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  1. This admin does not give a shit about the market. It gives a shit about the people who are so rich they are insulated from what happens, and they give a shit about seducing people who aren’t directly invested in the market and are too ignorant to understand what this does to them. A “knowledge economy” worker with a 401k doesn’t matter to this GOP. “Knowledge” is the operative word as that is a profile trending away from the GOP. Lots of their leaders have remarked that they are the low-info and low-propensity voter now as borne out in the special elections.
  2. Relevant to this discussion, this Reddit thread got a lot of traction yesterday. You read through the thread and find out that his “other schools” are Ivies, UC system as out of state, Duke, etc. He had a fantastic fucking outcome! UMass-Amherst is a great school! If it’s your safety then you did well. A lot of this is parent’s grind-set bullshit. The dipshit is also telling on himself when he explains that his firm won’t even interview you if you aren’t an Ivy product.
  3. Admission into the very elite schools has always been a social sorting mechanism and not a talent hunt, being accepted was less of an acknowledgment of your academic excellence and more of an anointing as one of the American Brahmins. There were always plenty of brilliant kids and box-checking strivers who got passed over. What got people turnt is when the person who took “their” spot became a brown woman instead of a mediocrity who didn’t apply himself at Philips Exeter.
  4. I’m sure this is all going to be fine.
  5. Almost 30 percent of Republicans believe the EU is an enemy and about a quarter believe the same about Canada. This is, needless to say, an insane and stupid belief that very few people thought to have until Trump blurted it out. This is nearly the entirety of GOP politics:
  6. The institution he’s stanning for now is literally a Palantir creation; someone should dig up his thoughts on the IC and defense contractors. Or maybe that only applies to the woke MIC.
  7. This whole premise is so fucking stupid. Even if U of Austin becomes accredited in a few years it is so, so far from having the infrastructure needed for even adequate STEM programs. A 1460 on SATs and decent grades might not not get you into Ivys or UT but will probably land you a fully funded spot at a more than accredited university that will set you up for a job or an excellent grad program if you work hard. A lot of top grad programs prefer to poach top-level students from regional schools, they value the diversity and know they are getting a proven commodity. Honestly anyone with a 1460 and STEM ambitions who is considering UATx should be screened out of consideration at other schools. Someone with that profile has far better options. I suspect most of their student body will come from highly politicized families doing their kids no favors.
  8. Its entirely fair to call the admission process cooked but its laughable to point to a bullshit school that can’t even transfer credits but “only” requires you to score in the 96th percentile of the SAT and call it a better way of easing the pressure on kids.
  9. Tuesday must be a happy hour day for Ana.
  10. lol, I’m sure the non-accredited bullshit tech-bro scam is happy to accept students who would be competitive anywhere. Texas has about twice as many people as it did in 1990, but the student body at UT has barely grown. There are persuasive reasons not to double the size of the school but instead to invest in making other Texas schools outposts of similarly excellent education. California did this, we should take a look at that. UT-D is on its way. It will never fly in the lege but we really need to break a lot of crockery and reorg all state schools into the UT (University of) and A&M (“state U”) systems.
  11. My understanding is that he is a Salvadoran citizen and I’m unaware of any mechanism by which one country can demand another country hand over one of the second country’s citizens absent an extradition request— which doesn’t apply here. Even if the person was deported from the first country by mistake.
  12. There is nobody on earth hornier than busybody church moms imagining what the youth group is up to.
  13. I grew up in the church of Christ to a family who was “liberal” as far as that goes, and I also worked as a lifeguard. I’d volunteer my time at church camp, and one year disaster struck: there were not enough girl lifeguards to monitor the girls’ swimming hole time. A robust debate ensued. To cancel girls’ swimming entirely or to bend the “no mixed bathing” rule enough to allow me to supervise the girls’ swim. This was a close run debate, with many cabin moms falling squarely on the side of maintaining the purity of the river. I was closely questioned as to my ability to contain my lust and focus on the job (mind, I worked at a public pool and also swam competitively and was well acquainted with the temptations of a high-cut swimsuit leg). Eventually, a compromise was reached that I should put my shirt on during girls’ swimming hour, my own considerable charms apparently being too much for the sheltered young lasses of the church camp to gaze upon. My point in this story is that the GOP today is half busybody church camp cabin moms and aspiring brownshirts yearning to club people as they get shoved onto the train.
  14. The mother has responded. Everyone involved in this save the child is the worst person.
  15. It takes epic levels of incompetence to o this. No one should believe this admin is serious about the China threat.
  16. I’m not a lawyer.
  17. Trump wants to have Kid Rock, Bill Maher, and maybe Dana White to the Oval.
  18. Historically presidents have retired from public life but what if one didn’t? No prohibition on running for office and becoming speaker or president pro temp, and being in the line of succession. Our institutions (and most others) are designed for people who can be trusted to respect them, which was what John Adams was trying to get at when he said “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
  19. I mean, yes, this is absolutely true on all counts.
  20. This is the constitutional question, which is murky. The 12th says: no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. The 22nd says: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. The argument hinges on the difference between “being President” and “being elected President.” The only disqualifications explicitly spelled out for “being President” is to be under 35 or not a natural born U.S. citizen. Trump’s team has a fairly clear argument here that if the 22nd meant to say a two-turn President can never BE President or hold the office, they could have written it to say so.
  21. Constituional law- famously non-pedantic.
  22. No, what I mean is that the 12th is what @jimmyjazz is citing about being VP. 12th: No one ineligible to BE president can be VP. 22nd: No POTUS can be ELECTED to a third term. Two different things. The Constitution only requires you to be over 35 and natural born citizen to BE president. And you can become President without being elected. 2028: Vance selects Trump as VP, explicitly promises to step aside and let DJT take office. This is constitutionally murky but there is an argument.
  23. The 22nd amendment does not say Trump is ineligible to be POTUS. It says he’s ineligible to be elected at POTUS. Thats a big loophole for the 12th.
  24. He didn’t say he’d be elected. People need to take this seriously, he didn’t leave voluntarily the first time and his verbiage is a direct output of his brain.
  25. Silly. That’s on the lines of a rumpus. A ruckus is most likely a donnybrook.
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