Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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  3. 3.

    Soprano2

    Who do they think will attend their seminars? Because that’s what they’re doing, holding seminars. What idiots.

    Call it Snowflake U.

  7. 7.

    Mike in NC

    My only time in the Lone Star State was three weeks at Ft. Hood (hopefully to be renamed next year) in 2005, where I got stuck with the midnight shift on a joint forces exercise. The nearby town of Killeen was basically OK. I was able to get off a day and visit the Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg.

  22. 22.

    dnfree

    Can the University of Texas at Austin sue for confusion?

    There are certainly a lot of people associated with this who already are affiliated with other universities. Is that kosher?

  25. 25.

    prostratedragon

    Good ones. I’d go with Sorebun myself, but my favorite so far is definitely Nutter Dame.

  30. 30.

    Melville

    The University of Austin -Texas. umm…ok. I guess their mascot will be the LongCons. The chant of course would be “Fook ’em”. The hand gesture.. well you can figure that one for yourself.

  39. 39.

    prostratedragon

    @Melville:  It’s always bugged me how nakedly these guys tend to announce their intentions, as if with a lurid wink. Remember the Macondo oil prospect in the Gulf? Nixon’s Committe to Re-Elect the President? The Antonin Scalia School? Maybe they just can’t help displaying what they are.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I don’t know about the rest, but it has to have a Dunning-Kruger Business School.   Or would that be the J School?

  42. 42.

    mvr

    Will their recruitment lit and website promise that their students only fail upward?

    Given the faculty it would be credible.

  52. 52.

    mvr

    @mvr: I gather that I was wrong to think that list is all faculty. I guess it is the board of advisors I was mostly reacting to.

  55. 55.

    Dan B

    @RaflW: And would the cheer for their football team (all hired, of course) be, “A Ham in no one’s pot!”  Maybe they should go with the Lucy version, “A Ham in every pot!”  Snatches it out of pot.

  57. 57.

    Poe Larity

    Oh, I didn’t even know who Weiss was. Given it’s Texas, how about Storm University? Maybe a Jewish Laser Physics dept? A Trump School of Medicine? A merged Veterinary and Virology dept, or has A&M already done that? A QAnon School of Journalism?

  58. 58.

    RSA

    Controverting the article a bit, the UATX Web site does promise for 2024…

    ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE

    Our four-year undergraduate program will take place at a residential liberal arts college in Austin, Texas.

    The first two years of study will consist of an intensive liberal arts curriculum, including the study of philosophy, literature, history, politics, economics, mathematics, the sciences, and the fine arts. The College will feature an immersive, in-depth and personalized learning experience with interdisciplinary breadth.

    They’re delusional.  I notice that of the high-profile names associated with UATX, only a couple have any experience in undergraduate teaching.  They want to get a high-quality program off the ground, from scratch, in three years?  Against real liberal arts colleges that have been producing for centuries?  I don’t think so.

    Oh, right, the name.  I think it should actually be Austin Texas University, or Attacks U., for short.

  60. 60.

    Yutsano

    @evap: ​ Weird. I answered you awhile ago.

    The song is great! “China Grove” is part of my childhood spinning Dad’s records while he was out to sea. The song itself, however, is going to be stuck in my head. All. Night.

  64. 64.

    Dan B

     

     

    @ChrsitianPinko: Inoted of sucking money out of the poors they’d be blowing beautiful greenbacks and NFT’s at them.  After all the Econ Dept would be backwards, I tell you!  Because you can’t spell grifted without gifted!!

  69. 69.

    vhh

    Andrew Sullivan is afflicted by the disease of Conservative Tendentiousness, in which an author tosses out some half considered hipshot on something he knows little about. When  said zinger turns out to be partially to mostly wrong or outright offensive, the writer  issues a series of modifications, caveats, or excuses (often weak) or if all else fails, says , aw shucks, he/she did not really mean it,  no hard feelings, just a joke, you liberals have no sense of humor.. You see the same behavior regularly in National Review Fox, and other wingnut outlets.

    One of the most hilarious of the poseurs is Dinesh D’Souza, who managed to descend from the wingnut welfare circuit (where he wrote books about things like how American liberals were responsible for 9/11s the rage of Obama, and a conspiracy theory movie about Hillary Clinton )  to getting  fired (for adultery) from the Presidency of the über-Christian, morallistic  The King’s College (name nicked from Columbia the original King’s College) to a prison sentence for illegal campaign contributions. At one point he was making ads for Christmas tree accessories.

    Andrew made his first pile on his blog (which was notable for his simultaneous support of the death-to-gays GOP even as he wrote tomes arguing for gay marriage.  The blog was occasionally interesting, when he talked of things like living with HIV, the joys of dogs and getting married. But Andrew and his readers seemed to lose  interest in each other, and he retreated to Provincetown and Substack, where only paying readers get access and there are no editors to contend with.

    Andrew has been fired by a series of major press outlets. I guess he needs money, so he has started this Trump U for Pseudo Intellectual Poseurs with Bari Weiss.  I wonder how many students this venture will sink into Federal Student Loan debt…..but hey, it’s Texas, home of Louie Gohmert and Ted Cruz, who are competing in issuing whack job statements.

  71. 71.

    rmjohnston

    Keep Digging U.

    Trump U. II

    Green Lump of Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning U.

    Snowflake U.

    Screaming Silence U.

  73. 73.

    O. Felix Culpa

    From a commenter at LGM (can’t find the citation right now):

    Intellectual Horse Paste University

  80. 80.

    Kenneth Fair

    Since Texas already has both “The University of Texas at Austin” and “Stephen F. Austin University,” naming it “Austin University” sure seems problematic to me. But I guess the consumer confusion is a feature, not a bug.

    Someone should convince them that their mascot should be “Bucky the Beaver.” That would start the school off with a bang.

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