Wednesday Potourri

First, remember this name: Laurie Pohutsky. She is a radical leftist state representative from Michigan, a place where reproductive rights are enshrined in state law.

It was not good enough for young Laurie. She was so horrified at the chance of having a child in Trump’s America that she had herself sterilized. One wonders what she will do four years from now when she is no longer living in Trump’s America.

Obviously, in certain precincts of the radical left, rational thought no longer exists. The story comes to us from Steve Watson:

“I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate,” she added while speaking to hundreds of extreme left-wing protesters on the lawn of the Michigan Capitol.

“If you know people who are questioning how serious this is, I’m going to repeat myself: A sitting government official opted for voluntary sterilization because she was uncertain she would be able to access contraception in the future,” she further claimed.

And, dare we also mention, there are other forms of foolproof contraception. I trust you do not need me to explain that to  you.

Second, by now everyone knows that Joe Biden was cerebrally impaired during his presidency. Now, we also learn, via the estimable Lindy Li, that on important occasions he was drugged. Or, as they say, juiced. Matt Margolis reports:

We’ve all suspected that Joe Biden was getting doped up before public events. But, according to Li, it was definitely happening.

“I do know that he likely took something before the State of the Union,” she said. “I was wondering because I was there for that, and he seemed sharp at the beginning, and then kind of went downhill towards the end.”

We all noticed that.

“Oh, there are plenty of rumors, but I'm here to give you the facts,” she said. “Like, everything I've said to you so far has been proven, or I've seen it with my own two eyes. I've never seen him get doped up, but there were plenty of rumors that he would get doped up before every major event.”

Li continued, “For example, after the debate, he went to North Carolina. It was basically a life-or-death moment for his campaign. He had to prove that he was still ready to continue his race. The rumor was that he took something. The night after the debate, he basically self-destructed before the eyes of the whole world. So the next day, he had to prove that he could still keep going, and that’s what we were told—that he got some sort of injection or whatever before he went on stage in North Carolina. But I wasn’t there to see that, and I can’t say for sure.”

Third, by now everyone knows that the American pre-college education system is a calamity. Most especially, students do not learn the subjects they need to master if they are to function within the high tech world. This begins with calculus. We are not just producing social justice warriors. We are producing innumerate social justice warriors.

From Molly Slag at The American Thinker:

While Democrats focus on the liberal arts, which train students to be leftist activists beginning in grade school, it is the STEM studies that keep America functioning. As students ascend that ladder of mathematical logic, calculus becomes central to their ability to maintain our systems and invent new ones. Sadly, though, our schools are failing students, not just in teaching calculus but in teaching everything preceding calculus.

It is widely recognized among today’s undergraduates that the STEM field is at once among the most rewarding and the most challenging, promising well-compensated employment in the future while also demanding devotion and consistent concentration in the present.

A principal source of the demanding nature of the STEM curriculum is its solid mathematical core, the centerpiece of which is calculus, a cause of both delight and frustration for generations of college students.

Fourth, explaining what he discovered on the Social Security rolls. Elon Musk remarked that he had found people receiving Social Security payments at age 150:

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"I think they're probably dead, is my guess, or they should be very famous, one of the two."

Fifth, yesterday Trump managed to persuade Vladimir Putin to release American hostage, Marc Fogel.

In just 3 weeks, Trump secured the release of Americans being held hostage in Gaza, Venezuela, and Russia.

Biden abandoned them. Trump brought them home.

Sixth, the Walt Disney Company is tired of losing money. Thus, it is scrapping its DEI program. Newsmax has the story:

Walt Disney is changing its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to focus more closely on business outcomes, while fostering an environment in which all employees can thrive, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

The media giant joins several of the largest businesses in the U.S. in scaling back diversity initiatives.

Disney's 2024 annual report, published in September, removed mentions of its "Reimagine Tomorrow" program, an online space for "amplifying underrepresented voices" that featured some of Disney's diversity, equality and inclusion commitments and actions.