Many points jump to my mind today. The interview with Rami showed what a traditional man is. A man who ran toward danger, protected the weak, and killed the evil. What are the three women college presidents Elise Stephanik asked her questions if Rami was a man we should model our youth after?
The main problem with young men is that we have the ideology of these women educating our men in schools and the content created in cartoons and movies. If there is any cause for the rest of my lifetime, I would love to participate in it; it is to end the moral authority of those women college professors and those they serve. From race/DEI, climate "science," or those government experts that tell us what is good, they should all go into the dustbin of history. We have given them power for too long, and the results are disastrous.
My hero is Rami and we should celebrate him for his heroism and how he described the Arabs - Come in peace, we can be friends, come in war, I will be waiting for you. Loved it.
Those three women leaders are such an embarrassment, as are all feminists not standing up for women in sports and those who were raped by Hamas on 10/7. Ideologies have never proven to win but that’s how democrats run. We're being lead by minority beliefs because they’re the loudest.
I was really disgusted to see another podium this week with two biological males in first and second place at a women’s event. Third prize was smiling away. This is pathetic. Stand up for your rights for God’s sake. Heroic women fought for years for equality in sports. Now is it okay to just give it away for a third place medal?
Ok that trailer of Lady Ballers was hilarious. The whole movement has become so absurd how can one NOT laugh at this point? That being said, I'm pretty sure my 21-year-old daughter wouldn't.
Its hard for me to believe the soy boy males we now endure are 1st generation. I think they are the product of equally weak fathers that we just missed.
""In what world is a call for violence against Jews protected speech, but a belief that sex is biological and binary isn’t?" Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.) asked Harvard president Claudine Gay. The school’s diversity administrators had thrown a fit when Carole Hooven, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, stated on Fox News that there are only two sexes, causing such a firestorm that she had to take a leave of absence. Gay didn’t answer the question"
: did univ decline request to fly an Israeli flag after 10/7?
Gay: "standard protocol at the university for years" to only fly the US flag--only to concede after followup Q that Harvard flew the Ukraine flag last year."
Really, Harvard and other schools should not be flying that puke tri- "progress" flag either. It is taking a very strong political position and one that many do not agree with (that the BLM movement was a good thing rather than a racist scam and that Gender Ideology must be celebrated ).
How dare you criticize these three women, especially Ms. Gay, a woman of color! Have we learned nothing over the last 8 or so years? Even with the new feminism, this is intolerable.
".....Running towards danger, protecting the weak, killing evil..." sounds exactly how Hamas fighters and Jihadis like to portray themselves.....
Coincidence?
Violence breeds violence and hate breeds hate and so the "Rambos" of this world can keep doing what they are doing and even feel good about themselves while they are doing it. Unfortunately this is not the way to stop the killing and my heroes are not the likes of Rami Rambo and other men of violence but those who reach out over the divides and try to stop the hate. We desperately need more of those.....on all sides!
Are you serious? Did you watch what happened? He was attacked and defended himself and his community from the barbarians who attacked them. You are a fool, and should grow up. Evil must be destroyed, and Hamas should get no mercy. When they are eliminated then we can have peace.
That's not how the violence started. It's just the latest escalation in 75 year old vicious cycle of mutual violence and hate and this vicious cycle has to stop, not perpetuated.
You're the fool, because You don't understand the dynamics of hate at play here. And fools are condemned to live in an ever more violent world, just like the Middle East.
It stops when you kill everyone in Hamas and break the will of those who still want war. We did that with the Japanese and Germans and things have been great since. Unconditional surrender with total war not the half measures it has been taking. See Hamas for what they are and act accordingly. No mercy as they showed none.
Or it stops when You kill every zionist and break the will of those who still wanna steal land.
You see, it works the other way around too. At least theoretically, because I don't believe You can solve this kind of problem with violence. There will always some people left who hate even more and continue to fight. This should be clear after the last 75 years of never ending escalating violence. The only way to stop it is to finally find a way to share the land and respect each other, but that demands two things to happen:
1. The Palestinian side will have to learn that the descendants of the European jews who came to their land and started the problem are not to blame for the past and can consider this land home as much as the Palestinians and the local jews who have lived there for centuries with hardly any problem.
2. The zionists will have to abandon their project of a jewish state on land that has been inhabited by mostly non-jews before their grandfathers arrived there and that any state there can never be a jewish supremacy (nor an Arab/muslim supremacy) state, but only a state that defines itself as a state where all people who live there have a stake in and are welcomed as citizens with equal rights.
That's the only solution or the mutual killing will continue and if some zionist Rambos manage to kill every last Hamas fighter they will only create more hate which will fuel the next organization like Hamas that will be even more radical and deadly. That's simply the logic of hate and violence. Why would that stop after 75 years of violence that proved that violence doesn't work for neither side of the conflict?
There is a vast difference between Trump's harmless New York bravado - which every sentient being sees through and laughs at - and the endless lies from our governing elites.
I don't disagree that there is a vast difference,, which is why I didn't include him in the first sentence. And no, lots of us sentient beings aren't laughing. But, IMNSHO, America can do better than former President Trump, who, inter alia, didn't know that no safe and effective vaccine has ever been developed at warp speed. The consequence of not knowing that fact is still being felt as people have their immunity weakened by this unsafe product.
His mistake was trusting in Fauci at a time when the “facts” were changing daily, no one knew who to believe, and Fauci et al were lying to cover up their complicit asses. I cannot blame Trump for any of this. It was the medical/public health community who lied, lied, lied about the vaccine efficacy, their safety, the need to mask and quarantine, etc etc. They lied to Trump, they lied to us.
Trump did advocate for ivermectin and was called a stooge. Turns out he was right.
There was Rand Paul, Republican senator from Kentucky, who is also an MD. His stance strongly differed from Fauci to what should be done at the start of the outbreak. He was also one of the first to acknowledge how Fauci funded research that resulted in the Covid virus. Trump could have talked with him for expert advice.
A president is like a symphony conductor, he is not required to play all the instruments well but to manage all the musicians to produce a quality piece. Too often, Trump became a one-man band and ignored the talent and advice that was available to him.
All good points but Trump failed his one test. The President has to have wisdom to understand that the swamp creatures are all liars. If Trump didn’t know Fauci was lying to him about his role in creating Covid-19 we have to ask why did he not seek console from others like Scott Atlas. And why has he not told the world the truth about Fauci? If he knew Fauci was a liar why did he keep him on? Why did he allow him to get into the light? Either answer exposé’s why Trump failed his test. We need someone’s who first instinct isn’t to bullshit his way out of a problem.
No one knew the extent of Fauci's deceit, and things were moving far too quickly to afford time to properly analyze every minute detail.
The entire CDC is a basket of liberals promoting their own agenda...who to replace Fauci with?
Under the circumstances no one could have done a better job than Trump, and certainly no Democrat would have. It will remain a black mark in our nation's history caused caused by China with malice and intent.
All true but it still doesn’t speak well for Trump. Read about the Cuban missile crisis and how JFK distrusted the military and intelligence agencies and actually went behind their backs to make a deal with the Soviet ‘s to avoid WWIII. This is what real leadership looks like. Trump had his test and he failed it. I want to actually win an election so I can have power to undo the damage Obama and Biden have done. Trump is the Democratic Party favorite candidate because he continues to piss off a lot of voters who would vote Republicans except for the fact that they can’t stand Trump. The reason does not matter if your trying to win. Almost any other of the leading Republicans would win in a landslide against Brandon. Trump get you a narrow win at best or more likely another loss and the Democrats take back the house and have two more years of power that they will actually use to destroy our country
Many excellent academic scientists did know that Fauci was lying, that lockdowns were dangerous, that the case fatality rate was much lower than they were saying(except the very old and frail) Trump blew it and refuses to accept his failing. There are better less divisive candidates.
I would agree with you, except for two things—the pace of things was happening too fast and there was so much fear.
When companies are in the middle of a PR crisis, they don’t fire the CEO. It adds to the sense of instability at a time when they are struggling to project stability. I bet Trump would have liked to fire Fauci, but there was probably tremendous pushback.
This was not a PR crisis. It was a Fauci financed medical pandemic. He knowingly lied about everything from the very beginning.Wolensky at the CDC and Birx were equally guilty of crimes against the people of this country and the world. And Trump blew it by not listening to the scientists with nothing personal to gain who were out there trying to be heard.
I think Trump now understands the evil that grips this nation. If elected, he will have the knowledge needed to rid this country of the liberals tearing us down. Every department but a few needs to be cleaned out starting with the DOJ and FBI. And next expose the leftist MSM and all the other news media that hate this country, and there are many!
Four top epidemiologists advised him but reelection was his priority so he did not heed good advice. He also reneged on a vaccine safety council after receiving millions in pharma money. I do blame him. He put himself above the people.
It was the fog of a pandemic war. As in any war, mistakes are made early on. FDR made mistakes prior to Pearl Harbor. Of course he'd have liked a mulligan, but the world doesn't work that way.
I'll bet you weren't making these criticisms of him in mid 2020.......
But you still have to understand that Trump was guided by government leftist that had been running the Obama administration. Eight years this nation was being destroyed by a guy schooled by leftist ideology. Trump has admitted that he didn’t hire the right people for the jobs and if elected it would be a new ballgame.
Trump has hired and fired so. Many people in so many disciplines. The only requirement for Trump is 100 %” loyalty” to him. This is not a monarchy. The best minds will not work for him . We need a new younger candidate. Vivek Ramaswamy is smart , works hard, does in-depth research, takes questions from anyone.please please listen to his in-depth posts on YouTube and keep an open mind .
RFKjr is also not to be written off. He certainly got covid right.
I like VR. I think he has a bright, bright future. I also think he is woefully unprepared/inexperienced to be the POTUS at this point. RFK,Jr. was on the Epstein plane. Haley is Hillary Clinton with an R by her name. Christie is Biden with an R by his name. DeSantis might could pull it off but he is so earnest that I fear it would be excited. My personal choice is Pompeo.
Yes I was saying these things in early 2020. I am a physician and knew there was simply not enough time for this dangerous new technology to have been adequately tested. The Great Barrington Declaration ( by three world renown epidemiologists ) documented the prudent course forward and we’re censored by the government via tech companies. It was very obvious very early on that something very wrong was being foisted on the country and the world
You are correct, we CAN do better, but instead before the Bad Orange Man, there were Milquetoast Mitt and Mc$ain. Trump is not *the* problem, but the not-surprising result of eight years of Barry Sotero lecturing us- wagging his finger and telling the public he has a "pen and a phone". I've driven all across the country, and have seen more Trump bumperstickers, billboards, signs painted on barns in "flyover" country because, while dems think they can buy off parts of the population with freebies (welfare, student loans etc.) huge parts of the country just want someone to stand up for them. Trump was the one who did.
With specific regard to the "vaccine", I think for a large part of the population - namely the elderly, the benefits outweighed the risk. The damage done was from blue state politicians who mandated it for their employees and gullible parents who listened to "The Science".
The covid jab technology was never either safe or effective. We were lied to from the get go. It is a dangerous medical scandal , the consequences of which are still unfolding. Many scientists and doctors knew it was inadequately tested and full of problems. The Biden administration and its msm are sidelining the scientists who are trying to keep it front and center.
It depends on how you measure both - lies, damn lies and statistics eh? I stand by my statement that for the elderly and those at risk with compromised immune systems, there was less risk from the shot than there was the virus. Yes, there were definitely scientists and doctors sidelined by the government (licensing boards) and the media (YouTube). Both of which also occurred during the Trump presidency, so those grievances span administrations; pointedly exposing the problem of the "deep state"/permanent bureaucracy.
I don't disagree; in a capitalistic society, isn't it "always" about the money though? The China Virus was the intersection of The Science's career of corruption; i.e., contracting with a foreign government to do what would not be legal in the US, colliding with the Deep State's penchant to "never let a crisis go to waste".
As vigorously as I may attempt to do so, I cannot lay my finger on ANY "public" "health" "authority" in which I have more faith than I do the Daily Horoscope (we're below zero already, folks). Sweden? They don't know what a border is; are the still trustworthy on anything?
Actually, Sweden’s pandemic response really came down to ONE man: Anders Tegnell, who simply “stuck to the plan” that had been developed by Swedish health authorities long before the pandemic was contemplated. He was severely criticized for his handling of the situation (both by Swedish politicos and the international community), and was almost removed from his position. In hindsight, of course, he turned out to be right about everything except the exposures among Sweden’s elderly.
Also CNN and MSNBC. I haven't wathed news on CBS, NBC, ABC or PBS for decades, but I would guess the same applies to them. Fox and most talk radio use the same standards from the other side. Thankfully, we have The Free Press.
Bill Ackman stated “If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.”
Problem is, Ackman doesn't run most of corporate America. And the lack of courage to stand up for American principles among our corporate class and to toady to anti-Semites, race grifters and Chinese authoritarians is sickening.
We did not have the power of the vote in 2020 rather Mark Zuckerburg and Twitter did. Both of whom were in bed with the FBI and other alphabet agencies on the executive branch. No one who cast a ballot in 2020 cast an informed one.
Some who cast a ballot in 2020 were able to weed through the bs in the media, but the fascist scum in the government, MSM and social media that lied and/or withheld facts certainly influenced some votes. 2024 is going to be very different, and there won't be enough printer time and ink to make enough ballots to overcome the votes.
I hope you are correct. At least Sam Bankman-Fried is not plying his goods. But my suspicion is all that polling is to gage how many ballots need to be harvested.
That would be too many ballots for them to print. The loons are bleeding voters who are fed up, and yet they keep doubling down on the fantasy that they haven't gone far enough.
Principles weren't near as important before 10/7. Ackman and his ilk merely shrugged at the academic rot and continued to donate. Now, suddenly, they want everything to change. First thing they should do is reflect on their complicity and letting things deteriorate.
True enough. But at least someone has to wit to say the madness must stop. Surely the witless dolts who run the Ivy League schools still have their heads planted firmly up their ample behinds.
Unfortunately, in the academic world, these disgusting individuals are considered heros. I don't see change occuring short of some kind of external revolution.
"Not a single one of them responded with a yes......the three presidents’ “profound moral bankruptcy”"......It's a hard thing for most people to take on board - a counter-intuitive thing - but the awful truth is that our elite institutions of 'higher education' have become repositories of some of the worst kind of up-emselves low-life in the Western world. Thick-witted but self-important intellectual and moral cowards; drawn to academia like a magnet (and welcomed in with open arms by their equally groupthink-mentality peers). In a saner world, they would be told "you are ignorant no-marks with nothing to give to the advance of learning....get lost" https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
(Devoid of actual knowledge.) Those who can't Do are drawn to the academy. But college presidents at one time were pillars -- where I went back in the '60s a retired general. I suspect that some Higher Power, my guess being the trustees -- largely filthy richard alums; Doers, in a word -- held the whip hand when it came to selecting presidents. Under such hi jinks as "legacy admissions," the doers got replaced by the spoiled spawn of the doers, who can now select clones of themselves.
Yes to all that. This is something of a scale that few people - even conservatives - have really taken on board. The bilge pouring out of the non-STEM parts of academia over several decades now (and influencing the impressionable minds of the ambitious future middle-class elite) has been the greatest cause of the Western world's moral and spiritual decay. It has been far more powerful - and poisonous - than any of the democratic-electoral 'politics' of the era (which gets all the MSM-media attention).
Of course, in the old days, university presidents didn’t have to fall into the “correct categories” of DEI. Now, anyone not sufficiently “minority” is a non-starter. Merit is just “frills” in education; the “real” meat of the matter is your standing in the “oppression olympics”.
Thank you. Yes a prescient piece, written so long ago. This is recurrent theme of my own writing on my Slouching Towards Bethlehem Substack....."For these reasons, conservatism has been asleep for most of the last 70 years, allowing Progressives a clear run through the commanding heights of the burgeoning mass education and mass media establishments. So much so that now, to voice the truth - that crass ‘progressive’ progress is mostly counter-productive (Mao was a real first rank Progressive) and that real human advances tend to happen in spite of, not because of it – seems paradoxical and invites blank disbelief. Conservatism has long been in retreat throughout the Western world and is in dire need of somehow finding a new way to express its alternative vision in seductive terms." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/are-we-making-progress
To borrow from William F Buckley, I would rather see corporate America run by the first 100 people in the phonebook than the slimeballs running it now.
Believe me, I appreciate Bill Ackman’s continued outspoken criticism of these illiberal hypocrites but the fact is he and other “liberal” Jews, including the Anti Defamation League and the ACLU, are very late to the game. The blind allegiance to the Democratic Party coupled with Trump derangement syndrome have made them all complicit.
We all know that if she had changed the question to ANY group except Jews, the answer would have been "yes." If these students were screaming "Death to trans!" or "Death to blacks!" or "Death to illegal aliens!" they would have been expelled the same day.
The hypocrisy is evident, but technically the presidents replied correctly about freedom of speech in this case. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to make them commit to the same freedom when other issues are concerned.
Wait a second here... are we falling for the "pandemic" scare all over again? Haven't the three years taught us nothing? We do realize that our policies have actually taken more lives than the "virus" itself right....? https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-covid-19-protocols-killed-millions
MIT showed that individuals who did their own research had more data to stand on. Unfortunately, those individuals are known as "conspiracy theorist". Per MIT, "Anti-maskers are smart and educated"
There is a middle ground here on vaccination and targeted risk-stratification protection strategies (elderly, transplant pt on immunosuppressants, etc.). Young folks don’t need 6 boosters. Etc.
But you also have to keep in mind that during 2020-2021, our ICU’s and medical floors were over run with COVID. After vaccination came out, large majority in our ICU’s were unvaccinated.
Fortunately we are not seeing that anymore, likely due to combination of natural and vaccine immunity. I myself have only seen one intubated COVID pt on my service in past year or so (has been some on colleagues services).
There was a time when we needed certain policy, although those policies exceeded their sell by date.
Covid in 2020 was very dangerous. In this forum, the consensus seems to be that Public Health officials were malignant liars. Rather, under real-time pressure they put forth data-based conclusions at the time that later turned out to be wrong. Happens commonly in medical and other research. Clinical trials give evidence that something should work, but it’s only after widespread use that we find out how effective a medicine or treatment really is. It became evident that the vaccines were not as effective at total protection as was predicted, a huge disappointment, yes. Not because of lies, but because that’s how it turned out in the real world. Immunity from natural infection was downplayed, an error I believe. We learned that although masks do indeed work; mask mandates do not. We have learned that lockdowns in schools were bad policy. Common sense distancing was and is smart—don’t you avoid close contact with people you know have a bad cold? Get your flu and covid shots.
“Let us not look back in anger or look forward in fear but let us look around us in awareness.” —James Thurber
No worry, if China says it's OK, then you can put that right there with that pot of gold from the rainbow and Leprechaun you found. After all, it's not like they say they are concerned about the environment and then increase air pollutants at greater numbers. Or they are here are to help, but first give us control over your country. Look at Xi and tell me you don't trust him?
For your kids, get them away from social media and get them into sports, music, cars, dirt bikes, anything but listening to losers give their opinion on someone they don't know and won't care if something happens to them.
College administrators, so called professors and others who say Hamas is brave should be required to live there for a while and then maybe Sudan where another faction of Hamas types uses the same slaughter, rape, and terror on innocent people. Then come back and tell us your opinions. Nothing like fools to be led by other fools in causes that will ultimately get them killed or suppressed in life. Colleges have become useless and a breeding grounds for the useless and lost kids who have no capability to think for themselves or understand, individualism is what makes a person unique and interesting.
How many of you were disgusted watching the nationally televised Chiefs - Packers game when the grinning dolt Travis Kelce shilled for the phony jab.? Is there no end to these athletes and actors who will sell their souls for the 30 pieces of silver that Pfizer and the other drug dealers dangle in front of them?
I kind of doubt it will make a difference for Bud Light, though. Chances are that a lot of people found a new favorite beer and won't bother going back.
I think the Bud Light egress was fundamentally different in an important way. Gillette told men, "Men are bad," but that's the same message the Left has been sending men for the last 20 years or more--offensive but not new. But with Bud Light, the fundamental message was "Real men don't drink this beer." And that was very easy to roll with: okay, I won't drink this beer.
But I don't blame anyone for taking money from them. They deserve to go broke.
According to National Review's article on the antisemitism hearings,
"When (Rep. Tim) Walberg asked how (Harvard President Claudine) Gay could justify that claim (that Harvard has free speech), given the myriad instances of faculty's being sanctioned for speech and guests' being disinvited from speaking on campus, she said that the university’s commitment is not solely to free expression but to ensuring that speech is “exercised mindfully and with empathy for others.”
Obviously, some "others" are worthy of empathy, while other "others" are mindfully threatened with genocide. One wonders whether President Gay is enjoying being able to say these things that are self-evidently false, or whether she sincerely believes that she and her Hamas brethren are all the goodness of the world.
It’s already at zero. When hiring others, having an ivy league degree was never a bonus in any way over someone that attended a state school in my estimation. Now, it’s an automatic rejection.
Anyone pliable enough to espouse the beliefs required to graduate from one of these shoddy institutions bathed in bigotry from admissions to graduation has no place in polite society or my place of business.
I also wouldn’t hire a member of the KKK, but I repeat myself.
Yes, it would. Imagine if she had said, "At Harvard, we consider it perfectly acceptable to call for the elimination of Jews and Israel and to assault and harass Jewish students. Some other ethnic and/or religious groups must be treated with absolute reverence at all times. If you can't deal with that, stay away from Harvard."
For those FP readers who are not on Twitter/X: the college presidents’ disgraceful testimony before Congress is being critcized all over the world. Everyone of them has caused “reputational damage” to the institutions they serve. How can the Boards not oust them?
Aside from the smirking and evasive, obvious “lawyered-up” responses, one answer from Ms. Gay was particularly telling: When asked if she supports Israel’s “right to exist as as a Jewish State,” she answered, “I support Israel’s right to exist.” Her intentional omission said it all.
The interviews with the Ivy League presidents exposed the lie of women being better than men in positions of power. Neither sex (or gender, if you prefer - take Rachel Levine...please!) has a monopoly on mendacity and sheer gutlessness. These academics so tied up in nuance that they can't grasp the truth that evil exists, and Hamas is one of its avatars.
I was disappointed that Elise Stefanik didn’t ask those soulless, robotic presidents to cite a context in which screaming for the genocide of Jews would be acceptable, since all three trotted out that repugnant line. In the corporate world, Liz Magill would have been forced to resign long ago for “being too much of a distraction”.
Does the Klan still exist? They've certainly been out of the news lately, but, if they do, their PR team should be busily planning a march at Harvard Square. It would be great to see all the tolerance that would be thrown at them.
"This paradox is nothing new. As the late Justice Antonin Scalia said in a 1997 speech on the Holocaust, “the most frightening aspect of it all. . . [is that the Holocaust] happened in one of the most educated, most progressive, most cultured countries in the world. . . a world leader in most fields of art, science, and intellect.” Like the US.
This bit resonated... and reminded me of words in another article. This University stuff might be less concerning if we had faith in other institutions.
"German medicine led the world in ethics, too. Modern notions of informed consent regulations originated in late 19C Germany: “Explicit directives concerned with the welfare of people subjected to medical experimentation in Germany were in place long before the Nuremberg code was devised in 1947.”
Still, doctors embraced eugenics with shocking enthusiasm and radicalism. They didn’t simply “go along” with Hitler, they were already so steeped in this quasi-scientific ideology that they were out ahead of Nazi politicians. “The German medical community set its own course in 1933. In some respects this course even outpaced the new [Nazi] government, which had to rein in the profession's eager pursuit of enforced eugenic sterilisations.”
(He continues, “In 1933 the convergence of political, scientific, and economic forces dramatically changed the relationship between the medical community and the government. That same convergence is occurring again [in 1996] and must be approached with great caution if medicine is to remain focused on the preservation of physical and medical integrity.”)
Well into the 20C, Germany’s rules were the most progressive on earth and the Nuremberg defendants scolded American and British counterparts you perform unethical experimentation, too. They had a point. In Allied countries the standards were less evolved. In Germany the standards had decades to evolve, doctors simply chose to break rules their fathers had written.
Much of this came of doctors and medical associations promoting their own economic and professional interests."
Magill was entirely unable to keep from smiling and smirking, as if she thought the hearing to be a source of ironic humor. I’m surprised and disappointed that no one called her on that.
Claudine Gay is a woman who cares little about her fellow man or woman. She cares about how to use dark forces to better herself. And it speaks volumes about our institutions that she’s been richly rewarded for her corrupting and malign deeds.
Look at what she did to Roland Fryer, an academic with an intellect far higher than hers and more morality in his little finger than she has ever possessed.
We have cretins, the worst of the worst and the dimmest of the dim in our institutions, for sure not the best and the brightest.
“She is a scholar of uncommon creativity and rigor, with a strong working knowledge of the opportunities and challenges facing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She radiates a concern for others, and for how what we do here can help improve lives far beyond our walls.” Harvard President Larry Bacow
I couldn’t give a rats you-know-what about her so called credentials. They mean nothing when I look at what she does to others and how she conducts herself morally. She lacks in all areas of her humanity, except when she believes it can benefit her and her now sullied reputation.
Many points jump to my mind today. The interview with Rami showed what a traditional man is. A man who ran toward danger, protected the weak, and killed the evil. What are the three women college presidents Elise Stephanik asked her questions if Rami was a man we should model our youth after?
The main problem with young men is that we have the ideology of these women educating our men in schools and the content created in cartoons and movies. If there is any cause for the rest of my lifetime, I would love to participate in it; it is to end the moral authority of those women college professors and those they serve. From race/DEI, climate "science," or those government experts that tell us what is good, they should all go into the dustbin of history. We have given them power for too long, and the results are disastrous.
My hero is Rami and we should celebrate him for his heroism and how he described the Arabs - Come in peace, we can be friends, come in war, I will be waiting for you. Loved it.
Those three women leaders are such an embarrassment, as are all feminists not standing up for women in sports and those who were raped by Hamas on 10/7. Ideologies have never proven to win but that’s how democrats run. We're being lead by minority beliefs because they’re the loudest.
I was really disgusted to see another podium this week with two biological males in first and second place at a women’s event. Third prize was smiling away. This is pathetic. Stand up for your rights for God’s sake. Heroic women fought for years for equality in sports. Now is it okay to just give it away for a third place medal?
I recommend the new men in sports parody: "Lady Ballers":
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lady_ballers
It is hard to suppress ideas expressed via comedy which is why totalitarians are always against it.
Some say that Elon Musk bought Twitter/X because of the attempt to cancel the Babylon Bee. More truth can be found in comedy than the "news" now.
Ok that trailer of Lady Ballers was hilarious. The whole movement has become so absurd how can one NOT laugh at this point? That being said, I'm pretty sure my 21-year-old daughter wouldn't.
I hear you.
I watched the whole movie and recommend it!
Ladyballers also bought a $250,000 ad on X.
:-)
Third place is just happy we let her out of the kitchen (and with shoes on).
:/s
And the women who remain silent today were the loudest in declaring themselves "empowered" yesterday. Woke is warped.
Albert you nailed it, Rami is real man and a hero.
Foreign nations that are hostile to western civilizations are influencing and funding the curriculum for our schools and universities. The Palewood poisons content of the movies distributed by Netflix and tags the twisted lies as "inspired by true events," but accurately titles it as Blood Label https://actionnetwork.org/letters/netflix-removfe-the-antisemitic-blood-libel-film-farha/thankyou?delivery_id=95010299.
Let's face it, the conquest is on! Get ready for Sharia law. How many times do we need to repeat history before we learn the lesson?
you're scaring the shit out of me. feel like dying
Its hard for me to believe the soy boy males we now endure are 1st generation. I think they are the product of equally weak fathers that we just missed.
They are just desperately trying to adapt. Desperation is never a good look.
Adding to what Albert Loveland posted - I followed the link provided to https://freebeacon.com/campus/anti-semitism-hearing-highlights-ivy-league-hypocrisy-on-free-speech/
""In what world is a call for violence against Jews protected speech, but a belief that sex is biological and binary isn’t?" Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.) asked Harvard president Claudine Gay. The school’s diversity administrators had thrown a fit when Carole Hooven, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, stated on Fox News that there are only two sexes, causing such a firestorm that she had to take a leave of absence. Gay didn’t answer the question"
And I went to https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/congressional-campus-antisemitism-hearing-the-three-presidents-were-frankly-fairly-pathetic/
"Another remarkable exchange w/Harvard pres. Gay.
@RepStefanik
: did univ decline request to fly an Israeli flag after 10/7?
Gay: "standard protocol at the university for years" to only fly the US flag--only to concede after followup Q that Harvard flew the Ukraine flag last year."
Really, Harvard and other schools should not be flying that puke tri- "progress" flag either. It is taking a very strong political position and one that many do not agree with (that the BLM movement was a good thing rather than a racist scam and that Gender Ideology must be celebrated ).
How dare you criticize these three women, especially Ms. Gay, a woman of color! Have we learned nothing over the last 8 or so years? Even with the new feminism, this is intolerable.
(Sorry…sarcasm off now)
".....Running towards danger, protecting the weak, killing evil..." sounds exactly how Hamas fighters and Jihadis like to portray themselves.....
Coincidence?
Violence breeds violence and hate breeds hate and so the "Rambos" of this world can keep doing what they are doing and even feel good about themselves while they are doing it. Unfortunately this is not the way to stop the killing and my heroes are not the likes of Rami Rambo and other men of violence but those who reach out over the divides and try to stop the hate. We desperately need more of those.....on all sides!
Are you serious? Did you watch what happened? He was attacked and defended himself and his community from the barbarians who attacked them. You are a fool, and should grow up. Evil must be destroyed, and Hamas should get no mercy. When they are eliminated then we can have peace.
That's not how the violence started. It's just the latest escalation in 75 year old vicious cycle of mutual violence and hate and this vicious cycle has to stop, not perpetuated.
You're the fool, because You don't understand the dynamics of hate at play here. And fools are condemned to live in an ever more violent world, just like the Middle East.
It stops when you kill everyone in Hamas and break the will of those who still want war. We did that with the Japanese and Germans and things have been great since. Unconditional surrender with total war not the half measures it has been taking. See Hamas for what they are and act accordingly. No mercy as they showed none.
Or it stops when You kill every zionist and break the will of those who still wanna steal land.
You see, it works the other way around too. At least theoretically, because I don't believe You can solve this kind of problem with violence. There will always some people left who hate even more and continue to fight. This should be clear after the last 75 years of never ending escalating violence. The only way to stop it is to finally find a way to share the land and respect each other, but that demands two things to happen:
1. The Palestinian side will have to learn that the descendants of the European jews who came to their land and started the problem are not to blame for the past and can consider this land home as much as the Palestinians and the local jews who have lived there for centuries with hardly any problem.
2. The zionists will have to abandon their project of a jewish state on land that has been inhabited by mostly non-jews before their grandfathers arrived there and that any state there can never be a jewish supremacy (nor an Arab/muslim supremacy) state, but only a state that defines itself as a state where all people who live there have a stake in and are welcomed as citizens with equal rights.
That's the only solution or the mutual killing will continue and if some zionist Rambos manage to kill every last Hamas fighter they will only create more hate which will fuel the next organization like Hamas that will be even more radical and deadly. That's simply the logic of hate and violence. Why would that stop after 75 years of violence that proved that violence doesn't work for neither side of the conflict?
You live in a fantasy world, I won't continure to take your rainbows and unicorns from you. We agree to disagree, have a good night!
You can’t believe anything coming from China, Russia, The New York Times, Biden and The Democrat Party. And Trump exaggerates.
There is a vast difference between Trump's harmless New York bravado - which every sentient being sees through and laughs at - and the endless lies from our governing elites.
Bruce Miller
I don't disagree that there is a vast difference,, which is why I didn't include him in the first sentence. And no, lots of us sentient beings aren't laughing. But, IMNSHO, America can do better than former President Trump, who, inter alia, didn't know that no safe and effective vaccine has ever been developed at warp speed. The consequence of not knowing that fact is still being felt as people have their immunity weakened by this unsafe product.
Gee, where did Trump get his MD?
His mistake was trusting in Fauci at a time when the “facts” were changing daily, no one knew who to believe, and Fauci et al were lying to cover up their complicit asses. I cannot blame Trump for any of this. It was the medical/public health community who lied, lied, lied about the vaccine efficacy, their safety, the need to mask and quarantine, etc etc. They lied to Trump, they lied to us.
Trump did advocate for ivermectin and was called a stooge. Turns out he was right.
There was Rand Paul, Republican senator from Kentucky, who is also an MD. His stance strongly differed from Fauci to what should be done at the start of the outbreak. He was also one of the first to acknowledge how Fauci funded research that resulted in the Covid virus. Trump could have talked with him for expert advice.
A president is like a symphony conductor, he is not required to play all the instruments well but to manage all the musicians to produce a quality piece. Too often, Trump became a one-man band and ignored the talent and advice that was available to him.
All good points but Trump failed his one test. The President has to have wisdom to understand that the swamp creatures are all liars. If Trump didn’t know Fauci was lying to him about his role in creating Covid-19 we have to ask why did he not seek console from others like Scott Atlas. And why has he not told the world the truth about Fauci? If he knew Fauci was a liar why did he keep him on? Why did he allow him to get into the light? Either answer exposé’s why Trump failed his test. We need someone’s who first instinct isn’t to bullshit his way out of a problem.
No one knew the extent of Fauci's deceit, and things were moving far too quickly to afford time to properly analyze every minute detail.
The entire CDC is a basket of liberals promoting their own agenda...who to replace Fauci with?
Under the circumstances no one could have done a better job than Trump, and certainly no Democrat would have. It will remain a black mark in our nation's history caused caused by China with malice and intent.
All true but it still doesn’t speak well for Trump. Read about the Cuban missile crisis and how JFK distrusted the military and intelligence agencies and actually went behind their backs to make a deal with the Soviet ‘s to avoid WWIII. This is what real leadership looks like. Trump had his test and he failed it. I want to actually win an election so I can have power to undo the damage Obama and Biden have done. Trump is the Democratic Party favorite candidate because he continues to piss off a lot of voters who would vote Republicans except for the fact that they can’t stand Trump. The reason does not matter if your trying to win. Almost any other of the leading Republicans would win in a landslide against Brandon. Trump get you a narrow win at best or more likely another loss and the Democrats take back the house and have two more years of power that they will actually use to destroy our country
Many excellent academic scientists did know that Fauci was lying, that lockdowns were dangerous, that the case fatality rate was much lower than they were saying(except the very old and frail) Trump blew it and refuses to accept his failing. There are better less divisive candidates.
I would agree with you, except for two things—the pace of things was happening too fast and there was so much fear.
When companies are in the middle of a PR crisis, they don’t fire the CEO. It adds to the sense of instability at a time when they are struggling to project stability. I bet Trump would have liked to fire Fauci, but there was probably tremendous pushback.
If he could not do better under pressure then he was wrong for the job
This was not a PR crisis. It was a Fauci financed medical pandemic. He knowingly lied about everything from the very beginning.Wolensky at the CDC and Birx were equally guilty of crimes against the people of this country and the world. And Trump blew it by not listening to the scientists with nothing personal to gain who were out there trying to be heard.
I think Trump now understands the evil that grips this nation. If elected, he will have the knowledge needed to rid this country of the liberals tearing us down. Every department but a few needs to be cleaned out starting with the DOJ and FBI. And next expose the leftist MSM and all the other news media that hate this country, and there are many!
Four top epidemiologists advised him but reelection was his priority so he did not heed good advice. He also reneged on a vaccine safety council after receiving millions in pharma money. I do blame him. He put himself above the people.
It was the fog of a pandemic war. As in any war, mistakes are made early on. FDR made mistakes prior to Pearl Harbor. Of course he'd have liked a mulligan, but the world doesn't work that way.
I'll bet you weren't making these criticisms of him in mid 2020.......
But you still have to understand that Trump was guided by government leftist that had been running the Obama administration. Eight years this nation was being destroyed by a guy schooled by leftist ideology. Trump has admitted that he didn’t hire the right people for the jobs and if elected it would be a new ballgame.
I sure hope so.
Trump has hired and fired so. Many people in so many disciplines. The only requirement for Trump is 100 %” loyalty” to him. This is not a monarchy. The best minds will not work for him . We need a new younger candidate. Vivek Ramaswamy is smart , works hard, does in-depth research, takes questions from anyone.please please listen to his in-depth posts on YouTube and keep an open mind .
RFKjr is also not to be written off. He certainly got covid right.
I like VR. I think he has a bright, bright future. I also think he is woefully unprepared/inexperienced to be the POTUS at this point. RFK,Jr. was on the Epstein plane. Haley is Hillary Clinton with an R by her name. Christie is Biden with an R by his name. DeSantis might could pull it off but he is so earnest that I fear it would be excited. My personal choice is Pompeo.
Yes I was saying these things in early 2020. I am a physician and knew there was simply not enough time for this dangerous new technology to have been adequately tested. The Great Barrington Declaration ( by three world renown epidemiologists ) documented the prudent course forward and we’re censored by the government via tech companies. It was very obvious very early on that something very wrong was being foisted on the country and the world
You are correct, we CAN do better, but instead before the Bad Orange Man, there were Milquetoast Mitt and Mc$ain. Trump is not *the* problem, but the not-surprising result of eight years of Barry Sotero lecturing us- wagging his finger and telling the public he has a "pen and a phone". I've driven all across the country, and have seen more Trump bumperstickers, billboards, signs painted on barns in "flyover" country because, while dems think they can buy off parts of the population with freebies (welfare, student loans etc.) huge parts of the country just want someone to stand up for them. Trump was the one who did.
With specific regard to the "vaccine", I think for a large part of the population - namely the elderly, the benefits outweighed the risk. The damage done was from blue state politicians who mandated it for their employees and gullible parents who listened to "The Science".
The covid jab technology was never either safe or effective. We were lied to from the get go. It is a dangerous medical scandal , the consequences of which are still unfolding. Many scientists and doctors knew it was inadequately tested and full of problems. The Biden administration and its msm are sidelining the scientists who are trying to keep it front and center.
It depends on how you measure both - lies, damn lies and statistics eh? I stand by my statement that for the elderly and those at risk with compromised immune systems, there was less risk from the shot than there was the virus. Yes, there were definitely scientists and doctors sidelined by the government (licensing boards) and the media (YouTube). Both of which also occurred during the Trump presidency, so those grievances span administrations; pointedly exposing the problem of the "deep state"/permanent bureaucracy.
The vaccine was all about the money. Otherwise attention would have been given to treatment as well.
I don't disagree; in a capitalistic society, isn't it "always" about the money though? The China Virus was the intersection of The Science's career of corruption; i.e., contracting with a foreign government to do what would not be legal in the US, colliding with the Deep State's penchant to "never let a crisis go to waste".
True. But we were a capitalist society from inception. I think the absolute loss of integrity is more recent, although certainly not new.
It's all a charade to ultimately harvest our data, and our souls I believe. Who benefits most from the lockdowns?
Big Tech and advertisers on YouTube.
Hear ye, Hear ye.
For the crime of “exaggerates” Trump shall be categorized with “China, Russia, The New York Times, Biden and The Democrat Party.”
But only Trump will be jailed.
The rest shall roam free to continue their malign deeds.
Hear ye, Hear ye.
As vigorously as I may attempt to do so, I cannot lay my finger on ANY "public" "health" "authority" in which I have more faith than I do the Daily Horoscope (we're below zero already, folks). Sweden? They don't know what a border is; are the still trustworthy on anything?
Actually, Sweden’s pandemic response really came down to ONE man: Anders Tegnell, who simply “stuck to the plan” that had been developed by Swedish health authorities long before the pandemic was contemplated. He was severely criticized for his handling of the situation (both by Swedish politicos and the international community), and was almost removed from his position. In hindsight, of course, he turned out to be right about everything except the exposures among Sweden’s elderly.
It's ALWAYS the (correct) One Man, isn't it?
Thank You! 100% Agree
Also CNN and MSNBC. I haven't wathed news on CBS, NBC, ABC or PBS for decades, but I would guess the same applies to them. Fox and most talk radio use the same standards from the other side. Thankfully, we have The Free Press.
Spot on🙌🏻
Really funny. I have to remember this line.
Bill Ackman stated “If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.”
Problem is, Ackman doesn't run most of corporate America. And the lack of courage to stand up for American principles among our corporate class and to toady to anti-Semites, race grifters and Chinese authoritarians is sickening.
We the peasants do have the power of the wallet and the vote. 2024
If we can trust the process.
Reportedly the youth vote is not reliable for the upcoming election.
I meant the voting process, so many last minute questionable changes were made in the last election. ( I will vote nonetheless.)
Honestly. A new Republican administration can't come soon enough.
As a lifelong (63-yr-old) independent until earlier this year, I agree.
We did not have the power of the vote in 2020 rather Mark Zuckerburg and Twitter did. Both of whom were in bed with the FBI and other alphabet agencies on the executive branch. No one who cast a ballot in 2020 cast an informed one.
Some who cast a ballot in 2020 were able to weed through the bs in the media, but the fascist scum in the government, MSM and social media that lied and/or withheld facts certainly influenced some votes. 2024 is going to be very different, and there won't be enough printer time and ink to make enough ballots to overcome the votes.
I hope you are correct. At least Sam Bankman-Fried is not plying his goods. But my suspicion is all that polling is to gage how many ballots need to be harvested.
That would be too many ballots for them to print. The loons are bleeding voters who are fed up, and yet they keep doubling down on the fantasy that they haven't gone far enough.
Principles weren't near as important before 10/7. Ackman and his ilk merely shrugged at the academic rot and continued to donate. Now, suddenly, they want everything to change. First thing they should do is reflect on their complicity and letting things deteriorate.
True enough. But at least someone has to wit to say the madness must stop. Surely the witless dolts who run the Ivy League schools still have their heads planted firmly up their ample behinds.
Unfortunately, in the academic world, these disgusting individuals are considered heros. I don't see change occuring short of some kind of external revolution.
Shunning. They need to be shunned.
"Not a single one of them responded with a yes......the three presidents’ “profound moral bankruptcy”"......It's a hard thing for most people to take on board - a counter-intuitive thing - but the awful truth is that our elite institutions of 'higher education' have become repositories of some of the worst kind of up-emselves low-life in the Western world. Thick-witted but self-important intellectual and moral cowards; drawn to academia like a magnet (and welcomed in with open arms by their equally groupthink-mentality peers). In a saner world, they would be told "you are ignorant no-marks with nothing to give to the advance of learning....get lost" https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
(Devoid of actual knowledge.) Those who can't Do are drawn to the academy. But college presidents at one time were pillars -- where I went back in the '60s a retired general. I suspect that some Higher Power, my guess being the trustees -- largely filthy richard alums; Doers, in a word -- held the whip hand when it came to selecting presidents. Under such hi jinks as "legacy admissions," the doers got replaced by the spoiled spawn of the doers, who can now select clones of themselves.
Thoughts?
Yes to all that. This is something of a scale that few people - even conservatives - have really taken on board. The bilge pouring out of the non-STEM parts of academia over several decades now (and influencing the impressionable minds of the ambitious future middle-class elite) has been the greatest cause of the Western world's moral and spiritual decay. It has been far more powerful - and poisonous - than any of the democratic-electoral 'politics' of the era (which gets all the MSM-media attention).
All that (thanks!) and it's clearly bleeding into STEM.
You're welcome! https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/
Of course, in the old days, university presidents didn’t have to fall into the “correct categories” of DEI. Now, anyone not sufficiently “minority” is a non-starter. Merit is just “frills” in education; the “real” meat of the matter is your standing in the “oppression olympics”.
Quite. Quite a lot, actually; it did not escape notice that all three dwarf cyphers were (nominally, at least) women.
"...up-emselves low life...Thick witted but self-important cowards...no-mark peers (I liked that one best)...," I learn so much here. Thank you.
You're Welcome!
Rob Henderson had this on his Substack this week as recommended reading. It is from 1970. I found it compelling.
https://archive.li/gRDsV
Thank you. Yes a prescient piece, written so long ago. This is recurrent theme of my own writing on my Slouching Towards Bethlehem Substack....."For these reasons, conservatism has been asleep for most of the last 70 years, allowing Progressives a clear run through the commanding heights of the burgeoning mass education and mass media establishments. So much so that now, to voice the truth - that crass ‘progressive’ progress is mostly counter-productive (Mao was a real first rank Progressive) and that real human advances tend to happen in spite of, not because of it – seems paradoxical and invites blank disbelief. Conservatism has long been in retreat throughout the Western world and is in dire need of somehow finding a new way to express its alternative vision in seductive terms." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/are-we-making-progress
To borrow from William F Buckley, I would rather see corporate America run by the first 100 people in the phonebook than the slimeballs running it now.
Believe me, I appreciate Bill Ackman’s continued outspoken criticism of these illiberal hypocrites but the fact is he and other “liberal” Jews, including the Anti Defamation League and the ACLU, are very late to the game. The blind allegiance to the Democratic Party coupled with Trump derangement syndrome have made them all complicit.
Elise Stefanik should have asked the same question, but changed the word, “antisemitism” to “anti-Islamic”.
We all know that if she had changed the question to ANY group except Jews, the answer would have been "yes." If these students were screaming "Death to trans!" or "Death to blacks!" or "Death to illegal aliens!" they would have been expelled the same day.
The hypocrisy is evident, but technically the presidents replied correctly about freedom of speech in this case. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to make them commit to the same freedom when other issues are concerned.
I wish she'd asked all of them if words still equal violence as we've been told to believe, over and over again.
Exactly!!! Or anti Black!!
That part
Wait a second here... are we falling for the "pandemic" scare all over again? Haven't the three years taught us nothing? We do realize that our policies have actually taken more lives than the "virus" itself right....? https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-covid-19-protocols-killed-millions
MIT showed that individuals who did their own research had more data to stand on. Unfortunately, those individuals are known as "conspiracy theorist". Per MIT, "Anti-maskers are smart and educated"
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/four-lessons-that-we-should-have
Doesn’t mean we don’t need to exercise caution.
There is a middle ground here on vaccination and targeted risk-stratification protection strategies (elderly, transplant pt on immunosuppressants, etc.). Young folks don’t need 6 boosters. Etc.
But you also have to keep in mind that during 2020-2021, our ICU’s and medical floors were over run with COVID. After vaccination came out, large majority in our ICU’s were unvaccinated.
Fortunately we are not seeing that anymore, likely due to combination of natural and vaccine immunity. I myself have only seen one intubated COVID pt on my service in past year or so (has been some on colleagues services).
There was a time when we needed certain policy, although those policies exceeded their sell by date.
Covid in 2020 was very dangerous. In this forum, the consensus seems to be that Public Health officials were malignant liars. Rather, under real-time pressure they put forth data-based conclusions at the time that later turned out to be wrong. Happens commonly in medical and other research. Clinical trials give evidence that something should work, but it’s only after widespread use that we find out how effective a medicine or treatment really is. It became evident that the vaccines were not as effective at total protection as was predicted, a huge disappointment, yes. Not because of lies, but because that’s how it turned out in the real world. Immunity from natural infection was downplayed, an error I believe. We learned that although masks do indeed work; mask mandates do not. We have learned that lockdowns in schools were bad policy. Common sense distancing was and is smart—don’t you avoid close contact with people you know have a bad cold? Get your flu and covid shots.
“Let us not look back in anger or look forward in fear but let us look around us in awareness.” —James Thurber
No worry, if China says it's OK, then you can put that right there with that pot of gold from the rainbow and Leprechaun you found. After all, it's not like they say they are concerned about the environment and then increase air pollutants at greater numbers. Or they are here are to help, but first give us control over your country. Look at Xi and tell me you don't trust him?
For your kids, get them away from social media and get them into sports, music, cars, dirt bikes, anything but listening to losers give their opinion on someone they don't know and won't care if something happens to them.
College administrators, so called professors and others who say Hamas is brave should be required to live there for a while and then maybe Sudan where another faction of Hamas types uses the same slaughter, rape, and terror on innocent people. Then come back and tell us your opinions. Nothing like fools to be led by other fools in causes that will ultimately get them killed or suppressed in life. Colleges have become useless and a breeding grounds for the useless and lost kids who have no capability to think for themselves or understand, individualism is what makes a person unique and interesting.
Well said.
How many of you were disgusted watching the nationally televised Chiefs - Packers game when the grinning dolt Travis Kelce shilled for the phony jab.? Is there no end to these athletes and actors who will sell their souls for the 30 pieces of silver that Pfizer and the other drug dealers dangle in front of them?
At this point, anyone that would vax is irredeemable anyway.
Finally - virtue signaling has a price.
What do you think of Peyton and Emmitt shilling for Bud Light?
Drinking Bud light never killed or maimed anyone. Their trans stance was idiotic pandering and there's a price to pay for toadying to them.
Good move by Bud Light and something they should have done a long time ago. Hope Peyton and Emmitt are making a fortune. I'm guessing they are.
I kind of doubt it will make a difference for Bud Light, though. Chances are that a lot of people found a new favorite beer and won't bother going back.
I think the Bud Light egress was fundamentally different in an important way. Gillette told men, "Men are bad," but that's the same message the Left has been sending men for the last 20 years or more--offensive but not new. But with Bud Light, the fundamental message was "Real men don't drink this beer." And that was very easy to roll with: okay, I won't drink this beer.
But I don't blame anyone for taking money from them. They deserve to go broke.
According to National Review's article on the antisemitism hearings,
"When (Rep. Tim) Walberg asked how (Harvard President Claudine) Gay could justify that claim (that Harvard has free speech), given the myriad instances of faculty's being sanctioned for speech and guests' being disinvited from speaking on campus, she said that the university’s commitment is not solely to free expression but to ensuring that speech is “exercised mindfully and with empathy for others.”
Obviously, some "others" are worthy of empathy, while other "others" are mindfully threatened with genocide. One wonders whether President Gay is enjoying being able to say these things that are self-evidently false, or whether she sincerely believes that she and her Hamas brethren are all the goodness of the world.
Harvard alums should be filing a class action against their alma mater, as the value of their degrees is plummeting every time Gay opens her mouth.
It’s already at zero. When hiring others, having an ivy league degree was never a bonus in any way over someone that attended a state school in my estimation. Now, it’s an automatic rejection.
Anyone pliable enough to espouse the beliefs required to graduate from one of these shoddy institutions bathed in bigotry from admissions to graduation has no place in polite society or my place of business.
I also wouldn’t hire a member of the KKK, but I repeat myself.
I think current students are more likely to be affected than past graduates.
It would have been much simpler, and more honest, if Gay had just answered that question, "no".
Yes, it would. Imagine if she had said, "At Harvard, we consider it perfectly acceptable to call for the elimination of Jews and Israel and to assault and harass Jewish students. Some other ethnic and/or religious groups must be treated with absolute reverence at all times. If you can't deal with that, stay away from Harvard."
Yes!
“Harvard president Claudine Gay, who said yesterday that when it comes to calls for the genocide of the Jews, context is everything.”
Context is everything, hmmm......Context such as, oh yes, that you’re evil. Is that the context you were searching for?
We all need to honor and emulate Rami. A man in full. In the best sense of the word.
For those FP readers who are not on Twitter/X: the college presidents’ disgraceful testimony before Congress is being critcized all over the world. Everyone of them has caused “reputational damage” to the institutions they serve. How can the Boards not oust them?
Because the vast majority of the boards either agree with them or think they aren’t bigoted enough.
People do not realize where we are. There are no “sane adults” coming to rescue us. We have to do it ourselves.
They're not going to hand over the keys.
Aside from the smirking and evasive, obvious “lawyered-up” responses, one answer from Ms. Gay was particularly telling: When asked if she supports Israel’s “right to exist as as a Jewish State,” she answered, “I support Israel’s right to exist.” Her intentional omission said it all.
The interviews with the Ivy League presidents exposed the lie of women being better than men in positions of power. Neither sex (or gender, if you prefer - take Rachel Levine...please!) has a monopoly on mendacity and sheer gutlessness. These academics so tied up in nuance that they can't grasp the truth that evil exists, and Hamas is one of its avatars.
I was disappointed that Elise Stefanik didn’t ask those soulless, robotic presidents to cite a context in which screaming for the genocide of Jews would be acceptable, since all three trotted out that repugnant line. In the corporate world, Liz Magill would have been forced to resign long ago for “being too much of a distraction”.
Ms Gay should have been asked if screaming for the genocide of blacks is OK.
Does the Klan still exist? They've certainly been out of the news lately, but, if they do, their PR team should be busily planning a march at Harvard Square. It would be great to see all the tolerance that would be thrown at them.
These campus Jew hating Hamas supporters are the new klan, the new Nazis.
I think so...
"This paradox is nothing new. As the late Justice Antonin Scalia said in a 1997 speech on the Holocaust, “the most frightening aspect of it all. . . [is that the Holocaust] happened in one of the most educated, most progressive, most cultured countries in the world. . . a world leader in most fields of art, science, and intellect.” Like the US.
This bit resonated... and reminded me of words in another article. This University stuff might be less concerning if we had faith in other institutions.
"German medicine led the world in ethics, too. Modern notions of informed consent regulations originated in late 19C Germany: “Explicit directives concerned with the welfare of people subjected to medical experimentation in Germany were in place long before the Nuremberg code was devised in 1947.”
Still, doctors embraced eugenics with shocking enthusiasm and radicalism. They didn’t simply “go along” with Hitler, they were already so steeped in this quasi-scientific ideology that they were out ahead of Nazi politicians. “The German medical community set its own course in 1933. In some respects this course even outpaced the new [Nazi] government, which had to rein in the profession's eager pursuit of enforced eugenic sterilisations.”
(He continues, “In 1933 the convergence of political, scientific, and economic forces dramatically changed the relationship between the medical community and the government. That same convergence is occurring again [in 1996] and must be approached with great caution if medicine is to remain focused on the preservation of physical and medical integrity.”)
Well into the 20C, Germany’s rules were the most progressive on earth and the Nuremberg defendants scolded American and British counterparts you perform unethical experimentation, too. They had a point. In Allied countries the standards were less evolved. In Germany the standards had decades to evolve, doctors simply chose to break rules their fathers had written.
Much of this came of doctors and medical associations promoting their own economic and professional interests."
https://www.pittparents.com/p/echoes-of-eugenics-what-the-doctors
And, it's not like the kids are brainwashed at school K-12 or anything - with Marxist DIE/intersectional/Gender Queer Theory or anything:
"Understanding a School’s Role in Social Gender Transition: Parent Perspectives"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VEuk7K2exA&list=PLGtHX8cqFXbDfa9c31xCbvU85-3uZyHY2&index=3
I wonder if Ms Gay is her real name.
Magill was entirely unable to keep from smiling and smirking, as if she thought the hearing to be a source of ironic humor. I’m surprised and disappointed that no one called her on that.
The last time I trusted anything that came out of China it broke a week after I bought it.
Claudine Gay is a woman who cares little about her fellow man or woman. She cares about how to use dark forces to better herself. And it speaks volumes about our institutions that she’s been richly rewarded for her corrupting and malign deeds.
Look at what she did to Roland Fryer, an academic with an intellect far higher than hers and more morality in his little finger than she has ever possessed.
We have cretins, the worst of the worst and the dimmest of the dim in our institutions, for sure not the best and the brightest.
“She is a scholar of uncommon creativity and rigor, with a strong working knowledge of the opportunities and challenges facing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She radiates a concern for others, and for how what we do here can help improve lives far beyond our walls.” Harvard President Larry Bacow
Congrats! You made me spit out my coffee!
You're welcome. The way the elites butter one another up can be very amusing.
I couldn’t give a rats you-know-what about her so called credentials. They mean nothing when I look at what she does to others and how she conducts herself morally. She lacks in all areas of her humanity, except when she believes it can benefit her and her now sullied reputation.
Word salad. It’s what’s for dinner!
Yes, true!
Midwitocracy
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