State of Thursday: UNIVERSITY CANCER
Look no further than UC San Diego’s latest report.
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We’re going to do three short blurbs today because I’m already shot from the week and don’t have a ton of time this morning.
Let’s check in on the universities, eh?
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UNIVERSITY CANCER
It’s an understatement to say the left’s complete capture of the university system has utterly demolished foundational concepts like scholastic merit, open inquiry and objective truth.
Look no further than UC San Diego’s latest report.
(By the way, I wanted to apply to UCSD when I left the service and didn’t because I suspected my own personal metrics – a stunningly high 2.8 GPA in undergrad – would not suffice. Ha!)
One in eight incoming students, meaning they’ve already been accepted into one of the most prestigious university systems in California, needs remedial math.
Of those, a full quarter of them could not correctly answer the question: 7 + 2 = ___ + 6
It gets worse when it comes to literacy. About 20% of incoming students were not writing at an acceptable college level and needed remediation.
And why is this happening? Oddly, a mix of cultural Marxism and unchecked capitalism.
We need to admit students who can’t hack it because we have “diversity” goals.
We need to admit CCP plants because they pay tuition in full.
A reckoning can’t come soon enough. But we’re not done yet.
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Also a UC school, this time Berkeley.
A complete riot. Why? A TPUSA event and corrupt college administrators.
It’s hard not to view such left-wing violence as an endorsed part of the system when the people in charge simply allow it to happen. None of this is by any means “peaceful assembly.” It could and should be broken up in the most aggressive way possible. Arrests, even drubbings.
But it won’t happen. The college looks at Antifa as quasi shock troops deployed to intimidate intellectual antagonists to the school’s overall goals. So does most of California’s very blue legal system.
So stuff like this will keep happening until someone finally stands up and says enough is enough.
Look at the police — they’re arresting the victim!
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60 Minutes producers and Harvard think you’re dumb enough to believe Trump’s financial war on Harvard is preventing a cure for cancer.
They did a whole segment on it. No critical thinking whatsoever. No cross-examination. Just big bad Trump getting women killed because he’s withholding funding from Harvard research.
Never mind that all the university has to do is stop racially discriminating, and the money spigot will be turned back on.
Oh, and would you be shocked to know that Harvard Researcher Lady is probably full of it?
You wouldn’t know from 60 Minutes reporting, because there’s no such evaluation of the research itself. Viewers are simply left with the assumption that a cure for cancer is on the edge of discovery if not for Orange Man Bad.
And one more thing. Um. Isn’t Harvard rolling in dough?
Why won’t they spend their own money if they’re really so close?
Again, no questions or demands from 60 Minutes to Harvard leaders.
WHAT I’M READING
Check out this insightful piece by John Loftus.
The Trojan Horse That Snuck Through MAGA’s Gates
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This is only a surprise to people inside the bubble.
John Fetterman Stuns CNN’s Dana Bash By Telling Her How Cruel Left Is
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Don’t look now, we’re stuffing ballot boxes!
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Maybe China should start buying American. Built to last!
China’s Hongqi Bridge Just Collapsed Into River Months After Opening
WHAT I’M WATCHING
Woman Breaks Up With Boyfriend and Marries an AI Character
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