Wednesday Morning Rant

NOTE: thanks to work, I have to prepare my Wednesday post on Tuesday evening. As a result, I am writing this before anything is known about election returns and this post is just "election-adjacent" - so feel free to go off topic in the comments immediately.

Based on overnight returns, though, congratulations to Trump 47. Grover Cleveland welcomes you to his very exclusive club.

The "snowflake" meme to describe emotionally weak Millennials took hold because it is so apt - but it is not just Millennials, and it is not just emotional weakness. To freak out and need babying like we saw in 2016 and 2020 requires both emotional weakness and mental fragility. These kids' brains are made of glass, and will shatter with the slightest bump.

They're back at it again this year. One of the funniest examples this time around comes from a big name university: Georgetown. Specifically, it comes from that university's McCourt School of Public Policy. The coddling and care being shown to your future bureaucrat and NGO overlords, groomed and trained at a prominent institution in the heart of the government jungle, is hilarious. It's a whole day of events to cushion the glass brains in attendance.

Many schools are doing similar. Missouri State will have "safe spaces" for those in the throes of post-election blues. Virginia Tech will have post-election "collaborative art projects" for its glass brains. Harvard isn't waiting, and will have a puppet show for it's weaklings on election day itself. Even the public schools - sort of - get in on the action. Education Week, the magazine for public school teachers, has published some guidance for its readers on handling election results for the kids in class. Charming.

But nothing that I have seen this year takes the cake like Georgetown. Their all-day event begins at a marginally hangover-friendly 10:00 AM with "Tea, cocoa and self-care" and ends at 6:00 PM after some "self-guided meditation." In the middle, the schedule is packed with activities, most of which are regularly enjoyed by your average preschooler:

10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Tea, Cocoa, and Self-Care
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Legos Station
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.: Healthy Treats and Healthy Habits
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Coloring and Mindfulness Exercises
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: Milk and Cookies
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.: Legos and Coloring
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Snacks and Self-Guided Meditation

I just hope the glass brains go to collegiate preschool instead of rioting.

posted by Joe Mannix at 10:45 AM

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