Whatever happens on Monday, Jan. 20, is not akin to the redemption offered by Jesus Christ. 

In 2022, the church began to require that clergy vouch for new [Brigham Young University] hires’ agreement with [church] leaders [on all faith matters] and affirm the candidate hasn’t used pornography recently.

What’s the procedure for proving to a clergyman you haven’t used porn recently?

UD thanks Frances for the link.

D.E.I. Official at University of Michigan Is Fired Over Antisemitism Claim

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She’s gonna sue all those rich fucking Jews.

Gevalt. When the concept of personal liberty makes its way into the mullah population, you can bend over and kiss your theocracy goodbye. All self-respecting religious states want to lead people to paradise by force — it’s what they do. Going to paradise isn’t, like, a travel choice, one destination among others, in theocracies… It’s not like people in theocracies read Conde Nash Traveler and say hm Bali yes Melbourne no Paradise maybe… It’s more like Gershwin —

I’ll build a stairway to Paradise
With a new step ev’ry day!
I’m gonna get there at any price;
Stand aside, I’m on my way!

Any price! Which definitely includes the price of your basic freedoms. It’s an effing theocracy!

But now it begins to look as though the Iranian government is losing its commitment to forcing paradise down peoples’ throats, which means among other things it’s actively considering not beating non-hijabis to death.

[S]cam culture thrives amid the insecurity our health care system creates! One thing alternative medicine does is make people feel like their needs are being seen and addressed, even if they’re being addressed in bogus ways. There’s a direct link between people’s disgust with the health care system and the dangerous rise of R.F.K. Jr.

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[S]ince when did a troubled young American man need a coherent political theory to start shooting? 

A scandal-magnet, it’s always sandblasting the names of generous scummy alumni from its buildings, firing degenerate coaches, and, as of yesterday, watching as an assistant law school dean is escorted to prison for three years for stealing the shit out of the place over ten – count ’em! ten! – years.

‘A number of administrators departed Seton Hall after the embezzlement was uncovered. Kathleen Boozang stepped down from her post as law dean but remains on the faculty.’ Why all the departures? Because they appointed as a dean a person who under their noses for a decade stole – with two additional employees – the school’s money. And all of this also under the close eye of the Catholic church (read Seton’s pretentious and – in context – hilarious holier than thou thing here).

UD‘s thing is go ahead and be Yeshiva University, run by Madoff, Merkin, Wilf, and Rennert; be Liberty U under Falwell Jr; be slimy Seton Hall. But don’t try to snow me with your piety.

The alarms are beginning to go off — “With the increase in vaccine hesitancy that has been going on since the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re seeing [whooping cough] outbreaks occurring in kids who are not vaccinated.” — but no one’s listening, and with our incoming HHS secretary we can expect the return of a rather wide spectrum of painful and sometimes lethal childhood disease.

Essentially, our country is about to assume the ethos of ultraorthodox Jews – no or few vaccines, and if you have a problem take it up with yahweh – in its approach to contagious illness. What to do?

Remember this mantra: NOTHING BUT NORTHEAST. The northeast states have the highest rates of vaccination; the death-adoring dummy states in the south and west have the lowest. If they don’t kill their kids via the Beretta left on the bed, they’ll do it bacterially.

But you and your kids don’t have to live in Disease Vector RFD. The entire northeast territory of this vast land remains polio and rubella free. Get thee thither.

Benjamin Allen Wemp … is not a student at [Clemson] University.

[Officers on campus] handcuffed Wemp and took [a] loaded revolver off of Wemp’s hip … [They also] removed a fixed blade hunting knife from Wemp’s possession. [University police also] found that he was wearing body armor, an ammunition belt containing several rounds and … was keeping a second loaded revolver in his pants pocket…  Wemp was at Mell ​Hall with “Visions for the World,” a religious group…

He’s a deep-dyed Louisianan, with a French name (deGravelles), total LSU education, and parents who practically founded the modern Luzianne Republican party.

Yet despite spending a lifetime in the nation’s second dumbest state, Judge deGravelles has been able to learn about America’s separation of church and state, and even apply it in his daily life. Bless him.

Silly police lieutenant John Rodgers has not been listening in church! His announcement to the Ohioans in his district that he’ll let them die if they’re Democrats overlooks the fact that, as a saved Christian, his job is not to help Satan’s spawn SURVIVE the Rapture: God has decreed that he need only enjoy his own transport to Heaven. Recall the old verse:

We are the pure and chosen few, and all the rest are damned.

There’s room enough in hell for you — we don’t want heaven crammed. 

The biblical mandate from Walters

Now faces a lawsuit and falters.

“But I ain’t forlorn.

My obsession with porn

Sustains me against all assaulters.”

Actually, he hasn’t yet done that, and UD wonders why, since pretty much all politicians whose fake piety and authentic degeneracy are revealed to the world immediately compare themselves to Jesus. They are innocents crucified and suffering — just like Christ. They have come to live among us to bring peace and reconciliation and a better world — same as the savior. Their reward is to be spat upon and destroyed by the godless rabble. Ditto Jesus.

Trump himself does the Jesus self-comparison something chronic, and since Robinson learned his whole shtick from Trump, he should certainly by now, his life in tatters, be pressing the Jesus button hard. I’m Jesus I’m Jesus I’m Jesus GODDAMMIT LISTEN UP I’M JESUS.

Let’s see if he goes there.

“We think of ourselves as in the same basket as the top ten worst health care states, like Mississippi and Alabama,” says Strom Courtland, member of the Idaho House, and chair of its Health and Welfare Committee. “As of now, we’re ranked something like 26th worst, but aspirationally we see ourselves much higher than that. The current list is dominated by the deep south, yet with our high rates of vaccination refusal, hatred of all forms of local and federal government presence, anti-abortion laws so lethal our docs are leaving and we can’t get any to replace them (plus of course several of our hospitals have closed their labor and delivery units!), and, finally, with a statewide disbelief in empirical science, our ranking can’t go anywhere but up.

And I’m particularly proud to announce today that, because so many of us don’t vaccinate our children, rates of WHOOPING COUGH – yes, you read that right, a painful protracted children’s disease eradicated in the nineteenth century! – have exploded in our state! Like KAAAPOWWWW!!!! Sit tight, Idaho, and watch all our babies cough up blood!“

It’s The Audacity of Mope:

Lashing out against a world in which they are unhappy, [JD Vance, Patrick Deneen, and Adrian Vermeule] seek the sources of their discontent in an amorphous and carelessly defined liberalism.

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Hungary under raving illiberal V. Orban is really the only place acid haters of liberalism can thrive.

I mean, they can analyze the sources of their gnawing misery forever; but at some point, shouldn’t they stop whining and act? Shouldn’t they want to model for their children a happy parent, who lives in alignment with his deepest values?

If you had a choice between moping about in a free liberal democracy or frolicking in fascism, wouldn’t you frolic?