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Commencement Season and the Carcass of Woodstock
The Artful Dilettante ^ | June 3, 2018 | Artful Dilettante

Posted on 06/03/2018 10:21:22 AM PDT by huckfillary

Once again, we're into the college commencement season. And once again, conservatives and libertarians have been kicked to the curb. Even if some balsy college president or board announced the selection of one of the persons below, the campus would be quickly engulfed in flames, its administrators subject to public mockery and humiliation, followed by summary termination. These are the children and grandchildren of those who went to Woodstock and never came home. Our nation is the very carcass of Woodstock on which we now feast.

Below is a list of conservative/libertarian speakers of which any university should be proud and pleased to have speak to their graduates. The list is of course a stream of thought. Please add your favorites to the list.

So, to the adademic community I ask where's

Kellyanne Conway ?

Betsy DeVos ?

Rush Limbaugh ?

Sean Hannity ?

Mark Levin ?

Walter Williams ?

Thomas Sowell ?

VP Mike Pence ?

Dr. Ben Carson ?

Rep. Steve Scalise ?

Rep. Jim Jordan ?

Justice Clarence Thomas ?

Justice Samuel Alito ?

Candace Owens ?

Dr. Jordan Peterson ?

Tucker Carlson ?

Judge Jeanine Pirro ?

Speaker Newt Gingrich ?


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KEYWORDS: commencement; speakers; woodstock
Please add your favorites to list of prospective speakers. I'll assemble a comprehensive list as a follow-up post. Thank you. A/D
1 posted on 06/03/2018 10:21:23 AM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary

The President


2 posted on 06/03/2018 10:22:59 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: huckfillary

Dr. Jordan Peterson


3 posted on 06/03/2018 10:24:43 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: huckfillary

Victor Davis Hanson


4 posted on 06/03/2018 10:27:32 AM PDT by padubis
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To: huckfillary

Stop mentioning libertarians in the context of conservatives. The two are diametrically opposed.


5 posted on 06/03/2018 10:30:24 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: huckfillary
Hell, nowadays Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, Bob Corker and John Kasich would bring riots to any campus.

Your average 2018 college snowflakes might begrudgingly consider "moderates" like Elizabeth Warren, however.

6 posted on 06/03/2018 10:31:22 AM PDT by daler
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To: LouAvul

Yes....diametrically opposed to the left. The Left considers both with equal hatred.

I’m a libertarian and I get mildly angry when someone says, “You’re so conservative.” I respond, “Anyone who advocates reducing federal expenditures by 80% can hardly be called a conservative.”


7 posted on 06/03/2018 10:40:07 AM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary

Pence, Carson, Thomas, Scalise, all gave commencement this year so far

Alito doesn’t do them

Sowell and Williams are too old ...maybe

Newt did one last year but his wife’s new job consumes him

Colleges besides being liberal anyhow fear Soros Antifa types ruining graduation and if you bring in Hannity or Rush to a regular state school that will happen

Trump did Navy and Pence Hillsdale for plausible reasons

Today seems to be the era of celebrity speakers for this

Silly

I rarely want to hear it all anyhow honestly

Churchill or MacArthur maybe or Ronaldus Magnus or Donaldus Maximus maybe


8 posted on 06/03/2018 10:43:25 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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Yeah, I suppose I should have been more explicite-—conservative/ libertarian speakers invited to traditionally marxist bastions of indoctrination. I wanna see Mark Levin at the Harvard School of Government, I wanna see Newt speaking at Evergreen College, Dr. Jordan Peterson at Yale, Kellyanne Conway at Franklin-Marshall or Swarthsmore. These schools don’t hate these these thinkers so much as they fear them.


9 posted on 06/03/2018 10:56:41 AM PDT by huckfillary
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To: daler

Please stop. I was getting nauseous at Romney and really sick at Graham and lost it at Elizabeth Warren.

Do they still make Alka Selzter?


10 posted on 06/03/2018 11:08:30 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorhip or we're finished.)
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To: huckfillary

Ain’t gonna happen it would cause riots

Liberals ain’t falling on their swords for us


11 posted on 06/03/2018 11:20:53 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: huckfillary

At the mention of the sissy college administrators fearing Antifa trouble on campus, I thought again: why can’t two play at this game?

Why are the only active people leftist?. Leftists can’t be stimulated to get off mommy’s couch after video games all day in her spare bedroom where they live, to look for a job (Like The Big Lebowski)——but somehow they rush out to tear down the campus and block highway traffic if a conservative might be permitted “free speech.”

What if our side came out to play?

CNN:Wolf, how can these conservatives violate free speech and federal highway access laws to prevent the Smartest Woman in the World Hillary to speak on campus?
Wolf: A shameful day. I danced at her campaign headquarters the night she cinched the nomination, remember. Did some swell moves. People must be allowed to speak without security issues on campus. They must.


12 posted on 06/03/2018 11:22:13 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorhip or we're finished.)
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To: huckfillary

I was at Woodstock. You could see it back then the snowflakes those young men and women would be spawning. 3 days of love and peace. BS. The self absorbed, me me me, “do unto me as I would
do unto me” spoiled brats, capitalism good for me bad for you bunch.

The loving, compassionate, helpful, “Golden Ruled” individuals were the near by townspeople. At their side road stand giving out free food and water and helping anyone that was in need.
While the would “hippies” sold cheep food and drinking water for profit.


13 posted on 06/03/2018 11:28:59 AM PDT by lombardwarrior2
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And next year is 50 years since. I wonder what will be planned to mark the event?

I agree with your observation. It was an interesting cast of characters that planned that.

It’s also interesting that SOME of the folks that played it
could be there next year.


14 posted on 06/03/2018 12:26:51 PM PDT by Shoefus
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To: frank ballenger

Leftists are paying people to go out and demonstrate. Rent-a-mobs.


15 posted on 06/03/2018 7:12:05 PM PDT by Pelham ("Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.")
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