The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from
the radical left, and we will do that.
Our secret weapon will be the college accreditation system,
it's called accreditation for a reason.
The accreditors are supposed to ensure that schools are not ripping
off students and taxpayers, but they have failed totally.
When I return to the White House, I will fire the radical left accreditors
that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxists,
maniacs and lunatics.
>> So this is Donald Trump effectively sending a signal to Ron DeSantis, like,
I drink your milkshake, all that stuff that they like you for.
Do you have any idea how easy it is for me to just read the same
lines out of a teleprompter that said, I want to give credit to Donald Trump?
Because he added, in a few little extra authoritarian flourishes.
The accreditation thing was fascinating not only because he stumbled through
the word and then said it's called accreditation for a reason, but
then didn't provide the reason or any reason why he said that,
which makes me believe that he has no idea what that term means.
Did anyone else get that impression?
But he does know enough about it, or at least whoever wrote that speech for him,
Stephen Miller or something, to say that they are going to be arbitrarily
removing or threatening to remove accreditation from major universities
if they don't do insert a thing.
Insert whatever they want in the moment and is this constitutional,
can you do this?
I have no idea neither do they.
But what they do know is that they can threaten to do this and
probably get quite a bit of value out of that, whether or
not they ever end up taking away accreditation.
And here's the thing that might seem like well,
that's the scary part of this speech.
Not really, it actually goes to darker territory, listen to this.
>> Furthermore,
I will direct the Department of Justice to pursue federal civil rights
cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination.
And schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination
under the guise of equity will not only have their endowments taxed,
but through budget reconciliation, I will advance a measure
to have them find up to the entire amount of their endowment.
>> Okay, so he added a little bit of moderately priced vocabulary words on
that, but did you get what he's saying?
If I don't like what they do, if they have affirmative action, if they care
about equity or diversity, we're going to steal their entire endowments.
That is a pretty big threat when you think about how big some of these endowments
are in the literal billions of dollars.
So think about what that means, I mean, can they do that?
It seems insane, how could they possibly do that?
Tons of conservatives have donated to these schools and everything.
It's not about doing that, it's about terrifying universities, terrifying
the boards of universities, terrifying the presidents of universities to think, well,
not only will we lose our accreditation, but
they're going to literally steal billions of dollars from us.
Can they do that?
I don't know, we're living at really fascist times.
I guess we just get rid of our Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion department just in case.
And you know those guest professors we have,
they're kind of outspoken about politics.
We should probably get rid of them just in case because we don't want the government
to steal billions of dollars from us.
That is what they're trying to do here.
And at least to my knowledge, this is way more aggressive,
way more authoritarian and outside of the operating outside of the Constitution than
anything that DeSantis has said.
So this is another reason that I think he has no chance against Donald Trump.
Trump just goes way harder than DeSantis ever would.
What do you think, Jr. >> Yeah,
I've told this story before on Young Turks years ago.
I ran for Treasurer, like in 5th grade, 6th grade or something like that.
And I lost to this friend of mine, he was a good friend of mine actually,
his name is Andrew.
I'm not going to give his last name, but I always remember Andrew went up there and
gave this speech.
This was for Treasurer for Student Council and started reading from this list of
things he's gonna do pre pizza parties on Fridays and then on Thursdays we'll
then have extra extended recess and just went through all these nonsense things.
I was like,
this ten year old kid has absolutely zero authority to do any of these things.
This isn't going to happen, I was sitting back in my chair because I spoken first
and I was like, idiots, they're not gonna vote.
>> [LAUGH] >> And they voted for that craziness.
Guess how many extra pizza parties we got.
Guess how many extended resources we've got?
Zero of all those things but they still voted for them.
That was the fifth grade back in St Louis version of what we've now seen from
Republican politics, except there's the fascist authoritarian version of it.
So we're gonna promise attacking our political opponents further,
which of course, as you've mentioned, Ron DeSantis is doing as well, but
Trump is proposing this for a national scale.
I'm going to go after all these universities because they're so
awoke this entire policy based off of a lack of a real reality that they've
pitched to enough people for a past year.
So now we have this fake problem that we need to have a fake solution for.
But the real attack is then taking folks money or at least threatening to come
after these colleges, universities and their money and their endowments and
accreditations and all these things, which none of those things they'll do.
Remember that wall that he said he's gonna build that you dumb asses voted for
to get him in office and then you didn't do any of that stuff because he
can't to the degree that he's saying he was going to.
Same thing here, but as long as we have the promise of authoritarianism and
fascism in the name of Republican politics,
which who knows what that is anymore?
It's just straight hate, which they're not admitting to now.
Maybe you'll get into office, then maybe they'll come for all of your money too,
when you finally go.
Wait, I think I'm with the bad guys, that's how these types of things work.
But until these folks realize it, we're headed that way, and
it's just gonna go there.
>> Multiple people in the shower like Jerry learned a harsh lesson in fifth
grade politics.
It's all a popularity contest, 100%.
That kid probably, yeah, I don't know if I did in elementary school, I actually ended
up becoming student body vice president to the University of Connecticut.
Although I didn't have to run there was a scandal.
The president was ousted, vice president became president,
I became the new vice president.
>> It was a scandal.
>> Yeah, also, there was other scandals they didn't even know about.
I was kind of dating the current president at that time, so it was corrupt as hell.
Basically, I'm Clarence Thomas.
Anyway, yeah, also that person probably went on to become a right wing grifter
because that's all it is.
You just look out at a group and you say,
what do they desperately wanna hear more than anything else?
And then you think, but wait, what if none of this is true or can't deliver on it?
They don't care?
Okay, well, then I'm just going to tell them what they want, that's what they did.
And so look, we already have a lot of fights on our hands that we have to be
worried about if Trump becomes president again,
here's a whole new battlefield to worry about.
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