The Liz Magill Meme Collection

Magill's testimony explained with a football metaphor:

 

Cease Fire With Fire...

 

Pramila Cosby

 

The Claudine Gay Inadequate Citation Award

 

Gaza "civilians"

As of this moment, the only civilians in the Gaza Strip are the ones that Hamas kidnaped and are holding hostage.

In part owing to the stupidity of George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice, Gazans freely elected Hamas to rule the Strip in 2006.

That has made them as culpable for all of Hamas' subsequent terrorism as the Germans who freely elected Hitler in 1933 were for the atrocities committed by the Nazis.

In 2013, nine months after they had elected a Muslim Brotherhood member as their President, the Egyptians turned him out of office in a widespread revolt and tossed him in jail, where he died.

The population of Gaza has now had 17 years to do what the Egyptians did in less than one year.  Instead, they've decided foment repeated Judeocide.

There are only two choices that anyone should be given in the Strip.

They either die with Hamas and become the equivalent of Berlin in 1945, forever stained as the 21st century Nazi equivalent, or they die trying to force the regime change that has been their moral obligation since at least 2013.

Any "casualties"--no matter age or gender--are the moral and legal responsibility of Hamas and the populace who elected them.

No one gets to leave now.

TLDR DIGEST APR 24-MAY 1

HEADLINES

Biden's Refusal to Retire Is Presenting a Very Real National Security Risk

Vermont School District To Remove Terms "Male" And "Female" From Sex Ed Curriculum

Trans Marathoner Defeats 14,000 Women in Race after Competing as Man Months Earlier

Student claims he was sent home over shirt that said ‘there are only two genders’

Vivek Ramaswamy Debated Gender With Chuck Todd, and It Was Absolutely Bonkers

The Left Is Showing Us When Banning Books Is Okay In Certain Situations

Mexican National Wanted For Allegedly Murdering 5 Neighbors In Texas Is Thrice-Deported Illegal Alien: Reports

Epstein’s Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief, Goldman’s Top Lawyer…

[…and Noam Chomsky ym”sh]

Report: Biden Is Only Functional Six Hours A Day, Five Days A Week

Biden Falsely Claims He Has Six Grandchildren, Leaves Off Hunter’s Arkansas Daughter

Brittney Griner: It’s A ‘Crime’ To Stop Biological Males From Competing Against Women

QUOTES

“…one final note for the businesspeople who may be reading this (some perhaps even working at Anheuser): If you really want to make some money, put Riley Gaines on a beer can.”

“I hold no brief for Tucker Carlson — I somehow doubt we’ll ever speak after my last few pieces about him — and his behavior during the Dominion case was but one in a series of glaring ethical lapses; he was the agent of his own demise in the end, just as Nixon was his own worst enemy. But I am also under no illusion that the weapons successfully used to turn the screws on him from the outside — social media pressure campaigns, coordinated attempts at driving away advertisers, and the like — will not now immediately be turned against other inconvenient targets as well. These are the master’s tools; they are unethical to use, but know that soon they will be used in an attempt to master us as well.”

“Let’s put the shoe on the other foot here, folks. Let’s say there was a wave of bigoted violence against Palestinian Americans living in New York, and right-leaning lawmakers refused to back a similar initiative supporting them just because a left-wing group was leading the charge. It does not take a rocket scientist to predict the incessant handwringing that would come from the left as a result…The fact of the matter is that Hanif and her ilk do not wish to support the initiative because they care more about politics than protecting people who are victims of bigotry. It is yet another example showing how selective these people are with the “marginalized” groups they choose to protect.”

““Equitable grading” seeks to make sure students master concepts while acknowledging home-life issues. But the approach nixes homework—and some teachers don’t like it.”

“Weingarten was a driving force behind keeping schools closed for more than a year in some areas…She took zero responsibility for pushing medically needless, prolonged school closures that led to historic learning losses for kids,…Even as a new report showed that she and her union were key to Biden-era Centers for Disease Control directives that restricted so many kids to the farce of ‘remote learning’ for so long.”

“…in the end, no one did more to destroy trust in public-health officials more than Anthony Fauci.  Now he admits something “went wrong” with the nation’s COVID response, yet blames “political divisiveness,” “the culture wars,” a failing “local public-health and health-care delivery system” and “racial and ethnic health disparities.”  Anything, that is, but his own horrendous advice.  That includes not just unavoidable mistakes in dealing with an unknown virus, but a host of intentional lies, coverups and flip-flops on key issues…”

“If Gardner were merely a Soros-backed ide[o]logue hellbent on “reimagining” the criminal justice system, it would be bad enough. But on top of that, she’s demonstrated repeatedly that she’s utterly incompetent. So much so that, in addition to facing a September trial on quo warranto proceedings brought by Attorney General Andrew Bailey to remove her from office, Gardner faced not one but two hearings this week requiring her to show cause as to why she should not be held in contempt of court.”

“Both self-starvation and transgenderism guarantee elevation to a perceived social elite. At least in the minds of some anorexics, being immune to the temptations of crisps and biscuits that seduce mere mortals induces an emotionally nutritious sensation of superiority…Coming out as trans likewise greatly increases attention from schoolmates, teachers and a whole industry of therapists, endocrinologists and surgeons. In a single syllable, “trans” likewise seems to offer a readymade answer to who you are. Freeman tells us that “when an anorexic says, ‘I don’t want to be fat, I want to be thin,’ they are saying, ‘I want to be other than I am, and what I am is unhappy. I want to be someone else.” Clearly, transition to the opposite sex makes the same statement: I want to be someone else. But is becoming someone else really an option?”

TLDR DIGEST APR 17-24

HEADLINES

The Myth of Inclusive Ballet
Proclamations of ‘trans-inclusive’ ballet are utterly specious: The sport isn’t even female-inclusive.

The Media Are Strangely Cautious about a Mass Shooter’s Motives, Just This One Time

Transgender sex worker who infected client with HIV fights deportation

Chicago Mayor-Elect Defends Rioters in Violent ‘Teen Takeover,’ Condemns Those Who ‘Demonize Youth’

It’s Beyond Just Hunter: House GOP Now Says Probe Extends to Nine Biden Family Members’ Web of Money and Influence

Europeans find blaming the Jews easier than giving up meat

Europeans discomfited with the idea of animal cruelty could abstain from meat. But accusing halal and kosher butchers instead absolves the conscience and keeps the foie gras flowing.

It's Democrats, Not Republicans, Who Are to Blame for Most Child Gun Deaths

Black Harvard Democrat charged with anti-gay hate crime – peers blame pro-life group

Yale columnist shares anger at ‘polite’ and calm pro-life peers

Debates about abortion or immigration are “an insult to our personhood, experience and rights.”

Zero House Democrats Vote to Protect Women’s Sports from Male Intrusion

Florida Mayor Goes Silent about Sponsoring Islamist Bigots

Pennsylvania Teachers, Activists Concocted Bogus LGBTQ Bullying Epidemic for Political Gain, Investigation Finds

Clueless Classical Ed Critics Accidentally Make A Killer Case For It

If you think classical education is racist, tell that to W.E.B. Du Bois.

QUOTES

“…tuition [] is now outrageous. The professors seem to be doing more sabbaticals than seminars. There are protests preventing access to the dining hall. And it honestly seems like your kid is getting a better education watching four-hour meme essays on YouTube. And after they graduate, their job search is a tear-filled nightmare that’s documented on TikTok. It’s enough to make you, a product of the system, wonder whether this whole higher education shindig is a scam.”

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“…regarding the 2020 election, affirming the sanctity of the process has become creedal and a sign of loyalty to the democratic process. That election is alone in American history as unassailable. … Who remembers the 2004 presidential election, when John Kerry was “supposed” to cruise to an easy victory over George W. Bush? Bush’s victory in Ohio was, we were told, corrupted and stolen by Diebold Election Systems, a manufacturer of voting machines which had alleged ties to Republican political figures. To this day there are dead-enders on the Left who believe that Kerry had the election stolen from him. …. Or consider 2016, when Hillary Clinton’s loss so baffled her devotees that they launched a four year “Resistance” to the Trump presidency that was festooned with conspiratorial musings so lavish that they included a front-page New York Magazine assertion that Donald Trump had been recruited as a KGB mole in the 1980s, with the long-term aim of installing him as a Kremlin puppet. … Fox News tried to play both sides in the wake of the 2020 election, and got its fingers burned by airing clumsy suppositions about election fraud that stupidly named names. It will no doubt have learnt its lesson, but do not expect this to be the last time we hear complaints about America’s hallowed election process — from either side.“

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“In the last two presidential campaigns, the most prominent candidates at points were Mr. Trump on the Republican side and Sen. Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side, even though Mr. Trump had spent as much time as a registered Democrat or independent in prior years, and Mr. Sanders wasn’t technically a Democrat at all but rather an independent. In both parties, moderates hoped “party leaders” might devise a strategy to stop them, only to discover there were no leaders with the clout to do so.  And while it’s true that lawmakers in Congress often vote in lockstep with one another, they seldom do so because of some coherent set of party principles. The more powerful motive is fear of crossing the most strident activists back home.”

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“…the muddling of admission standards under the sign of social justice is an expression of a deeper and much older mentality among the Ivy administrations, one that predates affirmative action by decades or even centuries…Toward the middle of the 20th century, after decades of trying and failing to maintain their status as exclusionary clubs for monied Northeastern men, the times called for the prestige-supply of the Ivies to be distributed among the best and most qualified students—male and female, gentile and Jewish—in order for the Ivies to credibly retain their gatekeeping role. Conversely, in the 2020s, another period of social upheaval, excellence has gone out of fashion among an elite whose new watchword is “equity.” … In their implementation, the Ivies’ attempts at demographic engineering have little to do with any clear idea of either merit or justice. Indeed, if historical wrongdoing was the core issue, it would be hard to find a group in America that was explicitly targeted for exclusion for longer and to greater effect than Jews, including by the Ivies themselves. Instead, the Ivy student bodies reveal the absurdity of present efforts to equitably distribute prestige in an increasingly unequal society.”

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“I introduced a -11 Amendment to House Bill 2002.  It would have mandated insurance coverage for detransition treatments, similar to how the base bill covers “gender-affirming treatment”.  The amendment was flatly rejected by the Democrats.  They called the amendment “controversial”.  Oh.”

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“The protesters who insist on “our democracy,” like their counterparts in the United States, are not defending the actual outcome of an election, which they lost. Rather, they are insisting that elections merely deliver a hollow form of democracy, and that to make a government for, of, and by the people valid, you have to make sure that the people who run it have the right ideas, or else.”

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TLDR DIGEST APR 3-17 [PASSOVER AND POSTOVER]

 HEADLINES

Transgenderism Is the New Blackface

If blackface is racist, then ‘womanface’ is sexist.

California Goes Full Communist: Utilities to Base What They Charge on How Much You Make

Kanye’s Campaign Has Paid Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes More Than $30,000 This Year

Leaked pics show Bud Light exec who wants to update company’s ‘fratty’ culture enjoying fratty party

Heinerscheid could be seen in images on her now-deleted Facebook page downing beers during a 2006 “boozefest.”

The Chicago Teachers Union Now Runs the Mayor’s Office

Electric Vehicles: Volt Farce

Wyoming news site finds more than a third of small-town bars surveyed are experiencing Bud Light boycotts

Plus-sized traveler demands free seats, better accommodations on airlines

Loudoun Co. school board chose Scott Ziegler over accountability in sex assault cases

The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak

Iran vows crack down on people who promote removing the veil

Straw Ban Arguments: How the overhyped environmental dangers of single-use plastic straws were turned into a great moral crusade by a 9-year-old

Penguin Removes ‘Unacceptable’ Words from P. G. Wodehouse Novels, Adds Trigger Warnings for ‘Outdated’ Language

Democracy Dies in Spin: Washington Post Reporters Double as PR Flacks for TikTok

QUOTES

“Claims of an “epidemic” of violence against transgender Americans have been around since at least 2015. … There’s an added complication: if transgender people do experience higher rates of violence, that could be for reasons other than their gender identity. They could be overrepresented in certain high-risk categories, with gender identity itself having no independent effect. In that case, it might still be reasonable to speak of an “epidemic of violence” — though the statement would need to be qualified.”

“…while neocon-libertarian control of the Republican Party under Jeb Bush and others might have lasted into the 2020s or 2030s, at some point it was doomed to collapse under the weight of its incompatibility with domestic and global realities. Whatever else might be said about Trump, by toppling the Bush and Clinton dynasties and the establishments they embodied, he accelerated that moment.”

“[Miller’s] retirement brings an end to a rocky presidency that saw protests and declining enrollment, the New York Times reported, though Miller was able to find success in her goal of increasing diversity on campus.

“There’s no better case of the “horseshoe theory” of politics—where left and right bend toward each other at the extremes—than TikTok…In a rambling monologue, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson took the side of Ocasio-Cortez, despite calling her “a tool of the national-security state,” because one of the bipartisan proposals that would allow Biden to ban TikTok “is about introducing flat-out totalitarianism into our system.””

“…those in ideological agreement with the losers have expressed continual wonderment and pride at the fact that 8 or 9 percent of the population of the small country is out in the streets on a weekly basis. Yes, but more than 50 percent of the electorate in Israel voted the other way. Imagine if they took to the streets. But you can’t, because they won’t, because they shouldn’t have to.”

“Mulvaney's sponsored posts featuring Bud Light had a tangible impact on the brand's value in the market. Shares dropped dramatically, with The Daily Mail saying it lost $6 billion of its market capitalization and FOX reporting it had lost roughly $5 billion in share value. Currently, the market cap is about $112 billion…Plenty of professionals on LinkedIn have lambasted Heinerscheid for failing to know her brand's target consumer when partnering with Mulvaney. Robert Simkavitz, Chief Technology Officer of Newline USA, stated, "Bud Light vice president of marketing Alissa Heinerscheid has succeeded in killing sales of Bud Light in most of the United States. Who said one person can’t make a difference?””

"No one at the senior level” of the company was aware of Bud Light’s polarizing partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, sources close to the situation claim. The company is also allegedly pausing its marketing efforts and scrambling to implement a more “robust” process for evaluating future influencer partnerships…“No one at a senior level was aware this was happening,” said one source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal discussions. “Some low-level marketing staffer who helps manage the hundreds of influencer engagements they do must have thought it was no big deal. Obviously it was, and it’s a shame because they have a well-earned reputation for just being America’s beer — not a political company. It was a mistake.””

“ABC News highlighted certain portions of the government’s complaint against Teixeira that are problematic given claims that Teixeira did this for months with nobody knowing. As we reported Thursday, several stories about Teixeira were stealth-edited on Wednesday and Thursday. One of those stories, from NBC News, originally said that officials had been tracking Teixeira for some time. Then it was changed to say that they were “onto him.” Then that paragraph was deleted in its entirety.”

“Instead of a thoughtful discussion tonight at SFSU, Riley was violently accosted, shouted at, physically assaulted, and barricaded in a room by protestors,…It is stunning that in America in 2023, it is acceptable for biological male students to violently assault a woman for standing up for women’s rights.  This is proof that women need sex-protected spaces. Still only further assures me I’m doing something right. When they want you silent, speak louder.”

“The judge was targeted because of his ruling on a transgender pedophile in 2020, where he refused to allow her bid to get her name changed…Varner has twice been convicted of possessing child pornography and failing to register as a sex offender.  In 2012 Varner pleaded guilty to one count of attempted receipt of child pornography and was sentenced to 15 years in prison which will be followed by 15 years supervised release.   By 2015, while in prison, Varner came out as a transgender woman and began 'hormone replacement therapy' shortly after trying to change her surname to Jett in Kentucky.  However, the US Court of Appeals rejected Varner's appeal to change her conviction records to her new name.  Fifth Circuit Judge Stuart Duncan and others ruling it as 'meritless' because the pedophile was known as Norman Varner at the time she committed the child sex abuse offenses.  But her case sparked anger amongst the woke Stanford law students, and Steinbach, who sabotaged his speech at the prestigious university earlier this month.  Varner's case was widely reported at the time of the court challenge by outlets including NBC News, including details of her vile crimes.  That suggests Stanford students may have known the magnitude of the crimes she committed - but that they decided to defend her anyway.”