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One word to sum up the past year . . .

Kakistocracy - a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people (Cambridge Dictionary)

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“The report finds that recent changes by the Department of Education after September 2020 “make vast amounts of data impossible to fully and accurately resolve.””

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China gave tens of millions to Penn and then Penn created the Penn Biden Center which paid Blinken and Biden both $1 million per year to do nothing except store classified documents there and then close down the operation when the money ran out.

We also found out Penn hates Jews.

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Nuclear fusion. The ultimate litmus test for the climate zealots who want to save the planet.

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If The Free Press wanted to do some *real* journalism, they would go out and find all of the Black applicants who applied to Yale Law and were rejected, the year that Hunter Biden was admitted, and interview them.

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The word is Dumb - Eric Adams's answer was dumb. Joe Biden can't say anything that is semi-intelligent, nor can the people who write what he says. Vice President Harris might have replaced Dan Quayle as the dumbest Vice president in History. Our experts who go on TV and jabber on about Trump, climate change, and gun violence are all dumb. Kristen Welker, Margret Brennan, Jonathan Karl, and George Stephonopolis are all Dumb. These questions each week show how much our "elite" class has fallen. The Palestinian protesters will never win a contest for being the brightest bulbs. Anyone who downloads something fake for companionship is dumb ( I think Zoe is a little bit too in love with herself to enjoy anyone else).

And last but not least, watching an interview with Donald Trump is the dumbest of them all. I'd vote against him so I would never have to watch the stupidity, vanity, and his incessant whining about anything. There are pockets where this does not reign: The Free Press ( never a dull moment on TGIF, and Bari is excellent), Bill Maher, Jordan Peterson, Scott Adams, and the front office and coaching staff who put together the San Francisco 49ers this year.

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“E/acc, according to 23-year-old entrepreneur Augustus Doricko”

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This guy will be the first trillionaire because a glitch in The Matrix is making it so all of our rich people have to have weird names.

The three richest people will be Elon Musk, Augustus Doricko, and Dingman Hornswoggle.

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Many single words swirl around my head but I cannot seem to find one better than Ann Pollak's "Kakistocracy". For one thing, I had never heard of it. For another, it sums up the situation in the US perfectly. Kudos, Ann.

On the issue of the Department of Education site showing donations and the sheer impossibility of the reams of data, both visible and taken down, I cannot but think of the parallel in medicine with the ascendency of electronic health records (EHR). This technology was shoved down the throats of physicians by Barack Obama in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The intent was to improve health care, eliminate medical errors (often attributed to bad physician handwriting), streamline communication and information sharing, and provide vast data on demand. Take your pick. What it did instead is to diminish physician productivity by 20-30%, increase physician burnout and dissatisfaction with many physicians retiring earlier than they originally planned, create novel new means of fraud and waste, e.g. physicians copy-pasting patient notes and charging for visits they did not make and upcoding the complexity of patient interactions, and create intolerable levels of frustration with the interminable clicks necessary for even simple actions. One of the biggest problems with EHR is the computer screens are so 'busy' and full of extraneous data that the important items are often easy to overlook. I have seen more orders missed or in some way mishandled since EHR than I ever saw with paper charts. One of the main reasons I am retiring now is my disgust and frustration with EHR. After years of use, it has become harder, not easier, to use, the glitches remain and it still takes an infuriating number of clicks to get anything done. R. Bosshardt

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Well now, since Ms. Gay has been outed as a serial plagiarist, she can now be chosen by Joe "The Plagiarist" Biden as his new vice presidential candidate! Take THAT Kevin Durant?!

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Harvard applications decline. My immediate reaction was the identity of those who chose not to apply. Might it be Jewish high schoolers or non jews who happen to be conservative? The applicant pool will still be huge and one might assume less diverse than ever ( intellectually which of course at a place like Harvard matters little on their subjective diversity meter). The ultimate question is whether the Harvard grads of the future will still be hired in droves by Wall Street, academia , corporate America and of course our ever growing federal and state administrative agencies that seek to tell us what we can say, drive and even eat.

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It is good to see liberals, or former liberals, finally refuting the racism they have supported for so many years. Democrats have always hated Jews and Christians.

Energy: Natural gas is as clean as you can get - we have more of it than any other hemisphere - and yet democrats keep trying to set it aside for 'clean' bullshyte like solar, wind, and EV's which are the most dangerous 'sources' in the world. Tells a story. Fusion is a good step, but we already have cheap, clean energy without much subsidy.

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To h*ll with fusion, Mayor Adams is already an unlimited source of hot air. Lots of potential energy there, if we can scale it.

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Fusion energy - if it ever becomes a realistic source of electric generation - is many decades away. Meanwhile we have safe, new gen fission energy that can produce vast amounts of non-carbon electricity. But neither our current federal government nor the completely fraudulent environmental movement is pushing it. Why? The answer is clear. Wind and solar are unreliable sources of energy directly tied to China. Pushing those sources undeniably makes electricity less reliable and more expensive, further destabilizing American society. So not only are our "environmental friends" pushing lunacy, they are actively pushing treason. From the White House, to the Sierra Club nitwits to the blithering media morons, they are all in league to make your life harder, more expensive and fraught with uncertainty. Think about that.

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One word to sum up 2023? How about

Revealing

As in: I now know very clearly the ones who wear white hats and the ones who wear black ones.

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AI & Nuclear Fusion as with any new technologies will have both positive & deleterious results. As for Harvard & other A-listed universities we’ve returned to a time of discrimination only now people of color have the advantage to the detriment of white males, Jews & Asians. It’s a return to the past, 1930’s-1970’s & is flagrant discrimination based on race, gender & religion. I’m a Washington (D.C.) with many fond memories that range from family to Bobby Mitchell & Sonny & riding my bike throughout the city. It’s the memory of the Evening Star where one was exposed to honest, unbiased journalism. Today I won’t venture into the city. It’s just isn’t safe. The city’s crime has invaded the WOKE suburbs. Idiots, imbeciles & morons elect idiots, imbeciles & morons!

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I’m surprised that Eric Adams didn’t use his two words to say something like “migration crisis.” This seems to be the year that the chaos at our borders and uncontrolled flow of migrants into the country finally registered for leaders of sanctuary cities like New York. Maybe 2024 will be the year DEI and virtue signaling end? One can only hope.

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Yay Bari DEI is officially D-E-A-D

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