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December 22, 2023
CAN SATIRE BE TOO BELIEVABLE TO BE FUNNY?
New York Times Warns That Involved, Loving Cartoon Dads Could Lead To Involved, Loving Real Dads https://t.co/9vjxdtLznO pic.twitter.com/WMRdncpiVx
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 21, 2023
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Top business schools push CRT and other progressive ideas, report finds.
FRUITS OF THE WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: POLL: 50% of young Americans think the Holocaust may be a ‘myth.’
Putting the enemies of civilization in charge of educating our kids may have been a mistake.
You think I exaggerate?
"The goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States.”
University of Minnesota professor Melanie Yazzie spells out the Left's global war against the West. pic.twitter.com/vsrjtXTU62
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 21, 2023
REMINDER THAT OUR RULING CLASS SEES CHINA AS A ROLE MODEL: Jimmy Lai ‘Sedition’ charge upheld after three days of “deliberation.”
LOL:
This nimrod. https://t.co/lSyMInpMoF
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 21, 2023
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK:
Eight years ago today, SpaceX successfully landed an orbital class rocket for the first time. Since that time, SpaceX has landed Falcon rockets more than 250 times and counting pic.twitter.com/r8pAfMQxiU
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 21, 2023
Related: Don Surber: Musk is Winning. “The deep state’s problem with him is that he is right and he has the power to change minds.”
WELL, IT’S A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: Men say ‘meh’ to college. “Thirty-nine percent of male high school graduates are enrolled in college now, down from 47 percent in 2011, Fry reports. Forty-eight percent of female high school graduates are enrolled in college, down from 48 percent. The gender gap in college-going is widest for white high school graduates, Pew reports.”
The hate has consequences.
THESE ARE THE CRAZY YEARS: The rise of “Multiracial Whiteness.”
And it’s the allegedly smart people — academics, mostly, and some journalists and pundits — who are making them crazy.
THE WAY THINGS WORK IN THE CRAZY YEARS: “Democrats out to save democracy long for a solution to Donald Trump that is anything other than defeating him democratically. The judiciary is supposed to swoop in and rescue Democrats from the task of winning the votes of the people.”
Well, they’re still in the process of dissolving the people and forming another.
December 21, 2023
SORRY, JOE:
You gotta feel for the Big Guy. He tried buying them off and got Oct 7. Then he tried holding back Israel in Gaza and got the Red Sea crisis. Maybe he'll go back to trying to buy them off again. He's already got two wars. He doesn't need a third.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 22, 2023
OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes.
AMERICAN REFUGEES: Americans Vote Red with Their Feet. “Just-released census data show that migration from blue to red continues.”
That, by the way, is the title of Roger Simon’s book, which will be out in a couple of weeks: American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Migration from Blue to Red States. I ran into a friend at the shooting range the other day: He shooting with a couple of recent (“very conservative” in his words) arrivals from California. If he says they are, they are. And my personal experience is that the folks moving here from elsewhere tend to lean right. This is in contrast to the past, because this migration is as much about politics as about economics, though obviously there’s a lot of overlap.
Anyway, I got an advance copy of Roger’s book a while back, and I highly recommend it.
I REMEMBER WHEN OFF-LABEL USE OF MEDICATIONS WAS PRACTICALLY A FELONY: Major Study Finds HIV Drugs Could Lower Risk of Multiple Sclerosis by Up to 72%.
NOBEL LAUREATE VERNON SMITH: Fire Claudine Gay:
I see Gay as getting her post at Harvard because she was a diversity, equity and inclusion candidate, not on the basis of strong academic qualifications. There are plenty of accomplished blacks who need no such ‘help.’ Harvard is reaping the negative consequences. I am not much concerned about Gay’s success in exercising her power as I don’t think she has much. She is a discredit to Harvard, and that is being revealed. See: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-harvard-cant-fire-claudine-gay-dei-hiring-lack-of-merit-b1d480ec.
She’s a diversity hire, the rules don’t apply.
Related: 2022 Nobel Laureate Philip Dybvig:
Claudine Gay has power now and she is the oppressor of any group not favored by her and other people in power. This is a common pattern in governments heading for totalitarianism. First, say you represent the oppressed. Then you get power and oppress non-favored groups. This leaves you in a morally indefensible position that could not survive given free speech, so you do what you can to destroy anyone (“counterrevolutionaries”) who disagrees with your narrative.
Maybe this isn’t over, though in some ways the best outcome is for her to remain as a lasting discredit to Harvard.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, I’VE BEEN THINKING about the New Madrid fault lately. Not sure why, but I hope it’s still asleep, and stays that way.
SOLID ADVICE: Stop Driving With Your Dogs in Your Lap.
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