Darren Bailey believes in capping property taxes at 1%, suspend the gas tax, DOGE Illinois, etc, etc, etc, but his belief in the theory of evolution is somehow newsworthy to the Chicago Tribune
@catturd2 The guy is the worst at math. Literally an ideologue that can’t comprehend that USA is wayyyy less dependent on Canada than Canada on the USA. Keep playing though carney. Tard.
If a pilot at Delta discovers evidence that a pilot at Jet Blue fabricated his credentials and is then fired for bringing this to light, you might reasonably wonder whether airlines are less interested in your safety and more interested in protecting pilots from scrutiny.
I studied in the academic department at Cambridge that later employed Jason Arday. Here's just some of the crap I learnt: For one module, I wrote a lengthy essay about how cultural products like kids’ cartoons and jazz songs serve as instruments of capitalist oppression. I got a top mark on that paper (despite knowing at the time that I was essentially regurgitating complete crap).
While studying for another paper I had a debate with the professor, an eminent anthropologist, because she insisted that native tribes could fly through the trees - not metaphorically, but that they could literally fly because they believed they could fly. After all, who are we to question ‘indigenous ways of knowing’...
For a different course, I read long ‘research papers’ which argued that the fact that black kids are excluded from schools more than white kids proves systemic racism exists in education. Crucially, they ignored the fact that white kids are excluded more than, e.g., Japanese kids, a statistic which, applying the exact same logic, would suggest that the education system is systemically biased in favour of, erm, Japanese kids (which obviously it isn’t).
Something that was held up as proof of the existence of this largely imaginary racism was that teachers tell kids not to use booming voices in the classroom, and not to put up their hoods or wear their trousers down below their pants.
On another occasion, my supervisor casually praised some students agitators who were trying to shut down a talk by someone they disagreed with. I said that I didn’t think this was something to celebrate, because I believed in freedom of speech. He got visibly angry, and proceeded to tell me that free speech was not worth protecting in a capitalist system (or something along those lines).
In my all-important final year, a lecturer let me know that I shouldn’t worry too much about my exam results, because as someone who was not from an upper class background I should be more focussed on using my grasp of leftist revolutionary theory to further the interests of the proletariat. Writing this down, it strikes me that it’s so hilariously mental that some of you will presumably assume I’m lying. But there’s no way I’m leaving it out, because it happened.
Unlike the academics who make a living from this stuff, I couldn’t bring myself to build a career pumping out whiney, divisive, intellectually incoherent rubbish. But others, as we’ve seen exposed in recent days, do so with gusto. And are lauded for it.
Please read the full piece this is taken from, and give it a share. I've linked it in the tweet below.
Speaking about Americans who had their lives ruined by imported foreign labor replacements, Vance says “The blood of those people pulls at the feet of those who would sell out their country for a cheap bottom line.”
Sorry, neocons, your hysterical “postliberal” smears aren’t going to work against this level of rhetoric and connection with working class voters
When management tells you directly to hire fewer white men, no amount of gaslighting from a Koch heiress can make you forget it.
This OMG example was just one of many.
Once again, the professor has come up short…
His latest screed is an impressive display of economic prestidigitation.
He concedes that wages are growing faster for low-income workers and then attempts to bury that dispositive fact beneath nearly 2,000 words.
Bank of America data show that spending among lower- and middle-income households has converged toward levels at the top as they lead labor market gains.
Professor Reich has a documented history of “inventing dialogue” when the truth doesn’t fit his narrative, a habit that forced him to rewrite his memoir after the media exposed his fabrications. Burger King appears not to be the only one who peddles “Whoppers.”
As I do not like “punching down,” this will be the last response to his four-decade pattern of packaging falsehoods as fact.
After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign. It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to competing against biological males. It was one of several pieces of mine that had been spiked, and I no longer felt like I could properly do my job as a columnist. I lay out the situation in greater detail in the link below, but I want to say that I enjoyed my time with the paper, find the talent there to be immense, and have no animosity toward anyone who works there. It was just time for a change.
https://t.co/NAhfUbmaPI
Weird how the people outraged by the "hounding" of Jason Arday delight in and encourage the actual hounding of the person who exposed him.
Arday was not fired from his job or denied employment opportunities. On the contrary, he was given and retained jobs for which he was not qualified and was rightly criticised for lying.
Cofnas, on the other hand, is actually being denied jobs and fired from them for bring Arday's lying to light.
Katie has been in a grave for over 19 months, helped there by Illinois policies that work at cross purposes and fail to protect the innocent in this state.
Illinois turned its back on Katie. It is the Illinois I know now, and the reason I am being forced to find a new place to live out the rest of my life, and where I can, in good conscience, be buried with Katie.
That place will not be Illinois.
Remember, it’s an election year.
Huge amounts of money will be spent.
Plenty of mistruths will be told.
As a lifelong Illinois resident, I know better.
I just hope the mask is finally off this year.
I am excited to accept the Executive Director role at VOICE (Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement) Office because this is not simply a government position for me, it is deeply personal and rooted in a mission I have come to understand through unimaginable loss.
I want to use my experience, my voice, and what I have learned through Katie's story to make sure victims and their families are heard, treated with dignity, and never become an afterthought in our immigration system.