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Use Biden’s Student Loan Rich Jerk Giveaway to Destroy Academia
Town Hall ^ | 2 May 2022 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 05/02/2022 5:38:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan

We need to do everything we can to ensure that the Crustacean-in-Chief folds to the left again and decides to pay-off his constituency of affluent, sexually dysfunctional college loan debtors – throw us in that briar patch, you desiccated old pervert! Now, you may be confused if you watched my Townhall VIP “Stream of Kurtiousness” video last Friday expressing, in an unrelenting stream of naughty words, how infuriating it would be to reward dumb people at the expense of people who were not dumb. But we cannot be carried away with emotion. This is a golden opportunity to raze academia as currently constituted and sow the campuses with salt.

That most of the deadbeats who want you to pay their bills won’t be able to figure out that reference is itself sufficient reason to consign academia to oblivion.

Let’s understand what academia really is – a network of colleges and universities that provide nearly meaningless credentials mostly to upper middle class post-adolescents in exchange for tons of money and access to their soft, malleable minds for indoctrination in the current commie consensus. Unless you are going to Hillsdale or the like, you are not getting what they are selling – a mind-opening experience where you will learn to think as you become an educated citizen. More likely, you will get a piece of paper certifying your readiness to take your place as a cog in both the corporate and cultural machines.

Academia, outside of some STEM research (though STEM is being decolonialized and unpatriarched and generally turned into a joke like Transgender Medieval Karaoke Studies is, except with a little math – and don’t worry, there are no right answers because right answers are racist), is useless and a drain on society...

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1 posted on 05/02/2022 5:38:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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The argument for college is that you get intangible educational experiences, like arguing about Plato with a world renown professor under an oak tree in the quad. But that’s not a thing. Instead, you sit in a lecture hall with a thousand other saps listening to some pony-tailed grad student demand you respect xis pronouns.

Most of the other intangible experiences include waking up wearing someone else’s pants and needing Advil and a shower.

Some kids still go to college for valid reasons: to go to football games, get drunk, and get laid.

2 posted on 05/02/2022 5:46:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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All of these woke universities assets should be seized to pay off the student loan debt.


3 posted on 05/02/2022 5:50:55 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Rummyfan

I remember when the only student loans available were under the National Defense and Education Act (NDEA) and only for STEM related credentials. That was considered Constitutional under the Defense Clause.

I have no idea how that morphed into student loans for any major nor what would be the Constitutional basis for such a program. What I do know is that the “free” money raised the price precipitously as students had little “skin in the game” and schools lined up at the trough.


4 posted on 05/02/2022 5:51:57 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (It seems the only immunity the vaccines provide is that big pharma can’t be sued.)
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To: Rummyfan

Who writes these headlines?


5 posted on 05/02/2022 5:53:18 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Rummyfan

My hubby was laid off twice for a few months very early on in his career.

He continued paying off his student loan during each layoff.


6 posted on 05/02/2022 5:55:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Rummyfan

Re: “ you will get a piece of paper certifying your readiness to take your place as a cog in both the corporate and cultural machines.”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Parents will get a child with whacked-off breasts or dicks and/or chemically mutilated.

About 10 years ago I started attending the local community college to study art. The number of transgenders was ZERO. Today, the halls are filled with them.


7 posted on 05/02/2022 5:56:05 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Rummyfan

That’s a good-sized excerpt to NOT have the point of how using the loans destroys academia.


8 posted on 05/02/2022 5:58:50 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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I find it interesting that student debt can’t be discharged in bankruptcy.
I can spend 40K on booze and strippers and I can discharge that…

I think a good start would be eliminating every human within, and every single office for, the HR Department.
Most pieces of paper are trash, and non indicative of intelligence or work ethic.

Somehow the students are fools, but the adults running banks and universities are not even remotely responsible for giving $150,000 to someone that smells like Jack Daniels and weed?

The problem isn’t simple, but needs addressing. Maybe we’ll get to it after we fix immigration…


9 posted on 05/02/2022 6:00:29 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Rummyfan

The schools should have to pick up any costs of uncollected student loans.


10 posted on 05/02/2022 6:02:07 AM PDT by anton
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To: wintertime
"About 10 years ago I started attending the local community college to study art. The number of transgenders was ZERO. Today, the halls are filled with them."

It's the trendy thing to do!

11 posted on 05/02/2022 6:02:14 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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**Most** of what is learned in STEM changes little from year to year. A lot of it is available on-line or found in used textbooks that can be purchased for $5 or less. Gee! How much has a calculus or general chemistry book changed since last year?

This is true even for the competitive fields of engineering medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, etc.

Solution: Private testing and certification exams!

Obviously, brick and mortar are needed for clinical rotations and laboratory experiences....but...it should **not** cost half-a million to become a physician or engineer. $25,000 should do it.

12 posted on 05/02/2022 6:13:55 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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“All of these woke universities assets should be seized to pay off the student loan debt.”

^— This. This right there.

They could start with seizing their endowments. All of Harvard’s graduate’s student loans could be paid of with taking the university’s endowment.

Why should we, the taxpayers, be burdened with paying off those loans?

And once the loans are forgiven, why would any bank or financial institution ever again want to loan money to students? Money that will never, ever be paid back?


13 posted on 05/02/2022 6:15:37 AM PDT by Jay W
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To: Mr. K

Evidently. Their parents are likely heartbroken.


14 posted on 05/02/2022 6:16:22 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

I know. Right?


15 posted on 05/02/2022 6:48:47 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: wintertime

Why study sciences? Just for fun, look on indeed or monster dot com. Compare “mechanical engineer” pay with “diversity and inclusion.” One could get a BS no work job as a diversity and inclusion “officer” for some government entity that pays more than a BSME.


16 posted on 05/02/2022 6:49:17 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Rummyfan

Author has an excellent point but he would have been much better off just explaining the point than trying to be a poor-man’s Dave Barry. Nothing sadder than the class jerk who thinks he’s the worlds best comedian but can’t pull off anything more than a stream of cringe-worthy invective and a bunch of potty-mouthed insults.


17 posted on 05/02/2022 6:49:29 AM PDT by edwinland
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how infuriating it would be to reward dumb people at the expense of people who were not dumb.

Welcome to Bidens Ineptocracy

In his book. "Corporate Lifecycles."
How and why corporations grow and die

Author Dr. Ichak Adezes defines the lifecycles of corporations as:

Courtship
Infant
Go-Go
Adolescence
Prime
Stable
Aristocracy
Early Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy Death

However.....there is an intermediate phase between Bureaucracy and Death called Bidenomics...or Ineptocracy

18 posted on 05/02/2022 7:11:57 AM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Spokeshave Returns)
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Academia destroyed itself and it’s time we stopped paying for it.


19 posted on 05/02/2022 7:14:10 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EEGator

Cornyn and Tillis are putting the Amnesty Gang back together, be sure to re-elect Amnesty Sentaors Hoeven and Rubio...../s


20 posted on 05/02/2022 7:17:04 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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