Harvard University has an endowment of $53 billion.
This seems like a significant fact that is oddly missing from almost every news story about the apocalyptic tragedies unfolding daily in the 02138 zip code.
Day after day, the apparatchiks in regime-controlled media make it seem like the deprivation around Brattle Street is only slightly less dire than in the Gaza Strip. You’d think President Trump was bombing Widener Library the way Putin is doing to Kyiv.
All this horror is unfolding, and somehow Harvard is helpless to do anything about it, despite that $53 billion endowment. You know, fiduciary responsibilities, non-profit regulations, illiquid investments blah blah blah…
The latest Harvard sob story appeared this week in the Boston Globe, under this headline:
“Harvard halts plans to give out 100 air conditioners in Boston.”
They’re not talking here about an expensive project like installing central air in 100 large apartment buildings. They were going to install 100 window-model air conditioners, the kind you can order on Amazon for as little as $121.
But let’s say the eggheads sprung for deluxe models — how much could 100 of them have possibly cost? Twenty-five thousand bucks, tops. Okay, throw in the “overhead” that Harvard routinely charges the feds for all its woke programs.
Round the cost off to 100 grand — $1,000 per AC unit that any normal MAGA American would spend $121 on.
It still doesn’t make a dent in… $53 billion.
But that’s not how the Globe sees it.
“As part of its far-reaching assault on the university,” some sob sister typed, “the Trump administration rescinded the money for the project.”
If you went out for a beer with Josh Kraft, you would expect him to buy at least a round, if not pick up the whole tab. And yet Josh “only” made $6.3 million last year.
I feel the same way about Harvard and the air conditioners as I’d feel about Josh Kraft and the bar tab. If they’re so damn worried about the sweltering residents, let them put their $53 billion where their mouth is.
But this was just the most recent Democrat agitprop that’s supposed to make you start weeping the buckets over Harvard.
Remember the monkeys in Pittsburgh that Harvard was going to exterminate because Trump had taken away $75,000? Next came the dogs that were going to be euthanized.
The Democrat nomenklatura figured out that cute laboratory animals were a lot sympathetic than any of the DEI plagiarists at Harvard making a million bucks a year as professional victims. (Think Claudine Gay.)
Thus, The New York Times went all in on the Trump-murders-poor-animals angle.
In April, they found an “expert” at Johns Hopkins: “There are going to be a lot of animals that are going to end up being sacrificed — killed.”
No kidding! That’s what they’re there for, for better or for worse. What do they think that their hero, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was doing with all those beagle puppies in Tunisia?
PETA, of all people, felt compelled to call out Harvard’s nonsense, specifically about the monkeys.
“These monkeys and other animals were never going to leave the laboratories alive,” PETA said in a statement. “Experimenters are just upset they can’t torture them first before killing them.”
The torrent of woe-is-me stories out of Harvard never ends. How about the ancient toenails with fungus that were going to be lost because the researchers could no longer afford to refrigerate them?
Hey, Harvard, take that one up with your governor, Maura Healey. Her ruinous policies are the cause of the 12 percent increase in electric rates, not MAGA voters.
Another allegedly crushing blow to Harvard: Under the new tax law, they’re going to have to pay a tax of as much as 8% on earnings from that One Big Beautiful Endowment of $53 billion.
An 8% tax? Would you like to reduce the tax rate on your income down to 8%, instead of 15 or 20 or 32 percent (plus the state income tax)? Not to mention, Harvard still doesn’t pay property taxes on their multi-billion-dollar portfolio of real estate in Cambridge, Boston and God knows where else.
Incidentally, that cutback in funds for Harvard “heat-related projects” is also creating human misery in, of all places, South Africa, a country that treats white people almost as badly as Harvard does.
According to the Globe, the public-health professors were also planning to “paint the roofs of 32 homes in South Africa white to see if that lowers indoor temperatures.”
Spoiler alert: it does! Why do you think people with dark-colored cars sometimes paint their roofs white? Or perhaps the Ph.D.’s could visit Bermuda and take notes on what color all the house roofs are painted down there, and why.
Better that the Democrat media stick to sob stories about cuddly animals. And sure enough, Trump’s pogrom against pets has now spread beyond the People’s Republic of Cambridge.
On Friday, a day after the Globe’s it’s-not-the-heat-it’s-the-humidity tear jerker, the Washington Post did them one better.
“Trump’s immigration crackdown has led to abandoned pets, crowded shelters.”
You mean, the fentanyl dealers, gangbangers, pedophiles and repeat drunk drivers being rounded up and sent to Alligator Alcatraz don’t care anymore about their pets (which they probably stole) than they do about anything else?
“I don’t know what’s going to happen with all this,” one bed-wetter told the Post, “but I can tell you that the animals are the ones paying the price.”
You know who else is paying the price? Taxpayers, who are stuck with the tab for Joe Biden’s insanity of waving 20 million foreign freeloaders into the country, including the ones who were accused of devouring house pets in Ohio last year.
Whined another worker at a pet shelter in Florida:
“We’re taking in dogs you don’t usually see at shelters — Yorkies, Frenchies — because these families are just gone.”
French bulldogs? Do you know how much they cost? It’s the breed du jour of the Beautiful People — AOC has one. Lady Gaga’s dog walker was mugged in LA during the dognapping of her three Frenchies.
Don’t Democrats always tell us that the illegals were fleeing “economic persecution?” Now we find out while they’ve been living large on welfare, they’ve also been buying designer dogs most Americans can’t afford.
I think Harvard should adopt some of these abandoned French bulldogs and then put them up in apartments — air-conditioned apartments.
Did I mention that Harvard has a $53-billion endowment?
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