:48

like gets up there and she's actually

3:51

very conciliatory toward been many members. She

3:53

did her best to like a line

3:55

her positions with bears and she point

3:58

that how many students Columbia has suspended

4:00

over the past several months? hell yeah.

4:02

She was asked about professors who expressed

4:04

what be committee members felt was support

4:07

for him on his attack. One of

4:09

them she says you know he was

4:11

fired and he will never teach at

4:13

Columbia again or another who had tenure

4:16

see committed on the spot. When asked

4:18

by a least a phonics to stripping

4:20

him of a chairmanship at in like

4:22

a faculty group I thought you were

4:25

going to say committed sceptical on the

4:27

spot which also which I think is

4:29

what. They wanted. I too am watching

4:31

Shogun. How I

4:33

do want to send one quick clip.

4:36

Just think, give you a sense of

4:38

how much clown or he was going

4:40

on at this hearing. Are we watching

4:42

it when acts? since we're watching a

4:44

one and like a fucking pilgrim. Okay

4:46

fine, you don't want to hear these

4:48

people faster. Answer: how many many the

4:50

lieutenant's I see no of against them.

4:54

Are you familiar with Genesis? Twelve

4:57

Three? Oh no. Probably. Not as well as

4:59

you. Are Congressmen. Well,

5:01

it's pretty clear it was the Covenant. That

5:04

God. Made with Abraham. And

5:07

that covenant was real clear.

5:10

If. You bless Israel. Our will

5:12

bless you if you curse Israel.

5:14

Hour Curfew. And then in the

5:16

New Testament. It. Was confirm

5:18

that all nations would be

5:21

blessed. Through. You. So.

5:25

You you do not know about that. I

5:28

have heard that now the easy. To. Say

5:31

I know when you're getting heard a

5:33

it will be you consider that a

5:35

serious issue Lies: I'm a D. Won't

5:37

Columbia University be cursed by God? What

5:40

have the bible? Definitely

5:42

not have guests. Ah,

5:46

So it's a trend

5:48

nowadays. But like this

5:50

guy is like a

5:53

psycho. Now that you mention it,

5:55

yeah, an hour been cursed by god? Yeah.

5:57

And I've I now. I really, I prefer

5:59

not. Yeah, although he's doing

6:01

the voice that if your friends,

6:03

did it like while doing an

6:05

impression of a republican. Senator you'd be

6:08

like, hey, dial it back. That's really

6:10

offense like don't do the cartoon redneck

6:12

voice right when here. percent arabia, republican

6:14

senator and that's why you can't but

6:16

that's why you can't be that up

6:18

to one point five I have really

6:20

the effect of. The

6:24

thing is I was just about to do it but I

6:26

like know I've I've people will yell at me if I

6:28

do it. Right now it's like it's too offensive to do

6:30

the voice. I

6:32

want to hear it like. Up

6:34

close you can't be racist against like

6:36

southern senators or whatever it's know sign

6:39

is. I'd. Heard. Like the her like sad.

6:41

Smile. I'm not familiar with that.

6:43

I don't want the campus to

6:45

be cursed. We

6:47

live in hell, Peter. So when this

6:49

hearing wraps up at first it feels

6:52

a little bit like a Pr when

6:54

she is sort of complemented by one

6:56

member of the committee that says she

6:58

beat Harvard and Pan on this issue.

7:01

known. So maybe she's feeling good at

7:03

this point, but it's while she was

7:05

testifying pro Palestinian protesters set up an

7:07

encampment on a campus quad. Hundreds

7:10

of students pissed about fifty tents

7:12

and they stated they will be

7:14

occupying the space until Columbia divest

7:17

from Israel to this. Related to

7:19

that congressional hearing. Or this is

7:21

that a total coincidence? I don't think

7:23

it's a coincidence. I think they knew

7:25

that administration was going to be focused

7:28

on the testimony soon and that that

7:30

would present them with an opportunity, right?

7:32

And and this is a high profile

7:35

moment to put pressure on on Columbia.

7:37

Performance in a Congressional hearing also illustrates

7:39

the fundamental problem. Here that even if you

7:41

do. Go. In front of Congress

7:43

and like own the republican senators and

7:45

do really well. That's not a news

7:48

story, right? So the best case scenario

7:50

for going in front of these ding

7:52

dongs is just no news at all.

7:54

There is a political instinct missing in

7:56

the brains of. University. Administrators.

7:58

That's what I've learned from this.

8:00

Oh thank God she gets back

8:02

to Colombia and she's faced with

8:04

this dilemma Rates because you have

8:06

these students protesting You basically just

8:08

promise Congress bet you were going

8:11

to rule with an iron fist

8:13

over the protests. You

8:15

don't be cursed, so it's invoices.

8:17

He responds by writing a public

8:19

letter to and Y P. D.

8:21

She says I write with regard

8:24

to the encampment on Columbia University's

8:26

campus. The began before dawn on

8:28

the morning of Wednesday, April Seventeenth.

8:30

Twenty Twenty Four. As. Discussed:

8:32

More than one hundred individuals are

8:35

currently occupying the South Lawn of

8:37

Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus. This.

8:40

Group has been informed numerous times and

8:42

in writing that they are not permitted

8:44

to occupy the space, are in violation

8:46

of the universities rules and policies, and

8:48

must dispersed. I have determined that the

8:50

encampment and related disruptions pose a clear

8:52

and present danger to the substantial functioning

8:54

of the university. Cat great regret, We

8:57

request the and Y P D help

8:59

to remove these individuals. We trust that

9:01

you will take care and caution. When.

9:03

Removing any individual from our campus so they could.

9:05

I also. Read. That letter and she mentions

9:08

that this has the potential. To ruin

9:10

John Cage's for thirty three? This is.

9:13

A big effect on the real victims.

9:15

So Colombia's a private university on private

9:18

property they have an agreement with and

9:20

Y P D that and Y P

9:22

D won't intervene on campus and asked

9:24

to. So this letter is the President

9:27

saying hey, and Y P D come

9:29

on in. This is something that has

9:31

not happened since Nineteen Sixty Eight when

9:33

they were student protests and and when

9:36

he intervened and it was largely considered

9:38

to be a big. Cluster fuck

9:40

Soon. So legally they are within

9:42

their rights here. They can basically

9:44

tell anyone students included. hey we

9:46

want you Asked this lawn and

9:49

I've the students refuse. They are

9:51

trespassing and can be removed. Rate

9:53

is very funny that this this

9:55

whole thing is literally kids get

9:57

off my lawn. Assessment of Success:

10:00

Oh and for how him that when

10:02

charge that protesters get hit with his

10:04

his trespassing Yeah that's when you know

10:07

that nothing has happened that the idea

10:09

because they were evacuating people are thousand

10:11

want to talk about some weird language

10:13

in this statement she says that students

10:15

present a quote clear and present danger

10:18

to the substantial functioning of the university

10:20

At this is like very crafty phrasing

10:22

because at a glance it seems like

10:24

see singer Dangerous in like. The

10:27

general sense of the word spray

10:29

think they are dangerous to the

10:31

substantial functioning of the universe. Much

10:35

doesn't seem like as actual danger he

10:37

of this combination. Of high seas and low stakes,

10:39

right? Because like you could say that about a that? You could

10:41

say that like. You working from home

10:43

poses a clear and present danger

10:45

to my ability to watch the

10:47

legend of Cora all day later.

10:49

It doesn't mean insects For Also,

10:51

as a lawyer, I kind of

10:54

perked up when I saw clear

10:56

and present danger because that's like

10:58

an antiquated legal standard from the

11:00

World War One era that has

11:02

been overruled. So now the First

11:04

Amendment test is inciting imminent lawless

11:06

action. And like the clear and

11:08

present danger thing that hasn't been

11:10

the First Amendment law since. The

11:12

sixties yeah but there were that Harrison Ford

11:14

movie in the nineties and so I got

11:17

it. He thinks everybody thinks it's real. I

11:19

would serve like why is he using this

11:21

language nand apparently it's in Colombia policies like

11:23

I went digging through their policies and apparently

11:25

they use this like clear and present danger

11:28

standards presumably because it's like broader and vaguer

11:30

which is why it was overturned to begin

11:32

with. So yeah, but it like sort of

11:34

still sounds like it's legal ease friends. I

11:36

also will flag that. Columbia policy says that

11:39

in order to bring in and Y P

11:41

d the President. Has to consult with

11:43

quote a majority of a panel established

11:45

by the university. Senate's. Executive

11:48

Committee be executive committee said that

11:50

they were not consulted their Columbia

11:52

Spectator the student paper which by

11:54

the way has done the best

11:56

reporting on as guys such a

11:58

wide margin but its remark. Yeah,

12:00

bay as the school about this in

12:02

a school response that Shafiq quote consulted

12:04

with the senate share comply with the

12:06

consultation requirements, but the requirement is that

12:09

she consult with a majority of a

12:11

pan right established by the committee so

12:13

I it's It seems pretty clear that

12:15

she just ignore the policy to bust

12:17

up the route as as quickly as

12:19

possible. It's. Funny because. Like.

12:21

The like. breaking the procedure as like

12:23

how to tell the protesters to disperse

12:26

is like kind of silly, right? It's

12:28

a sort of technical procedural things like

12:30

nobody really cares about rights. But the

12:32

whole thing is that the entire argument

12:35

for bringing this up is a little

12:37

tiny procedural thing to. It's like they're

12:39

trespassing on campus. Know it's It's even

12:41

less than that. Colombia's a real justification.

12:44

Like what they're putting forward is that

12:46

the students were basically violating the protest

12:48

rules. That so, the President also sent

12:50

a letter to Columbia. River Nord

12:52

and says we updated our protest policy

12:55

to allow demonstrations on very short notice

12:57

and in prime locations in the middle

12:59

of campus, while still allowing students to

13:01

get the class and labs and libraries

13:03

to operate. The current encampment violates all

13:05

of the new policies, severely disrupts campus

13:07

life, and create a harassing and intimidating

13:10

environments for many of our students, but.

13:12

Then if, like, if if we're such fuckin'

13:14

sticklers for policies, you're also not following your.

13:16

Own policies and the procedure for doing. As.

13:18

Would like are we sticklers or rb not. I

13:20

don't think people really care about. Is procedural stuff,

13:22

but if you know that there's like a

13:24

huge double standard, right? I want to pause

13:26

before we continue because as the story goes

13:28

on, he gets messier. I want to be

13:31

clear that at this point. There. Have been

13:33

no credible allegations of like anti

13:35

semitism or offensive statements or violence

13:37

from any these protesters. Rights: When

13:39

at Columbia brought in Be and

13:41

Y P D to clear the

13:43

encampment, they claimed that Be protesters

13:45

were creating a harassing and intimidating

13:48

environments, but they didn't provide any

13:50

examples. Ah, and and to this

13:52

day there's really no evidence that

13:54

any within this actual encampment did

13:56

anything of the sort singer. So

13:58

it really seems like what happened

14:00

here is that Shafiq was coming

14:02

off of her testimony to Congress

14:04

and then confronted with this dilemma.

14:06

Do I back up my tough

14:08

talk or do I sort of

14:10

let them stay? He calls and

14:13

the cops right? See. Get this

14:15

initial round of media coverage that's

14:17

relatively mild, but you start to

14:19

see some sort of weird tendencies

14:21

so the New York Times says

14:23

and they're talking about be clearing

14:25

of the encampment. They say many

14:27

in the crowd watched with a

14:29

sense of disbelief or anger. Some

14:32

students, though. Those. Who had felt

14:34

harassed by the chance and actions of

14:36

the pro Palestinian students. Said they were

14:38

glad that the university had finally agreed

14:40

to follow it's rules. Again, they're not

14:42

specifying what the harassing chance or actions

14:44

were, it's just sort of stated which

14:46

is not necessarily to say that it's

14:48

fictional as much as that this is

14:50

just bad report as is not a

14:52

should be reporting on the sort of

14:54

shit. You can't tell from this, whether

14:56

the complaint here is that they don't

14:58

like pro Palestinian chance or that they

15:00

are actually being directly targeted for harassment

15:02

by protesters. And that's a pretty important

15:05

distinction, right? I think that is it a normal

15:07

as protests or is it genuinely something like rowdy

15:09

and harassing and something the right university should really

15:11

do something about The cats The entire point. Is

15:14

like is this ok or is this not. Yeah, so

15:16

to map this out chronologically should he

15:18

testified. On Wednesday, April Seventeenth, the encampment

15:21

was set up that say morning and

15:23

Y P D clear that the next

15:25

day. What happens next is that the

15:27

students set up another encampment on the

15:30

lawn. Like, right next to the first

15:32

one. Hell yes. And this time the

15:34

energy is way higher because people are

15:36

upset by the administration calling in. and

15:39

Y P D yeah, faculty, many of

15:41

whom say that they are not actually

15:43

aligned with the students on the substantive

15:45

issue. Staged a walk out in

15:47

protest of the administration. And this is

15:49

also where you see other encampments and

15:51

similar protests or to pop up on

15:53

campuses across the country. Breasts? This is

15:55

a thing. They could have just ignore

15:58

this in the first place. Yeah, Then

16:00

encampments on campuses are like around.

16:02

The country and hasn't really been a

16:04

big deal and also isn't isn't the

16:06

semester ending and like two weeks and

16:08

except as like yeah this happen and

16:11

like. I. Know the whole thing is is such a

16:13

fucking. Own. Goal: by the university

16:15

presidents. I'd I'd. I mean,

16:17

I do get it, but I don't get. It when

16:19

be argument being put

16:22

forward is basically these

16:24

protesters are potentially harassing

16:27

loud disruptive. The.

16:29

Scope of the failure is like

16:31

laid bare right? yet has this

16:34

was one protest on Colombia's campus?

16:36

It is now like a nationwide

16:38

movements There have been hundreds of

16:40

a their been incidents of like

16:42

protesters clashing and you can make

16:44

a pretty coherent argument that like

16:46

minutiae features responsible for all of

16:48

that to try to look good

16:50

in front of republican senators no

16:52

not even senators I was i

16:54

fucking asses house members which is

16:56

even our i come on even

16:59

more degrade and humiliating. Barely politicians,

17:01

right? Nearly adults. So over

17:03

that following weekend there are

17:05

reports on social media. Of

17:08

several instances of anti semitic or

17:10

otherwise offensive conduct in and around

17:12

Columbia, one person shouted, go Back

17:15

To Poland at Pro Israel demonstrators.

17:17

One person held up a sign

17:19

with an arrow pointed toward Pro

17:21

Israel demonstrators that said Alka Psalms

17:23

Next Targets as a massive military

17:25

wing. One. Guy is recorded shouting that

17:28

there will be Ten Thousand October Seven. I

17:30

knew about all those because I read about

17:32

them on Barry. Why says some stack? That's

17:34

the thing, as you probably hurl obese because

17:36

the media coverage of each of them has

17:38

been extent. Yeah, there's also that that poor

17:40

woman who lost and I. Am one of

17:42

the protests is my understanding or I paid.

17:45

know i think she passed yeah

17:47

this the advice assess as it

17:49

sounds like we're being very insensitive

17:51

to someone who's not provide for

17:53

that's directed at you had pro

17:55

israel demonstrators shouting go back to

17:58

gaza as soon protesters com calling

18:00

them terrorists. There were some

18:02

minor scuffles, nothing serious, people grabbing flags

18:04

from one another, things like that. Almost

18:06

all of these incidents occurred off campus.

18:10

And from the reporting I've seen, none

18:12

of them have been traced to actual

18:14

Columbia students. It's pretty clear that most

18:16

of this, if not all of this,

18:19

is from non-students. God. In any large

18:21

protest, someone is going to yell something

18:23

fucking stupid. Like, one out of

18:25

every 500 signs is going to be, is

18:27

going to have something problematic on it. You remember the

18:30

anti-war protest in 2003? Yeah. There

18:32

was some hella dumb shit being

18:34

said there and some dumb chants and

18:36

some dumb signs. And they were still right.

18:39

This whole time I've just

18:41

been like, why are we fucking talking about this?

18:43

Well, the question is, when you see one asshole,

18:45

do you want to say to yourself, that guy's

18:47

an asshole? Or do you want to say to

18:50

yourself, this is emblematic

18:52

of a broader trend within the

18:54

pro-Palestinian movement? That's the choice you're

18:56

being confronted with. And the media

18:59

chooses the second one every single

19:01

time. It's also so fucked up

19:03

because it's very clearly a distraction

19:06

from something that is like, the

19:08

actual fucking bombing of Gaza is

19:11

so indefensible. Tens of thousands of

19:13

people dead. There's literally children starving.

19:16

It could not be clearer what the

19:18

right thing to do is and who the

19:21

fucking heroes and villains are. And yet,

19:23

we're still talking about like, was this chant

19:25

bad or not? The vague implications

19:27

of the metaphor in

19:29

your rhyming chant are a little bit

19:32

disturbing to me. I mean,

19:34

fuck. So social media posts of

19:36

these like anti-Semitic incidents and

19:39

sort of like violence endorsing incidents if

19:41

they're not anti-Semitic go viral.

19:43

Of course. And very quickly, the tenor

19:45

of the media coverage changes

19:48

dramatically. The New York Times writes

19:50

a piece headlined, some Jewish students

19:52

are targeted as protests continue at Columbia,

19:54

citing some of these incidents. The

19:57

piece also does include quotes

20:00

from Jewish students who are protesting for Palestine

20:02

and say they feel perfectly safe, which

20:05

some media outlets have just completely

20:07

ignored. But they do make one

20:09

omission, and I've seen this almost

20:12

universally, which is that they don't

20:14

cover any of the racist rhetoric

20:16

coming from pro-Israel protesters, which was

20:18

also pretty thoroughly documented on social

20:20

media that weekend. And that omission

20:22

creates this impression of a one-sided

20:25

problem. The implication of

20:27

stories like this is that any amount

20:29

of anti-Semitism or one anti-Semitic person in

20:31

a crowd of thousands of

20:33

people protesting is disqualifying,

20:36

and yet Islamophobia is also rife

20:38

among people who are pro-Israel, and

20:40

yet that's never disqualifying. Yeah,

20:42

I think you're sort of like imagining

20:45

what a good faith discussion might look

20:47

like, but what's really happening here is

20:49

that reactionaries are just sort of sensing

20:51

an opportunity to smear the

20:54

left and also shift the conversation away

20:56

from what's happening in Gaza and toward

20:58

what's happening on American campuses. Yeah, that's

21:01

been so palpable. So first I want

21:03

to talk about the right-wing news cycle

21:05

that emanates from this. Fox News runs

21:07

countless stories about what it calls agitators

21:10

at Columbia. The New York Post

21:12

has run nonstop stories about this.

21:15

I would like for you to guess the number

21:17

of stories in the New York Post

21:20

between April 18th and the end

21:22

of the month referencing

21:24

the Columbia encampment. I'm thinking of, remember we did

21:26

every single story in the New York Times about

21:29

Hillary Clinton's emails in one

21:31

month, and I think it was something like 43? So like I'm going to

21:35

say somewhere in the 40s. Yeah, the answer is

21:37

over 150. Dude,

21:41

so I followed the New York Post

21:43

on Twitter, and they had a story

21:45

this morning that was just the headline

21:48

was, Teddy Roosevelt's great grandson supports Columbia

21:50

protests. Tell him. It's like Steve Roosevelt

21:52

or something, just some random kid. That's

21:54

news, baby. Someone I've never heard of

21:57

who is related to a politician has

21:59

an opinion. I

22:01

almost wish that the New York Post had

22:03

a functional website rather than one that like

22:05

will destroy your computer if you scroll it

22:07

for long enough because it is deeply fascinating

22:12

to just witness the media

22:14

diet of Your

22:16

average Staten Island resident. It's like no wonder they're

22:18

like this. The thing is the fact that you

22:20

are moving to New Jersey I feel like

22:23

means you should be careful making fun

22:25

of people from Staten Island I

22:27

am moving very purposefully to a

22:29

town full of Wealthy

22:33

stick-up-their-ass liberal pussies Like

22:36

people have like black lives matter signs in

22:38

their yard It just just says perform like

22:40

just to be performative assholes, you know what

22:42

I mean? Yeah, you're moving to the name

22:44

of the county is in this house So

22:50

the post coverage and most right-wing

22:53

coverage real is really Expressly

22:55

calling the protesters anti-Semitic

22:58

Genocidal right on April 28th They

23:01

ran an op-ed by the

23:03

editorial board titled quote pro Palestine

23:05

protests really are seeking a final

23:07

solution Oh my god, they wrote

23:09

that quote Israel's war is entirely

23:12

just the protest movement Consists

23:14

entirely of the malevolent and

23:17

the idiotic Nazi equivalents and

23:19

their enablers That is

23:21

the New York Post editorial board. By the way,

23:23

I feel like people don't realize What

23:26

the editorial boards of conservative

23:28

papers are like but these

23:30

people are? Unwell, so Wall

23:32

Street Journal editorial board says shit that like

23:34

would get somebody kicked out of like a

23:36

neighborhood barbecue You'd be like,

23:38

I'm sorry, man. We just can't have you around anymore if

23:40

you're gonna say shit like this Yeah, yeah, you have to

23:43

leave. Yeah, I am going to Share

23:45

with you a couple of my

23:47

favorite New York Post pieces on

23:49

this subject Okay, I'm sending you

23:51

a headline the Columbia protester diet

23:53

anti Israel students munch on prepped

23:55

sandwiches Pricy nuts and sip Duncan. Oh

23:58

because they're like decadent elites The

24:00

protesters are simultaneously professional

24:03

terrorists and also the

24:05

privileged children of wealthy

24:07

elites. Also, they also these kids

24:09

are the coddled children of wealthy

24:12

elites. They're so correct. You

24:14

know, I think it's cool that some rich

24:16

kids can step outside their bubble and

24:18

recognize some injustice, you know, even

24:20

if they are probably going to give this

24:22

up and go work at JPM. That Roosevelt

24:25

kid is going to be cool for the

24:27

next two years and then immediately go to

24:29

McKinsey. I am going to send you an

24:31

excerpt from this harrowing piece in the

24:34

New York Post. It says,

24:37

the anti-Israel Columbia University students

24:39

hunkering down on the Ivy League's

24:41

West Lawn received a hefty food

24:44

delivery Wednesday as they show no signs

24:46

of abandoning their makeshift tent city. Fruits,

24:49

nuts, granola bars, and overpriced sandwiches

24:51

were being handed out like candy

24:54

to the protesters who were given a

24:56

48-hour extension to camp out on the

24:58

grounds before the administration warned it would

25:00

clear them out. Thank you for catching

25:03

that stellar bit of writing. Yeah, it's

25:05

amazing. They're handing out fruit like candy.

25:07

Yeah, you're a professional writer. It's so

25:09

evocative. So I have a mental image

25:11

now. The anti-Israel protesters,

25:13

more than 100 of whom were cuffed

25:16

by the NYPD last week, had their choice of

25:18

an array of nuts, including a

25:21

$17 jar of Good & Gather's sea

25:23

salt roasted mixed nuts. It is true

25:26

that nuts, like nut pricing, has gotten out of control. Okay,

25:28

but Good & Gather is Target's in-house

25:30

brand. Oh, here's the relation. So

25:33

a $17 jar is probably just a

25:36

large jar of nuts, which actually sounds

25:38

like a pretty cost-effective solution for a

25:40

group of people. Okay. Along

26:00

the table a simple veggie sandwich would

26:02

cost only eight dollars But those with

26:04

any meat between the bread slices cost

26:06

anywhere between ten and fourteen dollars or

26:09

even sixteen dollars for salmon option My

26:11

god, this is so boring is it

26:13

so is it so fucking boring and

26:15

stupid You

26:18

don't have a real job if you're if you're writing

26:20

this professionally, this is not a real job You are

26:22

a fake person with a

26:24

fake life. Also. These are normal sandwich

26:26

prices in New York Sorry, this entire

26:29

piece should be about the injustice of

26:31

Biden's economy fight inflation that we're experiencing

26:33

due to his choices I

26:36

told you that they wrote like a hundred

26:38

and fifty articles about this encampment

26:40

in the protest So like this

26:42

is the kind of shit you need to write to

26:44

hit those numbers. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, just like people had

26:47

food there. There was someone's going to their

26:49

editor being like I

26:51

looked up the price of those nuts for a

26:53

sir and they're seventeen dollars and he's like run

26:55

it. Yeah Send you another outline

26:58

This one's a little more serious in

27:00

the sense that it has sort of

27:02

spread around the right-wing ecosystem I

27:05

I love this one George Soros

27:08

is paying student radicals who

27:10

are fueling nationwide explosion of

27:12

Israel hating protests