Public education is being dismantled through disinvestment, budget cuts, and left-wing ideology that forces public universities to accept utterly unprepared and incapable students in the name of diversity.

Socialized medicine, where it exists, is dismantled through austerity. Euthanasia is hailed as a wonderful solution to the healthcare systems that don’t have resources to treat patients.

Populations that are capable of noticing these changes and being unhappy about them are being replaced with populations that aren’t.

Policing is being not so much dismantled as reoriented towards silencing any unhappiness among the public with these developments.

The free press is fully dedicated to distracting attention from these happenings.

Most of our student advisors quit because the pay is pathetic. But we can’t hire anybody new because we require a Master’s degree, and people with advanced degrees can easily find a higher-paying job in the region.

It’s not a Master’s in any particular field, so it’s not a specific skill we are trying to get. And it’s not stupid credentialism, either. Credentialism is largely a myth.

But we know who gets BAs at our school (see previous post), and we understandably refuse to hire them.

There is this woman who was single her whole life, always lived alone. She retired at 67, and went into a deep depression. There was nothing to get up for, nothing to look forward to.

At 74, she woke up, started a real-life relationship with a 24-year-old handyman and an online affair with a 47-year-old Middle Eastern man. Long story short, she’s out of her entire life savings plus loans she recently took out to the tune of $450,000.

On the positive side, this is a person who never mastered smartphones or PowerPoint but newfound love made her learn how to buy Bitcoin and transfer it overseas.

I’ve known her for over 15 years, and I’m in shock because it’s one thing when you see it on TV and quite another when it’s somebody you know.

Moral of the story: don’t wait too long to start living your dream life or you might be surprised by the results and not in a good way.

The worst part about all of this is, even after this debate, we really don't know what Kamala Harris would do as President.

Nobody knows.

Hell…I am not sure she knows.

— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) September 11, 2024

Oh, she knows, she knows. She’s not telling the voters because she’d lose if she did. But she knows. If only there was somebody on stage with her who had the discipline and the motivation to explain clearly what she’s going to do and why that’s bad.

On "Fox & Friends," Trump veers into a conspiracy theory that Harris was given debate questions by ABC ahead of time. (She wasn't.)

"She seems awfully familiar with the questions," Trump says.

— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) September 11, 2024

I don’t know if Harris was given the questions in advance but these were extremely predictable questions. There were no surprises at all.

The important thing, though, is the litany of lies that Harris unleashed during the debate. No hoax was too ridiculous for her to unspool. This is what awaits us when she’s elected. Endless lies, hoaxes, and a denial of reality.

We all lost yesterday. We lost big.

The Ukrainian instructor is shocked by the cognitive limitations of the students. She’s used to a model where people pass demanding entrance exams to attend college, and as much as I warned her that we accept everybody in the most literal sense, it really took her aback to see reality.

“I asked a student why she decided to learn Ukrainian,” the instructor shared, “and she says it’s because she wants to be a dentist. Not a dentist in Ukraine but simply a dentist.”

“Well,” I explained, “you speak with your mouth, and that’s where the teeth are.”

The instructor started to laugh nervously and then saw how completely serious I was.

Kamala, every time I think I couldn’t be more proud, you find a way to prove me wrong. And tonight, you showed America why we deserve you as the next President of the United States.

— Doug Emhoff (@DouglasEmhoff) September 11, 2024

He’s addressing his own wife on Twitter, and then these same people run around telling us that other people are weird. Why couldn’t he write, “Every time I think I couldn’t be more proud of my wife Kamala…”?

The mystery of why Kamala wasn’t giving interviews has been solved. She was preparing for the debate. And she did fantastic. Lied like a… well, like a politician, I guess but since her debate partner just let her, why not?

I went on Twitter, and it’s full of how the moderators were nice to Kamala and unfair to Trump.

Well, duh. It’s not exactly unexpected, is it? We all knew this was going to be the case given that 94% of journalists vote D. That’s even more reason for Trump to prepare carefully and not try to wing it.

What the bloody Vance was Trump thinking, coming so unprepared and being so all over the place?

It’s a rhetorical question. I know the answer well.

Turned on the debate and saw Kamala baiting Trump very successfully on the utterly inane subject of his rallies and Trump wasting a brilliant opportunity to say that her “bipartisan immigration bill” is amnesty.

Then Trump veered into World War III and people eating cats instead of saying that the stupid “immigration bill” was amnesty. The word “amnesty” was not mentioned.

He’s losing badly at this point.

08:34 And now Trump is avoiding an explanation of how he will deport. “All over the world crime is down except here”? What the bloody ef is this anti-American crap? Not a word on how he will deport. Please observe. Not a word. Because he won’t bloody deport.

08:37 Yes, Kamala is beyond annoying. What a horrible voice.

08:38 Whatever Trump is saying is utterly incomprehensible to people who aren’t already passionate followers.

08:39 Kamala is outright lying about the SCOTUS decision. And Trump allows her to do it because he gets baited again.

08:40 The interviewers are very good. They are asking Kamala much harder questions than Trump is.

08:41 I think I’m going to stop watching soon because I’m feeling bad for Trump he’s being beaten up so bad.

08:44 Finally, Trump managed to squeeze in that Kamala is far-left. This should be central to his argument and he just gets baited into veering off into silliness.

08:45 Instead of alleviating the fears over January 6, Trump again veers off into… word soup. God, oh God.

08:49 Kamala is repeatng the “fine people” hoax. Will Trump manage to respond? And she’s repeating the “bloodbath” hoax.

08:50 Trump tried but failed to debunk both hoaxes. Unbelievable. What is he doing? He had a chance right there and he fumbled it.

WHAT IS HAPPENING?

08:53 And now Trump is re-arguing the 2020 election which voters massively don’t want to relitigate. I just can’t.

08:56 Trump is praising the stupid poodle Orban. Lord have mercy on us in the coming age of far-left free-for-all that is now imminent because Trump chose not to prepare and is letting himself be manipulated.

09:00 OK, I bleed with Ukraine daily but Ukraine’s losses in the war are not in the millions. Let’s not exaggerate.

09:02 Harris is repeating egregious, stupid lies but will Trump even try to deny? Nope. Because she ends every statement with a provocation that makes him emotional and distracted.

09:03 Trump says true things but in such a garbled way that only somebody who’s very familiar with his rhetoric would understand. Harris lies but in such clear, easy to understand sentences that she sounds like she’s telling the truth. The number of absolute whoppers Harris rolled out in the first hour is extraordinary.

Conclusion: a slick, well-organized phony will always defeat a messy slacker. Harris clearly worked her butt off to prepare and she won. There’s a great lesson here: it’s OK to be mediocre as long as you are ready to work, work, work.