People who are sad that Obama refused to pardon Snowden: don’t worry. President Trump will pardon him in no time.

The president-elect’s 46-year-old wife and their 10-year-old son are staying put at the family’s glitzy Trump Tower penthouse so that Barron can continue attending his Upper West Side private school, sources told The Post.“Melania is extremely close to Barron, and they have become closer during the campaign,” said a source close to Trump’s transition team.

Is there anything about these folks that isn’t hugely creepy?

Fluidity is not all bad, though. It will be a very good thing for all these folks who moan (see the previous post) “half the country lives in poverty”, “dire poverty is killing us”, “I’ve swung from crying to numbness”, etc to have to move elsewhere, meet people from elsewhere, gain some perspective. They are so ensconced in their bubble that they have no idea what goes on in the world. I’m sure they will start enjoying life a lot more once they get to meet somebody who is not a spoiled rich brat.

There are crowds of wonderful, energetic, eager people who’d give 10 years of their lives to experience “the dire poverty” these freaks of nature are whining about. They’d thrive in this “dire poverty” and make great things happen. Migration flows can shake up the situation where some people are going “from crying to numbness” out of sheer damn boredom and give everybody a chance to live a better, healthier life. I can pretty much promise that if the “crying to numbness” freakazoid got to live in Ukraine for a couple of years, she’d be almost back to normal. 

Chis Hedges used to be intelligent but it seems like he fell and hit his head on a concrete slab. Otherwise, he couldn’t have produced this completely insane piece. I got to “half the country lives in poverty” and stopped reading because there is a limit on how much shamelessness I can stomach. These people. What a disgrace.

I hope this New Yorker’s manifesto is a joke. Who could have guessed that in the wake of Trump getting elected it’s his opponents that would behave like total freaks.

And just one more example of a person who is beyond clueless: “We know that 10-20% of the population is doing pretty well. The rest are being pushed down into the working poor. The middle class is vanishing. Life expectancy for white Americans is going down, due to alcoholism, drug use and suicide. That’s what killed the Russians after the USSR collapsed, along with dire poverty and the failure of the government to function.” You’ve truly got to be a shitty person to write this kind of thing. Give her a moment and she’ll compare herself to the victims of Rwandan genocide because she broke her fingernail.

The Trump administration will be hawkish. Well, what a shocker! How completely unexpected for everybody who has never set foot on this planet.

I suspect this was a secret Trump voter because she’s enjoying it too damn much: “I’ve swung from crying to numbness, from anger that feels helpful and focused and productive to frozenness, and back all over again. I’ve snapped at humans I love, and have wanted nothing more than to retreat into their arms, or to take them into mine.” And the Oscar goes to. . . some dumb broad on Feministing.

Natural parenting is unnatural.

The murderous 39-week rule should finally go. 

A Russian dissident wrote a refreshingly intelligent post on Trump but it’s in Russian. 

Is there a greater tragedy than having a parent who gets off on scaring you?

An academic insists that Canada is to blame for him being a total snowflake.

Reader Omega Man posted a video about the economically devastated region of West Virginia. I’ve been to West Virginia, and I’ve got to tell you, that kind of poverty wasn’t something you’d find even in Ukraine. At least, until the war began. It’s an absolute tragedy what happened in West Virginia. The unemployed coal miners and industrial workers there are, indeed, collateral damage of the global transformations they didn’t anticipate. What I hope for is that they stop waiting for somebody to bring the past back, accept that the changes are permanent, and move on.

As I look at West Virginians in the video, I keep thinking of academics. The same thing is happening or is about to happen to us. We should be better equipped than the unemployed coal miners to figure out what’s happening because it’s our job. But that is not the case.

Just like the miners blame the changes on a convenient scapegoat of the EPA or Obama, academics think it’s all about evil administrators, corporatization, and what not. But they need to accept that the lifestyle where you could publish one or two articles in a lifetime, get tenure, and teach the same old Intro to whatever for the next 30 years is dead. And the sooner we bury its putrid corpse, the faster we can find a model that will work for the present and the future.

The campus left has been arguing for years that the United States Constitution, the Western canon, and other “dead white male” materials are shot through with misogyny and white supremacy, and are largely irrelevant to the experiences of oppressed minorities.

The “years” in question were fifteen minutes back in the 1980s. Since then, nobody on any campus has argued such a thing except for a hopeless adjunct who is never getting employed in a real job and has no idea why. Jeez, wake up already. Today’s college students weren’t even born back when this short-lived fad existed but the idiot still can’t get over it.