Let’s be honest — this is one of those stories where I’m going to tell you to not fall for the red herring. The title is true enough, BBC has coverage on Columbia’s recent agreement to pay $200M over accusations that it failed to protect Jewish students. However, it is not the real story. If this happened back in March, back when Paul Weiss caved to The Orange One, it would have been the real story. Alas, we are here — and the real story is actually in dialogue with this:
We’ve hit point of the American public being tired of too much winning, but it’s not for the reason that he predicted. They’re tired of the winning because he is completing side missions as a way to stave off dealing with the actual plot. Put simply, people won’t care nearly as much as they would have about the $200M Columbia settlement because they’re more preoccupied with the brazen concentration of power required to incentivise CBS to drop one of its most successful programs over the last 30 years for fear of hurting Trump’s feelings so that their $8 billion Skydance merger could go through — at least, that’s what John Stewart said on the Daily Show:
Oh, and John made a “penis insuffiency” joke at the president’s expense that the writers over at South Park, maybe independently like Leibniz and Newton’s discovery of calculus, ran with at the same time. And they ran HARD:
Not to be accused of falling behind the tech of the times, South Park doubled down on the Orange Menace’s Member using some state-of-the-art deepfaking:
There’s something poetic about the backlash to corporate bending backward to appease and lax AI regulation rules coming together to rob Trump of the PR stunts that would regularly rile the base. Oh, that and all of the Epstein Files backlash. Josh Johnson did a great job of pointing out that Trump is so desperate for a win that he’s resorted to trying to get people distracted by Black history of all things:
And have these sideshow distractions been successful? Hell no — even the Jan 6th loonies he’s pardoned won’t give Trump a moment to breathe:
In summary, here’s the question I pose to you. Does a $200M legal win at a prestigious Ivy League school that gave up the fight months ago even register as a win with the overwhelming amount of bad press Trump is getting everywhere else? It doesn’t — and that’s the real story.
Columbia University To Pay $200m In Settlement With Trump Administration [BBC News]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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Let’s be honest — this is one of those stories where I’m going to tell you to not fall for the red herring. The title is true enough, BBC has coverage on Columbia’s recent agreement to pay $200M over accusations that it failed to protect Jewish students. However, it is not the real story. If this happened back in March, back when Paul Weiss caved to The Orange One, it would have been the real story. Alas, we are here — and the real story is actually in dialogue with this:
We’ve hit point of the American public being tired of too much winning, but it’s not for the reason that he predicted. They’re tired of the winning because he is completing side missions as a way to stave off dealing with the actual plot. Put simply, people won’t care nearly as much as they would have about the $200M Columbia settlement because they’re more preoccupied with the brazen concentration of power required to incentivise CBS to drop one of its most successful programs over the last 30 years for fear of hurting Trump’s feelings so that their $8 billion Skydance merger could go through — at least, that’s what John Stewart said on the Daily Show:
Oh, and John made a “penis insuffiency” joke at the president’s expense that the writers over at South Park, maybe independently like Leibniz and Newton’s discovery of calculus, ran with at the same time. And they ran HARD:
Not to be accused of falling behind the tech of the times, South Park doubled down on the Orange Menace’s Member using some state-of-the-art deepfaking:
There’s something poetic about the backlash to corporate bending backward to appease and lax AI regulation rules coming together to rob Trump of the PR stunts that would regularly rile the base. Oh, that and all of the Epstein Files backlash. Josh Johnson did a great job of pointing out that Trump is so desperate for a win that he’s resorted to trying to get people distracted by Black history of all things:
And have these sideshow distractions been successful? Hell no — even the Jan 6th loonies he’s pardoned won’t give Trump a moment to breathe:
In summary, here’s the question I pose to you. Does a $200M legal win at a prestigious Ivy League school that gave up the fight months ago even register as a win with the overwhelming amount of bad press Trump is getting everywhere else? It doesn’t — and that’s the real story.
Columbia University To Pay $200m In Settlement With Trump Administration [BBC News]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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