Liberty Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

[Neonmoon 38127]

14 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

It's Bud Brigham's baby.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/bud-brigham-liberty-institute-university-texas/

Bud Brigham is a chode. 

[bolverk 29402]

This whole thing stinks:

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS CONSIDERING 'PRO-LIFE EVANGELICAL' TO RUN 'LIBERTYINSTITUTE'

University of Texas officials are considering Justin Dyer, a
professor of political science at the University of Missouri and a
self-described "pro-life evangelical" who has drawn links between
court cases addressing abortion and slavery, to be the inaugural
director of its conservative think tank championed by state Republican
leaders.

Dyer will interview for the job next week, according to an email
sent to UT government graduate students and obtained by the
American-Statesman. It is unclear whether any other candidates are
being considered for the position. 

The institute, which is still in development, does not yet have an
official name (though it is commonly referred to as the Liberty
Institute), mission or governance structure, but it will be modeled
after the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the
philosophy, politics and economics department at Oxford University,
according to UT’s website.

According to a January job posting, which has since been taken down,
the director of the institute will be responsible for "developing the
vision and strategy for the institute and facilitating research and
educational efforts to support the institute’s goals."

Multiple students and faculty members have expressed concern about a
lack of transparency behind the development of the institute and
statements by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick about it. Last month, Patrick
appeared to link the institute to a proposal to ban critical race
theory in Texas universities — but later backtracked from the
implied connection.

MORE: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledges to end tenure for new hires at
Texas public universities

Spoiler

Some graduate students continued to raise questions last week about
the funding behind the institute, Dyer’s candidacy and the
process of potentially granting him tenure.

During a meeting with graduate students Friday, Daniel Brinks, chair
of UT’s government department, suggested that donors had mentioned
Dyer's name to lead the institute and discussed the potential
ramifications if Dyer isn't offered tenure, according to a recording
of the meeting obtained by the Statesman.

UT spokesperson J.B. Bird said UT doesn't comment on job candidates,
but all names considered by the search committee for the position to
lead the institute were initially suggested by tenured faculty
members on the committee, and the committee was unanimous in its final
recommendations.

ABORTION, SLAVERY ANALOGIES

Dyer received a bachelor's degree and a master's in public
administration from the University of Oklahoma and a master's
degree and a Ph.D. in government at UT. Dyer focuses on teaching and
research in political philosophy and natural law and oversees the
Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at Missouri,
which teaches about the U.S. Constitution and democracy.

In a 2017 op-ed in the Columbia Missourian celebrating free inquiry on
Missouri's campus, Dyer described himself as a "conservative, straight
out of central casting, a pro-life evangelical who is an unapologetic
admirer of the American Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution."

The article was co-written with the associate director of the Kinder
Institute, who describes himself as "an enthusiastic Bernie Sanders
supporter."

Dyer also has published multiple articles about the legal connections
between court decisions involving slavery and abortion, including a
book in 2013 titled "Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of
Constitutional Meaning" and an article titled "What’s the
Difference Between Abortion and Infanticide?"

MORE: Texas Supreme Court rules against abortion providers, closing
'last back door' to block  six-week ban

In the book, Dyer writes that past analogies between slavery and
abortion are complex, but he ultimately agrees that two U.S. Supreme
Court cases, Roe v. Wade and Dred Scott v. Sandford, are similar
because they both exclude certain human beings — fetuses and slaves,
respectively — from being defined as people.

"It is here, within the discussion of the constitutional definition of
personhood, that we find a true resemblance between Roe and Dred
Scott, for each case the Court excluded some natural human beings from
the community of constitutional persons," Dyer wrote.

In Dred Scott v. Sandford, decided in 1857, the Supreme Court ruled
that African Americans were not citizens of the United States, and
legal scholars largely consider it the worst decision ever made by the
court. In Roe v. Wade, the court established the constitutional right
to an abortion in 1973.

Dyer also draws parallels between abortion and infanticide, writing,
"If human beings are equal in a fundamental moral sense, and if human
beings really are endowed with certain inalienable rights, then
killing in abortion cannot so easily be distinguished from killing in
other circumstances."

MORE: Demand for abortion pills in Texas surged after new law took
effect, study finds

Dyer did not respond to a request for comment.

THE NEW INSTITUTE

The institute initially was championed by Patrick and private donors
as a way to bring "intellectual diversity" to UT. The Legislature
approved $6 million last year to establish the institute, and the UT
System Board of Regents matched the funding. 

In February, a tweet from Patrick seemed to imply that the institute
had been created to ban the teaching of critical race theory — a
framework to study the legacy of slavery and racism in American
society — which led to intense pushback from the UT faculty. He
later clarified in a news conference that the institute was needed to
teach courses on topics such as the founding principles and values of
the U.S. and had "nothing to do" with critical race theory.

UT President Jay Hartzell said during a Faculty Council meeting last
week that "the institute is not designed in any way and will not do
anything to shut down points of view or shut down speech."

MORE: University of Texas receives low ranking from free speech
non-profit for campus climate

Hartzell also told the Faculty Council that a committee comprising
mostly UT faculty members, as well as "outside supporters," is
advising him on the search for the center’s director, but the
outside supporters aren't going to shape debates over the
candidate's "academic home as a professor and their ultimate tenure
home."

"This is the way we do other institutes and centers around campus
where there might be a group that advises or supports that center, and
they will be weighing in in some way but don't have the ultimate
authority about the appointment of the center director," Hartzell
said.

Hartzell said that there will be no "political litmus test" for the
new director of the institute but that the director will need to have
expertise in topics such as the study of free markets. 

"Part of what I'll be looking for when I end up making that (director)
appointment is somebody who supports diversity of thought and ideas
and points of view (and) has a track record of doing so," Hartzell
said. "(And) is not one who quashes things or is uniform of mind and
only has one particular bent to what they've supported."

QUESTIONS ABOUT INSTITUTE, HIRING

During the meeting with UT students on Friday, Brinks said UT likes
Dyer for the job because he has done a similar job at Missouri, where
he raised "$15 million from donors" and created the Kinder
Institute, which is named after two Houston philanthropists who
donated to the institute.

He said while donors are not making the final hiring decisions about
who will lead the institute, he had heard that they suggested
Dyer’s name. 

"What I've heard is that Justin set up his institute with money from
very wealthy people in Texas," Brinks said. "And so when donors were
talking about who we could (get for) this position, Justin's name came
up ... so he's somebody that they've been thinking about for a long
time."

But when asked by the Statesman about his remarks after the
meeting, Brinks said he didn't think Dyer's name was first proposed
by donors. UT spokesperson J.B. Bird said the name was first suggested
by faculty members on the search committee.

MORE: Amid funding cuts at UT, Legislature directs $6 million for
conservative Liberty Institute

Bird said the search committee, which is composed of five tenured
faculty members and two alumni, was responsible for recommending
“the strongest candidate or candidates” to the president and
“the appropriate tenure home or homes.”

After the president approves a candidate, Bird said the committee
recommends the candidate to the appropriate department, and the
department determines whether the candidate’s record merits tenure.

Brinks told students that the search committee "picked Justin," and
did not mention any other candidates for the position during the
nearly 90-minute meeting. Brinks later told the Statesman that he
wasn't in a position to know whether there were any other candidates.

Brinks told students that Hartzell is now asking officials in the
government department whether they would consider giving Dyer tenure.
He said it wouldn't be unusual to hire Dyer as a full professor with
tenure at UT, and he would be "fully vetted" through the government
department's tenure process.

"If we decide we want to make an offer ... we will get letters from
outside people who say if he does or he doesn't deserve tenure, and
then the college's promotion and tenure committee will need to
consider his file and decide whether he does or doesn't deserve tenure
in the college," Brinks said. "And then we will make a recommendation
to the president."

But if Dyer isn't offered tenure, Brinks said he might not come to UT
to lead "one of the president's pet projects," and there could also
be backlash from Patrick, who said last month that he plans to propose
ending tenure for new hires at Texas public universities during the
next legislative session.

"If we denied him tenure, I think people like Dan Patrick and others
would say, ‘See, this is why you can't work with professors, and
(the Legislature) should just do it on our own and (the Legislature)
shouldn't ask (faculty) for permission to do it,’” Brinks said.

Brinks also told students that he received assurances in a meeting
with Hartzell, UT Provost Sharon Wood and Ann Stevens, dean of UT’s

College of Liberal Arts, that the money to hire Dyer wouldn’t be
replacing the funding for future faculty hires, including those who
do work in similar fields, such as public law or theory.

[mchookem 16224]

[Bama Chick 28596]

Yeah but CRT!!!!!!

[Satchel 6908]

The first tranche of job apps from Liberty and Bob Jones should be hitting the UT portal shortly.

[Hookah Horns 3082]

First I'm hearing about this abomination. What happens at a "conservative think tank" these days - do they just dream up new ways to own the libs with culture war bullshit?

Also, I wouldn't think there are a lot of people getting into UT who don't understand liberty. 

[Satchel 6908]

2 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

First I'm hearing about this abomination. What happens at a "conservative think tank" these days - do they just dream up new ways to own the libs with culture war bullshit?

Also, I wouldn't think there are a lot of people getting into UT who don't understand liberty. 

Well, something has to be done to truly make UT a Sec school.

[tx 3 putt 76400]

1. fuck dan patrick all the way back to his home state

2. move this trash to college station where it belongs

3. hook'em 

Edited March 30, 2022 by tx 3 putt

[Biff Tannen 45499]

This is some bullshit man.

[Guest Lobo]

Ah shit.  The Salem Center was doing just fine with hosting events that were free-market/libertarian leaning.  Shit, we got George Will coming next month.  But nope, they had to double down to adhere to a handful of former regents, just like the Dan patrick CRT/non-tenure bullshit.   This thing is getting wore than I thought and it's in conjunection with University of Austin.    I don't wanna get the site in trouble, so somebody be cool and let one of the local stupids get credit for running me off.  Strugglebus or moby Ric seems like they need a victory in an otherwise sad existence.  

[RDCanecutter 26282]

6 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

First I'm hearing about this abomination. What happens at a "conservative think tank" these days - do they just dream up new ways to own the libs with culture war bullshit?

Also, I wouldn't think there are a lot of people getting into UT who don't understand liberty. 

Lots of guys wearing tweed suits and bowties sitting around a side-room in someone's Georgian mansion decorated with fox-hunting prints and a piano that nobody knows how to play.

Then when the photo op is over they change back into golf shirts and khakis and go yell flirtatiously at the server in Hooters until Skyler McCharleston Jones IV palms her ass and they all end up wearing a pitcher of beer, and banned, again.

[TurkeyChew 383]

1 minute ago, RDCanecutter said:

Lots of guys wearing tweed suits and bowties sitting around a side-room in someone's Georgian mansion decorated with fox-hunting prints and a piano that nobody knows how to play.

Then when the photo op is over they change back into golf shirts and khakis and go yell flirtatiously at the server in Hooters until Skyler McCharleston Jones IV palms her ass and they all end up wearing a pitcher of beer, and banned, again.

Like this?

[RDCanecutter 26282]

1 minute ago, TurkeyChew said:

Like this?

Finger sandwich? 

No, Bert Gurney definitely knew how to play a piano. That's pure art faculty lounge circa 1952 where everybody got tenure on a handshake and they'd discuss the dialectic or dames, because, of course, they totally love dames.

Their right-wing counterparts from that epoch would be in a smoky bar talking like Mickey Spillane characters. Except for the sweaty nervous Goldwater types. Too given to egghead-isms, those birds.

[TurkeyChew 383]

Just now, RDCanecutter said:

Finger sandwich? 

No, Bert Gurney definitely knew how to play a piano. That's pure art faculty lounge circa 1952 where everybody got tenure on a handshake and they'd discuss the dialectic or dames, because, of course, they totally love dames.

Their right-wing counterparts from that epoch would be in a smoky bar talking like Mickey Spillane characters. Except for the sweaty nervous Goldwater types. Too given to egghead-isms, those birds.

I'd pay to listen to you talk. Ever thought of doing a one-man show?

[RDCanecutter 26282]

3 minutes ago, TurkeyChew said:

I'd pay to listen to you talk. Ever thought of doing a one-man show?

In real life I pretty much stick to a Slingblade mumble.

[Guest Lobo]

So we can pay you in french fried 'taters 'n mustard?  

[RDCanecutter 26282]

7 hours ago, Lobo said:

So we can pay you in french fried 'taters 'n mustard?  

MmmmMmmmmmmmm.

[chainsaw 9838]

Trouble in paradise?

 

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/08/ut-austin-professors-liberty-institute/

 

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University of Texas at Austin finance professor Richard Lowery was emailing with a colleague in London last November when he was asked if it was true that the so-called “Liberty Institute failed to launch.”

Quote

Lowery replied that the failure-to-launch rumor was “100% accurate.”

“We’re in the Weekend-at-Bernie’s phase of the Liberty Institute life cycle,” he wrote, referring to the 1989 movie about two coworkers pretending their murdered boss is still alive to continue their weekend vacation.

Quote

Those professors, Lowery and Carlos Carvalho, say they are unhappy with the hiring process and worry about what they view as a lack of independence from the liberal-leaning faculty as a whole. And they accuse UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell and Richard Flores, deputy to the president for academic strategies, of backing off the agreed-upon proposal developed with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and conservative donors.

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In faculty council meetings and on its website, the university has insisted the center — which they originally called The Liberty Institute until they were notified they could not legally call it that name — would help support and attract faculty. And university officials have given no public sign that their vision has changed.

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“I completely realize that this has been a roller-coaster year for you, more for you than anybody. I know it has been hard, and I know it is hard right now,” Crow said. “Of course, I don’t know how this Liberty Institute will turn out. I don’t even know if it will happen. My main priority is that it will happen. If it happens and if it is possible for you to have a meaningful role in it, that would be terrific.”

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In late March, UT-Austin business professor Brian Roberts mentioned in an email to Carvalho that the university was bringing University of Missouri professor Justin Dyer to interview for the position. Dyer, who holds a doctorate from UT-Austin, is a self-described “pro-life evangelical.”

“Justin is a good guy, but I don’t think he has the needed prominence to make this institution a reality,” Carvalho said. “I am also very disappointed by the lack of a proper national search for a director. We could have done a lot better!! Jay Hartzell likes people he can control, not top scholars!”

 

Translation: too aggy

 

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Dyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

So that's how that's going, in case anyone was wondering.

[elfenix 34171]

awww conservatives might not get their safe space

[The Original Greaser Bob 2799]

On 9/2/2021 at 11:43 AM, elfenix said:

I think you're giving the Hoover institution far too much credit. The whole point of the thing is to give intellectual cover to climate change denial and other bullshit.
 

I worked at the Hoover as an undergrad.  This is a pretty astute comment.  When I was there, Thomas Sowell was the wackiest they were, now they have anti-vaxers.  I think the key is less in the name but the "intellectual cover" mentioned above.  People just seem to be willing to suffer fools a whole lot more these days.  And I'll even throw in some both sides-ism in there as well.

[Chad Fuck 17566]

1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

Trouble in paradise?

 

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/08/ut-austin-professors-liberty-institute/

 

 

Translation: too aggy

 

 

So that's how that's going, in case anyone was wondering.

I was wondering if my UT degrees were going to be associated with toilet paper.  I'm sure it's not over, but at least its set back.

The history of Texas pols attacking the University is a long and sordid tale almost as old as the University itself.  

[StassneyHorn 6540]

I choose to believe Liberty Institute seppoku'd after a Lobo filibuster.

[tx 3 putt 76400]

2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

I choose to believe Liberty Institute seppoku'd after a Lobo filibuster.

it's all starting to make sense 

 

[Felix 599]

I have nothing to add except that I played softball against Dr. Brian Roberts years ago in various city leagues and that big, goofy, bucket hat wearing dude could hit the ball out of any of the Krieg fields any time he wanted to.  You never know by looking at him, but dude could swing it.

[atomheartbevo 89449]

7 hours ago, elfenix said:

awww conservatives might not get their safe space

They still have it.  Maybe, haven't looked into it lately.

 

[C-Man 27058]

8 hours ago, chainsaw said:

Trouble in paradise?

 

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/08/ut-austin-professors-liberty-institute/

 

 

Translation: too aggy

 

 

So that's how that's going, in case anyone was wondering.

[mchookem 16224]

[bolverk 29402]

They've selected a new name "The Civitas Institute" and a director who starts on July 1.

The Civitas Institute will focus on areas including “constitutionalism, limited government, free enterprise and markets, and individual liberty.”

In an op-ed in the Columbia Missourian, Dyer described himself as “a conservative, straight out of central casting, a pro-life evangelical who is an unapologetic admirer of the American Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution.” Dyer is the author of the book “Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning,” in which he draws legal connections between slavery and abortion, arguing that Roe v. Wade denies personhood to fetuses the same way the Dred Scott v. Sandford denied personhood to Black people.

[Chad Fuck 17566]

15 minutes ago, bolverk said:

They've selected a new name "The Civitas Institute" and a director who starts on July 1.

The Civitas Institute will focus on areas including “constitutionalism, limited government, free enterprise and markets, and individual liberty.”

In an op-ed in the Columbia Missourian, Dyer described himself as “a conservative, straight out of central casting, a pro-life evangelical who is an unapologetic admirer of the American Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution.” Dyer is the author of the book “Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning,” in which he draws legal connections between slavery and abortion, arguing that Roe v. Wade denies personhood to fetuses the same way the Dred Scott v. Sandford denied personhood to Black people.

 

 

Edited June 15, 2022 by Chad Fuck

[Hefeweizen 5307]

Lol at UT careening toward lower tier status as fast as it can.  This kind of shit is why my daughter wouldn’t consider the school my father, my wife, and I all graduated from.  Oh well at least our football team will be awesome, right?

[wildcat09 29258]

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

They've selected a new name "The Civitas Institute" and a director who starts on July 1.

The Civitas Institute will focus on areas including “constitutionalism, limited government, free enterprise and markets, and individual liberty.”

In an op-ed in the Columbia Missourian, Dyer described himself as “a conservative, straight out of central casting, a pro-life evangelical who is an unapologetic admirer of the American Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution.” Dyer is the author of the book “Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning,” in which he draws legal connections between slavery and abortion, arguing that Roe v. Wade denies personhood to fetuses the same way the Dred Scott v. Sandford denied personhood to Black people.

That's some of the saddest shit I've ever read.

[ConferenceRoom 6130]

5 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

Oh well at least our football team will be awesome, right?

[RomaVicta 29794]

27 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Dyer described himself as “a conservative, straight out of central casting, a pro-life evangelical who is an unapologetic admirer of the American Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution.” Dyer is the author of the book “Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning,” in which he draws legal connections between slavery and abortion, arguing that Roe v. Wade denies personhood to fetuses the same way the Dred Scott v. Sandford denied personhood to Black people.

I don't remember discussing much at UT about abortion, the Second Amendment, or a person's religion in my classes. 

This whole stupid thing is generated by the hate engine's jihad against education and false claims that universities are pushing socialism. I'm sure the business school, engineering schools, science schools, and school of communications are turning out wild-eyed, evangelical socialist by the ton.

The idiot supporting this institute must agree with the notion that Liberal Arts teaches people to be liberals. 

The University of Texas is making decisions based on politically slanted misperceptions. University of the first class? The political mob in Texas are hostile to learning, thinking, and intellectualism in general. 

Goodbye to Texas University. So long to the orange and the whi-i-te.

 

[Blotto 23434]

47 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

Oh well at least our football team will be awesome, right?

any year now.

 

15 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Goodbye to Texas University. So long to the orange and the whi-i-te.

Well if Hartzell et al are going to let the Dan Patrick's of the world influence our academic mission, the university can say goodbye to any more of my money. 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20344]

Need to get that crypto billionaire who is sponsoring liberal causes to create a counter Veritas institute or something.

[Satchel 6908]

1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

I don't remember discussing much at UT about abortion, the Second Amendment, or a person's religion in my classes. 

This whole stupid thing is generated by the hate engine's jihad against education and false claims that universities are pushing socialism. I'm sure the business school, engineering schools, science schools, and school of communications are turning out wild-eyed, evangelical socialist by the ton.

The idiot supporting this institute must agree with the notion that Liberal Arts teaches people to be liberals. 

The University of Texas is making decisions based on politically slanted misperceptions. University of the first class? The political mob in Texas are hostile to learning, thinking, and intellectualism in general. 

Goodbye to Texas University. So long to the orange and the whi-i-te.

 

The state doesn’t need two aggys.

[RomaVicta 29794]

15 minutes ago, Satchel said:

The state doesn’t need two aggys.

Rick Perry and Clayton Williams were plenty. 

[Satchel 6908]

12 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Rick Perry and Clayton Williams were plenty. 

I mean two aggy like schools. (Three, if you count Tech}

[SydneyCarton 47884]

2 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

Lol at UT careening toward lower tier status as fast as it can.  This kind of shit is why my daughter wouldn’t consider the school my father, my wife, and I all graduated from.  Oh well at least our football team will be awesome, right?

The sad truth is that it's still trying hard, and for the most part succeeding, to stay above this shit and be a fact-first educational institution. This piece of shit group was forced onto UT by the fucking governor and his cronies. 

[ultimaton 2966]

1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Need to get that crypto billionaire who is sponsoring liberal causes to create a counter Veritas institute or something.

I think he's probably a thousandaire now

[Neonmoon 38127]

4 hours ago, bolverk said:

The Civitas Institute will focus on areas including “constitutionalism, limited government, free enterprise and markets, and individual liberty.”

[mchookem 16224]

[sidis 9754]

4 hours ago, bolverk said:

The Civitas Institute will focus on areas including “constitutionalism, limited government, free enterprise and markets, and individual liberty.”

one has to appreciate the irony of this given that its entire existence is being forced upon the university by and to assuage the texas state government leadership like dade phelan, greg abbott, and dan patrick.

it's not particularly delicious irony, but there it is.

[C-Man 27058]

[elfenix 34171]

4 hours ago, bolverk said:

“constitutionalism, limited government, free enterprise and markets, and individual liberty.”

buzzword conservatism

[Brisketexan 104628]

So…..I was having lunch by myself downtown the other day (had a quick break, needed to grab something healthy). And I think because I was sitting by myself, reading my phone, the table next to me acted like I wasn’t there. It was occupied by two people somehow affiliated with the Texas Public Policy Foundation (super-conservative think tank), and the Liberty Institute was the subject of their talk/planning session. They discussed the new director…..who lots of them don’t like because he’s not conservative batshitty ENOUGH. And they talked about the name change. But the big takeway was their open discussion that this whole scheme is part of a long game to force out Hartzell (he’s a libtard according to them) and totally flip the BOR to being full MAGA. Now, they were commenting that the goal was perhaps unrealistic, and would take a long time. But make no mistake, this initiative is about turning UT into the University of MAGA, controlled by the TPPF.

[DixonHur 11227]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So…..I was having lunch by myself downtown the other day (had a quick break, needed to grab something healthy). And I think because I was sitting by myself, reading my phone, the table next to me acted like I wasn’t there. It was occupied by two people somehow affiliated with the Texas Public Policy Foundation (super-conservative think tank), and the Liberty Institute was the subject of their talk/planning session. They discussed the new director…..who lots of them don’t like because he’s not conservative batshitty ENOUGH. And they talked about the name change. But the big takeway was their open discussion that this whole scheme is part of a long game to force out Hartzell (he’s a libtard according to them) and totally flip the BOR to being full MAGA. Now, they were commenting that the goal was perhaps unrealistic, and would take a long time. But make no mistake, this initiative is about turning UT into the University of MAGA, controlled by the TPPF.

Hope you were able to keep your lunch down.

[mchookem 16224]

5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So…..I was having lunch by myself downtown the other day (had a quick break, needed to grab something healthy). And I think because I was sitting by myself, reading my phone, the table next to me acted like I wasn’t there. It was occupied by two people somehow affiliated with the Texas Public Policy Foundation (super-conservative think tank), and the Liberty Institute was the subject of their talk/planning session. They discussed the new director…..who lots of them don’t like because he’s not conservative batshitty ENOUGH. And they talked about the name change. But the big takeway was their open discussion that this whole scheme is part of a long game to force out Hartzell (he’s a libtard according to them) and totally flip the BOR to being full MAGA. Now, they were commenting that the goal was perhaps unrealistic, and would take a long time. But make no mistake, this initiative is about turning UT into the University of MAGA, controlled by the TPPF.

i hate you

 

 

 

 

 

 

(not really lol...but MOTHERFUCKER!! 🤬)

[Longhorn_Fan68 33843]

9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So…..I was having lunch by myself downtown the other day (had a quick break, needed to grab something healthy). And I think because I was sitting by myself, reading my phone, the table next to me acted like I wasn’t there. It was occupied by two people somehow affiliated with the Texas Public Policy Foundation (super-conservative think tank), and the Liberty Institute was the subject of their talk/planning session. They discussed the new director…..who lots of them don’t like because he’s not conservative batshitty ENOUGH. And they talked about the name change. But the big takeway was their open discussion that this whole scheme is part of a long game to force out Hartzell (he’s a libtard according to them) and totally flip the BOR to being full MAGA. Now, they were commenting that the goal was perhaps unrealistic, and would take a long time. But make no mistake, this initiative is about turning UT into the University of MAGA, controlled by the TPPF.

shoulda thrown your coke on them. you're getting soft

[South Austin 52144]

11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So…..I was having lunch by myself downtown the other day (had a quick break, needed to grab something healthy). And I think because I was sitting by myself, reading my phone, the table next to me acted like I wasn’t there. It was occupied by two people somehow affiliated with the Texas Public Policy Foundation (super-conservative think tank), and the Liberty Institute was the subject of their talk/planning session. They discussed the new director…..who lots of them don’t like because he’s not conservative batshitty ENOUGH. And they talked about the name change. But the big takeway was their open discussion that this whole scheme is part of a long game to force out Hartzell (he’s a libtard according to them) and totally flip the BOR to being full MAGA. Now, they were commenting that the goal was perhaps unrealistic, and would take a long time. But make no mistake, this initiative is about turning UT into the University of MAGA, controlled by the TPPF.

How many times did you silent fart in their general direction?