Code Rood wrote:And he has been replaced by another neocon. So yeah, that's just awesome. Am I supposed to celebrate now?
Nothing really ever changes. The USA is stuck with neocons (former Trotskyites) on one side and neo-liberals on the other side.
It has been tough sledding for the neocons/neoliberals. They are two sides of the same coin. They have the same puppet master.
Code Rood wrote:Wise up and stop participating in this circus every four years. Everything is completely controlled.
Obama was with the neoliberals/neoconservaties too, but he wasn't supposed to win. It wasn't his turn. It was Hillary's. She blew it in 2008. However, John McCain fucked up too as did Mitt Romney in 2012. Obama was very beatable, but McCain and Romney didn't have the balls that Trump does. So they rigged 2016 to be between Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. You've already heard me say, I don't care who wins in 2020--as long as it isn't Joe Biden. My preference is for Trump, because of the courts. Otherwise, I do not care. I care about destroying the neoconservative/neoliberal cabal, and that part of things is going very well.
Code Rood wrote:An actual America first candidate (not a phony like Trump) would never win. You have to be a Zionist, an internationalist and an imperialist if you want to make it to the White House.
Obama wasn't much of a Zionist. He tended to undermine Israel's government because of his antipathy to Bibi Netanyahu. He wasn't much of an imperialist either--good at destroying things, but not so skilled at building anything lasting.
Crantag wrote:The inflation of college prices has far outstripped probably most other categories of inflation. The student debt situation is modern day indentured servitude, particularly because the loans can never be forgiven through bankruptcy or other such means.
Right, and that is why colleges and universities got into the business of virtually worthless degrees like black studies, women's studies, Asian studies, and so forth. What students should be doing is suing for fraud the way Trump University students did.
Crantag wrote:It's a sort of virtual indentured servitude, in effect (virtual in the sense that the banks aren't directly administering the servants, but have virtual enforcement mechanisms, like wage garnishments and collection agencies).
Right. Who is doing it mostly? The political left.
BigSteve wrote:Who would've thought?
Maybe everyone who understood that the accusations that were being made against Trump were complete bullshit...
I've argued for over a decade that talking heads have to be taking money under the table for their opinions--e.g., George F. Will voting for Barack Obama, while still trying to maintain the fraud that he's a conservative. Same thing David Brooks. Same thing Peggy Noonan. It goes on and on. Yet, people bought it year after year and nobody challenged it, until Trump. Trump is showing that the establishment emperor has no clothes, that the deep state is deeper than anyone thought, and that they have no loyalty to the people of the United States whatsoever. By speaking to people's issues, Trump has torn down the blue wall just as he's building one on the Mexican border.
Drlee wrote:They cost bupkis to produce and present yet the student pays as much or more for them than they do for the 'real' thing.
Absolutely. You can also take CLEP or Dantes testing for many courses, but many colleges won't recognize them because they don't get any money for it. As I said, from my experience working in higher-ed e-procurement, I learned that it's a business--even if it's not for profit.
Drlee wrote:Check it out. The 300 level sociology course I am teaching is being offered in the classroom first semester and online the second. The cost per semester hour at the school makes the online class cost more than $$2100.00 Consider. The classroom edition of my course meets once a week for three hours. The class size is 80 and it is always full. At the in state tuition level of $727.00 per semester hour that class generates $58,160.00 for the university. Absolutely outrageous especially given that the class requires supplies consisting of a couple of thousand sheets of paper and a few boxes of gloves. That is it. No equipment other than a computer projector. Two part time adjuncts which, I can assure you, do not put so much as a dent in that amount.
Right. While you won't agree with me on this, it is another example of why nobody believes their global warming bullshit. If global warming is a serious problem, it saves far more CO2 emissions for people to watch the courses online, take quizzes online, and only go onsite and present identification and take testing at proctored sites to ensure no cheating; and, to go onsite when there is physical lab work to do requiring equipment most students would not have at home.
annatar1914 wrote:Or, we could make Education ''free'', among other things, as just the worthwhile cost for a society interested in improving itself collectively by improving itself intellectually. Getting not just the government out of the student loan business but ceasing to make Education a private business altogether.
However, the establishment's idea of free is that you have a zero price at the point of service, everyone pays higher taxes, and colleges and universities have no obligation to cut expenses. Almost everything in higher-ed could be done at a tiny fraction of the cost, freeing up the physical capital in campuses for lab work and training with physical machinery, etc. There is some social benefit to meeting other students in the same field of endeavor, but not the living on campus and drinking torrential amounts of beer, etc.
Crantag wrote:It might be a worthy ideal though to have free higher education.
Given some of what we've talked about above, 4-year accredited degrees in many fields could be had for a fraction of the cost. History, Math, Art History, Computer Science, etc. There is so much wasted physical capital that could be used for first class labs getting students hands-on experience with equipment they couldn't touch with a 10-foot pole without access to substantially more capital. Yet, that's just not done.
Crantag wrote:I think Warren will be the nominee, by process of elimination, though I'm not that confident. In reality Demented Biden has a pretty good shot of getting it, and then losing to Trump.
I think Biden is going to be neutron bombed by impeachment 2.0. Warren and Sanders are next in line. I'm guessing Warren will beat Sanders, but I really don't know.
annatar1914 wrote:And I predicted Trump's Election from the beginning and for the same reasons too.
I did too, and I don't see your rationale on Williamson. The unheard constituency of the Democrats is getting a voice in AOC and the Squad, while it's old bedrock of white working class blue collar workers have fled to Trump and the Democrats aren't doing anything to recapture them.
annatar1914 wrote:She has every chance in the world to be the Nominee, because not only her own skills but also the bind the Democratic party is in. They cannot pick a White Man, but they cannot win with a Non-White female. Their best chance then always was a White Woman. Of those, Williamson is the one with the best skills as a master persuader and the one who Trump hasn't been able to pin with a ''loser'' memetic label.
This is why I said that the Democrats needed someone like Tulsi Gabbard or Steve Bullock. They are normal people who can relate to real Americans, but they are located in tiny, non-existent media markets. So they have no name recognition. Yet, if they did, their ability to articulate their points and still identify with the average American would give them a real shot at winning. Instead, the Democrats are going with all this weird sexual identity stuff, intersectionality, victimhood, and positively ludicrous spending proposals on "fighting climate change", etc. None of that can put food in your belly, clothes on your back or a roof over your head.
annatar1914 wrote:Trump's going to win, and it won't even be a close one.
It sure looks that way.
annatar1914 wrote:Sanders is not only too old, but he's too tied in with Linda Sarsour and her crowd. He's not going to make it.
Yeah, and he's a left wing Jew, which is a deal killer for evangelicals.
Crantag wrote:Yeah, only the Democrats could lose to Trump.
I feel as though they can't even field a decent candidate.
The Republicans were ridiculous as hell with their 16 clowns show last time, the Democrats managed to outdo them this time round.
You are contradicting yourself. 16 other Republican clowns lost to Trump, including an incredibly well-funded and thoroughly experienced Jeb Bush.
BigSteve wrote:Between the Green New Deal, Beto wanting to confiscate guns and them wanting open borders, the democrats have all but sealed their fate. Trump will win in 2020 and, if the idiots on the left don't smarten up soon, a Republican will win in 2024...
Yeah, I don't think the Democrats get that yet. Beto demonstrated just how stupid Democrats can be.
jimjam wrote:But if his problems in the state bleed over to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which collectively account for 30 electoral votes, it could well doom his chances.
Trump pulled an inside straight in 2016, but he's pecking to do it again.
jimjam wrote:Mitigating climate change and saving the environment never poll well.
Yeah, consigning oneself to a lower standard of living is for unbathed Patchouli-drenched hippies and debt-laden college grads serving up coffee at Starbucks with their "black studies" degrees.
jimjam wrote:Mother Nature is forcing herself onto the ballot, and Trump’s efforts to roll back more than 80 rules and standards protecting clean air, water, climate, parks and wilderness make him uniquely vulnerable. He can’t pivot away from what he’s doing. He owns it, and it’s villainous. This time is different.
Did you see his rally with Narendra Modi? That's a majority Asian crowd cheering for Trump... That should scare the shit out of Democrats, but they are ignoring it.
Trump is about to steal South Asian Americans from the Democrats, and they have big numbers in places like Michigan. I work with lots of them, and many of them are much more conservative than you think.
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