Clausewicz is often quoted as the source of the definition of war as politics by other means. This applies equally to legal warfare. The left has taken this to heart and as a result has enacted policies and programs which, if put to a plebiscite, would fail spectacularly. Of course, with each success in the lawfare battlescape, the ratchet of government moves leftward, and we, the sheeple, sigh and accomocate the enforced "new normal." Our formerly great republic is dying a death by a thousand cuts. We shall soon be bled dry and left like the shriveled husk of roadkill in the desert. Perhaps then the unlucky survivors will recognize what happened, but only when it is too late to resuscitate the corpse. Ozymandias, here we come.
To everyone who thinks war will get them the advantage they need,
Exodus 15:3 Yhwh is a man of war; Yhwh is His name.
Luke 17:26–27 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
I don't know whose lawyers will win, but there's only one God and He's already said what's happening when He shows up.
The left has always used the courts (Canada, too) to push through measures that wouldn't make it at the ballot box. But the weak politicians allow it. The political system does not have the people/voters in mind.
"Here, Republicans clearly have the law on their side and they refuse to use it.
Again."
That's because the Republican Party is nothing more than willingly controlled opposition.
Jesse Kelly nailed it when he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson - the podcast is readily and freely available - it is highly recommended listening.
Even Stalin allowed for the illusion of an alternative party - controlled opposition via The Trust - he was able to keep tabs on any serious threats to his power.
As for today's poll, it's a tie between Riley Gaines and the WV girls - but if a choice is required, I'll give the nod to the WV girls.
NFT, I'm with you on the WV girls. Riley Gaines is doing whole lot for the cause but some will perceive her as an opportunist and she might not have as much influence then. On the other hand, these middle school girls are young and risking even more with their peers and teachers. I hand it to them for courage, which is today lacking in our well paid leaders.
Ep- I want to respectfully disagree. I think because Riley has a very high profile, she is already a proven athlete, and her continued action she brings more heat to the table.
She has also been threatened physically and yet continues. She has already proven herself and could have easily walked away.
All true. Our politicians are useless. I wrote Carol Miller a nice note this weekend informing her that I will not vote for her after her support for Ukraine funding when we don’t have our own border secure.
Carole Miller is my representative too. How the heck did we end up with her? (Well, because of illegals being counted in the census, blue states got more seats during the last 10 year re-apportionment and West Virginia lost a seat in Congress--so Carole Miller's district was expanded and took in Kanawha County.) Mooney was our rep, and he voted better, but "the cat's got his tongue". He never speaks up powerfully like he could. But Carole Miller is way too weak--she does a few things right, but she's in way over her head.
I hate the political dynasties. I have met Chris Miller on the trail. He’s an interesting candidate. I think better than the carpet bagger Morrisey and the totally bland and uninteresting Mac Warner. Forget Capito. He stood in the way of the Article V Convention of States resolution for many years.
Yes, Mooney is running for Senate, against Jim Justice, a RINO at best. Mooney, tho far from perfect, would be better than Justice. But Mooney is not fighting hard enough. He voted OK in the House but never spoke up vigorously and publicly on the national scene. He is simply NOT a fighter, not a public speaker. If he had been, he would be leading in this Senate contest. But he didn't, and now he is making the same mistake in this Senate run.
So that does not "explain his silence". You should not be silent when you are running for the US Senate against a RINO. I will vote for Mooney, but he is being way too passive to win against Justice.
It may be too late for Mooney--the primary is 3 weeks away. I worked for Mooney's campaign in previous years, and have phoned his office and said what I said above probably 20 times--that he's too quiet and needs to be more of a fighter. He had 4 (or 6?) years in the House, and he wasted that "bully pulpit". Hard to change course in the next 3 weeks.
We see the expansion and contraction of the business cycle every several years because supply and demand are the invisible arbiters in an organic system, but, until COVID, higher education never seemed to show a dip in enrollments and usually showed continued growth despite economic conditions to the contrary. That occurred because student loans and grants artificially kept the system going.
In my opinion, this country needs a severe downsizing of higher education institutions with no more than two or three universities per state and a host of technical training (2-year) institutions near large urban areas that focus on trade skills and certification. And, nobody goes for free. Ever. Regardless of family economic status.
No give-away grants. Everyone can gain student loan access IF they maintain a 2.0 or higher and EVERYONE pays it back or is placed in the military service for 2 to 4 years where the debt is deducted from each paycheck.
Downsize higher education, get rid of the lunatic leftist professors and worthless degree programs.
Actually, they are downsizing themselves. And the fluff majors are getting a harder look from some of the state legislatures as well. It took the progressive left a long time to march through the institutions. They are finally playing defense, but we have a lot of ground to recapture.
No more government subsidized student loans. Either have rich parents, work your way through college (as a lot of folks did “back in the day”), or scholarships from the university or college. If they think that you’re good enough to make it they loan you the money and THEY get it back from you. There are WAY too many 35-year old people “going back to school” for a degree in Hair Weaving. It’s the money they want, with no intention of ever paying it back. Just my opinion, you understand.
And they are running with the DEI and have ruined most of the services. Until they fix that (and recruiting shows it) the GI is worthless. I used the GI bill to get school so wish my nieces and nephews had the same opportunity.
I taught part time, and then full time, at local universities in my career in business so I saw some things that weren't right develop over the years. The worst was the students who had absolutely no business being in college (colleges started admitting anyone). They would load up on free grant money every semester and never show up for class. They would use some lame excuse for why they could not attend like they had to take care of a sick grandma so they weren't thrown out and they would continue to get their FAFSA free grant money and do it again. It was common for one who did that to have gotten between $10k and $20k in free money with no reprisal. It would take at least a full academic year for it to catch up to them before they just quit registering. I suspect, they went to the college next door to do it to them for a year. No more free money.
They would get sued for discrimination. The Government will need to get totally out of the student loan business. They should have never been in it in the first place.
If it goes back private, then the banks would make sure you could repay the loan. The banks wouldnt offer loans for basket weaving as in the old days. Schools would have to get the ratio of admin (1000+ to 1 student) back under control. Prices for school would come down.
Easy fix but it wont happen due to 'im from the government and I am here to help'.
I don't see how STEM majors could possibly be construed as being racist. In fact the opposite would be true - it would be opening these career paths to lower income students.
If the government is doing the loans, they would have to back anything the student wanted to take. It is not that STEM is racist, no matter what the LBGQWTF+ crowd says. It is a matter of the government has to provide all with loans according to the rules. The banks however would have to do a ROI eval on every loan. They follow different rules. It is totally stupid. So the government needs to get out of the loan business totally.
This is like how several states are providing relief loans/grants to farmers and businesses. They are doing BICOP first. It is against the law. They are actually being sued over this and will have to provide them to everyone regardless to color of skin or gender.
I wouldn't mind that either, but some lower income folks can become some of the staunchest conservatives when given the first step up on the ladder (Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson to name two that come to mind)
I understand your point but there has to be some room for variability. As for secret liberal, if I followed Harvard's grading policy everyone would get an "A", even if they plagiarize.
In case they include a postage paid envelope be sure to load it up with their entire solicitation and write across the letter in a thick marker that when they abolish DEI you'll donate.
Rush said Washington Republicans could never do anything useful until they retrieved their stones from "Hillary's testicular lock box." Nobody's ever improved on that.
The United States of America is a ticking time bomb.
With well over 12 million illegals - and counting - now in this country, and a debt that will reach over $50 trillion dollars in the next few months, it is all going to come crashing down soon, very soon. We are about ready now to literally implode upon ourselves. The Democrats are just looting whatever they can get their hands on before it all comes crashing down, while Republicans either join them or watch from the sidelines powerless and cowering.
The Constitution along with any Rights once afforded us by the 1st Amendment, have been thoroughly discarded, the Rule of Law has been deformed into the Whims of the Powerful, every single institution has been corrupted to its marrow, and wicked, violent hordes have been unleashed upon the land that are willing to literally burn down the whole house if they don’t get their way .
We can pretend an election will somehow be able to avert what is inevitably coming, but I fear that is just a pipe dream. Even If Trump were to win, they’d just pull their faux-plug on the economy once and for all and let him deal with the devastation and ruin that will follow. Trump will be the one who’ll have to declare Martial Law now left to salvage and control a nation in utter chaos.
And all that’s before considering whether Iran, who desperately fears a potential President Trump, won’t ignite WWIII well before that can happen.
I believe we have passed the Rubicon, and need to prepare for what is coming, and none of it is good. Buckle up.
Susie, you are outstandingly articulate at putting your finger on the darkness. And it does take courage to look at it that clearly, as Gene Deutscher commented below.
But...you know what I'm going to say. :) Maybe for some people, that is their role-- to point out the "bad" clearly, and maybe to do that is enough of a role. Clarity is essential; and you are marvelous on this essential point. It also shows you have a fire in you--and I love this fire--it is precious.
Just note, though, that it is unbalanced. You make ZERO mention of all the equally courageous efforts underway to combat this--efforts that are having remarkable success in many areas.
Just be aware-- what is the effect of your comments on people? They discourage people. That is not helpful. It cooperates with the psyops that want us to surrender-- to defeat ourselves. When things hang in the balance, this can be very damaging.
I also suspect you must be discouraging your own self too. But you do express a strong spiritual faith as well. God is not distant. He/She is present everywhere, and with all persons (even if those persons currently turn their back on spirituality). Evil goes to great lengths to propagandize itself--to make itself appear powerful. Be careful that you are not magnifying and propagandizing evil. The "fire" in you is your outrage at evil. That means you must grasp the preciousness of good. I would say maybe just throw more of your weight on the hard-core celebration of every single instance of good and courage that we can see.
Have you read Jeremiah? He spoke most vividly about the consequences people would see and experience after having abandoned God. Things did not end well for them.
He could very well have been describing the US today.
Here is a discussion of what happened to Jordan Peterson. An English lady (Sarah Plumley) and an Irish gentleman (John Waters) discuss Peterson's meltdown coinciding with the Covid scam. Peterson was too good at teaching people how to buckle-up. Evil ones cleaned his clock.
What can you do? The Irish are garrulous folk. John Waters is no exception and he's proud to be what he calls, "pasty-faced." He used that defense to flummox a lot of crooked politicians. "The Irish are not white. The Irish are Pasty Faced." A formal, capitalized term of reference in the Waters Lingo. It makes me laugh. "I ain't white. I'm pasty faced. And don't you forget it." I've started using it myself. Ya gotta love them Irish.
I actually listened to the whole thing and though I won’t go into all my thoughts on their “diatribe of disappointment” with Jordan Peterson, perhaps they shouldn’t place so much faith and expectation in one man. He’s surely not the only voice in the wilderness, and as human as we all are, also subject to fault and imperfection.
They raised some interesting ancillary points here and there though about other stuff.
The money quote was Waters saying, "Jordan Peterson is the Elvis of today's public intellectuals." I get that. If Peterson had used his intellectual firepower to burn down the Covid scam, the millions who were hanging on his every word would have paid close attention. But for causes unknown to his followers, Peterson held his fire. I saw a few bits of Peterson speaking after he returned from his medical stay overseas. He is not the same that he was before his illness. IMO his family was threatened or his capacities were altered by traumatic brainwashing. Either way, the Jordan Peterson who took the world by storm before Covid is no longer in the building. Some part of Peterson is where Elvis is now.
Isn't "political malpractice by Republicans" an oxymoron? Republicans (i.e. Uniparty members) know exactly how this is all going to go down. And why they voted with their brethren to upgrade the FBI to the tune of $375 million.
Great post but you didn't go deep enough.The reublican attorneys are all afraid of losing their right to practice law as happened to many for defending PDJT and his administration.The Roberts Supreme Court is less than helpful in pursuit of constitutional rights guaranteed all Americans there in.As for title IX where are all the bra burning feminists and equal rights crowds now,glued to the msm outlets and worried about rights of hamassholes in the middle east chanting death to America.Riley and the WVa girls are gaining support for sanity but it is the same battle we are in for the return to sanity as a Great Nation founded on God Given rights.Lead on to a MAGA 2024 victory Poca-Man.
Yes, that is a key point--the Dems have targeted their lawfare to disbar attorneys that fight for Trump, and probably want to expand that to attorneys that fight for anything on the Right.
And also, I believe Dem's control the state Bar Associations, as well as some of the prominent law schools. But I can't believe the entire legal field is monolithically Democratic. It is time for the America-loving attorneys to start seriously cleaning up their profession.
agree, all the conservatives are looking over their shoulders and real harm, esp but no limited to financial will befall them, and even if they win on appeal they are out millions.
Minor skeletons in the closet, and don't we all have them, will become headlines.
This is what happens when you have no president running the country. The party is running the WH today with help from non-elected civil servants and party backers. We are a SCOTUS justice or two changes away from a full on Democrat party dictatorship. The USA has been reduced to a giant social justice mob run by the Tech Industry owned or run mostly by Marxist elites who are still going thru puberty. The problem here is that conservatives have no party today. Republicans are represented by defeatists who do not know how to win at anything, and more worried about fundraising and appearance than representing their party effectively. Who knows, maybe Sen. Kennedy can teach his GOP peers some comedy so they can put their time in office to better use and maintain the devoted while the barbed wire and walls are erected They have the time available after all.
Agreed but- this is what happens when people believe an offensive narrative or a political action isn’t TOoooo bad. It’s all bad. Evil cannot have an inch. The liberals are just lazy, misguided fools and they say corruption is ok because they are corrupt.
"The liberals are just lazy, misguided fools and they say corruption is ok because they are corrupt". Agreed but I think you are being too kind here. A
But remember Doc, it isn't people like those on this blog who have destroyed nation after nation over the centuries, it was power hungry morons like the liberal Marxists of today. It doesn't take brains to destroy something, just the will to do so.
The same students who are threatening and accosting Jewish students at Columbia and Yale are the ones who will have their loans forgiven - and those of their parents too most likely. The protestors at other anti Israel events (those not paid by a Soros NGO or foundation) who show up because they work from home or can’t be bothered to work are also more likely to have loans forgiven illegally. People without loans are actually working for a living.
I expect Missouri to lead the way in challenging, but with only the same 25 states following. No RNC or official party or interested party willing to show up.
I'd love to know how many of the islamo-fascist protestors are here on STUDENT VISAS and how FAST will TRUMP KICK THEM THE HELL OUT AND BAR THEM FROM EVER COMING BACK!?
The RNC and GOP will not show up and support because they don’t want money that would otherwise go to them being used for other purposes. Still waiting to see real change coming from the RNC with Laura Trump running it.
The democrats are doing for women what they did for blacks. Yet the aggrieved parties are either too stupid or too morally compromised to recognize it. We indeed are a powder keg (Ty Susie) with a lot fuse. Unfortunately the results will not turn out like that stupid movie Civil War, they will be real and horrifying. The only good thing that will result is these politicians will all pay the consequences first that is after all the legacy press, Wall Street and tech types. The bad thing is most Americans will not survive as our supply lines are critical. Hospitals are critical. Unlike 1860, most Americans are non-agrarian, meaning non self sufficient. I bet those 12M illegals are imported to help out?
Unlike previous wars including the civil war, America was not touched (ex: Pearl Harbor). The Civil war affected those in border states, but most were not affected. Unlike many, I believe we can upright this ship, as most Americans are good decent people. Yet, our power grid, supply chains, and ideology are strained. With increasing tribalism, foreign interference (China) and political inaction, we as a country may want to be in a shithole country, where the standard of living may eventually be better. WV is beautiful and far away from the action. But without power and food, it will look like a scene out of the walking dead.
a secure border is the only way to save america. that's where men had to man up but they didn't and now it is probably too late. let women take care of their own sports problems. if every women (regardless of age or political bent) would refuse to compete against girly-boys the problem would disappear before the stanely cup is raised this year. this is why matriarchy always fails.
Perhaps, but you’re asking athletes that have “put in the work” and trained their butts off for years, just to have the opportunity to showcase their talents, to just “drop out”? That’s a tough call for a young woman to make. Change comes from the top.
What is true is that Johnson, whatever he truly believes, has a split caucus. Half or so are patriots, and half or so are commie sympathizers. We need to continue the work of eliminating the commie symps on our own side. And realize, that our victories, and they are beginning to pile up, are coming from the States and conservative pressure groups - like Christopher Rufo's outfit that is destroying DEI one wokie at a time. Send people to DC who are willing to cut power away from DC. And keep on doing it until it happens.
Very important comment, Jim. We are in the middle of the reconstitution of the Republican party. I am concerned about electoral fraud in the election for the presidency, but in the state elections for Congress, it is looking like we will have a major successful clean up in November-- many RINOS have decided not to run for reelection, many others are being challenged, and many new fire-brand America-Firsters are running for the first time. It won't be a 100% clean up, but Representatives only serve a 2 year term, and 100% of them are up for re-election, which makes the House the easiest branch of government to clean up if we put our mind to it.
One of many reasons to throw up hands (or, in this case- breakfast) and despair, which is entirely rational if we do not keep before us our ragtag revolutionary forefathers, who kept before themselves Almighty God (David’s corner man).
Plus, we have Babylon Bee, with its nuclear attacks on the Achilles heel of hypocrisy.
Clausewicz is often quoted as the source of the definition of war as politics by other means. This applies equally to legal warfare. The left has taken this to heart and as a result has enacted policies and programs which, if put to a plebiscite, would fail spectacularly. Of course, with each success in the lawfare battlescape, the ratchet of government moves leftward, and we, the sheeple, sigh and accomocate the enforced "new normal." Our formerly great republic is dying a death by a thousand cuts. We shall soon be bled dry and left like the shriveled husk of roadkill in the desert. Perhaps then the unlucky survivors will recognize what happened, but only when it is too late to resuscitate the corpse. Ozymandias, here we come.
“War is a racket.” - Smedley D. Butler -
To everyone who thinks war will get them the advantage they need,
Exodus 15:3 Yhwh is a man of war; Yhwh is His name.
Luke 17:26–27 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
I don't know whose lawyers will win, but there's only one God and He's already said what's happening when He shows up.
FAFO when it comes to God.
The left has always used the courts (Canada, too) to push through measures that wouldn't make it at the ballot box. But the weak politicians allow it. The political system does not have the people/voters in mind.
I think you got that backwards: politics is war by other means.
"Here, Republicans clearly have the law on their side and they refuse to use it.
Again."
That's because the Republican Party is nothing more than willingly controlled opposition.
Jesse Kelly nailed it when he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson - the podcast is readily and freely available - it is highly recommended listening.
Even Stalin allowed for the illusion of an alternative party - controlled opposition via The Trust - he was able to keep tabs on any serious threats to his power.
As for today's poll, it's a tie between Riley Gaines and the WV girls - but if a choice is required, I'll give the nod to the WV girls.
Willingly controlled? lol. They are fully complicit in this fraud. They like their banking friends make money regardless of the outcome.
NFT, I'm with you on the WV girls. Riley Gaines is doing whole lot for the cause but some will perceive her as an opportunist and she might not have as much influence then. On the other hand, these middle school girls are young and risking even more with their peers and teachers. I hand it to them for courage, which is today lacking in our well paid leaders.
Ep- I want to respectfully disagree. I think because Riley has a very high profile, she is already a proven athlete, and her continued action she brings more heat to the table.
She has also been threatened physically and yet continues. She has already proven herself and could have easily walked away.
Good points.
All true. Our politicians are useless. I wrote Carol Miller a nice note this weekend informing her that I will not vote for her after her support for Ukraine funding when we don’t have our own border secure.
They suck in DC. District of Corruption
Carole Miller is my representative too. How the heck did we end up with her? (Well, because of illegals being counted in the census, blue states got more seats during the last 10 year re-apportionment and West Virginia lost a seat in Congress--so Carole Miller's district was expanded and took in Kanawha County.) Mooney was our rep, and he voted better, but "the cat's got his tongue". He never speaks up powerfully like he could. But Carole Miller is way too weak--she does a few things right, but she's in way over her head.
Her dad was a congressman just like Capito's
Her son is running for governor, just like Capito's
We have that in Canada, too. It's the case with Justin and others. Yet, voters fall for it almost every time.
My gosh-- Chris Miller is Carole Miller's son??!! Sick, sick, sick. I already had dismissed him as a candidate, but that is sick.
Fortunately--tho maybe I'm wrong about this--but it looks like Patrick Morrisey is going to win the governor's primary.
Sick, sick, sick--both Shelley Moore Capito's and Carole Miller's sons are running in the WV governor primary. Sick, sick, sick.
I hate the political dynasties. I have met Chris Miller on the trail. He’s an interesting candidate. I think better than the carpet bagger Morrisey and the totally bland and uninteresting Mac Warner. Forget Capito. He stood in the way of the Article V Convention of States resolution for many years.
Is Mooney still running for U.S. Senate?? If so, that would explain his silence.
Yes, Mooney is running for Senate, against Jim Justice, a RINO at best. Mooney, tho far from perfect, would be better than Justice. But Mooney is not fighting hard enough. He voted OK in the House but never spoke up vigorously and publicly on the national scene. He is simply NOT a fighter, not a public speaker. If he had been, he would be leading in this Senate contest. But he didn't, and now he is making the same mistake in this Senate run.
So that does not "explain his silence". You should not be silent when you are running for the US Senate against a RINO. I will vote for Mooney, but he is being way too passive to win against Justice.
Thanks for that feedback!
I am acquainted with his mom and I will let her know this feedback! 😊
Maybe it will help, if it's not already too late.
Hurry before it's too late. (As a politician he may have already sold her out.)
You know Mooney's mother?
It may be too late for Mooney--the primary is 3 weeks away. I worked for Mooney's campaign in previous years, and have phoned his office and said what I said above probably 20 times--that he's too quiet and needs to be more of a fighter. He had 4 (or 6?) years in the House, and he wasted that "bully pulpit". Hard to change course in the next 3 weeks.
I learned how to pronounce "Kanawha" from a piano bar keyboardist. He was from West BG Virginia. The only way he ever said where he was from.
On my end of the state, I find Mooney was too cowardly to vote at all. I think that's worse. What a slimy weasel he is.
NO student loan forgiveness and no more grants:
We see the expansion and contraction of the business cycle every several years because supply and demand are the invisible arbiters in an organic system, but, until COVID, higher education never seemed to show a dip in enrollments and usually showed continued growth despite economic conditions to the contrary. That occurred because student loans and grants artificially kept the system going.
In my opinion, this country needs a severe downsizing of higher education institutions with no more than two or three universities per state and a host of technical training (2-year) institutions near large urban areas that focus on trade skills and certification. And, nobody goes for free. Ever. Regardless of family economic status.
No give-away grants. Everyone can gain student loan access IF they maintain a 2.0 or higher and EVERYONE pays it back or is placed in the military service for 2 to 4 years where the debt is deducted from each paycheck.
Downsize higher education, get rid of the lunatic leftist professors and worthless degree programs.
Actually, they are downsizing themselves. And the fluff majors are getting a harder look from some of the state legislatures as well. It took the progressive left a long time to march through the institutions. They are finally playing defense, but we have a lot of ground to recapture.
It will be very hard to make a comeback. these libs are all tenured, and the recruiting is all liberal
No more government subsidized student loans. Either have rich parents, work your way through college (as a lot of folks did “back in the day”), or scholarships from the university or college. If they think that you’re good enough to make it they loan you the money and THEY get it back from you. There are WAY too many 35-year old people “going back to school” for a degree in Hair Weaving. It’s the money they want, with no intention of ever paying it back. Just my opinion, you understand.
The GI bill is still there. Trouble is, it used to be hard to get in the military. Not so much anymore.
And they are running with the DEI and have ruined most of the services. Until they fix that (and recruiting shows it) the GI is worthless. I used the GI bill to get school so wish my nieces and nephews had the same opportunity.
Reminds me of a Hogan's Heroes episode: "you have to be breathing."
I taught part time, and then full time, at local universities in my career in business so I saw some things that weren't right develop over the years. The worst was the students who had absolutely no business being in college (colleges started admitting anyone). They would load up on free grant money every semester and never show up for class. They would use some lame excuse for why they could not attend like they had to take care of a sick grandma so they weren't thrown out and they would continue to get their FAFSA free grant money and do it again. It was common for one who did that to have gotten between $10k and $20k in free money with no reprisal. It would take at least a full academic year for it to catch up to them before they just quit registering. I suspect, they went to the college next door to do it to them for a year. No more free money.
I'd love to see Trump (or godforbid CONGRESS????) REFOCUS the student loan plan so that ONLY STEM MAJORS QUALIFY FOR A LOAN!!! PERIOD!!!
They would get sued for discrimination. The Government will need to get totally out of the student loan business. They should have never been in it in the first place.
If it goes back private, then the banks would make sure you could repay the loan. The banks wouldnt offer loans for basket weaving as in the old days. Schools would have to get the ratio of admin (1000+ to 1 student) back under control. Prices for school would come down.
Easy fix but it wont happen due to 'im from the government and I am here to help'.
I don't see how STEM majors could possibly be construed as being racist. In fact the opposite would be true - it would be opening these career paths to lower income students.
If the government is doing the loans, they would have to back anything the student wanted to take. It is not that STEM is racist, no matter what the LBGQWTF+ crowd says. It is a matter of the government has to provide all with loans according to the rules. The banks however would have to do a ROI eval on every loan. They follow different rules. It is totally stupid. So the government needs to get out of the loan business totally.
This is like how several states are providing relief loans/grants to farmers and businesses. They are doing BICOP first. It is against the law. They are actually being sued over this and will have to provide them to everyone regardless to color of skin or gender.
Anti Midas touch. Everything the Feds get involved with, they ruin.
…but they’ll do it anyway, regardless what the law says
Laws for thee, but not for me.
Nothing they do requires sense.
Remember:
“Men can get pregnant” .
Math is racist.
Failing kids is racist.
Homework is racist.
I could go on, but you get it.
Get the government OUT of the loan/grant business entirely. It has no right to be there in the first place.
And miseducation Suzie.
"The first student loans are offered to students attending Harvard University in 1840." Info found on the way to looking up something else.
How about just veterans?
I wouldn't mind that either, but some lower income folks can become some of the staunchest conservatives when given the first step up on the ladder (Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson to name two that come to mind)
Only a 2.0 or higher? Are you a secret liberal?
I understand your point but there has to be some room for variability. As for secret liberal, if I followed Harvard's grading policy everyone would get an "A", even if they plagiarize.
My comment was just kidding, but also, I suppose, based on my own college experience when grades were still real -- the old days.
An A doesn't mean much these days.
Harvard endowment = $49,495,000,000. Enough to pay for every single student's tuition. And housing.
Fvck them. Every single letter I get from my alma mater(U of MN) I use as fire starter.
In case they include a postage paid envelope be sure to load it up with their entire solicitation and write across the letter in a thick marker that when they abolish DEI you'll donate.
LOL, mine are oversized magazines from UCF and they go straight to the fire pit. After 40+ years they manage to track my every move 🤷🏼
Rush said Washington Republicans could never do anything useful until they retrieved their stones from "Hillary's testicular lock box." Nobody's ever improved on that.
The United States of America is a ticking time bomb.
With well over 12 million illegals - and counting - now in this country, and a debt that will reach over $50 trillion dollars in the next few months, it is all going to come crashing down soon, very soon. We are about ready now to literally implode upon ourselves. The Democrats are just looting whatever they can get their hands on before it all comes crashing down, while Republicans either join them or watch from the sidelines powerless and cowering.
The Constitution along with any Rights once afforded us by the 1st Amendment, have been thoroughly discarded, the Rule of Law has been deformed into the Whims of the Powerful, every single institution has been corrupted to its marrow, and wicked, violent hordes have been unleashed upon the land that are willing to literally burn down the whole house if they don’t get their way .
We can pretend an election will somehow be able to avert what is inevitably coming, but I fear that is just a pipe dream. Even If Trump were to win, they’d just pull their faux-plug on the economy once and for all and let him deal with the devastation and ruin that will follow. Trump will be the one who’ll have to declare Martial Law now left to salvage and control a nation in utter chaos.
And all that’s before considering whether Iran, who desperately fears a potential President Trump, won’t ignite WWIII well before that can happen.
I believe we have passed the Rubicon, and need to prepare for what is coming, and none of it is good. Buckle up.
Susie, you are outstandingly articulate at putting your finger on the darkness. And it does take courage to look at it that clearly, as Gene Deutscher commented below.
But...you know what I'm going to say. :) Maybe for some people, that is their role-- to point out the "bad" clearly, and maybe to do that is enough of a role. Clarity is essential; and you are marvelous on this essential point. It also shows you have a fire in you--and I love this fire--it is precious.
Just note, though, that it is unbalanced. You make ZERO mention of all the equally courageous efforts underway to combat this--efforts that are having remarkable success in many areas.
Just be aware-- what is the effect of your comments on people? They discourage people. That is not helpful. It cooperates with the psyops that want us to surrender-- to defeat ourselves. When things hang in the balance, this can be very damaging.
I also suspect you must be discouraging your own self too. But you do express a strong spiritual faith as well. God is not distant. He/She is present everywhere, and with all persons (even if those persons currently turn their back on spirituality). Evil goes to great lengths to propagandize itself--to make itself appear powerful. Be careful that you are not magnifying and propagandizing evil. The "fire" in you is your outrage at evil. That means you must grasp the preciousness of good. I would say maybe just throw more of your weight on the hard-core celebration of every single instance of good and courage that we can see.
Have you read Jeremiah? He spoke most vividly about the consequences people would see and experience after having abandoned God. Things did not end well for them.
He could very well have been describing the US today.
I agree. That is why I felt such urgency to move OUT of the DMV area and get down to FL (Matt Gaetz's district) ASAP where we are now.
Good for you!
You are a voice of courageous wisdom. I agree with your narrative.
Sadly, I agree. Had just the same thoughts this morning.
I agree, Suzie.
I also agree with TPG.
Here is a discussion of what happened to Jordan Peterson. An English lady (Sarah Plumley) and an Irish gentleman (John Waters) discuss Peterson's meltdown coinciding with the Covid scam. Peterson was too good at teaching people how to buckle-up. Evil ones cleaned his clock.
https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/the-plumley-pod-jordan-peterson-and?publication_id=108185&post_id=142922169&isFreemail=true&r=1ha8x0&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Thanks for that link. I checked it out but I do not care for that guy's style of writing. As my husband would say He needs to 'talk less and say more!
What can you do? The Irish are garrulous folk. John Waters is no exception and he's proud to be what he calls, "pasty-faced." He used that defense to flummox a lot of crooked politicians. "The Irish are not white. The Irish are Pasty Faced." A formal, capitalized term of reference in the Waters Lingo. It makes me laugh. "I ain't white. I'm pasty faced. And don't you forget it." I've started using it myself. Ya gotta love them Irish.
I DO love the Irish!! I am convinced I was Irish in a previous life! 🤣
I actually listened to the whole thing and though I won’t go into all my thoughts on their “diatribe of disappointment” with Jordan Peterson, perhaps they shouldn’t place so much faith and expectation in one man. He’s surely not the only voice in the wilderness, and as human as we all are, also subject to fault and imperfection.
They raised some interesting ancillary points here and there though about other stuff.
The money quote was Waters saying, "Jordan Peterson is the Elvis of today's public intellectuals." I get that. If Peterson had used his intellectual firepower to burn down the Covid scam, the millions who were hanging on his every word would have paid close attention. But for causes unknown to his followers, Peterson held his fire. I saw a few bits of Peterson speaking after he returned from his medical stay overseas. He is not the same that he was before his illness. IMO his family was threatened or his capacities were altered by traumatic brainwashing. Either way, the Jordan Peterson who took the world by storm before Covid is no longer in the building. Some part of Peterson is where Elvis is now.
Isn't "political malpractice by Republicans" an oxymoron? Republicans (i.e. Uniparty members) know exactly how this is all going to go down. And why they voted with their brethren to upgrade the FBI to the tune of $375 million.
I would maintain that “Republican representative” is also an oxyMORON.
Adorable. Republican politicians ARE morons. There’s no “oxy” about it.
Great post but you didn't go deep enough.The reublican attorneys are all afraid of losing their right to practice law as happened to many for defending PDJT and his administration.The Roberts Supreme Court is less than helpful in pursuit of constitutional rights guaranteed all Americans there in.As for title IX where are all the bra burning feminists and equal rights crowds now,glued to the msm outlets and worried about rights of hamassholes in the middle east chanting death to America.Riley and the WVa girls are gaining support for sanity but it is the same battle we are in for the return to sanity as a Great Nation founded on God Given rights.Lead on to a MAGA 2024 victory Poca-Man.
Look what is happening to John Eastman.
Yes, that is a key point--the Dems have targeted their lawfare to disbar attorneys that fight for Trump, and probably want to expand that to attorneys that fight for anything on the Right.
And also, I believe Dem's control the state Bar Associations, as well as some of the prominent law schools. But I can't believe the entire legal field is monolithically Democratic. It is time for the America-loving attorneys to start seriously cleaning up their profession.
agree, all the conservatives are looking over their shoulders and real harm, esp but no limited to financial will befall them, and even if they win on appeal they are out millions.
Minor skeletons in the closet, and don't we all have them, will become headlines.
This is what happens when you have no president running the country. The party is running the WH today with help from non-elected civil servants and party backers. We are a SCOTUS justice or two changes away from a full on Democrat party dictatorship. The USA has been reduced to a giant social justice mob run by the Tech Industry owned or run mostly by Marxist elites who are still going thru puberty. The problem here is that conservatives have no party today. Republicans are represented by defeatists who do not know how to win at anything, and more worried about fundraising and appearance than representing their party effectively. Who knows, maybe Sen. Kennedy can teach his GOP peers some comedy so they can put their time in office to better use and maintain the devoted while the barbed wire and walls are erected They have the time available after all.
Agreed but- this is what happens when people believe an offensive narrative or a political action isn’t TOoooo bad. It’s all bad. Evil cannot have an inch. The liberals are just lazy, misguided fools and they say corruption is ok because they are corrupt.
Not everyone or everything deserves mercy.
"The liberals are just lazy, misguided fools and they say corruption is ok because they are corrupt". Agreed but I think you are being too kind here. A
But remember Doc, it isn't people like those on this blog who have destroyed nation after nation over the centuries, it was power hungry morons like the liberal Marxists of today. It doesn't take brains to destroy something, just the will to do so.
Last sentence says it all Reddog !!
And they have the will to do so because we see it everyday.
The same students who are threatening and accosting Jewish students at Columbia and Yale are the ones who will have their loans forgiven - and those of their parents too most likely. The protestors at other anti Israel events (those not paid by a Soros NGO or foundation) who show up because they work from home or can’t be bothered to work are also more likely to have loans forgiven illegally. People without loans are actually working for a living.
I expect Missouri to lead the way in challenging, but with only the same 25 states following. No RNC or official party or interested party willing to show up.
I'd love to know how many of the islamo-fascist protestors are here on STUDENT VISAS and how FAST will TRUMP KICK THEM THE HELL OUT AND BAR THEM FROM EVER COMING BACK!?
The RNC and GOP will not show up and support because they don’t want money that would otherwise go to them being used for other purposes. Still waiting to see real change coming from the RNC with Laura Trump running it.
The democrats are doing for women what they did for blacks. Yet the aggrieved parties are either too stupid or too morally compromised to recognize it. We indeed are a powder keg (Ty Susie) with a lot fuse. Unfortunately the results will not turn out like that stupid movie Civil War, they will be real and horrifying. The only good thing that will result is these politicians will all pay the consequences first that is after all the legacy press, Wall Street and tech types. The bad thing is most Americans will not survive as our supply lines are critical. Hospitals are critical. Unlike 1860, most Americans are non-agrarian, meaning non self sufficient. I bet those 12M illegals are imported to help out?
That’s why I’m hiding in a holler in WV away from the crazy.
Unlike previous wars including the civil war, America was not touched (ex: Pearl Harbor). The Civil war affected those in border states, but most were not affected. Unlike many, I believe we can upright this ship, as most Americans are good decent people. Yet, our power grid, supply chains, and ideology are strained. With increasing tribalism, foreign interference (China) and political inaction, we as a country may want to be in a shithole country, where the standard of living may eventually be better. WV is beautiful and far away from the action. But without power and food, it will look like a scene out of the walking dead.
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Perfect Mark. “Democrats are doing for women. . . “. I’ve never heard it put better. Nailed it.
*snort Bet those 12 mil illegals dont know what soil is let alone how to plant, tend or harvest anything.
They arrive with cellphones and puffer jackets. I don't think they are acquainted with using their backs.
Democrats sue, Republicans write letters.
a secure border is the only way to save america. that's where men had to man up but they didn't and now it is probably too late. let women take care of their own sports problems. if every women (regardless of age or political bent) would refuse to compete against girly-boys the problem would disappear before the stanely cup is raised this year. this is why matriarchy always fails.
Perhaps, but you’re asking athletes that have “put in the work” and trained their butts off for years, just to have the opportunity to showcase their talents, to just “drop out”? That’s a tough call for a young woman to make. Change comes from the top.
First: it is foolish for parents to allow children to become over invested in a GAME. Period.
Secondly: Republicans are like abused spouses- they’re weakened. Gaslighting, fearful and scared of something.
Third: Hell is Truth realized too late” ( Americans new slogan).
nothing is free in life for men. women need to learn that lesson also.
What is true is that Johnson, whatever he truly believes, has a split caucus. Half or so are patriots, and half or so are commie sympathizers. We need to continue the work of eliminating the commie symps on our own side. And realize, that our victories, and they are beginning to pile up, are coming from the States and conservative pressure groups - like Christopher Rufo's outfit that is destroying DEI one wokie at a time. Send people to DC who are willing to cut power away from DC. And keep on doing it until it happens.
Very important comment, Jim. We are in the middle of the reconstitution of the Republican party. I am concerned about electoral fraud in the election for the presidency, but in the state elections for Congress, it is looking like we will have a major successful clean up in November-- many RINOS have decided not to run for reelection, many others are being challenged, and many new fire-brand America-Firsters are running for the first time. It won't be a 100% clean up, but Representatives only serve a 2 year term, and 100% of them are up for re-election, which makes the House the easiest branch of government to clean up if we put our mind to it.
One of many reasons to throw up hands (or, in this case- breakfast) and despair, which is entirely rational if we do not keep before us our ragtag revolutionary forefathers, who kept before themselves Almighty God (David’s corner man).
Plus, we have Babylon Bee, with its nuclear attacks on the Achilles heel of hypocrisy.