I doubt it. One of the reason I cringe at the Ivy Leagues is because so many of the anti-elite, anti-intellectual thought leaders (now there’s a paradox!) are Ivy League grads themselves. They’re the unironic not-at-all-funny real life versions of Ron Swanson who are simultaneously in government and yet anti-government. Of the Ivy League, and yet opposed.
Ted Cruz? Princeton undergrad, Harvard Law.
Josh Hawley? Stanford undergrad (Ivy in all but name), Yale Law.
JD Vance? Yale Law.
Insurrectionist Stewart Rhodes? Yale Law.
ASL? Public undergrad, public masters degree, public law degree.
I rest my case. I dare say the Ivy League produces a disproportionate number of Ringwraiths, who above all else desire power. Loyalty to their alma maters doesn’t factor into it.
Well, I did say “some”. Will this change some nonzero number of minds? Definitely. Will it change all of them? Definitely not. Will the number of minds it changes be enough to do any good? That remains to be seen.
I am ashamed of my Penn connection. First, they awarded degrees to Trump and Musk, although the latter probably actually earned it.
Honestly I don’t think Trump gives a sh*t about antisemitism. I’ve known his type. They believe that Jews are good at only two things: handling money and being shyster lawyers (Roy Cohen, Michael Cohen). I expect most of us Jews are actually aware of thisl
I have a stupid fantasy that Wharton will release Trump’s academic records. He has bragged that he was #1 in his class; I’d love to see the real rankings.
But, I’m sure they won’t do it. And even if they would, all it would do is cause blowback for UPenn, without accomplishing anything.
Also bringing about the second coming of Christ and the end of days. That’s why evangelical Christians support Israel’s continued existence and expansion as a Jewish state: they think it’s a necessary pre-condition of Revelation. What will actually happen to the Jews living in Israel once that happens—at least the ones who don’t accept Christ—will be pretty damn antisemitic. And the evangelical Christians will be all for it.
And we may have noted of late a pattern of RW putzes challenging people like Obama or Harris to reveal their academic records (or stating they don’t see proof of that record even existing, or making up that the record is deprecatory).
In my work life I have not encountered anyone questioning undergraduate grades 30+ years in the past like that. Instinctively in the political world my answer would be, “your guy first”, but that would just be legitimizing their game.
I know that a lot of people think that this is just some kind of Pentecostal cosplay thing because so many Evangelical leaders are obvious grifters and anything but ‘Christian’ in any rational definition of the term but the hardcore Evangelical apocalyptor base literally believes in this shit and are repeatedly counting down for the Book of Revelations prediction of End Of Days. Bringing the Jewish state to its own destruction is something they lust like porn.
Everything he does and says suggests a buffoon. I have wondered if he can actually read (I think he can).
There is no universe where Trump gets into and graduates from Wharton without big payoffs in there. Trump is a moron. He’s never shown the slightest ability in…anything (except being a narcissistic dick).
I applaud the hell out of this, and hope it spreads like wildfire.
Dig this bit:
Harvard will be represented by Robert K. Hur ’95 and William A. Burck, both lawyers with deep ties to President Donald Trump. Hur was appointed to the United States Department of Justice by Trump in his first term, and Burck has served as counsel for the Trump Organization.
Hur was the Special Counsel who looked into Biden’s handling of classified docs.
Marc Andreessen (Netscape, Andreessen Horowitz venture capital, billionaire) posits that upper middle class kids go to Harvard, get radicalized, go to Silicon Valley as anarchists that only care about destroying tech and not a whit about a career. Also, that he only wants his companies to be allowed to stay in business (such as bit coin without regulation). Buggers the questions:
You’re so smart, deserve your riches, and don’t know how to hire the right people
Want your companies to “compete” without any kind of regulation. Ie, unfettered capitalism without any guardrails
Take over as an enlightened oligarch
This NY Times podcast with their Trumpian bullshit talking point spewing conservative. Also, that he only wants his companies to be allowed to stay in business (such as bit coin without regulation).) Ross Douthat is worth the hour it takes to listen to in order to understand how the Broligarchs saw things a year ago when they decided to throw in behind Trump.
Trump and his oily minions have been continuing their insane assault on Harvard by revoking its ability to enroll foreign students. They can do this because apparently Homeland Security has to certify universities to allow foreign enrollment. Harvard, of course, immediately sued and very quickly got an injunction against the order today.
But this is throwing thousands and thousands of students’ lives and educational careers into extreme turmoil. It’s really unconscionable. I have to stop thinking about it because I can feel my blood pressure spiking. Can you imagine being one of those students right now?
These people (not the students, as I hope is obvious) are just mean, petty bastards.
I’m hesitant to post what could be nothing more than malicious, unfounded rumor, but … we’re starting to hear this from some fairly credible people who may be positioned to actually know…
This guy …
Was on the Times Radio show/podcast, and attributed Trump’s aggressive stance toward Harvard to the latter’s denial of Barron Trump’s application to attend Harvard [should be cued up]: