bamboozling the public

White House briefs 'TikTok stars' on Ukraine | The Post Millennial

Get your foreign policy dope straight from the horse’s [censored]!

So… there’s a big problem with Russia invading Ukraine, we’re not quite sure what to do with the rest of the Pandemic, and The Regime’s popularity is so far underwater, Jacques Cousteau couldn’t find ’em. What to do, what to do?

Aha! Simple! Just invite 30 TikTok “influencers” for a briefing at the White House, fill their empty skulls with the party line, and pay ’em a thousand smackers each to use their social media presence in the service of the worst president we ever even imagined (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/11/tik-tok-ukraine-white-house/).

No matter how confused, feckless, incompetent, or dangerous its policies prove to be, The Regime now knows that TikTok’s got their backs. And as an added benefit, TikTok is owned and operated by a known, paid-for tool of the Chinese Communist Party! Does this bunch at the White House ever get into a bed that doesn’t already have a commie in it?

We’re also going to rely on some outfit called Gen Z For Change (does that stink to high heaven, or what?) to sell The Regime’s policies to ignorant young college types. What’s the average age of a TikTok influencer? Nineteen? Twenty?

Says a greybeard of 21, “People in my generation get all our information from TikTok!”

I rest my case.

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Don’t you wish this was a satire? But I assure you that it isn’t.

A school district in Madison, Wisconsin, has gotten rid of old-fashioned letter or number grades and replaced it with a new grading system that’s supposed to be “kinder” to students (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/02/12/wisconsin-school-district-abandons-a-f-grading-scale-to-prevent-stress/). It’s certainly less informative to parents–and school tax payers.

So no more A, B, C, etc. Instead, it’s going to be EX for “exceeding expectations,” M for “meeting expectations,” DV for “developing understanding,” and E for “emerging” into understanding.

No more excellence, and no more failure. No more mediocrity, either. But heck, you don’t want those mean old grades that hurt kids’ feelings! So much better to cast every child’s performance in the best possible light! Besides, giving out grades was “racist.” So much nicer and un-racist to just shuttle them through 13 years of public school without them learning anything at all. Like, how smart do you have to be to live on welfare and vote for Democrats?

So the parent can’t tell, now, whether his kid is getting the material or not. Shut up and pay.

Was it the worst idea we ever had, as a nation, to allow teachers’ unions? It’s certainly in the running for that honor.