Anonymous ID: a4c59c May 3, 2024, 10:55 a.m. No.20814697   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4717

Mark Hamil gushing over Biden at the White House press conference. Ridiculous level of desperation.

Referring to Biden:

"It just shows you that one person can be so influential, and so positive in our lives"

Anonymous ID: a4c59c May 3, 2024, 10:59 a.m. No.20814715   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4719 >>5094

Jean-Pierre: In the coming weeks, [Biden] will take executive action in response to the global crackdown on press freedom, declare it a grave threat to national security, and authorize measures including sanctions and visas bans against those who attempt to silence the press.

Anonymous ID: a4c59c May 3, 2024, 11:17 a.m. No.20814772   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4779 >>5094 >>5373

Reporter: What was Mark Hamil doing here today?

Jean-Pierre: We wanted to make sure he provided; which is one of the reasons he spoke to why he was here himself. He wanted to meet with [Biden]. They had a meeting.

Reporter: About what?

Jean-Pierre: You guys asked him questions. Uh, uh, uh, uh. They had a meeting about what [Biden] has been able to do on behalf of the American people. Mark Hamil was in town. They met. I think it was important, as someone; uh, you all know Mark Hamil. He is someone who is very much invested in our country. Very much invested in the direction of this country. And so they had a meeting…we thought it would be fun for him to come out here and lighten up the room a little big on a Friday.

[very much invested, profiting in, the democrats destroying America?]

Anonymous ID: a4c59c May 3, 2024, 11:43 a.m. No.20814881   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5094

Reporter: [Biden] says that he wants to let the Trump Tax Cuts expire. If that law expires, it does raise taxes on almost every American, so does he still support that expiring without anything else in place?

Jean-Pierre: So look, uh, as you said, [Biden] is going to, uh, allow, uh, is going to, is, is, is, is going to let the Trump Tax Cut expire, and he was very clear, but he will not raise taxes on anyone making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year..it;s going to expire for the wealthy.

Reporter: [Biden] can pick and choose which part of the law sunsets. The entire law will sunset…someone who is married, two kids, making eighty-five thousand, would pay seventeen hundred dollars more in taxes. That's somebody under four hundred thousand dollars.

Jean-Pierre: [Biden] has been very clear; he's going to protect working and middle-class Americans making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year.

Anonymous ID: a4c59c May 3, 2024, 12:08 p.m. No.20815010   🗄️.is đź”—kun

CHICAGO: "The University has determined that the pro-Palestine encampment on the main quad is substantially disrupting the functioning and safety of the University, according to an email sent to the University community by President Paul Alivisatos.

“As I wrote on Monday, out of principle we provide the greatest leeway possible for free expression, even expression of viewpoints that some find deeply offensive, even in rare cases at the expense of some policy violations, for a time,” Alivisatos wrote in the email. “But the encampment cannot continue.”

Alivisatos cited the disruption of classes, vandalism of University property, destruction of approved student installations, and the raising of the Palestinian flag on the main quad flagpole as reasons for escalating the University’s position.

“The encampment has created systematic disruption of campus. Protesters are monopolizing areas of the Main Quad at the expense of other members of our community. Clear violations of policies have only increased. Our students have issued a torrent of reports of disrupted classroom learning,” Alivisatos wrote.

In a statement to the Maroon, Faculty for Justice in Palestine responded to the email.

“FJP condemns President Alivisatos’ statement in the strongest possible terms,” the statement said. “The administration has not negotiated in good faith with our students, offering them absolutely nothing in hastily arranged meetings. In light of the brutal police repression of students, faculty and staff across the country, threatening to forcefully dismantle the encampment is a serious escalation.”

 

https://chicagomaroon.com/42757/news/president-alivisatos-encampment-cannot-continue/