I have had a lot of fun watching the MSM and the academic elite twist themselves into knots trying to defend Claudine Gay and attack Christopher Rufo, who was instrumental in taking her down.
What all these efforts have in common is that they prove that Rufo was right. Academia is irredeemably corrupt, driven by a tyrannical desire to rule and willing to do or say anything to maintain their power and prestige.
The number of academics saying “everybody commits plagiarism” is now so great that it would take hours to count them. Harvard professors who teach at Harvard’s extension school are now attacking its academic bona fides because Rufo has a Master’s degree from the institution. They are actually insulting their own students to “own” Rufo, who is laughing at them.
“Sure, we charge $40,000 and say it is a real Harvard degree, but everybody knows it is a scam” is quite the flex. “We’ll take your money, pretend to teach you, give you a Harvard degree, and make you an alumni so we can beg you for money, but everybody knows we just cheated you” is now considered a major flex on Rufo.
Ironically, Rufo is proving to be significantly smarter and more capable than those self-satisfied elites who are sneering at him for not being of the right class. Who, exactly, won this round?
The elite’s defense of Gay comes down to this: “Everybody is a cheater, and we are all scamming you anyway. But we can all agree that conservatives are worse.”
I’ll write a longer piece on this issue next week, so watch for it.
The importance of Gay’s resignation has nothing to do with Gay as a person–she is no better or worse than the average academic administrator. But that is the point. Gay was elevated to the highest academic administrator position in the country, not despite her being a fraud, but because she was a fraud. They are all frauds.
Our key cultural institutions are completely hollow now, which is a problem. I, for one, think that universities are one of the pillars of Western society, and Ibelieve that a healthy society needs a well-educated political and cultural elite. That, too, is something I have been thinking about. Elites are not in and of themselves bad or corrupt–but bad or corrupt elites are corrosive to society.
Lots to think about in the coming weeks.
Now on to the smiles.
You know what comes next:
New Star Wars Film To Feature Female Jedi Who Turns To The Dark Side At The Same Time Every Month pic.twitter.com/m4tiSfeHYI
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 7, 2024
Claudine Gay Gives Tearful Resignation Speech Entitled ‘Gettysburg Address’ pic.twitter.com/HI6w4538O2
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 7, 2024
AOC Lays Wreath At Her Grave On January 6th pic.twitter.com/YSRiHTnLrm
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 6, 2024
God Sends Giant Waves To Wash Away California Sidewalk Poop pic.twitter.com/ADrHQcTytu
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 6, 2024
FBI Hosts Annual January 6 Reunion pic.twitter.com/GxAzcrXBBk
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 6, 2024
Scandal As Chris Christie Mentioned Over 50 Times In Unsealed Sizzler Documents pic.twitter.com/VKjmm6MNeG
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 6, 2024
Texas Agrees To Two-State Solution With Austin pic.twitter.com/gWSZIhJTK7
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 6, 2024
AOC Added To Iwo Jima Memorial For Surviving Capitol Riot pic.twitter.com/wZl1sEIGgJ
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 6, 2024
Tragic: Hamas Loses Two Leaders In One Day pic.twitter.com/wwwb9qLIoO
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 6, 2024
Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban Makes Good On DEI Promise By Signing New Power Forward Peter Dinklage pic.twitter.com/tnt92Ek6sz
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 5, 2024
Liberals Praise Jeffrey Epstein For Not Discriminating Against The Disabled pic.twitter.com/8KrvNZUVrD
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 5, 2024
Karine Jean-Pierre Says Biden Has Done More To Preserve Democracy Than Any Other Dictator In History pic.twitter.com/G2durK78vA
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 5, 2024
Adam Kinzinger’s Mom Lets Him Open One Jan 6th Present On Jan 6th Eve pic.twitter.com/NrqYKnllTe
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 5, 2024
House Republicans Frantically Binge Old ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ Episodes To Figure Out What They’re Supposed To Be Doing pic.twitter.com/ixnOzVgiIu
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 4, 2024
Bill Clinton: Epstein’s Cause Of Death Depends On What Your Definition Of ‘Suicide’ Is pic.twitter.com/MOU7POcMiz
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 4, 2024
Local Man Takes 15th Annual ‘Before’ Photo pic.twitter.com/dqmTre1vWk
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 3, 2024
Teacher Frustrated As Half Her Students Detransitioned Over Christmas Break pic.twitter.com/txBSNMyjHI
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 2, 2024
The other stuff
purr gun pic.twitter.com/neky3Ztx7t
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) January 6, 2024
sploot pic.twitter.com/iVnP3LffGt
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) January 7, 2024
This crow talk like a human pic.twitter.com/roa0VChe82
— Crazy Clips (@Crazy_cliips) January 5, 2024
This made my day 😂
— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) January 5, 2024
What u doing hoommmaan pic.twitter.com/NuEvhKteSh
— Cats That Heal Your Depression (@Catshealdeprsn) December 27, 2023
— animal being derps (@derpsanimal) April 16, 2023
You didn’t catch me pic.twitter.com/avGQs1dmnx
— Puppies 🐶 (@PuppiesIover) November 5, 2023
47 years ago this month, the greatest Halloween special ever premiered.
The Paul Lynde Halloween special.
It is everything you wanted it to be including Paul singing Disco Baby with Pinky Tuscadero and Florence Henderson.
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) October 21, 2023
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And finally…
Every Woke Company Diversity Meeting Ever pic.twitter.com/2rGcRPnTt7
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 4, 2024