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JD Vance, drawing all the connections:

https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1742925449465135262

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Jan 4Liked by Chris Bray

"The balls on this woman."

Yeah. A lot of that going around these days.

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Jan 4·edited Jan 4Liked by Chris Bray

In 2024, let's please stop calling "Ibram X Kendi" by that ridiculous stage name, and go back to calling him by his real name, Henry Rogers.

He is supposedly an academic, so he should have no need of a 'stage name' (unless we are admitting that his entire academic genre is in fact, a sort of lucrative performance art)...?

Anyway, I don't know why we keep pandering to these grifters by giving them our willing participation in their Wakanda-LARPing, and grievance-farming.

Let's just not. Henry Rogers from now on.

I am rescinding my participation in Henry's narcissist gambit!

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"My answer is almost always the same, which is that all the crises are the same crisis"

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My answer is always the same, but yours is way more polite. :)

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“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.”

I agree with this completely, but probably not in the way Gay hopes.

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"All the caterwauling and subject-changing and burden-shifting and deflection and media noise did nothing, full stop."

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And that's why I'm so optimistic about the future. It's like the world is discovering that actually, words can never hurt you......

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Twitter/X community notes are awesome. Your posts are even better. Thanks for reminding me that I’m not insane for what I think, Chris! Keep up the fight.

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Jan 4Liked by Chris Bray

Just like how fake everything is:

Fake scholarship

Fake oppression (she's still making 900K/yr and is a member of a prominent wealthy Haitian family)

Fake pandemic

Fake doctors (Fauxci is an MD but he's a bureaucrat who barely actually practiced medicine)

Fake barriers (masks)

Fake vaccines

Fake men/women

Fake pronouns

Fake climate crisis

Fake treason ("Russian collusion")

Fake insurrection

Fake elections

Fake president

Fake murder (George Floyd)

Fake racism (see top and bottom of list above)

Fake national borders

And potentially the most dangerous of all:

Fake money/economy

What did I forget?

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Here Claudine, let me fix that for you. I know you have trouble formulating your own thoughts in your own words, so here’s my suggestion, which you are free to plagiarize:

“This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to expose the extensive rot and corruption metastasizing within fallen pillars of American society. Campaigns of this kind often start with attacks on institutions purporting to advance education and expertise, because these are the institutions best equipped to propagandize communities. But such campaigns don’t end there. Corrupt institutions of all types — from public health agencies to news organizations — will continue to fall victim to dogged efforts by independent journalists and experts to undermine their totalitarian propaganda and expose their leaders’ lies. For the truth-seekers and freedom fighters revealing the truth about our institutions, no single victory or toppled leader exhausts their zeal.

They will continue in this quest until the last fraudsters and totalitarians are purged, and until God, truth, liberty, and justice once again become the cornerstones of American society. May they emerge victorious!”

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Jan 4Liked by Chris Bray

Sociopathically shameless. Exactly.

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Jan 4·edited Jan 4Liked by Chris Bray

the reason gay's toothless attempt at a parting salvo sounds exactly like the bullshit we’ve been reading for years is because it was probably written by the same people who brought us the "pandemic." even as the door catches her on her way out, gay can't resist the urge to plagiarize. this is so scripted: public health agencies and news organizations are the two institutions most crucial to the cabal who want to bring us the great reset.

in november 2020 somebody left a copy of the sunday ny times in the vestibule of my old building. i hadn't read the times in a long time and i took it, curious to see what propaganda they were putting out.

what struck me as most odd is that every single article, from the sports section to the recipes, the business page and the wedding announcements, contained the word "pandemic."

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Ms. Gay terminated professor Ron Sullivan because he signed on the Weinstein’s legal team and she “persecuted Roland Fryer, the brilliant black economist who inconveniently found the “wrong” results in the classic study of race and policing.” (Quotes intended - John H. Cochrane, “Argue Honesty in the Claudine Gay Affair”, 12/30/23, The Grumpy Economist.). Great analysis of why Gay needed to be fired with plagiarism the icing on the cake, as it were.

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This whole thing is baffling to me! When I was in college you got expelled for plagiarizing the way this twit did. If you wanted to continue with college, you couldn't go back to that one. They wouldn't take you back! There was the guy who had his dorm room inspected within an inch of its life. They found a few pot seeds. He was expelled. If he went to college again, it wasn't at that one. They would never have taken him back!

This woman makes $900,000/year and she cheats? No shame whatsoever, obviously. If she's embarrassed at all it's only because she got caught. She *was* caught and then tried to turn it into racism? That kind of crap drives people into being racists due to the double standard!! Special treatment for cheaters/liars? What's wrong with this picture. Of course they aren't exactly letting the actual smart kids into that school or into any that were once considered to be good schools. The mostly Asian kids with nearly perfect test scores on their SATs or ACTs were not allowed in because they were 1) too much smarter than the other people and 2) they were the wrong color! It would be interesting to know how her schooling was paid. I'll bet she got a full scholarship.

The cheating just amazes me! Why would you want a grade you didn't earn? Easy in the short-term means difficult in the long-term. Like cheating for the quizzes and then knowing nothing when you take the final. This was back in the 60s and I was nine, but I knew Columbus did NOT discover America!! I refused to say that and it hurt my grade more than once. After cheating on a test the one time I realized I'd rather take the bad grade. I always told my mom sooner or later when I did something wrong so I didn't get away with much. Bad is bad. You shouldn't be rewarded for being bad by "running" an Ivy League university!

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Jan 4Liked by Chris Bray

Every institution in our society is currently a cesspool.

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Unfortunately Garber is also Fauci. He led Harvard’s insane Covid response. A symbolic victory has been won, but the machine remains fully intact.

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I can think of few things more rich than to get busted for plagiarism and to then accuse those pointing it out of “Undermining education, expertise, legitimacy and credibility”...she is describing her own actions.

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Gay was the token but Penny Pritzker is the massive $26Bn power family behind her. Gay is finally gone but the next battle is Pritzker. Can she continue as puppet master?

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