It isn't gradually heading that way, it arrived in December of 2021. Omicron is the variant you're looking for.

This is what happens when one army still thinks they're fighting WW II and the other is fighting in the 21st century. The Russians would be better off (literally) on horseback.

I worked at a university 30 years ago. Trust me, the only thing that would make her suspicious is the fact that she's actually doing work. Probably half our department could have been laid off with no disruption to the work of the department.

I worked at a state university in the early 90s. You're repeating left-wing bullshit that has never been correct. The state would sometimes not give the university as large of an increase and we'd hear endlessly about how the budget was cut (it wasn't) so tuition had to be raised (it didn't need to be). The next year when the state would give us a bigger budget increase magically tuition stayed the same or still increased - never went back down.

The issue is administrative bloat, nothing more. They're paying DEI administrators hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for bringing nothing of value to the university. Ironically, they're doing that while discriminating against Whites and Asians.

Lowering standards isn't going to help.

So, in your fantasy world someone who's bad at math will magically get better at it if we just don't make them take hard math classes?

Bullshit. There is no harm at all in calling for the death of someone who is actively causing other people to die for no reason. None. There's no moral high ground in pretending that Putin's life is as valuable as my own.

"Go to any right wing web site and say critical race theory is a good thing. See how long that "marketplace of ideas" stays open."

Try it and show us what happens. I think you'll find that you're ridiculed, mocked, and generally laughed at. Nobody wants to deplatform you there - they really want you to keep talking because in doing so you prove their point.

It's also disingenuous to conflate legal and illegal immigration. My wife is a legal immigrant and it took a lot of money and time to immigrate legally. I really feel for people who live in Central America and Mexico but just letting anybody walk in is a problem.

This woman was even telling people that she could bring jihadis in through the southern border:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/amer...

We need to get serious about it at some point. And, no, it's not suddenly "racist" to want to secure our borders.

Yep. This is for laid off coal miners.

Obesity:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/produ...

That alone explains a large part of the difference. Most people who die of Covid have three or four comorbidities, with obesity being the common factor.

The reason you don't see police doing that is simply that you're not looking. Jonathan Ayers, Justine Damond, Cheryl Lynn Noel, Bounkham Phonesavanh - I could go on. These stories, unfortunately, don't make national news and so people like you don't realize they exist.

See the sibling comment to your comment. Yes, CRT is being taught there. It's even being taught *here* in Williamson County. We had a Thai lady who's kid is half white complain to the school board because her 9 year old son had been taught that he was half "oppressor". Yes, this is the bullshit being taught to kids.

But, you knew that, didn't you?

It's so bizarre reading lefties who claim CRT isn't a thing. The idiots in Virginia were claiming it's a hoax while the state education web site literally had the words "critical race theory" online. If you think I'm kidding, check out this fake "fact check" which literally says the opposite of reality:

https://www.politifact.com/fac...

"Scott cited information from the agency as evidence that it is teaching critical race theory, but the documents he referenced were created as suggested reading and training material for educators, not students."

Got that? It isn't being taught in Virginia because the web site is a list of things for "educators". LOL. The lengths these people go to to deny reality.

https://defendinged.org/incide...

So, yeah, CRT *is* a thing.

I would note that conservatives are finally starting to wake up to the whole police violence thing as well. Video evidence has helped, but seeing the crazy lies around the January 6 event - with a protestor shot to death and another beaten to death - has helped.

As for election fraud - you do realize that Democrats have been claiming that for over 20 years now, right?

I totally agree, I'm just pointing out that people who are getting vapors over "misinformation" seem to be 100% concerned about "right-wing misinformation" and ignore literal fake news and such.

See the Canadian trucker thing for another example. When it started, the loonies were claiming that there were only maybe 50 trucks. Hahahaha. It's nothing, just a couple of chumps, nothing to see here. When that narrative obviously failed, they switched to "it's a bunch of fascists!" Yes, fascists who want [checks notes] the government to quit making you do things. I mean, they need to work on their fascism, I think they kind of have it backwards.