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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Higher Education? (With Addendum)

Did you see Tucker Carlson's May 25 interview of Evergreen State College Professor Bret Weinstein, a self-declared Progressive?  Before reading the rest of this blog post, please watch the video — even if you don't like Tucker Carlson.  This time, Carlson allowed a guest to speak without constant interruptions.

"Activist students" at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, have now objected to the dissemination of the video to which Professor Weinstein alluded in the above interview with Tucker Carlson. No wonder! The students have been recorded and exposed for the maniacal fools they are! The video (if YouTube has not removed the video):


From NEW VIDEO: Madness reigns at Evergreen State College as students ‘take over (The College Fix, May 28, 2017):
A new video has surfaced of students this past week at Evergreen State College yelling and ranting about everything from “racist white teachers” and “white-ass administrators” to “black power!” during a so-called “meeting” with President George Bridges and other college administrators.

Apparently, the activists are not pleased that this recording made its way to the Internet at large.

One of the demands listed by Evergreen students, and addressed by President Bridges, is that something be done to resolve the “theft” of the video:

“We demand that the video created for Day of Absence and Day of Presence that was stolen by white supremacists and edited to expose and ridicule the students and staff be taken down by the administration by this Friday.”

Next steps:
Based on conversations with the Attorney General’s office, the most likely course of action requires an investigation. We commit to launching an extensive forensic investigation of the theft of this video and to determining who stole it from the student. If that investigation yields a suspect, we will seek criminal charges against the individual in consultation with the Attorney General....
Read the rest HERE, especially if the video has disappeared from YouTube.

Note that Wikipedia has removed the Wiki page Evergreen State College Racism Protests.

FYI: In 1999, Mumia Abu-Jamal was invited to deliver the keynote address by audiotape for the graduating class at the college..

Read more about The Evergreen State College HERE, including the following:
Full-time students enroll in interdisciplinary academic programs instead of classes. Programs typically offer students the opportunity to study several disciplines in a coordinated manner. Faculty write narrative evaluations of students' work in place of issuing grades.

Evergreen offers a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Bachelor of Science, Master of Environmental Studies, Master of Public Administration, and Master in Teaching. In 2016, there were 4,089 students, 3,787 of whom were undergraduates, and 229 faculty members....
Higher education today is a cesspool of let's-balkanize-America indoctrination. The same could be said of the mainstream media.

ADDENDUM

From the Washington Times, dated Mary 29, 2017: Evergreen State College president expresses ‘gratitude’ for students who took over campus.

72 comments:

  1. The only "school" these screaming morons ought to attend is REFORM SCHOOL.

    Round these filthy, demented, ungrateful hoodlums up, and sentence them to LIFE in PRISON.

    Ten years on a Chain Gang would make a good start.

    Any teacher, administrator, clergy person, or "urinalist" who SUPPORTS these vermin should be sentenced to LIFE at HARD LABOR in a Maximum Security Penitentiary.

    Eventually, dear friends it WILL come to that, if nothing is done to condemn this HUMAN GARBAGE, and put it in its place.

    And YEs, I HVE read Bnhoeffer's famous words"

    "First they came for blah blah."

    Well, NOW "they" are coming for YOU and ME, –– and unless you have a serious MARTYR COMPLEX, you'd better support ACTION on YOUR OWN behalf, or you WILL be dispossesed, disenfranchised, deracinated, and ultmately destroyed.

    The Law of Self-Preservation MUST supersede the Constitution.

    "The U.S. Constitution is NOT a SUICIDE PACT."

    "EXTREMISM in DEFENSE of LIBERTY is NO VICE."

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    1. Why do your rants sound as if they were lifted from Der Stürmer?

      We have in recent days had two people killed and a third seriously wounded keeping a white supremacist from assaulting two women and a Texass legislator(R) threatening to put a round in another's skull and this is the story that moves you?

      The problem with hate like this (and yours) is it allows no grounds to debate rationally.

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    2. Here's an interesting factiod, courtesy of NR (which goes on to scold both right and left for engaging in vapid talking points):

      "Christian wasn’t a Trump supporter, or an emissary of Trump’s ideology. Trump supporters booted him from a free-speech march just a few weeks ago. His Facebook page showed that Christian was actually a Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein supporter."

      Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448124/political-left-right-misdirection-bad-arguments-ignoring-evidence-facts

      To me, its irrelevant. He murdered people and needs to get the chair.

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    3. Come on, Silverfiddle. This guy is a white supremacist. Real Oath Keeper material.

      Despite how much L'il Rich Lowry wants to play the "both sides" game it is not the left that harbors white supremacists.

      There's going to be serious violence. It is very relevant.

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    4. The CHAIR? You must be joking. People of THAT ilk should be SHOT DEAD where they stand the SECOND they are apprehended.

      Bernie Goetz for President!

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    5. Yes, he is a white supremacist, and he's yours, Bernie and Jill Stein fans. Own it.

      https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/portland-suspect?utm_term=.kevDyx70X#.ryE9LVwjX

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    6. @ Ducky: "There's going to be serious violence."

      Yes, and the left has been stirring it up. Have you been paying attention?

      You think everybody is just going to sit quietly while leftwing fascists rampage through the streets attacking innocent people?

      What that racist hater did was a sin and a capital crime, and he was probably inspired by leftwing violence.

      The normals are sick of your crap, you and all your loudmouth lefties. You ran off all the non-crazies in formerly-blue states, handing the election to Trump.

      Keep it up, and you'll be seeing a cascade of consequences.

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    7. The ANTIFA Crowd that tries to shut-up Trump supporters and prevent Free Speech rallies across the nation has a terrorist training contingent in Syria learning how to shoot RPGs and kill other people. They'll soon be bringing that knowledge back to the USA to "train-up" the Left's Black Blocs.

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    8. Well he certainly hates Hillary.

      You're going to have to do better, Silverfiddle, to convince me he supports two Jewish candidates.

      Farmer, lay of the Infowars for a while.

      It's amazing that the right is unwilling to admit any complicity in this disaster.

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    9. For a good idea of the events preceding this "clash".
      GO HERE.

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    10. Is Antifa the flavor of the day on the right.

      There has always been an anarchist presence in America, largely on the West Coast.
      Unfortunately they play right into the hands of rabble rousers like Milo and (m)Ann Coulter.

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    11. ...just as the KKK played rightinto the hands of MLK Jr, right Mcduck?

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    12. So can't wait for dinosaurs like you to just go die off.

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    13. Lost in all these No True Socialist fallacies is the fact that Jeremy Christian self-identifies as female on her Facebook page.

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    14. https://m.facebook.com/jeremy.christian.581?tsid=0.2933739607567336&source=typeahead

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    15. https://m.facebook.com/jeremy.christian.581?tsid=0.2933739607567336&source=typeahead

      Delete
    16. TC,
      That's really his?

      Um, hers?

      Well, is that really its?

      Difficult to know which possessive pronoun to use!

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    17. The Facebook page appears to have a lot of contradictions.

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  2. Last portion from Professor told he's not safe on campus after college protests (dated May 27, 2017):

    Nearly 20 of his students attended his Thursday class in the park.

    They said they do not consider him a racist.

    But when an African American student, one of the protesters, heard Weinstein was advised to stay off campus, she responded, “If he feels unsafe or frightened for two days, he can only imagine what black and brown bodies have feared for years."

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    1. FT,
      Did you see the addendum to this blog post?

      "Evergreen State College president expresses ‘gratitude’ for students who took over campus"

      The link is in the body of the blog post as an addendum.

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    2. It's time we cry racism and demand safe spaces. Let them argue for segregation then....

      - CI

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    3. It's ironic that someone who considers concealed carry among our most critical needs should try to be ironic about "safe spaces".

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    4. This is why you're always confused, Ducky. Not a need.....a right.

      There wouldn't be a need for irony, if fragile little snowflakes didn't seek to self segregate, to insulate themselves from ideas they couldn't grasp, or disagreed with. In other words...the real world.

      - CI

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    5. The real world --- never a good sign when someone has to take refuge in that half baked meme.

      The dismal aspect is that this "real world" you have constructed is absolute and brooks no disagreement.

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    6. DO you get to self segregate in your workplace, so as not to be offended or hear any subject that may trigger your tenuous grasp on coping as a human being?

      I thought not. Yes, the real world. Apparently most Leftist don't reside there. Never s good sign when you resort to claiming the 'other side' is absolutist. Keeps you from having to think critically though, so there's that.

      - CI

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    7. @ Nostradumbass:
      "The real world --- never a good sign when someone has to take refuge in that half baked meme.

      The dismal aspect is that this "real world" you have constructed is absolute and brooks no disagreement."


      You have not a shred of self awareness, do you. Or do you need examples?

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    8. Let's have examples, Warren.

      Why deny yourself the pleasure?

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    9. No, CI, you're not going to be able to self segregate on the job except in very unusual circumstances.

      A bunch of adolescents acting out isn't a sign that American higher education is a lost cause, however.

      "That's the way that the world goes 'round.
      You're up one day and the next you're down.
      It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown.
      That's the way that the world goes 'round."

      - the great John Prine

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    10. Nostradumbass said:
      "Let's have examples, Warren.

      Why deny yourself the pleasure?"


      Why, indeed!

      Your assertion that the second amendment wasn't a personal right.

      Your assertion that it was logical to support APGW even if it was unproven theory and then cutting and pasting in a bunch gobble de goop as if it were some form or method of logic.

      Your assertion that Marx was a "prophet".

      Your interpretation of Keynesian economics that probably left J M Keynes rolling in his grave with laughter.

      Your assertion that Robert Frosts, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", was a poem about social responsibility. (i.e. You don't have the basic education to differentiate between I and we nor the semantic content thereof.)

      Your assertion that the founders weren't concerned about the Federal government accruing too much power.

      I could go on but it's pointless.

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    11. My goodness, none of that has any relevance to the topic of an immutable world view but let's look anyway:

      1. The 2nd amendment gives you the right to join a government militia. The rest is up for grabs.

      2. What is APGW?

      3. I do not consider Marx a prophet. I consider him to be an economist who understood that elements of industrial capitalism were incompatible with freedom.
      I do believe an understanding of Marx is very useful in our current predicament. Unfortunately he was a lousy revolutionary who harmed the attempts to replace monopoly capitalism with a more human system.

      4. I believe Keynesian fiscal policy has largely failed because the right is unwilling to pass a reasonable graduated tax.
      I doubt that has him rolling.

      5. First Frost expresses a need for contemplation of nature and reflection. Something we all need.
      Now just what the promises the speaker must keep happen to be has been up for interpretation. You may substitute death for responsibilities if you like.

      You must mean that as a leftist I emphasize economics and have an affinity to Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. It is long out of favor but worth reading. Elements are still valid.


      You turn.

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    12. Oh, APGW is a reference to man made global warming.

      Yes, I believe it is best to hedge our bets regardless.
      Blindly following Lord Dampnut and ceding the solar and wind ]power industries to China and Europe while he mouths some stupidity about bringing back coal jobs is a mug's game.

      I must say that I am absolutely perplexed by the unwillingness of Protestant fundamentalists to accept any weaning from hydrocarbons. Now that is an example of the immutable world view that we came in on.

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    13. #1 You prove my point. Total unwillingness to do the scholarship involved. (Although rudimentary.)

      #2 You prove my point again. The point is about your cut and paste logic. ( Hint, it wasn't logic but leftist made up crap.)

      #3 Your exact quote was, "I consider Marx a Prophet". Quite a memorable quote, don't you think?

      #4 Proves my point. You're only receptive of some leftist interpretation of what you believe Keynes said and not actually what he had to say.

      #5 Entirely beside the point (and proves mine). You see the world through leftist beer goggles.

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    14. That was quick. I see you brook no disagreements but that was the original premise.

      There are certainly constitutional scholars who hold that opinion about the 2nd (Robert Bork). Just what my opinions on firearms are may surprise you but I do not believe they are all backstopped by that train wreck of a sentence we call the 2nd amendment.

      What is your take on Keynesian fiscal policy?

      I believe Marx's understanding of capitalism was prophetic, yes?
      So what.

      I don't see the issue with my view on climate change. I'm not a climatologist (neither are you) but I do feel there is enough science
      to act as a warning. I don't see why you consider it more prudent to ignore the issue unless it has something to due with a warped eschatology.

      What is your read of the Frost poem and why do you seem to feel it's absolute? I' open to more than one interpretation.

      Your turn. Try to bring your beliefs into the conversation.

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    15. The 2nd amendment gives you the right to join a government militia. The rest is up for grabs.

      It's adorable when someone thinks they know about the 2nd Amendment, but clearly haven't read a single primary source on the matter.

      - CI

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    16. @ Nostradumbass:
      "Your turn. Try to bring your beliefs into the conversation."

      For years you trolled conservatives and all of the sudden you want to engage, WTF?

      No, I don't think so. I've wasted enough of my valuable time.

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    17. Warren,
      Some of us are working, aren't we? We don't have time for endless, futile debate.

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    18. AOW,
      You know.

      Endless and futile indeed!

      Delete
  3. OFF-TOPIC-BUT-NOT–REALLY:

    Late Breaking News! (quoted at Lucianne.com New Forum Home Page)

    KABUL BLAST: Heavy explosion rips through rush-hour traffic in diplomatic area, 64 dead, 320 injured (FOX)

    Since Middle-Easterners love DEATH so much, I say "LET 'EM HAVE IT."

    Let 'em KILL EACH OTHER off –– hopefully by the MILLIONS.

    These savage lunatics do this TO THEMSELVES. We cannot help them, and when we try, we only wind up hurting and imoverishing OURSELVES –– for NOTHING.

    Let ALL the Savages, Morons, Barbarians, Criminals, and Aggressive Sadists REAP what THEY have SOWN.

    It is not up to "US" to try to save them, and WE should not have to PUT UP WITH THEM in OUR LANDS.



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  4. the loonies have taken over the asylum. The "education' they get at that "school" will equip them only for grievance nursing, community agitation and societal vandalism.

    Even worse, taxpayer-funding in the form of grants and student loans are subsidizing this idiocy.

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    1. Probably true, but at least they'll be qualified to become politicians in Illinois.

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    2. The Washington state legislature is considering withholding funding.

      Probably be more successful proposing a reduction to clarify the limits.

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  5. A potential employer's nightmare. Try and not hire one of these and watch the lawsuit...hire one and what a nightmare. So much for this college.

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  6. More proof that the Loonies have taken over the Asylum.. That "Comedian". aka jackass Kathy Griffin's seems to have done the impossible: she's united the entire U.S. against her tasteless photograph holding the bloodied dismembered head of President Donald Trump. Since the photo was posted by TMZ, people as politically different as Mitt Romney and even that little Twerp Chelsea Clinton has condemned the stunt and now the Secret Service has said that they're aware of the threat.

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    1. CNN has fired Kathy Griffin.

      Furthermore...

      From Melania Trump's strong words about that Kathy Griffin photo (CNN):

      Washington (CNN)First lady Melania Trump has weighed in with her thoughts about Kathy Griffin's woefully distasteful video and photograph, depicting the bloody head of President Donald Trump.
      "As a mother, a wife, and a human being, that photo is very disturbing," Melania Trump said in a statement. "When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it."

      The first lady's comments come on the heels of a morning tweet from her husband, via his personal Twitter account. Trump said that while all of his children are struggling with the bloody imagery, it's particularly having an impact on the couple's 11-year-old son, Barron....

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    2. Good, she was responsible for the absolute worst X Files episode ever.

      There has certainly been a bipartisan rejection of this latest stunt.

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    3. Whatever happened to the Left's " infamous" sense of humour? Why isn't everyone laughing at the decapitated Republican?

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    4. A "Stunt" of the "Lefts' Mind".
      You heard her say before the [Art] was published:
      "We will have to run to Mexico after this!"

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    5. Because it isn't funny?

      Believe me when I say this. The Left hasn't been "funny" for more than a decade now.

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  7. "According to U.S. News & World Report's 2017 college rankings, Evergreen is ranked #32 in Regional Universities West, and #4 in Best Undergraduate Teaching.[5] Evergreen is also among the top colleges in the nation for offering the best first-year experiences to freshmen"

    Well, so much for US News & World Report's evaluation of institutions of [higher] learning!

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    1. Jon,
      Well, so much for US News & World Report's evaluation of institutions of [higher] learning!

      No kidding!

      An entire generation of young people poisoned.

      Damn depressing.

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    2. Rachel Corrie is a graduate.

      It has a left history.

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  8. BREAKING NEWS:
    "KATHY GRIFFIN TO ADDRESS THE NEXT COMMENCEMENT OF EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE"

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    1. Well, it sure as hell won't be Ted Nugent.

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    2. Ducky, only certain shitbags get invited to august venues...like the White House.

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    3. Jon,
      Is that a joke? Please tell me that it is.

      Delete
    4. Griffin has quite a history of inappropriateness (from Wikipedia, and supported by outgoing links)...

      In 2012: On New Year’s Eve 2012, Griffin made repeated remarks on the CNN television coverage to her co-host, recently out gay man, Anderson Cooper, including seemingly groping him repeatedly.

      Commentary on the Good Men Project website asked whether these actions and remarks would be acceptable if the roles were reversed, and questioned CNN’s policies for workplace harassment.


      Nevertheless, Griffin and Cooper continued to host CNN's New Year's Eve show.

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    5. "Jon,
      Is that a joke? Please tell me that it is."

      Of course!

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    6. Jon,
      Well, Jon, in the 21st Century, it would be possible. Every "a statement" is being made by one entity or another.

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  9. The little brat in the vid would REALLY be "shaking in [her] boots" if she were acting out like this in a truly oppressive culture. Let her try that out in - say - N. Korea.

    One can lamely hope for maturity eventually, but the reality of neurological development tells us that what fires together wires together. Repeated lunacy does, indeed, make for lunatics.

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  10. You get what you pay for and it's quite obvious that none of these rabid, childish, inhuman idiots are paying for their own education.

    Pavlov would be gratified to know that it wasn't only dogs that could be trained to salivate at the proper stimulus.

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  11. Cracks me up that some children's writer is slamming Baron Trump for being too sensitive over the picture of his father's head bloody and beheaded....When I think this 10 yr old boy's supposed to just suck it up when the children's writer would be on the side of 20 yr olds who had to run screaming to a therapy dog over just seeing the name TRUMP sprayed on a wall outside their dorm?!

    Loved the interview with Carlson....more and more very lib people are questioning the fascism of their side denying a voice to anybody with an opposing view...they can't even LISTEN to it, it hurts their EARS, these poor kids who will never have a SPINE worth talking about.

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    1. The atmosphere is getting pretty overheated.

      We should all pour a cold glass of covfefe and chill out.

      However, the fact is it not the left trying to silence the press. We don't body slam reporters, shoot out newspaper office windows,arrest reporters for asking the HHS secretary a question or for chuckling at that trog Beauregard Sessions.
      How would you know what "more and more" very lib people (whatever that means) are questioning? What are you news sources?

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    2. Well Ducky there us indeed pushback from more centrist progressives against the extreme voices. The burrito stand and recent killings in PDX are prime examples. I know from friends there how the far left is over the top.

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    3. Z,
      the children's writer would be on the side of 20 yr olds who had to run screaming to a therapy dog over just seeing the name TRUMP sprayed on a wall outside their dorm

      Yes, indeed.

      But for Barron Trump to be upset by Kathy Griffin's disgusting stunt is a reaction too far? Sheesh.

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    4. Z,
      I just now learned that the children's author to whom you referred is Ken Jennings -- the Jeopardy champion. I missed that information yesterday because of the medical procedure I underwent.

      Jennings has a multitude of memory cells in his brain, but little empathy, I guess.

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  12. You mean conservatives are rejecting Trump?

    Doesn't bode well for the mid terms.

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  13. President Trump is a New York moderate.

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  14. Liberals need to throw the leftwing loonies overboard, or you will continue to be an urban movement and laughing stock to the vast, wide swath of Americans to your right.

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