In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

The college my wife and I used to work at hired Bush's "Faith Based Initiative" czar to be their president -- James Touhy. He did pretty much the exact same thing by hiring three of his inner circle, none of who had any business working anywhere near higher ed. To be sure, this was 1) nowhere near that magnitude as Sasse's grift, and 2) it was a private college, so he wasn't ripping off tax payers.

A few years later, he moved on to Ave Maria College in Florida, the fundamentalist Catholic college in Florida started by the guy who got rich off of Domino's "pizza." In order to hire his three toadies that he brought with him to our college, the first thing they did was fire 17 people. Getting rid of their wages and salaries and benefits provided the salaries for the three inept buffoons he called his inner circle.

 

Colleges are just like any other marks, there's always another one of them.

 

Fckin cvnt DeDSantis. Destroying one of the few good things about Florida. From a party school to a top 5 ranked national university. My kids say that Sasse wouldn't even show his face around campus for fear of being heckled by his own students, in contrast to he hugely popular Dr. Fuchs.

Let's not even talk about that quack "Surgeon General" they hired without even a proper review. Nobody even knows what he does.
Where's that guy that loves DeSantis?

 

... Even more so now that Vance has access to it

 

Someday this joke will stop being funny.

But today is not that day.

 

He's not Lumbergh*. He's the guy you might see in passing, maybe in the hall or the break room, and you only see him for more than five minutes when new ridiculous initiatives** or layoffs are being announced.

My point is that beyond a certain group people (As in us educated types), he doesn't have much appeal. He sounds too much like management. He was also a flash in the pan.

*: On that note, Gary Cole is a wonderful actor.

**: One of those things being a company name change or some initiative that took 6 months to think up when an average writer could've thought of it at lunch.

 

He is about the most personable politician of my lifetime. The only competitors I see are JFK and Obama. Clinton's nowhere close.

 

If JD Vance had a dog...

Them: cute dog, what's his name?
Me: Rick James
Them: oh, you must really like his music
Me: not exactly pic.twitter.com/cLmZkSJ84V

— more_meat_loaf (@more_meat_loaf) August 10, 2024

 

Union backlash over Trump/Musk laughing about Musk's ruthless efficiency when it comes to slashing jobs...

Shawn Fain: "Disgusting, illegal" comments
In a statement, UAW President Shawn Fain decried the comments, saying "Both Trump and Musk want working class people to sit down and shut up, and they laugh about it openly." He added, "It's disgusting, illegal and totally predictable from these two clowns."

UAW Files Federal Labor Charges Against Donald Trump and Elon Musk for Attempting to Intimidate and Threaten Workers - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

Scab recognize scab. https://t.co/lDDUSp2XF4

— AFL-CIO ✊ (@AFLCIO) August 13, 2024

 

Good for her......

J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in Cyberbullying Lawsuit Filed by Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif After Olympic Win.
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/jk-rowling-elon-musk-imane-khelif-lawsuit-1236105185/

 

This is truly a grift for those ********ers. I remember a few years ago the righteous Ben Sasse lecturing people on TV...The ************************ hired most of his cronies from his Senate days to some ludicrous high paying positions and working remotely. He basically doubled their salary fromhtier previous roles on Capitol Hill.

Amid protests over his conservative track record as a Nebraska Republican senator, Sasse promised during his ascension to the UF presidency in Fall 2022 that he would divorce himself from partisan politics under what he called a vow of “political celibacy.”

But the senator-turned-university president quietly broke that promise in his 17-month term at the university’s helm, hiring six ex-Senate staffers and two former Republican officials to high-paying, remote jobs at the university.

Under Sasse’s administration, two of his former Senate staffers — Raymond Sass and James Wegmann — were among the highest-ranking and highest-paid officials at UF. Both worked remotely from the D.C. area, roughly 800 miles from UF’s main campus in Gainesville.

Sass, Sasse’s former Senate chief of staff, was UF’s vice president for innovation and partnerships — a position which didn’t exist under previous administrations. His starting salary at UF was $396,000, more than double the $181,677 he made on Capitol Hill.

Wegmann, Sasse’s former Senate communications director, is UF’s vice president of communications, a position he works remotely from his $725,000 home in Washington, D.C.

Salaried at $432,000, Wegmann replaced Steve Orlando, who made $270,000 a year in the position and had nearly 30 years of experience in media relations at UF before he was demoted to be Wegmann’s deputy.

https://www.alligator.org/article/2...ed-millions-to-gop-allies-secretive-contracts

 

Liz Truss is on a pro-Trump speaking tour. So we dropped a strategically-positioned remote-controlled lettuce banner 🥬 pic.twitter.com/VH5244u9Jc

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) August 13, 2024

 

pic.twitter.com/lqvYG1x1J3

— Bechk45 (@bechk45) August 13, 2024

 

How so?

I look at Pete, I see and hear the guy who is talking about the new One Corporation Initiative in a meeting that everyone was required to attend (And everyone except him is thinking it could've been an email). He might be friendly, but he's not someone you'd be interacting with on a social level. One thing I've left out is that he also has a sense of entitlement. In short, he's a suit. And he hasn't achieved much politically.

There's a cartoon he and Stephen Colbert had roles in called Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law. Hearing Cole voice a bumbling person while Cobert said some of the most outrageous things was great. And of course, his many comedic roles.

Stephen Root is another great one too in that vein. You might know him as Milton.

 

My wife has experienced exactly this several times in industry.

Happened the first go around of being bought out at the brewery too.

 

And it's not over. He's staying on as a faculty member/advisor, probably in the History or Religion Dept.

The Board chairman will decide his salary and workload in accordance with his contract.

If, for example, the board chairperson uses 75% of Sasse’s base salary as his faculty salary, Sasse will earn more than four times the salary of the highest-paid faculty member in the history department and more than three times Professor Narayanan. We’ll be surprised if Hosseini decides on a salary 80% less than Sasse made as president, giving him a full teaching load.​

Narayanan is a distinguished professor in the Religion Dept. She makes 200k.

 

Third party is a vote FOR Trump. Libertarians are essentially the same kind of subhuman that a conservative is.

 

And yet, polling so far clearly shows that RFKj is taking way more votes from Trump than Harris. She does much better on three-way questions than two way.

 

Kind of disappointed they didn't make it a 3-dollar bill https://t.co/ktyeQDe239

— The okayest poster there is (@ok_post_guy) August 14, 2024

 

Weird harassment:

@UTKnoxville is it your policy to encourage faculty to harass and lie to their students in their free time?

— Allen Weisselberger (@weisselbergers) August 14, 2024

 

IIRC that's not legal.

And since he hires people to do it the immunity decision shouldn't apply to them...

 

Doesn’t the secret service also handle currency fraud?