Claudine Gay releases an op-ed with the New York Times. Well, we think she wrote it. Who knows? Let’s go through it.
And Joe Biden breaks another record he is proud of.
Congrats Joe! A New Record!
Joe Biden just keeps breaking records and he did it again! He’s going to be proud of this one when he gets back from his vacation in the Virgin Islands and hears about it.
According to the Post Millennial:
It has been revealed that agents at the southern border recorded over 300,000 encounters with migrants in December, smashing the previous monthly record of 269,735, which was set in September.
Every month of Fiscal Year 2024 has thus far outpaced FY2023 as the crisis at the southern border shows no signs of letting up.
According to Fox News, sources familiar with the data collected by Customs and Border Protection confirmed that 302,000 encounters were recorded in December, though the numbers have not yet been released to the public.
There is another caravan of 8000 on its way. Question, where are these people getting the resources to get up here?
Greg Abbot is doing everything he can to stem the tide.
- He has called in the National Guard. The federal government sued.
- He put up storage containers as a make shift wall. The federal government sued.
- He set of flotillas to block the Rio Grande. The federal government sued.
- He set up barbed wire. The federal government sued.
- He is sending illegals to blue cities. The federal government is suing.
- He has made it a state crime to be an illegal alien. The federal government is suing.
Speaking Of…
New York mayor, Eric Adams, is doing anything he can to stem the tide of illegal aliens entering his city from Texas. It turns in130,000 illegal aliens (which is less than half of what Texas takes in per month) with no skills and the inability to speak English is not real positive on an economy.
Adams decided to require a 32 hour warning of when a bus full of illegals is headed to his city. If a bus cam without warning, the bus company would be fined. Well, Texas governor, Greg Abbot can handle that little challenge. He is now sending the illegals to New Jersey where they are being put on trains and shipped to New York that way. The New Jersey leadership is communicating with New York City but they don’t know what to do.
This works. Just keep doing it.
That’ll Fix It
High school social studies teacher and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson has a way to solve the problem. Call Greg Abbott a racist. You know, that’s never been done before.
Here he is making another non-sensical statement:
I have a couple of little issues with this statement:
- I’m not seeing the parallel between the succession of southern states and the Civil War and illegal immigration. Of course, CBS doesn’t ask him that question.
- Second, when did it become Greg Abbott’s problem to make sure illegal aliens get vaccinated? Isn’t that the federal government’s problem. Shouldn’t Mr. Johnson be bitching at Joe Biden? He’s in charge of these people.
- Where is the outrage when Biden is sending these illegals to Chicago, New York City and Washington DC? Joe Biden has been doing that since he started this disaster.
But I have one other question, and it’s an important one. Why is it when Greg Abbott bitches about not having the resources to deal with this and the federal government should do something, he gets demonized. Yet democrats are doing the same thing, but blaming Abbott. They’re all bitching about the same thing but Abbott is getting called a monster and racist.
New Year, Same Old Shit
According to Fox Business:
A Florida woman is suing Hershey after she says she was deceived by the chocolate brand’s packaging of its holiday-themed items.
In a proposed federal class action lawsuit filed on Thursday, Dec. 28, plaintiff Cynthia Kelly of Hillsborough County, Florida stated she was filing on “behalf of herself and all other similarly situated individuals who purchased a Reese’s Peanut Butter product based on false and deceptive advertising.”
“Hershey’s labels for the Products are materially misleading and numerous consumers have been tricked and misled by the pictures on the Products’ packaging,” said the lawsuit, which was filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
These products include “Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins, Reese’s White Pumpkins, Reese’s Pieces Pumpkins, Reese’s Peanut Butter Ghost, Reese’s White Ghost, Reese’s Peanut Butter Bats, Reese’s Peanut Butter Footballs, and Reese’s Peanut Butter Shapes Assortment Snowmen Stockings Bells,” says the suit.
The Hershey Company, said Kelly, is “falsely representing several Reese’s Peanut Butter products as containing explicit carved out artistic designs when there are no such carvings in the actual products.”
The lawsuit specifically cites the packaging for Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins.
On the packaging, the chocolate item has a carved-out face, but the actual item does not have any carvings, facial features or otherwise.
Some things:
- She is suing for $5 million.
- She will get something. It is cheaper for Hershey to settle than go to court.
- This will pave the way for more worthless lawsuits.
- This is where our civil laws need to change. We need to make it that people bringing frivolous lawsuits have to pay when they lose.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/hershey-sued-accused-deception-reeses-peanut-butter-pumpkins
It’s Worse Than I Thought It Would Be
According to Claudine Gay through the New York Times:
On Tuesday, I made the wrenching but necessary decision to resign as Harvard’s president. For weeks, both I and the institution to which I’ve devoted my professional life have been under attack. My character and intelligence have been impugned. My commitment to fighting antisemitism has been questioned. My inbox has been flooded with invective, including death threats. I’ve been called the N-word more times than I care to count.
Everything here is absolutely correct. Except the death threats. I doubt that’s happening too much, if at all.
My hope is that by stepping down I will deny demagogues the opportunity to further weaponize my presidency in their campaign to undermine the ideals animating Harvard since its founding: excellence, openness, independence, truth.
Nope, probably not going to happen. She is a symptom of the illness that Harvard has. She is not the illness.
And, of course, she goes out an insults any criticism using the term “demagogues.” She’s not going to take any responsibility here.
As I depart, I must offer a few words of warning. The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader. This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society. Campaigns of this kind often start with attacks on education and expertise, because these are the tools that best equip communities to see through propaganda. But such campaigns don’t end there. Trusted institutions of all types — from public health agencies to news organizations — will continue to fall victim to coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leaders’ credibility. For the opportunists driving cynicism about our institutions, no single victory or toppled leader exhausts their zeal.
This is a pure example of decrying something that you’re actually doing.
- This institution is pushing Leftist propaganda such as diversity.
- This institution is suppressing free speech and the forum of ideas and debate.
- Look at what is happening with the Jews there.
- But, when Claudine Gay, they are after her competence and the school’s thought process as to why they hired her.
- It is the ideology that kept this woman hired and making a ton of money that people are questioning.
Yes, I made mistakes. In my initial response to the atrocities of Oct. 7, I should have stated more forcefully what all people of good conscience know: Hamas is a terrorist organization that seeks to eradicate the Jewish state. And at a congressional hearing last month, I fell into a well-laid trap. I neglected to clearly articulate that calls for the genocide of Jewish people are abhorrent and unacceptable and that I would use every tool at my disposal to protect students from that kind of hate.
OK, she admits she said the wrong thing. Fine. Fix your statement and move on.
But that’s not what the complaint is about. The complaint is what she was doing about it. She was doing nothing. She supported the anti-Semites to the point she turned her back when they called for genocide. By the way, that’s a Harvard problem. The entire institution thinks calls for the genocide of the Jews is fine.
Most recently, the attacks have focused on my scholarship. My critics found instances in my academic writings where some material duplicated other scholars’ language, without proper attribution. I believe all scholars deserve full and appropriate credit for their work. When I learned of these errors, I promptly requested corrections from the journals in which the flagged articles were published, consistent with how I have seen similar faculty cases handled at Harvard.
I have never misrepresented my research findings, nor have I ever claimed credit for the research of others. Moreover, the citation errors should not obscure a fundamental truth: I proudly stand by my work and its impact on the field.
Yeah, she cheated. Easily proven after the review.
She should put “my scholarship” in quotes because it is the lack of her scholarship that’s the problem. And her entire career. Over 50 documents have been found with plagiarized material including her doctoral dissertation. Not only should she not have a job, she should not have her titles and their benefits. She cheated.
Despite the obsessive scrutiny of my peer-reviewed writings, few have commented on the substance of my scholarship, which focuses on the significance of minority office holding in American politics. My research marshaled concrete evidence to show that when historically marginalized communities gain a meaningful voice in the halls of power, it signals an open door where before many saw only barriers. And that, in turn, strengthens our democracy.
Throughout this work, I asked questions that had not been asked, used then-cutting-edge quantitative research methods and established a new understanding of representation in American politics. This work was published in the nation’s top political science journals and spawned important research by other scholars.
A few things here:
- The “peer review” thing. That is another big question. Why didn’t your “peers” catch this? Or did they and they just ignored it.
- Are her “peers” not as smart as the journalist from a state school that found the discrepancies? Or did her “peers” ignore the discrepancies because of her race?
- Let’s face it, the Harvard newspaper has multiple people, experts, that say there is plagiarism.
- By the way, she and no one else is denying it directly.
- What she is saying is ignore the plagiarism and look at the shiny bauble (the subject).
Never did I imagine needing to defend decades-old and broadly respected research, but the past several weeks have laid waste to truth. Those who had relentlessly campaigned to oust me since the fall often trafficked in lies and ad hominem insults, not reasoned argument. They recycled tired racial stereotypes about Black talent and temperament. They pushed a false narrative of indifference and incompetence.
Why didn’t she think she was going to face consequences for cheating? Is it because she’s black? Would a white person have to face consequences?
We know they would. The last two white men were fired for far less.
It is not lost on me that I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes unfolding on American campuses: a Black woman selected to lead a storied institution. Someone who views diversity as a source of institutional strength and dynamism. Someone who has advocated a modern curriculum that spans from the frontier of quantum science to the long-neglected history of Asian Americans. Someone who believes that a daughter of Haitian immigrants has something to offer to the nation’s oldest university.
Here we go!
I still believe that. As I return to teaching and scholarship, I will continue to champion access and opportunity, and I will bring to my work the virtue I discussed in the speech I delivered at my presidential inauguration: courage. Because it is courage that has buoyed me throughout my career and it is courage that is needed to stand up to those who seek to undermine what makes universities unique in American life.
She shouldn’t be teaching anymore. She should be fired and thrown out of the entire profession. She cheated. Her scholarship is a lie.
And then there is the whole courage-thing. Not only should we ignore she cheated and is a liar, we should view her as brave. Hey, news flash, being anti-racist and a champion for diversity in major colleges is not a brave thing. That’s all these colleges push. Being brave would be to exclaim the issues with anti-racism and diversity. If you do that, you will be fired and drummed out of the profession! That’s bravery!
Having now seen how quickly the truth can become a casualty amid controversy, I’d urge a broader caution: At tense moments, every one of us must be more skeptical than ever of the loudest and most extreme voices in our culture, however well organized or well connected they might be. Too often they are pursuing self-serving agendas that should be met with more questions and less credulity.
College campuses in our country must remain places where students can learn, share and grow together, not spaces where proxy battles and political grandstanding take root. Universities must remain independent venues where courage and reason unite to advance truth, no matter what forces set against them.
There you have it.
It’s not that she promotes anti-Semitism or cheated to get her degrees or never came up with an original thought and just used the thoughts of others. It’s just that she’s a victim of the diversity war because she’s a black woman.
What about the New York Times editorial board? They didn’t think to ask her to address some of these questions? Of course not. They even shut down the comments section.
.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/opinion/claudine-gay-harvard-president.html