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Old 01-25-2024, 09:58 PM
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letterIt should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way.

oow starting with passive aggressive insults, this is going to be fun!

letterBy viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin color and race, we are desecrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and utterly violating the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought, and died.

Check off "white man steals Dr King's legacy and makes it about his own cause" on the bingo! I'm sure he's absolutely not racist in anyway after sliding himself inside the dead body of a black man and moving the mouth with his pelvis and the rest of this rant will have to do with ways they failed his daughter, not ways they made him feel bad, right... ?

letterI object to the idea that Blacks are unable to succeed in this country without aid from government or from whites. Brearley, by adopting critical race theory, is advocating the abhorrent viewpoint that Blacks should forever be regarded as helpless victims, and are incapable of success regardless of their skills, talents, or hard work.

I love this bad faith argument so much because many seem to think they're so damn clever for having thought of it and maybe even were conned by it at one point themselves. White people get aid from the government and from those with money all the time, it's pretty much the basis of our government to protect the rich from failure by providing for them. In a proper civilization we prop each other up so that as few drown as possible. To then turn around and say that actually by saying these struggling people need help it's disrespectful and hateful is trying to smokescreen that he hopes they will die and is trying to convince others not to help the drowning person for it might insult their swimming skills.

Letterl object to Brearley's advocacy for groups and movements such as Black Lives Matter, a Marxist, anti family, heterophobic, anti-Asian and anti-Semitic organization that neither speaks for the majority of the Black community in this country, nor in any way, shape or form, represents their best interests.

Oow foaming at the mouth stage, BLM is all the bad words, ALL OF THEM!

I feel sorry for anyone who thinks this insecure man having a tantrum represents what parents should be. Poor girl, I can absolutely see this man threatening her with disownership if she doesn't act how he sees fit.

ETA: Oh I see this is from 2021, so where is Gutmann in 2024?
Why he's ridding off fame from this letter to request donations for his run for congress.
Ya know, I can see why conservatives are always bitter, no matter what words they say, their leaders are always in service to themselves.
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Old 01-25-2024, 10:04 PM
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Well, I'd sure like to live in his world, where there has been no prejudice or racism in society since the 1960s.
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There was apparently a SWAT Team on site all evening too. Pretty wild:

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Well, I'd sure like to live in his world, where there has been no prejudice or racism in society since the 1960s.
Funny. I was just recently talking to a young co worker who , at her previous job of a year and a half, quit because she was bullied by co workers. Because she happened to be the minority race.

Now, upon reading that first sentence your brainwashed mind might leap to the preconditioned notion that she was black and the bullies were white.

But you would be wrong. Because it’s not a Netflix movie. It’s real life.

And apparently these girls—30 and —40 year old women were getting away with this and much other shit because they’re black. And no one, not the supervisor, or even the doctors would push back. I’m pretty sure you’re smart enough to guess why.
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Well, I'd sure like to live in his world, where there has been no prejudice or racism in society since the 1960s.
Funny. I was just recently talking to a young co worker who , at her previous job of a year and a half, quit because she was bullied by co workers. Because she happened to be the minority race.

Now, upon reading that first sentence your brainwashed mind might leap to the preconditioned notion that she was black and the bullies were white.

But you would be wrong. Because it’s not a Netflix movie. It’s real life.

And apparently these girls—30 and —40 year old women were getting away with this and much other shit because they’re black. And no one, not the supervisor, or even the doctors would push back. I’m pretty sure you’re smart enough to guess why.
Well, I'm not one ignorant of such "Crowd Dynamics" at all.
I have been one of the only White kids in a school "dominated by Blacks", and a school "dominated by Mexicans", and a school dominated by Rich White kids" and once, I was the "Rich kid" in a school dominated by "Po White Trash." in all of those schools, I often was the odd kid, suffering abuse and bullying.
My daughter suffered when we lived in a Predominantly Cuban neighborhood in Miami. She got over it, though, and even Married a Cubano. (Much to his family's consternation.)

Racism and Prejudice are everywhere. (Which prompted my comment above.)
Mr Gutmann is an idiot.

Attacking your perception of my apparent ignorance of such things was not really a reasoned response.

Go back and try again.
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Pilot believes he found Amelia Earhart’s plane on the ocean floor

So, I gotta ask.

What's a Pilot doing on the Ocean Floor?
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But you would be wrong. Because it’s not a Netflix movie. It’s real life.
Ah yes. Racism against black people, only on Netflix!
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Food delivery robot crashes into car, flees scene of accident

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"Then it lurched back and forth against the side of the car, with the safety flag happily waving."

Both doors of the car were scratched and the passer-by lifted the robot onto the roadway, where it fled the scene.
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What is "Ozempic face" and how can people avoid it?

I know women who are doing these shots and they do lose weight but they end up looking like skeltor. I would not recommend this quick fix. Plus, there are bound to be horrific side effects down the line.
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Chelsea Handler Says She 'Didn't Know' She Was on Ozempic

What a stupid bitch. How do you not know what drugs you're on?
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In deciding not to charge Biden with any crimes, the special counsel wrote that in a potential trial, “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
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The actual concrete examples they give are pretty much normal for humans being asked about things that happened years ago, I note. Like, if you ask people what year recentish events happened in, they usually have to think about it and correlate them to other events, and sometimes get it wrong.
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that's fair.
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We're getting uncomfortably close to trend territory here. This crazy wingnut beat his father to death for getting "the vaccine." Late last month, this crazy wingnut beheaded his father then took to YouTube (brandishing the severed head, of course) to talk about how dear ol' dad - who was apparently a federal government employee for 20 years - was now in hell for being a traitor.
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The 911 caller, who is a friend of the family, described the suspect, Brian Mcgann Jr., as a "delusional conspiracy theorist."
Gosh I wonder who he voted for.
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While I get really annoyed by the blatant projection propaganda about Biden forgetting names as if Tim Apple wasn't a meme for a short bit along with Coffeve.

Yet, oh could we have a day where the thought of a head to head dementia test was a hack joke and not something I would support and probably watch. I'm voting for whoever isn't Trump but that it's Biden is hilarious in a kind of crying french clown sort of way.
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The 911 caller, who is a friend of the family, described the suspect, Brian Mcgann Jr., as a "delusional conspiracy theorist."
Gosh I wonder who he voted for.
Honestly, who can say, but I'm thinking odds are he didn't vote for anybody. Most people don't vote, for one thing. And I know some seriously unhinged people who are still less unhinged than this guy , and they talk a lot of mess but they don't have their shit together enough even have an ID or not be a felon, much less to register to vote and get their ass to the polling place.

vm notwithstanding, obviously.
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The actual concrete examples they give are pretty much normal for humans being asked about things that happened years ago, I note. Like, if you ask people what year recentish events happened in, they usually have to think about it and correlate them to other events, and sometimes get it wrong.
These bad faith arguments about Biden’s mental state amuse me in that Biden obviously functions at a higher level than Trump and most of his issues are from the stutter that he has always had.

You can see and hear Biden respond coherently to questions in a way that Trump is unable to.

Biden is old, and I would prefer a younger candidate who has never been a segregationist, but he isn’t running against some hypothetical candidate, he will be running against the dude who described a test for senility as so hard that most reporters wouldn’t be able to pass it.
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also, i'm told by a person who works with those tests, they wouldn't use related words in a word-memory test, so "man" and "woman" shouldn't be in the same test.
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Yeah, Donald can talk a lot better that Joe, but Joe actually tends think abut what he's saying.
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Yeah that's the thing about that test, it's not pass/fail but meant to quickly gauge good and bad days. Like a game of Russian roulette, he's not going to remember the hard fails.

A problem with living in a reactionary idiocracy is that Biden could articulate being given dementia testing and talk news would label him Doddling Bementia Didden, which would get picked up and repeated by weeks end; but Trump accidentally lets slip his doctors are testing him for dementia and his followers respond with a hearty "That's my guy, he's so smart, always joking with reporters." completely oblivious both to what he just admitted and that his example of the test listed items that were visible in the room with him at that moment, like a sit com where the buffoon character comes up with a fake name based on what they can see.

ETA: One version of the test,

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So this is borderline on topic.

A friend of FB shared this today.

It is so fuckin true.

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
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“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:


"A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
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Read on.

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
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Gosh I wonder who he voted for.
LOL that guy ain’t registered to vote.
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