"The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."
Perfect. We forget we hire them. They are at our beck and call. Our mercy. They work for me. A fact I reiterated with our local taxpayer paid library director when she threw me out for not wearing a mask. (Which she still requires on all her employees behind the plexiglass screens.) I’m going to wander up some morning to story hour and check if she is requiring masks on toddlers. Yes she has done that.
If you knew who the newly picked head of the American Library Association is there would be no surprise about what happens in libraries. Water ain’t gonna clear up til you get the pigs outta the creek.
Yes but it would be a start at least. Lots of people are very fearful of lawsuits. I think business owners and public officials who still force mask wearing should feel the pain financially. They are low on the totem pole in terms of responsibility imo.
When I try to link to your sub stack site from your morning email (Outlook) - Microsoft is telling the link is not safe and recommends that I don't link here. This is also happening on other "alternative narrative" sites like El Gato's Bad Kitty site.
Maybe the point is that God doesn’t promise we will be free from hard times. We know this though. And trust He will be with us through it all…He does promise that!
What? He did get to drive up in a car though to the internment service at Windsor. Most had to get on a bus. But maybe he deliberately missed the bus. He’s excellent at “missing the bus” on so many crucial issues. Deliberately or otherwise.
Joe was at the bar singing show tunes with Justin Trudeau. Ever the perfectionist, Fidelito became frustrated with Joe's out-of-key singing and wrong lyrics so he and and his entourage split while Joe was in the Men's Room, leaving Joe without a ride. An embarrassed Joe summoned his security detail which commandeered a double-decker allowing Joe to make it to the funeral, albeit late. Thus, the seat in the back.
That was my understanding as well, he took his own car as he couldn’t ride the bus and then got stuck in traffic and was late. He was on time for George Floyd’s funeral.
NO - seating arrangements are complex as first there is the family and then other royalty (e.g. Queen of Denmark as Europe's next longest reigning queen who I am sure descends from Victoria as well but I think she was also some how a much closer relation to Prince Philip as the Greek and Danish-Russian royals are also closely related) and then commonwealth country heads... I suppose British politicians also get seated closer.... WE ARE NOT SO IMPORTANT FOR EVERYTHING...
I noticed no masks in the funeral picture. Yet in Oklahoma USA yesterday at a PT appt, the “security guard” was waiting for me **when I came out of the restroom** to hand me a mask. I had gotten on the empty elevator, gotten off in the empty hallway, and entered the empty restroom. He told me to make sure I wear my mask in the hallways. After my appointment I told him he didn’t need to chase me down to the bathroom next time and not to be ridiculous.
I would say “really??”, take the mask and keep walking. If they double down and I really wanted the PT I would then put it on my chin. If they persist I would find a new PT that doesn’t require masks. I’ve been done with masks for anything for a very long time. In fact the only place I ever complied was on airlines if I sensed I’d be kicked off if I didn’t wear one.
When I checked in and the receptionist tried to give me one, I said “I have one.” Which I did, in my hand, with no intention of putting it on. Funny thing is that it is a very thin cloth mask that I cut two layers out of. A tech at a different appointment asked me to pull it up, said she was being careful because of being 6 months pregnant. I guess critical thinking and science are no longer required subjects in med tech programs, nursing school, or medical school. So many things I wish I would have said!
You obviously don't live in a blue state. In WA for example, you cannot be in any medical facility of any sort without a mask. No exceptions. Good for you for living somewhere where you have a choice; not everyone else has that right.
I’m in a blue state too. It’s going to last forever. I’m sure of that. I do have an unmask that allows breathing but that doesn’t deal with the tyranny aspect. I’ll play it by ear. I could feel just a bit dizzy? Just enough to plead full breath.
I’ve learned that some buildings say “we ask that you wear a mask” and some even have removed the mask signs completely. I also don’t put one on even if it says it’s required just to see what happens. My sister in Missouri said at the hospital the admin told employees it’s up to them whether they wear a mask or not.
I think it all depends upon the health care conglomerate that each facility is tied to. St. Lukes and St. Al's in Idaho all require masks and are militant.
My system doesn’t require masks as hospital patients. Which I was for 2 nights a week ago. Staff does of course. I didn’t wear one as I left I think. I wasn’t really sure I even had a face right then from the painkillers. 🥴🥴😱.
Yes...now, it could be just for show in the front areas, as that is where I was waiting for Hubs to have ortho surgery. He said that in the back nobody said boo about a mask.
I had PT for several weeks here in Commiefornia. Masks Required signs all over the place, and all the little sheep complied. Not me! Walked right in and did my PT. No one said a word. I clearly had my "don't mess with me" game face on.
In Cali also. . . Had an appt with my primary, went to pharmacy and med records in same building. Harassed everywhere but didn't wear one. . . Subsequently got a letter threatening termination of care if I caused any more trouble in the future. . . She's getting a subpoena from me.
Good. Just make them feel ridiculous. I’m using crutches at the moment. I’ve already used them to keep a dog at bay. 🤔. I have used “I know your boss requires you to do this but tell the boss I refused the request and will confirm that”. What can he do then really? They have backed down. But why in the hell I need to do that p1sses me off.
Too much! I want to rejoin Twitter just to comment on that Newsom Fella. We have lost a dozen families in the last 12 months and it’s all about the covid vaccine mandates. AB 2098 (that’s the misinformation crap law) goes into law and we are out. Newsom is pure evil. He’s the ultimate villain straight outa central casting. Just a better looking version of Trudeau operating from the same set of instructions.
Everyone - Keep a list of all the things Gov Newt is doing to California. He wants to do to the same to the rest of the US.
Don’t infect the rest of the country with California’s stupidity.
The Newt is a silver tongued devil like Bill Clinton and Obama, the privileged nephew of Nancy Pelosi. She paving the way for him.
Voters have short attention spans. When he throws his hat in for 2024, remind everyone what would be in store.
Some of Newt’s damaging actions:
Banned gas powered engines of any kind:
not only lawn mowers, but also emergency generators, cars, trucks, and diesel- trucks, trains.
All electric.
Eliminating natural gas for heat and cooking.
Electricity grid is fragile, cannot sustain current usage even with non electric cars and trucks.
Withholding Covid relief felines from people who needed them.
Destroying small businesses, 40% of which were black owned. But preserving Hollywood from lockdowns because anything connected with Hollyweird is an “essential service.”
Dines out with lobbyists while state was locked down. Travelled outside the country during his travel ban.
Exempted a union from mask mandates bc of their donations.
CA lost population and major businesses for the first time under Newt.
Abortions allowed by non doctors. With no doctor supervision.
Legalized taking license away from any doctors who disagree with party line in medicine.
...So much more...feel free to add to this.
We need the reminders as ammunition against his Build Big Burdens plans.
I can’t see him as good looking because the evil in him supersedes any handsomeness that might be there. He is ugly on the outside because he’s ugly on the inside.
One thing I have noticed about a standard Trump strategy is to not reveal things even if revealing them could improve his situation in the short term. He seems to like to let his opponent drag out their, um, "error" (I won't use another word that rhymes with cupidity) because they like to do so loudly and in public - because it's "Orange man bad". He eventually relents and corrects their, um, "error" after they have looked "error prone" long enough.
This may or may not be the case here, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Trump discusses this with Hannity. Listening to Hannity is not my favorite thing, but it was worth it to hear Trump agree with Jeff that Presidents only have to think it and it is declassified. 😉
My Vanderbilt nugget I wanted to write yesterday: Exactly a year ago, my son and I attended one of their university tours. We sat down in a room with everyone else and a Powerpoint presentation was rolled out by one of the young admissions officers. The very first slide was about their absolute, 100% support for BLM. The very first slide! We all know that colleges are crazy left... but my son and I were not at all expecting that. We found a way to exit the tour shortly thereafter. Over my dead body was I going to pay for that place.
We ended up visiting around ten schools last fall, and most had tamped down the crazy left proclamations. Except for Vanderbilt. As a side note, everyone needs to know that the admissions offices at the schools are overwhelmingly populated with 20 somethings (mostly girls) with purple hair and in all likelihood woke up that morning identifying as their cat. Remember this when your son or daughter is writing their college essay. The "aggrieved" admissions kids love victimhood, so play to it in any way you can. They love it - and it will greatly boost your application. My son played along (with mom's instruction) and he is at a top ten. Probably not learning as much as he would've there twenty years ago, but that's another matter :)
I’m not so sure that playing along is such a good strategy. That’s why we’re in this mess today. I wouldn’t want my child in a university like that because he will be playing along throughout the very expensive process of getting a degree instead of getting a quality education that teaches truth and prepares students to be productive, contributing members of society instead of woke, unthinking robots for the left. It’s past time to get a spine and stand up to this woke crap!! Playing to get along is allowing this sick ideology to flourish.
I agree with you Julie Ann. If there was a mass exodus from the universities and they started to lose tons of money, that might just change their minds about the woke ideology that they are pushing. Plus degrees are so overrated now. We need more plumbers, small machine repairmen, heating and air conditioning workers, etc .......we need to start sending our kids to trade schools. They make excellent money and there is no wokery pushed there that I know of. When everything crashes, these will be the people to keep society going. Education is not what it used to be. Simply my opinion.
These universities are highly HIGHLY overrated. My son went to UC Davis in California. They've hired a lot of well known professors in his field, but in general they don't teach their classes....nooooo, they're too busy. Graduate assistants teach rather a lot of classes there, so that's what you are paying the big tuition for. One quarter he had a grad assistant emergency hire who was teaching an important math class and he had never taught it before. My son says he got better teachers who taught their own classes in our local community college. Also, several of his UC classes had as many as 700 students in them. Same class in community college would have a max of 30.
We can't let them push us out, either. Taking the high road and removing ourselves means we lose any chance of influence and we just essentially hand everything over to them.
I just wouldn’t even be interested in a school like that for my child. If the admissions office is full of purple haired woke dummies the rest of the school is as well. I’d send my kids to Hillsdale College or other colleges who truly educate rather than indoctrinate.
Yup, same thing here. The idea that one has to pretend they are a crazy leftist to fit in seems like a terrible life lesson, particularly for someone so young. I get the idea that sometimes you have to work the system, but if the system demands you spout delusional nonsense then maybe it's time for a hard break.
I'm not saying tell your kid to be a crazy leftist. I'm simply pointing out that, as most writers know... know your audience. The college admissions office is not a particularly bright lot, so it is easy to tell them what they want to hear. That is what I mean by "play the game".
Fair enough but I wonder how many kids have the maturity to make the nuance you describe. Play the game but don't end up selling your soul is difficult enough for most middle-aged adults.
Agree with you. We have to quit capitulating! At some point, we have to stand up and fight against the tyranny and for many that means making a sacrifice!
"The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."
- Mark Twain
Government is temporary, but bureaucracies are forever.
The Deep State approves this comment. 😍
Sadly, true. And growing larger every year.
That's the real ugly truth.
Perfect. We forget we hire them. They are at our beck and call. Our mercy. They work for me. A fact I reiterated with our local taxpayer paid library director when she threw me out for not wearing a mask. (Which she still requires on all her employees behind the plexiglass screens.) I’m going to wander up some morning to story hour and check if she is requiring masks on toddlers. Yes she has done that.
If you knew who the newly picked head of the American Library Association is there would be no surprise about what happens in libraries. Water ain’t gonna clear up til you get the pigs outta the creek.
“…pigs outta the creek…” 😍 I have never heard this expression before but plan to start using it immediately!
quite a nice description ! Love it ! You get the internet price today from me Gaye
😇😂
Wish I didn’t have to keep repeating it!
https://thepostmillennial.com/marxist-elected-to-head-american-library-association
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/04/22/american-library-association-picks-self-proclaimed-marxist-as-president/
Thanks Gaye. So disturbing.
These people seriously need to be sued. They have no business deciding whether anyone should wear a medical device!
"Sued" is looking to be a needlessly mild and quaint redress of grievances. (Sorry, Jeff!)
Yes but it would be a start at least. Lots of people are very fearful of lawsuits. I think business owners and public officials who still force mask wearing should feel the pain financially. They are low on the totem pole in terms of responsibility imo.
They are obeying orders ..from WEF characters and the perverted lgbtqxyz lot .
That's why we disobey orders. No one has authority over our own faces.
Wise words!
When I try to link to your sub stack site from your morning email (Outlook) - Microsoft is telling the link is not safe and recommends that I don't link here. This is also happening on other "alternative narrative" sites like El Gato's Bad Kitty site.
“Not safe” meaning if too many people start reading these sites, their narrative will crumble away like an over baked scone (to use Jeff’s simile 😆😁).
Great quote! Says it all! Thanks!
For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.
— Psalm 94:14-15 NASB1995
Psalm 90
R. (1) In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
You turn man back to dust,
saying, “Return, O children of men.”
For a thousand years in your sight
are as yesterday, now that it is past,
or as a watch of the night.
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
You make an end of them in their sleep;
the next morning they are like the changing grass,
Which at dawn springs up anew,
but by evening wilts and fades.
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Return, O LORD! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,
that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.
Prosper the work of our hands for us!
Prosper the work of our hands!
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Janice- I love that scriptures that you find. They are perfect!
It could be a long while in the cold or the the sand dunes. The Lord doesn't say it won't.
What's your point?
Maybe the point is that God doesn’t promise we will be free from hard times. We know this though. And trust He will be with us through it all…He does promise that!
He doesn’t promise weapons will not be formed against us; he promises they will not prosper.
I have a pretty good understanding of it. I was just asking a particular commenter.
Yeah I know. Just trying to inject a little truth. 😀
I was wondering as well. I guess I missed the point. Janice I understand. : )
Maybe the point is that we should just ignore Professional Disrupters, as being, er ... pointless.
Well played
Maybe the fact that Joe showed up 30 minutes late for the funeral had something to do with his seating. Total lack of respect, but what’s new?
He arrived in the UK with a 15 car motorcade - trip probably costs taxpayers 8 figures and then there are the carbon emissions - paging Greta!
Sickening excess. I expect it of the monarchy but disgusts me with our pseudo monarchy.
Actually the monarchy, i.e. King Charles was who requested dignitaries use buses where possible rather than private transport.
No, not Biden, he was not going to use a bus. He did his own motorcade, came late… 30 minutes. He did it his way.
It was all that oil on his windshield. That could make anyone late 🤣
Maybe the traffic ham from the 15 car motorcade created a traffic jam? Only kidding, being a smart aleck.
Were these vehicles shipped over from the US? If so, how were they transported ?
On one of the USAF's windmill-powered C5A aircraft.
😂
YES - POTUS travels with his own convoy... Either in the body of air force one or in a second plane....
Brandon is a little slow on the uptake. He'll be late for his own funeral.
He already late
I thought the same thing. No violence intended.
.......thought he had already missed it.
❤️
What? He did get to drive up in a car though to the internment service at Windsor. Most had to get on a bus. But maybe he deliberately missed the bus. He’s excellent at “missing the bus” on so many crucial issues. Deliberately or otherwise.
he kept looking for the short bus...
He insisted on taking Amtrak.
Of course he did!
🤣🤣.
He had ‘the beast’ flown over there. He never had any intention of riding with other foreign leaders on a bus.
Maybe he was afraid of getting covid again. Since the jabs work so well.
the "hair sniffing" risk was just too great to put him on a bus with others... :-)
Joe was at the bar singing show tunes with Justin Trudeau. Ever the perfectionist, Fidelito became frustrated with Joe's out-of-key singing and wrong lyrics so he and and his entourage split while Joe was in the Men's Room, leaving Joe without a ride. An embarrassed Joe summoned his security detail which commandeered a double-decker allowing Joe to make it to the funeral, albeit late. Thus, the seat in the back.
🤣🤣🤣. Took him awhile to find the door out of the women's room as well.
Sniffing hair takes a bit of time, give him a break.
❤️so many foreign heads of hair….
....so little time. 😎
🥴. Indeed.
Great point. Joe's all about DEI.
😂😂
That was my understanding as well, he took his own car as he couldn’t ride the bus and then got stuck in traffic and was late. He was on time for George Floyd’s funeral.
He lost his pants.
NO - seating arrangements are complex as first there is the family and then other royalty (e.g. Queen of Denmark as Europe's next longest reigning queen who I am sure descends from Victoria as well but I think she was also some how a much closer relation to Prince Philip as the Greek and Danish-Russian royals are also closely related) and then commonwealth country heads... I suppose British politicians also get seated closer.... WE ARE NOT SO IMPORTANT FOR EVERYTHING...
I noticed no masks in the funeral picture. Yet in Oklahoma USA yesterday at a PT appt, the “security guard” was waiting for me **when I came out of the restroom** to hand me a mask. I had gotten on the empty elevator, gotten off in the empty hallway, and entered the empty restroom. He told me to make sure I wear my mask in the hallways. After my appointment I told him he didn’t need to chase me down to the bathroom next time and not to be ridiculous.
I would say “really??”, take the mask and keep walking. If they double down and I really wanted the PT I would then put it on my chin. If they persist I would find a new PT that doesn’t require masks. I’ve been done with masks for anything for a very long time. In fact the only place I ever complied was on airlines if I sensed I’d be kicked off if I didn’t wear one.
When I checked in and the receptionist tried to give me one, I said “I have one.” Which I did, in my hand, with no intention of putting it on. Funny thing is that it is a very thin cloth mask that I cut two layers out of. A tech at a different appointment asked me to pull it up, said she was being careful because of being 6 months pregnant. I guess critical thinking and science are no longer required subjects in med tech programs, nursing school, or medical school. So many things I wish I would have said!
You obviously don't live in a blue state. In WA for example, you cannot be in any medical facility of any sort without a mask. No exceptions. Good for you for living somewhere where you have a choice; not everyone else has that right.
I’m in a blue state too. It’s going to last forever. I’m sure of that. I do have an unmask that allows breathing but that doesn’t deal with the tyranny aspect. I’ll play it by ear. I could feel just a bit dizzy? Just enough to plead full breath.
I’ve learned that some buildings say “we ask that you wear a mask” and some even have removed the mask signs completely. I also don’t put one on even if it says it’s required just to see what happens. My sister in Missouri said at the hospital the admin told employees it’s up to them whether they wear a mask or not.
I think it all depends upon the health care conglomerate that each facility is tied to. St. Lukes and St. Al's in Idaho all require masks and are militant.
My system doesn’t require masks as hospital patients. Which I was for 2 nights a week ago. Staff does of course. I didn’t wear one as I left I think. I wasn’t really sure I even had a face right then from the painkillers. 🥴🥴😱.
Boise area?
Yes...now, it could be just for show in the front areas, as that is where I was waiting for Hubs to have ortho surgery. He said that in the back nobody said boo about a mask.
They all require it here. I will be starting PT next week. I forgot about that. Ugh.
I had PT for several weeks here in Commiefornia. Masks Required signs all over the place, and all the little sheep complied. Not me! Walked right in and did my PT. No one said a word. I clearly had my "don't mess with me" game face on.
Might try that. I can do the face.
In Cali also. . . Had an appt with my primary, went to pharmacy and med records in same building. Harassed everywhere but didn't wear one. . . Subsequently got a letter threatening termination of care if I caused any more trouble in the future. . . She's getting a subpoena from me.
Go for it. Time to push back with legal papers.
Ooh will you keep us posted on what happens?? I am so sick of this coercion and overreach, I love seeing people push back!
Excellent. That’s what we need!
But, but, but...Joe declared C0v1d over.
I guess they didn’t get the memo.
Good. Just make them feel ridiculous. I’m using crutches at the moment. I’ve already used them to keep a dog at bay. 🤔. I have used “I know your boss requires you to do this but tell the boss I refused the request and will confirm that”. What can he do then really? They have backed down. But why in the hell I need to do that p1sses me off.
Too much! I want to rejoin Twitter just to comment on that Newsom Fella. We have lost a dozen families in the last 12 months and it’s all about the covid vaccine mandates. AB 2098 (that’s the misinformation crap law) goes into law and we are out. Newsom is pure evil. He’s the ultimate villain straight outa central casting. Just a better looking version of Trudeau operating from the same set of instructions.
Everyone - Keep a list of all the things Gov Newt is doing to California. He wants to do to the same to the rest of the US.
Don’t infect the rest of the country with California’s stupidity.
The Newt is a silver tongued devil like Bill Clinton and Obama, the privileged nephew of Nancy Pelosi. She paving the way for him.
Voters have short attention spans. When he throws his hat in for 2024, remind everyone what would be in store.
Some of Newt’s damaging actions:
Banned gas powered engines of any kind:
not only lawn mowers, but also emergency generators, cars, trucks, and diesel- trucks, trains.
All electric.
Eliminating natural gas for heat and cooking.
Electricity grid is fragile, cannot sustain current usage even with non electric cars and trucks.
Withholding Covid relief felines from people who needed them.
Destroying small businesses, 40% of which were black owned. But preserving Hollywood from lockdowns because anything connected with Hollyweird is an “essential service.”
Dines out with lobbyists while state was locked down. Travelled outside the country during his travel ban.
Exempted a union from mask mandates bc of their donations.
CA lost population and major businesses for the first time under Newt.
Abortions allowed by non doctors. With no doctor supervision.
Legalized taking license away from any doctors who disagree with party line in medicine.
...So much more...feel free to add to this.
We need the reminders as ammunition against his Build Big Burdens plans.
Pretty boy Newsom is a political animal, but he's seriously stupid and has the intellect of a snail.
Yep. We left last fall for the freedom of breathing unmasked in NV.
I can’t see him as good looking because the evil in him supersedes any handsomeness that might be there. He is ugly on the outside because he’s ugly on the inside.
One thing I have noticed about a standard Trump strategy is to not reveal things even if revealing them could improve his situation in the short term. He seems to like to let his opponent drag out their, um, "error" (I won't use another word that rhymes with cupidity) because they like to do so loudly and in public - because it's "Orange man bad". He eventually relents and corrects their, um, "error" after they have looked "error prone" long enough.
This may or may not be the case here, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Trump discusses this with Hannity. Listening to Hannity is not my favorite thing, but it was worth it to hear Trump agree with Jeff that Presidents only have to think it and it is declassified. 😉
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/09/21/president-trump-discusses-the-mar-a-lago-raid-with-sean-hannity/
Saw that. I don’t usually watch it either but Trump’s conversation was interesting.
Much better than a headline or 1 minute click bait “news flash.”
Is this the same interview that Trump tells Hannity "I declassified everything"?
Not sure, probably
My Vanderbilt nugget I wanted to write yesterday: Exactly a year ago, my son and I attended one of their university tours. We sat down in a room with everyone else and a Powerpoint presentation was rolled out by one of the young admissions officers. The very first slide was about their absolute, 100% support for BLM. The very first slide! We all know that colleges are crazy left... but my son and I were not at all expecting that. We found a way to exit the tour shortly thereafter. Over my dead body was I going to pay for that place.
We ended up visiting around ten schools last fall, and most had tamped down the crazy left proclamations. Except for Vanderbilt. As a side note, everyone needs to know that the admissions offices at the schools are overwhelmingly populated with 20 somethings (mostly girls) with purple hair and in all likelihood woke up that morning identifying as their cat. Remember this when your son or daughter is writing their college essay. The "aggrieved" admissions kids love victimhood, so play to it in any way you can. They love it - and it will greatly boost your application. My son played along (with mom's instruction) and he is at a top ten. Probably not learning as much as he would've there twenty years ago, but that's another matter :)
I’m not so sure that playing along is such a good strategy. That’s why we’re in this mess today. I wouldn’t want my child in a university like that because he will be playing along throughout the very expensive process of getting a degree instead of getting a quality education that teaches truth and prepares students to be productive, contributing members of society instead of woke, unthinking robots for the left. It’s past time to get a spine and stand up to this woke crap!! Playing to get along is allowing this sick ideology to flourish.
I agree with you Julie Ann. If there was a mass exodus from the universities and they started to lose tons of money, that might just change their minds about the woke ideology that they are pushing. Plus degrees are so overrated now. We need more plumbers, small machine repairmen, heating and air conditioning workers, etc .......we need to start sending our kids to trade schools. They make excellent money and there is no wokery pushed there that I know of. When everything crashes, these will be the people to keep society going. Education is not what it used to be. Simply my opinion.
I concur. Why do we continue to pay them outrageous sums to destroy the minds of our children? Why?😥
Because the parents continue to pay for it because they want the status of the university name and degree for their children.
I agree
I told my daughter when she applied
If you wanna a school with a label you’ll have to pander to the wokensess of the admissions board
And her reply was-
Screw that. I’m not doing it.
And as a result… she landed EXACTLY where she should be… she’s not subjected to all that BLM, CRT -BS in every class….
In fact, she was in a Justice and civics change class the other day and said mom you’d love this quote …
the professor just said, ‘The right to dissent without penalty is one of the most fundamental tenets of a free and open society’
That’s the education I’m going to pay for…
Oh that’s awesome! Now there is a professor I can respect 🙂
These universities are highly HIGHLY overrated. My son went to UC Davis in California. They've hired a lot of well known professors in his field, but in general they don't teach their classes....nooooo, they're too busy. Graduate assistants teach rather a lot of classes there, so that's what you are paying the big tuition for. One quarter he had a grad assistant emergency hire who was teaching an important math class and he had never taught it before. My son says he got better teachers who taught their own classes in our local community college. Also, several of his UC classes had as many as 700 students in them. Same class in community college would have a max of 30.
Bet you won’t see woke leftist crap in trade schools 🙄😉
We can't let them push us out, either. Taking the high road and removing ourselves means we lose any chance of influence and we just essentially hand everything over to them.
I just wouldn’t even be interested in a school like that for my child. If the admissions office is full of purple haired woke dummies the rest of the school is as well. I’d send my kids to Hillsdale College or other colleges who truly educate rather than indoctrinate.
Yup, same thing here. The idea that one has to pretend they are a crazy leftist to fit in seems like a terrible life lesson, particularly for someone so young. I get the idea that sometimes you have to work the system, but if the system demands you spout delusional nonsense then maybe it's time for a hard break.
I'm not saying tell your kid to be a crazy leftist. I'm simply pointing out that, as most writers know... know your audience. The college admissions office is not a particularly bright lot, so it is easy to tell them what they want to hear. That is what I mean by "play the game".
Fair enough but I wonder how many kids have the maturity to make the nuance you describe. Play the game but don't end up selling your soul is difficult enough for most middle-aged adults.
We will have to agree to disagree on this. God’s Word says “reject every kind of evil” 1Thess 5:22
Agree with you. We have to quit capitulating! At some point, we have to stand up and fight against the tyranny and for many that means making a sacrifice!
You dance with the devil,
the devil don't change,
the devil changes you!
That’s a good point.
But at the same time, the other comments make me feel better about letting those schools rot out.