Cops Clear Columbia Cosplay, The Federal Financial Aid Fiasco, Biden Mulls Gaza Refugees
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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First, they cheer the NYPD for declaring the occupation of a Columbia University academic building to be a riot and arresting dozens of trespassing radicals. But they also get a lot of laughs out of the demonstrators' earlier, convoluted demands that the university provide or allow "humanitarian aid" - meaning food and water - as they illegally controlled the building.
Next, Jim sounds off as the U.S. Department of Education failed repeatedly to allow high school seniors to file their Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms in a timely manner and are now delaying critical financial aid information. The website was unusable for months after it was promised to be functioning and one major glitch was not fixed until yesterday. They also discuss how this is yet another area in which the federal government has no business being in charge and makes life much tougher for Americans.
Finally, they fume as President Biden reportedly considers allowing refugees from Gaza to enter the United States, even though no Middle East country is willing to take in these people and the vast majority of people in Gaza hate the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:04.6 | Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:09.4 | Three Martini's coming up. |
| 0:11.8 | Hey, really glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:17.0 | We've got a double-barreled good Martini from the campus of Columbia University, which was certainly not what we expected at this time yesterday, |
| 0:25.1 | but we also have a bad martini in terms of more government dysfunction, and another really |
| 0:31.0 | bad and crazy martini if the Biden administration actually follows through on what reports are suggesting they might do. |
| 0:37.6 | So when we last left you, the administrators at Columbia University had completely buckled to the protesters. |
| 0:44.6 | The 2 PM deadline to end the encampment on Monday came and went. |
| 0:48.2 | And then the demonstrators took over a building, an academic building on campus, barricaded themselves inside, possibly briefly |
| 0:56.0 | taking hostages. |
| 0:57.6 | We don't know if that turned out to be true or not. |
| 0:59.9 | I hope not. |
| 1:01.2 | Then it got more bizarre before it got good, but part of this bizarre |
| 1:04.8 | twist is also good because people might think in general, oh these kids, they go to an |
| 1:10.0 | elite university, they're deep thinkers, they believe in their cause. |
| 1:14.1 | No, they're ridiculous people. |
| 1:16.0 | Here is what happened yesterday afternoon, |
| 1:18.8 | this woman named Johanna King Slutski, |
| 1:21.3 | who is also a paid instructor at Columbia University |
| 1:25.8 | while she's getting her dissertation in I kid you not this is the description. |
| 1:31.3 | My dissertation is on the fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic romantic imagination from 1760 to 1860. |
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