Harvard graduate walks out of stuffed pompous asshole Merrick Garland's commencement address

[Larry Krasner]

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| A leader of the Texas Republican Party offered to have Merrick
| Garland JFK'd, stuffed and mounted like the useless swine he is.

A woman who attended Harvard's commencement ceremony this past Sunday
after earning a master's degree in psychology from the school couldn't
bear to sit through the entire commencement address delivered by Attorney
General Merrick Garland — and walked out while he was still speaking.

Emma Heussner is based in Washington, D.C., and today works in social
media at The Daily Caller.

She shared on Twitter on Sunday that she had "just walked out of Harvard’s
graduation because I didn’t want to listen to Merrick Garland talk about
himself for 30 minutes" — but also said that what she did hear was "pretty
rich."

Heussner earned a master's degree in psychology from Harvard in 2020.

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"But because of the pandemic, they weren't able to give us a formal
graduation" back then, she told Fox News Digital in a phone interview on
Wednesday.

"So this past Memorial Day weekend in Boston, they were able to give the
class of 2020 and 2021 a graduation, which was great."


"So I went up with my parents. But Harvard did not have tickets for my
parents — so they couldn't go in and watch the [graduation] ceremony," she
said.

Instead, "they had to watch it being broadcast" from another location, she
said.

Heussner said, "I sat there with my classmates for a while" under the hot
sun that day.

She said there were a lot of "graduation formalities," including singing
and Latin pronouncements by various members of the administration and
faculty.

And "by the time Merrick Garland finally started speaking, it was very
much — I think he was trying to be inspirational and motivating, as in,
‘You guys are responsible for making the world a better place,'" she said.

"I didn't want to be preached to by Merrick Garland."

"But the way it read," she continued, "was very much like, ‘This country
sucks and you guys can fix it.’ "

That "didn't sit right with me," she told Fox News Digital.

She said she thought to herself, "You're the attorney general — you're
someone who could make an immediate difference based on the actions and
decisions you make as attorney general."

"So it was a very easy decision for me to walk out and meet up with my
parents" instead, she said.

Heussner added of her parents, "They're the ones who were there for me and
who supported me — and I didn't want to be preached to by Merrick Garland,
when he was talking a lot of talk but not really walking the walk that he
was preaching."

Did others walk out with her? She said, "We were sitting in the hot sun
for a while — so unless it was a spectacular speaker, I could see that
people would want to walk out [of a speech like that] for other reasons"
as well, she said.

"I will say that the reaction that I've gotten on the internet has been
kind of funny."

Most people have been supportive, she said — but there have been "some
haters" out there, too.

She said that on Twitter, she started out with about 1,000 followers — but
after going viral for walking out of the commencement amid Garland's
speech, she's now she's up to about 11,000 followers.

She said that most people have been supportive — but there have been "some
haters" out there, too.

Heussner graduated from the University of Alabama in 2018, earning a
degree in psychology. She then went to Harvard for two years to earn a
master's — also in psychology.

She found it a truly liberal university environment. "I've been pretty
good about biting my tongue and keeping my opinions to myself, though I
don't shy away from a debate," she said.

"Garland is such a disappointment … He's no moderate."

She said she took a course through Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
as part of earning her master's degree called "Saving Schools" — and wound
up pivoting more toward politics and policy toward the end of her time at
Harvard. She said she worked for the Trump campaign for a period of time.

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Her parents were there for her at her graduation, she said — "so I was
eager to get back to my parents, since they were the ones who made Harvard
possible," she said.

She said her dad was in the U.S. Army for 30 years and her mom grew up in
the Augusta, Georgia, area.

Commenting on how she left the ceremony amid Garland's commencement
address, William Bennett, former Secretary of Education during the Reagan
Administration, said to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, "Well, good for
her."

Bennett also said, "Garland is such a disappointment … He's no moderate.
This is a replay of Joe Biden in the uniform of the attorney general."

"We've heard all of this before. There is nothing new. ‘America is a
wreck. Democracy is under threat … January 6 … ‘ My God," said Bennett
about Garland’s speech. "That’s not what you pay all that money for."

Among Garland's other comments at Harvard: "It is a great comfort to see
all of you in your robes. You look like little judges. I feel right at
home," he said. (Some people laughed.)

Garland also said, according to a transcript of his remarks, "When I was
sitting where you are sitting today, there were many things to worry
about. But it never occurred to me that the right to vote would again be
threatened in this country."

Only three conservatives will be giving commencement speeches this
graduation season at top colleges across the nation, according to a
survey.

Garland added, "At the same time that we are witnessing efforts to
undermine the right to vote, we are also witnessing violence and threats
of violence that undermine the rule of law upon which our democracy is
based."

Bennett noted that, according to a new survey, only three conservative
individuals will be giving commencement speeches this graduation season,
apparently, at top colleges across the nation.

In contrast, 53 liberal speakers are slated to headline grad ceremonies
among the top 100 universities, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report,
according to a survey done by Young America’s Foundation.

Of the remaining colleges, speakers chosen to give addresses either had
unclear ideological affiliations, primary speakers weren't yet set for the
commencement — or a university administrator had been chosen as speaker,
according to the Young America's Foundation and as noted by The College
Fix.

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[Larry Krasner]

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| A leader of the Texas Republican Party offered to have Merrick
| Garland dealt with like the Democrats did JFK.

'Politicized speech' made 'students like me feel unwelcome,' Harvard grad
told Fox News Digital

College graduation season this year is nearly here — and scores of schools
already have announced their commencement speakers ahead of the special
occasion.

As students of higher education finish up their coursework and prepare for
commencement, a woman who made waves for standing up and walking out of
Harvard University's commencement ceremony last year while Attorney
General Merrick Garland was delivering his address said she would repeat
her actions.

Emma Heussner of Washington, D.C., earned a master's degree in psychology
from Harvard. She walked out of her own graduation ceremony last year —
fed up with the speech.

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Heussner, who works in social media, said she absolutely would repeat it.

"I would do it again," she told Fox News Digital this weekend.

She explained why. "Conservatives are coined as the ‘silent majority’ and
look where that’s gotten us," she said. "Students and their parents are
now fighting for regular, not sexualized, curriculum in K-12."

She added, "As long as conservatives are silent, we are compliant with how
far we let the left push their agenda."

Heussner also said, "Universities [should] be places that teach students
how to think and challenge our beliefs. They should encourage students to
debate and learn from other perspectives."

"As long as conservatives are silent, we are compliant with how far we let
the left push their agenda."

However, given today's reality, Heussner said that "standing up for myself
and my beliefs by walking out on Merrick Garland’s speech was a way for me
to honor the time, money and energy spent earning my degree — while also
honoring those who actually supported me throughout school."

And the ones who supported her, she said, were "my friends and family who
were cheering me on."

She also told Fox News Digital this weekend about the response to her
actions last year, "The support I got from strangers on the internet was
overwhelmingly positive. So many people I’ve never met rallied behind me,"
she added.

She explained, "I think that’s partially because there aren’t many signs
of intelligent life (AKA conservatives at Ivy League schools) who make a
statement by speaking out against the propaganda otherwise pushed on us as
students."

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Said Heussner as well, "I understand the criticism I received from a few,
too. They believed it was hypocritical and ungrateful of me to not endure
Garland’s speech."

Merrick Garland "didn’t represent me or what my academic career taught me
to think independently [about]," said the Harvard graduate.

However, she said, "I think it was more important to spend my graduation
with my family than waste time sitting through a politicized speech that
made students like me feel unwelcome and complacent."

Garland's ideas, she said — and the content of his speech last year —
"didn’t represent me or what my academic career taught me to think
independently [about]."

Rather, she said, his speech "was ostracizing."

Last year, igniting strong reaction from many corners, she shared on
Twitter that she had "just walked out of Harvard’s graduation because I
didn’t want to listen to Merrick Garland talk about himself for 30
minutes."

She added that what she did hear was "pretty rich."

Heussner earned a master's degree in psychology from Harvard in 2020.

"But because of the pandemic, they weren't able to give us a formal
graduation" back then, she explained last year.

"Harvard did not have tickets for my parents — so they couldn't go in and
watch the ceremony."

Instead, the graduation ceremony during Memorial Day weekend of May 2022
celebrated those who graduated in 2020 and 2021, she said.

"So I went up with my parents," she said about last year's graduation
ceremony.

"But Harvard did not have tickets for my parents — so they couldn't go in
and watch the ceremony," she said.

Instead, "they had to watch it" as it was "broadcast" from another
location, she said.

Heussner said, "I sat there with my classmates for a while" under the hot
sun that day.

She said there were a lot of "graduation formalities," including singing
and Latin pronouncements by various members of the administration and
faculty.

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And "by the time Merrick Garland finally started speaking, it was very
much — I think he was trying to be inspirational and motivating, as in,
‘You guys are responsible for making the world a better place,'" she said.

Garland seemed to be saying, "This country sucks and you guys can fix it,"
said Heussner about the attorney general's commencement address. That
"didn't sit right with me."

"But the way it read," she continued, "was very much like, ‘This country
sucks and you guys can fix it.’"

That "didn't sit right with me," she told Fox News Digital.

She said she thought to herself of Garland during that address, "You're
the attorney general — you're someone who could make an immediate
difference based on the actions and decisions you make as attorney
general."

She added, "So it was a very easy decision for me to walk out and meet up
with my parents" instead.

Heussner added of her parents, "They're the ones who were there for me and
who supported me — and I didn't want to be preached to by Merrick Garland,
when he was talking a lot of talk but not really walking the walk that he
was preaching."

Among Garland's comments at Harvard last year during his commencement
address: "It is a great comfort to see all of you in your robes. You look
like little judges. I feel right at home," he said. (Some people laughed.)

"One of the reasons young people struggle so much with mental health these
days is the societal fall from God."

Garland also said, according to a transcript of his remarks, "When I was
sitting where you are sitting today, there were many things to worry
about. But it never occurred to me that the right to vote would again be
threatened in this country."

He also said, "At the same time that we are witnessing efforts to
undermine the right to vote, we are also witnessing violence and threats
of violence that undermine the rule of law upon which our democracy is
based."

When Heussner walked out last year, did she notice any others walking out
with her?

She said, "We were sitting in the hot sun for a while — so unless it was a
spectacular speaker, I could see that people would want to walk out [of a
speech like that] for other reasons" as well, she said.

Heussner graduated from the University of Alabama in 2018, earning a
degree in psychology.

She then went to Harvard for two years to earn her master's in psychology.

Today, in 2023, she told Fox News Digital, "I’m still working in social
media, at a PR firm based in Virginia, as a digital account manager."

Recently on Twitter, Heussner commented, "One of the reasons young people
struggle so much with mental health these days is the societal fall from
God — no one is giving them a normative moral right and wrong anymore, so
Gen Z are finding their identity and god in ‘wokism.’"

She has nearly 14,000 followers on Twitter as of publication time.

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As college graduation season approaches this year, here's a smart
reminder: A college degree is not for everyone.

In a culture in which higher education is often promoted as a must-have
for everyone, some very well known and successful individuals (in an array
of fields) decided to ditch the academics in their own lives — and wound
up doing very well thanks to hard work, enormous drive and total passion
for their interests.

These eight prominent Americans left college behind and made it big.

Some of the most famous college dropouts in America include household
names — and some of them may surprise you.

Here's a look at eight prominent Americans who left college behind and
made it big.

Rush Limbaugh
Radio talk show host and media dynamo Rush Limbaugh will always be
remembered for his impressive career in political and cultural commentary
and broadcasting — all achieved without a college degree.

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The native of Cape Girardeau, Mo., was known as shy growing up, but there
was no doubt he had a passion for radio broadcasting.

Rush Limbaugh radio host
Talk show host Rush Limbaugh in the early days of his radio career
preparing for his program at KSEV in Houston, Texas. (©Shepard
Sherbell/Corbis Saba/Corbis via Getty Images)
In the Fox Nation four-part series "Age of Rush," narrated by former Vice
President Mike Pence, excerpts from Limbaugh’s past piece together his
trajectory in radio fame.

"I knew I wanted to do radio when I was 12," he said in a 2012 interview.
"Because I hated school. And getting ready for school every morning, my
mother had the radio on. That guy was having fun — and I was having
drudgery."

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Limbaugh landed his first radio job as a disc jockey at a local station
before he completed high school. After his graduation in 1969, Limbaugh
attended Southwest Missouri State College — and then dropped out to get
back on the air.

Rush Limbaugh presidential medal of honor
Rush Limbaugh is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February
2020 during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
In 1973, Limbaugh found himself in front of the mic once again under the
alias Jeff Christie.

It would be another decade before Limbaugh launched his career in
political commentary, influenced by former President Ronald Reagan’s
persuasive radio presence. Limbaugh himself then influenced scores of
others in his field throughout his legendary career.

Tiger Woods
Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame this year, golf icon Tiger Woods
risked his college diploma for a chance to go pro.

Following a childhood in which he developed his love of the links, Woods
attended Stanford University in 1994, where he played NCAA golf and
studied economics.

Tiger Woods golf practice 1991
Tiger Woods practices on Griffith Park golf course as a 16-year old in
1991. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Corbis via Getty Images)
Woods won a record-tying 11 tournaments between his freshman and sophomore
years at Stanford, but that's exactly how long his college experience
would last.

When Woods was offered the opportunity to join the PGA in 1996, he made
the decision to withdraw from the university to pursue his pro career.

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Since his professional debut, Woods, 46, has clenched 106 worldwide wins
and 15 majors. The golfer also has 82 PGA Tour wins under his belt — and
is tied with Sam Snead, one of the greatest players of all time, for the
most wins.

Tiger Woods the masters 2022
Tiger Woods looks on during the second round of The Masters at Augusta
National Golf Club on April 8, 2022, in Augusta, Georgia.
Woods, most recently, is the 12th-highest paid professional athlete in the
world, according to Forbes, earning $60 million in 2021 alone.

Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates may very well be considered the pioneer of
the college-dropout-turned-billionaire trend.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Sept. 1, 1983. (©Doug Wilson/Corbis via
Getty Images)
Gates ditched his promising education at Harvard University in 1975 after
his first two years as a pre-law student. He had discovered his immense
potential in the tech space.

Today, Microsoft is one of the largest tech companies in the world.

As part of an undergrad combinatorics course, Gates developed an algorithm
to address an unsolved problem — which held the record for speed for 30
years, according to Best Colleges.

The young student decided to take a leave of absence from the university
to found software company Microsoft — today one of the largest tech
companies in the world. As of April 2022, it has a more than $2.1 trillion
market cap.

Bill Gates White House
Bill Gates speaks during the White House's virtual Climate Leaders Summit
on April 23, 2021. (AP)

The multi-billionaire, 66, has since given back big-time through the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, which works with partner organizations around
the world. In 2021, the Gates Foundation doubled the total amount of
donations with $15 billion in allocations, according to The Conversation.

Alicia Keys
Award-winning musician and artist Alicia Keys has brains, beauty and
singing ability — but pursuing academics wasn’t in her make-up.

Alicia Keys in Germany 2001
Alicia Keys on tour in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 7, 2001. (Fryderyk
Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Keys graduated early from New York’s Professional Performing Arts high
school as valedictorian at only 16 years old. The musician went on to
attend Columbia University.

Keys has won 15 Grammy Awards and sold more than 65 million records
worldwide.

College life, however, was short-lived for her in the 1990s: The teenager
ditched Columbia University for a record deal with Columbia Records after
one semester, Variety reported.

Even though her deal with Columbia fell through, Keys, 41, was saved by
producer Clive Davis and signed to Arista Records shortly after, producing
her debut album "Songs In A Minor" in 2001.

Alicia Keys Grammys
Alicia Keys hosts the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 26, 2020, in Los
Angeles. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
The hit album featured notable songs like "Fallin,’" which spent six weeks
at no. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The soul singer went on to win 15 Grammy
Awards and 9 Billboard Music Awards. She has sold more than 65 million
records worldwide.

Rachael Ray
Celebrity chef Rachael Ray knows what to cook up in the kitchen — and
doing so didn’t require a college education.

Rachael Ray Book Signing at Sur La Table
Rachael Ray during a book signing at Sur La Table in San Jose, Califonia,
on Dec. 10, 2004. (John Medina/WireImage)
The popular chef, known for her 30-minute meals, first attended Pace
University in 1986 to study literature and communications. After two
years, Ray dropped out to save money and re-focus her career goals,
according to Good Housekeeping.

Rachel Ray's first cookbook sold 10,000 copies in two weeks.

Ray, 53, began offering cooking classes at a gourmet grocery store in
Albany, N.Y., fueled by her love of working with food, which turned into
demonstrations on local TV. By 1999, her first cookbook sold 10,000 copies
in two weeks.

After making soup during a snowy segment of "The Today Show" in 2001,
Ray’s career hit the ground running and she landed a contract with the
Food Network.

Rachael Ray cooks on air
Chef Rachael Ray on stage during a culinary demonstration on Oct. 12,
2019, in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images for NYCWFF)
"Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home," she has
said.

Ryan Seacrest
Media personality Ryan Seacrest, born in Atlanta, always knew a life in
broadcasting was for him, no matter the sacrifice.

Ryan Seacrest University of Georgia commencement
Ryan Seacrest receives an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during
University of Georgia's commencement at Sanford Stadium on May 13, 2016,
in Athens, Georgia. (Marcus Ingram/Getty Images)
After interning at Atlanta FM radio station WSTR in high school, he
enrolled in the University of Georgia to pursue journalism in 1992.

Two years later, the college junior gave his first "Seacrest, out!" to
college life and moved to Los Angeles. There, he fronted KYSR-FM’s
afternoon drive-time show called "Ryan Seacrest for the Ride Home."

Ryan Seacrest’s higher education pursuit finally came full circle when he
earned an honorary doctorate from the University of Georgia in 2016.

Seacrest’s emergence into the national limelight was arguably his 2002
debut as co-host of the TV singing competition "American Idol."

The emcee, 47, still hosts the program today — and has added to his on-
screen repertoire. He took over the hosting of such iconic specials as
"Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve."

American Idol season 1 finale
The co-hosts and finalists of "American Idol" season one, from left, Ryan
Seacrest, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini and Brian Dunkleman, on Sept. 3,
2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. (Reuters/Fred Prouser)
Seacrest’s higher education pursuit finally came full circle when he
earned an honorary doctorate from the University of Georgia in 2016 after
delivering the school’s commencement address that year.

Lady Gaga
Native New Yorker Lady Gaga, born and raised as Stefani Germanotta, always
recognized her calling toward stardom.

The pop star grew up experiencing ridicule by her peers, but her passion
for music fueled her fire to make it big. At the age of 11, Gaga began
studying with Christina Aguilera’s vocal coach Don Lawrence and continued
to practice classical piano and acting as a kid, Mic reported.

Lady Gaga Tony Bennett
Lady Gaga performs with Tony Bennett during her "Jazz and Piano" residency
at Park Theater at Park MGM on Jan. 20, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Kevin
Mazur/Getty Images for Park MGM Las Vegas)
After graduating from high school, Gaga sought out an education at NYU
Tisch School of the Arts. But it didn’t last long.

Gaga’s first album, "The Fame," topped the charts, with tracks like "Just
Dance" and "Poker Face" hitting no. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

At 19 years old, the future star abandoned that life and dropped out of
NYU to pursue her dreams. "I left my entire family, got the cheapest
apartment I could find and ate s--- until somebody would listen," she told
New York Magazine in a 2010 interview.

After she was signed and then dropped by Def Jam records, Gaga was
discovered by R&B artist Akon — who signed her to his own label in 2008.

Lady Gaga performs in Sydney
Singer Lady Gaga performs at the Oxford Arts Factory on Sept. 24, 2008, in
Sydney, Australia. (Don Arnold/WireImage)
Gaga’s first album, "The Fame," topped the charts, with tracks like "Just
Dance" and "Poker Face" hitting no. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

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Gaga, 36, has won numerous awards and accolades during her career; was
ranked fourth on VH1's Greatest Women in Music (2012); and was named one
of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in both 2010
and 2019.

John Mayer
There may be a running joke about the frequency of music school dropouts,
but John Mayer, 44, turned the stigma into a success.

Mayer, who grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut, enrolled in Boston’s Berklee
College of Music in 1998 but soon realized school wasn’t really his style.

John Mayer plays with Grateful Dead
John Mayer and Bill Kreutzmann of Dead and Company perform on Nov. 9,
2017, in San Francisco.
In a 2002 interview with MTV, Mayer said his grades at Berklee "were
pronounced like ‘d-d-d-f-f-f-f-f’ — like static," as he had less
professional training than his classmates.

The singer left the competitive music school and moved to Atlanta to
pursue a solo career.

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Three years later, he released his debut album, "Room for Squares." He won
a Grammy Award in 2003 for the chart-topping hit "Your Body Is a
Wonderland."

John Mayer at 2003 Grammys
Singer John Mayer poses with his Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal
Performance for his song "Your Body is A Wonderland," at the 45th annual
Grammy Awards at New York's Madison Square Garden, on Feb. 23, 2003.
(Reuters/Peter Morgan)
Mayer has taken home six more Grammys since.

In 2004, Mayer returned to Berklee – and taught a clinic on making it in
the business.

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