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Lafayette Lee

@Partisan_O

Mar 25

Maybe after everyone’s been canceled we’ll just find ourselves back at the beginning, when people minded their own business, despised each other honestly, and nobody had time or patience for freaks, weirdos, and bitter mediocrities. Who knows?

I mean, how much longer can we pretend to take these people seriously?

Most of the time it just takes someone saying 'no.' The herd doesn't need an essay, speech, or special invitation, simply saying 'no' exposes the ridiculous charade for what it is: a farce. It reminds people that they have no true loyalty to this thing, it's all fear.

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Lafayette Lee

@Partisan_O

Mar 23

Jacob Hamblin’s Rules for Dealing with the Indians

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

Hamblin traveled approximately 30,000 miles in this saddle during his peacemaking with the Southwest Indian nations.

"I knew you would come back… Jacob is our father, as well as your father.”

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Lafayette Lee

@Partisan_O

Feb 7

A little insight from an experienced husband and father: when one of your children gets injured or struggles with friends or school, your wife *feels* it. It hurts her, sometimes deeply, and there's usually some guilt involved. Your job is to help alleviate this burden...

That doesn't just mean fixing the problem, but providing strength, certainty, and reassurance. In our home, humor is the best way to cut through the pain and relieve some of that guilt and anxiety. It can be difficult to navigate, but if you learn to appreciate this bond between mother and child, you can make a big difference in a tight spot.

Men and women compliment each other. Understanding this is key to having a happy home.

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Lafayette Lee

@Partisan_O

Feb 6

You’re mad about an interview, I’m mad that no one in our government has even tried to explain why other countries’ borders are worth defending when our own is not…

Honestly, no one would be interested in Putin’s side of the story if the past two years hadn’t been a complete sh*tshow.

After 20 years of war and a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, you really thought Americans would buy into another global fight for democracy without asking some tough questions?

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Lafayette Lee

@Partisan_O

Jan 7

Some are trying to paint the backlash against higher ed as unhinged populist rage, but they’re wrong. There is resentment toward elite universities, but it’s not so much about envy as a desire for justice.

Ordinary Americans know the value of an elite education. They hear the names of prestigious schools at campaign events, presidential debates, and confirmation hearings. The news they read and the movies they watch reference these places, and their favorite products bear the fingerprints of alumni. They tell their kids to study hard because, maybe, one of these schools could be within reach. Most people know someone—a friend, a neighbor, a long-lost relative—who attended an Ivy, and it’s always mentioned with great pride. When a family sends a child to an elite school everyone holds their heads a little higher—even as they quietly pinch pennies and groan at the price of tuition.

For years ordinary people tolerated the radical politics of elite universities because it was distant and contained. Except for a shocking news story every now and then, there was little exposure and most grumbling limited to talk-radio or cable news.

But thanks to a reordering of incentives and the aggressive introduction of DEI in the wake of the Great Recession, radical campus politics have been grafted onto the American body politic.

Obscure theories once confined to the classroom are now present in every workplace, enforced by a cadre of consultants, managers, and specialists who control hiring, manage incentives, and shape corporate culture. Companies with any involvement in the public sector are required to adhere to DEI guidelines, and a constellation of NGOs, nonprofits, and activists groups pressure organizations to meet stringent diversity goals or face boycotts, lawsuits, and bad press.

Most striking has been the transformation of the public square, where free speech is rapidly eroding and a culture of censorship, surveillance, and intimidation taking its place. Important political questions that, until recently, were always up for debate—borders, childrearing, crime, education, housing, public spending, and war—are increasingly distorted by activist frameworks that boil every issue down to an oppressor/oppressed dichotomy. The effect has been to push ordinary people outside the political sphere and outsource age-old rights and privileges to an anointed caste of activists, experts, and bureaucrats. Resistance is treated harshly, and everyday Americans who deviate too far can expect to lose a job or career, endure smears in the press, face harassment and mob violence, and find themselves standing against a host of hostile public and private entities with the power to impoverish and humiliate.

As Andrew Sullivan has said, “We all live on campus now.”

The most destructive pathologies of elite universities are now laundered through education, finance, healthcare, law, news & entertainment, national security, and tech… and yet despite all the dysfunction and disharmony in their daily lives, ordinary Americans have little recourse, for they have been evicted from the political sphere.

What we have experienced over the past 15 years can only be described as a spiritual conquest and the establishment of a new state religion, with all roads leading to the university—the spiritual center of this new regime.

We did not consent to this, we were never asked. There’s schadenfreude in flyover country this week, to be sure, but it can’t compare to our genuine desire for justice and freedom from tyranny… a tendency as American as apple pie.

I referenced the Great Recession because during that time we saw Washington, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley come closer together, a dramatic reordering of corporate incentives, the rise of “nudge,” and the birth of DEI…

Ideology’s one thing, but grafting ideology onto the body politic through management and administration is another…

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Lafayette Lee

@Partisan_O

Jan 2

Either the world is as dangerous & complex as the serious people would have you believe—meriting rigorous institutions like Harvard. Or it’s not, and we’re all just tolerating a $50 billion fantasy camp for star-belly sneetches…

Even Harvard can’t eat its cake and have it too.

Clearly institutions like Harvard don’t take their own academic and ethical standards seriously, otherwise a Claudine Gay would have never ascended and her many violations would have been exposed years ago…

Rufo’s critics are partially correct, this isn’t about Harvard… but it’s not really about Gay, either. This is the rotten underbelly of most prestigious institutions, where superior knowledge, intelligence, skill, and integrity ostensibly prevail. Gay’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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