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For 10 years, the Never Trump intifada carefully blended sheer grift with insufferable sanctimony.... now a decade later, the 'deeply principled' are reduced to endorsing a guy whose familial Muslim Brotherhood ties would see him banned from most Islamic countries.
.@SarahLongwell25: "Vote for Abdul El-Sayed. I think this is a mark of how important it is for me to defend liberal democracy. I will endorse candidates with whom I have big differences for the bigger picture of putting an enormous check on Donald Trump."
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NB: what is happening in Poland - where Brussels & Berlin's man Donald Tusk tried to upend Poland's Constitutional Tribunal while the Polish President was overseas & during the holy All Saints/All Souls weekend - is an augury of the liberal 'lawfare' to come
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Yeah, if you fake your entire academic career and make outlandish and self-aggrandizing claims about hundreds of other things you haven't done, and invent various academic positions and achievements for yourself, and then try and use the police to intimidate journalists investigating all your lies, then, "to put it mildly", things "don't go well"
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Literally everywhere on earth is just one big long example of left wing ideology being a complete and disastrous failure and they learn absolutely nothing from it, ever
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Yeah…. looting Gucci really taught those politicians you left alone and are too gutless to actually go after.
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Never forget: in 2020, simply suggesting this publicly could have cost you your job.
Ilhan Omar was so confused by marriage to 'brother' she crossed out her own name twice on official application trib.al/2qi7kOx
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Anton Chigurh: whats the most youve ever lost on a coin t-
Me: bottle of xans half a pack of camels
Anton: wh-
Me: buddy said heads you can punch me as hard as you can in the mouth tails I get what’s in your pocket. I was hammered so I said ok
Anton: why
Me: no idea
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i cannot imagine hating anything as intensely as the uk government hates the british people
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The real reason is that she's a streetwalker who now plies her trade in the Dem side of town. But she can't say that out loud, so she makes up highfalutin excuses like this which she hopes will fool at least some people, and at least herself if no one else.
#MichiganSenate
The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell explains why she would vote for Abdul El-Sayed
"I think this is a mark of how important it is for me to defend liberal democracy. I will endorse candidates with whom I have big differences for the bigger picture of putting an enormous check on Donald Trump."
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This is insane and every single Democrat is pretending it's not.
El Sayed courted voters at mosques where speakers dubbed US 'House of Satan' and called for 'final annihilation of Jews' trib.al/Z9uvLco
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Something that's been exposed by the Arday affair, and various attempts to defend Arday, is how activist academics in soft sciences or psuedo-disciplines use the hard-earned prestige of more serious and / or quantitative subjects as a kind of human shield against scrutiny.
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Every time one of these cases comes up where the second order consequence is this obvious I think of Jack explaining vertical integration to Liz.
Someone who is not a citizen is in the country with a removal order, and they are working and raising a family and haven't committed any crimes unrelated to their immigration status. What should we do?
Nothing. We should do nothing.
jessesingal.substack.com/p/y…
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Black voters don’t actually need to vote in Detroit. The ballot boxes will miraculously fill up at midnight on Election Day like the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes.
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It is in the public’s interest to know whether its elite universities are holding their scholars to high standards. There was substantial evidence that Jason Arday widely committed plagiarism, committed academic fraud, and was a serial fabulist. There is also evidence that Cambridge lowered its standards when they hired him and then proceeded to look the other way when reports of his academic misconduct started to emerge—as they are doing now as they have withdrawn their pledge to investigate his hiring.
He has not been “cleared” of plagiarism. He allegedly plagiarized in multiple papers, including those neither covered by the journal that looked into the of his that they’d published and had required substantial corrections nor by the university that granted him his PhD.
Arday also clearly and demonstrably lied about his life in service of career advancement, fame and income.
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He absolutely was not "cleared of plagiarism" which is a transparent attempt to form a consensus by repeating a brazen lie over and over again- the media did not "hound him to his death" but simply investigated and reported his own outlandish tall tales- he would not have become the subject of a scandal if a) he hadn't plagiarised and told so many outrageous lies, b) if Cambridge hadn't enabled and constructed his rise to academic celebrity, c) if he hadn't sicced the police on one of the earliest journalists to investigate him, and d) Jolyon Maugham hadn't catapulted him into the public eye with his incredibly inept attempt at activism
