He is not “resigning”. He is retiring, and wants to make a splash with his Progressive buddies while doing it.
He gets a fat pension.
If you resign, you do not retire.
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Precisely! Just more cost-free virtual signaling.
Almost all the virtue-signaling I’ve seen has been cost-free. In many cases, it is socially cost-effective. I wish we could find a way to change that, but as the left has a chokehold on media and academia, it will be tough. And to think that they croak about the few media hours (mostly radio, at that) we have which are dedicatedly conservative. The same way they croak about a couple of hours our children may spend in church/Sunday school, while they have the kids (and under government enforcement) for many many hours a week.