Does anyone still need convincing that Gov. Walz is among the most irresponsible, civically ignorant, repellent and dishonest elected officials in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave? Apparently so: the University of Minnesota Law School invited him to give the main address as its commencement ceremony. Even if Walz were not a clueless demagogue, constitutional dunce and enemy of free speech (he thinks “hate speech” should be punished), he’s an absurd choice to give a speech to law school grads. Not only isn’t he lawyer, he lacks the rudiments of critical thinking essential to the law. He doesn’t know what lawyer do, or what their standards of conduct are.

Walz didn’t disappoint: he continued on the path of unhinged demogoguery that has characterized his pronouncements since he dragged Kamala Harris and the Democrats down to defeat. (Yes, I know there were dozens of factors that resulted in the Totalitarian Party’s well-earned loss in November, but when I absolutely knew the Harris ticket was doomed was when Walz bumbled his way through the debate with J.D. Vance.)

Here are the lowlights of the unethical speech he inflicted on the recent graduates. There are more gaffes and lies than acceptable sections, which is, I guess, impressive it its own, warped, knickleheaded way. My comments are in bold, his blather is in italics:

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For reasons yet to be explained, my second attempt to maintain an account on “X” was foiled yesterday when I was suddenly blocked from my own home page, “EthicsAlarmist.” I have spent over an hour trying to wade through the laborious process of getting back on, all because the phone number I initially used to set up the account is no longer in use. There is apparently no way to fix this. They keep wanting to send me a code using that number, and when I give them my current cell phone number and try to use the code they send me, the site responds that the phone number I am using is not associated with the account. Like so, so many others, X has a terrible service website.

I just received this in the email they also say is not associated with the account:

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I’ve gone through all of that, twice. It’s an endless loop. Then I received this:

Hello,

We’re writing to let you know that we’re unable to verify you as the account owner. We know this is disappointing to hear, but we can’t assist you further with accessing your account. If you know which email address or phone number is associated with the account, and you no longer have access to that email or connected phone number, please contact your service provider for assistance. 

For privacy reasons, we can’t provide any information about this account’s registered email address or phone number. We understand it’s frustrating to get locked out of an account, but we have these policies to protect accounts and private data. We appreciate your understanding.

You’re more than welcome to create a new account to get back onto X. 

Please do not respond to this email as replies to this account are not monitored.

Thanks, X Support

My response: “You are welcome to bite me.” I do not understand, and I particularly don’t understand how a Big Tech company can be this incompetent.

Eventually I suppose I will have to open a third account (I abandoned #1 while Twitter was kicking out conservatives and Trump) just to have access to tweets and videos from other sources, but I won’t be investing any time in seeking followers or exposure for Ethics Alarms content.

A platform that behaves like this can’t be trusted—and I even paid for a “blue check.” And after my Verizon experience, Musk’s baby picked the wrong time to mess with me. I’m sure there is some secret to getting my account back, but X has wasted too much of my time already, and I will not forgive or forget.

To Hell with it.

Vigilante commenter “A Friend” has now sunk (or risen?) to defending comic Bill Maher after supergluing himself onto the New York Times hill to die on, but undeterred or intimidated, I declare this latest from HBO’s manipulative hypocrite yet another “Unethical Quote:

“Let me tell you, folks, if the standards on the Left are going to be this high, and politics is going to be this much of a cock block, we’re never going to win elections or have any more babies.”

–—-Maher, reacting to the season eight finale of “Love Is Blind,” the latest stupid romantic link-up reality show. A nurse named Sara Carton, bailed out of her dream wedding to a sales consultant at the altar, telling him that he just wasn’t woke enough.

Bill Maher is trying to suck up to non-Trump Deranged sane people and conservatives to salvage his HBO ratings and popularity, and here is another example. Who knows what Maher really thinks, or if he believes in anything other than his own career, how much money he can make being a public asshole, and still getting dates with attractive starlets young enough to be his daughters. Here was his whole lament, so “A Friend” can’t say I’m quoting the jerk “out of context”:

The season eight finale of “Love Is Blind”: The bride, an impressive, attractive nurse named Sara Carton, walked out on her dream wedding to sales consultant Ben Mezzenga. They were at the altar, all dressed up, almost to the part where they eat cake and do the electric slide, when Sara broke the news to her man that she just couldn’t go through with it…. it was because of Black Lives Matter. Because if there’s one thing we know about the young liberal women of today, it’s that they are very, very high in their standards. About everything….He never really thought about it. And that’s when Sara realized she’d rather die alone. It wasn’t just Black Lives Matter. Ben also didn’t have much to say about the vaccine, and his position on trans was basically, ‘I don’t know, I guess.’ How dare Ben not throw himself enthusiastically into doing The Will of the Party? Let me tell you, folks, if the standards on the Left are going to be this high, and politics is going to be this much of a cock block, we’re never going to win elections or have any more babies. This inclination from certain liberals to always and immediately excommunicate instead of communicate is what makes them so unlikable. The guy must also have a nice car and make over 100K a year. Okay, but you know, how many 6’2″ Grand Prix drivers are there? How are the Democrats going to blow it this time? This is how. Posturing, purity tests, the politics of ‘I unfriend you if you’re not exactly with me a thousand percent.’”

Bill slipped up, you see. He signaled to the seal-clapping woke fanatics in his audience that still supporting the racist, lying scam movement and organization Black Lives Matter is showing “high standards.” In fact, doing so is irrefutable proof that someone is either a bigot, a moron, a sucker, or a con artist. It’s signature significance. Saying you support Black Lives Matter is like saying that you think Harold Staasen will stage a political comeback, or that you’d bet on Joe Bidden in a “Jeopardy!” match, or that you are Marie of Romania.

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