{"id":178027,"date":"2026-01-09T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=178027"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:04:10","slug":"money-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=178027","title":{"rendered":"Money, honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-178030 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/279d92dfda2b96de2494117e3c135f92-1-300x213.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/279d92dfda2b96de2494117e3c135f92-1-300x213.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/279d92dfda2b96de2494117e3c135f92-1-468x333.webp 468w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/279d92dfda2b96de2494117e3c135f92-1-768x546.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/279d92dfda2b96de2494117e3c135f92-1-1536x1092.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/279d92dfda2b96de2494117e3c135f92-1.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, you know what they say: Life is a lot like a sh** sandwich, the more bread ya got the less sh** you have ta eat. Let&#8217;s look at a couple of folks:<\/p>\n<p>MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. She&#8217;s worth an estimated $40,000,000,000 (mostly from the divorce) and now ranks as one of the top philanthropists in the world, having donated an estimated $26,000,000,000 since 2020. No, all those zeroes are NOT typos. She mainly likes to support DEI type charities, disaster relief, and higher education (Harvard reaped a cool $80,000,000 last fall, for instance.) Can&#8217;t say I necessarily agree with her choices, but in general they look to be okay. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a Dec. 9 blog post written by Scott, her philanthropic organization Yield Giving donated to Solidaire Network, which says it \u201cnurtures relationships between social movements and members to create regenerative systems rooted in love and justice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds touchy-feely, right? But Solidaire also works with :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)<\/li>\n<li>American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)<\/li>\n<li>US Palestinian Community Network<\/li>\n<li>Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM),<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both of the first two groups are under investigation for working with Hamas to foment anti-Israel protests here in the US.\u00a0 Solidaire got $5,000,000 last year and $10,000,000 in 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) in September also asked the FBI to investigate what he calls the \u201cvirulently antisemitic\u201d PYM, after its leader Aisha Nizar called on supporters to disrupt the U.S. F-35 fighter jet supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>Because Scott\u2019s gifts are unrestricted\u2014meaning the donation can be used at the discretion of the grantee\u2014there\u2019s no concrete evidence that Scott\u2019s 2021 or 2025 donations went directly to SJP or AMP.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mackenzie-scott-sends-millions-nonprofit-163822645.html\">Fortune<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s also nothing preventing them from being siphoned off from one or all to help Hamas along.\u00a0 Me, I am thinking I would want some caveats on anything I donated to make sure it went where I wanted. But then, fifteen million is &#8216;way less than 1% of her wealth &#8211; guess to her it could be a rounding error.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-173793 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Charlie_Kirk_54670961811_cropped-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Charlie_Kirk_54670961811_cropped-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Charlie_Kirk_54670961811_cropped-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Charlie_Kirk_54670961811_cropped.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then we get to Darron Michael, fired associate college professor. He was let go by Austin Peay University ( Near Ft. Campbell in Clarksville, TN, not Austin TX) after Charlie Kirk was shot.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCharlie Kirk says gun deaths are \u2018unfortunately\u2019 worth it to keep 2nd Amendment,\u201d read the headline of an article Michael shared. He did not add any additional comment on it.<\/p>\n<p>The school originally said Michael was fired over \u201cinsensitive comments\u201d made on social media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SEN. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) deserves some of the responsibility &#8211; she is the one who pointed out his post on X to the school. The school immediately fired him &#8211; without following their own version of doing the proper steps. On appeal, he and the school have agreed on a half-million settlement, and reinstatement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tennessee\u2019s WKRN News 2 obtained a copy of a settlement agreement between Michael and the university, showing the school will dish out $500,000 and reimburse \u201ctherapeutic counseling services.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/professor-fired-for-charlie-kirk-post-gets-500000-from-school-is-reinstated\/\">Mediaite<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bet that makes him the highest paid theater coach in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Well, you know what they say: Life is a lot like a sh** sandwich, the &hellip; <a title=\"Money, honey\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=178027\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Money, honey<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}