Texas A&M’s Woke President Finally Forced Out After Persistently Resisting Texas’ Ban on DEI / LGBT Indoctrination

Mark Welsh III is a left-wing proponent of DEI, LGBT indoctrination, and remedying “white privilege.” He also looks dashing in an Air Force officer’s uniform, and he previously served as the Air Force Chief of Staff. That military bearing was apparently enough to hoodwink Texas politicians and the regents at Texas A&M University into appointing him president of the university in 2023.

After persistently working to subvert the ban on DEI and LGBT indoctrination at taxpayer-funded Texas universities, and thanks to one brave student who caught him on tape defending his defiance, Mark Welsh was finally forced to step down last week. This is another important victory for the populist right in uprooting the woke rot that has captured so many institutions.

One Texas state representative, Brian Harrison, deserves huge credit for his unrelenting campaign to drive President Welsh out of the academic office he was unfit for.

“Texas A&M President Steps Down After LGBT Course Controversy” [Texas Scorecard – 9/18/2025]

Welsh’s resignation caps a period of public uproar sparked by his handling of a children’s literature course that included instruction on introducing LGBT and gender identity material to children as young as three.
The situation came under public scrutiny after State Rep. Brian Harrison (R–Midlothian) released audio of a student objecting to the curriculum and subsequent allegations that the student was kicked out of class for expressing concerns about transgender indoctrination. Initially, Welsh defended the professor involved but later reversed himself—firing the instructor and removing the department head and dean from their posts.

Further below is an embedded Twitter chain that includes the student’s hidden recording of both the professor who was pushing LGBT indoctrination for small children, as well as President Welsh’s strident defense of the professor, which also constituted a strident refusal to comply with the law and with the orders of the governor of Texas.

When the student met with President Welsh, he asked her: ”Tell me what exactly you want changed. I mean, you’re, you’re just trying to pick a fight here. What do you want.”

To which she replied, “No sir, I’m not trying to pick a fight.”

After a little more chatter, Welsh asked the student, “What do you expect us to do, fire her?”

The student replied, “Yes, absolutely, because it goes against…”

At which point President Welsh cut her off and scolded her, “Well that’s not happening.”

Regarding why a children’s literature class is providing training on LGBT indoctrination, President Welch told the student, there is a “professional reason” why A&M is using taxpayer funds to promote transgenderism for children.

Once Rep. Harrison released the audio, Mark Welsh went into CYA mode. Despite what he had told the student, Welsh did indeed have to ultimately fire the instructor and also the dean, hoping that action would be enough to take the heat off of him. But Aggie alumni were outraged, and soon Governor Abbott and the A&M regents were feeling the heat too. Welsh had to go.

Mark Welsh was a disastrous hire from the start. President Obama had previously appointed him as Air Force Chief of Staff in 2012 (which also put Welsh on the armed forces’ Joint Chiefs of Staff) for the purpose of injecting radical left wing identity politics into the military. How radical is Welsh? He advocated for the concept of “white privilege,” stating in 2020 that “While we could argue over the definition of ‘White Privilege,’ there is no question in my mind that it exists. I should know, I grew up with it. Not because I wanted it; not because I asked for it: not because my family or I agreed with it; not because I tried to take advantage of it; and not because I, or anyone else I knew, actively promoted it or even thought about it; but just because it was a reality in our country, and I was white .”

Rep. Harrison sent a widely distributed letter to Governor Abbott on September 8, 2025 that left Abbott and the university regents with little choice but to dismiss Welsh, it read:

Governor Abbott:
This January, during your State of the State Address, you stated that “any educator who tells students that boys can be girls should be fired on the spot.” I agree. While I provided your office with a binder almost a foot thick full of examples of this and DEI occurring in our public universities back in February, nothing has been done to stop it. During my short time in the Texas legislature I have become aware that Texas may be the biggest promoter and funder of DEI and LGBTQ indoctrination in America, and I must make you aware of perhaps the most egregious instance I have uncovered.
I’ve had a Texas A&M whistleblower student provide my office with video evidence of her being kicked out of a “CHILDREN’S LITERATURE” class after she objected to persistent transgender and DEI indoctrination.
Students were forced to learn the “gender unicorn,” which propagandizes extreme transgender ideology. The taxpayer funded professor also taught what could be considered encouragement to engage in criminal child grooming and gave instructional materials that stated: “why talk about queerness at all [in Children’s literature]? Isn’t that way too “adult” for little kids? Well, no.” During a class instruction on “let’s talk gender in children’s lit,” the professor taught that “childhood is the time for figuring out how to be a boy, girl, man, woman, or another gender” and that “children and adolescents are expected to be sexless, even as our culture valorizes, idealizes, and even eroticizes youth.”
After objecting to such instruction occurring, the student was ordered to leave the class and told she was not welcome to return. The whistleblower went to President Welsh, whose indefensible response was to defend the teacher, state that he will not consider firing her, and defend the decision for Texas A&M to teach this material because it was needed training for future public school administrators.
Your office will be given video and audio recordings that corroborate this. While the legislature chose not to stop DEI and LGBTQ indoctrination in our public universities, you have the power to end it.
I am respectfully requesting that you, in line with your January directive, (1) direct your politically appointed regents at Texas A&M to immediately fire this professor and President Welsh, (2) direct all of your politically appointed regents at all of our public universities to immediately take all necessary action necessary to rid all DEI and LGBTQ activity and instruction, and (3) call the legislature back for a special session to finally pass a total ban on taxpayer funded DEI and LGBTQ indoctrination within any state agency, including our public universities.
Thank you for your consideration,
Brian Harrison

The chancellor of the Texas A&M university system, Glenn Hegar, also needs to be fired. He has never stopped defending President Welsh, nor will he acknowledge that Welsh did anything wrong. But having removed Welsh under duress, Chancellor Hegar is still gushing praise on the disgraced university president, making the incoherent argument that Welsh did nothing wrong, yet he had to go, but he’s still a man of honor and integrity. In other words, Chancellor Hegar has just announced that he himself is also unfit for a leadership role at A&M and he too needs to be dismissed of his responsibilities. Hegar is quoted in this CBS piece dated 9/18/2025 as stating, “President Welsh is a man of honor who has led Texas A&M with selfless dedication. We are grateful for his service and contributions. At the same time, we agree that now is the right moment to make a change and to position Texas A&M for continued excellence in the years ahead.”

UPDATE: The Texas A&M University system has a campus in Victoria. This news just broke after I wrote today’s piece, but before publishing it: “The Finalist for Texas A&M – Victoria President Has Extensive DEI History”

The finalist for president of Texas A&M-Victoria has pervasive experience with left-wing causes such as “diversity,” “equity,” and “sustainability.” Christian Hardigree was named the sole finalist for the presidency of Texas A&M-Victoria following a special called meeting of the Texas A&M System Board of Regents on September 18.
Texas Scorecard reviewed Hardigree’s official curriculum vitae and LinkedIn profile. Hardigree’s CV contains three references to “equity,” eleven references to “diversity” and nineteen references to “sustainability.”
Regent Chairman Bob Albritton called Hardigree “exactly the kind of leader who can help Texas A&M-Victoria thrive.”

Texas A&M needs an intervention. Governor Abbott needs to fire Chancellor Hegar, fire all the regents, and start over with a leadership that is not hostile to the values of a majority of Texans. If Governor Abbott will not cleanse the state’s universities of radical left-wing administrators, perhaps it’s time to start talking about Governor Brian Harrison taking on that challenge.

Embedded below is the series of tweets from Representative Harrison, including the audio of the Texas A&M student’s interaction with her professor and with President Welch.

��CAUGHT ON TAPE: TEXAS A&M STUDENT KICKED OUT OF CLASS AFTER OBJECTING TO TRANSGENDER INDOCTRINATION... and A&M President defends "LGBTQ Studies."

I'm referring @TAMU to the Trump Administration for investigation... and asking Gov @GregAbbott_TX to fire the A&M officials… pic.twitter.com/J6IWsfw62I
— Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) September 8, 2025

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 Present.

Posted by: Crusader at September 22, 2025 11:01 AM (TN0g+)

2 Woo woo!

Posted by: commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 22, 2025 11:02 AM (WDJ9Z)

3 I have been to countries with no white privilege anywhere. And those people want to move to my country because it's better.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2025 11:04 AM (NR6c1)

4 Mornin' Horde.

WTF is it with "red state" pols tolerating far left bullshit?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at September 22, 2025 11:05 AM (OUMaO)

5 It's absurd how many tinpot leftist wannabee dictators are allowed in supposedly deep red jurisdictions. A school board in a very rural area here in PA is in trouble for trying to stop local families homeschooling their children. They were violating state law. Doubtless some fat, middle-aged AWFLs were responsible, yet this nonsense will continue unless these people are actively rooted out of institutions.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 22, 2025 11:06 AM (Dg7ng)

6 What I found most significant was that this fool was a recently retired USAF General. Shines a light on just how warped the top levels of the US Military have become, and why they need to be thoroughly purged.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2025 11:06 AM (uWKK8)

7 I have been to countries with no white privilege anywhere. And those people want to move to my country because ~~it's better~~ they're getting paid to come there and make it just like what they left.

Posted by: NR Pax

Fixed that for ya.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at September 22, 2025 11:06 AM (OUMaO)

8

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 22, 2025 11:06 AM (vt9JG)

9 It's really an infestation that can only be rectified in one way. The same way you'd get rid of ants, or wasps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2025 11:06 AM (Q4IgG)

10 Nice to have a win.
So much housecleaning to do, so little time. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2025 11:07 AM (GbwPZ)

11 https://hslda.org/ post/homeschool-families-sue-pa-district-to-stop-home-visits This is the pa school district in question. Tiny url and the like won't let me shorten the address. Sorry. I left a space in the address so it would post.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 22, 2025 11:07 AM (Dg7ng)

12 It's really an infestation that can only be rectified in one way. The same way you'd get rid of ants, or wasps.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2025 11:06 AM (Q4IgG)
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Explosives?

Posted by: Weasel at September 22, 2025 11:08 AM (Xw+1y)

13 The same way you'd get rid of ants

/imagines molten aluminum getting poured into university offices

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at September 22, 2025 11:08 AM (OUMaO)

14 White people who make a big deal out of having "White Privilege" are just stroking their own egos about their own perceived supremacy.

Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:08 AM (UnA8+)

15 WTF is it with "red state" pols tolerating far left bullshit?
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They don't personally care about it, and until recently they didn't have to in order to get reelected.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 22, 2025 11:09 AM (Dg7ng)

16 yay buck. more buck please.

Posted by: angsterdam at September 22, 2025 11:09 AM (van9r)

17 >>WTF is it with "red state" pols tolerating far left bullshit?

Seems that liberals are running for office as Republicans?

Or maybe it's simply that the progressives have gotten so radical that people who would have normally been Democrats now run as Republicans.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2025 11:09 AM (GbwPZ)

18 The vast majority of administrators at all public universities, and nearly all private ones, are just like this guy. Promoting this crap has been mandatory for advancement in their field for years now.

Posted by: Bigsmith at September 22, 2025 11:10 AM (1Au9i)

19 It can be lunch time after I walk 4 blocks

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2025 11:11 AM (Fz2ke)

20 Don't be too hard on Mark Welsh III. The third generation of inbreds is usually the worst. Maybe after the 4th or 5th generation they'll get it right.

Oh, and I found this nice tidbit on his wiki page: He was a fellow in "Ukrainian Securities Studies" at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

It really is true that all these NPCs operate with one mind.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 22, 2025 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

21 > WTF is it with "red state" pols tolerating far left bullshit?
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They're being paid to tolerate it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2025 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)

22 17 >>WTF is it with "red state" pols tolerating far left bullshit?

Seems that liberals are running for office as Republicans?

Or maybe it's simply that the progressives have gotten so radical that people who would have normally been Democrats now run as Republicans.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2025 11:09 AM (GbwPZ)

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The change in the GOP is...curious. It's both top down and bottom up. The bottom electing Trump has accelerated the change of the party at a shocking pace (10 years ago, the GOP was arguing about how much illegal immigration to tolerate).

That leaves the middle, squeezing out and lasting as long as possible.

Also, state politics is deeply, deeply corrupt. Can't forget that. Someone's probably getting paid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

23 /imagines molten aluminum getting poured into university offices

They'd die asking the aluminum what its pronouns are. This is acceptable.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2025 11:12 AM (2ocoG)

24 I have two entries in the category of leftists defying the will of the people.

1) The president of UVa was recently removed by a board of Youngkin-selected alumni for being a leftist d***. The university sent my wife their alumni magazine, which was dedicated to why those people are fascists, and must be resisted. They're trying to find another leftist to fill the slot.

The former president, James E. Ryan, left in July following a campaign waged against him by the Department of Justice and a conservative Virginia alumni group, the Jefferson Council, that led a multiyear crusade attacking the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs...Members of the university’s board, who are appointees of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, said at the meeting Monday that they hoped to select a new permanent president within four to six months.

https://is.gd/0U83tL

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Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

25 These little antichrists are going to be in for a rude awakening on day.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 22, 2025 11:12 AM (B34NG)

26 WTF is it with "red state" pols tolerating far left bullshit?

- Most red state politicians fall into the category labelled 'liars'.
- Most red state voters fall into the category labelled 'inattentive'.

This means that uniparty types will seek power within the state party apparatus and help push forward uniparty types to positions of power. The solution is to ensure that positions of power do not exist. That government is as small and powerless as can be managed. Sadly, item 2 above works against this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:12 AM (ExV1e)

27 Thieves melt down 3,000-year-old bracelet worn by pharaoh after swiping it from Egyptian museum 😧

Four suspects have been arrested, including a restoration specialist at the museum who confessed to giving the bracelet to an acquaintance who owns a silver shop in Cairo's Sayyeda Zainab district. It was allegedly later sold to the owner of a gold workshop for the equivalent of about $3,800. It was eventually sold for around $4,000 to a worker at another gold workshop, who melted the bracelet down to make other gold jewelry.

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Ehh, $4000 is $4000.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 22, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

28 Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 22, 2025 11:07 AM (Dg7ng)

I put the link in your nic...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at September 22, 2025 11:13 AM (n9ltV)

29 20 Don't be too hard on Mark Welsh III. The third generation of inbreds is usually the worst. Maybe after the 4th or 5th generation they'll get it right.

Oh, and I found this nice tidbit on his wiki page: He was a fellow in "Ukrainian Securities Studies" at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

It really is true that all these NPCs operate with one mind.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 22, 2025 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

Terminal Ubraine has been the worst disease of the past 10 years.

Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:13 AM (UnA8+)

30 TAMU has become just a fundamentalist church with a football stadium. A fascist banana republic.

time to replace him with an incompetent party loyalist. all this because one fucking professor acknowledged that trans people exist.

It's worse. He wasn't fired. He caved. No. At his level, "mutual agreement to go in different directions," is a euphemism for being fired. Resign and take this package or we will fire you and you'll get nothing.

Unpopular opinion, but he deserves it for allowing one of his professors to be fired because of maga. As the president of the university you should protect your staff.

I hope that student that complained in class is sooooo ostracized. She was obviously a plant looking to cause trouble.

She'll be propped up just like Charlie Kirk. Its A&M. Its about one step from being Liberty University at this point.

This has happened over and over and over again. Anyone who capitulates in order to try to appease MAGA eventually ends up getting bulldozed anyway. How do people not learn?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 22, 2025 11:13 AM (JCZqz)

31 White people who make a big deal out of having "White Privilege"...

Are those who have "made it", and are ensuring that others will not. The bit about pulling up the ladder comes to mind.

Posted by: man at September 22, 2025 11:13 AM (tubbA)

32
“Texas A&M President Steps Down After LGBT Course Controversy”

Rumor has it he was going to change the school team name to the Faggies.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 11:14 AM (jbnUc)

33 White people who make a big deal out of having "White Privilege" are just stroking their own egos about their own perceived supremacy.
Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:08 AM (UnA8+)

Well, they never offer to step down. They only offer to help make sure no other whites can step up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:14 AM (ExV1e)

34 28
Thanks, CBD!

Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 22, 2025 11:14 AM (Dg7ng)

35
Funny how he tried to save his job by throwing the professor under the bus.

USAF General, and proud holder of the Order of the Blue Falcon

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 22, 2025 11:14 AM (FoIOl)

36 WTF is it with "red state" pols tolerating far left bullshit?

Seems that liberals are running for office as Republicans?

Or maybe it's simply that the progressives have gotten so radical that people who would have normally been Democrats now run as Republicans.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2025 11:09 AM (GbwPZ)
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Follow the money. There's a lot of money in woke ideology, and especially the billion-dollar Big Tranny Inc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 22, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

37 12 It's really an infestation that can only be rectified in one way. The same way you'd get rid of ants, or wasps.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2025 11:06 AM (Q4IgG)
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Explosives?
Posted by: Weasel at September 22, 2025 11:08 AM (Xw+1y)

13 The same way you'd get rid of ants

/imagines molten aluminum getting poured into university offices
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at September 22, 2025 11:08 AM (OUMaO)

I love this place.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (ySpAZ)

38 Why is that mascot a soldier? I thought an Aggie would be a farmer.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (uQesX)

39
WTF is it with "red state" pols tolerating far left bullshit?
Posted by: Brother Tim

Putting business men (due to their contributions) on public boards like the Regents is why. Business types aim for pleasing the lowest common denominator aka shop values rather than principle. So they go along to get along.

These types have led to leftists running wild in universities because these governing boards refuse to address the corrosion by firings, etc. that are needed to reverse course. Instead, they rely on soothing blather from gasbags like Welch that circumvent existing laws and regulations but might cause a 'fuss' if the Board actually got involved in righting the ship.

All headhunting firms for college executives aka presidents/chancellors, etc also need to be permanently disemployed. These are the ones that always lately give one name or so to the boards which almost always rubberstamp them.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (WDjG6)

40 The entire concept of "privilege" is idiotic.

Generations of our ancestors built this country with blood and sweat so we could have this way of life, it didn't just happen by magic.

America is our birthright. It's not a privilege.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (viF8m)

41 30 I hope that student that complained in class is sooooo ostracized. She was obviously a plant looking to cause trouble.

She'll be propped up just like Charlie Kirk. Its A&M. Its about one step from being Liberty University at this point.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 22, 2025 11:13 AM (JCZqz)

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Highlighting assassination pron in a classroom is worthy of ostracization?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

42 The university system in 2025 is FUBAR everywhere…. Similar to the situation with the FBI it’s hard to see how it can be fixed short of mass firings….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (i5Vkf)

43 33 White people who make a big deal out of having "White Privilege" are just stroking their own egos about their own perceived supremacy.
Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:08 AM (UnA8+)

Well, they never offer to step down. They only offer to help make sure no other whites can step up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:14 AM (ExV1e)

It's about affirming their place in the Neo-Aristocracy.

Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (UnA8+)

44 (2 of 2)

The Fairfax Co. School superintendant is purging the system of student records, which includes their parents country of origin and legal status. The super pretends to be mystified as to what the actual journalist is talking about.

Fairfax County Public Schools’ Leaders Won’t Say Why They Are Destroying Students’ Identification Documents

Fairfax County’s leadership doesn’t appear willing to explain the reasons for destroying student documents, making it seem that much more likely they are doing so to evade United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

https://is.gd/r8K8wl

In both cases, it's obvious that they're trying to delay long enough for Youngkin to be gone and superlefty Abigail Spanberger to take over.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

45 Rumor has it he was going to change the school team name to the Faggies.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

The female sports teams can be the Naggies.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

46 Thx Buck. It should surprise exactly no one that just about every candidate for Dean, President Professor, or Provost is a DEI pusher. The education PhD and master's programs indoctrinate the educators into the DEI stew. The ones that aren't indoctrinated are rare birds

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:16 AM (lmTGO)

47 “Texas A&M President Steps Down After LGBT Course Controversy”

Rumor has it he was going to change the school team name to the Faggies.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 11:14 AM (jbnUc)

Texas S&M?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:17 AM (VoAdT)

48 I hope that student that complained in class is sooooo ostracized. She was obviously a plant looking to cause trouble.

She'll be propped up just like Charlie Kirk. Its A&M. Its about one step from being Liberty University at this point.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 22, 2025 11:13 AM (JCZqz)

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Highlighting assassination pron in a classroom is worthy of ostracization?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)
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Duh, depends on who is getting assassinated, ya dummy

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 22, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

49 46 Thx Buck. It should surprise exactly no one that just about every candidate for Dean, President Professor, or Provost is a DEI pusher. The education PhD and master's programs indoctrinate the educators into the DEI stew. The ones that aren't indoctrinated are rare birds
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:16 AM (lmTGO)

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My dad tried to become a dean after he stepped down from being a department head.

He kept being a professor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

50 The third generation of inbreds is usually the worst. "

"Wealth only lasts to the third generation "

Or something like that...

Posted by: man at September 22, 2025 11:17 AM (tubbA)

51 Is the lying scarf lady still employed at Texas Tech. Come on Abbott… more action please

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2025 11:17 AM (i5Vkf)

52
Chancellor Hegar is still gushing praise on the disgraced university president, making the incoherent argument that Welsh did nothing wrong, yet he had to go, but he’s still a man of honor and integrity

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I get the tradition of honoring your vanquished opponent in some contexts and the tradition of not kicking a guy when he's down, but people have to know when to say Good riddance. That's also a tradition.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 22, 2025 11:17 AM (XJ22o)

53 35
Funny how he tried to save his job by throwing the professor under the bus.

USAF General, and proud holder of the Order of the Blue Falcon
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Obama's generals have the brown stain of cowardice stink about them. Pablum in public, nasty illegal actions under cover. This is the honor that Obama and his acolytes talk about so much.

And I blame the Bush family as much for the dysfunction in our military as I do for Obama, Clinton, and Biden. GHWB started this bullshit and GWB ignored the rot letting it fester due to his war of choice in Iraq.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:17 AM (WDjG6)

54 And good morning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 22, 2025 11:18 AM (XJ22o)

55 Rumor has it he was going to change the school team name to the Faggies.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

The female sports teams can be the Naggies.
Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
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Not the Vaggies?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 22, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

56 48 Duh, depends on who is getting assassinated, ya dummy
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 22, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

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"People celebrated Hitler. Celebrating bad people dying is good."
-leftist

"Why are you equating Hitler to Charlie Kirk?"
-the internet

"Where did I mention Kirk, huh!? Huh?! HUH?!"
-leftist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

57 With ants you just take out the queen. I guess buying her a cat and a bunch of Starbucks giftcards might do it

Posted by: gKWVE at September 22, 2025 11:18 AM (gKWVE)

58 America is our birthright. It's not a privilege.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (viF8m)

There's no acrimony on earth so bitter as in a fight over an estate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:18 AM (VoAdT)

59 I get the tradition of honoring your vanquished opponent in some contexts and the tradition of not kicking a guy when he's down, but people have to know when to say Good riddance. That's also a tradition.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone
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Chancellor is already looking for his next job--academia is all leftist now and thus he is auditioning by holding true to the leftist faith.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:18 AM (WDjG6)

60 The entire concept of "privilege" is idiotic.

Generations of our ancestors built this country with blood and sweat so we could have this way of life, it didn't just happen by magic.

America is our birthright. It's not a privilege.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (viF8m)

Bingo.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 22, 2025 11:18 AM (snZF9)

61 Conservative alternatives to traditional higher education will reshape this country for centuries to come.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 22, 2025 11:19 AM (KbCG3)

62 There's no acrimony on earth so bitter as in a fight over an estate.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I can confirm this from personal experience.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

63 ancestors built this country"

Hey, I saw the "all black" version of that! Wakanda forever!

Posted by: man at September 22, 2025 11:19 AM (tubbA)

64 Wonder how many more Cultural Marxism Brass there is in the military

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2025 11:19 AM (Fz2ke)

65 ‘It's really an infestation that can only be rectified in one way. The same way you'd get rid of ants, or wasps.’

Interpretive LGBT dance marathon?

Posted by: Squid at September 22, 2025 11:20 AM (WVXKn)

66 From the linked tweet . . . the "Gender Unicorn" diagram.
WTF? This replaced the "Genderbread Man" diagram, I guess.
- Gender identity
- Gender expression
- Sex assigned at birth
- Physically attracted to
- Emotionally attracted to

No wonder they hate heteros. It so easy to simply be your sex and be attracted to the opposite, as God intended. It's not that hard, you guyz! (that's what she said)

The unicorn is much better vehicle for this nonsense -- completely imaginary and designed for people with the logic/cognitive abilities of children.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2025 11:20 AM (GbwPZ)

67 63 ancestors built this country"

Hey, I saw the "all black" version of that! Wakanda forever!
Posted by: man at September 22, 2025 11:19 AM (tubbA)

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All I know is that northern industry was built by slaves after the North outlawed slavery.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

68 Obama's generals have the brown stain of cowardice stink about them. Pablum in public, nasty illegal actions under cover. This is the honor that Obama and his acolytes talk about so much.

I'm rereading Battle Cry of Freedom, and am currently in the leadup to the war, when anytime someone spoke even the mildest criticism of slavery, the Southrons clutched their pearls and talked about their honor.

It's pretty clear that, like honesty and spoons, the louder someone declaims about their honor, the sleazier their motives are.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

69 Oh, if any Book Threaders were interested in that APEX writer's group opportunity, it closes on Wednesday. You'll have to go through Jerry Jenkins to apply.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 22, 2025 11:20 AM (uQesX)

70 Tiger handler and ‘Joe Exotic associate’ fatally mauled at Oklahoma preserve

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 22, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

71 There's no acrimony on earth so bitter as in a fight over an estate."

I see you've met some of Mrs' extended family...

Posted by: man at September 22, 2025 11:21 AM (tubbA)

72 38 Why is that mascot a soldier? I thought an Aggie would be a farmer.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (uQesX)

It is, that was it's purpose when originally founded. From WW2 through the Gulf Wars, it gained a reputation as being a very proudly pro-military school, with the Corps being a large and visible Officer Training program. That still exists, but the more civil departments have been allowed to slide into wokism.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2025 11:21 AM (uWKK8)

73 What are the odds that these people defending what they're doing are perverts?

I don't know them, or if they are, but why such a rush to defend those who try to influence children to question reality?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 22, 2025 11:22 AM (uQesX)

74 My dad tried to become a dean after he stepped down from being a department head.

He kept being a professor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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In other words, he kept his honor. I had one or two decent deans in my career, most university administrators are go along to get along types when they are not outright nutjobs.

Academia made a wrong turn when it went to nationalizing searches for transient administrative assholes rather than promotion from within as a temp gig when you eventually returned to your dept as a regular prof, not a permanent track admin type.

The older model ended sometime in the 90's for most universities.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:22 AM (WDjG6)

75 63 ancestors built this country"

Hey, I saw the "all black" version of that! Wakanda forever!

Aren't The Wiz and Hamilton cultural appropriation?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

76 LOL.

Yesterday, Keir Starmer recognized the "State of Palestine".

Today, Mahmoud Abbas is demanding two TRILLION pounds in "reparations" from Britain.

Keep licking that Muslim boot, Keir.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:22 AM (xTIDn)

77 The unicorn is much better vehicle for this nonsense -- completely imaginary and designed for people with the logic/cognitive abilities of children.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2025 11:20 AM (GbwPZ)

The more you obsess about genitals, both your own and what others are packing, the less concerned you are with actually having a life and being a real person.

Collectivist dictatorships yearn for a nation full of un-people who are completely unconcerned with the day to day affairs of being a real person and instead rabbit-hole after absurdities.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:22 AM (VoAdT)

78 My diversity statement is we must all hang together or we will all hang separately.
I may have stolen it.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 22, 2025 11:23 AM (n4GiU)

79 76 LOL.

Yesterday, Keir Starmer recognized the "State of Palestine".

Today, Mahmoud Abbas is demanding two TRILLION pounds in "reparations" from Britain.

Keep licking that Muslim boot, Keir.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:22 AM (xTIDn)

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I really want Starmer to try and push it and for enough Labour to be on board to get it done in Parliament.

And I want native Britons see the NHS carved up into nothing to get the Palestinians their money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

80 Today, Mahmoud Abbas is demanding two TRILLION pounds in "reparations" from Britain.

When he said it, did he hold his pinky to the corner of his mouth?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

81 12
‘ It's really an infestation that can only be rectified in one way. The same way you'd get rid of ants, or wasps.’
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‘Explosives?’

Varmints never quit. They’re like the Viet Cong.
Varmint Cong.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 11:23 AM (jbnUc)

82 Aren't The Wiz and Hamilton cultural appropriation?"

Nope. Representation of reality, the others are white fantasy...

/

Posted by: man at September 22, 2025 11:23 AM (tubbA)

83 OT: PJ Media has a story on Senator Wyden's family
tinyurl.com/y7ycua6x
His brats were so godawful their babysitter selfdeleted. We're not talking about Calvin and Hobbes pranks, the story is truly horrific.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 22, 2025 11:24 AM (gKWVE)

84 The only Dean I ever respected was from Steubenville and sang.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 22, 2025 11:24 AM (gm9Sb)

85 Welsh’s resignation caps a period of public uproar sparked by his handling of a children’s literature course that included instruction on introducing LGBT and gender identity material to children as young as three.

Sorry. You get one answer to that question on video.

If your belief is in the affirmative that that is ok, you are taken outside and shot. Immediately.

You are a danger to society.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2025 11:25 AM (jddXn)

86 Today, Mahmoud Abbas is demanding two TRILLION pounds in "reparations" from Britain.

Abbas is the guy who has refused to have Palestinian elections for the last twenty years, since Hamas would win them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:25 AM (xTIDn)

87 80 Today, Mahmoud Abbas is demanding two TRILLION pounds in "reparations" from Britain.

When he said it, did he hold his pinky to the corner of his mouth?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

What's that in megatons?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:25 AM (VoAdT)

88 The only Dean I ever respected was from Steubenville and sang.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

ISWYDT. 👍🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2025 11:26 AM (jddXn)

89 76 LOL.

Yesterday, Keir Starmer recognized the "State of Palestine".

Today, Mahmoud Abbas is demanding two TRILLION pounds in "reparations" from Britain.

Keep licking that Muslim boot, Keir.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:22 AM (xTIDn)

Go big, Mahmoud.

Demand possession of Britain's Nuclear Weapons.

Starmer will certainly give them.

Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:26 AM (UnA8+)

90 That military bearing was apparently enough to hoodwink Texas politicians and the regents at Texas A&M University into appointing him president of the university in 2023.
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Perhaps. It is more likely, however, that the same factor was in play that has been in play since at least the Interwar period, and for which we are paying dearly now: absence of care.

The reason the Gramscian March succeeded is that nobody cared. "Universities? Who cares? Give them who they want."
That begot many things.
"Schools? Who cares? Give them who they want."
"Charities? Who cares? Give them who they want."
"Board rooms? Who cares? Give them who they want."
and so on to today.

Were they hoodwinked by some bearing or another? Perhaps so, but I doubt it. More likely, they didn't care. Normals have never cared. Until recently, anyway. Now, we have been made to care.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:26 AM (6bTRc)

91 OT: PJ Media has a story on Senator Wyden's family

Which takes place entirely in New York.

Wyden is technically the senator from Oregon.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:27 AM (xTIDn)

92 90 Now, we have been made to care.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:26 AM (6bTRc)

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To quoth the AtC, "They do not get to say how I care."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

93 >>The more you obsess about genitals, both your own and what others are packing, the less concerned you are with actually having a life and being a real person.

Yes.

But now they've broken it into 5 different dimensions.
I mean, gender identity vs. gender expression vs. biological sex??? How are they not all the same - or at least "identity" and "expression" the same?

This is insanity, and the student was correct in calling BS on cramming this into kids lit.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2025 11:27 AM (GbwPZ)

94 Dean Martin > college deans

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at September 22, 2025 11:27 AM (OUMaO)

95 People will only start to care if it effects the football team. The average Aggie just wants to chant SEC SEC SEC

Posted by: brak at September 22, 2025 11:28 AM (jGJov)

96 There HAVE to be some in Starmer's party who understand that what he's doing will end their party, right?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

97 Shakedowns are how Arabs say "you're welcome".

Posted by: gKWVE at September 22, 2025 11:28 AM (gKWVE)

98 Demand possession of Britain's Nuclear Weapons."

You mean from Kings Bay, Georgia?

Heh

Posted by: man at September 22, 2025 11:28 AM (tubbA)

99 I really want Starmer to try and push it and for enough Labour to be on board to get it done in Parliament.

And I want native Britons see the NHS carved up into nothing to get the Palestinians their money.

Britain could always fine the Arabs for supporting the Nazis in the Second World War.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:28 AM (xTIDn)

100 96 There HAVE to be some in Starmer's party who understand that what he's doing will end their party, right?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

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Elections are a 2029 problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

101 Regarding why a children’s literature class is providing training on LGBT indoctrination, President Welch told the student, there is a “professional reason” why A&M is using taxpayer funds to promote transgenderism for children.
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Which is, in fact, true.

The profession of teaching - and of training teachers - places high value on Critical Theory in all its forms. They *must* promote the various Critical Theories. Race, Sex, Class, etc. All of them. It's a professional imperative. They are not lying about having "professional reasons" for doing so. They do. The profession, as it has been remade by they themselves, demands it.

The *profession* must be changed, and that requires enforcement of the new rules that regulate it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:28 AM (6bTRc)

102 It is, that was it's purpose when originally founded. From WW2 through the Gulf Wars, it gained a reputation as being a very proudly pro-military school, with the Corps being a large and visible Officer Training program. That still exists, but the more civil departments have been allowed to slide into wokism.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2025 11:21 AM (uWKK

Too bad. Now it's tarnished.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 22, 2025 11:28 AM (uQesX)

103 OT I think one would say this Ryan Routh fellow, accused assassin, is, as any medical professional would say, bat shit fuckin' crazy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 22, 2025 11:29 AM (gm9Sb)

104 what he's doing will end their party, right?"

What do they care? They got theirs...

Posted by: man at September 22, 2025 11:29 AM (tubbA)

105 OT: PJ Media has a story on Senator Wyden's family
tinyurl.com/y7ycua6x
His brats were so godawful their babysitter selfdeleted. We're not talking about Calvin and Hobbes pranks, the story is truly horrific.
Posted by: gKWVE

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 22, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

106 It's interesting...

Texas A&M is a real outlier regarding its demographics.

2024, the campus is roughly 53% male.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

107 Britain could always fine the Arabs for supporting the Nazis in the Second World War.

They mostly didn't... excepting in Palestine, which is the place that somehow thinks it's the moral arbiter of all things Semitic.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 22, 2025 11:30 AM (gKWVE)

108 The chancellor of the Texas A&M university system, Glenn Hegar, also needs to be fired.
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Yes, sort of. It needs to be generalized.
"Every university executive at every university in the country needs to be fired, along with most of the professors" is getting closer.

That's a big job, fraught with peril. Just shutting down the universities, liquidating them at auction, and letting someone else try again will likely be easier. Perils of its own, of course, but ripping the Band-Aid off has a certain appeal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:31 AM (6bTRc)

109 Demand possession of Britain's Nuclear Weapons."

Fun fact: it's been more than a decade since the UK has successfully launched a Trident from a submarine.

The Ministry of Defence would like to reassure you that the multiple Trident launch failures in no way impair the reliability of Britain's nuclear deterrent.

LOL.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:31 AM (xTIDn)

110 USAF General, and proud holder of the Order of the Blue Falcon
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

You can take the general out of the Air Force, but you'll never take the Blue Falcon out of him.

Posted by: Military Moron at September 22, 2025 11:31 AM (JCZqz)

111 Texas A&M needs an intervention. Governor Abbott needs to fire Chancellor Hegar, fire all the regents, and start over with a leadership that is not hostile to the values of a majority of Texans. If Governor Abbott will not cleanse the state’s universities of radical left-wing administrators, perhaps it’s time to start talking about Governor Brian Harrison taking on that challenge.
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I guarantee this rot is also present at the University of Texas, and likely just as deep. As well as every other university.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:31 AM (6bTRc)

112 109 The Ministry of Defence would like to reassure you that the multiple Trident launch failures in no way impair the reliability of Britain's nuclear deterrent.

LOL.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:31 AM (xTIDn)

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Yeah, well, Britain has exchanged their ability to defend themselves for waiting months to see specialist doctors.

Not a bad trade, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

113 Its A&M. Its about one step from being Liberty University at this point.

Oh noes. It's going to be full of normal people.

That being said, my best friend earned her Master's from their online class. The chat with admissions was hilarious.

"So we have steep discounts for veterans."
"Great. My husband is one but I'm not."
"Oh! We offer the discount to spouses as long as it's not same sex marriage."
"Wow. I finally got my privilege!"

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (lXoJ5)

114 Guys, my dream is coming true. Hope they toss that idiot Pascal, and replace him in the Mandelorian.

"ast Thursday, She Hulk star Tatiana Maslany took to her social media to urge her followers to boycott Disney over Kimmel’s suspension.

The Canadian actress wrote, “Cancel your @disneyplus @hulu @espn subscriptions!” in a post featuring photos from her Disney She Hulk TV series, according to Canadian news outlet CBC.

Maslany was joined by actor Pedro Pascal, who also took to social media on Thursday to call for fans to “defend free speech” and “defend democracy,” by boycotting Disney."

He wants to boycott his employer. He is so Obviously burning bridges, they should get rid of him.

Posted by: runner at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (g47mK)

115 >>>Texas A&M is a real outlier regarding its demographics.

2024, the campus is roughly 53% male.

where the men are men and the sheep are nervous

ask them about their male cheerleaders (uhhh they're yell leaders!!!!!)

Posted by: brak at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (jGJov)

116 2024, the campus is roughly 53% male.

soon to be 40% male, 10% trans and 3% furry

Posted by: gKWVE at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (gKWVE)

117 They mostly didn't... excepting in Palestine, which is the place that somehow thinks it's the moral arbiter of all things Semitic.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 22, 2025 11:30 AM (gKWVE)

I could very easily be wrong, but by WWII most of the new-ish Arab states were still chafing from being under the Ottomans until recently, so whatever Turkey did, they were against. And Turkey was rather buddy buddy with Funny Moustache Man.

Again... I may have that completely ballsed up. But I think that's at least close to correct.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:33 AM (VoAdT)

118 Highlighting assassination pron in a classroom is worthy of ostracization?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

It's free speech! You Nazi!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at September 22, 2025 11:33 AM (n9ltV)

119 114 Maslany was joined by actor Pedro Pascal, who also took to social media on Thursday to call for fans to “defend free speech” and “defend democracy,” by boycotting Disney."

He wants to boycott his employer. He is so Obviously burning bridges, they should get rid of him.
Posted by: runner at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (g47mK)

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It's the point where Iger either blanches at the pressure or burns the leftist capture to the ground.

I know which way I'm betting.

Kimmel will be back on the air no later than next week without an apology.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

120 Today, Mahmoud Abbas is demanding two TRILLION pounds in "reparations" from Britain.

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Don't make him angry. You wouldn't like him when he angry.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 22, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)

121 110 The Order of the Blue Falcon is quite similar to the Order of the Floor Buffer presented to Marine Lance Corporals upon promotion.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 22, 2025 11:33 AM (gm9Sb)

122 114 He wants to boycott his employer. He is so Obviously burning bridges, they should get rid of him.
Posted by: runner at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (g47mK)

If that happens, the countdown to Pedro trooning out just like his younger brother officially begins.

Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:33 AM (UnA8+)

123 118 Highlighting assassination pron in a classroom is worthy of ostracization?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

It's free speech! You Nazi!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at September 22, 2025 11:33 AM (n9ltV)

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Is it cancel culture to demand it, or consequence culture...?

Hard to keep up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

124 ask them about their male cheerleaders (uhhh they're yell leaders!!!!!)
Posted by: brak at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (jGJov)

Soda jerks doing their disco moves.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis, Uber-rated 4.9 at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM (GD2xa)

125 ... He wants to boycott his employer. He is so Obviously burning bridges, they should get rid of him.
Posted by: runner at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (g47mK)
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Don't bet on it.

My money, right now, would be on Disney capitulating, putting Kimmel back on the air with a mealy-mouthed non-apology that lets Nextstar save face. Iger is going to cuck out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM (6bTRc)

126 Anyone who capitulates in order to try to appease MAGA eventually ends up getting bulldozed anyway.

Enjoy getting the same treatment we got from you, freak.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM (lXoJ5)

127 >>>I guarantee this rot is also present at the University of Texas, and likely just as deep. As well as every other university.

lol the liberal rot has been at UT for decades, A&M is just catching up

Posted by: brak at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM (jGJov)

128 PJ Media has a story on Senator Wyden's family
tinyurl.com/y7ycua6x
His brats were so godawful their babysitter selfdeleted. We're not talking about Calvin and Hobbes pranks, the story is truly horrific.
Posted by: gKWVE

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Not to excuse the spoiled brats behavior but it sounds like the assistant had some pre-existing ssues. And why couldn't he have walked away from the job?

Posted by: Bigsmith at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM (1Au9i)

129 >>The only Dean I ever respected was from Steubenville and sang.

James Dean was a nice young man but they tore him apart.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM (viF8m)

130 2024, the campus is roughly 53% male.

Wow. A lot of colleges are struggling to keep their female enrollment under 60%, on the assumption that most men and women don't want to go to a school that is so heavily female.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM (xTIDn)

131 130 2024, the campus is roughly 53% male.

Wow. A lot of colleges are struggling to keep their female enrollment under 60%, on the assumption that most men and women don't want to go to a school that is so heavily female.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM (xTIDn)

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I looked up the data because I wanted some snark about female finishing schools.

But A&M is a real outlier...that its administration is trying to run like a female finishing school it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

132 t's the point where Iger either blanches at the pressure or burns the leftist capture to the ground.

I know which way I'm betting.

Kimmel will be back on the air no later than next week without an apology.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

Look, when Ray Stevenson passed away, they hired a dude who sounds and (with proper hair and makeup ) looks like him. They replaced Daron on Bewitched!! They can do this !

Posted by: runner at September 22, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)

133 The under-18 demographics state wide in Texas are now only about 22% white, so it will be interesting to see how that plays out in the university system as they get more "diverse" classes with less young AWFLs-in-training

Posted by: brak at September 22, 2025 11:35 AM (jGJov)

134 soon to be 40% male, 10% trans and 3% furry
Posted by: gKWVE at September 22, 2025 11:32 AM (gKWVE)
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Doesn't matter what the rest of the spread is. Once it hits 45% male, the university will die.

It turns out that girls - unless going to an all-girls school - don't want to go to college nearly so much if there aren't boys there, too. Not nearly so many women chasing an "MRS Degree" as there used to be, but it's still there - even if it's merely "to bed" rather than "to wed."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:35 AM (6bTRc)

135 129 Damn Porsche.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 22, 2025 11:35 AM (gm9Sb)

136 Darrin, not Deron , lol

Posted by: runner at September 22, 2025 11:36 AM (g47mK)

137 It's pretty clear that, like honesty and spoons, the louder someone declaims about their honor, the sleazier their motives are.
Posted by: Archimedes
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The planter aristocracy was not always so blind in the Revolutionary era as the inevitable failure of slavery but the massive wealth enabled by cotton cultivation and the opening of new lands to the west by the LA purchase among other things led to a slavery now, slavery forever among the newer generations.

Ironically, the ban on importing new slaves made Thomas Jefferson and James Madison reliant on breeding and selling slaves to planters in the West. By the 1820's, the oldest slave states had declining fertility in the soil and slavery never was the best agrarian model to use to preserve it. And that made these types in coastal areas dependent on selling slaves or renting them out (like Frederick Douglass was) as their income stream.

Those planters in turn pushed never ending expansion of slavery to the West to resolve their own miserable financial problems.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)

138 > 2024, the campus is roughly 53% male.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

Well, let's look at the realities here. If you were a nubile young female, would you want your dating pool limited to Aggies?

Sorry, sorry...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 22, 2025 11:36 AM (qpyNK)

139 138 Well, let's look at the realities here. If you were a nubile young female, would you want your dating pool limited to Aggies?

Sorry, sorry...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 22, 2025 11:36 AM (qpyNK)

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Let me just say that my MiL is the only Aggie I know.

And I think she might be retarded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

140 Teacher says in response to student, "My gender is not illegal."

Umm, there's yer problem, right there.

Posted by: barbarausa at September 22, 2025 11:37 AM (enw9G)

141 76
‘ Keep licking that Muslim boot, Keir’

You don’t need to worry about that.. He’s the most pro-muzz politician that isn’t actually muzz.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 11:38 AM (jbnUc)

142 I could very easily be wrong, but by WWII most of the new-ish Arab states were still chafing from being under the Ottomans until recently, so whatever Turkey did, they were against. And Turkey was rather buddy buddy with Funny Moustache Man.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Turkey did belatedly join the Allies, though, late in the war.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

143 >>Damn Porsche.

I would do unspeakable things for that car. Well, before the accident.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2025 11:38 AM (viF8m)

144 Warrior generals are few and far between. Most are political animals who have mastered the current politically correct vocabulary. Most of the time they don't believe it themselves, but they don't have any core beliefs anyway. The worst generals are the ones who adopt the commie line because they know that commies practice cronyism to bring as many cockroaches into an organization as possible so they can skin it and wear the organization's legacy as a skin suit, demanding respect

Posted by: Minuteman at September 22, 2025 11:38 AM (47/pr)

145 Well, let's look at the realities here. If you were a nubile young female, would you want your dating pool limited to Aggies?

Sorry, sorry...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 22, 2025 11:36 AM (qpyNK)
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Sure. I could add one to the heap.

Posted by: Black widow eyeing her pile of engineer late husbands at September 22, 2025 11:38 AM (6bTRc)

146 Mark Welsh III is a left-wing proponent of DEI, LGBT indoctrination, and remedying “white privilege.”

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What, Gen. Milley Hate-Vannilly wasn't available?

Posted by: ShainS -- FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT EVERY MOMENT ... For Charlie Kirk ... EVERY MINUTE EVERY DAY at September 22, 2025 11:38 AM (TVC+H)

147 2024, the campus is roughly 53% male.

I know where I'm starting my next college tour. Sausage party!!!

Posted by: Milo Yiannopoulos at September 22, 2025 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

148 140 Teacher says in response to student, "My gender is not illegal."

Umm, there's yer problem, right there.
Posted by: barbarausa at September 22, 2025 11:37 AM (enw9G)

I swear to G-d, it's like Pontypool, where words carry a virus that turns people into zombies.

Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:38 AM (UnA8+)

149 And Turkey was rather buddy buddy with Funny Moustache Man.

Actually, from a cynical point of view, Turkey handled the Second World War perfectly - stayed neutral until February, 1945, and then joined the Allies to make sure they were on the winning side.

No Turkish troops saw combat.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 22, 2025 11:38 AM (xTIDn)

150 131 130 2024, the campus is roughly 53% male.

Wow. A lot of colleges are struggling to keep their female enrollment under 60%, on the assumption that most men and women don't want to go to a school that is so heavily female.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Engineering is the one major still male predominant and Texas A&M has a good engineering program.

But yes, once the m-f margin hits over 60 percent female, both males and females regard that school as less desirable. Many schools took up football also after years of not having them because it is a selling point to males--males are less interested in schools without football apparently from surveys.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:39 AM (WDjG6)

151 Go big, Mahmoud.

Demand possession of Britain's Nuclear Weapons.

Starmer will certainly give them.
Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:26 AM (UnA8+)
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No he won't. He is going to give them - along with everything else - to Britain's "own" Muslims.

Islam will indeed get nuclear weapons. From France and Britain.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:40 AM (6bTRc)

152 132 t's the point where Iger either blanches at the pressure or burns the leftist capture to the ground.

I know which way I'm betting.

Kimmel will be back on the air no later than next week without an apology.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

Iger's got a huge problem with his Nexstar affiliate, because they have no reason to back off their pronouncement that they will no longer broadcast Kimmel's shows unless a list of demands are met. (and ABC has no leverage to force them to back down) If they don't broadcast Kimmel's show, advertising rates collapse, and Kimmel's show instantly begins to lose even more massive amounts of money than they were already losing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2025 11:40 AM (uWKK8)

153 It's pretty clear that, like honesty and spoons, the louder someone declaims about their honor, the sleazier their motives are.
Posted by: Archimedes

I remember reading once that the people who write histories all have something in common. Can't remember what it was though. I wonder if it might affect the accuracy with which someone writes a narrative.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:41 AM (ExV1e)

154 152 Iger's got a huge problem with his Nexstar affiliate, because they have no reason to back off their pronouncement that they will no longer broadcast Kimmel's shows unless a list of demands are met. (and ABC has no leverage to force them to back down) If they don't broadcast Kimmel's show, advertising rates collapse, and Kimmel's show instantly begins to lose even more massive amounts of money than they were already losing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 22, 2025 11:40 AM (uWKK

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"So?"
-the man who heads the organization that greenlit The Marvels

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

155 California, preaching on the burning shore

>>@FBIDirectorKash

>>The FBI has taken into custody the suspect linked to the shooting into ABC10’s Sacramento station lobby under a federal hold for interference with licensed broadcasts.

>>Targeted acts of violence are unacceptable and will be pursued to the fullest extent of the law.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2025 11:41 AM (viF8m)

156 My money, right now, would be on Disney capitulating, putting Kimmel back on the air with a mealy-mouthed non-apology that lets Nextstar save face. Iger is going to cuck out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:34 AM

I don't agree. He was losing the company money hand over fist long before this became an issue and his ratings had tanked. I suspect he will be toast just like colbert was.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 22, 2025 11:41 AM (0N4FZ)

157 It turns out that girls - unless going to an all-girls school - don't want to go to college nearly so much if there aren't boys there, too.

Too hard to get a doctorate in Mrs. if there are no boys there.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2025 11:42 AM (jddXn)

158 After the first Apollo returned from the moon, NASA sent rock samples to universities throughout the world. When they were finished they realized the one school they forgot was Texas A&M. The Director said to just grab a cow pie from the field out back...the Aggies wont know the difference.
A few months later the research papers began to be published. Some amazing discoveries were reported. But the biggest was the headlines from A&M which read: Texas A&M Proves Cow Did Jump Over Moon!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 22, 2025 11:42 AM (2WIwB)

159 Dean Worner gave us "fat , drunk and stupid is no way to go through life"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:42 AM (lmTGO)

160 153 It's pretty clear that, like honesty and spoons, the louder someone declaims about their honor, the sleazier their motives are.
Posted by: Archimedes

I remember reading once that the people who write histories all have something in common. Can't remember what it was though. I wonder if it might affect the accuracy with which someone writes a narrative.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:41 AM (ExV1e)

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History is written by the victors.

Anthropology is written by the stans of the losers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

161 Welsh’s resignation caps a period of public uproar sparked by his handling of a children’s literature course that included instruction on introducing LGBT and gender identity material to children as young as three.

Grooming. This is all about grooming.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2025 11:42 AM (sKqQm)

162 I don't agree. He was losing the company money hand over fist long before this became an issue and his ratings had tanked. I suspect he will be toast just like colbert was.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 22, 2025 11:41 AM (0N4FZ)
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Disney has not shown even a scintilla of evidence that losses at ABC factors into its decision making process.

Has that changed? I dunno. Until I see some indication of it, however, I am going with, "I doubt it."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:42 AM (6bTRc)

163 156 I don't agree. He was losing the company money hand over fist long before this became an issue and his ratings had tanked. I suspect he will be toast just like colbert was.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 22, 2025 11:41 AM (0N4FZ)

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They still haven't fired either Kathleen Kennedy or Kevin Feige.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

164 They still haven't fired either Kathleen Kennedy or Kevin Feige.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
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Well, they can't fire Kennedy. Probably could fire Feige.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:43 AM (6bTRc)

165
I'd love to see a novel with real breadth and sweep get written taking a hostile look at life at a university of today. Cowed students, left-wing agitators, Grievance Studies zampolits, ground-down adjuncts, lazy senior faculty and the malignant carapace of administrators.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2025 11:44 AM (tgvbd)

166 The Palis demanding Britain give them $2t in reparations must be met with a giant Nelson Muntz balloon outside 10 Downing Street saying " ha-ha"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:44 AM (lmTGO)

167 Well, let's look at the realities here. If you were a nubile young female, would you want your dating pool limited to Aggies?

Sorry, sorry...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 22, 2025 11:36 AM

She might. If she'd looked at the UT Austin campus lately, a right-thinking young lady is unlikely to want to hook up a Horn.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 22, 2025 11:45 AM (0sNs1)

168 That's a big job, fraught with peril. Just shutting down the universities, liquidating them at auction, and letting someone else try again will likely be easier. Perils of its own, of course, but ripping the Band-Aid off has a certain appeal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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As sad as it is to say it, I think that the university system needs to be shut down totally so it can be built back up. In the interim, we are going to have to kill Griggs v. Duke Power decision by changing the law banning disparate impact analysis. That allows companies to start examinations again for posts rather than credentialism.

K-12 education is also going to have to be fixed but as long as the universities are poison chalices breeding new indoctrinated ones, then you have to fix the supply of new teachers first before tackling the government school system.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:45 AM (WDjG6)

169 166 The Palis demanding Britain give them $2t in reparations must be met with a giant Nelson Muntz balloon outside 10 Downing Street saying " ha-ha"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:44 AM (lmTGO)\

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The only appropriate action is for Parliament to take it up as a serious matter as a way to rub it in the people's faces that Parliament hates them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

170 The Palis demanding Britain give them $2t in reparations must be met with a giant Nelson Muntz balloon outside 10 Downing Street saying " ha-ha"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:44 AM (lmTGO)

Are you unaware of who lives there?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

171 I'd love to see a novel with real breadth and sweep get written taking a hostile look at life at a university of today. Cowed students, left-wing agitators, Grievance Studies zampolits, ground-down adjuncts, lazy senior faculty and the malignant carapace of administrators.

Tom Wolfe's I am Charlotte Simmons does some of that, but since it was written 21 years ago, it obviously isn't a complete match.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

172 In both cases, it's obvious that they're trying to delay long enough for Youngkin to be gone and superlefty Abigail Spanberger to take over.
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I'm surprised that politicians get the tolerance they do from the public (yes, I'm naive). I saw a headline the other day that declared "Spanberger avoids direct answer to school bathrooms and locker rooms". DUH, she "avoided" giving an answer, so by doing that WE KNOW EXACTLY where she sides on that. I would have thought even the left wanted to be lied to by a better quality of "leader", but apparently quality isn't part of the criteria--blind adherence to the cause is all that matters.

Posted by: Crusader at September 22, 2025 11:46 AM (TN0g+)

173 Wait one minute , Doomcock said Kathleen Kennedy was about to be fired.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:46 AM (lmTGO)

174 They still haven't fired either Kathleen Kennedy or Kevin Feige.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

My insider sources tell me their firing is imminent, and they are not happy about it!

From the center of the Earth this is Dicktor van Doomcock, bidding you all, my friends...stay angry.

Posted by: Doomcock at September 22, 2025 11:46 AM (JCZqz)

175 165
I'd love to see a novel with real breadth and sweep get written taking a hostile look at life at a university of today. Cowed students, left-wing agitators, Grievance Studies zampolits, ground-down adjuncts, lazy senior faculty and the malignant carapace of administrators.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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James Gunn, way back in the late 50's wrote such a novel. I think Ben Bova touched on dystopian universities too in his sci fi fiction as did James Hogan from the left side of the equation.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:46 AM (WDjG6)

176 Don't India and Pakistan get to fully loot Britain before the Palis can have any?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 22, 2025 11:47 AM (sKqQm)

177 OT: PJ Media has a story on Senator Wyden's family
tinyurl.com/y7ycua6x
His brats were so godawful their babysitter selfdeleted. We're not talking about Calvin and Hobbes pranks, the story is truly horrific.
Posted by: gKWVE

I really hate that "staffers" to politicians and "aides" to high-ranking officers have become poorly-paid family servants.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at September 22, 2025 11:47 AM (Wt5PA)

178 173 Wait one minute , Doomcock said Kathleen Kennedy was about to be fired.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:46 AM (lmTGO)

From the center of the Earth this is Dicktor van Doomcock, bidding you all, my friends...stay angry.
Posted by: Doomcock at September 22, 2025 11:46 AM (JCZqz)

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Does Doomcock even still have a channel? Or is there some kind of shadowban on it? Haven't seen a video in forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

179 166 Gold Sovereignes, maybe rifles, but no artillery.

Zombie General Allenby

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 22, 2025 11:47 AM (gm9Sb)

180 @179 the PMs residence. Starmer did something monumentally stupid and it is blowing up in his face already

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:48 AM (lmTGO)

181 I'm surprised that politicians get the tolerance they do from the public (yes, I'm naive).

It's NoVa, so most of the people agree with the super and want Spanberger to destroy all of what Youngkin did.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)

182 177
I really hate that "staffers" to politicians and "aides" to high-ranking officers have become poorly-paid family servants.
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at September 22, 2025 11:47 AM (Wt5PA)

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*points at dead bug in window with stupid smile on face*
-Douglas Reynholm

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

183 Thanks for bringing this idiocy to our attention, Buck.

Posted by: ShainS -- FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT EVERY MOMENT ... For Charlie Kirk ... EVERY MINUTE EVERY DAY at September 22, 2025 11:49 AM (TVC+H)

184 @178 he's still there. When I go to YouTube he's vids pop up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:49 AM (lmTGO)

185 I have some bad news: Texas A&M is one of the universities with the least DEI. Almost every other school in the country is worse.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 22, 2025 11:50 AM (htOu8)

186 I really hate that "staffers" to politicians and "aides" to high-ranking officers have become poorly-paid family servants.
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at September 22, 2025 11:47 AM (Wt5PA)
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They're batmen (military sense)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:50 AM (6bTRc)

187 184 @178 he's still there. When I go to YouTube he's vids pop up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:49 AM (lmTGO)

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Interesting. They just fell off. I'm not subscribed, and RedLetterMedia put out a video explaining some of the behind the scenes shenanigans going on with hiding videos under restrictions. I guess that's it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

188 I swear to G-d, it's like Pontypool, where words carry a virus that turns people into zombies.
Posted by: XTC
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Once again, the leftist speaks in bumper sticker rhetoric that is false at its core--becoming a male or female eunuch is not illegal for those who are adults and while I think school districts should avoid hiring those with existing mental illnesses, it is not current illegal to hire eunuchs.

But, they can and do since time immemorial control what students are taught so eunuch has no right to proselytize on taxpayer time anymore that I have a right to demand that eunuchs pay me to express eternal ridicule on the idea that one can swap sex.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:51 AM (WDjG6)

189 Youtube's algorithm is ridiculous.

Watch a single video about something you don't usually click on, just out of idle curiosity, and suddenly every single video in my feed is from that channel, or from an extremely similar channel.

What? You watched something different? Well, then, I guess that is literally the only thing on earth you care about anymore!

It's like it's being passive aggressive with me or something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:52 AM (VoAdT)

190 @187 when I want reviews or info on entertainment I look at The Critical Drinker, Nerdrotic or sometimes Disparu. Doomcock gets old quick

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2025 11:53 AM (lmTGO)

191 186 Fun fact. David Niven returned to Blighty when war broke out, unlike most Brits in Hollywood. He, as a Sandhurst grad, saw combat service and Peter Ustinov was his batman.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 22, 2025 11:53 AM (gm9Sb)

192 185 I have some bad news: Texas A&M is one of the universities with the least DEI. Almost every other school in the country is worse.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Other than a handful of schools, I would agree that DEI is entrenched but primarily among the millennials on staff--the old tired liberals are retiring or pining for the fjords and the few right leaners left are either one their way out or retired like me.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:53 AM (WDjG6)

193 The only Aggies I know was a local bar named for the lady who first opened it. Her grandspawn managed to burn it down. Well not completely. Its in the middle of the block so the shops on either side kept it standing up. Oh and those shops were damaged also, along with the apartments that were above.

Aggie would be so proud! /sarc

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 22, 2025 11:53 AM (2J/Lj)

194 Kathleen Kennedy has been about to be fired for about a decade now. She sits in her office rubbing her own nipples every time a youtuber reports on this.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 22, 2025 11:53 AM (gKWVE)

195 This beach blonde skipped college because she didn't want to enter a brainwashing cult:
http://tiny.cc/jsws001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:53 AM (6bTRc)

196 189 What? You watched something different? Well, then, I guess that is literally the only thing on earth you care about anymore!

It's like it's being passive aggressive with me or something.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:52 AM (VoAdT)

It keeps trying to force non-English videos on me, anymore.

Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM (UnA8+)

197 152
‘ Iger's got a huge problem with his Nexstar affiliate, because they have no reason to back off their pronouncement that they will no longer broadcast Kimmel's shows’

That’s the real mystery for me. What made the affiliates suddenly so rock solid on our side?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM (jbnUc)

198
Texas A&M has one of the best veterinary schools in the country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM (tgvbd)

199 As far as the Kimmel thing goes I always assumed that Kimmel knew his show was doomed and that his contract would not be renewed. So he staged a situation where he got ever more obscene to ensure he became a "heroic free speech martyr" so he doesn't feel inferior to Colbert.

ABC could honestly broadcast reruns of 40 year old shows in Kimmel's timeslot and make more money than they were with Kimmel (or at least, the net profit will be positive).

Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM (Dg7ng)

200 Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:52 AM (VoAdT)

you can hit the "don't recommend this channel" option, which I am doing with more frequency to stop bullshit AI content from cluttering up my feed.

also I wanted to mass delete my comments, but YT does not allow that. You actually have to manually delete them one by one.
so I did the next best thing: I hid my channel. No one can see my prior comments or my channel or anything. I can like or dislike videos but I cannot like a comment or post a comment which is just fine by me.

Posted by: kallisto at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM (dCxaZ)

201 Youtube's algorithm is ridiculous.

Watch a single video about something you don't usually click on, just out of idle curiosity, and suddenly every single video in my feed is from that channel, or from an extremely similar channel.

What? You watched something different? Well, then, I guess that is literally the only thing on earth you care about anymore!

It's like it's being passive aggressive with me or something.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:52 AM (VoAdT)

I'm not going to say that YT's algorithm has been tweaked by AI and then massaged by H1B holders.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:55 AM (ExV1e)

202 197 152
‘ Iger's got a huge problem with his Nexstar affiliate, because they have no reason to back off their pronouncement that they will no longer broadcast Kimmel's shows’

That’s the real mystery for me. What made the affiliates suddenly so rock solid on our side?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM (jbnUc)

Money. Kimmel's show makes them none.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 22, 2025 11:55 AM (tOcjL)

203 Kathleen Kennedy has been about to be fired for about a decade now. She sits in her office rubbing her own nipples every time a youtuber reports on this.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 22, 2025 11:53 AM (gKWVE)
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She can't be fired. Maybe shoved into a rubber room, but probably not even that. Disney doesn't have to renew her contract, but so long as they do, she's there. Period. The terms of the Lucasfilm deal dictate that. They can't fire her.

Renewing her last time was insane, but it's yet more evidence that profitability in the entertainment divisions is not part of the equation in Disney's C-Suite.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:55 AM (6bTRc)

204 197 152
‘ Iger's got a huge problem with his Nexstar affiliate, because they have no reason to back off their pronouncement that they will no longer broadcast Kimmel's shows’

That’s the real mystery for me. What made the affiliates suddenly so rock solid on our side?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM (jbnUc)

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They're not. They're on their own side.

Kimmel's probably been losing them money for years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

205 my YT channel has 4 subscribers, I don't even know how I got them. I never posted any content. For a while I felt like I needed to make a vid, just as a thank you to my 4 subscribers

Posted by: kallisto at September 22, 2025 11:56 AM (dCxaZ)

206 If I watch something that I don't want completely f***ing up my algo, I go into my history and immediately delete that video from it.

Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:56 AM (UnA8+)

207 A lot of folks don't know why A&M stands for and there should be more Universities with that title (if that's what they teach).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 22, 2025 11:56 AM (gm9Sb)

208 Texas A&M has one of the best veterinary schools in the country.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Endorsed by the American Furry Association.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

209 Once again, the leftist speaks in bumper sticker rhetoric that is false at its core--

whig
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Yeah I always call it "sloganeering". Once heard it can't be unheard.

You will never look at an AOC, Pelosi, Obama, or Schumer quote the same way.

They don't actually speak English. It's some faux linguistic hybrid of English and Mindfuckening. Whereas normal people use language to communicate, they use it only to manipulate.

Posted by: ... at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (sWw4q)

210 my YT channel has 4 subscribers, I don't even know how I got them. I never posted any content. For a while I felt like I needed to make a vid, just as a thank you to my 4 subscribers
Posted by: kallisto at September 22, 2025 11:56 AM (dCxaZ)
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They're probably bots.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (6bTRc)

211 Aggie here. Not offended by the jabs, we're easy targets because we are different.

A&M has the most conservative student body & alumni in the nation( save for maybe Hillsdale). Prove me wrong.

More Catholic students than Notre Dame.

Corps of cadets numbers 2500+. Student Body President is Corps Turd (Aggie Lingo) .

And, we policed our own and held Welsh accountable.

Posted by: Crouching Chigger at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (xW8nJ)

212 If Disney backs down and puts him back on, then Carr *must* revoke ABC's broadcast licenses. You can't threaten something like that and then cuck out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (BI5O2)

213 It keeps trying to force non-English videos on me, anymore.
Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM (UnA8+)

I'll do a search for retirement planning and I'll get 100 or so 3.5 minute, AI generated, pieces of shit. Or something about how 100B whatever-the-currency-of-India-is isn't enough for a good retirement.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)

214 also, I am very happy that this DEI twat from Texas A&M got the boot.

may his fellow travelers soon follow his GTFOOH example

Posted by: kallisto at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (dCxaZ)

215 If Disney backs down and puts him back on, then Carr *must* revoke ABC's broadcast licenses. You can't threaten something like that and then cuck out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (BI5O2)
++++
Unless you're a Republican.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (6bTRc)

216 That’s the real mystery for me. What made the affiliates suddenly so rock solid on our side?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM

Cash money. They have other shows they can broadcast that have much better ratings. And I suspect that have been just waiting for an excuse to drop his show as his ratings continued their downhill slide.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (0N4FZ)

217 Hey Hey ho ho diversity has got to go.

Posted by: torabora at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (EWqQL)

218 7 I have been to countries with no white privilege anywhere. And those people want to move to my country because it's better they're getting paid to come there and make it just like what they left.

Posted by: NR Pax

Fixed that for ya.
Posted by: Brother Tim

We are way overdue for a full accounting of all the money, including all sources & recipients, used to transport, house and feed these 'migrants' across the West. And the payoffs of politicians and friends/families to run the programs, and payoffs to media, churches and others to advocate for this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (Dv3i1)

219 I'm not going to say that YT's algorithm has been tweaked by AI and then massaged by H1B holders.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:55 AM (ExV1e)

Oh man, it totally is exactly what an H1B would do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (VoAdT)

220 They don't actually speak English. It's some faux linguistic hybrid of English and Mindfuckening. Whereas normal people use language to communicate, they use it only to manipulate.
Posted by: ...
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Nice term Mindfunckening aka gaslighting. Scientific even. Like Enshittification.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

221 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2025 11:44 AM (tgvbd)

---------------

O/T -- Hadrian, we have new temporary neighbors (in their '
80s) who've bought a run-down house and property and are going to remodel it (almost like a hobby) -- after which they plan to flip it for a profit.

Anywho, we met the wife walking a beautiful older poodle, and she said they're going to build a dog show course on the property for the poodle, being now retired former participants in dog shows -- and just to keep the poodle able to continue doing what it was trained to do.

That got me wondering if you and the empress have done the same for your best in shows?

Posted by: ShainS -- FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT EVERY MOMENT ... For Charlie Kirk ... EVERY MINUTE EVERY DAY at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (Yrpv2)

222 She can't be fired. Maybe shoved into a rubber room, but probably not even that. Disney doesn't have to renew her contract, but so long as they do, she's there. Period. The terms of the Lucasfilm deal dictate that. They can't fire her.

Renewing her last time was insane, but it's yet more evidence that profitability in the entertainment divisions is not part of the equation in Disney's C-Suite.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:55 AM (6bTRc)

Hear me out..Lucasfilm goes up for sale, sold to a billionaire who is a proponent of free speech and against all bad thingz, contract null, she fired. Winning!

Posted by: runner at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (g47mK)

223 She can't be fired. Maybe shoved into a rubber room, but probably not even that. Disney doesn't have to renew her contract, but so long as they do, she's there. Period. The terms of the Lucasfilm deal dictate that. They can't fire her.

She can't stay forever, and when she leaves, I will gloat and say it was because of her latest flop, reminding you all once again, that Doomcock was right.

Posted by: Doomcock at September 22, 2025 11:59 AM (JCZqz)

224 215 If Disney backs down and puts him back on, then Carr *must* revoke ABC's broadcast licenses. You can't threaten something like that and then cuck out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (BI5O2)
++++
Unless you're a Republican.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (6bTRc)

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"Republicans using long-standing rules and regulations to hurt Democrat jesters just because the media apparatus has been flaunting those rules and regulations for decades is tyranny. Instead, Republicans must never enforce rules and regulations against Democrats and right white papers about how we need to repeal the Communications Act of 1933 instead."
-Rand Paul, apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

225 I definitely get the impression that Abbott will do the right thing only when he has to. Still, that's better than continuing to resist doing so, but it sure ain't ideal.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 22, 2025 12:00 PM (s0JqF)

226 Whereas normal people use language to communicate, they use it only to manipulate.
Posted by: ... at September 22, 2025 11:57 AM (sWw4q)

They are literally carbon-based LLMs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 12:00 PM (VoAdT)

227 Why would KK be fired for literally doing the exact thing she has been paid to do for 10 years?

Posted by: ... at September 22, 2025 12:00 PM (sWw4q)

228 you can hit the "don't recommend this channel" option, which I am doing with more frequency to stop bullshit AI content from cluttering up my feed.

Interestingly, if you say that you're not interested in a particular video it'll give you the option of saying why. Your two choices are "I didn't like it" and "I've already watched it". Interestingly, selecting "I've already watched it" several hundred times is insufficient to teach the algorithm that you're uninterested in watching videos you've already seen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 12:00 PM (ExV1e)

229 227 Why would KK be fired for literally doing the exact thing she has been paid to do for 10 years?
Posted by: ... at September 22, 2025 12:00 PM (sWw4q)

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The same reason Kimmel won't be fired?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

230 220 Nice term Mindfunckening aka gaslighting. Scientific even. Like Enshittification.
Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

Shitf***ening? Enf***ification? Shitf***ification?

Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 12:00 PM (UnA8+)

231 Slightly off topic...I was on a work teams call and the German Lady presenter mentioned he/she/it. Needless to say, I wasn't at all triggered. As a matter of fact, I chuckled to myself.

Posted by: sTevo at September 22, 2025 12:00 PM (HNXEw)

232 "Republicans using long-standing rules and regulations to hurt Democrat jesters just because the media apparatus has been flaunting those rules and regulations for decades is tyranny. Instead, Republicans must never enforce rules and regulations against Democrats and right white papers about how we need to repeal the Communications Act of 1933 instead."
-Rand Paul, apparently
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

Rand Paul cucked out on this big time. So has Ted Cruz. They don't have to back the play, but they can keep their mouths shut.

Posted by: There's no "team" in GOP at September 22, 2025 12:01 PM (TbWk/)

233 my YT channel has 4 subscribers, I don't even know how I got them. I never posted any content. For a while I felt like I needed to make a vid, just as a thank you to my 4 subscribers
Posted by: kallisto at September 22, 2025 11:56 AM (dCxaZ)

You should link your channel. We could get those numbers up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 12:01 PM (ExV1e)

234 @204

>>Kimmel's probably been losing them money for years.

Kimmel's salary is 15m per year, which means the overall production budget for the show is somewhere north of 75m dollars per year at a minimum, he's now averaging fewer than 2m eyeballs per episode and his ratings in the preferred demo are abysmal.

The Late Night format hasn't made financial sense in over a decade, the advent of Trump merely allowed for a dead cat bounce.

They will all be gone in less than 5 years and more than likely less than that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 22, 2025 12:01 PM (XV/Pl)

235 212 If Disney backs down and puts him back on, then Carr *must* revoke ABC's broadcast licenses. You can't threaten something like that and then cuck out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Carr mentioned investigation, not revoking at this point (which legally is unwise to do) and that he will enforce the Fairness doctrine which means that ABC would have to put someone on Kimmel's show to stick Kimmel's lies up his ass. Equal time to present dissenting view of any public statement of fact. And Fairness Doctrine requirements under FCC rules is constitutional right now--see Red Lion Broadcasting case from the 60's.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 12:01 PM (WDjG6)

236 206 If I watch something that I don't want completely f***ing up my algo, I go into my history and immediately delete that video from it.
Posted by: XTC

Is THAT all it takes!??! I watch ONE furry video, and suddenly my feed is full of it! Then, my roommate shoots ~~a Nazi~~ a public speaker, the Fed's raid my house, and then tell the world I'm some furry degenerate! The bitch set me up!!!

Posted by: Lance Twiggs at September 22, 2025 12:02 PM (JCZqz)

237

This is part of an ongoing program designed to recreate a professional military instead of a nancy gaggle of incompetents.

We may thank the professional NCO cadre for keeping shit straight while things have been fixed. We are, you realize, who and what keeps the place going.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 22, 2025 12:02 PM (vFbHf)

238 That’s the real mystery for me. What made the affiliates suddenly so rock solid on our side?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 11:54 AM (jbnUc)

Daily Signal podcasts have a larger audience.
Tim Dillon has a larger audience

Posted by: Kindltot at September 22, 2025 12:02 PM (rbvCR)

239 also I wanted to mass delete my comments, but YT does not allow that. You actually have to manually delete them one by one.

We can't allow you to do something you want. What would the algorithm think?

Posted by: NR Pax at September 22, 2025 12:03 PM (lXoJ5)

240 Eddie Muller's noir yesterday was from Soviet-occupied Berlin in 1946. Really amazing how ruined that city was at the end of WWII.

Plus, it had a very pretty actress in it, Hildegard Knef.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

241
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

Flaunting or flouting? Serious question.

Posted by: ... at September 22, 2025 12:03 PM (sWw4q)

242 241
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

Flaunting or flouting? Serious question.
Posted by: ... at September 22, 2025 12:03 PM (sWw4q)

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Flouting. One of two bad typos.

My typing is off today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

243 A lot of folks don't know why A&M stands for and there should be more Universities with that title (if that's what they teach).
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Agricultural & Mechanical

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2025 12:04 PM (jddXn)

244 Texas A&M has one of the best veterinary schools in the country.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Vet schools are now 80/20% female to male.

Posted by: Dog Days at September 22, 2025 12:04 PM (oftw2)

245 Rand Paul cucked out on this big time. So has Ted Cruz. They don't have to back the play, but they can keep their mouths shut.
Posted by: There's no "team" in GOP
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I ignore both of them nowadays as stopped clocks. Ted knows damn well that Red Lion established the constitutionality of the Fairness doctrine at issue and public interest provisions which include not lying about crimes. Rand Paul diminishes himself with every public utterance. He makes himself smaller and more isolated until he ends up like a Massie or Amash.

They are the past of the Right, not the future.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 12:04 PM (WDjG6)

246 230 220 Nice term Mindfunckening aka gaslighting. Scientific even. Like Enshittification.
Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

Shitf***ening? Enf***ification? Shitf***ification?
Posted by: XTC at September 22, 2025 12:00 PM (UnA8+)

Supercalifragilmindfuckenshittification.

Posted by: With no apologies to Mary Poppins at September 22, 2025 12:04 PM (TbWk/)

247 They should just show old Johnny Carson Tonight Show reruns. Start at the beginning and keep going to the last one.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 22, 2025 12:04 PM (2J/Lj)

248 Now do Clemson.

Posted by: Eromero at September 22, 2025 12:05 PM (jgmnb)

249 wtf Aggies? Was Welsh involved with that crap from a couple of years ago where they wanted to lure some DEI princess from UT that would pay her hugely to bring DEI to College Station? they ended up paying her gobs to go away when it became untenable to bring her in

Posted by: DanMan at September 22, 2025 12:05 PM (8uzBS)

250 Vet schools are now 80/20% female to male.
Posted by: Dog Days

Probably a reflection of the chick thing for horses.

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

251 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 22, 2025 11:13 AM (JCZqz)

A new source of the Democrats underbelly?

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 22, 2025 12:06 PM (w3u3d)

252 215
‘ If Disney backs down and puts him back on, then Carr *must* revoke ABC's broadcast licenses. You can't threaten something like that and then cuck out.
++++
Unless you're a Republican.’

I think Carr’s threat came from the Orange Man himself. I’m betting against cuckery.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

253 It's amazing that Rand Paul has still not yet figured out that there are people out there who would pay him handsomely for his bullshit.

And yet he just does it anyway for love of the game.

It's almost endearing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2025 12:06 PM (VoAdT)

254 I guarantee this rot is also present at the University of Texas, and likely just as deep. As well as every other university.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:31 AM (6bTRc)

I went to UT. Trust me, it's probably a hell of a lot deeper.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 22, 2025 12:06 PM (k9OZB)

255 If Disney backs down and puts him back on, then Carr *must* revoke ABC's broadcast licenses. You can't threaten something like that and then cuck out.
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I'm fine with treating Carr's previous warning as a shot across the bow. IF Kimmel or anyone else wishes to go further down that trail, file whatever papers are needed to start the process. But simply giving him the microphone back (which will be a terrible look for ABC) doesn't mean we have to immediately go there. Let him deliberately call down the wrath upon himself. I don't think ABC is going to trust him enough to return him, so its probably a mute point.

/just kidding, yes I know the word is "moot".

Posted by: Crusader at September 22, 2025 12:06 PM (TN0g+)

256 Probably a reflection of the chick thing for horses.
Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

*Bulg detected* oWo what's this?

Posted by: The chick thing for horses is the giant cocks at September 22, 2025 12:06 PM (TbWk/)

257 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

I wasn't picking it just altered the meaning so I wasn't sure.

Posted by: ... at September 22, 2025 12:06 PM (sWw4q)

258 Probably a reflection of the chick thing for horses.
Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

Missed opportunity to sock Catherine the Great.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)

259 Shitf***ening? Enf***ification? Shitf***ification?
Posted by: XTC
=======
Yes, we need new ways to express our current Leftist society elites and what they do to society. They make everything worse--speech, research, arts, movies, tv, books, and products. That is because there is no truth in them--they live by lies.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (WDjG6)

260 You should link your channel. We could get those numbers up.

that would be nice...but then I would feel really pressured to create content, and the results could be mayhem

Posted by: kallisto at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (dCxaZ)

261 Hey, TJM. I found out an interesting movie factoid yesterday. When they were casting Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, one of the actors they considered for Sundance was...Jack Lemmon.

Felix Unger as the Sundance Kid? WTF?

Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

262 223
‘ I will gloat and say it was because of her latest flop, reminding you all once again, that Doomcock was right.’

Don’t go off half cocked .

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (jbnUc)

263 Vet schools are now 80/20% female to male.
Posted by: Dog Days

Probably a reflection of the chick thing for horses.
Posted by: Bulg

Shoving your arm up a cow's ass to your armpit is still a real thing.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (jddXn)

264 Thieves melt down 3,000-year-old bracelet worn by pharaoh after swiping it from Egyptian museum 😧

Four suspects have been arrested, including a restoration specialist at the museum who confessed to giving the bracelet to an acquaintance who owns a silver shop in Cairo's Sayyeda Zainab district. It was allegedly later sold to the owner of a gold workshop for the equivalent of about $3,800. It was eventually sold for around $4,000 to a worker at another gold workshop, who melted the bracelet down to make other gold jewelry.

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Ehh, $4000 is $4000.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now
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Let's make sure we return all items "stolen" by evil white colonizers who put these items in museums. Only the indigenous populations have a right to these items and know how to use them best.

/sarc

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (n8gor)

265 Interesting, Buck. Thanks.

What IS going on there? Lots of stuff, it seems.

How Texas A&M's Qatar Campus suddenly collapsed

IHE, News, Global, February 16, 2024
'Cutting Off Qatar'

Texas A&M’s Board of Regents voted to shutter its long-standing, hugely profitable branch campus in the Gulf country. Are accusations of Hamas ties to blame?
By Liam Knox
---
BTW, "Mark Anthony Welsh III (born January 26, 1954)[5] is a retired United States Air Force four-star general[3] and a member of the board of directors of Northrop Grumman.[6]" Wikipedia.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (NFX2v)

266 252 I think Carr’s threat came from the Orange Man himself. I’m betting against cuckery.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 22, 2025 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

======

A common refrain regarding Trump's enforcement of immigration law is that it's tyrannical specifically because the law hasn't been enforced in years, sometimes decades.

Trump understands completely that America has a shit ton of laws and regulations that haven't been enforced in decades, just like immigration law.

The only limit on how much damage he can cause is time and manpower.

He's not taking the whole trying to put him in jail thing well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

267 My dearly departed father was Class of '44, and would be utterly outraged at what TAMU has become.

That girl was TRULY speaking truth to power. THIS IS HOW YOU CLEAN HOUSE.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (wtvvX)

268 reminding you all once again, that Doomcock was right.
Posted by: Doomcock at September 22, 2025 11:59 AM

"How's that working for you?"
-- Dr. Phil

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 22, 2025 12:08 PM (0sNs1)

269 257 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

I wasn't picking it just altered the meaning so I wasn't sure.
Posted by: ... at September 22, 2025 12:06 PM (sWw4q)

=====

I try to keep things free of typos. But illiteracy has its effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

270 Rand Paul cucked out on this big time. So has Ted Cruz.
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Ted is one of my favorites on "our" side, but he's still stuck on stupid about January 6th. I wish someone would sit down with him and tell him what really happened.

Posted by: Crusader at September 22, 2025 12:09 PM (TN0g+)

271 Nude Biden potato brain

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 22, 2025 12:09 PM (n8gor)

272 253 It's amazing that Rand Paul has still not yet figured out that there are people out there who would pay him handsomely for his bullshit.

And yet he just does it anyway for love of the game.

It's almost endearing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
=========
He does it for his dwindling mail list fundraising. Inherited the list from his daddy. You can see a few remnants of Paulism around here if you look but it is a dying movement because it refuses to punch left much--punches almost always to the right as tone police types.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 12:09 PM (WDjG6)

273 that would be nice...but then I would feel really pressured to create content, and the results could be mayhem
Posted by: kallisto at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM

You could team up with MadamMayhem and the results could be content.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 22, 2025 12:09 PM (ySpAZ)

274 Nood. Another Democrat suggests that Biden may not have been all there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 12:09 PM (ExV1e)

275 261 Hey, TJM. I found out an interesting movie factoid yesterday. When they were casting Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, one of the actors they considered for Sundance was...Jack Lemmon.

Felix Unger as the Sundance Kid? WTF?
Posted by: Bulg at September 22, 2025 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

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"Move star sells tickets" fallacy at play. He would have been terrible in the role, but someone tried to make it happen at some level because Lemmon would sell tickets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

276 Hear me out..Lucasfilm goes up for sale, sold to a billionaire who is a proponent of free speech and against all bad thingz, contract null, she fired. Winning!
Posted by: runner at September 22, 2025 11:58 AM (g47mK)
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LOL.

There's a practical reason that will never happen, which is that it would force acknowledgement that God-King Bob Iger failed. It they sold Lucasfilm, what would they get for it? Indiana Jones is now a poison property. Star Wars is now a poison property. Hell, even Willow is now a poison property. All it has left of real value at this point is the technical production house (ILM). There is probably some rump value left in the IP, but that would be a *very* long-term play, and so it isn't worth much. Some merchandising rights on original Star Wars is about the only thing still of practical, current value in terms of the IP, along with some (comparatively) low-value video game rights.

If they sold Lucasfilm, my bet is that they'd get under a billion for it, whoever bids on it. No way Iger and his Board will permit a formal acknowledgment that they destroyed 75% of the value they paid for when they bought the enterprise.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 12:09 PM (6bTRc)

277 >>> In both cases, it's obvious that they're trying to delay long enough for Youngkin to be gone and superlefty Abigail Spanberger to take over.

Is this inevitable? There's no one stepping up in VA as a republican? Winsome has no chance?

Posted by: LizLem at September 22, 2025 12:09 PM (gWBY1)

278 Ted is one of my favorites on "our" side, but he's still stuck on stupid about January 6th. I wish someone would sit down with him and tell him what really happened.
Posted by: Crusader

He and the other GOP types know--they don't forgive because of the principle that people ultimately have the right to chuck their ruling elites on the trash pile of history if they don't do right.

See Nepal for a current example. Lese Majeste.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2025 12:10 PM (WDjG6)

279 My typing is off today.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 22, 2025 12:04 PM

Experiencing a touch of promustiness?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 22, 2025 12:11 PM (0sNs1)

280 177 OT: PJ Media has a story on Senator Wyden's family
tinyurl.com/y7ycua6x
His brats were so godawful their babysitter selfdeleted. We're not talking about Calvin and Hobbes pranks, the story is truly horrific.
Posted by: gKWVE

***

Oregon politics has been a sewer for years.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 22, 2025 12:17 PM (2WIwB)

281 165
I'd love to see a novel with real breadth and sweep get written taking a hostile look at life at a university of today. Cowed students, left-wing agitators, Grievance Studies zampolits, ground-down adjuncts, lazy senior faculty and the malignant carapace of administrators.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 22, 2025 11:44 AM (tgvbd)

Tom Wolfe's I am Charlotte Simmons

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 22, 2025 12:26 PM (GD2xa)

282 277 >>> In both cases, it's obvious that they're trying to delay long enough for Youngkin to be gone and superlefty Abigail Spanberger to take over.

Is this inevitable? There's no one stepping up in VA as a republican? Winsome has no chance?

Sadly, it's what I expect. Still, I expected Youngkin to lose, so you never know.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 22, 2025 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

283 Why is that mascot a soldier? I thought an Aggie would be a farmer.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 22, 2025 11:15 AM (uQesX)

My grandfather was Class of 1926 at Texas A&M College with a degree in Chemical Engineering. In those days it was male only and everyone was in the Corps of Cadets, what would later be called ROTC. He turned down a commission as a 2nd Lt. in the Army upon graduation. The big change came in 1968 when the campus went coed and being in the Corps was no longer mandatory. When I went there (Class of 1980) most students weren’t in the Corps, but the student body was still more men than women. The students were, and still are, as far as I know, strongly conservative, despite efforts at indoctrination otherwise. This may have changed since my day, but it’s still the stereotype: TAMU students are right wing, UT students (that small secular school down the road) are wild-eyed lefties!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 22, 2025 12:38 PM (rtIvC)

284 ANY individual who espouses the anti-Christian satanism of LGBTQ/pedogrooming, as well as the anti-white racism of DEI drivel, is either too stupid, too evil, or both to EVER be allowed any decision-making authority in government, academia, the military, or any corporate board.

We need the courage and steadfastness of the Crusaders to stand up against the forces of evil. This is a spiritual war and the various factions of insane leftards are the multi-pronged attacks against God's creation.

Choose wisely where you wish to stand. Eternity is a LONG time....

Posted by: Pete at September 22, 2025 12:42 PM (h+rwd)

285 “What do you expect us to do, fire her?”

It's funny how we keep getting this "our hands are tied" response.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at September 22, 2025 12:45 PM (gDhA9)

286 Honest to God, if they sold Lucasfilm to a decent studio with half a brain. Re-make Indianna Jones with Chris Pratt. Not the same movie, but the same sort of swashbuckling adventure, no DEI.

Easy peasy print the damn check.

re Star Wars, dump all the legacy shit. Start over in another part of the Galaxy. Make e decent movie with a decent story and characters.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at September 22, 2025 12:49 PM (gDhA9)

287 Quick! Where’s the Fox News cameras???

Posted by: Gov Abbott at September 22, 2025 01:09 PM (MrWte)

288 26 WTF is it with "red state" pols tolerating far left bullshit?

- Most red state politicians fall into the category labelled 'liars'.
- Most red state voters fall into the category labelled 'inattentive'.

This means that uniparty types will seek power within the state party apparatus and help push forward uniparty types to positions of power. The solution is to ensure that positions of power do not exist. That government is as small and powerless as can be managed. Sadly, item 2 above works against this.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2025 11:12 AM (ExV1e)

Ain’t it great? This is how I get to thwart those stupid conservative priorities like ending taxpayer funded lobbying. As a bonus, those stupid voters will fall for the Texas Freedom Alliance praising my leadership.

I wish I can be a Dem but this will do for now!

Posted by: State Rep Ken King at September 22, 2025 01:14 PM (MrWte)

289 111 Texas A&M needs an intervention. Governor Abbott needs to fire Chancellor Hegar, fire all the regents, and start over with a leadership that is not hostile to the values of a majority of Texans. If Governor Abbott will not cleanse the state’s universities of radical left-wing administrators, perhaps it’s time to start talking about Governor Brian Harrison taking on that challenge.
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I guarantee this rot is also present at the University of Texas, and likely just as deep. As well as every other university.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2025 11:31 AM (6bTRc)

Gov Abbott loves staffing the regents and so on with his buddies and cronies. Much of the blame goes to him. He just isn’t as effective a Gov as Rick Perry was.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 22, 2025 01:27 PM (MrWte)

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