Every generation of elitists think they are the chosen ones who will make Socialism work. Never did and never will. What it does do is guarantee millions and millions of deaths.
I think it’s even worse than that. This generation is derived from the elitists who clung to slavery until finally beaten but came back through reconstruction and segregation to continue to treat their “constituents” no better than slaves. They endorse policies that discourage marriage and family formation, that encourage the killing of unborn children, they dilute and devalue education and dismiss merit and achievement, they endorse policies that encourage the use of debilitating and death bringing drugs, they endorse policies that seek to eliminate the role of females and encourage violence and the killing of their own men and male children and they implement policies which remove consequences for lawless, destructive and otherwise uncivil behaviour.
Wait - there’s more: they are currently led, at least nominally, by a man who for 45 years has used his own son and enabled the son’s addictions to achieve corrupt goals. That man is shown to the rest of the world as the benchmark for the destruction of a republic and its democracy. Said man now goes forth to publicly advocate for the destruction of another democracy.
I think it’s advocacy for destroying civilization. Civilization has to be defended every single day and all we see is advocacy for destroying all that which protects it.
These so-called "elitists" will eventually be devoured by the monsters that they're creating but not until most of their "constituents" have been devoured also. But, as my pastor said, God will always leave a surviving remnant of believers to rebuild what was destroyed.
Governors Abbott and DeSantis need to start dropping off “migrants” at the home of Chuck U Schumer.
The so called “elites” need a dose of reality as we the people are living due to their policies and actions. In Chuck U’s case a few bus fulls of Palestinians would be in order.
and in Durbin's backyard.. Way back when I voted for that imbicile when he was "moderate" and down state in Ilinois.. one of my many regrets.. fled years ago
I got a better one, send 500 of a mix Haitian & Mexican murderes and Chinese & Iranian soldiers to each Federal Judges block & to those of their grandkids.
FDR had his "brain trust", and what a mess they made of post-WWII Europe. LBJ had "the best and the brightest", and another mess in SE Asia. Obama had Hillary & Co to mess up North Africa.
I'm still proud of my commission as an Ensign in the Navy and my certificate as a qualification as a Surface Warfare Officer but with regard to my college diploma - "Meh..."
You have used your education very well.... it shows. Thank You for your sacrifice and devotion of Service in the U.S. Navy. You Are greatly appreciated.
Alissa is what I call a "High Rise Environmentalist". You know the ones who tell you all about saving the planet but have never dug in the dirt in their back yards. The gardener takes care of that. And the gardener knows how important that smelly manure is and how to grow a magnificent plant from seed that will produce food for your table. Alissa thinks it comes from aisle whatever in her supermarket. She wants rid of that smelly manure.
Only now a group of the wizards of the environs have discovered that low and behold manure is actually good for the soil, and cleanses the planet. Oh dear what is poor Alissa the wunderkind to do? I would suggest she get a real job except that she is uniquely qualified for NOTHING. She is what is known as a "stupid twit" pardon my language, all mouth, no brains but a lot of self esteem. She is a true example of a generation who were all given trophies but never, ever won the race. You will have a more interesting conversation with your plumber or electrician that is if one is available (they are in great demand, unlike Alissa). They are interesting men and women who have skills that we admire and are willing to pay a high price for because their skills come not from the Harvard Library but from years of experience and pain and failure and success. Many of them are vets returning from some pretty senseless wars and could tell a tale or two but probably won't unless you frequent their local bar.
So I feel for the family of Budweiser and their blameless stockholders who made a very bad mistake hiring this useless being but in time they may be forgiven. We are after all a forgiving nation. My guess is that Alissa will be awarded a professorship at some esteemed business college so no tears shed for her.
Say your child decides they want to be a doctor or lawyer or an engineer, just for a few examples, then they will need a proper education in order to acquire the degree necessary to qualify for such an important and valuable vocation.
The real tragedy is that in these times, the college you will pay through the nose to provide such an education will be providing anything but that essential education.
Instead, due to the “new social order” implemented at these colleges and universities, wholly created out of the perverse dogma of DIE, the only one they are actually teaching now, these institutions, have been transformed into nothing more than brainwash factories, and, as a result, are merely churning out mini-social activists, of subpar intelligence and totally lacking in any of the true and necessary disciplines which are the essential bedrock of all these studies.
Your children will be taught to think and believe only in external factors, emotional biases, and political premises, not the thoroughly unbiased and unforgiving elements of the laws of nature, or of the wisdom accrued over the ages.
Hence, what will be produced from these once hallowed halls will be by no means be a learned, disciplined individual, but rather an individual of a now twisted mind who will actually now be capable of causing great harm in the very occupation they aspired to, as they won’t know or understand how to truly build anything, how to scientifically or medically treat another human being, or how to justly advocate on their behalf.
So, bridges will collapse and planes will fall from the sky, people will become sicker and left to die, and innocent people will go to jail while the guilty are set free.
The world will become an ever more dangerous and frightening place.
The entire college and university system in its present form is dangerous and irredeemable, incapable under the pretentious auspices of its current policies of performing even it’s most basic of duties. They must be torn down brick by brick, and rebuilt from the ground up. They have thoroughly lost their way, and that to the detriment and endangerment of all society.
And new colleges, new alternative spaces for young eager minds to attend instead of these brainwash factories must be erected if we are ever going to produce the kind of people we will need who will actually know how to build something lasting, to genuinely heal or care for someone, or who can advocate justly on their behalf.
"So, bridges will collapse and planes will fall from the sky, people will become sicker and left to die, and innocent people will go to jail while the guilty are set free."
I think we're there now Suzie. While collapsing bridges are not common, our failed medical community of DOCTORS let thousands of people to die during COVID by forcing them to hospitals who placed them on vents and Remdesivir - both causing unnecessary death. As for innocent people going to jail and the guilty being free, one only needs to look at J6 and Donald Trump compared to BLM riots and Joe Biden under this DOJ. Planes falling from the sky? Boeing is racking up a long list of serious failures.
Again, except for the bridges, we're living the other three. I suspect that is because most bridges were built by engineers trained before wokeness. Give it ten years, and we'll see.
Am I the only one who wonders if there is some sabotage going on at the Boeing plants? Of course, I read the article yesterday about the drugs, sex scandals, suicide, etc also happening there - I think the article was in CFP - but there are way too many mishaps happening with Boeing for this to just be happenstance.
Most of the recent reports of parts falling off and other strange things involves the air carriers like United Airlines who has been in the news most frequently. That would mean it is also possibly sourced to the maintenance and repair programs each carrier has. Given United's CEO - a total DEI jerk named Scott Kirby - it could be from either.
Here's the man who is running United - in drag. You may want to look at other carriers if planning a trip:
United used to be one of the best until they filed for bankruptcy. My neighbors dad was a Capt who flew to Hong Kong 2-3 times a month. I think the PBGC paid some of his pension. He was also a CPA prior to becoming a pilot & after so he made well over $600K combined so he wasn’t hurting as bad as others who lost a lot. Moral went downhill after that and complaints from employees & passengers have been on the increase since. I just said to my wife the happenings with United & Boeing could be sabotage or lax standards. Boeing was great until McDonnell Douglass merged & then $$$ came before making sure the planes were 100% airworthy. No outsourcing of critical components to foreign countries & subpar contractors.
Agree. United had many changes over the years. Headquartered in San Fran, then Indy, then Chicago . . . My brother was airframe and powerplant certified and ended up in Chicago managing global maintenance for the fleet. He had nightmares over the BS this company was pulling. He had a good holding in the ESOP - before they took it back and he lost that. He has PBGC retirement. They have taken so much from their employees over the years.
My wife’s late OB/Gyn had a daughter majoring in engineering at UIUC. She liked to party a little and her grades were subpar. He took her to a bridge near his home in Deerfield/Highland Park, Illinois to show her the collapse of a bridge. He told her this was an example of letting a C average graduate design a bridge. If she continued to perform this way she could drop out & get a subpar job, he wasn’t paying for her schooling anymore. She did a total reversal at school. He worked himself to an early death. Delivered babies, invented all forms of devices & instruments and taught at Northwestern University. My wife loved him. Salt of the earth.
There was one company that collapsed a bridge in FL a few years ago. Walkway over a street near or on a college campus. That was like the 3rd bridge that the company had that failed. I always wondered how they made it through the bidding process. That was before DEI truly took hold so I dont know what the issue was.
I think that was a nutty USFL diversity hire professor that did not know statics and concrete stress concepts. Was bogus/wishful engineering design. I remember when my dad, a civil engineer, drove by a freeway bridge the were building in Pasadena Texas and remarked, that construction is not right, that span will collapse….which it later did during construction…
What is sad, is that company had been sued at least twice before concerning bridges that had collapsed. The one in Florida I believe killed some of the motorists in the cars under the bridge. Its been 8-10 yrs. I just had no understanding of how the company made it through the bidding processes and reviews with that kind of track record. I remember thinking that those lawsuits were active at the time.
“Unlike most bridges in Florida, the design for this project was overseen by the university, not the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), in a program known as the Local Agency Program (LAP)….
“ The National Transportation Safety Board, however, found that with respect to the bridge, "F.I.U. had no professional engineers on its staff and relied solely on the expertise of its hired contractors."…
Like the Kansas City Hyatt Regency lobby bridge collapse, pre-CAD stress analysis days…
Comes down to human engineers knowing stress analysis and is the scenario, now modelled on computer software, correctly modelled, and does the result seem correct…..and with Civil Engineering, if I remember correctly from 45 years ago, the Factor of Safety is like a 6 to 10, to account for weather decay, hurricanes, earthquakes, and the cheap cost to add some more rebar, vs a failure…
Yep and they didnt even need to stress test it with a hurricane as it collapsed just as they finished the damn thing. Cheap rebar, cheap concrete, bad design.
Shrugged, it is very rare to find a competent MD. I can remember going to our family practitioner who could diagnose anything. No expensive tests to make his diagnosis. If one was needed it was only to confirm. Now you go to your family Dr and they send you to a specialist right away. They test for the worst outcome before finding out it was a routine ailment. About 15 years ago I knew I had bronchitis which I’d get every 5 years or so. I gave her my symptoms: labored breathing, cough, phlegm, elephant on the chest. She came back & recommended I go to the ER. She diagnosed me as having a possible heart attack. She did write me a script for an antibiotic and after 3 days I felt better. The experiences are numerous. Even at top rated University teaching hospitals Like Northwestern University & Rush University Hospital. Next time I’ll go see a witch doctor instead.
You can thank the ambulance chasing attorneys who are seeking any medical malpractice or bad car injury for their next multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Then, came COVD. The biggest medial malpractice on planet earth - and they are all protected from liability. hundreds of thousands died needlessly - and nothing.
Illinois was if not is one of the most tort happy attorneys. When I lived in the northern burbs of Chicago, many physicians & specialists fled over the border to Kenosha/Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin for that reason. I didn’t blame them. No different than fleeing a city due to excessive taxation.
I followed my current PCP when she left 27 yrs ago to where she is now. She is leaving again, to a place 75 min away. I will be following her again. She listens. She knows her stuff. Just because she knows her stuff.
TJ, I thought I replied but it didn’t post. I would rather travel for work, physician, restaurant & other services than have subpar services near home. Those that excel in their field will do well & outlast the hacks. People like us will flock to them.
Amen. I was a waitress at one time so I understand busy. But what passes for service in a lot of places today would have gotten me fired. I dont mind paying for service but not for subpar.
And they expect a big tip. My neighbor used to say his tips started at 25%. I told him mine started at 0. They have to be earned. Last year we were at a restaurant & the young man waiting on us got every order right down to the last detail, even though they were short handed. He came & checked on us and remembered everything we asked for, such as lemon on the side, extra napkins, etc. When it came time to pay, we gave him a good tip and I complimented him for his outstanding service & told him not to lower his standards because everyone else does. Someone is always watching what you do & it will pay off in the long run. Guaranteed 100%! I then handed him an extra $20 and told him I appreciated his service.
Education polarization via indoctrination indeed Mr. Surber.They have done a remarkable job of ruining thousands of little skulls full of mush (thank you Rush) but I feel the tide is turning and youth are waking to the fact college is not what it once was.Thanks to internet sites and videos the truths of life keep jumping in front of their eyes.Now to make the proper choices for safety and an income the decision is in their hands.Great post and assessment with a poll laced in snark.Carry on Poca-Man to A MAGA 2024 salvation of American freedoms and National Pride in America.
The only course necessary for republicans to take and master is: Vote Printing. Unless Trump wins this year nothing else matters. The Dems have a PhD in the course, but alas it’s from Harvard.
There is a silver lining in those statistics about the Holocaust, climate change and LGBTQ+ — 60-80% of students don’t believe the woke propaganda. I didn’t think that meant much till I had a dinner with my fraternity brothers last week. We graduated decades ago when the PC nonsense had just started.
The chapter advisor told us the university is trying to eliminate fraternities and sororities, but are afraid to because the Greeks’ are the largest donor class. So, the University is making life miserable for the fraternities hoping the membership just dies and fades away. The tiniest infraction results in the membership being called to attend a disciplinary “hearing” where they are not allowed to defend themselves. They must remain silent as the heads of Student Life, DEI, Discipline and IFC berate them for 15 - 20 minutes.
I asked the chapter advisor, “How do they take it? Are they angry? Bitter?” He said, “No, the amazing thing is they keep their cool. Stoical, almost, and when it’s over they go about acting like normal 18-21 year old men. They know it’s bullshit.”
It reminds me of the WW2 prison movies and the sadistic camp commandant. These young men will not be broken, and they outnumber the snowflake wokesters. The future is theirs.
What a sad story - my dear friend's parents both graduated Stanford way back when and gave BIG donations to the university - I believe the father even had something named after him, probably in the geology Department . I bet the family would like to have all those $$$ back now!
Our family has at least 15 degrees from UT Austin, we don’t give them a dime. They waste money and don’t seek the Truth, even engineering. Next generation we would send to community college & third tier colleges that are more in tune teaching Real Education than Flagship pretentious ones.
Over my 45-year career in finance I have worked with people of ALL education levels. I can say with absolute certainty that there is no correlation between education and intelligence. "college" has for many (!) years been a massive waste of time and money. The fraud of "education" is being exposed and that is a truly positive change.
"They live in neighborhoods that are mostly insulated from urban crime and disorder." - this used to be true, but not so much any more. The walls are closing in. I live in a very affluent "woke" community and I don't have to drive very far at all now to find the chaos inflicted by our so-called leaders. Ours and surrounding counties are declared "sanctuaries" that are being overrun. A few miles drive brings me to the American rendition of the third world now and the buffer is shrinking. It won't be long before the suburban white guilt types won't have any power and the illusion will be gone.
“Republican candidates tried to maximize turnout among this electoral base, while adding a majority of independent voters to the GOP column. Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and the two Bushes used this strategy to great effect.“
Nonsense. The Republican establishment hasn't won an election since 1968. Hear me out.
It's true that Nixon had a historical sweep in 1972, but his opponent didn't even carry his own state. The Democratic party simply couldn't read the room. Alfred E. Newman could have beaten him. In 1984,there were 19 states in which not a single county had a Democrat majority, but that was Reagan. You would think that the GOP pols would see that and ask themselves “How did he do that?” But no, not they. They would rather lose to an establishment Democrat than elect a maverick Republican.
G.H.W. Bush “won” his election in 1988, but it was really Reagan's third win. Bush had Reagan's endorsement, and, to be honest, he ran a gutsy campaign, taking a boat out into Boston harbor and showing us all the trash in his “environmental” opponent's back yard. I watched the “read my lips” speech and was persuaded that Bush had learned the key lessons from his boss. His performance at the polls was underwhelming, but he did beat – what was his name?. I have forgotten. He had a goofy photo of himself in a tank to show us that he was not weak on military policy.
Then Bill Clinton won two elections, but in neither of them did he get a majority of voters to cast their ballots for him. In other words, the GOP establishment couldn't figure out how to defeat a man who couldn't really win.
In 2000 it was the Supreme Court who handed the win to Dubya. That's like when the refs gave the Superbowl XL game to the Steelers in 2006.
In 2004 we were in the middle of Iraq War II, which at the time was still popular, and Americans don't like changing horses in the middle of the stream. I don't count that as a win for the GOP establishment.
Only Reagan and Trump broke the mold (“mould”?), and neither of them was part of the GOP's OB club, and they were hated and reviled by those who were.
Every time I read another article or post about the soi disant "elite" who dominate the upper echelons of society I am reminded of Marie Antoinette, who had an entirely artificial country garden constructed so she could revel in it as a similacrum of real life. It had almost nothing to do with real life in pre-Revolutionary France, where privation, inflation, unemloyment, crime and debauchery were the order of the day. Marie instructed her architects and builders to create a replica village, then had it populated with faux peasants among whom she would circulate and bask in their rapt devotion. Our contemporary elites are like this, living in a fantaxy world of their own creation, outside the world where reality holds sway, circulating among their sycophantic boosters and believing they have the world on a string, while looking down their aristocratic noses at us peasants. I am also reminded that Marie was only able to enjoy her fantasy world for about two years, because the real peasants who lived in the real world decided that "Vive La Revolution" was a keen saying, and beheading their aristo oppressors was the best solution to their problems. Marie soon made the acquaintance of M. Guillotine and her world came to a very sudden end, as did she.
Every generation of elitists think they are the chosen ones who will make Socialism work. Never did and never will. What it does do is guarantee millions and millions of deaths.
I think it’s even worse than that. This generation is derived from the elitists who clung to slavery until finally beaten but came back through reconstruction and segregation to continue to treat their “constituents” no better than slaves. They endorse policies that discourage marriage and family formation, that encourage the killing of unborn children, they dilute and devalue education and dismiss merit and achievement, they endorse policies that encourage the use of debilitating and death bringing drugs, they endorse policies that seek to eliminate the role of females and encourage violence and the killing of their own men and male children and they implement policies which remove consequences for lawless, destructive and otherwise uncivil behaviour.
Wait - there’s more: they are currently led, at least nominally, by a man who for 45 years has used his own son and enabled the son’s addictions to achieve corrupt goals. That man is shown to the rest of the world as the benchmark for the destruction of a republic and its democracy. Said man now goes forth to publicly advocate for the destruction of another democracy.
I think it’s advocacy for destroying civilization. Civilization has to be defended every single day and all we see is advocacy for destroying all that which protects it.
These so-called "elitists" will eventually be devoured by the monsters that they're creating but not until most of their "constituents" have been devoured also. But, as my pastor said, God will always leave a surviving remnant of believers to rebuild what was destroyed.
The monks of Ireland who retrieved, secured and copied manuscripts during the dark ages.
...and they saved them from the ravaging Vikings.
Moral Relativism. Pope Benedict warned us of this 20 years ago.
I do miss him. Such secure clarity in his faith and speaking to it and encouraging others.
Agreed. Now we have a corrupt, woke imbecile who sold his soul in return for protecting the pedophiles.
When he "sold his sole", he really stepped in it.
LOL...sometimes the brain is off early AM. Thanks for fixing...
We got Tail Spin Joe.
We need Tail Gunner Joe.
That will be his next big whopper.
Ha
I fought the Red Baron.
Staff has cleared up the confusion.
President Biden was speaking of trying to get a pizza out of a box.
Bingo DC
wowsa, well said.......................
Well said EODMom. Well said.
k-12 is child abuse. on steroids.
Amen d b w .
Governors Abbott and DeSantis need to start dropping off “migrants” at the home of Chuck U Schumer.
The so called “elites” need a dose of reality as we the people are living due to their policies and actions. In Chuck U’s case a few bus fulls of Palestinians would be in order.
and in Durbin's backyard.. Way back when I voted for that imbicile when he was "moderate" and down state in Ilinois.. one of my many regrets.. fled years ago
My dream would M13 members by the dozens flooding Chuck U's neighborhood. Pin him to the wall so he's isolated.
Perhaps Chuck and the missus could invite them in for some lox and blintzes?
You know…make friends.
Yeah, at gun point.
Always loved what happened in Unintended Consequences.
I got a better one, send 500 of a mix Haitian & Mexican murderes and Chinese & Iranian soldiers to each Federal Judges block & to those of their grandkids.
The systematic policy failures that have their origins in an Ivy League grad are voluminous.
Every contemporary ill seems to have its origins in a New England college campus.
A diploma from any of them ought to be measured with skepticism of an alumni’s judgement about anything.
FDR had his "brain trust", and what a mess they made of post-WWII Europe. LBJ had "the best and the brightest", and another mess in SE Asia. Obama had Hillary & Co to mess up North Africa.
…and everything and everywhere else she and her accomplices in crime ever touched!
See Haiti:
https://rumble.com/v4jeu7u-a-disgrace-so-trump-was-right-about-clintons-haiti-corruption.html
I'm still proud of my commission as an Ensign in the Navy and my certificate as a qualification as a Surface Warfare Officer but with regard to my college diploma - "Meh..."
You have used your education very well.... it shows. Thank You for your sacrifice and devotion of Service in the U.S. Navy. You Are greatly appreciated.
Alissa is what I call a "High Rise Environmentalist". You know the ones who tell you all about saving the planet but have never dug in the dirt in their back yards. The gardener takes care of that. And the gardener knows how important that smelly manure is and how to grow a magnificent plant from seed that will produce food for your table. Alissa thinks it comes from aisle whatever in her supermarket. She wants rid of that smelly manure.
Only now a group of the wizards of the environs have discovered that low and behold manure is actually good for the soil, and cleanses the planet. Oh dear what is poor Alissa the wunderkind to do? I would suggest she get a real job except that she is uniquely qualified for NOTHING. She is what is known as a "stupid twit" pardon my language, all mouth, no brains but a lot of self esteem. She is a true example of a generation who were all given trophies but never, ever won the race. You will have a more interesting conversation with your plumber or electrician that is if one is available (they are in great demand, unlike Alissa). They are interesting men and women who have skills that we admire and are willing to pay a high price for because their skills come not from the Harvard Library but from years of experience and pain and failure and success. Many of them are vets returning from some pretty senseless wars and could tell a tale or two but probably won't unless you frequent their local bar.
So I feel for the family of Budweiser and their blameless stockholders who made a very bad mistake hiring this useless being but in time they may be forgiven. We are after all a forgiving nation. My guess is that Alissa will be awarded a professorship at some esteemed business college so no tears shed for her.
Alissa should have IBD. A life sentenced of diarrhea.
Lol
Thank You for this excellent writing, Lady Churchill USA.
We live in a country ruled by Star-Bellied Sneetches.
Thank you! Dr. Seuss strikes again!
We got no stars on aar's. (Favorite book to read kindergartners.) Ditto "Pale Green Pants."
https://youtu.be/VohyMXB4FLo?si=ldxssW2maKhQd9S1
😉
Perfecto!
Say your child decides they want to be a doctor or lawyer or an engineer, just for a few examples, then they will need a proper education in order to acquire the degree necessary to qualify for such an important and valuable vocation.
The real tragedy is that in these times, the college you will pay through the nose to provide such an education will be providing anything but that essential education.
Instead, due to the “new social order” implemented at these colleges and universities, wholly created out of the perverse dogma of DIE, the only one they are actually teaching now, these institutions, have been transformed into nothing more than brainwash factories, and, as a result, are merely churning out mini-social activists, of subpar intelligence and totally lacking in any of the true and necessary disciplines which are the essential bedrock of all these studies.
Your children will be taught to think and believe only in external factors, emotional biases, and political premises, not the thoroughly unbiased and unforgiving elements of the laws of nature, or of the wisdom accrued over the ages.
Hence, what will be produced from these once hallowed halls will be by no means be a learned, disciplined individual, but rather an individual of a now twisted mind who will actually now be capable of causing great harm in the very occupation they aspired to, as they won’t know or understand how to truly build anything, how to scientifically or medically treat another human being, or how to justly advocate on their behalf.
So, bridges will collapse and planes will fall from the sky, people will become sicker and left to die, and innocent people will go to jail while the guilty are set free.
The world will become an ever more dangerous and frightening place.
The entire college and university system in its present form is dangerous and irredeemable, incapable under the pretentious auspices of its current policies of performing even it’s most basic of duties. They must be torn down brick by brick, and rebuilt from the ground up. They have thoroughly lost their way, and that to the detriment and endangerment of all society.
And new colleges, new alternative spaces for young eager minds to attend instead of these brainwash factories must be erected if we are ever going to produce the kind of people we will need who will actually know how to build something lasting, to genuinely heal or care for someone, or who can advocate justly on their behalf.
"So, bridges will collapse and planes will fall from the sky, people will become sicker and left to die, and innocent people will go to jail while the guilty are set free."
I think we're there now Suzie. While collapsing bridges are not common, our failed medical community of DOCTORS let thousands of people to die during COVID by forcing them to hospitals who placed them on vents and Remdesivir - both causing unnecessary death. As for innocent people going to jail and the guilty being free, one only needs to look at J6 and Donald Trump compared to BLM riots and Joe Biden under this DOJ. Planes falling from the sky? Boeing is racking up a long list of serious failures.
Again, except for the bridges, we're living the other three. I suspect that is because most bridges were built by engineers trained before wokeness. Give it ten years, and we'll see.
Oh yes - we are just at the beginning of “reaping what we have sown”.
It will most assuredly get worse, way worse.
Am I the only one who wonders if there is some sabotage going on at the Boeing plants? Of course, I read the article yesterday about the drugs, sex scandals, suicide, etc also happening there - I think the article was in CFP - but there are way too many mishaps happening with Boeing for this to just be happenstance.
Most of the recent reports of parts falling off and other strange things involves the air carriers like United Airlines who has been in the news most frequently. That would mean it is also possibly sourced to the maintenance and repair programs each carrier has. Given United's CEO - a total DEI jerk named Scott Kirby - it could be from either.
Here's the man who is running United - in drag. You may want to look at other carriers if planning a trip:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1747953008225521757
United used to be one of the best until they filed for bankruptcy. My neighbors dad was a Capt who flew to Hong Kong 2-3 times a month. I think the PBGC paid some of his pension. He was also a CPA prior to becoming a pilot & after so he made well over $600K combined so he wasn’t hurting as bad as others who lost a lot. Moral went downhill after that and complaints from employees & passengers have been on the increase since. I just said to my wife the happenings with United & Boeing could be sabotage or lax standards. Boeing was great until McDonnell Douglass merged & then $$$ came before making sure the planes were 100% airworthy. No outsourcing of critical components to foreign countries & subpar contractors.
Agree. United had many changes over the years. Headquartered in San Fran, then Indy, then Chicago . . . My brother was airframe and powerplant certified and ended up in Chicago managing global maintenance for the fleet. He had nightmares over the BS this company was pulling. He had a good holding in the ESOP - before they took it back and he lost that. He has PBGC retirement. They have taken so much from their employees over the years.
Scott Kirby is a total asshole.
My thoughts as well.
Is someone making a play to buy it ?
If I was "playing" in the stock market, I'd definitely be shorting Boeing!
My wife’s late OB/Gyn had a daughter majoring in engineering at UIUC. She liked to party a little and her grades were subpar. He took her to a bridge near his home in Deerfield/Highland Park, Illinois to show her the collapse of a bridge. He told her this was an example of letting a C average graduate design a bridge. If she continued to perform this way she could drop out & get a subpar job, he wasn’t paying for her schooling anymore. She did a total reversal at school. He worked himself to an early death. Delivered babies, invented all forms of devices & instruments and taught at Northwestern University. My wife loved him. Salt of the earth.
Good dad.
There was one company that collapsed a bridge in FL a few years ago. Walkway over a street near or on a college campus. That was like the 3rd bridge that the company had that failed. I always wondered how they made it through the bidding process. That was before DEI truly took hold so I dont know what the issue was.
I think that was a nutty USFL diversity hire professor that did not know statics and concrete stress concepts. Was bogus/wishful engineering design. I remember when my dad, a civil engineer, drove by a freeway bridge the were building in Pasadena Texas and remarked, that construction is not right, that span will collapse….which it later did during construction…
What is sad, is that company had been sued at least twice before concerning bridges that had collapsed. The one in Florida I believe killed some of the motorists in the cars under the bridge. Its been 8-10 yrs. I just had no understanding of how the company made it through the bidding processes and reviews with that kind of track record. I remember thinking that those lawsuits were active at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_University_pedestrian_bridge_collapse
Yes, here it is…in the Wiki:
“Unlike most bridges in Florida, the design for this project was overseen by the university, not the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), in a program known as the Local Agency Program (LAP)….
“ The National Transportation Safety Board, however, found that with respect to the bridge, "F.I.U. had no professional engineers on its staff and relied solely on the expertise of its hired contractors."…
Like the Kansas City Hyatt Regency lobby bridge collapse, pre-CAD stress analysis days…
Comes down to human engineers knowing stress analysis and is the scenario, now modelled on computer software, correctly modelled, and does the result seem correct…..and with Civil Engineering, if I remember correctly from 45 years ago, the Factor of Safety is like a 6 to 10, to account for weather decay, hurricanes, earthquakes, and the cheap cost to add some more rebar, vs a failure…
Yep and they didnt even need to stress test it with a hurricane as it collapsed just as they finished the damn thing. Cheap rebar, cheap concrete, bad design.
Just a guess, but probably due to hiring people who couldn't read a blueprint . . . or read at all.
i may not have ten years...............
Ron, I hope you have ten times ten years - but none of us know.
I do know if Trump doesn't win in November it won't matter.
Shrugged, it is very rare to find a competent MD. I can remember going to our family practitioner who could diagnose anything. No expensive tests to make his diagnosis. If one was needed it was only to confirm. Now you go to your family Dr and they send you to a specialist right away. They test for the worst outcome before finding out it was a routine ailment. About 15 years ago I knew I had bronchitis which I’d get every 5 years or so. I gave her my symptoms: labored breathing, cough, phlegm, elephant on the chest. She came back & recommended I go to the ER. She diagnosed me as having a possible heart attack. She did write me a script for an antibiotic and after 3 days I felt better. The experiences are numerous. Even at top rated University teaching hospitals Like Northwestern University & Rush University Hospital. Next time I’ll go see a witch doctor instead.
You can thank the ambulance chasing attorneys who are seeking any medical malpractice or bad car injury for their next multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Then, came COVD. The biggest medial malpractice on planet earth - and they are all protected from liability. hundreds of thousands died needlessly - and nothing.
And like most lawsuits, the plaintiffs will recieve their checks for $15 in 3-4 years. Lol
Illinois was if not is one of the most tort happy attorneys. When I lived in the northern burbs of Chicago, many physicians & specialists fled over the border to Kenosha/Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin for that reason. I didn’t blame them. No different than fleeing a city due to excessive taxation.
I followed my current PCP when she left 27 yrs ago to where she is now. She is leaving again, to a place 75 min away. I will be following her again. She listens. She knows her stuff. Just because she knows her stuff.
TJ, I thought I replied but it didn’t post. I would rather travel for work, physician, restaurant & other services than have subpar services near home. Those that excel in their field will do well & outlast the hacks. People like us will flock to them.
Amen. I was a waitress at one time so I understand busy. But what passes for service in a lot of places today would have gotten me fired. I dont mind paying for service but not for subpar.
And they expect a big tip. My neighbor used to say his tips started at 25%. I told him mine started at 0. They have to be earned. Last year we were at a restaurant & the young man waiting on us got every order right down to the last detail, even though they were short handed. He came & checked on us and remembered everything we asked for, such as lemon on the side, extra napkins, etc. When it came time to pay, we gave him a good tip and I complimented him for his outstanding service & told him not to lower his standards because everyone else does. Someone is always watching what you do & it will pay off in the long run. Guaranteed 100%! I then handed him an extra $20 and told him I appreciated his service.
GMTA Shrugged.
"soft times = soft men"
Father we are ready.. do it
Education polarization via indoctrination indeed Mr. Surber.They have done a remarkable job of ruining thousands of little skulls full of mush (thank you Rush) but I feel the tide is turning and youth are waking to the fact college is not what it once was.Thanks to internet sites and videos the truths of life keep jumping in front of their eyes.Now to make the proper choices for safety and an income the decision is in their hands.Great post and assessment with a poll laced in snark.Carry on Poca-Man to A MAGA 2024 salvation of American freedoms and National Pride in America.
Yes, the colleges are surviving only thanks to a reputation that passed its expiration date decades ago. It just takes time for people to realize it.
Pray time flies Wim.
The only course necessary for republicans to take and master is: Vote Printing. Unless Trump wins this year nothing else matters. The Dems have a PhD in the course, but alas it’s from Harvard.
Ballot printer go Brrrrrr…
This was an outstanding column! Thank you!
There is a silver lining in those statistics about the Holocaust, climate change and LGBTQ+ — 60-80% of students don’t believe the woke propaganda. I didn’t think that meant much till I had a dinner with my fraternity brothers last week. We graduated decades ago when the PC nonsense had just started.
The chapter advisor told us the university is trying to eliminate fraternities and sororities, but are afraid to because the Greeks’ are the largest donor class. So, the University is making life miserable for the fraternities hoping the membership just dies and fades away. The tiniest infraction results in the membership being called to attend a disciplinary “hearing” where they are not allowed to defend themselves. They must remain silent as the heads of Student Life, DEI, Discipline and IFC berate them for 15 - 20 minutes.
I asked the chapter advisor, “How do they take it? Are they angry? Bitter?” He said, “No, the amazing thing is they keep their cool. Stoical, almost, and when it’s over they go about acting like normal 18-21 year old men. They know it’s bullshit.”
It reminds me of the WW2 prison movies and the sadistic camp commandant. These young men will not be broken, and they outnumber the snowflake wokesters. The future is theirs.
You might find this article interesting as it speaks to that very effort by universities to eradicate all forms of expressed individuality:
https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/stanfords-war-on-social-life?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=33822&post_id=140985129&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=kyfzz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
What a sad story - my dear friend's parents both graduated Stanford way back when and gave BIG donations to the university - I believe the father even had something named after him, probably in the geology Department . I bet the family would like to have all those $$$ back now!
Our family has at least 15 degrees from UT Austin, we don’t give them a dime. They waste money and don’t seek the Truth, even engineering. Next generation we would send to community college & third tier colleges that are more in tune teaching Real Education than Flagship pretentious ones.
bring back Bluto...
Over my 45-year career in finance I have worked with people of ALL education levels. I can say with absolute certainty that there is no correlation between education and intelligence. "college" has for many (!) years been a massive waste of time and money. The fraud of "education" is being exposed and that is a truly positive change.
"They live in neighborhoods that are mostly insulated from urban crime and disorder." - this used to be true, but not so much any more. The walls are closing in. I live in a very affluent "woke" community and I don't have to drive very far at all now to find the chaos inflicted by our so-called leaders. Ours and surrounding counties are declared "sanctuaries" that are being overrun. A few miles drive brings me to the American rendition of the third world now and the buffer is shrinking. It won't be long before the suburban white guilt types won't have any power and the illusion will be gone.
You gotta leave the "Fire Bases" aka suburbs sometimes for supplies. That's when the fun begins. Security meets no/little security.
" My favorite quote: It's not that I didn't like school, it was the principal of the thing."
Degrees being required for jobs is waning.
Is that because they are becoming useless or always were?
Two of my family members are un degreed engineers.
“Republican candidates tried to maximize turnout among this electoral base, while adding a majority of independent voters to the GOP column. Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and the two Bushes used this strategy to great effect.“
Nonsense. The Republican establishment hasn't won an election since 1968. Hear me out.
It's true that Nixon had a historical sweep in 1972, but his opponent didn't even carry his own state. The Democratic party simply couldn't read the room. Alfred E. Newman could have beaten him. In 1984,there were 19 states in which not a single county had a Democrat majority, but that was Reagan. You would think that the GOP pols would see that and ask themselves “How did he do that?” But no, not they. They would rather lose to an establishment Democrat than elect a maverick Republican.
G.H.W. Bush “won” his election in 1988, but it was really Reagan's third win. Bush had Reagan's endorsement, and, to be honest, he ran a gutsy campaign, taking a boat out into Boston harbor and showing us all the trash in his “environmental” opponent's back yard. I watched the “read my lips” speech and was persuaded that Bush had learned the key lessons from his boss. His performance at the polls was underwhelming, but he did beat – what was his name?. I have forgotten. He had a goofy photo of himself in a tank to show us that he was not weak on military policy.
Then Bill Clinton won two elections, but in neither of them did he get a majority of voters to cast their ballots for him. In other words, the GOP establishment couldn't figure out how to defeat a man who couldn't really win.
In 2000 it was the Supreme Court who handed the win to Dubya. That's like when the refs gave the Superbowl XL game to the Steelers in 2006.
In 2004 we were in the middle of Iraq War II, which at the time was still popular, and Americans don't like changing horses in the middle of the stream. I don't count that as a win for the GOP establishment.
Only Reagan and Trump broke the mold (“mould”?), and neither of them was part of the GOP's OB club, and they were hated and reviled by those who were.
Every time I read another article or post about the soi disant "elite" who dominate the upper echelons of society I am reminded of Marie Antoinette, who had an entirely artificial country garden constructed so she could revel in it as a similacrum of real life. It had almost nothing to do with real life in pre-Revolutionary France, where privation, inflation, unemloyment, crime and debauchery were the order of the day. Marie instructed her architects and builders to create a replica village, then had it populated with faux peasants among whom she would circulate and bask in their rapt devotion. Our contemporary elites are like this, living in a fantaxy world of their own creation, outside the world where reality holds sway, circulating among their sycophantic boosters and believing they have the world on a string, while looking down their aristocratic noses at us peasants. I am also reminded that Marie was only able to enjoy her fantasy world for about two years, because the real peasants who lived in the real world decided that "Vive La Revolution" was a keen saying, and beheading their aristo oppressors was the best solution to their problems. Marie soon made the acquaintance of M. Guillotine and her world came to a very sudden end, as did she.