This Tweet and the responses:

Is anyone shocked that Ron DeSantis went to Yale and Harvard? How is that even possible?

— Nathalie Jacoby (@nathaliejacoby1) January 9, 2022

Probably just drove through them.

— Renee (@rapidcleanings1) January 9, 2022

I’m thinking admission scandal….

— Stay Positive,Test Negative (@realmurphy12) January 9, 2022

He probably had someone else do his coursework just like Trump did. ?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️

— ?Saucy Schippy? (@SaucySchippy) January 9, 2022

Well, the college gift shop lets anybody in.

— ⭐️Jonathan Scott⭐️ (@jonscott1983) January 9, 2022

Perhaps $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ or sports scholarships? Certainly not from brain power!

— Tamara Brock ? (@tamarabrock) January 9, 2022

Pay to play is what I’m guessing.

— Melissa (@siddypic) January 9, 2022

Buy a chair, get your kids and grands in.

— meg evans – sturdy woman in a deflating fat suit (@1x10e6) January 9, 2022

Here is what this thread is saying quite explicitly:

Only ideologically pure Leftist are worthy of the Ivy Leagues.  If someone graduated from one or more of those schools and is not an ideologically pure Leftist  they are stupid and obtained their entrance and degrees dishonestly and with nepotism or corruption.

I’d be inclined to ignore this except that graduates of these institutions have so much sway in our political and economic institutions.

So of they want to admit that the Ivy Leagues are not schools that educate but credentializing institutions for the indoctrination and minting of hard core Leftists then I see no reason for them to exist anymore.

Seize their endowments to pay for vocational degrees for working class kids, turn their dorms into low cost housings, turn their academic buildings into and green spaces into public municipal use areas, open their libraries to the public.

America would be a far better place if no one ever received an Ivy League degree ever again.

Sydney festival boycott: more than 20 acts withdraw over Israeli funding
Festival board issues new statement as protest against it grows, with program thrown into chaos two days before opening night

More than 20 acts have pulled out of the 2022 Sydney festival, just 48 hours before opening night, boycotting the festival over a sponsorship deal with the Israeli embassy.

The comedian Tom Ballard, the Belvoir theatre production of Black Brass, former NSW politician Meredith Burgmann, First Nations dance company Marrugeku and commentator Yumi Stynes are just some of the festival participants who have either cancelled or distanced themselves in protest, joining a growing number of Arab, pro-Palestinian, First Nations and Greens groups spearheading the call for a boycott.

In a statement posted to social media on Tuesday, Belvoir said it had a “long and fruitful relationship” with the Sydney festival. “Black Brass was made by and with the many African communities in Perth,” the post said.

“At the heart of the process was a commitment to cultural safety which gives artists the freedom to work without fear or compromise.

“In recognition that the community is now divided and Palestinian artists are unable to participate in this year’s Sydney Festival with the same cultural safety that was so essential to the making of Black Brass, we are choosing not to accept any direct financial support from the Festival.”

On Tuesday the Sydney festival board put out a second statement, backing its controversial decision to forge ahead with a Sydney Dance Company production of Decadance, a work created by the Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin and Tel Aviv’s Batsheva Dance Company, whose Sydney festival participation is being funded by a $20,000 grant from the Embassy of Israel in Canberra.

“We spent time with a number of groups who have concerns about this funding and welcomed the opportunity to engage with them. All funding agreements for the current Festival – including for Decadance – will be honoured, and the performances will proceed.

“At the same time, the Board has also determined it will review its practices in relation to funding from foreign governments or related parties.”

The festival badly needed money due to COVID restrictions.

The Israeli embassy sponsored it to the tune of $20,000.

Dozens of artists and performers pull out in boycott because they can’t stand to be around Jews.

The festival organization tries to figure out how to not accept Jewish money in subsequent years.

They all claim this is because of safety, because Jews sponsoring the arts is somehow dangerous to Australian First Nations (Aboriginal) people.

Fine, if these people want to destroy their own art festival rather than allow Jewish sponsorship, fuck ’em.

But don’t let them pretend to be the virtuous ones.  They’re just a bunch of bigots and should be treated with the appropriate amount of derision for it.

This guy is a professor at UC Riverside:

This is his Tweet:

STOP ? TEACHING ? THAT ? SEX ? IS ? BIOLOGICAL ? AND ? GENDER ? IS ? SOCIAL ?

Sex is also a social construct. We assign meaning to certain things – hormones, chromosomes, genitals – because of dominant gender ideologies. Read Sexing the Body.

Thank you!

— Dr. Brandon Andrew Robinson (@DrKittyGirl) January 5, 2022

This is the biological equivalent of 2+2=5.

This is scientifically and probably false.

This is what a professor is teaching in class.

This man got his PhD at the University of Texas in Austin.

The university system is not teaching science.

It’s teaching sexual Lysenkoism based entirely on Leftist, trans-activist political ideology.

We need to purge the universities, burn them down, and start over.

https://twitter.com/braxton_mccoy/status/1480034635614547969

As an avid fan of military history, I would agree, but with stipulations.

Vietnam was the first truly modern military we fielded, where we didn’t show up late to the game with old toys.

If you look at WWII, other than the M1 Garand, much of our early WWII weapons were lagging behind German military technology.  Arguably, even the Garand wasn’t as good as it could have been because the Army wanted to use up its stash of 30 cal from WWI so we didn’t get a higher capacity, intermediate cartridge M1 like Garand wanted.

There was a large isolationist push going into WWII, and so our military developed lagged behind.

Once we committed to the war, we went in balls to the wall and caught up quick.

Vietnam was different.

Because of the Cold War, America was committed to maintaining a well trained and equipped standing army.

It had its hiccups, but what we fielded in Vietnam was incredibly well prepared.

But Vietnam was also a turning point.

The Military Industrial Complex was born from WWII any by Vietnam was in full swing.

Vietnam marked the first time career officers rose through the ranks alongside military contractors.  It was also the first war that combined the military with a strategic intelligence community (CIA and DIA).

Lastly, it was the first war shown on nightly American TV.

Consequently, it was the first war in which the interests were more than generals achieving tactical victories and defeating the enemy.

While our troops on the ground may have been outperforming the Viet Cong tactically, the war was undermined politically and by officers who has post military careers in the MIC private sector.

That cancer in our military began in Vietnam and has metastasized since then and is now killing our military from the inside.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1480081899121000451

A thousand homes have been destroyed.  For a thousand families, everything they had has been reduced to ashes.  A lifetime of mementos, treasures, family heirlooms, all of it gone.

This is devastating, emotionally as well as financially.

But fuck ’em, because this will allow Biden to spend money to build giant, ugly, bird killing windmills, that don’t provide reliable power to the grid, and are resource wasteful, but are the ultimate edifice of environmentally conscious virtue signaling.

Present Empathy, the Grief Whisperer, couldn’t contain his joy that the material wealth thousand families has been wiped from this earth so he could build windmills.

The Left does not care about you and us happy to see the evidence of your existence purged from this world with fire so that they can build their utopia.  This is the way it’s always been.

The most salient thing I’ve noticed about people’s response to COVID is this:

The softer and easier a person’s life is, the more they over react to COVID.

Almost universally, the people who I see in real life and on social media who freak out over COVID, and want mandates and lockdowns, who get boosters and wear masks, are upper middle-class people who do their jobs in comfortable offices behind a laptop.

The most insane COVID responses are from the pampered, stay-at-home, wives of men described above.

People who lives lives that contain virtually no risk absolutely lose their shit in the face of a cough.

And almost universally, the people who I see in real life and on social media who just keep living their lives, maybe they got vaccinated or maybe they didn’t but are not lined up for boosters and don’t wear masks, are people who’s jobs and lives come with actual risk of injury or death.

Roughnecks, miners, machinists, petroleum workers, etc, the people who could get an arm ripped off or killed by machinery they work with every day simply don’t give a fuck about a cough.

Even within organizations, this is evident.

It’s a simple corollary: the more PPE an employee is required wear on the job the less likely they are willing to be masked or vaccinated and vice versa.

HR and admin are in masks, the rig-hand has never had the jab.

Children have had the lowest rates and virus transmission of any demographic.  It’s teachers who work with children and just had two weeks off for Christmas break who are on strike demanding remote learning.

Truckers risk death every day on our highways.  Most are unvaccinated.

Writers and pundits who do 100% of their jobs online from a home office with a VPN and a webcam are demanding another two weeks to slow the spread.

Absolutely the lowest risk job workers are demanding thr highest levels of COVID safety.

Even the military is like this.  The military personnel pushing COVID compliance are AG officers and uniformed bureaucrats who command through PowerPoint.  Combat arms personnel would rather discharge than vaccinate.

COVID compliance has been tyranny of the softest people with the easiest lives over those who do real and dangerous work for a living.

I keep saying I don’t want to return to normal and I want a reckoning.

This is why.

The people who live soft lives and have no idea how to process personal risk should not be the ones who get to decide how society operates.

Thats is how we end up where we are now, a neurotic society paralyzed by fear of a cough.

11-year-old boy dies after shooting himself during Zoom class

An 11-year-old boy died after he shot himself in his California home during a Zoom class this week, according to a news report.

The pre-teen was attending the virtual class with his microphone and camera turned off when he took his own life just after 11 a.m. Wednesday in Woodbridge, a community in Northern California’s Central Valley, KOVR reported.

I read this and I don’t want society to go back to normal.

I don’t want the people who pushed lockdown policies that drove children to suicide to ever sleep peacefully in their beds.

I want every single politician, union member, and bureaucrat who pushed lockdowns in California to be forced onto their knees, have to look at a picture of this boy, apologize to his parents for what they did, then eat a round themselves.

I feel like this whole nation needs to burn down and be reborn from the ashes after a long and bloody purge because under no circumstances should the people who sacrificed the wellbeing and lives of children so they could sit at home and feel safe ever be allowed anywhere near the reigns of power ever again.

I want retribution.