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Susan Daniels's avatar

There is no way to convince these educated women how truly stupid, and dangerous, they are.

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Dav Eka's avatar

So Susan, you have a wealth of data about how wrong Obama and his ilk are, as well as documented crimes. Do you ever try to convince one of the ELFs of the error of her ways? Have you ever succeeded? My efforts have only gotten me un-laid. Now, I save any politics until after the fun. 😎

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Susan Daniels's avatar

I don’t have any liberals as friends and my relatives that are liberal are intolerable so I don’t talk to them anymore. Save you breath. They are irrational people.

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John B Bartlett's avatar

What a perfect description. 🙃

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Jim Darlington's avatar

Tell that to Naomi Wolf...

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Susan Daniels's avatar

I happen to be an educated white woman and a conservative and I think Dugan should be in jail.

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Rick Janes's avatar

A priceless AWFL encounter: several weeks before the last election, an expensively dressed matron declared to me that "I think Kamala is a BADASS!!!", and my response was simple curiosity, spoken politely — what do you base that opinion on?

She sat silent for a few seconds, then dashed off to the parking lot…leaving behind her swanky leather purse! Talk about being flustered by a simple question!

After running the purse out to her, I let her know it was the good deed of a Trump voter.

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Rick Janes's avatar

"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."

- Thomas Sowell.

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Dave Kepus's avatar

I love this masterpiece but the obvious was left out why they are single…sane men can’t stand them and those like minded men are to preoccupied with figuring out how use a tampon 😂

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Kelli Buzzard's avatar

Tampons, those hard working implements that transform billions of lives, are so disrespected these days.

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Tara Townsend's avatar

Not since Charles and Camilla has such a humble implement been so highly regarded.

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Jenny Hendley's avatar

😆 🤣 😂

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Brandy's avatar

Not too long ago, it was called getting a M.R.S. aka Mrs. Degree. It was a point of pride to leave college with a plan for 2 incomes, a wedding, a home, and then a baby or 3.

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Dee Dee Sommers's avatar

That is called Infrastructure.

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Stephen Paul Foster's avatar

"Through their control of the teachers' unions, ELFs have outsized influence on Democrat party politics."

The teacher unions are one of the most destructive forces in American society.

https://stephenpaulfoster.substack.com/p/the-spectacular-virulence-of-teachers

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URsomoney's avatar

The female sex is more emotional & that is essential to motherhood. When you are deprived of the innate nature of child rearing - then that focus can find faulty outlets - like a cat/dog in a stroller or saving a criminal from being caught. With less people getting married it makes sense that the women on the higher end of the emotional scale would be the first to lose out on finding a spouse. Most men can’t deal with crazy overly emotional women…unless they make up for it in looks. Dugan & these women are 0 for 2.

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ALtab's avatar

This is a classic story and I have a couple of these types in my life. It truly does not make sense to me. I’m an educated female and have never been liberal. I had a year of college, got married and didn’t return to college until I was 32 with 2 children who studied with me. I always questioned everything…..still do.

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Jack Cashill's avatar

A life well lived.

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ALtab's avatar

😀…especially the questioning part!

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John Kirsch's avatar

In retrospect, the Covid event and the."mostly peaceful" George Floyd riots had the effect, intentional or not, of defeating Trump.

My recollection is that this period showed how eagerly many people accepted the loss of their freedom and wanted even more restrictions.

Women did seem to be particularly vocal in that regard. I sensed a kind of exultation in their cheering on of masks, vaccines, lockdowns and "social justice."

It was frightening.

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Free Range Texan's avatar

The 19th Amendment never would have passed if people could have foreseen the rise of the ELF.

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working rich's avatar

You capture the problem.

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Rick Olivier's avatar

Jack, I am enjoying Scherz’s book immensely, thanks for the recommendation. Great essay, again!

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Kelli Buzzard's avatar

Quite apt. Is there a male equivalent?

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John Anthony's avatar

ELMs?

“And the ELFs held hands and danced around the singular ELM to his delight, but never near enough to even touch, no less alight, on his fruitless branches on that darkest night.”

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Rick Janes's avatar

Cucks.

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Dave Kepus's avatar

I do not think so but with these people God only knows no?

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Kelli Buzzard's avatar

The passive nerd dad who never seems to stand for anything or speak up when its needed, let alone defend the honor of his loved ones?

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John B Bartlett's avatar

"Damn"😄

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Dave Kepus's avatar

Irv might work no?

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Frank Santora's avatar

Always a great article from Cashill. This time identifying a major problem with higher education. It ties in well with a situation that I and many others had to deal with in college. I noticed the liberal bent of college professors as far back as the 60’s.

Not having a desire or the funds to go immediately after High School, I worked in a bank for 3 years before starting classes at night. The change in the mindset and attitude of instructors from those in high school was immediately apparent. The key was an event in a required English literature class during my first semester. I received a poor grade on an assigned paper regarding capital punishment and asked what the problem was. Blah, Blah, Blah. Basically receiving a non-answer.

The following semester, during a lecture with that same professor, he cited Plato’s Republic and

basically said exactly what I had written 6 weeks previously. When I questioned how did what I was

admonished for differed from what he said, His answer was, “Ah! But you hadn’t studied Plato”

That told me all I needed to know and I faked my way through several classes for the rest of my

College career by feeding them the same tripe they were teaching.

An Accounting major, I was not going to risk losing access to the needed education for the mumbo-jumbo spewed in the many liberal arts classes required for graduation.

I’m sure that I successfully completed my studies because working at jobs with real problems and solutions during the day, I had the opportunity to get a real education, not just the rantings of like-minded instructors whose association with life was dimmed by useless babble and ideas. Quite frankly, I did very well in business over the next 50 years, using the brains God gave me and keeping the barbarians at more than arm’s length.

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Jack Cashill's avatar

You did well to skip the liberal arts classes. I should have.

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Whitehall's avatar

They have infected business too through their preponderance in HR departments.

Ruined the publishing business through naughty feminist editors.

My uncle gave me good advice when I was a young man:

Looks fade

Passion cools

Cooking lasts

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Whitehall's avatar

Haughty not naughty.

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Tracy Chapman's avatar

This upside down world is so freaking Crazy🥺

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