</center> <p>Like millions of other high school seniors, March for Our Lives leader David Hogg has been hearing back from universities he applied to, and TMZ ran an <a href="https: //www.tmz.com/2018/03/27/parkland-leader-david-hogg-rejected-colleges-emma-gonzalez/?adid=hero3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">EXCLUSIVE scoop</a> on some disappointing news: Hogg was turned down by the four University of California campuses he applied to -- UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, and UC Irvine. He got the rejections two weeks ago, and says he's a bit disappointed but he has a lot of other things going on at the moment. </p><hr/><p>The story got reblogged by Ben Shapiro's Internet Nastygram with the headline <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28770/gun-rights-provocateur-david-hogg-rejected-four-joseph-curl" rel="noopener" target="_blank">"Gun Rights Provocateur David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied"</a> and the dismissive lede, </p><p/><blockquote>David Hogg, a self-appointed spokesman for a generation, revealed on Tuesday that four universities he has applied to have rejected his application.</blockquote> <p>Boy oh boy did Fox News homunculus Laura Ingraham have a <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/979021639458459648" rel="noopener" target="_blank">good schadenfreudey laugh </a>over how stupid that little soy boy is, getting rejected by ALL THE SCHOOLS because he's a loser who can't make the grade: </p><p><img id="995e2" data-rm-shortcode-id="db9bba35c8843845b5ef836a8c1a9f7a" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" class="rm-shortcode " loading="lazy" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xNzY2MDg1OC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc0MzkzNTU4MX0.yk3faWyShTR62lx_3g4iuJzE6b5OKdM6-7u2Yyq0Zbs/img.jpg?width=980" /> </p><p>Incidentally, she knocked one point off Hogg's GPA; both TMZ and the Daily Wire have it as 4.2. As for that "whining," you can see the video: Hogg says being turned down by the four UC schools has "not been too great for me and some of the other members of the movement," like Ryan Deitsch, who was also turned down by UCLA. Hogg also put it in perspective as Just One Of Those Things: </p><p/><blockquote>It's been kind of annoying having to deal with that and everything else that's been going on but at this point, you know, we're changing the world. We're too busy. Right now it's hard to focus on that.</blockquote> <p>So that's "whining," according to Ingraham. </p><p><rm-nested-posts ids="2569257193" template="related_blog"></rm-nested-posts>Heavens, if David Hogg were a real America-loving patriot, he'd sue to get his Advanced Placement ass accepted, just like that <a href="https://wonkette.substack.com/p/mediocre-white-girl-fails-to-take-down-affirmative-action" rel="noopener" target="_blank">mediocre white girl</a> from Texas, because obviously he's being discriminated against by affirmative action or something. <em>Then</em> Laura Ingraham might respect him, just like Fox News had conniptions about those terrible freedom-hating teens in Washington, but went out of its way to explain that the <a href="https://wonkette.substack.com/p/fox-news-vs-the-teens-sorry-fox" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Nazis who marched in Charlottesville had legitimate grievances.</a> </p><p>Or maybe Ingraham was offended by Hogg's empathy for other kids who don't get into good schools -- and for those who do, but are saddled with debt. Just see him whining about how hard other people have it, like some kind of unselfish person who thinks other people have feelings too: </p><p/><blockquote>I am not surprised at all in all honesty. I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education</blockquote> <p>See? He's just not happy with anything. Except for being accepted at Florida Atlantic University, Cal State San Marcos, and Cal Poly, which as safety schools aren't exactly the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. </p><p>Ingraham's mockery of Hogg wasn't universally appreciated -- for instance certifiable jackhole Mike Cernovich -- yes, the rape apologist one -- <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/979090471342387200" rel="noopener" target="_blank">thought </a>maybe Ingraham had gone a little far. Of course, other people, like Media Matters visiting fellow Melissa Ryan, <a href="https://twitter.com/MelissaRyan/status/979095020329488384" rel="noopener" target="_blank">noted </a>that Cernovich had chosen an odd hill to die on: </p><p><img id="21bd7" data-rm-shortcode-id="cc0acae361b7707762cf025cd085ef82" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" class="rm-shortcode " loading="lazy" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xNzY2MDg1OS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY5NDY3Mzk3MH0.ESupUcjNmqqPQ06DrqGCnKzbEOXQBRR0_dp9uiVV09o/img.jpg?width=980" /> </p><p>Cernovich later made clear he wasn't suggesting there's anything necessarily wrong with mocking the teens of Parkland, who are, like the entire Left, trying to take away your guns. No, he's just saying it's <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/979092139459059712" rel="noopener" target="_blank">bad strategy.</a> In fact, he thinks David Hogg and the other teens are assholes who will drive Real Americans to the polls to save their guns, so there's simply no need to say anything that might make the kids seem sympathetic: </p><p><img id="96196" data-rm-shortcode-id="ade438547b98e2ee4798ddacb946fd6e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" class="rm-shortcode " loading="lazy" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xNzY2MDg2MC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTcyMzE0NjYwNX0.bMBbJz8s8lPN_dpkh5d9cVfkSJe7WSUjW7bWO00UQ1k/img.jpg?width=980" /> </p><p>A regular beacon of decency and light, that guy is. Also, there's this potential headline Evan popped up in the Wonkette Sekrit ChatCave yesterday: "Mike Cernovich Knows What's A Good Look, Because His Eyes Are Too Close Together And That Helps Him See What A Good Look Is We Guess." </p><p>It was so mean, we thought for a moment Five Dollar Feminist had typed it! But at least with Cernovich, we can be certain we're not going after an honor student. </p><p>Especially not an honors student who <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/979168957180579840" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>knows how to activism</em></a> as well as this wonderful kid: </p><p><img id="ba8ff" data-rm-shortcode-id="33790ad97eabda5bc7da026a22cdbf3c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" class="rm-shortcode " loading="lazy" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xNzY2MDg2MS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTcwNTMwMzU1NH0.Rg-VMn3pp9OH9FFUOcYv3QwVK98BGOuknS3gYqeHUt4/img.jpg?width=980" /> </p><p><a href="https://wonkette.substack.com/subscribe/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>Yr Wonkette is supported by reader donations. Please click here to donate and support us, readers! It's the end of the month and you're a tiny bit shy!</strong></a> </p><p>[<a href="https://www.tmz.com/2018/03/27/parkland-leader-david-hogg-rejected-colleges-emma-gonzalez/?adid=hero3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">TMZ</a> / <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28770/gun-rights-provocateur-david-hogg-rejected-four-joseph-curl" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daily Wire</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/979021639458459648" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Some idiot on Twitter</a>]</p>
I think one report said that Hogg wants to go into journalism. If so, he's off to a great start. Maybe he'll end up writing about President Emma Gonzalez.
That'll be a few years and where the nation will be by then is anyone's guess.Butt, if you're scenario were to come to be, whatever version of right wing fanatics at the time would self combust I think.
The good news is that there seem to be a large number of Dems emerging who would annoy the radical right--or, at least, those who righters who live that long. They are mostly over 50 now.
I'm not going to speculate, but I do see signs that the national pendulum is beginning to swing back to the left. It can't go much further right or those loonies are going to fall off the edge of the earth (science says it's spherical, so it must be flat).
There definitely is no direct solution for the crazies. Time and persistence with a little help from this new and bright generation may be the only real weapon we have. And I suppose, that Preznident Vlad Vonn Trumpsky is aiding in the effort by dragging the entire right wing into obscurity.
Flat Earthers-Jeebus H Tits, its hard to believe that the slightest bit of energy needs to be wasted on that much dumb.
Posit; when the flat Earthers fall off, where do they go? Flat space, Flatsville?? Are they flat fucked?So many questions.
Well, there is a solution but it's illegal and frowned on in polite society.
It certainly does seem that this is the last gasp of the insane right, but I thought that a few years ago too. Then we got Trump.
I guess either things will get better or we will get President Ivanka.
Speaking of flat earth, there's an excellent satire called "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions." It was a commentary on the Victorian class system, but it is a fascinating bit of geometry too.
As far as the last gasp, you are right, they were there and they knew it.Had Hillary won (she actually did) they would've faded away IMHO. So they risked it all and pulled the biggest cheat in history in order to stem the tide, which is back bigger than ever btw, and to pack the courts and hopefully reverse all the progress that they could prior to the axe falling.
When illegit Prez Orange Vlad goes down and drags the whole stinking mess of them down with him, the damage will still be done. The big money donors will have won and we will be have been kneecapped and set back. Their last gasp may be their biggest and most damaging IOW.
History shows it going both ways, at least short term. Demagogues can do terrible things and they can rule for years (though they often come to messy ends).
In other cases, as with our own Robber Baron and Japanese internment bad history, it gets dealt with and the country improves until the next misstep.
I'm already wistful for W. He is a fairly decent person. Unfortunately, he gave power to Rove and Cheney, who are not. But at least they were smart evil people.
I don't know where we'll go from here. We are seeing a lot more resistance to the insane right than we have in decades. There are some promising signs. There are also some scary threats.
Interestingly, we also have one issue on which the political extremes pretty much agree: our government represents special interests, not ordinary people. That seems to be the core message of many of the current protests. Maybe it will catch hold. If we could get special interest money out of government then a lot of other problems would be solved as a result.
I'm sure that's just an oversight by the Founding Hanoverians. Maybe revocation could be accomplished by fiat, on Twitter. Or maybe Laura could be awarded a negative degree that would cancel out the first one. Clearly, she's unlearned anything good she got at Dartmouth.
By the way, I had wonderful times at Dartmouth decades ago with one of my dearest friends, and don't mean to besmirch the place. I do understand there's a toxic conservative element on campus, though.
Saved the nation and slayed a beastie.
BAM, Hired!
I think one report said that Hogg wants to go into journalism. If so, he's off to a great start. Maybe he'll end up writing about President Emma Gonzalez.
She is a Christian for a given definition of the word--a definition that seems to predominate in our culture.
Any Christian who ignores moral and ethical issues in order to grab political power is not practicing religon; they are practicing politics.
That'll be a few years and where the nation will be by then is anyone's guess.Butt, if you're scenario were to come to be, whatever version of right wing fanatics at the time would self combust I think.
What are those things sticking out of his ears?
Combusting WingNuts would be a lovely perk.
The good news is that there seem to be a large number of Dems emerging who would annoy the radical right--or, at least, those who righters who live that long. They are mostly over 50 now.
I'm not going to speculate, but I do see signs that the national pendulum is beginning to swing back to the left. It can't go much further right or those loonies are going to fall off the edge of the earth (science says it's spherical, so it must be flat).
There definitely is no direct solution for the crazies. Time and persistence with a little help from this new and bright generation may be the only real weapon we have. And I suppose, that Preznident Vlad Vonn Trumpsky is aiding in the effort by dragging the entire right wing into obscurity.
Flat Earthers-Jeebus H Tits, its hard to believe that the slightest bit of energy needs to be wasted on that much dumb.
Posit; when the flat Earthers fall off, where do they go? Flat space, Flatsville?? Are they flat fucked?So many questions.
Well, there is a solution but it's illegal and frowned on in polite society.
It certainly does seem that this is the last gasp of the insane right, but I thought that a few years ago too. Then we got Trump.
I guess either things will get better or we will get President Ivanka.
Speaking of flat earth, there's an excellent satire called "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions." It was a commentary on the Victorian class system, but it is a fascinating bit of geometry too.
As far as the last gasp, you are right, they were there and they knew it.Had Hillary won (she actually did) they would've faded away IMHO. So they risked it all and pulled the biggest cheat in history in order to stem the tide, which is back bigger than ever btw, and to pack the courts and hopefully reverse all the progress that they could prior to the axe falling.
When illegit Prez Orange Vlad goes down and drags the whole stinking mess of them down with him, the damage will still be done. The big money donors will have won and we will be have been kneecapped and set back. Their last gasp may be their biggest and most damaging IOW.
History shows it going both ways, at least short term. Demagogues can do terrible things and they can rule for years (though they often come to messy ends).
In other cases, as with our own Robber Baron and Japanese internment bad history, it gets dealt with and the country improves until the next misstep.
I'm already wistful for W. He is a fairly decent person. Unfortunately, he gave power to Rove and Cheney, who are not. But at least they were smart evil people.
I don't know where we'll go from here. We are seeing a lot more resistance to the insane right than we have in decades. There are some promising signs. There are also some scary threats.
Interestingly, we also have one issue on which the political extremes pretty much agree: our government represents special interests, not ordinary people. That seems to be the core message of many of the current protests. Maybe it will catch hold. If we could get special interest money out of government then a lot of other problems would be solved as a result.
Change the locks?
Personally, I always get UC San Diego and UC Sunnydale confused. :-)
That`s not a runner, it`s the seam in her skin suit.
I would like to argue the point with you, but the facts give me no way to do so.
I'm sure that's just an oversight by the Founding Hanoverians. Maybe revocation could be accomplished by fiat, on Twitter. Or maybe Laura could be awarded a negative degree that would cancel out the first one. Clearly, she's unlearned anything good she got at Dartmouth.
By the way, I had wonderful times at Dartmouth decades ago with one of my dearest friends, and don't mean to besmirch the place. I do understand there's a toxic conservative element on campus, though.