Unforeseen Contingencies

 The Unforeseen Contingencies Legal Desk team is overstepping its bounds.  It's true, of course, that "Linked-In is another woke corporate garbage outfit with no principles."  But it's not true that one should remain silent when confronted with malfeasance.  I am on Linked-In for one reason alone: it is a useful way to stay in touch with former students' career moves.  This is extremely useful for our economics program.  From time to time I receive a message via Linked-In, or even send one myself.  And that's it.  

However, when I use Linked-In messaging, afterwards a feed of post comes up.  Most are just innocuous business announcements, but a few are political.  One of these popped up in front of me, unbidden, the nonsensical tweet discussed below.  Subsequent events are as the legal team details.

However, it is NOT true that this is a spat or that it is idiotic to comment, in frank terms, on this malfeasance by Senator Scott.  Scott portrays himself as an important conservative voice.  His actions in this meeting and this tweet belie this claim.  America is suffering accelerating inflation.  Energy production is being shut down by the federal government, and energy and food shortages are looming.  The Biden administration is still working on setting up a disinformation authority within DoJ, and it's now revealed that Americans are targets,  and that "disinformation" includes dissent from the official Democrat lines on the integrity of thge 2020 election, wuflu measures, and climate.

We are facing economic ruin and political totalitarianism, but Scott discusses "how to better serve America's youth" with a washed-up celeb of doubtful morals?  And some fool endorses this as a great advance?  The federal government has no legitimate role in "serving America's youth."  It's not a power granted them in the Constitution, and it's not at all clear what it means anyway.

Unfortunately, that's the state of the GOP today.  Scott should be ashamed.

And as for Linked-In's censorship, who cares?  Someone named "Sam" didn't get my quick scolding.  I'm sure, at the margin, he's no better or worse for this.

// posted by Charles N. Steele @ 20:29