In this episode of RUMBLE: Live, host Andrew Yang is joined by comedian Josh Feierstein to discuss the Harvard Law School Reunion. Plus, a look at why Harvard is bad for America in more ways than one, and why Donald Trump is right about it.
00:03:51.000You see, his parents suffered from crippling debt and skyrocketing inflation, and they were never able to buy that nice new house on the east side.
00:03:58.000Their debt led to marital stress, culminating in a messy divorce, leaving Timmy to raise himself while Mom was working three jobs.
00:04:06.000Let's see how the reunion actually went down.
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00:06:18.000That's the sound of it being 11 a.m. Eastern on weekdays.
00:06:22.000My question for you is, do you think that it is wielding the power of the federal government to remove grants from Harvard, potentially their tax-exempt status?
00:06:34.000Have you reached the point where the left has gone so far that you're kind of past the whole, oh, if we do it, they'll do it to us.
00:06:39.000Like, they're going to do it anyway, so we might as well get the winds in where we can.
00:06:43.000I also, by the way, I don't think it's authoritarian.
00:06:45.000I think it's entirely appropriate, but I am a little bit, a little column A, a little column B. And, well, before we get to anything else, Captain Morgan, CEO, hope you are well.
00:08:07.000It's that anyone who's ever, look, anyone who's ever worked construction, like, I've been electrocuted.
00:08:12.000The last time I was with a circular saw with Johnny Boy and a wire, we were taking apart the old studio, and it was like a shock, you know, your hair stands up.
00:08:18.000But in that case, he has no footing, so he can't let go, because it's the only thing keeping him up.
00:08:26.000And so he has a decision to make, and there's not a good one.
00:08:30.000My favorite part is when his cheeks clenched up.
00:09:06.000There's nothing funnier to me than finding yourself in a situation where you're like, oh, this is going to hurt, whether it's emotionally, whether it's embarrassing, or whether it's physically, and there's nothing you can do about it.
00:14:40.000You guys have probably seen the Piers Morgan clip, but here's the thing.
00:14:43.000Jake Tapper now is kind of trying to rebrand himself, and I think this is out of necessity.
00:14:47.000You're seeing this with some people at CNN.
00:14:50.000Just last week, and this clip resurfaced kind of yesterday, He acknowledged and recognized the problem with the left, which is what we discussed yesterday, and Gen Z men.
00:15:01.000Here he is kind of calling them out and using his son as a personal example.
00:15:05.000It just surprises me that he's surprised.
00:15:08.000I went on a left-leaning podcast that shall remain nameless, and we were talking about my kids, because I think they were both people without kids.
00:15:19.000And they asked me about my son, and I said he was, you know, he's a football player, and he wants to be a policeman.
00:15:27.000And their joke was, about my 15-year-old son, oh, how does he feel about minorities?
00:15:31.000Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he's racist, my son.
00:15:35.000And like, you know, that was the big laugh, and then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff.
00:15:40.000And I thought to myself, this is why you f***ers are losing elections.
00:16:43.000By the way, he's shocked that they're In case you've forgotten, here's the same Jake Tapper.
00:16:55.000It is shocking to see images of police abusing their power against peaceful citizens exercising their constitutional rights.
00:17:05.000What are the American people to make of these images of officers brutally beating peaceful journalists and protesters?
00:17:14.000Former President Trump and his running mate, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, are criticizing the news media and Democrats for what they call irresponsible rhetoric that they allege was behind the thankfully unsuccessful assassination attempt.
00:17:29.000At the same time that they're doing that, Trump and Vance and their minions continue to spread lies.
00:17:36.000Why is he talking about Arnold Palmer's penis?
00:17:57.000Yeah, well, you know, don't allow, this is a guy who's spewed rhetoric regarding toxic masculinity and Don't allow this guy to put distance between himself and the monster he created.
00:18:11.000Hey, this is the America that you created for your son, Mr. Tapper.
00:18:17.000Yeah, I mean, you're in a unique position to be able to push back on all of this stuff.
00:18:20.000To be able to espouse those views, but when it hits home finally for you and your 15-year-old.
00:24:53.000How do you get to a quarter of your student body being formed?
00:24:57.000By the way, any Chinese student here in our educational institutions is by definition a CCP operative because they have to be under their control and they have to go through the powers that be to come here to the United States.
00:25:30.000And what was being requested was things like details on Harvard's hiring, the admission like DEI, the implementation of DEI if they're appropriately removing them.
00:25:38.000They wanted more cooperation with law enforcement on foreign students who break university policies or who come here and disrupt the student experience or if they have ulterior motives.
00:26:19.000And so the left is making a bunch of claims to try and convince you.
00:26:22.000The American worker who probably has never been to Harvard, why you need to subsidize Harvard, and it's actually better for you, for Harvard to get those billions of dollars, than for you to keep it.
00:26:53.000This is not merely hurting Harvard, not merely hurting 7,000 international students, but it literally hurts hundreds of millions of Americans who benefit from serious research in this country and people around the world who benefit from the work that we do.
00:27:16.000We'll get to the research, by the way.
00:27:17.000That slack can be picked up by a bunch of institutions who won't try and subvert American values in Western civilization.
00:27:22.000Let me lay out the case for you as to how Harvard hurts America.
00:27:26.000So they are receiving billions of dollars in federal funding to teach courses like street dance activism, co-choreographic praxis as activism, power to the people, black power, radical feminism, and gay liberation, gender in Byzantium.
00:27:55.000This hurts America because it teaches students that we basically invented slavery.
00:27:58.000If you go through these courses, it teaches students that patriarchy, the basis of Western civilization, is evil, of course, and that, you know, all genders are equal and science is a figment of your imagination.
00:29:13.000Particularly at research universities, students don't feel free to speak their minds.
00:29:19.000When faculty feel that they have to think twice before they talk about the subjects that they're teaching, that's a real problem that we need to address.
00:30:45.000In response to President Trump's initiative to end DEI, they just rebranded it.
00:30:49.000Their DEI office turned into the community and campus life with the same buzzwords and people in charge, like building inclusive traditions.
00:31:25.000Don't care how much research you do, and we'll get to that in a second.
00:31:27.0002020, Harvard, remember they revoked the conservative student's acceptance over social media comments when he was 16. That was Kyle Kashuk.
00:31:35.0002022, they disinvited a feminist philosopher.
00:31:39.000They disinvited a feminist philosopher because this feminist held anti-transgender views.
00:31:44.000She was scheduled to speak and they rescinded it.
00:31:46.0002022, Roland G. Fryer, a tenured black professor who is pretty liberal, by the way, was canceled there for debunking systemic racism against blacks.
00:31:56.000Remember that famous study that came from Harvard?
00:31:58.000He's like, actually, the violence against black people from police office, it's actually lower than against white people.
00:32:14.000If you love the United States of America, if you think that America is flawed, but it's a great country and we should teach, We're saying that we shouldn't have entire course loads regarding the intersectionality of slavery and chicks with dicks.
00:32:33.000Leave it to liberal whites to tell blacks about blacks.
00:32:38.000And here is the Harvard president conflating all these issues, trying to say, well, this is just about, to be clear, the Trump administration never said this is just about anti-Semitism, but here he is conflating it.
00:32:50.000The research funding is given to universities and other research institutions to carry out work that the research work that the federal government designates as high priority work.
00:34:05.000There's MIT, there's Yale, there's West Virginia University, there's Kansas State University.
00:34:09.000Yeah, if we want to have some research being conducted, we'll just send the money to a place that isn't actively grooming young Americans to be anti-American.
00:35:23.000Fire a bunch of the liberals, start with the LGBTQAIP departments, and hire from half the country, the half that you have proactively kept out.
00:36:15.000Just for more proof, by the way, when you're talking about the elites.
00:36:17.000At Harvard, you're about to see a clip that includes Jody Friedman, who I believe is either a professor at Harvard or a lecturer, who was the counselor for energy and climate change for Barack Obama.
00:36:28.000And here is the claim that she makes on this panel on CNN.
00:36:33.000I thought you were a small government concern.
00:36:34.000Harvard is a private institution and should remain private.
00:36:38.000No government, regardless of the party in power, should really be dictating to private institutions, whether they're private universities or private companies, how they ought to run things.
00:36:51.000This is a level of micromanagement that is really un-American, and we should be careful about this precedent, which I think is a dangerous precedent for the future.
00:39:07.000They want you to believe that if this money goes away, your grandma's going to die of cancer, saying, oh, I wish Harvard would have been here.
00:39:23.000Again, just take your spending of your own money from 1% to 2% and you'll make up the gap.
00:39:29.000One thing that really surprised me about their endowment allocation, only 7%, and this is juxtaposed to the comments, we are a research university.
00:39:43.000And I'm like, well, yeah, when the federal government is giving you billions of dollars a year in research, and I get it sometimes you ask for that, but...
00:39:53.000I'd be willing to bet that the board at Harvard could ask their donors to, hey, we lost this funding federally.
00:40:01.000If you can spare a couple million instead of giving it to the basketball program, maybe they're not doing so good.
00:40:21.000I have seen this firsthand in churches, unless it's a black church, in which case they'll actually have senators and congressmen come up and say, vote Democrat.
00:40:26.000But churches, you can comment below if you guys have been through this.
00:40:30.000If you go to a church where it's inherently conservative, the pastor may say, hey, as Christians, we support the right to life, we support the traditional family, but they can't actively endorse or tell you how to vote.
00:40:41.000They have to be very careful because they may lose their tax-exempt status.
00:40:45.000501c3 means that you, as opposed to a c4, Means you are prohibited from engaging in anything sort of broaching political activism.
00:41:19.000Computer science professor, $1.4 million a year.
00:41:22.000The dean of arts and sciences, Claudine Gay, who had to step down because this person was found guilty of plagiarism multiple times, was making $1.4 million a year.
00:43:35.000Grants can be revoked by the federal government for noncompliance, particularly if you are telling people that our institutions of government are evil so long as white men are a part of it.
00:43:46.000And they have frozen grants with other colleges.
00:43:54.000I believe Northwestern is on that list.
00:44:07.000And the standard, to me, if we're going to be freezing grants, if the federal government, if the taxpayer is going to be footing the bill, you better be benefiting and improving this country for the taxpayer.
00:44:26.000In their enrollment practices, in their hiring practices, Harvard has been living high on the hog, paying bloated salaries to people, in some cases who are plagiarists, who can never be fired.
00:44:37.000Harvard has more than enough money to cover their own bills and they are choosing not to spend it.
00:44:43.000And Harvard wants to play the victim without solving any problems.
00:44:47.000And if anyone on the right relents on this, be it the president or if it ends up going through Congress, guess what?
00:44:52.000They're going to go back to the same exact status quo where the institutions of higher education remain infiltrated by communists and they are trying to create a generation of mindless rules.
00:45:10.000Revoke it, and I would say, Yukon Cornelius, the campus off, and push them out into the ocean if you can.
00:45:16.000I don't think you can do that, but you can try.
00:46:32.000If you're looking at Pell Grants, you're looking at all these government subsidies, are they incentivized to create a product directly for the customer or the student?
00:46:43.000When it's not your money, you charge whatever you want, and we're seeing this from both sides.
00:46:49.000It's not the money of Harvard, it's the taxpayer money, and in many cases, it's not the money of the student enrolling.
00:46:55.000It's a loan that they may never pay back that ultimately the taxpayer may have to foot the bill for.
00:47:00.000This is why we see astronomical inflation and their solution, of course, because it's Harvard and less than 3% are conservatives, student debt forgiveness.
00:47:07.000So you can study trans history and genderqueer in Byzantium.
00:47:15.000You know, we look at this and people go, hey, are there any solutions?
00:47:18.000And very few things bother me more than seeing conservative commentators out there talk about how not everyone should go to university, but they do.
00:47:40.000So again, we see this administration providing a solution, to be clear.
00:47:46.000In this case, one of the beneficiaries, this is President Trump, wrote about this on Truth Social.
00:47:50.000He said, I am considering taking $3 billion of grant money away from a very anti-Semitic Harvard and giving it to trade schools all across our land.
00:49:59.000Bachelor's degree is anywhere from $90,000 to $200,000.
00:50:02.000Now let's look at the starting salaries.
00:50:04.000A bachelor's degree, if you get a job in that field of work, which many people don't, $70,000.
00:50:10.000Trade school, the average after an apprenticeship, which can be completed in the same amount of time it takes to get a bachelor's degree, $72,000.
00:50:17.000And you're making money while doing your apprenticeship.
00:50:45.000You're like, how did this guy who just worked construction, he was a carpenter, how did he retire so young?
00:50:49.000He was able to start investing and saving when he was 18. Buy a lead of trucks, buy a bunch of tools, hire workers, now you've got your own contracting business.
00:54:39.000By the way, if you guys are not, and I'm going to go to the last key fact here, if you guys are not Rumble Premium members, we're going to be talking about RFK Jr. as well today.
00:54:46.000We could never talk about this on YouTube.
00:55:14.000We've gone through all the pros, but here's another one.
00:55:16.000You can be in business for yourself and you actually are more likely to find success that way if you've gone to trade school or, frankly, if you don't, in many cases, go to university.
00:55:27.000So over half of small business owners have no college degree.
00:55:41.000It's a split as far as how many business owners have a college degree and how many of them think that a college degree is important on both sides.
00:55:46.000And I'd argue that 61% that do think that it is necessary or important, somewhat important, is they learn how business works.
00:55:59.000As a matter of fact, you have people who, I mean, I don't know what it is when kids study economics, because I've met so many people who have degrees in economics from very prestigious schools who don't understand it at all.
00:57:23.000But think about what that would do to universities.
00:57:25.000One, it would stop them from just churning out people that hate America, or at least start out hating America.
00:57:31.000the longer you go when you have kids and have a family, you start to get more conservative because you're like, wait a minute, I'm kind of shaking off all that crap that I learned in college.
00:57:42.000It would change fundamentally how universities structure themselves to be able to attract more people when the government is not just handing money out hand over fist.
00:57:50.000And you start to kind of reimagine how this would work.
00:57:53.000It's a much, much, much better system.
00:57:55.000And right now, it's just there is no way to fix this other than kind of blowing it up like Trump is doing right now with Harvard.
00:58:02.000I don't know if it's just Harvard or if he's making a point.
00:59:17.000You're getting a little further away from being prepared for real life or developing a work ethic.
00:59:23.000Oh wait, you're taking out student loans so you don't work your way through college and you'll kind of pay it off later and there might be student loan forgiveness.
00:59:44.000And the first thing they will tell you is, I am so grateful for my college experience because, you know, it really taught me to do hard work.
00:59:51.000Like, I had subjects that I didn't like, but I had to study for the test.
00:59:59.000You think that you learned a work ethic by having to study in an air-conditioned dormitory between nights of alcoholism for a subject that you kind of voluntarily chose?
01:00:08.000You think that that is going to help prepare you for the real world more than actually starting the craft or trade of your chosen profession?
01:00:45.000But seriously, you have kids who graduate and they don't develop a work ethic.
01:00:49.000If anything, they develop an ethic, a work ethic in how to do college.
01:00:54.000And it's so far removed from real life.
01:00:57.000The college experience for a lot of people, for most people throughout its history was, okay, you went, you took this course load in your chosen vocation, and you worked your way through it to pay for it.
01:01:22.000Maybe move back in with mom and dad and stay on their health care until 26. And all of this, by the way, it lends itself to the problem that we have of male-female dynamics, of gender, of the nuclear family, because you have people continuing their stage of adolescence into their mid-20s before they even think about what used to be the real world.
01:01:45.000And people are upset that we're saying, all right, if this is what you want to do, fund it yourself.
01:01:51.000I genuinely, I'm not just saying, and I have children, if they want to go to a specific school to study something that requires a degree, of course I'll be supportive.
01:01:59.000But if not, I'm not going to tell them, you absolutely have to go to college.
01:02:04.000You absolutely, hey, I want to see the most impressive name on that diploma that I possibly can.
01:02:09.000No, I want to sit, look, we should treat this part of our life cycle as we do any other.