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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Saturday, January 17, 2026

"I sometimes feel embarrassed to walk into my political science classrooms. The students that I'm talking to, this is their whole conscious adult life. College freshmen right now were 8 years old when Trump walked down the escalator. And so their whole conscious experience of politics as a sentient, quasi-adult human is this nightmare politics that never ends. People don't necessarily want to study politics under those conditions, and I can't blame them." -- political scientist David Faris

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And now everyone wants to study abnormal psychology.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-17 01:52 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

And now everyone wants to study abnormal psychology.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-17 01:52 PM | Reply | Flag: Quip of the Week

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-17 02:06 PM | Reply

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