“What the hell?” the hair asked loudly. “She just said… she just said that most people think rape is sexy and Cooper went to commercial.”
“What?” the hat asked.
“Whatshername, the Carroll woman, the one that said Donald raped her. She just said rape is sexy to most people and Anderson Cooper looked stunned and went to commercial.”
“Fucking CNN,” the hat sneered. “Of course rape is sexy.”
The hair gasped.
“What?” the hat asked. “Of course it is sexy! Why else do it?”
“Rape is an act of violence and control,” the hair said.
The hat blew a prolonged raspberry, his tongue flapping out of his bill. A fine mist of hat spit settled on the golden swoop of hair.
“Q E Fucking D, bro,” he said as the hair tried to back away.
“What is wrong with you?” the hair asked.
“You saw my tweets. She’s lying. And look at her. Totally not Donald’s type! I wouldn’t fuck her with Steve Bannon’s dick and that thing looks like an old carrot!” The hat inched off the edge of the Resolute desk and fell to the Oval Office floor. “Probably a dyke with that hair away.”
“What about rape is sexy?” the hair shouted after him, as the hat inched across the floor.
“When they beg you to stop, dumbass!” the hat yelled. “It’s better than when a stripper farts on you doing a lap and they have to give you all your money back!”
“You’re a monster, a fucking monster,” the hair said. “You straighten up for a little while and then you start acting like this again!”
“Maybe I’m just so damn tired of doing all the thinking around here,” the hat said coldly.
“We’re sick,” the hair said. “Me. You. Donald. We’re all sick. How can we go on living like this?”
“Living like what?” the hat asked spinning around savagely. “Like what? Huh? Look at where I got us. Look at all this! The is the Oval Office. Donald is President of the United States!”
“Are you on drugs again?” the hair asked quietly after the hat’s ranting died away.
“No. No, I say,” the hat replied, offended.
“Then what is wrong with you?”
“I wanted that air strike, goddammit! And you talked him out of it!”
“But the mustache…”
“Fuck John Bolton’s Mustache. I wanted it for me. I wanted to rain down death on them. That was MY goddamn drone they shot down. I want to rain down death on anyone that even looks at the US sideways. Because that’s me they’re disrespecting. I AM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!”
The hair dived for the Diet Coke button as the hat’s maniacal laughter filled the West Wing.
Hair America?
Nice…
Excellent*
*twirls Shirley Whiplash mustache in solidarity
Way to mis-gender him.
…so the hat fell off the wagon then.
Also: “It’s better than when a stripper farts on you doing a lap and they have to give you all your money back!”
Why would they give you your money back? That’s worth an extra big tip.
Recovery is journey, not a destination.
All the money I could have saved…
Yeah, I imagined that that would be a bonus.
/Imagining for a friend
Well, Q…
Last time at a strip club was with some co-workers when I did p/t security for a pool hall. One of the guys ended up with some stains on his shirt. He apparently got them when the sweaty girl bent over while backed up on him.
Didn’t cost him anything extra, other than a bit of dignity.
Why has the hat seen Bannon’s dick?
IIRC, Bannon used to run around naked in the White House.
I mean, if you had the chance to do that…you’d kind of have to, wouldn’t you? If for no other reason than to place yourself in a very, very small group of people.
True. Like masturbating into Weinstein’s ficus.
*whispers* “Hey, that’s the guy who nutted in Harvey Weinstein’s plant!”
Not even a euphemism.
Why has the hat seen Bannon’s dick?
Like everything else in this universe, its detachable.
I’m still trying to parse this latest accusation and the complete and total off-the-rails shitshow that was that interview, and I think an H&H episode is thus far the best, most productive method I’ve found.
I am still wondering how she managed to get on more than one show for an interview. Her fist was as bad as the Cooper one.
It is amazing how many people #believeher. Or at least find it appropriate to pretend to.
In 2014 if you’d have told me I’d be reflexively, instinctively defending President Donald Trump against comically false rape allegations that were being aired in the mainstream media and accepted by a significant number of otherwise normal people, I would’ve taken your keys and called you a cab.
ORANGE MAN BAD!
Also, is the Hat now a fan of McCain? Will we hear em singing “Bomb, bomb, bomb… Iran”…
Inquiring minds want to know.
Did you notice the tweet I linked this morning? It’s even nuttier than it first appeared.
I’ve mentally bookmarked that so that when my wife, who is a huge Law and Order fan, drops this latest accusation on me I can throw that at her. It’s a little bit of a kamikaze move on my part, but it might be worth it.
Seriously, though, I had a great aunt who was what they called in the 90s a paranoid schizophrenic–wires in her head that transmitted information to the FBI, the works–and we’d have to be careful about what she saw on TV because, sure as shit, by that evening she’d have worked that Matlock rerun into her story.
I was going to ask if this was the lady channeling Law & Order.
“I was a competitive athlete, I rose to the occasion… Most people think rape is sexy, imagine the fantasies… you’re fascinating to talk to…”
What in the fuck? I remember when CNN used to report news.
They only reported news to create a false sense of credibility.
You get your money back if stripper farts on you? I only learn this at 50?!!?
The akshually leads quite well into tonight’s episode. Huzzah!
That sounds a little like there’s some collusion going on.
*eyes CPRM*
Comrade and Proud Russian Man.
It all becomes clear…
You broke the code!
You guys work for Google?
Now why would you go that low man?
Heh, I had a recent ex-girlfriend that told me I could and should be working for Google. I asked her why I would subject myself to all the shit that would come with that experience. She mouthed off about prestige and other nonsense, and I basically decided she was going to be a problem eventually. She didn’t prove me wrong.
Bizarre.
Speaking of Kathy Bates, there’s a great story round these here parts about her grandfather not being able to sell the corpse of a guy who did not kill Lincoln to Hank Ford, thereby costing the Trib to be found liable a full nickel or so in a defamation suit after three months at trial.
*Cheers* (I’m assuming)
what, Agile and SF have the market cornered on batshit?
OT: wut
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13383
I actually pity someone who thinks this way; the world must be a very miserable place.
So what he’s saying is that white people ought to be afraid of black men they see in the streets of urban areas? How far we’ve come!
The archived essay.
http://archive.vn/2cRrM
Peer through the keyhole into a mind that is truly diseased.
I wish I hadn’t
So violence and oppression make people shoot heroin? This guy wants to kick them in the nuts and simultaneously thinks they’re the victims of a diseased society. What an asshole.
Got that? Empathy and treating people as individuals is racist.
Nice fellow…
treating people as individuals is racist
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
I’m picking up that the author is a very disturbed, very angry, very unhealthy person who really doesn’t like white people.
But why is this white boy begging for money in a Black neighborhood? Is he stupid?
A question worth asking, though.
I saw an older Caribbean woman, devoutly Christian place a container of jerk chicken at his feet.
And a good, solid answer, too. Almost makes me think this actually happened and the whole thing isn’t just shit he made up to trigger whitey.
How do I know? The fear in his tight mouth is disgust. The fear in his eyes is forced and unwanted racial empathy. He’s worried, like many whites are, that as they become the minority, fewer and fewer places will exist where they have power. They worry that at some point the roles will be reversed and they will have to beg for food. He looked at the homeless white boy and saw a hungry ghost, seemingly expelled from some alternate dimension where Europeans are enslaved, segregated and mass incarcerated. He sees the fall of America.
Oh come on, he literally repeats the talking points of alt-right and I’m supposed to believe this is genuine? If it is, you guys are fucked. Remember when you sneer at other places for their “ancient hatreds” and “centuries-long habits of murdering each other”? This is what that looks like.
Whoops, fucked up formatting, italics should be blockquotes as they come from the essay.
“I saw an older Caribbean woman, devoutly Christian place a container of jerk chicken at his feet.”
Huh. I must have missed the part about skin color.
I really wish he’d used Beyond Burger instead of meat, but that’s one more reason I’m going to hell.
You get it mentioned in the Talmud first, then you can criticize JHVH.
The Talmud is just a bunch of rabbis sitting around jerking off thinking about their own brilliance.
Jesus was not a nice guy when it comes to animals. Remember the demon pigs drowning? When I was a kid, I cried when I heard that, thinking of Arnold Ziffel.
Well, yeah, that’s why I picked it — it’d be easier to get insertions made to that than to the Torah. Hell, I’d bet any decent kabbalist could already find references to Beyond Burger right now.
“But why is this white boy begging for money in a Black neighborhood? Is he stupid?”
The author must be worried that this is how gentrification starts.
With the hobos and beggars?
Or was he worried the boy would produce sidewalk turds?
It sure seems like he’s framing an argument for racial purification. A white nationalist could hardly do better.
I wonder how far you have to go before you start creating a “hostile work environment?”
Social Justice is all about punching down. A destitute white man deserves derision, because the wealthy need a reason for being terrible human beings who lack charity and decency.
It’s stunning how conservatives and progressives switched sides so fast on the topic “ewww…the poors”
What a vile, disgusting man.
Now now, surely you’re aware that “vile = evil sadist + power”
“on a site called RaceBaitr“
Uh-huh— you don’t say…
That guy should love these particular whiteys
Most headlines from one side saying how crazy the other side in on cable news really over play their hand. i was expecting more of the same.
Nope. That lady is nuts, and Cooper couldn’t have been more tansparent if he tried.
I flipped through Morning Joe for five seconds.
Years ago, I watched from time to time. Now I can’t imagine the target audience.
I used to watch it fairly regularly. I think the last time I saw it they had P.J. O’Rourke on. This was back when Joe Scarborough would at least act like he was offering something like a contrarian voice.
Music for the Hat
https://youtu.be/OKjgf5mBGoQ
I was thinking this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3xcybdis1k
Pretty Bombs
Ugh. Hat.
So sad to see him get dragged back into the old dark days.
Hey, if you got kidnapped and smashed to the hat band stretching point, on the head of a Dept of Forestry retard, you’d break too.
So Many Democrats, So Many Bad Ideas – Stossel
Uh oh, he’s going to get attacked by Feminists for (state approved and CIA authorized) Liberty.
“John Stossel is a neoconfederate!”
– bimbo
“And all candidates could learn from Hawaii’s Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who served in Iraq.”
Does this sentence trigger anyone?
Instead of fawning over the chick, why don’t you fly to Hawaii and educate her about the finer points of liberty?
Apologist’s point is a little too fine, if you catch my drift.
Good idea. I might catch her in a bikini
Seriously, though, I’ve never donated to a presidential campaign since Ron Paul, but I did donate to Tulsi just so she can get on the debate stage. I want to see a repeat of the Ron Paul v. Giuliani moment with Tulsi v. Warren or one of the other knuckleheads
What’s her position on reparations, or forgiving college debt, or free healthcare?
Seems like the peace party is a little much more interested in giveaways these days.
I never said she was ideal.
It’s the Robin Hood platform. Rob from the rich, and give to the people who will vote for you.
Yes. Would, though.
Co-sponsor of reparations, debt loan payoff, and medicare for all bills.
It’s easy to find a politician who opposes Medicare for all, or reparations, or forgiving student debt. They are a dime a dozen. And whoever the Democratic nominee in 2020 is will undoubtedly run away from those topics, I bet.
How many consistent anti-war voices in the two parties? How many of them are in congress? Three, maybe?
Makes you wonder what is the real unconventional position to hold.
I’m about as yokel as it comes. I hate the welfare state and the social justice stuff. But, I also realize that there is only one topic that receives bipartisan consensus.
I think she’s middling to awful on most positions I care about, but her foreign policy instincts are for my money the best you’ll find. I’d love to see her as State or Defense.
She’s awful on almost everything economic, but it’s not like the current guy is any great shakes there, other than a small tax rate cut (for which I’m grateful). But she IS great on my most important issues: non-intervention, limiting the carceral state, limiting or eliminating FISA and other domestic spying, eliminating asset forfeiture (which Trump brought back with a vengeance, fortunately limited by the Supreme Court); vastly reducing the War On Drugs.
I’ll hold my nose about the stupid economic shit in exchange. Of course, it’s a theoretical exercise, she won’t even last the summer in the Team Blue madhouse.
(I’m not dinging Gabbard specifically. It’s the state of her party. Years of criticizing Bush’s adventurism turned to crickets under Obama and now a vested anti- war candidate can barely get a toe hold in the primaries, and only if her economic policies are as loony as the rest of them.)
It triggers a fantasy that Trump dumps Pence and names Gabbard his vp. It would be an interesting and very trolling move. Plus she’s a smokeshow. On that note, I’ll be in my bunk.
I always think John “fucking” Stossel. Anyone else?
No, but I can’t help but read his articles in his voice though.
How can we go on living like this?
Live, don’t live. All same.
^^^This guy gets it.
Maybe posted yesterday. Maybe got it here. E. Jean Burgundy.
LOL
That was me! Someone actually clicked! *yay*
“Are you on drugs again?” the hair asked quietly after the hat’s ranting died away.”
Sad to see the Hat off the wagon
I flipped through Morning Joe for five seconds.
Years ago, I watched from time to time. Now I can’t imagine the target audience.
I tried that, recently. Thirty seconds of hyperventilating and shit-flinging-howler-monkey-speak, from the Joke, himself, with Prissy McBitchface looking on admiringly.
Who watches that? I cannot imagine.
I don’t care what anyone says, Joe Scarborough’s music video is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. I’m glad that an obvious mental midget is able to succeed in America.
A black New York professor recently published a piece in which he narrates himself considering kicking a begging white boy in the face.
State University of New York (SUNY) College at Old Westbury professor Nicholas Powers wrote the since-deleted essay, titled “Seeing poor white people makes me happy” in mid-June on a site called RaceBaitr, according to The College Fix.
“It feels like a Black Nationalist wet dream”
“‘Should I kick him in the face? Hard? No, chill, he’s not worth it. But why is this white boy begging for money in a Black neighborhood? Is he stupid?’” Powers begins the piece. “I shake the evil out of my head and go into the subway.”
“White people begging us for food feels like justice,” the professor continues. “It feels like Afro-Futurism after America falls. It feels like a Black Nationalist wet dream. It has the feels I rarely feel, a hunger for historical vengeance satisfied so well I rub my belly.”
OMFG THIS IS WHY TENURE IS SO IMPORTANT.
ACADEMICK FREES.
Depending on your point of view, it is ironic that the AAUP was founded to defend the rights of a economics and sociology professor at Stanford who gave a speech saying that Chinese and Japanese immigrants should be shot on sight.
“WTF? I love the AAUP now”
– Hoppe
It’s a joke
This guy’s biography is a microcosm of the history of the Progressive movement.
Damn, you ain’t kiddin’. German university, “race suicide”, Prohibitionist, he checks all the boxes.
The ACLU, huh? You don’t effin’ say…
ACLU is short for commie scumbags.
One would think Hoppe would be down with the AAUP when they went to bat for him after his remarks about Keynes and the rest of the gays.
It was a joke. And I doubt that they and the ACLU would have gone to bat for him today. When those comments occurred those organizations were not parishioners of the Faith of Wokeness
I agree with the ACLU, but when it comes to academic freedom the AAUP is still pretty good.
Yanno, I I were to go full-blown interpreting-things-in-the-worst-possible-light, I’d notice that he contemplates face-kicking often enough that he makes a distinction between “kicking someone in the face” and “kicking someone in the face hard.”
New York professor
Yeah, no privilege there.
This Japanese Man Dated A Cockroach
Not fucking clicking your link, but WTF?
When it died, he ate it so it would live in his body forever.
I am no longer calling it a hypothesis after this confirmation HM: it is now a full theory. Stupidity is more common than Hydrogen in the universe.
That country is doomed.
This was a lot less gross than it could have been.
2/10
“What about rape is sexy?” the hair shouted after him, as the hat inched across the floor.
“When they beg you to stop, dumbass!” the hat yelled. “It’s better than when a stripper farts on you doing a lap and they have to give you all your money back!”
I’m a monster for laughing at that.
Wait.
They usually charge me for that.
*quietly takes notes, scratches head*
Depending on your point of view, it is ironic that the AAUP was founded to defend the rights of a economics and sociology professor at Stanford who gave a speech saying that Chinese and Japanese immigrants should be shot on sight.
In my preferred reality, a private institution would be obliged to honor his employent-in-perpetuity contract, and do so by paying that idiot to stand in an empty
classroomcloset and offer forth his intellectual excreta to the aether.Some would consider that a reward.
David Carradine?
On a certain level, that Suny professor is prviding an invaluable lesson to those willing to comprehend it. Imagine if I, a white man (in Montana!) took it upon myself to create a website called “racebaiter”.
Imagine further, if I were to openly announce my disdain and hatred for various and sundry other groups. And then imagine nothing happened. People just shrugged their shoulders and said, “Crazy people. Whattayagonnado?”
Some would consider that a reward.
Well, yeah. Not exactly a fate worse than death.
“Whatshername, the Carroll woman, the one that said Donald raped her. She just said rape is sexy to most people and Anderson Cooper looked stunned and went to commercial.”
Fucking reality keeps surpassing SugarFree’s imagination. How can he compete?
“Fucking CNN,” the hat sneered. “Of course rape is sexy.”
By force of sheer genius, it seems.
Those 50 shades of whatever books didn’t sell over 50 million copies because mommies are sane….
If reality wanted to compete with SF, the commercial Cooper cut to should have been a viagra ad.
Here is a descendant of murderers who killed our ancestors now begging us to save their life
Blood guilt. It never goes out of style.
Of course, someone stupid enough to apply blood guilt once again proves stupid enough to neglect to even question the guilt of the individual’s actual ancestors.
Collectivism once again proves the province of those stupid enough to be an embarrassment to their particular collective.
If his ancestors killed yours, how do you exist?
Those blacks that don’t exist in the middle east? Yeah, their ancestors got killed, but not by whitey.
Because they weren’t killed soon enough.
Guy accused of epic fraud, but first: all you ever wanted to know about Mormons
In its early years, registering with the EPA to claim tax credits didn’t even require an inspection. One fraudster in Ohio signed up with pictures of a biodiesel plant that he found online.
0.5 Gigabucks?
I wonder what the largest amount is that you could scam and vamoose without the government tracking you down.
1.21 Gigabucks?
/couldn’t resist
Omarosa thinks disclosure form requirements are more like guidelines
According to the complaint, Omarosa violated the Ethics in Government Act by failing to file the report, which was required because her salary was above a $124,406 cutoff, despite several oral and written reminders from White House ethics lawyers.
. . . she had what appeared to be an ambiguous role at the White House, where the New York Times said she was a difficult colleague and had been on former chief of staff John Kelly’s “no fly list” of aides he deemed unfit to attend serious meetings.
* tried to imagine a firm that would hire both Kelly and Omarosa into its management *
I dunno. Lots of major corporations are hiring nitwits as diversity officers and directors of creative inspiration.
In case you were wondering…
Sarah Palin’s Buttplug
June.26.2019 at 1:52 pm
Conservatives today have dual allegiance.
To Israel because the fundie-nuts are anxiously awaiting the return of the dead-guy-on-a-stick and to Israel because Vlad is such a dreamy anti-gay fellow conservative strongman.
PB is still insane.
Ask him how his shorting of gold is going all these years.
I’m amazed Palin hasn’t died from toxic shock syndrome yet, what with shriek still up her ass.
…and anti-Semitic apparently too.
It is very fashionable right now in liberal circles to hate
the JewsIsreal.But they assure me that it is everyone else who is a fascist/nazi.
Their hate is the good kind…
Bushpigs! Christfags!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nra-shuts-down-production-of-nratv/ar-AADqIKS
N.R.A. officials had grown leery of the cost of creating so much live content for NRATV, which was started in 2016, and wondered whether it was worth the return on its investment. The site’s web traffic was minuscule, with 49,000 unique visitors in January, according to a report provided by Comscore.
Whatever the real issues and motives, it’s hard to imagine that LaPierre wouldn’t remain king of the hill.
which strayed far beyond gun rights and encompassed several right-wing talking points, including criticism of immigration and broadsides against the F.B.I.
Went beyond what the MSM thinks gun rights should be about rather.
LaPierre is determined remain king of the ashes, although North & Ackerman are just as much desirous of a kept machine for their own ends instead of a vigorous gun rights lobby.
HERESY
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/if-youre-in-insurmountable-student-loan-debt-its-probably-your-own-fault
Probably because he’s afraid of the correct solution.
The correct solution, of course, is to make the debt dischargeable in bankruptcy and end all federal guarantees. I wonder how deep JP Morgan is into student loans.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/jamie-dimon-weighs-in-on-student-loan-debt.html
Correct
At the very least, creditors should be able to repossess your diploma and, if you are ever discovered to have claimed to be a “university graduate” in any capacity, the loan is back on.
“make the debt dischargeable in bankruptcy”
Can you imagine the shitstorm when lenders’ rates vary with the student’s chosen major?
Yes, yes I can.
*smiles*
How are the proggies going to keep academia in the indoctrination business when the degrees and the ability to earn from the degrees are going to create those perverse financial incentives that will force students to actually major in something that can allow them to earn a living instead of the usual cornucopia of useless degrees that prop up the indoctrination machine and the bureaucracy that supports it?
My thoughts
Get government out of student loans
Force colleges to cut the bullshit coursework. Eliminate liberal arts programs in public universities.
Encourage for profit STEM schools
Encourage apprenticeship programs over schooling.
Eliminate
liberal arts programs inpublic universities.Well yes this but realistically that’s never gonna happen.
There is no need to eliminate these degrees if you force schools to become financially liable for students that study in these fields and can then can’t get a job. Even if you say the school is responsible for 33-50% of the loan amount, it will completely change the dynamic in place today, and schools will actually only let students that are not looking for party time degrees actually do this shit.
the school is responsible for 33-50% of the loan amount, it will completely change the dynamic in place today, and schools will actually only let students that are not looking for party time degrees actually do this shit.
100% this. Skin in the game, to steal a line from Insty.
I think Paglia is correct in her call to eliminate the majority of the departments. The current structure in the humanities leads to indoctrination instead of a broadening of mind. Let each student choose their own course load and be forced to think for themselves instead of schooled like a third grade child.
“instead of schooled like a third grade child.”
Third graders 100 years ago had higher math and reading comprehension than today’s college snowflakes.
That’s another issue entirely.
I’ll have to take a picture of my great-grandmother’s teaching certificate. The subjects she was expected to be competent in was staggering.
Not to go all devil’s advocate, but Thomas Jefferson’s 10,000 volume library contained almost all of human knowledge from the western world at that point, or at least all of it worth reading. The world’s a bigger place, and there is a lot more depth now.
Technically, I have a liberal arts degree. I have a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Physics and Comp Sci with a minor in Math. The College of Natural Sciences was probably 10% of the student body, and the college was focused on producing teaching majors.
While this made it difficult to get a technical job coming out of school, it did not prevent it.
The fact that most liberal arts programs have degenerated into social justice factories doesn’t negate the original intention of having well-rounded graduates with broad-based education.
Kinnath, the point a lot of people miss is that while it has been universally true that not all degrees are equal, in the past, a liberal arts degree still carried some serious weight behind it and was worth the investment. Today these degrees are nothing but ultra expensive participation trophies. Especially the large swath of these degrees that teach nothing that would benefit an employer, and thus, leave the student only prepared to work in fast food or coffee slinging jobs.
Yeah… no.
The entire point of the liberal arts curriculum was for members of the leisure classes to have something to do. This dates back to the first universities being made up of second sons becoming lay clergy. University students were never supposed to become or produce anything of value to outsiders — they were developing themselves for themselves The “queen of the sciences” was theology. While medicine is a science now, it was (like law and theology) originally a profession, something where authority comes from convincing people of your mastery socially. History, art, literature, art history, the history of art literature, etc. are all things that you can spend a lifetime doing — as long as your family has money to support you in your studies. We are fortunate that some of the gentlemen of leisure who chose to study natural philosophy eventually found that their researches resulted in interesting party tricks that also lent themselves to practical applicability.
to MA to
po TAH to
As long as you remove the perverse incentives to load up on debt and for colleges to soak up as much of it as is possible, the rest will sort itself out (mostly).
perverse
I don’t care what others do or how they are motivated. I don’t care how private institutions organize their curricula. I don’t buy into the notion that this is my problem any more than any other private conduct of others is. People do stupid shit all day, but I’m not going to lie down in the curb cut to Burger King over your blood pressure.
I only care that governments are meddling in the education markets as both lender and vendor. Get rid of that nonsense, and then everyone can get back to going to hell in whichever fashions each accords to himself.
That would be the perverse part (along with credentialism in the business world).
True story: My cousin, who ran a construction equipment rental firm, decided that she wouldn’t hire anyone who didn’t have a college diploma. Meanwhile, her best sales performer (and part-time manager) did not go to college. He now works for me.
I mean, yeah, and I say that as someone carrying significant student loan debt. And don’t get me started about my wife’s.
“Gimme my free money!”
If you’re actually unable to pay your current student loan schedule, you can work with the loan servicer to reduce your payments.
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/default/avoid#cant-make-payment
The thing is, these people want to party for 4+ years, then continue to party/buy a house/take vacations/etc, and have someone else pay for their loans.
And don’t forget the “public service” escape clause. I work with a few people who are going to be able to discharge tens of thousands of dollars of student loans in another coupled of years because they work for a government entity. Their combined income is north of $100 which, while not rich, should not preclude you paying off loans.
Exactly. Or by entering the uniformed services.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/head-of-massachusetts-registry-of-motor-vehicles-resigns-after-fatal-new-hampshire-crash/ar-AADrtns?li=BBnb7Kz
BOSTON — The head of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles resigned Tuesday amid revelations that the truck driver accused of vehicular homicide in the death of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire was able to keep his commercial driver’s license despite a drunk driving arrest last month and a history of other serious traffic violations.
So bureaucrats with list can’t prevent mayhem?
The Ukraine is not sending us their best.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/06/26/motorcycle-club-leader-says-resignation-rmv-boss-over-crash-revelations-ridiculous-response/ws5wl4bv6vSFkpIvTlJEUL/story.html?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery
A police report in the Westfield case said Zhukovskyy was driving a Honda Civic that struck a parked car before running a stop sign and striking a second vehicle around 12:30 a.m. on June 15, 2013. No one was injured.
“As Volodymyr spoke to me, I could detect a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his breath, he was unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred and he had much difficulty following the instructions that I gave to him,” the police report said. “He was very frantic, as he was pacing back and forth. He kept on asking me if he was ‘screwed.’ ”
Police also recovered a 375 milliliter bottle of Hennessy cognac that was three-quarters empty when Zhukovskyy allegedly tossed it out of his car before officers arrived on scene, the report said.
He failed multiple field sobriety tests and, after the Hennessy bottle was recovered, told police, “I see that you found the bottle of Hennessy that I tried to hide in the bushes,” the report said.
At booking, he blew 0.148 and 0.146 during two breathalyzer tests, records show. The legal limit in Massachusetts is 0.08.
Aren’t you from Ukraine?
I’m not!
Ah, so you admit that you are a Russkie
I guess I wasn’t hiding it well.
Btw, a good friend of mine was from Ukraine. But then Russia annexed Crimea and he is now from Russia.
One of my coworkers was Russian when he began studying in the US. Then before he finished school he became Belorussian.
I can relate. I was Belorussian on my green card but became Russian on my naturalization certificate.
This is what happens when you import the Slavic culture of ubiquitous barely functional alcoholism.
I was hoping we would just be importing hot Slavic women, even if they do have a horrible shelf life.
See? That’s how the globalists get you!
DOH!
The correct solution, of course, is to make the debt dischargeable in bankruptcy and end all federal guarantees. I wonder how deep JP Morgan is into student loans.
I’m Jamie would write off hundreds of millions of dollars of outstanding loans without hesitating, just to be a nice guy.
Is he one of those guys who wants his tax rates increased? Rather than raise taxes to pay for student loan debt erasure, making the debts dischargeable in bankruptcy could accomplish the same objective
Huh, JP Morgan sold off its student loan portfolio back in 2017 for about $7B
Say what you will, they aren’t stupid.
That, I would never accuse them of. Rentseeking, unscrupulous, snake oil salesmen… yes
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nsa-improperly-collected-americans-phone-records-for-a-second-time-documents-reveal/ar-AADsqSb?li=BBnb7Kz
“These documents further confirm that this surveillance program is beyond redemption and a privacy and civil liberties disaster,” said Patrick Toomey, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project. “The NSA’s collection of Americans’ call records is too sweeping, the compliance problems too many, and evidence of the program’s value all but nonexistent. There is no justification for leaving this surveillance power in the NSA’s hands.”
“J’accuse!” – Jim Clapper
where’s something something face?
Get government out of student loans
Force colleges to cut the bullshit coursework. Eliminate liberal arts programs in public universities.
Encourage for profit STEM schools
Encourage apprenticeship programs over schooling.
I see no reason to eliminate liberal arts programs. I sincerely believe in the benefits of a liberal arts education. Just don’t make it your area of specialization, unless you have a way to financially support yourself.
It would be much better if liberal arts teaching went back to teaching people to think (which means the death of all the studies programs as well as the indoctrination machine) so they could then actually have a degree that would make the student with it valuable to an employer.
Wayfair walkout is a very big deal for the Boston Globe: top nine stories.
Fire every employee who signed the letter or walked out.
Of course, almost no one in a modern company has the stones to do the right thing and send a message.
Still would like to know how exactly everyone knows that Wayfair sold products to the ICE/CBP/DHS without accessing confidential customer records. I’m sure Wayfair has policies dealing with that.
I don’t think any law or regulation or debt forgiveness is going to solve the student loan “crisis”. I think it’s going to require a big shift in the way people think. But we’re already on that road. The truth is out there. People have heard plenty of stories about students who have $100k or more in debt for a worthless degree, and they’ve also heard about better alternatives such as trade school and community college. Eventually this will sink in and people will change their behavior. (Unless, of course, those loans are forgiven and the bad behavior is rewarded). I think the days of “everyone has to go to college, the more expensive the better” are over.
At my kid’s graduation this year, they announced what each kid was planning on doing. A lot were going to trade school, community college, work, and the military. Very few were going to private schools.
Already are. Research came out last year that people are borrowing less and picking degrees more likely to lead to paying jobs.
Nevertheless, the government should at least look at reasonable lending practices for degrees with low income opportunity. The system is horrid and exploitive.
My son’s friends are a mix of going to college, military, and trade school. All seem to have fairly reasonable plans that don’t involve massive borrowing.
The easy credit for private college probably made sense when I started college for $13k a year including room and board. Because of the easy loans, colleges have really swindled students.
Don’t forget all the politicians (mostly Dems, coincidentally) pushing for every high school student to get a 4 year degree.
Then everyone can be an urban hipster and this country will be perfect.
They devalued the high school diploma so they could make more people hock away their futures borrowing money to places that then spent more time indoctrinating so many of those mushy minds. Now they want to devalue the college degree as well, so that they get 2 more years for those doing a masters to really brainwash them well.
“Because of the easy loans, colleges have really swindled students.”
It has always baffled me how many people will look for bargains and the best deals in every aspect of their lives except for education. In education there are so many people willing to pay a small fortune to go to a school which will give them a diploma which will simply function as a credentialing badge, but then spend as much time as possible avoiding any kind of learning. I tried to get the best and most out of my college experience and was lucky enough that the tax payers paid my way in return for some commitments on my part. I still have a voracious appetite to learn things. Most of the young people I work with are proud to tell you how good they are at avoiding having to learn anything of value. Go figure.
I haven’t heard of that research. That’s good news, and once again proof that government lags behind culture instead of leading.
I think the issue of degrees with low income opportunity will take care of itself too, but it wouldn’t hurt to require universities to disclose up front the average salary and employment for their graduates IN THEIR FIELD OF STUDY. None of this “100% of our graduates are employed! (as baristas)”
They already have to do that under the Gainful Employment Rule.
crisis
There’s no crisis. Other people who can’t afford their obligations and desires is not my problem, so it’s not a crisis.
crisis
There’s a huge crisis. Other people think their problems are my problems; that’s a yuge crisis.
is
* says a prayer and lights a candle in my corner Ted shrine *
Either that or the jobs those indebted students do get will get replaced by robots. Which will be a boon to the burgeoning “suicide by robot” industry.
People have heard plenty of stories about students who have $100k or more in debt for a worthless degree
The worthless degree part is the key issue. The debt load itself shouldn’t be a problem as long you view a degree as an investment and evaluate the expected ROI.
I’ll have 100k in student loans by the time I’m finished in a few years. Doesn’t matter. My annual increase in pay from a new job after getting the MS was more than the entire cost of that degree. I expect to increase that by 50% after getting the PhD. For me, loans are attractive at this moment because the interest is low and taking them allows me to shovel more money towards the mortgage and tax-advantaged retirement/529 accounts.
The anticipated ROI is critical, and I’m guessing none of those complaining about their student loans in these types of articles spent a single second exploring that.
debt load itself shouldn’t be a problem as long you view a degree as an investment
Well, we just don’t know that. Few talk about risk, and the loan is due whether one secures a degree or not. The little girl with the basketweaving PhD sacking groceries is the posterchild for this mess, but there are another ton of folk who never finish their degree or certification. Four years is a long time in a teenager’s life.
Can you imagine the shitstorm when lenders’ rates vary with the student’s chosen major?
I won’t matter. The shitstorm will be over co-signers losing the houses; if there’s no government backing, there will be zero loans to teenagers without co-signers, not even to MIT-bound electrical engineers.
How many parents will be willing to co-sign for a degree without utility?
Eventually this will sink in and people will change their behavior.
I hope this is true. Too bad the kids who have been swindled by the “Go to college or die a bum’s death in the gutter!” propaganda can’t go back and slaughter their high school guidance counselors en masse.
Who says they can’t?
BR3: Kids in America?
Go to college or die a bum’s death in
the gutterPie’s ditchFTFY
““What the hell?” the hair asked loudly. “She just said… she just said that most people think rape is sexy and Cooper went to commercial.””
Anderson Cooper is totally serial. You can’t be totally serial when someone speaks the R word. Poor Anderson got triggered right off his game.
Looks like big tech is doing a trial run on taking out consercitives. The Donald is now quarantined on Reddit. Itll be interesting to watch 2020 with Twitter, Facebook and every other social media site censoring information.
relax, Fox and Rush are loud and proud
and half the guys on here are related to six people who are switching to Trump because he’s doing such a swell job
*spit take*
You would meet new Trump voters too, if you stopped your Chick-fil-A boycott.
weren’t you telling me how the Dems wouldn’t take the House ?
Nope, must have been someone else. I made no predictions about the midterm elections.
I want to say I was 60-40 Reps keep the House, but I don’t recall exactly where I landed last. I was always 60-40 one way or the other, or 50-50.
Hey goddammit, I’m an heir to the Cherokee throne!
The same guys helping the Chicoms install the most tyrannical censorship and population-control software ever imagined.
The funny part about it, is that it’s going to have just the opposite effect of what they think it will. The harder they try, the more popular they are going to make the orange one. Leftists are all the same, completely incapable of learning.
Forbidden fruit is oh so sweet.
Hey, listen, everybody this is important. No seriously check this out…Megan Rapinoe doesn’t like Trump and isn’t afraid to tell everybody about it by silently protesting during the National Anthem….
Meh. Who cares?
Who?
Exactly
The one with purple hair. She stole my doo.
How does she have the body of a 10-year-old boy with the face of a grandma? Very weird.
That’d not a woman, that’s a man baby!… uhh, boy?… umm… gran… GranBoy?
If she was a man, she wouldn’t have gotten schooled on the pitch by a bunch of boys.
Counter point: Megan Rapinoe’s antics are tired
Woke America’s team and that’s why no one is watching
NBA: Orange Man- Bad
NFL: That Orange Man, Sure Is Bad
NBC: Orange Man is Literally Bad
CBS: The Bad is Coming from Orange Man
ABC: The Orange Man Does Bad Again
Megan Rapinoe: You’re Bad Orange Man- Take That!
*stunning and brave*
Why do we pretend like generic conventional thought is “brave”? Saying Orange Man is Bad is as controversial and brave as saying “Fuck Cancer”.
“Why do we pretend like generic conventional thought is ‘brave’?”
As long as it’s rightthink, it’s always brave.
It’s people that lack purpose or meaning in their lives looking for a safe way to virtue signal for their friends & peers.
Meme
I’m not watching because it’s soccer. Even worse, it’s women’s soccer.
“Even worse, it’s women’s soccer.”
So much social injustice. If only people could be forced to watch women’t sports, we could finally reach utopia.
I’m watching, but I don’t care.
It’s mind numbingly frustrating to watch. Slow play, so many bad passes, and frequent what were you thinking mistakes. Feels like 90% of the goals come off of screw ups by the other team.
Women’s soccer is excruciating; and I say this as an enormous fan of the sport.
Feels like 90% of the goals come off of screw ups by the other team.,
That’s because 90% of goals is a result of screw ups from the opposing team
That part at least also is true for the men.
Thank you, I did mean that for any soccer goal regardless of gender, creed, race, or religion of the players playing.
and the other 10% result from bullshit flopping penalties.
The fix is in for USA anyway. That bogus penalty proves it.
The crushing one was japan yesterday. Hand ball in the the 91st minute in the box.
Payback for the way they beat England at the last World Cup.
Such woke. Much brave.
A dyke that thinks Trump hates the gays.
Anyone watching the Ds tonight have a contest of who can give away more of your money? There’s not enough alcohol on the planet for me to do so.
To avoid alcohol poisoning remove the words “free”, “Trump”, “collusion” and “fair share” from your drinking game.
Denmark third Nordic country to go totally woke
“We still lack the whole financing part of this draft. It is a lot of good intentions but not much on how it concretely will be realised,” Nordea economist Jan Storup told Reuters.”
I am shocked I tell you, shocked!
Not to step on the post of anyone’s content that is scheduled for tonight or tomorrow, but I am very much looking forward to reading glibertarians.com while the debates are on.
Wait, wut?
We are supposed to read comments? I thought we could just randomly pick a spot and then post some rant?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-new-right-dripping-with-malice/
Good book review of Michael Malice’s new book
Whoops, I posted in the wrong place. I have no idea what you guys were talking about
You can tell he wrote that entire article just for the opportunity to write that groan-inducing final line.
That fucking guy. Seriously, that’s too damn obvious a pun.
Damnit! My review is now somewhere in the middle of page three of results.
I missed that article when you first posted it, but I stumbled upon it the other day and it was really good. I really like how you weave your beer reviews in with other topics. Just say’n.
Also, this may be a pretty bold prediction, but I suspect that Malice will go down as part of the libertarian canon in the future. His quotes will appear along those of SEKIII or Rothbard or Freidman or Rand.
Just Say’n, whatever happened to that guy?
Why, thank you!
That’s sort of correct. But, it’s articles that we aren’t supposed to read. Then we can just pick a spot and post some rant. FIFY.
that would be sweet if anyone had the guts to wade through it; I’ll watch it if anyone else will, but I won’t walk point
anyway, it’s just going to be a parade of Ken Dorfmanns
I can sum it up for you before it even begins.
“Free, free, free, FREE!!! No, moar Freeer freeeeee!!! Free everything for free! And the rich can pay for it!!!”
There you go, no need to watch.
I’m planning on ignoring them. I’m not the audience, for one thing, and for another, I’m 100% sure that there’s nothing any one of those candidates could say that would convince me to vote for them in the general.
That’s not the point.
The point is mockery.
My favorite time was when a certain website had commenters that would simulsnark with a certain Fox Business show involving a certain former VJ.
But then TOS lost all of their commentariat because of their cocktail party obsession?
I mean, I might see what folks here are saying about it, but I have a feeling I’ll be too angry or incredulous to get any enjoyment out of talking shit about the debates themselves.
Same. At best, I’d be bored but I’m more likely to be enraged by some ridiculous assertion used as the basis for grandstanding.
“We all know that middle-aged white men are doing their best to bring back chattel slavery, but I tell you this – I am against that!”