Washington Post correspondent David Weigel – with whom I had a few minor interactions, back in the 1990s when he was working at the late, unlamented “City Pages “– got suspended from the WaPo last week for retweeting an un-PC joke that was around most likely before man landed on the moon.
Now, I’m not exactly leaping to Weigel’s defense, here. When covering a Minnesota legislative race, he once got into a bit of trouble (I’m told) for getting the candidates District wrong. Also the candidates name. You know – the kind of stuff that journalists used to get into trouble for getting wrong.
Nonetheless, he was hounded into a suspension without pay by a group that has become, in fact, the equivalent of the layer of commissars that used to accompany the Soviet army into battle: the parallel political advisors that could veto the decision of any military commander.
One of them – a male and graduate of the Stanford journalism program – wrote a student op-ed castigating the University‘s food service for not prepackaging his meals, since he had too much anxiety to go to the buffet.
Excerpt:
I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds himself rooting for this twerp and Weigel to have a cage match.
Beyond that?
Sometimes I wonder if the problem with millennials is that they had no great existential struggles in life, as a group.
Humans have evolved over humanities history to be keenly adapted to responding to existential crises. And life certainly threw them crises. Up until our great great grandparents times, life itself – surviving past age three, not succumbing to famine or injury or childhood diseases or childbirth or a war, was a great and noble struggle in its own right.
Our parents/grandparents generations had the depression and a couple of world wars to deal with. The generation after that, a number of decidedly first world crusades; ending communism or ending poverty, and/or getting to the moon, depending on one’s point of view.
After that?
We’ve got a generation now, maybe two, whose greatest struggles have been a recession and society — and, it would seem, at the end of the day, the least worthy and yet most intractable opponent of all, themselves.
Could this be proof positive Darwin was wrong?
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Why am I not surprised…
TKS, it’s a parody news site. The little weasel posts links to it to be cute and clever.
We’ve got a generation now, maybe two, whose greatest struggles have been a recession and society — and, it would seem, at the end of the day, the least worthy and yet most intractable opponent of all, themselves.
Don’t forget mean tweets!
I hadn’t thought about Weigel for a long time. He hasn’t learned much in the last 25 years, it would appear.
Per Powerline, the WaPo says, “‘Bye, Felicia.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/scenes-from-washington-post-junior-high-school.php
The reason leftist degenerates and their thot army was outraged wasn’t just because that joke was hilarious (and it was). They hated it because its true.
BN, the newest version of the joke is “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s sexual or Felicia”.
Off topic, but idgaf.
Having sold all my pristine hot rods, I am left with a 1980 vette for motor sports recreation.
It’s got a built small block that makes an honest 380 hp and 400 ft/lbs torque, but it was in pretty rough shape. Ive just been having fun with it at the drag strip.
Well, I just, right now painted it, and it’s fabulous! 😍
Reason I bring it up is because I wish we could post pictures.
Funny you should mention that. My wife and I just got back from the bank, driving her bright red 1991 Miata ragtop (the original model with the pop-up headlights). Beautiful day to take a long lunch. Wish you could see it.
With the price of gas, I really have to watch how hard I stomp on the gas pedal of my 600hp beast. A love tap now costs me a Jackson. Ahhhh… screw them, there is nothing like ungodly acceleration.
I’ve learned that big hp isn’t a magic carpet for acceleration.
My secret is a B&M 2 speed trans with a B&M holeshot torque converter, bolted to a 4.65:1 diff.
It’s not “fast” (tops out at 140 mph @ 5000 rpm); but it’s quick af over 1/4 mile. Nothing I love more than a young turk in a big block foxbody mustang for competition.
I’ve had real a couple real fast >400 hp cars, but where the fuck can you drive 160+ mph without serving time? They sounded great, but I rarely got them out of 3rd gear.
I wanted something that would pin my head to the headrest and make passengers scream like little girls. That’s what I have.
It’s mechanically (near) perfect, and now I’m not ashamed of the paint. I am motivated to have the interior done.
Joe, Miatas are the best thing to ever happen to 20 year old hot girls.
😜
I suggest a vintage TR6 or even better, an MG ‘A’ for more ‘sack room’.
That was uncalled for JD.
There’s nothing wrong with a dude driving his wife’s car.
I stand self-corrected.
I get plenty of pin-to-the-seat sensation when twin turbos kick in – at any speed as long as I am around 2750rpm and in the right gear. And, I have taken the beast past 160 – no idea what the actual top end is, all governors have been expunged with extreme prejudice. As for where the fuck can you drive 160+ mph without serving time?, it does not take long to get there and you can see for miles on the flats. But as far as pure speed goes, nothing will scare you more than being on a crotch rocket.
vintage TR6…. { drool }
MBerg wrote: “. . . the equivalent of the layer of commissars that used to accompany the Soviet army into battle: the parallel political advisors that could veto the decision of any military commander.”
Oh, we have those. They are the military’s “Diversity Equity and Inclusion” command:
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that revoked Trump’s order, declaring, “Our diversity is one of our country’s greatest strengths.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin followed with a memo rescinding the Trump administration’s restriction on diversity training, and the services followed suit.
Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Leah Brading said in a Feb. 24 email to Military.com that the service followed Austin’s instructions. On Jan. 29, the Air Force sent a message to the field allowing units to immediately go back to the kind of training that existed before last September’s order, she said.
. . .
And on Feb. 21, the Navy issued an order immediately resuming all diversity and inclusion training, without any requirement that commands submit training for review by a higher authority.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/08/military-resuming-diversity-training-trump-banned.html
Note that last sentence. The DEI office is a political office, above the military, not part of its command structure. It’s purpose is not to win wars, but to inform soldiers how they are to think about certain political matters.
Take heart, MP. US tranny military will be just as ineffective against us as it will be against China.
The Hill’s “Rising” had an interesting take.
They speculate that David Weigel was given a month off without pay, not as punishment, but to piss-off the newsroom and expose the union as worthless.
It worked and gave Bezos’s minions the cover they needed to fire the pain in their (and everyone else’s) ass, Felicia Sonmez.