goofy
March 11, 2023, 11:02pm
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Not sure, Willis blogs about it a bit here but I dunno where the video is. There’s a 9 minute video on YT of the event but it’s mostly a law school administrator talking, not the judge.
A few more tweets in this thread.
goofy
March 12, 2023, 8:10pm
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There is now:
https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1634791941350064128
https://twitter.com/jaywillis/status/1634785821382328321
https://twitter.com/jaywillis/status/1634794942349582336
https://twitter.com/jaywillis/status/1634795396554960898
The “fairness” clip is extra lol in context with recent student loan arguments where the conservative justices were legit whining about whether student loan forgiveness is fair to the guy who owns a fucking landscaping business
All laughable, and going to be highly effective on Fox News. This guy is doing a great job positioning himself for SCOTUS in the future. In the eyes of white male conservatives, you just can’t raise your voice to a white man in a suit. You cannot do it. Nothing triggers my father more.
OK, I lied, outspoken black people on his TV screen trigger him more. But it’s close.
goofy
March 13, 2023, 8:13am
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The shouted-down judge (the horror!) gave an interview to Rod Dreher lololol
And Ed Whelan, who is most famous for trying to prove Kavanaugh’s innocence by looking at floor plans on Zillow and ending up in Pepe Silvia territory , is going to the mat for the embarrassing way the judge handled himself:
goofy
March 13, 2023, 10:35pm
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This is probably a good explanation:
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1635401752857186304
Duncan got the attention he so obviously wanted, drawing instant support from GOP senators and Fox News . He emerged as a folk hero on the right, the audacious judge who punched back at crybullies on the left who tried to silence his free speech. Yes, his behavior was injudicious; that was the point. The judge has likely concluded that conducting himself like a truculent provocateur will increase his odds of advancing to the Supreme Court under a future Republican president.
This calculation is perfectly rational. Duncan is far from the only Trump nominee who is currently auditioning for SCOTUS. At Stanford Law, the judge saw an opportunity to brandish his demagogic bona fides. Nobody should be surprised that he ran with it.
Yep, like I said…
It’s an exceptionally good bet by him.
I love their silencing of people in the name of free speech.
goofy
March 17, 2023, 6:38pm
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Elie Mystal wrote about the Kyle Duncan thing in B&S:
The Federalist Society will keep punking elite law schools until those law schools stop falling back in fear and cowardice.
That’s not legal analysis or political analysis. That is street analysis. That’s schoolyard analysis. Anybody who has dealt with a bully before should understand how the Federalist Society operates. They will continue to stuff law school deans in their own lockers until one of them learns karate from a World War II veteran and (metaphorically) crane kicks one of these jerks in the face.
But the latest FedSoc stunt shows we are far away from the world where law schools are willing to do so.
Stanford is hardly the first law school to cow before complaints from FedSoc types about the excesses of woke culture. A few months ago, a different Fifth Circuit judge, James Ho, announced that he was “boycotting” hiring clerks from Yale Law School, an announcement that is about as impactful as me “boycotting” dinner with Rihanna. In the weeks that followed, Yale Law Dean Heather Gerken beclowned herself in her desperation to get Ho to Yale to speak. That event , at which Ho and others will presumably talk about how the First Amendment requires Yale students to swipe right on bigots on dating apps or they are the “real racists,” will happen next week. I’m sure Yale Law will warn its students that they must sit there patiently while the university fetes federal judges who deny rights to women, LGBTQ people, and children who would like to go to school without being shot at.
I’ve written elsewhere that part of the problem is that law schools insist on treating Federalist Society judges as if they were judges , instead of the politicians and activists they actually are. Stanford wouldn’t apologize to, say, Jair Bolsonaro or Viktor Orban if students protested their appearances, no matter how much people like Ed Whelan and David Lat demanded such an apology (and they would). Yale, presumably, wouldn’t beg David Duke or Nick Fuentes to hire Yale Law students, because even Heather Gerken could figure out that openly pining for the job opportunities racists provide is a bad look for her august institution. By any rational measure, people like Duncan and Ho are bigger threats to pluralism and equality than any barbeque sauce-splattered survivalist with dreams of overthrowing the government, because these guys have the power to make their dreams a reality and a lifetime appointment in which to do it.
But the administrators at Stanford and Yale don’t see it that way, because they are, to their cores, institutionalists. And institutionalists will always seek to protect the institution over (1) the people who make up that institution or (2) the society in which that institution exists. Institutionalists will only fight to the point that their institution is threatened. Stanford, for instance, is happy to talk about being a welcoming community for all genders and sexual orientations when it costs them nothing. They’re happy to hire an Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officer to show off at parents’ weekend. But when it came time to stand behind these inclusive platitudes—when that associate dean had to say something to defend the people FedSoc judges won’t—the institutionalists at Stanford folded like cheap chairs.
In other cancel culture news, Florida state officials under DeSantis got a reporter fired for calling one of their press releases “propaganda” and they didn’t like it, so they blew up his (privately emailed) response on Twitter. Sounds like they canceled him!
https://thehill.com/media/3903484-axios-fires-reporter-after-email-calling-desantis-press-release-propaganda/
“This is propaganda, not a press release,” Tampa Bay reporter Ben Montgomery said in a reply to a release from Florida’s Department of Education about an event with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), according to a screenshot posted Monday by the department’s communications director.
DeSantis’s deputy press secretary Jeremy Redfern replied to the screenshot : “Is this a journalism?”
The Washington Post and other outlets reported that Montgomery said Axios Local’s executive editor called him a few hours after the email to say his reputation as a journalist in the area had been tarnished.
Axios’ Editor-in-Chief Sara Kehaulani Goo confirmed that Montgomery is no longer with Axios but declined to discuss the conditions of his departure.
goofy
March 18, 2023, 11:28pm
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https://twitter.com/SunSentinel/status/1636388344367312902
non-paywall link
Joeckel, a veteran English professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University, lost his job after a parent complained on Feb. 14 to the university president about a racial justice segment he taught in his composition course. What the complaint said specifically, Joeckel still doesn’t know, other than it was alleged he was “indoctrinating” students.
Joeckel, 50, announced Wednesday on Instagram that the private Christian university in West Palm Beach decided to terminate his contract early following a review of the racial justice section of his course. Joeckel said he was officially removed from the university’s payroll Wednesday.
“They did this for a clear reason: my decision to teach and speak about racial justice,” Joeckel wrote in his Instagram post. “The timing of this is not a coincidence as we are dealing with an ’anti-woke’ crusade from Governor DeSantis.”
On Feb. 23, a week after Joeckel learned his contract was delayed, PBAU President Debra Schwinn sent an email to students with the subject line “Update Regarding Dr. Sam Joeckel.”
In the email, Schwinn criticized the “many inaccuracies” in news reports about the situation. The issue at hand, she said, was that Joeckel was teaching about racial justice in a writing class.
The parent who complained had “a reasonable concern about Dr. Joeckel lecturing substantially on the history of racism and racial justice in a class designed to teach writing,” Schwinn wrote in the email.
My absolute favorite part of this is that the complaint came from a parent . Dude is teaching adults at a university and some coddled shithead’s mom went full Karen when they heard about the radical ideas their adult offspring was being exposed to
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This is going to long term just destroy/decimate all the universities in FL, right?
Probably, but FAU was well on its way to being a right-wing religious indoctrination institution, so no big loss here. When they start firing UF professors for this shit is when I’ll get more concerned
“First they came for the FAU professors, and I did not speak out -
isn’t a winning strategy in my opinion.
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So many comedians have been cancelled that the water boy is the only one left for the Mark Twain award
Idk I think Sandler is a reasonable person to give a lifetime achievement award to. He stopped being for me before my brain finished developing but he was funny as hell when I was a teenager and for the time was extremely wholesome.
Not everything has to be highbrow all the time, he’s funny, and he always made a lot of money for his partners.
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he’s really good unless he’s got a producer or writer credit. then it’s beyond awful.
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He singlehandedly has kept Rob Scheinder employed.
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How else are you supposed to keep your friends from losing their health insurance?
kerowo
March 22, 2023, 3:06pm
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These guys have an interesting take on Adam Sandler
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Sandler is fine, he’s made funny lowbrow movies, he’s made serious A24 movies, he hasn’t masturbated in front of his co-workers, I’m okay with him winning comedy awards.
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