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Angela Merkel tells Harvard grads to 'tear down walls'
Deutsche Welle ^
| 05.30.2019
| Jon Shelton
Posted on 05/30/2019 11:23:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Maris Crane
Go away, Frau Blucher!
To: mylife
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posted on
05/31/2019 2:14:14 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
To: Olog-hai
A very significant percentage of the problems we've encountered and currently have as a nation are attributable to the ‘group think and pomposity’ that Kagan’s comments underscore. We should never have any of our branches of government overrepresented with people from specific institutions.
The very idea that ‘the brightest and the best’ all wind up at (and thus come from) specific institutions is delusional, demonstrably incorrect, and, frankly, comical. Plenty of people from less ‘prestigious’ law schools passed the DC Bar exam the year Hillary failed it - after graduating from Yale Law.
Even more fundamentally flawed is the idea that attending any law school should somehow make you qualified, let alone destined, to ‘rule the universe’. That notion is patently absurd, and dangerous. There are plenty of things that are intellectually more difficult to do than go to law school, but that's not even the point.
The point is that having a ‘political class’, particularly one overrepresented by people with the same pedigree and connections, is antithetical to the concept of a representative government - AND, it contributes heavily to the development of what we are now calling the ‘Deep State’.
To: Olog-hai
Someone should tell Merkle there is a difference between having a wall to KEEP PEOPLE IN (Berlin Wall) and a wall to KEEP PEOPLE OUT (Border Wall).
Keeping people in is like a prison - Keeping people out is a security for safety issue.
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posted on
05/31/2019 3:11:51 AM PDT
by
RichyTea
(To those offended - take off your blinders)
To: Olog-hai
Wanna bet Bumdestag was involved in Spygate....
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posted on
05/31/2019 3:21:39 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: Olog-hai
Pretty hilarious coming from someone who literally worked for the Stasi.
To: Olog-hai
You have to experience being around Ivy league students, professors or alumnae to understand how truly despicable they are. That little speech by Kagan about how they are special just because they got in is Exactly what they live by and it only gets worse from there.
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posted on
05/31/2019 3:43:15 AM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
To: Trump20162020
I’ve never trusted the Germans ever since they bombed Pearl Harbor.
To: Olog-hai
Addressing the graduates
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posted on
05/31/2019 3:50:53 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Olog-hai
Coming from a dedicated Stasi informant that's pretty rich!
To: Vaquero
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posted on
05/31/2019 4:32:23 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: mewzilla
Cheeky. Though the text was a bit FOREIGN. Guatemala eh.
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posted on
05/31/2019 4:39:49 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Olog-hai
Im sure this little speech brought back Madam Fuhrers college days, helping the Stasi (circa 1972):
To: Olog-hai
She's still a Communist, but now they call it globalism.
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posted on
05/31/2019 4:46:03 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: ReaganGeneration2
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posted on
05/31/2019 4:46:23 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Olog-hai
Betting she is protected from the savages she brought in by walls.
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posted on
05/31/2019 4:46:35 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
To: Olog-hai
Speaking of commencement speeches, NBC news ran through 8 or so “famous” commencement speeches given this season. All were entertainers (that includes athletes). Earlier in the news they showed maybe one second of Trump’s Air Force Academy speech.
To: mewzilla
How bout Angela in her Stasi uniform
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posted on
05/31/2019 4:50:51 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
05/31/2019 4:55:52 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Olog-hai
How about tearing down the walls of Academia and hire a Conservative professor?
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posted on
05/31/2019 5:21:16 AM PDT
by
bray
(Pray for President Trump)
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