Teachers unions: "Follow the science".

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Grocery shelf-stockers, nurses, cashiers, yes; teachers: run away! (But we’’ll keep our paychecks, thank you very much)

Grocery shelf-stockers, nurses, cashiers, yes; teachers: run away! (But we’’ll keep our paychecks, thank you very much)

Marco Rubio invites them to do so.

When schools first closed because of the pandemic, the unions pledged to return when it was "safe" to do so. The AFT’s president called on Americans to "summon the will to follow science both in school and out." The National Education Association’s head similarly declared that when "it comes to ensuring safe, in-person instruction, we must rely on public health officials and scientists for what they know best."

President Joe Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain is now saying that virtual learning should drag on longer. Why? As he put it: " I’ll give you a word, money."

Flying in the face of the CDC, he and the unions are demanding more cash. Klain went on to move the goalposts and say there needs to be "a lot more classrooms, a lot more teachers" before schools reopen. That isn’t a formula for a swift and long-overdue return to classrooms.

It does, however, happen to align with long-held goals of the national teachers’ unions.

The head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) said the Biden administration is simply "siding with the science and trying to get this pandemic under control and trying to open schools safely."

When schools first closed because of the pandemic, the unions pledged to return when it was "safe" to do so. The AFT’s president called on Americans to "summon the will to follow science both in school and out." The National Education Association’s head similarly declared that when "it comes to ensuring safe, in-person instruction, we must rely on public health officials and scientists for what they know best."

The CDC has now made clear that we’ve reached that point. Indeed, states like Florida and many private and parochial schools around the country have safely been opened for far longer.

If the national teachers’ unions and their local affiliates in Chicago, New Jersey, California and elsewhere really wanted to follow the science, they would be working with local governments to open our schools right now, not demanding more taxpayer dollars. They would recognize that, with student suicide rates surging around the country, there is in fact a need to hurry back.

Rubio proposes giving school unions a 100-day grace period, counting down from Inauguration Day, to return. Schools that don’t reopen would be denied federal funding, with the money diverted to schools that have. Works for me.

Studies of hundreds of thousands of students have shown that schools are not “a significant source of infection”. Even NPR got around to reporting that in October, but the unions stand fast on their refusal to work. Stuff it.

Dispute election, win prize

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No cheap, white-privilege clothing here — ya gonna be impotent, ya gotta look impotent!

No cheap, white-privilege clothing here — ya gonna be impotent, ya gotta look impotent!

Or you will if you dispute a Republican victory.

Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.

Stacey Abrams has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her activism around voting rights by Norwegian lawmaker Lars Haltbrekken.  As many Georgians will tell you, her work in this area has decreased confidence in our election process. Just look at the nationwide doubts following the 2020 election. Abrams has maintained a narrative that there is systemic voter suppression in the state, specifically of minorities. No data backs this up, but she has still never conceded defeat in her 2018 race against Governor Brian Kemp.

In other news, Senators Hawley and Cruz have been hauled before the Senate Ethics Committee for objecting to the 2020 vote count

This woman is actually teaching in a public school

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High School teacher: “Bernie Sanders’ mittens are a “lesson in white privilege”.

A San Francisco high school teacher wrote an op-ed claiming Sen. Bernie Sanders “manifests privilege” for wearing his meme-evoking inauguration outfit. 

Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, a former UC Berkeley professor, wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the Vermont senator’s choice of recycled wool mittens was integrated into her class discussion on US diversity and discrimination.

Initially, on Inauguration Day, Seyer-Ochi said her class talked about the deeper meanings of the historic day — including “the vulnerability of democracy” and “the power of ritual” and gender.

Sanders, the teacher said, was not even on their radar until he became an instant internet sensation for his mittens and brown parka.

“I puzzled and fumed as an individual as I strove to be my best possible teacher. What did I see? What did I think my students should see?” Seyer-Ochi wrote.

“A wealthy, incredibly well-educated and -privileged white man, showing up for perhaps the most important ritual of the decade, in a puffy jacket and huge mittens.”

The senator, she said, “manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel.”

Seyer-Ochi said in the op-ed that many people without privilege would not be able to dress like Sanders did on such an occasion. 

“I don’t know many poor, or working class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie,” she said.

So, wearing warm, comfortable clothing is a privilege reserved for the wealthy white elite, while Blacks are consigned to tuxedos and designer outfits — hmmm. It’s troubling to think that buffoons like this are spewing this swill all across the country, not just in San Francisco.

Now this is more like it!

Now this is more like it!

Biden and the Greengrocer

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From Roger Kimball. (Published in The Epoch Times, which was de-monetized by Google/YouTube last week for “violating community standards” )

This is where Václav Havel’s greengrocer comes in. In “The Power of the Powerless,” a famous essay about the day-to-day operation of totalitarianism from the late 1970s, Havel talks about an ordinary greengrocer who obediently agrees to display a placard with the slogan “Workers of the World, Unite!” in his shop window.

He does this without much thought. What if the powers that be had asked him to display the slogan “I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient”? Then, says Havel, “embarrassed and ashamed,” he would have objected.

“To overcome this complication,” Havel explains, “his expression of loyalty must take the form of a sign which, at least on its textual surface, indicates a level of disinterested conviction.”

“It must allow the greengrocer to say, ‘What’s wrong with the workers of the world uniting?’”

You see how it works: “the sign helps the greengrocer to conceal from himself the low foundations of his obedience, at the same time concealing the low foundations of power. It hides them behind the facade of something high. And that something is ideology.”

Bidenharris turns Washington into an armed camp. He populates his administration with ideological apparatchiks and affirmative-action non entities and repeats the word “unity.”

Bidenharris also starts prosecuting political opponents. He governs by diktat, issuing more executive orders in a week than other administrations had done in a year. With the stroke of a pen, he shutters the Keystone pipeline and put tens of thousands of people out of work.

He also utters the word “unity” and proclaimed “tolerance” in his inaugural address, the “best” inaugural address that squeaky Chris Wallace had heard in his entire life. Normal?

Havel warned about what happens to recalcitrant greengrocers who do not get with the program. All of a sudden, “he will be relieved of his post as manager of the shop and transferred to the warehouse. His pay will be reduced. … His superiors will harass him and his fellow workers will wonder about him.”

And here’s the rub. “Most of those who apply these sanctions … will not do so from any authentic inner conviction but simply under pressure from conditions, the same conditions that once pressured the greengrocer to display the official slogans.”

“Conditions.” That’s a synonym for the swampy “normality” that Bidenharris is returning us to and that we are supposed to celebrate.

The people carrying out this restitution think that if they censor something then it no longer exists.

They think that if they call ordinary citizens “domestics terrorists” they can win an ideological battle.

There are somewhere between 74 and 75 million people who are on the cusp of proving them wrong.

The trannies usurped the feminist movement, too

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Los Angeles Unified School District Celebrates Black History Month by moving gays and boys who think they’re girls front and center.

So much for Martin Luther King.

So much for Martin Luther King.

(So, I haven’t run into “folx’ before and had to look it up. Turns out, it’s a substitute for “folks” and, since folks is already gender-neutral, the substitution is meant to affirmatively signal that the speaker is woke to the multiple-gender movement. Same thing, it turns out, with “Latinx”, which replaces the also-gender-neutral word “Latino. Who knew? I wonder, though, why the idiots who made this chart still use “students” shouldn’t that be “ Studenx”? And spoux? And youx for youth? And aren’t you glad yux asked?)

"He works for HER". Really?

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That’s the view of Whoopie Goldberg, whose understanding of how our government is structured is as profound as her knowledge of, well, anything.

Discussing Kampallawalla Ding Dong’s unannounced drop-in to W. Virginia, the ladies split on whether the Vice President should have spoken with the state’s senator before arriving and giving TV interviews. After claiming that even the suggestion that she should have done so was “slightly bigoted” [WTF!?] Goldberg continued, “I’m sorry, so you think that she needed to speak to him before she went and gave this interview?” … “But she is the vice president. She’s the vice president. He works for her,” Goldberg insisted.

I’ve never seen the show, nor will I ever, but judging from various clips that show up on the Internet, Goldberg and Joy Behar are as dumb and as ignorant as a box of rocks.