Diploma mills once charmed me; in the early years of this blog, I couldn’t get enough of bogus outfits that would, in exchange for a few thousands, hand you a suitable-for-framing certificate attesting to your having earned a PhD. In our simulacral era, it’s a way-thriving con.
California Coast University remains a prominent diploma mill, with one particularly prominent purchaser: The Trumplover who – amazingly – remains Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, continues to put “PhD” after his signature, and continues – like all pathetic diploma mill grads – to insist that everyone call him doctor.
His main function in the job – currently getting all sorts of media attention – is withholding Trump-incriminating documents from Congress. Congress has had enough of it, and has written to him asking that he recuse himself from January 6-related probes.
So UD’s gonna go on record with the following: The letter writers won’t hear a peep out of Doc Cuffari, currently hunkered down in his office engaged in the same self-comforting activities mad Mark Meadows engaged in as scads of desperate staffers begged him to talk to the president about the ongoing rape and pillage of the Capitol. With his bogus degree and Trumplove and paranoid silences Joseph Cuffari has constructed a personal fantasy world as fragile as that of Blanche DuBois, and like her he will be carried out in a straitjacket.