What a Difference an Election Makes
I recently wondered if all those nations and individuals who have been filling the Clinton coffers for, lo, these many years, were now going to insist that all those humongous speaking fees and bribes masquerading as charitable donations be returned.
I recently wondered if all those nations and individuals who have been filling the Clinton coffers for, lo, these many years, were now going to insist that all those humongous speaking fees and bribes masquerading as charitable donations be returned.
Talk about a fire sale! One day, you have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to have one of those two sleazebags show up to give a 20-minute talk; the next day, you can hire them to perform a trapeze act for fifty bucks and a hot meal. And all it took was for an old hare to lose a race to a conservative tortoise.
I haven’t stopped smiling since Pennsylvania went to Trump, and, frankly, I’m beginning to worry. I am not accustomed to excessive jubilation. It’s beginning to feel like one of those TV commercials where you’re advised to see your doctor if an erection lasts more than four hours. I’m wondering if the same holds true when it comes to election results.
Although I am getting a big laugh out of seeing all those young punks suffering meltdowns at the thought of life under Donald Trump, I can understand that if you’re the parent or grandparent of these stuffed toys, you’re not laughing.
But perhaps instead of just coddling them and feeding them cocoa and cookies, this might be a perfect time to sit them down and explain why it might be a good thing in the long run. Explain that even if they were pulling for the candidate who assured them that free college tuition paid for by strangers may have seemed like a birthright, it really would have been a national tragedy if Hillary Clinton had been elected.
Furthermore, you might suggest that they get out of the echo chamber and occasionally hear what people besides Jimmy Fallon, Beyonce, Stephen Colbert, Jay Z, Samuel Jackson, George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Baldwin, Cher and LeBron James, have to say.
As I’ve never been in a Chipotle restaurant, I won’t be taking part in the class action lawsuit that has been filed against the franchise. But I was interested in reading that it involves false advertising and not food poisoning. Although they’ve been insisting their burritos contain just 300 calories, it now seems they were fudging the facts slightly. Apparently, the 300 calories are contained in the wrap itself. If you’re one of those people who insists on also eating the contents, which consist of beans, cheese, meat and salsa, you wind up in the caloric stratosphere.
As a marketing strategy, if it weren’t for those pesky lawsuits, you can see where this sort of thing might appeal to corporate America. Car dealers could offer their new models for, say, $5,000. Then, only after you’d signed on the dotted line, they would disclose that you basically paid for the wrap. Naturally, if you’re the sort of nuisance who insists on having tires, a steering wheel, seats, windows, a trunk, mirrors, brakes, a pair of fuzzy dice and a transmission, you’d have to pay extra.
Just when you think that the craziness can’t get any crazier on our college campuses, Hampshire College bans the American flag. I suppose if any college in America would be likely to commit such a loony act, it would be this uberliberal campus in Amherst, Massachusetts, with its 1,400 students and its $50,000-a-year tuition.
I assume the parents of these meatheads are only too happy to fork over that kind of moolah to ensure that their young sprouts aren’t contaminated by conservative ideas, conservative professors or traumatized by the occasional sighting of an American flag.
As you might expect, Hampshire College, although it only came into existence in 1970, has a motto. It reads Non Satis Scire, which translates from the Latin as “To Know is Not Enough.” Of course, it’s not enough. Not when mater and pater are forking over fifty grand a year. For that kind of dough, you don’t want the kiddies to settle for knowledge. Nothing less than left-wing propaganda will do.
I confess that I find these smug little fascists and their smug little college administrators rather revolting. But I am comforted by the thought of the ocean of tears these blue-blooded imbeciles have shed since Election Day.
In a related matter, I received an email from someone I had previously assumed to be a conservative. He wanted me to know that Trump’s selection of Betsy DeVos to head up the Department of Education had not only turned him off, “But, this move is not going to endear him with people who just want better public schools. I don’t think that this ‘American Princess’ will fill the bill very well. Unless AmWay can somehow get into the education business!”
I had to Google the lady to decipher the reference. It seems her husband, Dick, is an heir to the AmWay fortune.
Along with his message, he sent along a snarky photo-shopped picture of the lady holding a sign saying: “I Have Money. I Hate Public Schools.” On the same page appeared the following: “Betsy DeVos has never attended public school, sent her kids to public school or worked in public schools.” In addition, it stated: “She does not have an education degree, and has never taught. So, Trump picked a billionaire who doesn’t believe in public education to be in charge of education. Let the privatization & profiteering begin.”
In response, I wrote: “I am not a billionaire and I have never been a public-school teacher, but I, too, hate what public education has become over the past several decades. I also hate teachers’ colleges and teachers’ unions. They, along with the media, are responsible for churning out the ill-educated dolts who voted for Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
"You either want a better education system or you want more of the same: a monopoly controlled by left-wing nincompoops. Although I personally would have preferred to see the bureaucracy done away with altogether, I think Mrs. DeVos is the next best thing, and I can’t imagine why you would disagree.”
It is also worth mentioning that you can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of Democratic politicians who have their children enrolled in public schools. They may have to pay lip service to the institution in order to keep the campaign contributions rolling in, but that doesn’t mean they also have to sacrifice their offspring’s safety and education.
Another reader alerted me to the fact that the Anti-Defamation League, a group that in the past was dedicated to throwing a spotlight on anti-Semitism, has endorsed Keith Ellison, a black Muslim with close ties to the virulent anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan, to be the next head of the DNC.
I was not even slightly surprised. These days, the ADL is as corrupt as the NAACP. Because the ADL has morphed into just another group whose mission is to further a leftist agenda, they are more likely these days to support Israel’s enemies than to defend the Jewish State. In fact, if the ADL were ever to put the interests of Israel ahead of its allegiance to the Democrats, the shock waves would probably be enough to knock the earth off its axis.
Finally, when I heard that just prior to Thanksgiving, Barack Obama had pardoned the turkey, I said to my wife: “The nerve of the guy. She hasn’t even been indicted yet!”
