Wednesday Potpourri

 First, if, perchance, they are feeling especially traumatized by the election, Georgetown public policy students will have treatment available. They will be able to choose a dozen different ways to feel mothered.

Yes, indeed, universities have become so completely feminized that they infantilize students, without even trying to hide it.

Francesca Block explains on the Free Press:

On Wednesday, the day after the election, most of us are going to roll out of bed, have our breakfast, and get on with our day—no matter which presidential candidate wins. But students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy—where diplomats and policymakers are molded—have another option: They can play with Legos. Seriously.

In an email to McCourt students, Jaclyn Clevenger, the school’s director of student engagement, introduced the school’s post-election “Self-Care Suite.” 

“In recognition of these stressful times,” she wrote, “all McCourt community members are welcome to gather. . . in the 3rd floor Commons to take a much needed break, joining us for mindfulness activities and snacks throughout the day.” 

Here’s the agenda (and no, you can’t make this up): 

10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Tea, Cocoa, and Self-Care

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Legos Station

12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.: Healthy Treats and Healthy Habits

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Coloring and Mindfulness Exercises

2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: Milk and Cookies

4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.: Legos and Coloring

5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Snacks and Self-Guided Meditation

I wanted to ask Clevenger why college and graduate students needed milk and cookies to recover from their stress—and how being coddled in college might someday affect American diplomacy—but she didn’t respond to my calls or emails.

Of course, Georgetown is hardly the only school fearful that their students will be traumatized after the election. At Missouri State University, the counseling center has set up a post-election “self-care no phone zone space” with calm jars, coloring pages, and sensory fidgets.

If you were imagining that the students involved in these forms of ersatz therapy were going to be able to function in the real world, get over yourself.

Second, cleaning up after the election is a daunting task. We note a couple of simple facts that deserve clarification.

The Harris campaign claimed that more than two dozen orthodox rabbis signed a letter supporting Kamala Harris. On the list was a scattering of females.

The problem was, as was pointed out by those who are conversant in orthodox Judaism, there is no such thing as an orthodox female rabbi. Jewish orthodoxy does not ordain women.

Third, and then there was the Doug problem. You know about Doug, the man’s man who set the new standard for manly manliness.

Caroline Glick offered the following:

Kamala Harris's husband appointed CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas affiliated group, to be one of the groups charged with implementing the administration's strategy for fighting anti-Semitism. CAIR is affiliated with Hamas and Kamala's husband appointed CAIR as an implementing organization in the "fight" against Jew hatred. What will happen to the American Jewish community if she is elected?

Fourth, Barack Obama, in his return to retail politics, declared that Donald Trump had likely never changed a tire on a car.

To which Ben Shapiro replied:

Who gives a shit? You can call AAA to change a tire. But only Barack Obama can put Iran on the pathway to a nuclear weapon, racially polarize America, and preside over the slowest economic recovery in modern American history.

Fifth, and then there is the war in Ukraine. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared that civilization itself is on the line in the conflict.

Others are more sanguine. Among them David Goldman, consistently a skeptic about the Ukraine policy:

The American foreign policy establishment must be praying for a Trump victory today. Ukraine is crumbling, and they will blame the collapse of their moronic misadventure on Trump. It's not about saving Ukraine, but jobs, contracting gigs and think tank funding. In a sane world, 90% of American "defense experts" would be driving for Uber.

Sixth, a note about our manufacturing prowess and the chances that we are going to onshore more and more high tech work.

Henry Kressel explains the problem in the Asia Times:

But what will be needed to increase and sustain US high-technology manufacturing? A serious resurgence of advanced manufacturing (chips being the most demanding) will require much more than investing in more sophisticated equipment in new plants.

It will require training a new generation of highly skilled personnel to operate such plants successfully. While increasingly sophisticated technology is key to much of competitive manufacturing, it is productive only with staff with very specialized training to operate in complex plant environments. Badly managed mechanization will hinder rather than promote value creation.

It’s going to take more than the CHIPS Act.

Seventh, by the by, transmania has caused an outbreak of child mutilation. Billboard Chris exposes the horror of it all:

In the U.S., we know from insurance data that up 179 girls under the age of 12.5 have had double mastectomies.” -@BillboardChris 

“Say that again,” says @AndrewGold_ok, in shock. “Up to 179 girls under 12.5 have had double mastectomies. We’re talking about 12-year-old girls getting their breasts cut off when they’ve hardly formed because they’ve been taught that they’re boys on the inside.”

Eighth, with enemies like that you don’t need too many friends.

Donald Trump should thank the armies of unhinged hysterical leftists for making him into a martyr. Besides, people who are happy to use the judicial system to attack their opponents are showing themselves as lacking the temperament to govern.

The American people chose not to have a president who would giggle and cackle her way through her term. It was not a crazy thought.

Evidently, Kamala was not remotely qualified to run the country. The more we heard her the more we understood this point. She was the ultimate diversity hire. Her kiss should put a lid on DEI.

Kamala’s first executive decision was to pass over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro for vice president. If one decision cost her the election, that was it. Strange how karma works. Making a decision based on anti-Semitism will send you packing, back to California.

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