</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.
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.