It's not just Trump facing removal from ballots TOM KNIGHTON JAN 4 ∙ PREVIEW

 It's not just Trump facing removal from ballots TOM KNIGHTON JAN 4

I’m not a fan of Donald Trump being removed from ballots because of supposedly being an “insurrectionist.” Trump may not have tripped over himself to denounce what happened on January 6, 2021, but he didn’t plan it and he wasn’t a part of it.

And that doesn’t even touch on the fact that it wasn’t remotely an insurrection.

But as bad as the thing with Trump is, at least some could make the case that he’s facing charges relating to what supposedly happened. Others, however, are facing potential removal simply because Democrats don’t like them...

 GODS OF CHAOS ☙ Thursday, January 4, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 

A giant roundup: Claudine Gay story bears more fruits; SADS airline cluster; court dumps new Epstein docs; Florida smashes jab narrative; Trump appeals Colorado; scary news from Space; and lots more.

JEFF CHILDERS JAN 4 First, public support for DEI has cratered. Following the outpouring of sympathy on elite campuses for Hamas, many Americans—including many center-left liberals—began to question the sweet-sounding euphemisms of DEI and examine what they mean in practice. Second, the political right has learned how to fight more effectively. Any activist campaign has three points of leverage: reputational, financial and political. Journalists applied reputational pressure, exposing Gay’s alleged plagiarism and Harvard’s scandalous effort to cover it up. Donors, led by hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, applied financial pressure, withholding contributions. And Congress applied political pressure, exposing Gay’s equivocations on antisemitism. The nation’s leading university had subordinated veritas to politics, compromising its mission. The only choice was to force Ms. Gay to step down. Conservatives have demonstrated an increasing sophistication in their successful campaigns against national brands such as Disney, Target, Bud Light and now Harvard. Legislators in Florida, Texas and other states have recently passed laws abolishing DEI in their state universities. Professors across the political spectrum are working on efforts to depoliticize academic administration, rebalance faculty politics, and restore truth as the guiding principle of American universities, including at Harvard. Sometimes evidence of the culture-war’s progress appears in unlikely places. Say what you like about Elon Musk, but Bless Twitter! The AP’s ridiculous Claudine Gay headline, which I reported on yesterday, immediately drew fact-checking “Community Notes” on Twitter, which publicly beclowned the so-called news agency: To describe the media’s Carlee coverage as fawning would be an insult to baby deer. Here’s an example paragraph from the Tampa Bay mask article: The reason I bring up Carlee is because of how she and the her scheming school board co-conspirators were able to flush the previous, not woke, well-liked Superintendent notwithstanding his ironclad contract: they accused her of plagiarism. It’s another SADS cluster! Australia’s News.Com ran a story yesterday headlined, “‘In shock’: Two British Airways flight attendants die suddenly.” Think about it: Same airline. Same age. Same week. Same job → Two sudden and unexpected deaths of healthy flight attendants. Does that really “happen all the time?” The Epstein documents dropped yesterday. "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small." — Greek saying. "Justice is like a train: it is slow, it is noisy, it is full of jerks, but it gets you to your destination eventually." — David Sedaris. The UK Independent ran a slow-justice story yesterday headlined, “Epstein told victim Bill Clinton ‘likes them young’, new court filings reveal.” The sub-headline added, “Among the hundreds of pages of filings unsealed Wednesday, victim Johanna Sjoberg spoke about what she knew about Bill Clinton’s ties to Epstein.”

“The evidence has been completely provided by the FDA … These vaccines are the antichrist of all products … it’s a complete disrespect to the human genome and the importance of protecting it … and that is our connection to God.”

Finally, in space news, Science website Earth.com ran a disquieting story yesterday headlined, “"God of Darkness" asteroid Apophis set for historic Earth flyby and NASA visit.”

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