So it seems that John Hinderaker, and Bill Ackman are unaware… that Ivy League institutions have not been elected by the people of the United States to provide for the national defense and see that the federal laws are faithfully executed, among other matters.

[Correlatively, the boys seemed to be under the mistaken impression (alternatively), that Donald Trump… has been hired on a simple four year teaching/admin. private contract, to guide a single (reactionary) vision, for the nation’s education of undergraduates.]

This is stoopid with “two ohs”. To wit:

In a scribbling too banal to describe further, both of them equate a $400,000,000 747 jet given as a clear quid pro quo bribe to Donald Trump — at the end of his four years — but for now only, to be held in the hands of the US Department of Defense, to the fact that Qatar funds some programs at elite colleges.

I. Can’t. Even.

I will say this much and then leave it where it lies. For close to four centuries, we have been aware that various private interests fund elite universities and colleges to broaden and enrich the outlook that undergraduates enter the world with. Qatar is one of only hundreds of private funders of universities in the United States. Even if it seeks to have undergraduates see the kingdom in a more favorable light (a fact not yet in evidence) — what exactly is the harm? There are certainly universities that teach isolationism. [Cough! I think one is called Hillside College — a frothy hard right “school” — and John’s favorite.]

On the other hand, Qataris providing a nearly half billion dollar payoff to the man that America elected to keep us all safe from external threats, among many other things… I don’t know… Just seems a little… Dodgy.

And it only violates about 15 federal felony statutes.

So yes, Powerline is insufferably imbecilic in regards almost every take it has offered over the last decade… on any topic related to Tangerine.

Even your boy Mirengoff (and Bill Otis) both know this stinks to high Heaven. Idiot.

Out.