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George Rebane

Robert Summa, the new minder and regional editor of The Union, is a functional idiot.  Gold Hill California Media, the new owner of the newspaper, is on a rampage buying up small town newspapers all over the west with the aim of introducing neo-Marxism to the heretofore conservative hinterlands in laying the groundwork for the advent of Agenda30 (aka Agenda21).

Certain of his emails censoring reader letters discussing CRT and Wokeism (here) have been made available to me.  The man refuses to publish such communications on the basis that he is not aware of what wokeism is beyond a rightwing dog whistle that denigrates progressive ideas.  Really, he is so auto-insular that he has never heard the Left use or discuss the notion and concepts of wokeism (here) that have swept the land from academe to the military, of which he will “not continue to platform conspiracy theories and disingenuous arguments that lead to violence or is purposefully spreading misinformation or disinformation to harm others …”.

His ignorance binds him so tightly that he has not even heard of the multi-edition, best-selling leftwing manual to promote wokeism – Don’t Think of an Elephant – and its author, nationally celebrated progressive philosopher George Lakoff (here).  Nor is he aware of the massive response from the country’s Right to counter wokeism – e.g. Counter Wokecraft.  In this sense, in addition to ignorant, we must add ‘stupid’ to his assemblage of professional attributes.

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57 responses to “Stupid is in residence”

  1. Scott O Avatar

    re child labor:
    “The article may crack the bipartisan establishment’s shameful silence about its wealth-shifting policy of extracting teenagers — and millions of foreign migrants — to replace sidelined U.S. workers.”
    R U kidding?
    snork, snork…
    This childish statement would imply that the left actually cares about child labor.
    The left cares about one thing – power.
    And they are very good about obtaining it.
    Child labor to extract the necessaries for your electric car are of no consequence whatever.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 9:19 am
    1) I have been reading the Daily dispatch logs ever since the aunion stopped publishing the daily police blotter. It comes out at 6:00 am the following day, so it’s always a day behind. I like it cause it’s just the dispatch reports of calls coming in, but if you read it a few times a week you get a taste for what is happening in this county. And by the time the Union gets around to publishing the Police Blotter, it’s old news.
    What strikes me about the Daily Dispatch report is certain addresses are reoccurring. Some might come up 3 times in a week or 3 times in a two week period. A house with trouble going on. Also what strikes me is how many parents, brothers, sisters, Moms and Dads out there are at wits end with a son or brother who is out of control, on drugs, Fentanyl, suicidal, abusive, violent, etc. These are real problems real people are having with their kids on drugs and are at such wits end they have no choice but to call 911….as most folks would rather handle this themselves but cannot. I mention this cause there are some like Missinfornationthroat who prefer to Pooh-Pooh the idea of what a crisis this really is….in Our Town, USA. Oh course, you have the crazy cat ladies and the reoccurring calls from those having hallucinations that neighbors put bugs in their walls….
    2). My source to find out just the what is going on as far as emergency vehicles goes is Nevada County Happening Now. No politics, no snark, no repeated comments on the same event….just folks with scanners and cops and dispatchers following the calls. And a place to ask if Ridge Road is open or can they make it to DeMartinis pharmacy to pick up meds for Grandma.
    Nevada County Happening Now is definitely not Nevada County Peeps, a site I personally refuse to sign up to read because of all the assholes and asshats.
    Nevada County Happening Now is more informative than the other sites like KNCO, Yuba Net, KVMR.
    Easy to sign up with and I have probably left one comment in 3 years. Just a place to follow what is going on in a snowstorm to read.
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/nevadacountyhappeningnow
    3). It could always be worse. My elderly couple friends up about 3,400 feet are still without power and can’t get out. Yesterday the lady got the automated call from PG&E. She was so excited thinking it was to inform them that power would be finally coming back on. The call said there estimated time of power restoration would be at 10pm, March 6. Disappointment. Neither can walk very well on flat dry surfaces as it is, so getting out is not in the cards. The husband has been shoveling snow off the back deck every day (several times a day on some days) to dig a path to the wood pile. Yesterday he fell and sprained his ankle. There are 129 homes on that hill that is no priority and without power until next week….maybe. And it does not even make the news. Pioneers on the frontier in 2023, lol. Her words, not mine.
    Thank goodness for their old wood stove they she can cook on (kind of according to her) and melt snow and ice to have drinking water. Imagine having an all electric home up there! I got a propane stove so if power goes out I can always have a heat from the oven and make coffee in a pan or grub on the stove top….and they are still trying their hardest to put gas stoves out of business with new regs that will make it darn near impossible and cost prohibitive to own or manufacture a gas stove. Our bettors no what is best, right.

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    …and…Dilbert appears to be gone. Can’t have them racist Nazi theocratic transphobic evil people sullying up the local paper.

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Scenes, yes, Dilbert be dead.
    I’ve been listening to Coffee With Scott Adams for some time and my take is he expected to get cancelled but not so thoroughly and swiftly.
    He has his FU money but his books and comics are no more. For now.

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I was checking out Scott Adams on twitter and ran into this article.
    https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-columbia-university-drops-sat-act-admissions-requirement-20230302-4zfw3uufkvgqrffjsyqjdegklm-story.html
    “Columbia University will no longer require SAT or ACT scores in undergraduate admissions, making it the first Ivy League college to implement the pandemic emergency measure as its official policy.
    The Morningside Heights institution first dropped its test score requirement at the beginning of the pandemic when testing sites shuttered, and the measure had been extended through next school year’s admissions cycle, the college newspaper Columbia Spectator reported.
    The decision was “rooted in the belief that students are dynamic, multi-faceted individuals who cannot be defined by any single factor,” read the university website.

    “Our review is purposeful and nuanced — respecting varied backgrounds, voices and experiences — in order to best determine an applicant’s suitability for admission and ability to thrive in our curriculum and our community, and to advance access to our educational opportunities.””

    Naturally, they’ll either make graduation requirements/classes easier, or they’ll have a massive drop-out rate. I have to wonder what this’ll do to the value of an existing degree, kind of like the inflation in SAT scores.
    Maybe it would be cheaper to automatically award an Ivy League degree based on Pantone color when you graduate from high school.
    Of course, what’s really going on here is that by avoiding actual test scores, a number and all, you can choose the right people with utterly arbitrary rules. Kinda like the way they used to avoid too many Jewish applicants.

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Let me rephrase my last dropping… Adams WAÑTED to get cancelled and was stunned by the Furies at work.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    We’ve officially sold more than 200,000 Jeremy’s Chocolate bars and it’s still climbing. Let’s keep it going.

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