Janicek appeared to be referring to a joke Sasse made during the address when he said high school graduates would be asked to climb a rope for “no reason” in the real world. He downplayed the significance of graduation, saying people pay psychologists to forget their high school years. The senator, who graduated from the same high school in 1990 tried to make light of the pandemic among other topics, like murder hornets and a black hole in space. -- U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse's attempt at humor during a speech at a Nebraska high school's online commencement — which included … It's what he said and what he felt,” said Flittie. An urgent message from health care experts: hospitals in Nebraska are dangerously close to being overwhelmed. “Ridiculing mental health care specialists, suggesting that the graduates are lazy slackers and using the platform to blame China for the pandemic we have now is beyond reprehensible,” Janicek continued. We've got grit and we're gonna beat this thing,” he said in the virtual address. Thanks a lot China, we're all teachers now.” His comments targeting China come about two months after he urged Twitter to remove the Chinese Communist Party from the social media platform, accusing it of “waging a massive propaganda campaign to rewrite the history of COVID-19 and whitewash the Party’s lies to the Chinese people and the world.”. FREMONT, Neb. FIRST ALERT: Showers are possible as early as this evening, but a better chance arrives tonight into Sunday morning. Sasse made the comments during his speech to Nebraska's Fremont High School graduating class, in which he was discussing the impact the outbreak has had on Nebraska. Ben Sasse has been … It's probably hit your family. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) And what an address it was! We're Americans. It's hit our whole country and nobody knows exactly how we're going to beat this thing. “The racism, implying that our graduates are fat and lazy, disparaging teachers, and attacking the mental health profession are despicable. "It came across to the graduating class as degrading,” said Flittie. "If you don't get that joke, talk your mom and dad. “Uh yeah, it’ll be pretty hard to forget that.”, “Congratulations, parents, teachers and coaches, not that there's really any meaningful distinction among those categories anymore at this point,” he also joked at another point during his address. took aim at China over its handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic in joke-filled remarks during a high school commencement address over the weekend. That part's not a joke.”, Sasse’s address also drew criticism from Michael Petersen, a member of the Fremont school board, who said in a Facebook post address to congratulating graduates that they “deserved better than the graduation remarks from Senator Ben Sasse.”. Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, an alumnus of the high school, was tapped to deliver a commencement address. No, that's a joke, if you're headed to college, do not major in psychology,” said Sasse. "You deserved better than the graduation remarks from Senator Ben Sasse," Petersen wrote in a Facebook post. "It would almost be worse if he doubled-down on what he said because he recorded it. “Ben’s said this for months, because it’s true: The Chinese Communist Party’s coronavirus coverup wasted time that could have contained the spread — those lies cost innocent lives in China and around the world. “You're going to say stuff at your high school reunion service ceremonies [like], ‘Remember that time that China started a big global pandemic that created the worst public health crisis in over a century and brought the economy to its knees and we had to stay at home and everybody was hoarding toilet paper and we all watched this documentary about some weirdo dude who raised tigers?

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