For the last several years I have been disputing overblown claims that political correctness is running amok on college campuses. Given my job as the president of Wesleyan University, well-known to be (happily) a bastion of left-leaning protest, this probably isn’t very surprising.
…so it really has come to this, it seems
From Trump, No Respect for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or the Rules
I used to feel pretty optimistic that the country would get through the Trump years intact. […] Now we might have passed a point of no return. No matter who wins in November, can the harsh divisions abate?
…if indeed it gets to get better & doesn’t just get worse until all that’s left between a raging inferno on the west coast & the remains of the wind-torn east coast is a narrow channel of undereducated, malnourished & mistakenly self-satisfied assholes somewhere in the middle telling themselves that starving to death for the sake of denying climate change & owning a bunch of long-dead libs is what being a true american is all about
…but even if it does seem like we literally don’t have time for this shit…& unholy as it might be to so much as contemplate…even if the GOP doesn’t suffer the biggest bloodletting in electoral history come november…which, to be clear, they could not deserve more
…although at this point there is no possible world where the nearest thing to a best case scenario doesn’t start with Biden winning with both Houses in his back pocket for the foreseeable future
“Guys like Trump who inherited everything and squandered what they inherited are the people that I’ve always had a problem with, not the people who are busting their neck,” […] “I really do view this campaign as a campaign between Scranton and Park Avenue,” the Democratic presidential nominee added. “All he thinks about is the stock market.”
…I prefer my poison pen letters to be figurative…& there are undoubtedly a surfeit of deserving recipients out there…so I wouldn’t even need to make it up as I went along…unlike the sociopathically amoral mental defectives that think any of this disgrace of an administration’s efforts are anything but a vainglorious exercise in malfeasance on every level…because that takes a studied ignorance that collapses at the slightest scrutiny
…I could go on…but it seems fitting to let the lady have last word
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Advice for Living
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This sentence just got a perfect score on the SAT
…unlike the sociopathically amoral mental defectives that think any of this disgrace of an administration’s efforts are anything but a vainglorious exercise in malfeasance on every level…
hahahahahahahahahaha *dies*
seems america just decided for the un to re impose all the sanctions on iran https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/us-iran-un-sanctions.html
every other country in the un pretty much said uhhh no and is pretty much planning to ignore the screaming toddler with the very large army
probably shouldnt have fucked of out of the deal if you still wanted to have a say in it
why am i finding this funny?
oh how the mighty have fallen
…sometimes they do that…like the NYT links above the line but without the option of adding a “caption” line
…there might be a way to stop them but I haven’t quite figured it out?
[edit to add – I tried to make the link at least open in a new tab & that seems to have un-embedded it so no picture now…but that’s an awkward process that involves a trick I don’t think is generally available on a post I didn’t write?]
yup lol
but really…its incredible how far the states status has fallen in just 4 years
i mean…after bushes WMDs it took a major hit
but this shit?
its going to take a loooooooooong time to fix all this damage…and im not sure the trust will ever come back
If the rest of the world is smart, the trust will never come back. There will always be the very real danger of a Republican in the White House which means doing everything they can to wipe out whatever goodwill was built by the preceding Democrat and then burning it all down every time. We will never have credibility as long as the Republican Party continues to exist.
“I think, if he dials down the crazy, just a little bit, he might do a little better”
“yeah, that ain’t going to happen. jimmy’s crazy dial goes only one way, and that’s up”
This sentence just got a perfect score on the SAT
…unlike the sociopathically amoral mental defectives that think any of this disgrace of an administration’s efforts are anything but a vainglorious exercise in malfeasance on every level…
…it feels oddly self-congratulatory to star that…but thank you kindly
I came here just to say that reading words like “vainglorious exercise in malfeasance” softens the blow of the subject matter.
hahahahahahahahahaha *dies*
seems america just decided for the un to re impose all the sanctions on iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/us-iran-un-sanctions.html
every other country in the un pretty much said uhhh no and is pretty much planning to ignore the screaming toddler with the very large army
probably shouldnt have fucked of out of the deal if you still wanted to have a say in it
why am i finding this funny?
oh how the mighty have fallen
huh? link turned into a picture….thats odd
…sometimes they do that…like the NYT links above the line but without the option of adding a “caption” line
…there might be a way to stop them but I haven’t quite figured it out?
[edit to add – I tried to make the link at least open in a new tab & that seems to have un-embedded it so no picture now…but that’s an awkward process that involves a trick I don’t think is generally available on a post I didn’t write?]
…as for the sanctions thing…ever get the feeling he has absolutely no clue how any of this shit works?
Every. damn. day.
yup lol
but really…its incredible how far the states status has fallen in just 4 years
i mean…after bushes WMDs it took a major hit
but this shit?
its going to take a loooooooooong time to fix all this damage…and im not sure the trust will ever come back
If the rest of the world is smart, the trust will never come back. There will always be the very real danger of a Republican in the White House which means doing everything they can to wipe out whatever goodwill was built by the preceding Democrat and then burning it all down every time. We will never have credibility as long as the Republican Party continues to exist.
also also…uhh..?
anyhoo i just wanted to share me new favourrite sport
yeah…i got hooked on die cast racing lol
“I think, if he dials down the crazy, just a little bit, he might do a little better”
“yeah, that ain’t going to happen. jimmy’s crazy dial goes only one way, and that’s up”
LOL!
crazy jimmy: