While I am enjoying my vacation, I received the following text message from the Trump campaign. I’m amused that the message refers to me as the Number One Republican in my city. Fake news. I assume it was sent to millions of people, and I imagine many of them were flattered to be addressed as “the Number One Republican in your city.” I thought I’d share it with you as an example of clever marketing, before I write STOP at the bottom and delete it.
My team has informed me you’re the Number One Republican in your city. That means there’s no one who I would rather reach out to for this critical task: The 2023 NRSC NATIONWIDE CENSUS.
The radical Left is determined to destroy our country, but I’m determined to stop them, and I know you are too. That’s why I’m calling on you to join me by completing the 2023 Nationwide Census today.
Your participation is CRUCIAL towards the Republican Party’s success moving forward. We need YOUR SUPPORT.
Complete the census before MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to provide America First Conservatives with the information we need to WIN in 2024. >> https://trmpusa.com/q92n
Thank you,
Donald J. Trump
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Ooh, I will bet the census questions are similarly flattering as well as being pointed and slanted.
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You should at least complete the survey. I always do when I get those ridiculous emails/texts from both parties.
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Sample question from The Trump Census:
What qualities make Trump a winner?
A. Nobody makes deals like Donald Trump.
B. Nobody knows technology like Donald Trump.
C. Nobody has hair as beautiful as Donald Trump’s.
D. Nobody makes perfect phone calls like Donald Trump.
E. Nobody defeated Barack Obama in the 2016 Presidential Election better than Donald Trump.
F. All of the above
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I just love these fake surveys. Why do they come to me when I’m registered with a different party? I often send them back filled out to disagree with everything thing they prompt, and YET–sometimes I get back a computer generated “thank you for being in the vanguard blah blah blah” note. Always picks up my spirits to learn that I’m an elite super patriot.
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The trouble with this one is that you can’t submit your answers unless you donate to his cause.
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But wait there’s more! The survey starts by testing your cognitive capabilities and visual acuity. Can you spot the dog, purse, cow, pig…
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man woman camera tv
or, here’s another
criminal, traitor, seditionist, rapist, president
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@ Bob “The Legend” and a man filled with wisdom…While I have you on the line, my mentee has a BIG Senior Project (he has been my student since 8th grade) and told me he is working on this project. I thought, “I should one of the most intelligent people I know” to see if there is a way he could contact you to share ideas or where to research. I told him he should ask “How” or “Why” questions because the way it is phrased his essential question can be answered “yes” or “no.” Just throwing it out there. Thanks. He calls me Mr. X.
Hey Mr. X,
I am thinking about researching some ways in which our knowledge of paleontology and the fossil records can be applied to education and critical thinking problems for my senior project. I know that based on some research I am doing, many people surveyed in studies do not believe that critical thinking is something presently taught in schools.
Do you think a lack of critical thinking is still a problem in society and in schools?
My whole question for my senior project is: How can our understanding of the fossil record and paleontology contribute to solutions to problems such as climate and environmental ignorance?
I am not limited to climate and environmental ignorance, Ms. Bruce said I could research basically any problem that I can apply paleontology to. So I think this is a fine problem to look into.
Let me know what you think, I guess I just want to know if I should really go down this path in my research.
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The whole paleontology and education generally connection seems really tenuous and vague, as does bringing critical thinking into this. Obviously paleontologists do thinking, and it’s interesting to consider the particular types of thinking that they do. But here is one possibility that your student might consider: answering the question, “How can we know and what can we know, scientifically, about the past?” and the related question, “What methods for knowing about the past are available to the paleontologist?”
And a way of setting this up can be as follows:
We can know about the past from written records.
We can know about the past from the fossil record.
We can know about the past from artifacts.
We can know about the past from chemical signatures.
We can know about the past by comparison of forms (animal morphology, genetic makeup, linguistic cognates and systematic linguistic change).
In each case, the student can find examples and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the method. (For example, written records go back only so far. Soft tissues typically aren’t fossilized.
A secondary question could be, “Why do people differ in their interpretations of the past?” And the answer to that question is that the available traces of the past are sketchy and that these have to be woven together by an interpreter to produce an overall, coherent picture, a process that involves interpretation and extrapolation that can differ from person to person looking at the same facts.
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So, that’s a way for him to focus the paper while dealing with both ways of thinking and paleontology.
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But if he likes this, he should run it by his teacher first.
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Speaking only for myself, I’m proud to be a member of the radical Left.
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Which, according to MAGA terms, means anyone who doesn’t agree with them or see the world according to them.
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Nothing in the survey about the woke mob. shocking
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I will not click on Tricky Traitor Trump’s survey even out of curiosity.
What kind of cookies and/or spyware might end up stealthy planted on your device to monitor your online activities and maybe steal vital ID data so the traitor can raid your bank accounts and/or run up your credit card balance?
https://cookie-script.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-third-party-cookies.html
“Although cookies allow a website to track how a website visitor uses that website (such as remembering log-in details and items clicked on), they cannot actually track everything you do in the way that spyware can. Spyware has the ability to track your search history, and some can even access hardware like your webcam.”
https://www.hyperoptic.com/faq/posts/what-is-the-difference-between-a-cookie-and-spyware/
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All fine and well, of course I agree with almost all. But if the Democrats would have just forgotten my phone number and email address for just 6 months after the midterms, they might have gotten a donation by now.
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