h/t Instapundit
The blizzard of lies and distraction blowing through Washington is not just any routine stuffstorm, but a calculated attempt to bring down a president ‐ our president, not the establishment’s president. And more than that, it’s an attempt to ensure that we never again have the ability to disrupt the bipartisan D.C. cabal’s permanent supremacy by inserting a chief executive who refuses to kiss their collective Reid.
This is a coup against us. It’s a coordinated campaign by liberals and their allies in the bureaucracy and media to once and for all ensure their perpetual rule over us. We need to fight it, here and now, so we don’t have to fight it down at the bottom of this slippery slope.
It’s brazen. It’s bold. It’s insulting to our intelligence. They aren’t even trying to hide their lies anymore. Truth is irrelevant; this is a choreographed dance routine and everyone has his moves. Call it Breakin’ 2: Electric Leakaroo, except instead of trying to save the community center they’re trying to save their power and prestige. When Trump was elected, I hoped the necessary revolution against 'the New Class' or 'American Mandarinate' can be accomplished without bloodshed. Hoped - not believed.
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Prosecute any and every leak to the fullest extent of the law. When you jail 10-15 reporters for taking classified info and not reporting it, the rest will get the message. Mass firings from the CIA and NSA, replacing them with non-ivy league types but actual patriots will also fix alot of the issues.
I simply can't wait for Tyler Smythe Jameson IV to argues that he was discriminated against when he was fired.
There's nowhere near enough popcorn for that one...
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And it isn't just 'Democrats' vs 'Republicans' anymore. The people have spoken and elected *their* choice and not the Establishement's chosen one. Not a beltway insider - not even a career politician.
They are scared shitless that he might actually try to solve some of the issues he ran on. He might *fix* the immigration issue. He might *build* the wall (and not just promise too), He might even try to keep Americans safe (instead if inviting every terrorist and murder he can find like Obama and Company did). He might arrest and put in Prison the neighborhood Thugs and Murders which Obama and company have been sheltering.
And that is why they loath him and all that he stands for - but Democrats and far too many Republicans.
h/t Instapundit
Millions of K-12 students across the country believe that mathematics is a sadistic discipline--(I should know, I was one of them)--but a new "social justice" training module aims to persuade teachers that maybe the kids are on to something.
The course was designed by Teach for America and is offered through EdX, according to Campus Reform. It presupposes that math could be made more interesting for students if it was infused with socially relevant themes. That's not a terrible assumption--maybe young people would like math better if it was being taught in a language they understood. (If Olivia eats 10 pieces of avocado toast every day, how long will it be until she can afford to move out of her parent's house? That sort of thing.)
But Teach for America thinks that language is "social justice," and has designed a course that makes some startling claims about math.
"In western mathematics, our ways of knowing include formalized reasoning or proof, decontextualization, and algorithmic thinking, leaving little room for those having non-western mathematical skills and thinking processes," the training course claims.
It continues:
"Mathematical ethics recognizes that, for centuries, mathematics has been used as a dehumanizing tool... mathematics formulae also differentiate between the classifications of a war or a genocide and have been used to trick indigenous peoples out of land and property."
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Formalized reasoning or proof, decontextualization/abstraction, and algorithmic thinking are pretty much the concepts that make 'Western' mathematics a very powerful tool part of which is the language of the universe.
Without these concepts any form of 'non-Western' mathematics is a compilation of intuited truths, half-truths and much superstition.
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So STEM jobs are hiring, and STEM jobs pay well, and STEM is one of the big reason's America has stayed on top so by all means let's convince the children that the base of the whole STEM success pyramid is evil?
#7
Like Indian positional notation ("Arabic" numerals)?
For some reason the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans were able to build incredible stuff without it. The 'West' didn't use (cultural appropriation!) them till sometime after the Reconquista.
h/t Instapundit
Rarely in the last half-century have so many elite conservatives and intellectuals been so estranged both from a Republican administration and from those who voted for it--neither have they become so animated in their antipathy and disgust for a sitting president.
During the 2016 election, and the current Trump presidency, there have appeared four implicit tenets to the conservative "Never Trump" position that, we are supposed to understand, justified not voting for him, actively opposing him, or voting for Hillary Clinton:
...So far all the political violence associated with the election of Trump, from Inauguration to the latest campus rioting, has been on the Left.
...The crudity in contemporary politics--from the constant sick jokes referring to First Family incest, smears against the First Lady, low attacks on the Trump children, boycotts of the Inauguration, talk and dreams of killing the president--is on the liberal/progressive side.
...Trump was not so much a reflection of red-state Americans’ political ignorance, as their weariness with those of both parties who ridicule, ignore, or patronize them--and now seek to overturn the verdict of the election. Because people without college degrees in Crit. Lit. are too stupid to vote?
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A read most of the whole thing, skimming a bit, and concluded, "pretty good".
Then I saw the author at the bottom - Victor Davis Hanson. No wonder it was good!
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Rarely in the last half-century have so many elite conservatives and intellectuals been so estranged both from a Republican administration and from those who voted for it.
That is because their "conservatism" was a gig, not a cause.
And because Trump's success was an embarrassing contrast to their pathetic failures.
The question I would ask all the Con Elite is:
"What exactly is it that you have conserved?(Your place at the trough doesn't count)"
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