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Kinda puts into perspective the bloated state of education huh?

The university I work for has 500% over representation of boomers in out department….. lifelong academics that WILL NOT LEAVE; we’re talking people in their 70-80’s who stick around because of their “work ethic” but it’s really because they are control freaks that delegate their work to multiple layers of redundant admin.

I’m literally watching people in their 30’s who have worked for 10years leave because they cannot advance through the boomer blockade.

And the boomers wonder why they can’t retain people…….
Agreed, Time to bring back a mandatory retirement age.

Boomer blockade, I haven't heard that one before…I shall steal your saying and spread it far and wide.
 
What your ilk label as far right is laughable. Your ilk nearly ruined this country with open border policy and other extreme changes. What you try to label as far right are just traditional Republicans trying to slow your Marxist or socialist roll. We are not far right, you are extreme left. Look back at Democrat speeches and statements from JFK forward and then tell me who has changed? It’s not us, it’s you. The Democrat party is dead. It’s now Marxists and Socialists.
Considering that Ronald Reagan supported an immigration amnesty bill, and was pro-environmental regulation, I would say it’s pretty clear that your party has gone off the far-right rails. Even Nixon, signed the legislation for the EPA. Bushes daddy also supported env regulations. Obama also deported more people than any other president, including Trump.

Do you remember when the Republicans said Clinton was a draft-Dodger and that was bad. Do you remember when the Republicans said Clinton cheating on his wife meant that America couldn’t trust him?
Do you remember when the Republicans said Obama didn’t have enough experience and we needed John McCain because we couldn’t have a president with “training wheels on” in such difficult times, and then they supported Trump with no experience?
Or perhaps when they said don’t vote for John Kerry because he’s a wealthy out of touch elitist…like Donald Trump, billionaire who shits on a golden toilet? Remember back in the day when Republicans spoke about fiscal discipline and actually cared about the deficit?

I remember, and so too does Pepperidge farm.

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"those evil greedy Boomers are initiating the largest privately held economic transfer in modern history as they move their accumulated wealth into the hands of the whining multitudes demanding socialism."
Perhaps...or maybe the boomers are going to blow all that wealth at the casinos and on $8,000/month assisted living facilities? I suppose anythings possible. I mean if you're so flush with cash, maybe stop demanding more tax cuts for yourselves. Maybe those angry Millennials are upset because repeated Baby-boomer presidents and congressman have mortgaged their futures and racked up $39 trillion in debt so they could have their tax cuts, and social security and medicare, and their cake....

Like I stated in my earlier post, what spending are you, or any other member here willing to cut? The vast majority of our gov spending is Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Military Industrial Complex, and Interest Payments on debt. Since we have to pay people to borrow money, we wont be cutting that expense. So of the three items left, what gets cut?
 
"Stawell and Porter have seemed like pretty terrible human beings for a long time, regardless of politics they just seem like bad people"
Trump was friends with a child sex trafficer and raped kids, you may want to steer the discussion in a different direction there good sir.
 
Considering that Ronald Reagan supported an immigration amnesty bill, and was pro-environmental regulation, I would say it’s pretty clear that your party has gone off the far-right rails. Even Nixon, signed the legislation for the EPA. Bushes daddy also supported env regulations. Obama also deported more people than any other president, including Trump.

Do you remember when the Republicans said Clinton was a draft-Dodger and that was bad. Do you remember when the Republicans said Clinton cheating on his wife meant that America couldn’t trust him?
Do you remember when the Republicans said Obama didn’t have enough experience and we needed John McCain because we couldn’t have a president with “training wheels on” in such difficult times, and then they supported Trump with no experience?
Or perhaps when they said don’t vote for John Kerry because he’s a wealthy out of touch elitist…like Donald Trump, billionaire who shits on a golden toilet? Remember back in the day when Republicans spoke about fiscal discipline and actually cared about the deficit?

I remember, and so too does Pepperidge farm.

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I’m a Wilderness outfitter. Don’t assume Republicans want a dirty environment and an oil well on every section. The difference is everything in moderation. Your party knows no moderation. Gillette, WY and Craig, CO are great places for coal mines. The Bakken and Permian Basins are fine for oil, as are some Arctic areas that are uninhabitable for most humans. Other places, not so much. Your party is against all fossil fuels, which is a pipe dream. Your electric car is full of petroleum based plastic, as are the batteries! Remember when Gore and the environmental alarmists said drastic, end of the earth things were coming soon? I’m still waiting. The climate has changed since time immemorial. Get used to it.

Trump? What does he have to do with your extreme, crazy policy shifts from the days of JFK and even Clinton? “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Good luck with that nowadays! Your party is unrecognizable and out of touch with most of the country. Academia and liberal cities are not mainstream.
 
How does one tell the difference between the disabled/injured and "slackers"? Who adjudicates that? Isn't that what social security disability insurance is for?
Wasn’t your party recently almost completely opposed to a work requirement for welfare recipients? Let me answer for you, “Yes.”
 
No..what I said was give diplomacy a chance.. But I guess you want war..
How many chances does Iran get? You would chance yourself right into a nuclear bomb. Do you support Iran’s funding of proxy militias in neighboring countries? No? Then when does someone (we know it wouldn’t be you) finally strike them enough to degrade their abilities to do all these things? Just let it continue forever? Are you really naive enough to think that the Iranian regime is just a misunderstood group of friendly blokes who just need a chance to do the right thing? The only thing extremists understand is power and force.
 
Wasn’t your party recently almost completely opposed to a work requirement for welfare recipients? Let me answer for you, “Yes.”
He truly isn't worth the response time. He is trolling. He is interested in reciting talking points and being a contrarian - not debate. Like too many post millennial trollers, he oozes entitlement rather than applauding, or more importantly, representing achievement.
 
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Not just the Pakis. All the Gulf States and Israelis follow the same practices. I twice walked past ajar hotel rooms during talks to catch glimpses of significant electronic equipment which I have no doubt was monitoring phones, in room conversations, and typically video. One of those hotels was in Qatar and the other Tel Aviv. Simply the way international business is conducted. We do it as well.

When I went through Attaché training in "the Tidewater and Environs," many years ago, we were taken on tours to various locations where we were supposed get clandestine photography and elicit information in order to prepare intelligence reports. The opposition ran counter intel ops against us which included planting a cute young lady behind a hotel bar, hidden room cameras and recording devices, etc. Several in our class made rather spectacular fools of themselves. I would assume the American delegation will have a small but very well equipped counter espionage team riding shotgun.

I did a fair bit of business in China. My hotel room and bags were searched every day while I was in meetings. General rule, take nothing of value and keep your notes on your person until you leave the country. Scrub your electronics before and after, send no confidential messages while in country.
 
The real 'new South-Africa' under the anc......

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Yet another BLACK [Education] race-law to be implemented in South Africa.....
[There are already 144 new race laws specifically against whites under this communist regime!]
Re-write the school curriculum as if =-260 years of WHITE history till+_ 1912 never existed!

[They use the term BLACK extensively [and rightly so-they are black-] but want to cry abuse by the mere reading or hearing of the word 'White'--so grow up, this is the real world of so called 'black and white' reality! You cannot just wish it away with yet another unjust law]
A real, independent and academically proven-FACT CHECK -....

From 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck landed in the Cape of Good Hope, till +_ 1912 after South Africa became a Union with the British, for +_ 260 years the majority of South African territory [land space] were inhabited and developed by WHITE people!
[Do your own independent fact check and research about this!]

During ALL of this time [that this mew race-law want to erase], ALL of the development in South Africa were done by ONLY WHITE people! [A term they constantly use for everybody not heavily dark pigmented]

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Thus, ALL the Food, farms, industry, hospitals, schools, businesses, mining, infrastructure, railways, roads, shipping, airplanes, cars, economic enterprises, buildings, education, universities, electricity, communication, dams etc. were the brainchild and developments of WHITE people by innovation, critical thinking and blood, sweat and tears.

NOTHING of the above [read none, zero] during this soon to be deleted history in schools, were developed, thought out, created by the then black people of the time.

The ONLY response the politically egoistic powers to be and liberals across the world can response on the above, is not by real FACTS, but by over used and mis-used crybaby slogans like 'apartheid' and 'racist' etc. [Check the real facts on this as well...]

After the black population explosion of the British making, and the open borders policy of the current corrupt government [check the real facts on this...], the only achievement to better some black people's lives, was the adaptation of the Mafia's 'protection money' scheme with a black twist, called BEE [Black Economic Empowerment].

This is yet another [of the 144!] race laws that force all and any bigger 'white' [entrepreneur] owned business or enterprise, to take in an unqualified and incompetent connected black partner who must now own and ern 45-51% of said enterprise as a board member, or else.....!

[https://www.artikels.afriforum.co.z...-to-be-abolished-take-a-stand-with-afriforum/]

This race extortion, enforced by law, only benefit +_ 500 black connected families [out of a total of +_ 60 million people] in South Africa, -most in government -connections!!
Fact checks the current youth under 25 years old unemployment rate that are currently a staggering 62%! [a reason for the high crime rate!]

Now check the consequences of yet another race law in Education...
The dumbing-down of the end of 12 years of schooling [currently by mostly political and poorly trained 'educators'], where in their final year of school, the pass mark has been lowered to 30%!
This nonsense low academic mark allows black students to go to an academic university with a state bursary...

White students on the other hand, must have at least 1 or 2 distinctions [above 80%] out of their 6 subjects, to even come on the 'waiting list' of some universities!

[My own daughter had 3 distinctions [above 80%] and were on this waiting list while 25 x candidates outside of South Africa were searched for in Kenia, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe etc., as only 5 out of the 30 places in this class could be occupied by WHITES, --in South Africa NONE applied for this course!
After the first year 18 of the 25 lucky foreign black students failed this course--the usual riots and burning of classes resulted!]

Here at the academic universities 99% of black students don't cope with the academic demands of university, thus a 'bridging first year' at university before their 'real academic first year 101' are introduced….

Why do you think there are constant political rallies and riots at universities, if the 'demand' to pass are not met, or those that do pass are 'racist' or 'apartheid' etc.!
So, what is the 'solution' the universities implementing in ‘educating’ the youth?

Dumb academic subjects even further down, and replace subjects like Science and Physics with 'African common knowledge' as degree subjects, like 'African culture' and 'African witchcraft’!
[Do the fact checking!]

In a country where 65-70 % of all blacks don't know who their biological grandfather or father is, due to the traditional [ripa-]schools for back boys where they are taught 'if I want, I want' as a traditional 'right'?

Small black girls are even officially taught by the Department of Education in year one at 6-7 years of age, how to put condoms on broomstick in class as a remedy for HIV/AIDS!
[Very high rape and women abuse rate in South Africa]

One result of children not knowing who their biological father is, is inbreeding, with the resulting of lower the general IQ of the population.
[Do the real -hidden-fact checking on this!]

So, by now introducing a new racist -law in Education to brainwash low IQ [rural] students that NO WHITES ever existed for 250 years in the building of this country, is the same as brainwashing low IQ adults with the political actions of re-naming 200+ year old white-founded and built towns to a recent black person’s name, as if he had built that town!

Reason and Academic facts are Not part of the majority of the current Black cultures around here’s dream world, while dumbing-down is!

 
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I see the "peace talks" in Pakistan have collapsed after one day. Didn't take a crystal ball to foresee that would happen. Sending some philandering phony born again Christian spouting Crusader anti-Muslim rhetoric to make peace with a radical islamic state was bound to fail. Could Trump have made a worse choice? Where was Rubio in all this? Not that I think he is any kind of genius but at least he tries to act like a diplomat ... or at least a rational person. Perhaps Rubio has given up trying to make sense of Trump's diplomatic nonsense. What a mess!
 
This is what happens when a political dilettante wages war.
A comment by Thomas Schmoll

A golfer uninterested in the world, facts, and science rules the most powerful country on earth like an autocrat. His "do-what-you-please" attitude is reminiscent of Putin. But as soon as Donald Trump encounters opponents who, like him, disregard international law and humanity, things look bleak for him.

What goes on in Donald Trump's brain—clouded by his self-aggrandizement—is now well known: extremely banal. His Minister of Truth, Karoline Leavitt, officially the US government spokesperson, revealed just days after the attack on Iran that her boss decides on a gut feeling—based on "feelings informed by facts"—whether to send his country to war (or not). His simple mind must have concluded: Venezuela was a piece of cake and earned me and the US military (the latter rightly so), so Iran will be another child's play. This is how wrong you are when you ignore facts, science, and the experiences of others and believe in alternative truths.

The result of this mix of disregard and misguided pronouncements is well known: a global economic crisis and a political debacle for Trump and the US, much to the delight of their most powerful adversary, China. The rapid collapse of the negotiations was only logical, as the US and Iran each made demands that were impossible for the other to fulfill. Only someone who thinks like the US president could declare this disaster a glorious victory across the board. However, his fuse is as short as the one he has when someone dares to doubt him and his brilliance. We can safely assume that the first man in the White House remains unshaken in his absurd self-assessments. The fact that his sanity is now being openly debated is of as much concern to this political charlatan as the content of international law.

As early as the summer of 2025, Trump demonstrated to the public that he mastered the art of autosuggestion like few others in the world—at least in this respect, he came close to the uniqueness he claimed for himself. He proclaimed: "The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed"—only to justify the war against the Middle Eastern country a few months later, in part, by claiming that it should never be allowed to build atomic bombs. But what does this old white man care about his blather from yesterday and the day before? It's often outdated within hours.

"We have had a regime change," Trump declared, referring to the fact that numerous previously influential figures in Iranian politics, the military, the Revolutionary Guard, and intelligence services had been killed. The executions of insurgents prove that the barbarians in Tehran have lost none of their domestic power. "Iranian patriots, keep protesting!" Trump had urged the courageous demonstrators via Truth Social in mid-January. "Help is on the way." The opposition is still waiting for that. Those who rely on Trump are left high and dry. Europe and NATO are also feeling the effects.

All that had long been suspected was confirmed by Trump during his war against Iran: He exposed his intellectual and strategic weaknesses like a bankrupt man revealing his financial situation in a bankruptcy hearing. A good gut feeling about what the masses want to hear is not enough to turn a war into a lasting victory, no matter how great the military superiority. Trump has no boldly conceived plan, or indeed any plan at all. The only thing that drives him is generating headlines so that he dominates the news every day and sees confirmation of what a brilliant leader he is.

Trump's most effective tactic is retaliation. He vows revenge to anyone who doesn't fall in line. A tariff here, a threat there to withdraw military support. The man may be shrewd. In the realm of world politics, he has so far proven himself clueless and incompetent. To wage war against Iran and not consider the end of it, the Strait of Hormuz, or the economic consequences in general is not just stupid, it's utterly foolish. Trump has so far failed to understand that NATO is a defense alliance and not an alliance to support wars started by a would-be autocrat in order to go down in history as a peacemaker and Nobel laureate.

What the US president may consider strategy is nothing more than what a feared schoolyard bully does, someone who knows his physical strength. He threatens a beating with anyone who gets in his way and doesn't do what he wants—and if necessary, he actually strikes. You don't need a shred of intelligence for that. Trump's idiocy would be tolerable; there are plenty of dimwits in politics. But they are reined in by advisors. However, the first man in the White House has chased away or silenced countless advisors because they were increasingly less likely to tell him what he wanted to hear.

Reports from the US that intelligence officials and military personnel no longer dare to present the president with findings and facts that don't suit his agenda seem plausible. Anyone who does is fired—one of several parallels to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, Trump's role model. Both are surrounded by lackeys and sycophants who say what their master wants to hear. US "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth is the prototype of these ludicrous figures. His appearances, his effusive praise of Trump, are so absurd that they are indistinguishable from satire.

Trump and Putin are also united in their acceptance of war as a means of pursuing political interests. The US president admires the Russian dictator because no parliament, no court, and no pressure from the streets sets limits for him. The American would certainly like to act just like the ruler in the Kremlin, but he has to constantly be corrected and restrained by judges and a genuine opposition, which, unlike the opposition in Russia, doesn't have to fear ending up in the Gulag.

The Iran war revealed how difficult it becomes for Trump when he encounters leaders who, like himself, live in a parallel world of thought and act with the same lack of empathy and ruthlessness. They couldn't care less whether the civilian population suffers or dies. They have only one goal: to secure their power. And they use everything at their disposal without scruple to achieve it. If Trump possessed even a shred of empathy for people outside his electorate, he would know this. But he doesn't. But only his military and the certainty of being able to command it and send it wherever he pleases. However, military superpower isn't everything. You can't bomb away the mental weaknesses of a simpleton.

Trump has found himself in a dead end, forced to negotiate with the worst kind of Islamists about opening the "fucking Strait of Hormuz." The fact that the Iranians now know just how effective the blockade of the strait is is thanks to the US president. The idea of collecting tolls in the strait together with these "crazy bastards" is something straight out of a comedy sketch—the guy has truly lost his mind.

The winners of this fiasco are China and its allies Russia and Iran. The US failed to coordinate its war with the pro-Western Gulf states, thereby jeopardizing their economic model. The government in Beijing appears to be more rational and reliable—a view shared by countries in the Middle East. China is reportedly preparing to ship shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. The trilateral alliance of China, Russia, and Iran, flanked by North Korea and economically closely linked to India, poses a challenge for the US. But Trump and his cronies don't seem to grasp this.

The war against Iran has revealed how easily the US president can be defeated. It's enough to drive up oil prices – and Iran will now do just that again. There's already a term for this on the stock market: TACO. The acronym stands for "Trump always chickens out," which roughly translates to: Trump always caves in. Iran grasped this very quickly and put it into practice. Other countries will do the same. This will make the world even more insecure. Because deterrence works differently. But Trump won't understand that either. He's simply too simplistic.
 
He truly isn't worth the response time. He is trolling. He is interested in reciting talking points and being a contrarian - not debate. Like too many post millennial trollers, he oozes entitlement rather than applauding, or more importantly, representing achievement.
Agreed. I tried to asking for facts or legitimate data to back up his talking points, and he only returned to post more drivel. Simply scrolling past for now- may join the ignore list soon.
 

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