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You Want to Fuck With Harvard?
Mall Cops Give it a Go
Bill King
Apr 17, 2025
Now youve done it. Youve kicked the hornets nest in Harvard Yard, poked the somber portraits of Adams, Roosevelt, and Kennedy straight in the eye. This isnt just a breach of decorumits a declaration of war on the ghostly congregation of the Dead Presidents Club, that hallowed fraternity of law-bound ghosts who wrote the damn rulebook on American governance.
And here come the grave robbersDonald Trump, that bleached blowhard of borrowed bravado, with his pocket fascists Steven Ghoul School Miller and Pam Mouth of the South Bondi. They strut like vaudeville villains in a Bannon-funded soap opera, thinking they can bulldoze legal tradition with a stolen gavel and a Walmart Bible. Pseudo-Christian Nazi nationalists in ill-fitting suits trying to bend a 390-year arc of justice into a Trump-brand paperclip.
But this isnt a barroom brawl in Boca. This is Harvard Law. And Harvard doesnt forget.
Harvard produces assassins in Armani. Its alumni dont shout; they file. And when they file, they file deepthousands of pro bono legal warriors with nothing to lose and everything to prove. Judges, clerks, scholars, shadow-dwelling appellate tacticians who see the Constitution not as an accessory but as scripture. They're the kind of people who cite footnotes like theyre firing bullets.
These are the quiet ones. The ones who show up at 7 a.m. with briefs in hand and no intention of letting go until the shackles are tight and the sentence has echo.
Trump and his croniesthese hall-of-shame populistsmistake noise for power. But real power doesnt yell. It litigates. It outlasts. It waits in chambers, in rows of mahogany and leather, until the storm collapses from the weight of its own fraudulence.
Harvard wont blink. Harvard wont back down. And Harvard sure as hell wont bow to three grifters with God complexes and delusions of tyranny. There's a reason Veritas is carved in stone. Because truthreal truthdoesnt need a campaign rally or a gold-plated toilet. It needs a courtroom, a file number, and a judge who knows better.
So go ahead, grave diggers. Keep pushing. The noose isnt made of ropeits made of precedent. And its tightening.
https://billkingpiano.substack.com/p/you-want-to-fuck-with-harvard

BoRaGard
(4,988 posts)
Nicely said
Bernardo de La Paz
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(26,508 posts)malaise
(283,038 posts)Donald Trump, that bleached blowhard of borrowed bravado, with his pocket fascists Steven Ghoul School Miller and Pam Mouth of the South Bondi. They strut like vaudeville villains in a Bannon-funded soap opera😂😀😂
Paladin
(30,148 posts)Way too much superb content for me to even pick a favorite line. It's all good...
But I think he left out one word, in his description of Pam, "Foul" Mouth of the South, Bondi".
I don't know who Bill King is, but he nailed it.! Thank you, mia, for sharing his op ed with us!
Vinca
(51,903 posts)I thought Harlan Ellison had died!
NoMoreRepugs
(11,209 posts)it was on pay per view.
orangecrush
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