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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 [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.