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The Scandalous Life of 8-Year-Old Stephen Miller
My third-grade class photo.
Last week, the left attacked Brett Kavanaugh for an uncorroborated attempted sexual assault when he was a high schooler. No time, no date, no place, no evidence, no witnesses … but, hey, he drank beer which is almost as bad. Many of us wondered, are they really going all the way back to high school to attack conservatives? Apparently, this was just the warm-up act.
The Hollywood Reporter ran a piece Wednesday by the third-grade teacher of Trump adviser Stephen Miller. (As opposed to my podcast co-host Stephen Miller.) Apparently, the eight-year-old Miller was a “strange dude” and is, therefore, unfit for any role in polite society. From the article:
Do you remember that character in Peanuts, the one called Pig Pen, with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him? That was Stephen Miller at 8. I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk — he always had stuff mashed up in there. He was a strange dude. I remember he would take a bottle of glue — we didn’t have glue sticks in those days — and he would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it.
Yeah, I did this. So did all my friends at Indian Bend Elementary School. (I only had guy friends; girls had cooties.)
Our teacher, Mr. Mulvahill, just assumed we were morons but the next time I’m nominated to the Supreme Court, I expect it to come up. That, and spending recess with two inverted Pringles in my lips and quacking like a duck.
I remember being concerned about him — not academically. He was OK with that, though I could never read his handwriting. But he had such strange personal habits. He was a loner and isolated and off by himself all the time.
I’m glad California’s third-grade teachers are shaming kids who have a tough time making friends; they’ve had it too easy for too long. I’d usually welcome the loners into my group so they could experience the joy of eating paste and not eating Pringles.
Mr. Mulvahill yelled at me a lot and I bet he drank a lot of beer.
At the end of the year, I wrote all my concerns — and I had a lot of them — in his school record. When the school principal had a conference with Stephen’s parents, the parents were horrified. So the principal took some white-out and blanked out all my comments. I wish I could remember what I wrote, but this was 25 years ago. I’ve taught a lot of third-graders since then. Of course, Stephen wasn’t political then — it wasn’t until later that he started to make waves.
Wait, an eight-year-old wasn’t political? I spent my third-grade weekends banging on the Supreme Court doors demanding the resignation of William Rehnquist. After all, both he and Sen. Goldwater refused to censure Mr. Mulvahill for yelling and drinking beer.
Dear media: Stop beclowning yourselves with these idiotic stories. Otherwise, an enterprising Ricochet editor will investigate your elementary school records to reveal you were as big of a moron as I was.
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So now the left is Doxing conservatives, and generally anyone they don’t like back to the crib. We keep waiting for some sense of shame to kick in, yet I am beginning to feel that is a fools errand.
Other folks behavior cannot be pinned on Trump, he is just the catalyst that has encouraged these folks to reveal their true ugly selves. If there is any semblance of Exceptionalism left in the US, they need to get pounded in the polls next month like the Silent Majority did for old Tricky Dicky in 1968. Without Gov Wallace as a spoiler, the pounding would have been even more stark, because those deplorable states are now clearly within the arms of the GOP.
My sister-in-law told me this great story years ago, and I don’t remember if it was a real story about one of her own kids or if she read it in the Reader’s Digest. But:
A mother goes to her kindergartner’s parent-teacher conference. The teacher tells the mother that she’s deeply concerned about her son. “He colors only with the brown crayon. Even when we suggest he use another color, he uses only the brown crayon.”
“Gee, I didn’t know that. I’ll ask him about it when I get home.”
When she gets home, the concerned mother asks her son about the brown crayon problem. He says, “I always use brown because it drives my teacher crazy.”
:-)
Ditto. You are correct. I’ve never seen, or smelled a mimeograph. Conflation of memory.
I have it on good authority that Miller actually kicked a pregnant woman, and that was before he was even born!
Reason 935 to not get overly excited when teachers talk about being underpaid.
Took food from her for years and never paid for it, either
Everything old is new again.
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1050130097812979713
I can’t say where or when, but the third grade teacher of Stephen Miller molested me when he was in high school. Or he drank alot of beer in college. But whatever happened, his life should be destroyed and he should lose his job.
Even though Mr. Castaigne wrongly claims that I was a witness to the molestation/beer drinking/whatever, we should all believe him because he suffered terribly – and by not believing him we would be complicit in whatever happened to him.
EDIT: Cleaned up sloppy writing.
I thought the narrative of the past twenty years was that the weird, nerdy kids you knew in school were now our cool, sophisticated, tech-savvy leaders; changing the world, setting the trends, and leading us into the future.
He shoulda joined the choom gang.
That only works if you are a Democrat
Aaaaand she got suspended…
Doubt that will stick with teacher unions involved.
It is amazing how far the Left opposition research will go. I am not sure anybody will be employable in the future if your grade school teachers and classmates will be the source of the background material.
That’s the problem with the Left today. What’s satire today is reality by tomorrow.
Actually this is great. The Left has gotten so angry and insane that the mask is gone. For years they were able to keep the mask on and fool the majority of the people. The last time this happened was the 70’s when they made the word “Liberal” so toxic they had to run from it for decades.