"Academic Mafia Is NEXT!" - Trump DEMANDS Accountability After $200M Colombia Settlement
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Trump administration strikes a deal with Columbia University to pay more than $200 million to settle discrimination claims and $20 million to the Jewish employees discriminated against amid anti-Semitism protests on October 7th, 2019 in response to Hamas attacks against Israel.
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Columbia University to pay out more than $220 million in deal after violating Jewish student civil rights
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Brandon and Humberto are very excited about this.
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So as you go to this story, the Trump administration secured a settlement with Columbia University
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requiring the Ivy League school to pay more than $220 million,
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including $200 million in settlement discrimination claims
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and $20 million to the Jewish employees discriminated against amid anti-Semitism demonstrations on October 7, 2023.
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Hamas attacks against Israel with a spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee
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stating subpoenas will be issued in the future to further investigate related issues.
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Columbia agreed to submit to independent monitoring to ensure compliance with merit-based hiring and admissions
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and discriminatory programming on line with Supreme Court's 2023 decisions
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The settlement described by Columbia Active President Claire Shipman
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as the agreement marks an important step forward after a period of sustained federal scrutiny
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I am pleased to announce that the administration has reached a historic agreement with Columbia University.
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They've agreed to pay a penalty of $200 million to the United States government
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and the $20 million Jewish employees who were on the left.
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Columbia has also committed to ending this ridiculous DEI admitting student base only on merit
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and protecting the civil liberties of their students.
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Numerous other higher education institutions that have hurt so many
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and been so unfair and unjust have wrongly spent federal money,
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much of it from our government, our upcoming, oh, damn, meaning they're coming up.
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and I want to thank and congratulate Secretary Linda McMahon
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and all those who worked with us on this important deal.
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I also want to thank and commend Columbia University for agreeing to do what is right.
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I look forward to watching them have a great future in our country, maybe greater than ever.
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Well, attention, Yale, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth.
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Syracuse, you know, the rest of the Ivy League mafia.
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This is called, wait, let me quote a famous liberal that some of you Ivies may like,
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This is a very inconvenient truth because it's an inconvenient precedent.
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And they're also saying subpoenas will be issued in the future.
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Because people are going to come forward to find out who gets what of the 200 million
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and the 20 million to the employees because they're going to get to the bottom of who
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And by the way, these are Jewish employees that were afraid to go to work, that were heckled
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walking in, that were physically, they weren't beaten, but they were jostled about and they
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They were, they were very scared going into work and you're being surrounded by these
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crowds and $20 million is going to go to the Jewish employees who are discriminated against
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And by the way, below into the fine print, which is something that the NYPD wanted, you
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If they were to say, hey, there's people protesting in the quad, they're saying these things like
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Something happened on Columbia and they didn't push back at.
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But meanwhile, across the aisle at the Ivy League, Harvard was in court within the last
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week pushing against trying to get their grant money back, criticizing the, you know, the
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Trump administration being complete jerks about their defense, not wanting.
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Does Harvard feel that they have a legal angle?
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But when you step back and look at it, you guys are being uncooperative and you're using
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the court system to protect your grants is what you're doing.
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Last week you were doing this, disrupting these hearings and doing all this stuff and
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you want to take legal thing with the administration?
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The State Department would like to know about how you have been approving visas.
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And would like to know about how you have been sponsoring people with visas.
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And the State Department would like to know what countries you've been specifically bringing
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people in from and what you're doing and how you've been doing it.
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So now what Harvard gets now is Marco Rubio saying, all right, well, if you want to take
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the legal path, tell you what, the State Department would like to open up some hearings and would
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Instead of Harvard getting with the program saying, hang on, hang on, hang on.
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They go to the microphone, Pat, and say, this is yet another retaliatory step by the Trump
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administration to violate Harvard's First Amendment rights.
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How is the State Department doing an investigation into your practices of assisting foreign students
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to get visas have anything at all to do with your First Amendment rights?
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Yet another retaliatory state stepped by the Trump administration to violate her.
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So here you've got Columbia saying, all right, we're going to agree.
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We're going to take care of this, and we're going to submit to oversight.
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We're going to submit to the subpoenas, and we're going to clean all this up.
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Sorry about that, and now that's what we're going to do.
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And this is Columbia's acting president, Claire Shipman.
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Because the other president was stuck in a cannon and shot out at something hard.
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And meanwhile, you've got Harvard wants to make everything a legal bitch and make everything
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This precedent at Columbia, I hope it carries forward because there's a tale of two cities.
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Columbia says, you know, maybe we effed up, and maybe we should just sit down and get a
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And that's what the president tweeted on Columbia, said, thank you.
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And by the way, good for them on that happening.
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But this is the beautiful thing about bullying and bad policies.
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You can only get away with bullying for so long, especially in America.
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You can only get away with bad policies for so long.
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At once, it was one of the greatest cities we had in America.
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Wealth, everything, liberal policies showed up, destroyed the place.
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Do you know the year before Newsom became governor, what California ranked in unemployment?
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You know where California is at right now for unemployment?
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We have fun with Newsom a lot here, the fact that he doesn't own a house or a car.
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The reality of it is, the best governor, DeSantis in Florida.
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But bad policies and bullying eventually gets exposed, and that's exactly what these Ivy League schools were doing for the longest time.
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Well, these universities are supposed to be safe spaces.
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And we've seen so many times, you know, during COVID, there was stop Asian hate because people were hating on Asians because they thought, oh, you started COVID.
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On any of these campuses, trans rights, women's rights, gay rights, blacks, lesbian, any type of, you could be anything you want, you're protected unless you're Jewish.
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And you start getting death threats on the regular.
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You start getting very thick skin and you start to realize, holy moly.
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So, you know, I'm equipped for this because this is, quite frankly, what we do at this point, a professional.
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You got nothing to do with what's going on in the Middle East, in Gaza, in Israel, whatsoever.
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You're a Jewish kid in New York, and all of a sudden you're getting harassed, bullied, death threats.
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Could you imagine if she was dealing with something like that on campus?
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I have a close friend whose younger cousin goes to Harvard.
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He's like, oh, it's not that big of a deal, man.
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I go, but because we're seeing things on campus.
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And there's a whole, we have a whole stats on what the encampments are.
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I go, but you told me a couple years ago it wasn't that bad.
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Most kids in schools, as you can see here, are just going to school.
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But these elite universities, the Harvards of the world, the Columbians of the world, and so on and so forth, that's where this happens.
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To the left, it shows the tuition of the biggest schools.
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You notice the tuition, the high, like 60,000 plus.
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So the higher the price of the school, the more likely it is for encampments and protests.
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So all these institutions of higher learning are just indoctrinated kids.
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So if you're going to community college here in Miami.
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At these institutions of higher learning, this is where they're indoctrinating kids.
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This is where Marxism and socialism and Islamism have sort of teamed up and said, yes, let's get a hold of these kids.
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You got white kids wearing the terrorist rag, the whatever they call it, hijab, or what is the Palestinian rag?
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Whatever the Palestinian rag is, the thing that they wear everywhere.
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No, he's talking about the red and white scarf thing.
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He's talking about the white scarf thing, whatever they wear.
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It's the white headdress with the black spots on it.
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Do you know what Bibi Netanyahu's approval rating is in Israel?
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Meaning in Israel, 60 percent plus of Israelis don't approve of what he's doing.
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Just like in America, more than 50 percent of the country doesn't approve of Trump.
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So here's the challenge that you have in the world right now.
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Then that leads to because I hate Israel, because I don't approve of Zionism.
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And you go from not liking Bibi Netanyahu and approving what's going on with the war here
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What was the whole thing that Dave Portnoy was basically protesting against?
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Black, white, Asian, Mexican, Assyrian, Armenian, gay.
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But Israel is the only Jewish state is going to have to deal with this.
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You know, the happiest people in the Middle East, the happiest people in the Middle East?
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Who is the least happiest people, the angriest people?
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To my Jewish friends out there, I'll just say this.
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I've embroiled this into three camps, if I may.
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There's the people out there who basically say, Israel can do no right.
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That Israel is a good country and a bad freaking neighborhood.
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And sometimes they got to do some pretty fucking bad things to some bad people.
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You went on a nice little lecture yesterday in our meeting about you guys don't know what it's like on that side of the world.
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You have no clue what it's like in the comfort of your own home in America or in Western cities, what it's like living in that side of the world.
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I say this all the time, that the Middle East is not the Midwest.
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You have no clue what it's like when your neighbors are Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Islamic Jihad.
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In America, we're freaking out about Tren de Agua.
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And you should be living in Iran right now, straight up.
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But because Islamic evangelicals, terrorists, took over Iran, we have the luxury of having PPD here now.
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And there's a lot of people in the world that are being displaced because of what's going on in the Middle East.
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What don't people understand about living in the Middle East?
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Amongst those people, what does the average Americans not understand of living in that side of the world?
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Yeah, I mean, look, it's just knowing the fact that your neighbors are constantly chaotic in the Middle East.
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You don't worry about it because you don't see what's going on in Canada and Mexico.
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It's not something you go to sleep thinking about wars and being bombed on and all this other stuff.
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It's going to teach you a very different perspective.
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But, yeah, the only thing I would tell you that I'm uncomfortable with, if this thing goes so far to one side that we can't call out and debate.
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So as long as it goes to a point that I can't call out and debate, that now you're dealing with freedom of speech.
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I should be able to call out, you know, the president, Trump.
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I should be able to call out blacks, whites, Jews, Christians, Hindu, Muslims, everybody.
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And if it's to the point that a person's walking on eggshells, if I say something, you're an Islamophobe, you're an anti-Semite, you're a bigot, you're a this, you're a that, that's what's forced a lot of people to get so aggressively on the opposite side.
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But what Columbia and these universities did, yeah, they're being held accountable and good for them.
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They've been brainwashing people for God knows how long.
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You want me to spend $60,000 to $80,000 sending my kids to your school?
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For them to be brainwashed that capitalists are bad and America's bad, it's a terrible country, that Thomas Jefferson, Washington, these people were horrible slave owners and all.
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It takes me back to when Hillary and Trump are doing a debate.
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And I'm seeing 100% of people that were in the room were rooting for Hillary.
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That's when I realized, this is not a freaking school.
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There's no reason that Americans should know what a keffiyeh is.
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But they're wearing it like it's the newest fashion, like it's JNCO jeans in the 90s.
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And then with David Portnoy, it wasn't kill the Jews.
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He had some idiot who had that sign that said F the Jews.
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There's a big difference between kill the Jews and F the Jews.
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I think Columbia, all of the, any, listen, you can go to any protest.
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You're going to see signs that are more outrageous than that.
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Well, when you said David Portnoy, it wasn't about killing Jews.
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But in regard to the protest, you could, all you want, have the, do what, that's freedom
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When you're abusing and hitting and harassing any race of students, I'm happy that they're
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And my favorite thing out of the, out of what you said, Tom, was the mask situation.
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If you're going to go out there and you're going to talk to shit and you're going to
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Any demonstration, all participants must be unmasked.
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On January 6th, if they let everybody take off your freaking, everybody mask, if you have
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Maybe there were the FBI, we could see who the hell your faces are, so we don't have to
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That's all something to be, if you're protesting and you're not wearing a mask, you have nothing
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If you're protesting and doing some nasty stuff, we want to know you so that other
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Question is, how many Yetis do you have in your kitchen, right?
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