Trump Unmasks Columbia
Earlier this month, President Trump pulled $400 million in funding from Columbia University as punishment for its failure to protect Jewish students during last year's pro-Palestinian protests. The campus became ground zero for antisemitic threats and violence, empowering the ad hoc leadership of Mahmoud Khalil to preach and promote his anger against Israel. Trump and company are still attempting to unravel the Khalil mess.
However, the good news for Jewish students came when the school’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, updated Columbia’s policies days ago, stating its newfound commitment to restoring order and protecting students. It’s all about the Benjamins. The Ivy League institution also agreed to ban masks on campus and add more officers to its security team to keep track of the haters, who Armstrong said will face a tougher disciplinary policy.
“This past year has been one of enormous progress, where our community of thoughtful faculty, students, and stakeholders has shaped a principled and methodical approach to meeting the moment’s challenges,” Armstrong preened in a statement.
The ridiculousness peaked in the spring of 2024 during the takeover of Hamilton Hall – where a university employee was purportedly held hostage.
But it’s all copacetic now, right? Benny David of Minneapolis quoted Ice Cube to get his point across: “Bow down when I come to your town.”
Chasing Machismo
Former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has a weird history of faking machismo, from flubbing a staged hunting video when he couldn’t figure out how to load the shells to changing an oil filter that was clearly brand new. But he really did it this time while appearing on Gavin Newsom’s podcast.
“I think I could kick most of their ass. I do think that,” Walz said about Trump supporters before adding that he could at least “outrun” them. As Randy Stine said, “We’ll give him a head start.”
Walz should have stopped right there, but like many politicians, he seems to have the right to remain silent but not the ability. And so his attempts at bravado continued: “I don’t know if we’re going to fall into that place where we want to, okay, we challenge you to do a, you know, a WWE fight here type of thing here.” Oh, big oops, Mr. Tim.
(Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images) Glenn "Kane" Jacobs
Of course, Trump had to comment, saying Walz would “be in trouble” if he had to fight Trump supporters. “Well, he’s a loser, you know? I mean, the guy’s a loser.”
Most From the Back Forty folks could probably take the guy. But when Mayor Glenn Jacobs of Tennessee’s Knox County publicly challenged Tim Walz to a charity wrestling match, there was an instant chorus of snorts by happy heartlanders. Jacobs may be a Republican mayor today, but he hasn’t always been in politics. The seven-foot-tall behemoth of a man was once a WWE wrestler.
Does anyone else want to Pay Per View this matchup? In Colony, OK, Natalie Maggard Mitchell would pay to watch: “I do not care for wrestling but I would watch this.”
Walz continued on Newsom’s podcast: “I think some of us scare them. I think I scare them a little bit, is why they spend so much time on me. No, I'm serious – because I can fix a truck. And I'm not putting this in people's grill. I don't know if ... my identity is not hunting. My identity is not football coaching. My identity is not, you know, a beard and a truck.”
In Pinola, MS, James Savell was serious when he asked: “Was Tim Walz born a dip head, or did he slowly evolve into it?”
Jacobs has a ring name, “Kane.” We all remember Tim’s ring name, which included a reference to women’s hygiene products.
And finally, a huge shout out to RedState for coming up with this descriptive prose: “It's as if Walz was created in a lab by new DNC Vice Chair David Hogg to be the worst politician imaginable.”
Chuck Schumer Can’t Get No Respect
Chuck Schumer is probably glad his work was over on Friday. He had to hold his nose and vote for the GOP's continuing resolution to keep the federal government open for business. Colleagues were irked that he did something sane in a time of insanity, and a bunch of progressive Gen Zers sent the man a nasty gram.
The Sunrise Movement, College Democrats of America, United We Dream Action, and Voters of Tomorrow delivered a letter to the gentleman from New York. “Chuck Schumer, your leadership is failing to meet the moment. Your decision — along with nine other Senate Democrats — to cave and support the MAGA budget bill is just the latest example of how you and other Democratic leaders are driving young people away from the Democratic Party.”
The angst-ridden youngsters strongly encouraged the 74-year-old Schumer to use a more “confrontational” strategy against Trump and MAGA or step down from his leadership post. Mike Koberlein in Arkansas was not throwing a pity party: “Couldn't happen to a better person. Hopefully, he will be ousted by his own party. The thought of being just another senator is his worst nightmare. As the media has stated, the most dangerous place you can be is between Chuck Schumer and a camera.”
And then to sting with another zinger, Donna Snyder Catron, an RV traveling grandma from Missouri, felt compelled to remind Chuck of his own recent words: “Remember Chuckie, ‘they have seven ways to Sunday to get you.’”
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