1. The Great Stupid won’t go down with out a fight! Especially in California. The University of Southern California canceled a debate among candidates for governor less than 24 hours before it was supposed to take place this week. The reason was that there weren’t any non-white candidates. I kept seeing that in headlines and couldn’t believe it. I just assumed it was right-wing spin, and really dumb spin at that.
Nope. Eight Democrats and two Republicans are currently leading a typically huge field running in the Golden State June 2 primary. The debate was scheduled to include the six candidates who were leading in the polls, plus an extra Democrat, the Mayor of San Jose, who has been raising a lot of money for his campaign lately. If he had been black or Latino, that may have saved the debate, but he’s just another white guy. Students objected, and the school, being run by cowards and woke weenies like most universities today, chickened out.
The controversies over who got a place on the stage “have created a significant distraction from the issues that matter to voters,” the university said. And so rather than hold a debate that would help voters distinguish between the candidates who currently have a chance to win and maybe teach students something, the fact that none of the candidates are “of color” means that there won’t be a debate at all.
Ethics Alarms 
1 – Imagine UCLA cancelling a political debate among a bunch of candidates “of color” because the students protested the lack of white candidates in the mix. I’m sure USC would completely understand the logic behind it and support the decision.
Alternative thought: Blacks and hispanics in California are clearly smart enough NOT to run for governor.
2 – It’s MSNOW, it’s John Brennan, fish gotta swim.
3 – I’ll wait for the analysis from “A Friend”…which (spoiler alert here) will be something along the lines of, “A lot of commenters disagreed strongly with her story and those comments weren’t deleted, so the NYT can’t be biased.”
A solid majority of the people in this country see the same problems with mail-in ballots that caused them to be outlawed in most other countries. And the vast majority of that solid majority still supports the notion of absentee ballots.