The struggle is not real

Sometimes I think there’s too much pressure to study things — anything — just to fill space (online or on paper).

Case in point: diggit magazine last week presented us with a “study” of Kim Kardashian’s “facework” on Instagram.

I have no idea why anyone needs this information, but what we learn here is that Kardashian presents her struggle to pass the California baby bar exam (the test you have to pass if you’re not going to an accredited law school) “to create the illusion of vulnerability, relatability and accessibility.”

Kardashian also presents us, the study said, with her family history and access to helpful lawyers and professors — “power inequalities emerging from her privileges that would have made it impossible for the majority of her followers to follow the same route.”

Life is tough, but you can handle it if you have a lot of money and fame.

We also learn that comments on Instagram show that viewers like what she’s doing, or don’t like what she’s doing.

Fair enough.

Hypotheticals. Say you’re in charge of a large firm’s hiring and you’re presented with a candidate who flunked multiple bar exams before passing and didn’t go to an accredited law school. Do you hire this person?

What if this person is a Kardashian? Would this be a DEI hire?

Discuss.

Second hypothetical: What if you’re a Kardashian who finally passed the bar? Where do you apply for a job and what kind of law do you practice?

Fashion crimes?

Third hypothetical: Would you retain her? If so, what would you retain her for?

Discuss.

Let’s suppose that Kardashian is doing this so that she can do pro bono work for good causes, or maybe bad causes. What causes should they be? Should potential clients be afraid? Will they get a cut of the TV money?

Fourth hypothetical: Say you’re driving on a freeway and you see Kim Kardashian on a billboard with the caption: “Been in an accident? I will get you what you deserve.” Should you swerve and cause an accident? How would you make it seem like it’s not your fault?

These are topics that must be studied if you have nothing better to do.

A better idea. President Donald Trump has said he wants Canada to be the 51st state. This is obviously a terrible idea — Canada is woke as hell and won’t vote Republican.

It will be just one of those things the president says he’ll do and then not do when someone tells him the problem with it.

The notion, though, is a good one if you think of it a little differently — the United States should become Canada’s 11th province.

Finally free health care!

If nothing else, California, Oregon and Washington should secede and join our brethren to the north.

And then we can invade Alaska.

Write your legislators.