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This is why we say, "Do not comply in advance". I don't buy this explanation for one second. Someone stood up the these MAGA-looneys and they're saying this to save face and try to dodge problems in court.
I don’t buy this explanation for one second.
Why would the demands have even been written up in the first place if they hadn't intended to send them?
Well yeah, the article specifically mentioned that Harvard admins saw the demands as excessive and illegal.
Harvard has a lot of clout, and I think it's reasonable to assume that someone very high-up at the school got on the phone with somebody very high-up at WH (if not POTUS himself) and straight up told them a narcissist's least-favorite word: "No."
"I didn't want you to do that anyways." crosses arms
Flip Flop 47 is at it again.
They claim it was a mistake ….. so all the retaliatory funding freezes are cancelled, right? RIGHT?
that they had the 'revised, and more aggressive, set of demands' already written is telling enough.
"Whoops, you weren't meant to see that yet.."
This just screams 'I'm sorry mister Tyson, I didn't mean to punch YOU in the face.'
The MAGA Nazis are so stupid that they think "Sorry, we're incompetent!" is a valid explanation for their evil.
Have not even read the article, but they really are just fucking around and if there is too much pressure they say "whoopsie" to save face, and normalize the atrocities. Doesn't mean they'll stop trying to do the thing.
Fucking maga clowns
So either incomprehensibly incompetent or unimaginably evil. You can pick one, or acknowledge both.
The place that should be held to the highest standard for employment making intern level of mistake daily is also telling how awful these people are at their jobs. Stuff like this would never be able to happen at a regular job and things like this require multiple people to sign off on to make sure mistakes are not made. If they are making mistakes like this, just imagine the stuff we don't see or hear about... yet.
Viewpoint DEI wtf