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Is the FBI Trying to Rehabilitate Its Tattered Reputation By Overpublicizing What Is, Let's Face It, a Fairly Rinky-Dink College Bribery Scandal?
I saw the FBI preening about this and disliked them even more than I had before. These were real crimes, and they should be punished; but the stagecraft of the announcement was purely political. It wasn't about law enforcement; it was about public relations.
PJ Media's Morning Briefing notes this, as well as the typical federal overkill of sending men with drawn guns to arrest what I guess turns out to be a Very Very Dangerous Housewife:Lori Loughlin, one of the Hollywooders involved in the college bribery scandal, is out on $1 million in cash money. Loughlin paid $500k smackers to get her kids into USC. The system is not taking kindly to this bribery operation. Hollywooder Felicity Huffman was the recipient of some Elian Gonzalez treatment. I'm guessing the FBI needs to rehabilitate itself after the agency's Trump scandals dominating the headlines for the last couple of years. With clowns like Comey, McCabe, Lisa Page and various and sundry DOJ employees engaged in questionable anti-Trump political activity, the FBI and DOJ need some redemption. Folks are probably scratching their heads wondering what it is they actually do for America at the agency. This is a great case everyone can rally around and point fingers at: rich people buying favor. What's not to like?Hey, FBI? Maybe use that RICO act you used here to start going after a criminal conspiracy that operates across state lines to beat and intimidate citizens from expressing their first amendment rights. Go after Antifa. What, no stomach for that? Oh well then, keep picking easily-demonized targets the public can have a collective sneer at and think, "Boy, that FBI sure is protecting me." My problem isn't that I have sympathy for rule-breakers and cheaters. My problem is that I feel manipulated into supporting the FBI -- which corruptly cooperated with the DOJ's plan to immunize all of Hillary's fellow conspirators and insulate her from any legal consequence -- by their offering up a nice, easy Two Minute Hate we can all shout ourselves horse in denouncing. We don't like schools who arrange payments for athletes who are, by NCAA rules, not to be compensated for their athletic work. But how much should we really get enraged when we see a school doing so? What I'm saying is -- this is just a law enforcement agency doing standard, and frankly, not terribly important law enforcement work. Why are we now all national spectators cheering on the FBI to Really Get Those Bad Guys Good? I mean, I know why: Because the FBI is exploiting the intense anxiety of parents of college-age children to place their kids in a school that will increase their social status. (And they also think this will increase their prospects of making a good living, though there's a lot of evidence that says that's a straight-up delusion of the masses.) So the FBI is exploiting emotionally vulnerable, anxious parents and giving the nation a Hate Object we can enjoy hissing at. All to increase its own popularity. Yay government? Yay FBI?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2019 11:42 AM (GBteo)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2019 11:42 AM (GBteo)
Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 14, 2019 11:42 AM (T09ml)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 14, 2019 11:42 AM (GBteo)
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 11:43 AM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at March 14, 2019 11:43 AM (HB5Gm)
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:43 AM (eP/lw)
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 11:43 AM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 14, 2019 11:44 AM (4AeKb)
Posted by: GregV61 at March 14, 2019 11:44 AM (FLpne)
Posted by: DaveA at March 14, 2019 11:44 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at March 14, 2019 11:43 AM (HB5Gm)
Yeah, seems really dumb to arrest her with guns drawn. Is she really a danger?
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:44 AM (eP/lw)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 14, 2019 11:45 AM (4AeKb)
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 11:43 AM (vWMNq)
Eh, I lost any respect for harvard a couple years back when they made Chelsea Manning a fellow.
Is harvard guilty of crimes for calling Chelsea a fellow too? Just trying to keep up with the fake science BS.
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:45 AM (eP/lw)
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 11:45 AM (vWMNq)
Posted by: DaveA at March 14, 2019 11:45 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 14, 2019 11:46 AM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 14, 2019 11:46 AM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 14, 2019 11:46 AM (pw+jk)
Needing to bribe one's way into....USC?
USC?
Hm.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 14, 2019 11:47 AM (tVWQB)
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 11:43 AM (vWMNq)
Say what, bitch!--OJ.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 14, 2019 11:47 AM (3sjI6)
In particular: Clinton spawn, Biden spawn, Kennedy spawn, etc.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:47 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (oZ6kz)
In particular: Clinton spawn, Biden spawn, Kennedy spawn, etc.
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Need you ask?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: vrf at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (4wIc1)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (4AeKb)
Posted by: steevy at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (BXMxN)
$400k were tax write offs as charitable contributions. The IRS takes a dim view of that.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (LHT0w)
And it strikes at the heart of the entire university system, because meh, so you spend 500K to get your child into the school. That child still has to do the school stuff, or else they'll just get a 0.0 and drop out after one semester. These children not only aren't dropping out, they're also bragging about doing little to no work. That means the schools are protecting them. So the corruption is far broader than just some spoiled celebs and a few fixers.
Posted by: arminius256 at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (382aI)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at March 14, 2019 11:43 AM (HB5Gm)
Yeah, seems really dumb to arrest her with guns drawn. Is she really a danger?
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:44 AM (eP/lw)
She's a woman. Hear her roar.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (3sjI6)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (4knXT)
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:44 AM (eP/lw)
What about Roger Stone? They marched his wife out of the house, barefoot and in her nightgown, to stand in the street for the neighbors to gawk at.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (ptqGC)
In a little town in Texas,
Waco
Posted by: RhubarbRanch at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (ZcYE6)
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:44 AM (eP/lw)
sigh. They didn't.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (4AeKb)
Posted by: Dean Wormer at March 14, 2019 11:50 AM (4knXT)
Posted by: Off the reservation
Loughlin is only one of about 50 families all across the country that did this. Only reason she's getting the spotlight is because of name recognition.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2019 11:50 AM (LHT0w)
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Dunno. Worked out pretty well for me.
Posted by: Ted Kennedy at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (oZ6kz)
262
232 Just out of curiosity, why do you think China is in Africa,
Belt and Road (China Uncensored):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTWO8jlU4WA
And his most recent video documents the application of Belt and Road to Europe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XHdGPT11fk
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (vWMNq)
Posted by: arminius256 at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (382aI)
I wonder if he was unaware of what Felicity was up to? I don't envy the conversations in that house.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: blaster at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (9VeU0)
but no answer on the Vegas shooter...
PRIORITIES !
Posted by: McCool at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (sZaoP)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (bLhAC)
Her boobs were always somewhat ludicrously photoshopped from the get-go, but I've noticed over a couple years, that it's just become comically disproportionate.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:44 AM (eP/lw)
What about Roger Stone? They marched his wife out of the house, barefoot and in her nightgown, to stand in the street for the neighbors to gawk at.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (ptqGC)
Yup, that was dumb too. Loved how Stone put a shirt on, because he knew the raid was coming.
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (eP/lw)
Gonna take even more than Efrem Zimbalist Jr. coming back to life to get their lost moxie back.
Posted by: Lump at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (G99vu)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (oZ6kz)
These people's real crime is that they were coarse or gauche. They didn't have the decency to be born a Gore or a Bush. Because we all know that Al and W. earned their places in prestigious schools for sure.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (iys0/)
In a little town in Texas,
Waco
Posted by: RhubarbRanch at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (ZcYE6)
Yep.
Posted by: rickl at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (xjiRE)
I wonder if he was unaware of what Felicity was up to? I don't envy the conversations in that house.
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From what I understand, he knew, but they didn't have enough evidence to get him. She did all the dirty work.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: arminius256
Coaches. Professors. Possibly Deans.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (4AeKb)
Thanks Smiley, yeah, I looked at the PJ morning brief and you're correct that it says Huffman. Hopefully Ace will update it.
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (eP/lw)
If you're a clean black man who speaks with no discernible negro dialect, you get all those services for free.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (4knXT)
did this. Only reason she's getting the spotlight is because of name
recognition.
And that's odd too. Why are they shining it on one of their own. Did she offend someone or is it just the FBI/DOJ completely out of control?
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2019 11:49 AM (4knXT)
Yo! Just bein' a turf war. You stay off ow kohnas an' we won't bust a cap in yo ass.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (3sjI6)
I wonder if he was unaware of what Felicity was up to? I don't envy the conversations in that house.
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From what I understand, he knew, but they didn't have enough evidence to get him. She did all the dirty work.
Posted by: bicentennialguy
Just knowing should make him an accessory.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2019 11:53 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 14, 2019 11:51 AM (iys0/)
I will see your Gore and Bush and raise you one dumbass Chelsea Clinton.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2019 11:53 AM (4knXT)
What the ever loving F**k!!!???
I hope this idiot takes my class.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2019 11:53 AM (0tfLf)
How about they have some defendants who are celebrities, which always leads them to publicize*, and this is a scandal that is easily relatable to people, and the federal government tends to go after tax fraud.
*Raymond Chandler covered this in his Philip Marlowe books.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (hLRSq)
maybe that one too.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (r+sAi)
did this. Only reason she's getting the spotlight is because of name
recognition.
And that's odd too. Why are they shining it
on one of their own. Did she offend someone or is it just the FBI/DOJ
completely out of control?
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (vWMNq)
It was the tax fraud. The idiots were so arrogant as to write off the bribes to the fake charity. That caught the eye of the IRS.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (ptqGC)
Take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2019 11:45 AM
No. Money always flows from the right pocket to the left pocket!
Posted by: Democratic Socialists at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (Sp1Lf)
Posted by: Off the reservation
It's better than Goucher College.
Posted by: pep at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (TpAxy)
It's a tempest in a teacup that did have the happy result of reminding me of Lori Loughlin and her superior DNA fruits.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (bcbK8)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2019 11:52 AM (vg8iE)
I thought that's what women did.--Shameless Little Bill Macy.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (3sjI6)
Posted by: FBI at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (9oE3U)
Posted by: SMH at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (RU4sa)
I see it simply as Democrat fuckwads getting their comeuppance, and am enjoying the schadenfreude.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (nPGq2)
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (KGZnU)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 11:55 AM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Democratic Socialists at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (Sp1Lf)
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The 1st Law of Scammodynamics
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2019 11:55 AM (AzW6q)
Now, I'm off to watch some college basketball. There's some really good one-and-done players on television today!
Posted by: Dumbf*ck American Citizen at March 14, 2019 11:55 AM (gCzjH)
Posted by: mugiwara at March 14, 2019 11:55 AM (HhNKC)
but no answer on the Vegas shooter...
You don't need to know about the Vegas shooter...
*waves hand, invokes the Force*
Posted by: Obi Wan Comey at March 14, 2019 11:55 AM (4knXT)
But they would have except that Aunt Becky was out of the Country... From what I've read she spent way more in bribes than the other woman so the odds are pretty good she would have gotten the same early morning guns drawn raid.
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 11:55 AM (O2RFr)
I'm sitting here staring at the current University system. My pick for
the day is a dude, about 6'1 or 2" and maybe 200 lbs. Sporting a
man-bun. Wearing sandals and a flower print set of women's silk
pajamas.
What the ever loving F**k!!!???
I hope this idiot takes my class.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2019 11:53 AM (0tfLf)
Fingers crossed!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:55 AM (ptqGC)
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Once a failure of a parent, always a failure of a parent.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2019 11:56 AM (vg8iE)
What the ever loving F**k!!!???
I hope this idiot takes my class.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2019 11:53 AM (0tfLf)
I blame the late 60's/early 70's.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 11:56 AM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 11:44 AM (eP/lw)
Do we have any verification that it actually happened this way? Defense attirneys sometimes like to say this to generate outrage (I've been accused, and used their own clients surveillance video to prove otherwise).
Not saying it couldnt happen (Roger Stone was serious overkill), just that it has become an outrage generator
Posted by: Elliot at March 14, 2019 11:56 AM (IC8Yt)
but no answer on the Vegas shooter...
PRIORITIES !
--
And still, Hillary Clinton and Imran Awan are free.
Posted by: shibumi, recently married at March 14, 2019 11:56 AM (6vFO7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:57 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz
It would be a hard toss up.
I have even less respect for rich, entitled twats.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2019 11:57 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2019 11:56 AM
Raise your children, you get to spoil your grandkids.
Spoil your children, you get to raise your grandkids.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2019 11:57 AM (0tfLf)
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We're always hiring!
Posted by: Pornhub at March 14, 2019 11:57 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:57 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at March 14, 2019 11:57 AM (RKQ/v)
Was there a law broken here? Seriously, i don't know if there was (but then, i am not a laywer)
What was stolen? Who was hurt? Was something broken? Seems to me a straight up transaction. "I, Mrs. Hottie, will give you, the bumblefuck educators, barrels of cash-money if you let me stunning-hot daughters into your second rate university."
Done and Done.
Who cares, and why should they?
Posted by: mrshad at March 14, 2019 11:58 AM (kkNqO)
Posted by: TANSTAAFL
amusingly and piquant!
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 11:58 AM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 14, 2019 11:59 AM (4knXT)
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 11:59 AM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:57 AM (ptqGC)
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Oh, this'll probably launch her into full on "influencer" status (whatever that actually means).
Millions of dumb young chicks just became aware of her, and they'll be tuning in on YT for her pearls of wisdom. Some company will probably start paying her to lurk around high-profile events prominently using their product.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2019 11:59 AM (AzW6q)
A $500 billion civil lawsuit filed by a parent on Wednesday in San Francisco accused 45 defendants of defrauding and inflicting emotional distress on everyone whose "rights to a fair chance at entrance to college" were stolen through their alleged conspiracy.
Jennifer Kay Toy, a former teacher in Oakland, California, said she believed her son Joshua was not admitted to some colleges, despite his 4.2 grade point average, because wealthy parents thought it was "ok to lie, cheat, steal and bribe their children's way into a good college."
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 14, 2019 11:59 AM (jp0Bv)
Celebrities get the celebrity treatment with full publicity.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 14, 2019 11:59 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 11:59 AM (ptqGC)
The college scam thing is useful for a little agitprop against the "rigged system", but it does not replace lack of prosecution for the Mueller Coup or the Lynch/Comey cover up of sedition at many levels.
But Lindsay was on with Hannity ... they are reopening the investigation, things will happen. Hannity asked "when". Guess when. "two or three weeks" was the answer.
Thank God, just a little more patience ... #2weeks. /s
how much wall do we have, as illegal invasion is at record levels, and catch and release is still the rule, thanks to the resistance still running things?
Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2019 11:59 AM (Cus5s)
$400k were tax write offs as charitable contributions. The IRS takes a dim view of that.
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I'm not saying there was no crime and no scam. I'm saying, "Why is this kinda standard issue scam made to be the biggest news of the day?"
1, because it's easy,
2, because it preys on parents' anxieties and now their paranoias about the stressful process of putting their kids into college,
and
3, because the FBI really needs a splashy win.
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:00 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: arminius256
Please do not look into college athletics. You would be highly disappointed.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 14, 2019 12:00 PM (bLhAC)
But Lindsay was on with Hannity ... they are reopening the investigation, things will happen. Hannity asked "when". Guess when. "two or three weeks" was the answer.
Yeah, that friggin tick tock shit
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:00 PM (O2RFr)
These elite universities and Hollywood are the heart of the resistance and anything the exposes them as the grifters that they really are is okay with me.Part of me wants to believe this might be PDT firing a shot across the bow.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 14, 2019 12:00 PM (TAmPV)
Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 14, 2019 12:00 PM (AM1GF)
Tax fraud for one. The bribes were written off as charitable donations. That is a bad thing to do.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 14, 2019 12:00 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 12:01 PM (eP/lw)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:01 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Revenant at March 14, 2019 12:01 PM (NUNXH)
samesies.
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:01 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: DaveA at March 14, 2019 12:01 PM (FhXTo)
Right, there are none.
None have resigned since Obama
None have blown the whistle anything that has happened
From top to bottom: They see their job as ensuring the federal government rules over us not justice.
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at March 14, 2019 12:01 PM (TN1P5)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (zBaqJ)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (ufFY8)
1, because it's easy,
2, because it preys on parents' anxieties and now their paranoias about the stressful process of putting their kids into college,
and
3, because the FBI really needs a splashy win.
Posted by: ace
I'm going to laugh my ass off when this gets tracked back to Federal employees doing the same thing. Including, I don't know, current and/or former FBI folks.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (1ISKN)
With his Daughter which I believe is also a USC student... But Daddy had no influence on her getting in... Of course I don't know that
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (O2RFr)
are the elites bent about how unfair our system is because they do this shit and feel guilt,
or are they just trying to usher in more socialism so they can do more of this shit?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (LWu6U)
Any one of us would be subject to the same thing if the IRS found out.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Draki
Goin' out on a limb here, I think she's got that down already.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (AM1GF)
Any one of us would be subject to the same thing if the IRS found out.
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You would think so, but....
Posted by: Clinton Foundation at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (ptqGC)
Charming.
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary! 2016, Who Will Never Be President of the United States at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (4knXT)
______________________
Unless you're last name was Clinton.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (1ISKN)
+++
Because Americans love to see rich people torn down more than anything else, even general prosperity and lasting peace
Posted by: Total Control Racist at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (7InVX)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (r+sAi)
"Do your homework- BY YOURSELVES- class, or the FBI will find out!"
Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (x/2Z8)
Posted by: Roy at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (xqdqQ)
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We're always hiring!
Posted by: Pornhub at March 14, 2019 11:57 AM (vg8iE)
Endorsed.
Jade, babe, start with the G/G stuff and don't jump right into the anal shoots.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (bcbK8)
Any one of us would be subject to the same thing if the IRS found out.
...
no doubt. But why is this the Alpha and Omega of stories?
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM
******
I vote for Miss Thatcher.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (0tfLf)
They could investigate the DNC, the DOJ, and the democratic nominee for president for an attempt at a coup of the United States,
Or, they could have investigated a hundred rich people who bribed their kids into college.
They chose poorly.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (YslsA)
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (PbpT7)
This is how much of the Deep State got where it is.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (J+mig)
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (PbpT7)
I thought the original one was Grand.
Posted by: Styx at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (4knXT)
"It shows that the Ivy League meritocracy is false!"
1) I never thought Ivy Leaguers were superior
2) Those that did, still will
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (PbpT7)
It's a puzzle all right.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Paladin at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (3IOdT)
Posted by: Draki
Goin' out on a limb here, I think she's got that down already.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 14, 2019 12:03 PM (AM1GF)
Think you're right. She's got advertisers and whatever. Think there is hope for humanity and she'll learn a lesson? I don't hope.....
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (eP/lw)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM
Caught you... You watch When Calls the Heart!.. Oh... That means I do too..
******
I vote for Miss Thatcher.
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (O2RFr)
Ah, well...there you are. I sit here corrected.
Posted by: mrshad at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (kkNqO)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (wA4OO)
$500k to get into USC? How dumb is the kid? Hope she knows that her brain isn't gonna get her through life.
Posted by: Draki at March 14, 2019 12:01 PM (eP/lw)
It's not about academics.USC is a major status symbol in Southern California and every wealthy family in the region wants to send their kids there.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (TAmPV)
HEARINGS!
Posted by: congress desperately trying to change the subject at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (LWu6U)
They could investigate the DNC, the DOJ, and the democratic nominee for president for an attempt at a coup of the United States,
Or, they could have investigated a hundred rich people who bribed their kids into college.
They chose poorly.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (YslsA)
The FBI, the Army, the CIA...all the big gov't corporations are all about protecting themselves first.
Like Ace says, this makes them look totes serious and worthy of respect, you guys.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (bcbK8)
Make FBI/DOJ Great Again!
Fire Them All and Start Over.
FTASO - needs work.=========================================
Just a minor tweak: FATSO
(Fire All of Them and Start Over)
I'd wear the shirt the hat
Posted by: Stevo at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (SOV+T)
say I wonder if there are any islamic charities playing fast and loose with the law.
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (PbpT7)
Of course not. *cough*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Uncle Tom at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (aKsyK)
Seems like much ado over very little, but I guess their ultimate point is that they are still in charge of enforcing laws (nevermind that they'll also choose which ones to ignore and who to give a pass to) and that "we" need to watch our step.
I love the idea of guns drawn to take down Celebrities who pose no threat whatsoever and old men. Shows em who's boss, dontcha know.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (z79tQ)
Which is because a diploma is now the de facto method for determining if you're a minimally competent adult in most cases. All the methods businesses used to use were declared racist by Our Judicial Betters.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2019 12:06 PM (ZGrMX)
?! Since when is that a crime?
Posted by: The Clinton Foundation at March 14, 2019 12:06 PM (oTMWb)
Whoa, kemosabe! You might wanna sit this one out, chief.
Posted by: El Kabong at March 14, 2019 12:06 PM (datdl)
That doesn't seem like a good thing.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: Draki
Mommy and daddy are worth about $88 million.
She doesn't need a brain. Just a financial planner.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (LHT0w)
Posted by: Arti at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (jkXyB)
Considering they actually need an enema splashy might be a bad word choice.
Posted by: DaveA at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Someguy at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (hJHKc)
say I wonder if there are any islamic charities playing fast and loose with the law.
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (PbpT7)
Of course not. *cough*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (ptqGC)
I wonder if Islamic Charities are politically connected and protected by former or current members of the Intelligence Community.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (bcbK8)
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Close the thread.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Look upon my twerks, ye mighty. And despair. at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (xyung)
That's what the FBI has spent millions on, THAT is their priority.
Meanwhile, not one fucking MS-13 gang has any fucking worry about the FBI.
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (TN1P5)
The only good thing to come out of this was Elizabeth Warren saying she
'has no sympathy for people who cheat to get into college.'
That is priceless.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (ptqGC)
Shapiro said when he was in Harvard Law School orientation, Elena Kagan, then dean, told them point blank, "You've made it. You've arrived. You're in the "club" now. Don't worry about trying hard. You WILL graduate."
Well, that's all fine and dandy, but why did Binary Ben feel the need to sit on this until now? He could have been dragging their credentialed, hoity-toity asses through the mud all this time but chose not to until it became "relevant."
Attention-whore much, Ben?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (vg8iE)
It's like they work hard to do everything except what a normal person would expect them to do.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (LWu6U)
I see it simply as Democrat fuckwads getting their comeuppance, and am enjoying the schadenfreude.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2019 11:54 AM (nPGq2)
That's how I feel too. No, it's not the biggest deal in the country, it shows the hypocrisy of the rich lib elites who claim to be the biggest fans of "diversity."
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 14, 2019 12:08 PM (d6Ksn)
******
I vote for Miss Thatcher.
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:05 PM (O2RFr)
Mrs. anchorbabe watches it, even to the point of finding bootleg episodes the day after they run in Canada (oh wait, that's Heartland, I think).
I sometimes just tag along for the eye candy.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2019 12:08 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: dingbat at March 14, 2019 12:08 PM (QnS5r)
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Close the thread.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Look upon my twerks, ye mighty. And despair. at March 14, 2019 12:07 PM (xyung)
Ring the bell, close the book, blow out the candle
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:08 PM (bcbK8)
That's a big 10-4 good buddy.
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at March 14, 2019 12:09 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Arti at March 14, 2019 12:09 PM (jkXyB)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:08 PM (bcbK
Put the hamsters to bed.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:09 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:09 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at March 14, 2019 12:09 PM (n2qRY)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Look upon my twerks, ye mighty. And despair. at March 14, 2019 12:09 PM (xyung)
no doubt. But why is this the Alpha and Omega of stories?
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2019 12:04 PM (PbpT7)
Because they are celebrities. Why was Mel Gibson's drunk driving arrest national news?
Why does TMZ exist? Or People magazine? Or US Weekly? Or any of the other gossip rags?
That's why it is national news and a big story. Celebrities.
Celebrities.
Celebrities.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM (hLRSq)
And it strikes at the heart of the entire university system, because meh, so you spend 500K to get your child into the school. That child still has to do the school stuff, or else they'll just get a 0.0 and drop out after one semester. These children not only aren't dropping out, they're also bragging about doing little to no work. That means the schools are protecting them. So than just some spoiled celebs and a few fixers.
Posted by: arminius256 at March 14, 2019 11:48 AM (382aI) "
Every word of this.
And not just in this case, either.
" ... the corruption is far broader ... " is a phrase that can be usefully applied to just about every area of our New Normal world.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM (wA4OO)
They enjoy pointing-and-laughing as much as anyone else.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:08 PM (bcbK
Put the hamsters to bed.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:09 PM (ptqGC)
LOL
'Goodnight Moon, goodnight room..."
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM (bcbK8)
I always thought rich people donated shitloads of money to elite schools to get their worthless bratlings in, that everyone knew that's what was happened and no one really cared about it.
Posted by: El Kabong at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM (datdl)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 14, 2019 12:11 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 14, 2019 12:11 PM (PFy0L)
Usually this kind of stuff happens to cover up a story they don't want to get any coverage...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:11 PM (O2RFr)
Why are we now all national spectators cheering on the FBI to Really Get Those Bad Guys Good?
Give them bread and circus.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2019 12:11 PM (0tfLf)
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He looks like he feels the same way about showers and grooming.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2019 12:11 PM (vg8iE)
claiming they found their car keys?
Posted by: wth at March 14, 2019 12:11 PM (v0R5T)
Removing names and any identifying information from applications across the board.
Tell us again why YOU won't let them do that, feds. Is it something to do with giving certain kids an entrance advantage?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Look upon my twerks, ye mighty. And despair. at March 14, 2019 12:12 PM (xyung)
How smart is USC! They absolutely want this 'alternate route' publicized.
Posted by: t-bird at March 14, 2019 12:12 PM (Zo1XC)
Chelsea wrote about diarrhea ... and I bet she didn't even do the real research or writing. But sure ... advocate for clean water ... it is not rocket science.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2019 12:12 PM (Cus5s)
In lingerie. This would work for me, especially if somehow they ended up in the shower somehow
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:12 PM (39g3+)
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I'm sure she got all the education in that she needed living with Hillary all those years.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2019 12:12 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2019 12:12 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: Seems legit at March 14, 2019 12:12 PM (jUVms)
THIS.
Oh and also? This nonsense plus affirmative action plus the ridiculous reading of Title IX to force colleges to pad girls' sport rosters IS actually important.
It means very qualified, very bright, possibly very productive in the future young people are NOT getting in in favor of "certain special class" folks.
That's bad for our country, it's bad for the universities of which we used to be proud, AND downstream from that, it means a LOT of American families are wasting a LOT of time and treasure on this "race to nowhere" stuff trying desperately to sneak into a rigged system.
How many people forego Sunday Mass for out of state tournaments for 7 year old "baseball stars"? It's a LOT frankly. which means I don't see people at church, I don't see kids at youth group, you can't get together with family and friends during "club season" etc etc etc. American families have been utterly distracted and robbed blind by this.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 14, 2019 12:13 PM (Rarvo)
"At least *I* drove a Prius with insipid bumperstickers on it! *I* marched with a misshapen yarn vagina on my head! *You* just tried to hustle your kid into a state school!"
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:13 PM (Bdeb0)
The F-102A Delta Dagger was not for the stupid, faint of heart, or terminally unlucky.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 14, 2019 12:13 PM (hLRSq)
That story wouldn't have been covered anyway...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:13 PM (O2RFr)
On the other hand, I LOVE seeing the Feds go after ANYONE in the Hollywood Set, not to mention watching them throw a bucket of tar on the University system in general - those two groups are always so High and Mighty and preening about how they are So Much Better then the Rest of Us, that I LUV seeing them get humiliated like this.
So overall, I rate it a win. Sure, it's the FBI jacking off and wasting time doing stupid shit, but they're doing stupid and humiliating shit to my ENEMIES, and I'm down with that. I figure it's the most I can hope for these days.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2019 12:13 PM (Kpl3J)
Exactimundo
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:13 PM (39g3+)
Chelsea wrote about diarrhea ... and I bet she didn't even do the real research or writing. But sure ... advocate for clean water ... it is not rocket science.
Posted by: illiniwek
She should go to Venezuela.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2019 12:14 PM (aKsyK)
A story like this is something the soccer moms and other assorted dimwits will latch onto as a big deal. The utter corruption going on at the FBI is something they've never heard of.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 14, 2019 12:14 PM (OLCnA)
What the ever loving F**k!!!???
I hope this idiot takes my class.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2019 11:53 AM (0tfLf) "
Looking forward to updates if he does !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2019 12:14 PM (wA4OO)
The reputation of academia and the ruling class DOES take a hit, though, and a MUCH bigger hit than with the athletic scandals.
People understand the NCAA cheating. The motive is to get a great athlete on the school team, which benefits the fans. And the corruption may appear to be incidental to the college as a whole.
But this scandal lays bare (however fuzzily) the "educational" pretensions of the ruling class. It gives a peek behind the mask of elite schools, revealing them as CLASS-based institutions.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 14, 2019 12:14 PM (Rxduq)
Oh come on, this cuts right to the heart of every kid who got a thin letter, or every parent who's kid didn't get into their first choice.
Sure, some of the exposure is political, but a lot of it is just good business -- this kind of news sells.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at March 14, 2019 12:14 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 14, 2019 12:14 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: George W. Bush at March 14, 2019 12:14 PM (hjaPQ)
In lingerie. This would work for me, especially if somehow they ended up in the shower somehow
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:12 PM (39g3+)
Well after they get all sweaty from the pillow fight, they have to clean up.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:14 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:14 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 14, 2019 12:15 PM (/qEW2)
I always thought rich people donated shitloads of money to elite schools to get their worthless bratlings in, that everyone knew that's what was happened and no one really cared about it.
Posted by: El Kabong
They do. But they do it legal like. They donate straight to the school.
They way this supposedly worked, is the school wasn't clued in. Just a shady coach or professor, or a total sham job on the entrance exams and a fake charity.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2019 12:15 PM (LHT0w)
Amazing how that got dropped
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:15 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM
You are far too young to be so cynical.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2019 12:15 PM (Sp1Lf)
Posted by: El Kabong at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM (datdl)
They didn't donate money to the school, they paid people to create fraudulent test scores and claims of athletic abilities in order to get accepted.
A straight up donation would have been fine. Everyone knows that's a part of the system. What I think angers people about this scandal is that most upper-middle class folks saw academics and athletics as ways for *their* kids to gain access to these schools. If you can't afford to buy a new wing for the library, you can still afford tutors to help your kids study, or personal trainers and camps for their chosen sport.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 14, 2019 12:16 PM (wCmLp)
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But you know what they do in them there colleges?
They smoke pot. That's what.
Gonna nip this shit in the bud. No pun intended.
Posted by: Jeff S. at March 14, 2019 12:16 PM (vg8iE)
I think there's more coming as well
and it does NOT raise my opinion of the FBI one iota, I really don't think that is happening for anyone honestly.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 14, 2019 12:16 PM (Rarvo)
In lingerie. This would work for me, especially if somehow they ended up in the shower somehow
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:12 PM (39g3+)
Well after they get all sweaty from the pillow fight, they have to clean up.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
They wouldn't be the only ones.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2019 12:16 PM (LHT0w)
I was actually, genuinely surprised to find out that this was illegal.
I always thought rich people donated shitloads of money to elite
schools to get their worthless bratlings in, that everyone knew that's
what was happened and no one really cared about it.
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What's funny, is that they could have just gone that route.
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 12:16 PM (vWMNq)
Right, there are none.
None have resigned since Obama
None have blown the whistle anything that has happened
From top to bottom: They see their job as ensuring the federal government rules over us not justice.
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories
Remember how we ignored the law by ignoring multiple warnings about the Parkland shooter? And how 17 people died?
Who cares? Fuck you peasants.
Posted by: Federal Bureaucracy of Indifference at March 14, 2019 12:16 PM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Thornton Melon at March 14, 2019 12:17 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: El Kabong at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM (datdl)
Reposted from the previous thread, because it answers your question:
If rich folks make a big donation to a university in order to get their dull-witted child a place, that's not bribery; that's just a business deal.
But if they bribe a functionary of that university to go against stated policy, and falsify documents in order that their dull-witted child wins some sort of "merit-based" entry to the school, then that fucks over those entrants who have actual merit.
It's the whole "stolen valor" issue, writ smaller.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2019 12:17 PM (nPGq2)
What the ever loving F**k!!!???
I hope this idiot takes my class.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2019 11:53 AM (0tfLf)
Dink him a letter grade just for the freakin' man bun.
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at March 14, 2019 12:17 PM (RD7QR)
Yep.
A grift is one thing. A 'chintzy' grift is pathetic.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:17 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2019 12:17 PM (O7MnT)
Posted by: Deep Burnt State at March 14, 2019 12:18 PM (4Eo4+)
I honestly think it screams "mark".
It's like Michael from The Office paying $500 for a bag of salad trying to frame Toby for pot. He'd never bought pot before and was utterly clueless about typical market rates.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 14, 2019 12:18 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Richard Simmons at March 14, 2019 12:18 PM (ee0Tr)
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 12:16 PM (vWMNq)
But then they'd have to publicly admit to having substandard intelligence.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 14, 2019 12:18 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 14, 2019 12:18 PM (bim/x)
Posted by: Thornton Melon
In your defense, it was a very large check.
Posted by: Dean Martin at March 14, 2019 12:18 PM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2019 12:17 PM (O7MnT)
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They had a lot of resources watching coeds at USC.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 14, 2019 12:19 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:19 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2019 12:19 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: El Kabong at March 14, 2019 12:10 PM (datdl)
Reposted from the previous thread, because it answers your question:
If rich folks make a big donation to a university in order to get their dull-witted child a place, that's not bribery; that's just a business deal.
But if they bribe a functionary of that university to go against stated policy, and falsify documents in order that their dull-witted child wins some sort of "merit-based" entry to the school, then that fucks over those entrants who have actual merit.
It's the whole "stolen valor" issue, writ smaller.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2019 12:17 PM (nPGq2)
Not only that, but it seems that some of these parents were falsely labeling the bribes as charitable donations thereby engaging in tax fraud.
Trump should come out, and have the DoE require all Higher Ed receiving Federal money in any form, have fully transparent admissions processes.
Posted by: Iblis at March 14, 2019 12:20 PM (9221z)
"One of the first things we learn as adults, and that finds expression in college, is tribal membership cues. Some people wear uniforms, like the ROTC members. Greeks wear letters. And some (nodding to your effete charge) wear blowjob handles."
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:20 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 14, 2019 12:20 PM (bim/x)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 14, 2019 12:02 PM (ufFY
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I'd watch that on pay per view.
Posted by: Lump at March 14, 2019 12:20 PM (G99vu)
If you accept the proposition that the purpose of sending your kid to an elite institution is about the networking, not the quality of education, the University for Spoiled Children is every bit as good as Harvard.
You didn't see any of these celebrities or oligarchs paying bribes to get their kids into Caltech.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2019 12:20 PM (O7MnT)
It's the whole "stolen valor" issue, writ smaller.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2019 12:17 PM (nPGq2)
...
How does that not just result in the student being expelled though?
Maybe fire the employee who took the bribe.
I get if they lied on their tax returns that there is a crime. But those college applications aren't legal documents are they?
I guess maybe its fraud.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 14, 2019 12:21 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2019 12:21 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2019 12:21 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Guzalot at March 14, 2019 12:21 PM (oVNRG)
Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE MITT ROMNEY at March 14, 2019 12:21 PM (r9UYA)
Not the A Train?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 14, 2019 12:21 PM (bim/x)
The FBI has many decent people working in the field, but their leadership (and most leadership across federal law enforcement, to be honest) are ladder climbing opportunists who value their own careers far ahead of the mission. Comey and McCabe are particularly loathsome bureacrat scumbags, however. They started this bullshit Russia investigation as a way to curry favor with Clinton, because they were sure she was going to be President. When the unthinkable
happened, they were cooked and their only escape hatch was to delegitimize Trump.
Posted by: UGAdawg at March 14, 2019 12:22 PM (tRd71)
Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 14, 2019 11:42 AM
...and government at all levels but especially the feds, large corporations, most media and finally colleges themselves.
Posted by: Worc1 at March 14, 2019 12:22 PM (+3Y8+)
Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE MITT ROMNEY at March 14, 2019 12:21 PM (r9UYA)
Not the A Train?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 14, 2019 12:21 PM (bim/x)
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My baby takes the morning train
Posted by: Sheena Easton at March 14, 2019 12:22 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:13 PM
Those are not insipid bumper stickers! Those are fierce statements of Truth to Power!
Posted by: Austin Prii Drivers at March 14, 2019 12:22 PM (Sp1Lf)
It's about DAMN TIME: Sen. Lindsey Graham calls for special counsel to investigate 'potential crimes' in Obama's DOJ and FBI
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 14, 2019 12:22 PM (+y/Ru)
College prerequisite: Spreading asphalt.
You wanna cultivate a grateful, driven, attentive, humble student? Get him after he's burned a summer learning something about himself the ol' fashioned way.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:22 PM (Bdeb0)
Nobody is above the law? Hillary Clinton says hello.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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Almost, we're still in the 'looks like', and 'smells like' stages. We haven't actually taken a bite yet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE MITT ROMNEY at March 14, 2019 12:21 PM (r9UYA)
....
Mitt Romney's short bus is in danger of going off the rails.
Posted by: CNN at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (gCzjH)
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Then he called for a pizza.
Guess which one will arrive first?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (vg8iE)
This is a fucking joke. A bad one too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, did not win the lottery at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: UGAdawg
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They wanted to be on hand for the strip search.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (YslsA)
It wasn't just USC. That's just for the Laughlin kids.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (LHT0w)
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (O2RFr)
BUT guess who talked GOPe out of it? Bob Mueller. Funny, huh?
Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (hdzef)
Posted by: AOC at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (Sp1Lf)
Posted by: John Brennan at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (hjaPQ)
If you accept the proposition that the purpose of sending your kid to an elite institution is about the networking, not the quality of education, the University for Spoiled Children is every bit as good as Harvard.
You didn't see any of these celebrities or oligarchs paying bribes to get their kids into Caltech.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2019 12:20 PM (O7MnT)
And remember USC is apparently just the worst in terms of Administrators and Staff involved. A lot of schools are involved, and don't forget the Obama kids' own Tennis Coach is heavily implicated in this. Do you think either of those kids had the chops to get into the ivies they're now attending on their own?
Posted by: Iblis at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (9221z)
.........
Rank and file Rank and file Rank and file
Posted by: Hannity's broken record at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Deep Burnt State at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (4Eo4+)
Posted by: The Federal Reserve at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (zz291)
but if we're going there why not hayvard or yale?
id really like to see how that money game is played
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (O2RFr)
Ah he was just a so so coach
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 14, 2019 12:25 PM (bim/x)
You wanna cultivate a grateful, driven, attentive, humble student? Get him after he's burned a summer learning something about himself the ol' fashioned way.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:22 PM (Bdeb0)
...
There is this WEIRD RED BUBBLE ON MY PALM and IT HURTS.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 14, 2019 12:25 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (YslsA)
It's the only reason this is a Lori Laughlin scandal and not a Donkey Chompers scandal.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 14, 2019 12:25 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: Hillary at March 14, 2019 12:25 PM (vg8iE)
Well probably not but I'm sure the president doesn't have to bribe any school to get his kids in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:25 PM (39g3+)
I'm glad Ace is addressing this story in this way because I am constantly bothered by how much of what we experience is scripted and fake. I don't mean the story or facts are fake, but rather *everything* else around it.
The timing of the deployment, the way it is communicated to us, the folks who have been sacrificed vs those who are no doubt still protected. All of that makes it as fake as it can get without actually being fake.
I also know for certain that Fakebook, Google, Apple, Twatter etc are experimenting on us in ways we won't find out about for several more years, when it will be slightly less jarring and disturbing.
The amount of data they have at their fingertips, "real" data given by folks without permission through monitoring, may be the most valuable new commodity in the world.
There is no way they aren't using that data to run psychological and "health" studies on the population at large. I mean even to the point of trying to see if they can cause certain outcomes in people. Stuff that would creep you the shit out if you even had an inkling. Bothers me.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2019 12:25 PM (eHEST)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (Rxduq)
Posted by: simplemind at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (JEsyg)
Tennis Coach is heavily implicated in this. Do you think either of those
kids had the chops to get into the ivies they're now attending on their
own?
I don't think they had to bribe anyone to get in ... not with chocolate jesus as dad.
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (vWMNq)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
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Calling on rodeo clowns and plumbers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: John Brennan at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (hjaPQ)
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You look like a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot head.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (ffYR/)
football?
of course not.
how about baskeball?
of course not.
How about lizzy warren?
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (gLMhO)
I know kids who are committed to Ivies with slightly lower-than-normal SATs (but fine for athletic recruits) who are retaking the test just to try to hit the floor for FBI (in future).
so . . . what if some actual agents did more than just have extra test prep/tutoring? this one company was in business for 24 years.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: irright at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (RVcmP)
I think the jury's going to be out for a while on whether this is merely a dog and pony show to showcase the damaged FBI, or whether it is a small step that has eventually has some meaningful impact toward reclaiming America and the higher education system.
Posted by: corn and beans at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (tkNkP)
Yeah I think these FBI guys all think they're in a movie when they make a raid like this. How will this look on camera? What if we have our guns out that will look badass, right?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:26 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 14, 2019 12:27 PM (Pg+x7)
You wanna cultivate a grateful, driven, attentive, humble student? Get him after he's burned a summer learning something about himself the ol' fashioned way.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:22 PM (Bdeb0)
...
There is this WEIRD RED BUBBLE ON MY PALM and IT HURTS.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 14, 2019 12:25 PM (yL25O)
Just on your palm? You got off easy
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:27 PM (bcbK8)
Yeah, no. If they're names were Sasha and Malia Jefferson from the Southside, they'd be in cosmetology school.
You can say much the same about the Bush and Kennedy kids, too. Maybe not cosmetology school, although I gotta think there's some Bushes that are light-in-the-penny-loafers that we haven't heard about because it's not politically expedient yet.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2019 12:27 PM (O7MnT)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2019 12:19 PM (gCzjH)
Hey, that's a more harmless hobby than trying to take down political candidates they don't like with fake dossiers.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 14, 2019 12:27 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: John Brennan at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (hjaPQ)
And the rocks on Easter Island are too smart to be muslims.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2019 12:27 PM (nPGq2)
id really like to see how that money game is played
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (gLMhO)
...
In all seriousness, I assume because their athletic programs aren't exciting, and neither is the student body. Also the weather is not southern California, and there is not a decent beach until maaaaybe New Jersey if you're not too picky.
I also doubt that California cares all that very much about the Ivy League. Stamford, sure. Brown? No.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 14, 2019 12:27 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: UGAdawg
.....
But you don't understand.
A college bribery scandal with a 50 year old stick-figure woman is potentially one of the most dangerous calls a LEO can respond to.
Those heroes just wants to go home to their kids alive at the end of the day.
#backtheblue
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2019 12:27 PM (gCzjH)
id really like to see how that money game is played
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (gLMhO)
Harvard has an endowment of almost $40 billion. I'm sure they always want more, but I'm also sure they're pricier.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 14, 2019 12:27 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: steevy at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (BXMxN)
"I am categorically opposed to lying to or giving false information to a learning institution for preferential treatment or acceptance. Unless its for those of us who are more equal"
--Elizabeth "prairie crab" Warren
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (39g3+)
Was there a law broken here? Seriously, i don't know if there was (but then, i am not a laywer)
What was stolen?
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Well you could say spots were stolen from more deserving kids but I don't buy that. Because these schools limit the number of Asian students because most of them should be getting in but that would disrupt the racial spoils system they set up for the sake of diversity. So Asians or in this case rich dumb white kids took slots that should of gone to brown and black students that are only allowed in so the all white administration can feel good about it self. Most of those kids that get in do to their race end up flunking out after the first year because they're unprepared for the school that just accepted them. Once they flunk out there is a limitless pool of kids that look just like them to replace them. Also if you get a women's studies degree from USC or some community college I still expect to make my fucking coffee the way i ordered it.
Posted by: Iron Wombat at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (/qASX)
Nah. They had to fit it under vague bullshit like "wire fraud." Sleazy as hell but not illegal.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (Z7HbK)
Posted by: Worc1 at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (+3Y8+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: UGAdawg
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They wanted to be on hand for the strip search.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 14, 2019 12:23 PM (YslsA)
Hurm. Well it's wrong to do it JUST for that....but....yeah, I'd want that too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: ...
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Look at the dem election ads for the past three or four cycles. Those of us who think logically look at them and think they are insane. But, the big data firms insist that they move votes, and they appear to do so.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (YslsA)
William H. Macy is the only one I've ever heard of. The rest might as well be Juventus kickball players and cheerleaders for all I've heard of their names.
Is this strictly an FBI thing? I thought all the preening I saw repeatedly was a Massachusetts attorney general.
He said something I totally don't believe. "Not only can there not be a separate admissions system for the rich, there can't and won't be a separate justice system."
I'm fairly sure the rich will hold on to their separate justice system.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 14, 2019 12:29 PM (fuK7c)
If you were going to design an operation to topple a third or even second world government, say the Philippines or gosh, maybe Ukraine, you'd set up a scam to make it look like the leader was a puppet of the Chinese or the Russians to destabilize the government and use friendly press to keep pushing until you topple the government.
If anybody in this while mess needs a good look at a treason charge, it's that sumbitch.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 14, 2019 12:29 PM (jp0Bv)
I think that 1) it was silly and overdramatic to send guys with guns drawn on a 50 something actress.
Posted by: UGAdawg
It's not like Hollywood celebrities haven't murdered people before.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 14, 2019 12:29 PM (TAmPV)
I got hit up by an FBI recruiter my senior year in college because I was a foreign language major. Of course, my ACT/SAT scores weren't too shabby.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2019 12:29 PM (O7MnT)
I guess this latest big bust is a step up from the big kollidge basketball bust of a couple of years ago. But not much of a step up.
The FBI: keeping student athletes from endangering the public for two or three years now. I feel so much safer now...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivism at March 14, 2019 12:29 PM (HaL55)
I detest these srsly dangerous criminals in our country, I think these mother are srs criminals and should go to jail for decades much like murders let go for trying to shoot at dolphins (against the law) but only hitting a stupid woman walking nearby.
'but what the hell.
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:29 PM (gLMhO)
Did someone mention train?
Posted by: AOC
Night train to Mundo Fine.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (aKsyK)
Such a magical voice...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:29 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 14, 2019 12:30 PM (Pg+x7)
--Elizabeth "prairie crab" Warren
She is Arha, the Eaten One.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:30 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:30 PM (gLMhO)
I wish I knew someone at the FBI so I could mock them. They would deserve it.
Posted by: nip at March 14, 2019 12:30 PM (DfGpI)
You wanna cultivate a grateful, driven, attentive, humble student? Get him after he's burned a summer learning something about himself the ol' fashioned way.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:22 PM (Bdeb0)
...
There is this WEIRD RED BUBBLE ON MY PALM and IT HURTS.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 14, 2019 12:25 PM (yL25O)
Just on your palm? You got off easy
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:27 PM (bcbK
...
Well, i was thinking the first half hour.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 14, 2019 12:30 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Ben Shapiro - fapping to his sister's bewbz with Michelle Fields missing arm at March 14, 2019 12:30 PM (RNW1e)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Look upon my twerks, ye mighty. And despair. at March 14, 2019 12:30 PM (xyung)
Court rules Newtown families can proceed with lawsuit against Remington
http://tinyurl.com/y5hrjqtm
Because the company that makes an item you misuse is somehow responsible for your illegal and immoral abuse of their product...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:31 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 14, 2019 12:31 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: John Brennan at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (hjaPQ)
..........
But you have the same brain material.
Posted by: wth at March 14, 2019 12:31 PM (v0R5T)
If you accept the proposition that the purpose of sending your kid to an elite institution is about the networking, not the quality of education, the University for Spoiled Children is every bit as good as Harvard.
You didn't see any of these celebrities or oligarchs paying bribes to get their kids into Caltech.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2019 12:20 PM (O7MnT)
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BINGO.
It's about CLASS.
And a scandal like this underscores the point.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 14, 2019 12:32 PM (Rxduq)
id really like to see how that money game is played
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:24 PM (gLMhO)
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That would take donating a new building or $10-$50 million. For real, according to the "College admissions Counselor" involved in this.
One of these celebs spent almost a million to get 2 kids into USC, FFS.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 14, 2019 12:32 PM (ffYR/)
Court rules Newtown families can proceed with lawsuit against Remington
For fuck sake... They should have sued obama
Posted by: It's me donna at March 14, 2019 12:32 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: TexasDan at March 14, 2019 12:32 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:32 PM (39g3+)
If you have a pulse and a diploma--and the tuition payment-- they'll accept you. No bribes necessary
Posted by: the Man who Burps in French at March 14, 2019 12:32 PM (9HuGt)
FIFY
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2019 12:33 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: steevy at March 14, 2019 12:28 PM (BXMxN)
THIS! It's all they and all government employees care about and think the pensions and benefits are all owed to them no questions asked and who cares how much we're taxed to pay for it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 14, 2019 12:33 PM (OLCnA)
--Elizabeth "prairie crab" Warren
She is Arha, the Eaten One.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:30 PM (Bdeb0)
...go on...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:33 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: steevy at March 14, 2019 12:33 PM (BXMxN)
Court rules Newtown families can proceed with lawsuit against Remington
http://tinyurl.com/y5hrjqtm
Because the company that makes an item you misuse is somehow responsible for your illegal and immoral abuse of their product...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:31 PM (39g3+)
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Remington is the private market and MUH FREE MARKET MUSS BE PERSERVES! Unless the free market supports Trump voting because DAS RACIST!!!
Posted by: Ben Shapiro - fapping to his sister's bewbz with Michelle Fields missing arm at March 14, 2019 12:33 PM (RNW1e)
She is Arha, the Eaten One.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:30 PM (Bdeb0)
Didn't Ged free her in the end? There's no hope for Warren.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 14, 2019 12:33 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2019 12:34 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Ha at March 14, 2019 12:34 PM (MAstk)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 14, 2019 12:34 PM (KP5rU)
Night Train?
https://youtu.be/sg3Xgg61gHk
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:32 PM (39g3+)
Nothing quite so melodic.
John Carradine
https://youtu.be/BYl_YzcJMKU
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:34 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 14, 2019 12:34 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at March 14, 2019 12:34 PM (hdzef)
Well, the way he defined it, it IS the worst scandal in "the history of American Education", since most every other scandal before this has been confined to sports.
I see it as blowback from the School's virtue signaling claims over the years, their puffing about how they allow "Only the Best!!!" and everyone they graduate is a Mega-Genius. Oh it was great PR, but it was also total bullshit, and this lays the proof that it was Total Bullshit out in front of all of us.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2019 12:35 PM (Kpl3J)
Exactly! The righties I grew up with would never think it was proper to secretly give the population a medical pill to make turn them into conservatives.
But we all know the Left would do that in a heartbeat. Which is why they are the original conspiracy theorists. Because they all knew what they would do if they had the power.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2019 12:35 PM (eHEST)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2019 12:35 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 14, 2019 12:35 PM (hjaPQ)
Posted by: steevy at March 14, 2019 12:36 PM (BXMxN)
Yeah! That'll teach that graphic arts student a thing or two! Take away his Adobe cloud for a year!! Make him use fvcking Gimp! [spit]
That'll learn him.
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 14, 2019 12:36 PM (sLicW)
Posted by: steevy
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It's hard to do business, we have cut off your access to capital. Heh, heh.
Posted by: The Banks, cowed by SJW's at March 14, 2019 12:36 PM (xSo9G)
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Yep. Terrible shape.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 14, 2019 12:35 PM (hjaPQ)
Well they sunk millions into a terrible pistol. Twice.
Good shotguns though.
Decent hunting rifles.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:36 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Clay, unimpressed with your wokeness at March 14, 2019 12:36 PM (ovir2)
Don't stop there with the reorganization - also, abolish ATF and simply make it another FBI department, which it always should have been.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2019 12:36 PM (Kpl3J)
The bribe isn't just to get them in. Its to make sure they get good grades and graduate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:36 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ever at March 14, 2019 12:37 PM (Brfdf)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 14, 2019 12:37 PM (YslsA)
Posted by: steevy
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Too bad. We now have to form agencies to manage the agencies.
Posted by: The Banks, cowed by SJW's at March 14, 2019 12:37 PM (xSo9G)
If I haven't heard of them they cannot be celebrities - that's the argument? Apparently a lot of people know who they are - there are references through this thread to "Aunt Becky" and I can only guess that it is a character that one of these actresses plays because I don't know. But just because *I* don't know who they are doesn't mean they are not famous and famous people get this sort of news treatment.
Alright - you don't like it. So what? Get famous and maybe your opinion can make national news too. That's the way it was, is, and will be because that is the way humans are.
Now, back to the Outrage - is there anything that I could supply from our Disdain Dept.?
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 14, 2019 12:37 PM (hLRSq)
if they are worried about Lying cheating and wrecking the education system paid for by all of us.
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:37 PM (gLMhO)
https://youtu.be/sg3Xgg61gHk
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:32 PM (39g3+)
That's not Night Train. This is Night Train:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=Np7IlsmQvwU
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2019 12:38 PM (nPGq2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2019 12:38 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Fritz at March 14, 2019 12:38 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2019 12:38 PM (ykq7q)
There are probably thousands of people who are cheating on these exams that are not celebrities. Not too long ago there was a charter school that was largely minority where they were lying about kids resumes and basically inflating their grades and cheating on the SAT. That went down the memory hole.
So why doesn't the FBI get off their badge polishing flabby asses and go do some real work that doesn't involve celebrities
Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2019 12:38 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: steevy at March 14, 2019 12:39 PM (BXMxN)
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 14, 2019 12:39 PM (RuIsu)
Also that private citizens information is being stolen by govt toadies to coerce people into doing their bidding. or threaten them.
isn't That Your job?>
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:39 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 14, 2019 12:39 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2019 12:40 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2019 12:40 PM (eHEST)
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:40 PM (gLMhO)
You didn't see any of these celebrities or oligarchs paying bribes to get their kids into Caltech.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2019 12:20 PM (O7MnT)
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BINGO.
It's about CLASS.
And a scandal like this underscores the point.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 14, 2019 12:32 PM (Rxduq)
This is part of why it's hard to care. If they were bribing colleges to get their kids into professions on which peoples' lives depended, that would be serious. If they just want their kids to be part of the "in" crowd in some club, let them have at it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 14, 2019 12:40 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Anchovy at March 14, 2019 12:40 PM (B3kya)
If your alma mater has an official yacht it*s time to stop sending them money.
Posted by: Clay, unimpressed with your wokeness at March 14, 2019 12:36 PM
All those college magazines I get in the mail, with an implied 'Why don't you send us some money?''?
In the trash. You got yours once. More then you should have.
Posted by: Newest Nic at March 14, 2019 12:40 PM (jYje5)
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:41 PM (gLMhO)
"Why," said one of the boys.
"If you master your desire, you will better see those who have not mastered theirs, and you will know to avoid them."
"Like Arha?" He spoke of the old woman who stood in the creekbed and yelled at birds.
"Yes. Like Arha. She is the Eaten One. Her hunger for attention consumed her like flame consumes a log. There is nothing in her, she is empty."
"Why must we avoid them?"
"They are vexations, and they will talk their toothache at you until you are driven to walk away, and you may offend them. In which case they will follow you, and you will have no rest."
"Why is she here?" asked another.
"That is a good question," said the elder. "She is from Mas-sa-chusetts. I am told they are all talking toothaches."
They stared at the fire, and then nodded off, one by one, until the elder was alone.
"Arha. She claims to be of the People, but she is just a sore tooth."
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:41 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:42 PM (39g3+)
Not an argument, an observation. I know I'm not Mr. Pop Culture but I surprise even myself at the extent of my not knowing.
It's like they invented a whole new batch of celebrities and didn't tell me.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 14, 2019 12:42 PM (fuK7c)
no one seems to be bribing their way into Cal Poly
Posted by: the Man who Burps in French at March 14, 2019 12:42 PM (9HuGt)
--
John Carradine
https://youtu.be/BYl_YzcJMKU
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 14, 2019 12:34 PM
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No, I don't think I'll ever be over Mundo Fine.
Posted by: John Carradine at March 14, 2019 12:42 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 14, 2019 12:36 PM (39g3+)
And if the word about THAT gets it, people might just start to realize that the entire point of a "College Education" is simply to get a good and certified Pedigree that will allow the bearer entry into the really Posh Clubs, the ones that are restricted to Ruling Class only.
Why shouldn't kids cheat? College isn't about "learning" anything anymore, you can do that more effectively on your own. It's about getting the right Piece of Paper to hang on your wall, period.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2019 12:42 PM (Kpl3J)
If the FBI had a TV show today it would have to be a comedy, a comedy of errors.
Posted by: Worc1 at March 14, 2019 12:43 PM (+3Y8+)
and attempted a coup.
pretty awful isn't it?
oh nevermind!
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:43 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada
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Well, they never did. Consider Andie McDowell's daughter. She didn't just become a slut, her vacuous mother steered her into it.
Take a look: https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6rw8ajb
Oh, and btw, the kid is estimated to be worth $6 Million. Never went to school.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2019 12:43 PM (CDGwz)
I think so. It's been awhile since I read it. Just seemed like such an apt name for Warren.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:43 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2019 12:34 PM (AllCR)
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I think people can (grudgingly) accept
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 14, 2019 12:43 PM (Rxduq)
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He is most definitely not stupid. No successful long-con guy is dumb.
In any con, you've gotta be smarter than the mark. Doubly so for long-cons. And in his case, he's targeted right-leaning, thinking types, who are smarter than the average mark.
So I am guessing he's actually got a pretty high-functioning brain. Not anything like as smart as HE would tell you, of course, but smart enough to make the scam seem legit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2019 12:43 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2019 12:38 PM (AllCR)
________________
Thank you. So many people here complain that I get all my analysis wrong because I'm stupid and constantly focused on my sister's gigantic soft breasts bouncing softly as she tiptoes braless across the ktichen while I'm hiding in the cupboard with a jar of coconut oil and a microwaved pitted avocado. Mmmmmmmm.
uhh I mean instead of just blind hatred toward you racist Trump supporters while pretending that Abby is that warm coconut lubed avocado.
Posted by: Ben Shapiro - fapping to his sister's bewbz with Michelle Fields missing arm at March 14, 2019 12:44 PM (RNW1e)
Using the fake 501 to avoid taxes is a BFD.
Posted by: Anchovy at March 14, 2019 12:40 PM (B3kya)
Nice night out. Do you think it will warm up soon?
Posted by: CGI Whistling Past the Graveyard at March 14, 2019 12:44 PM (ymnmz)
Sounds like a plan. Just not a good one.
Posted by: Piric at March 14, 2019 12:44 PM (7n4uf)
suck on that, USC. Morro Bay rules...
Posted by: the Man who Burps in French at March 14, 2019 12:45 PM (9HuGt)
I could see that. I could also believe that he has yet to have consensual sex with a living human female.
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:46 PM (Bdeb0)
It's like they invented a whole new batch of celebrities and didn't tell me."
Shoot, I haven't been "with it" since 1989.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 14, 2019 12:46 PM (hLRSq)
This is part of why it's hard to care. If they were bribing colleges to get their kids into professions on which peoples' lives depended, that would be serious. If they just want their kids to be part of the "in" crowd in some club, let them have at it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 14, 2019 12:40 PM (/qEW2)
I wouldn't say I "care", but I am greatly Entertained and enjoying this scandal immensely. I never expect the government to do anything good for me, so watching them do embarrassing and humiliating things to my Enemies is as good as it gets!
And anyone who has anything to do with Hollywood in any way is by definition, My Enemy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2019 12:46 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:47 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: Ben Shapiro - fapping to his sister's bewbz with Michelle Fields missing arm at March 14, 2019 12:47 PM (RNW1e)
Posted by: Zod at March 14, 2019 12:46 PM (Bdeb0)
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Michelle would have consented if we could have re-attached the arm in time to save her!
Posted by: Ben Shapiro - fapping to his sister's bewbz with Michelle Fields missing arm at March 14, 2019 12:48 PM (RNW1e)
If the FBI had a TV show today it would have to be a comedy, a comedy of errors.
Posted by: Worc1
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Oh, I can go one better than that: Eric Rudolph.
The hills out here were rife with rucked-up FBI guys combing here, there, night vision gear, helicopters with infra-red scanners. They became a standing joke to the locals.
Rudolph was eventually busted by a Barney Fife down in Andrews, I think, while rummaging through a dumpster behind a grocery.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2019 12:48 PM (xSo9G)
soros next?
maybe Clinton foundation?
ahahah sure.
Posted by: willow at March 14, 2019 12:48 PM (gLMhO)
The FBI didn't know where Whitey Bulger was just like Pakistan didn't know that Osama Bin Laden was living barely a mile away from one of their most exclusive Military HQ's. Sure they didn't.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2019 12:49 PM (Kpl3J)
That rumor was thoroughly investigated but all we found was Russia collusion by some white male.
Posted by: James Comey at March 14, 2019 12:49 PM (+3Y8+)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 14, 2019 12:37 PM (hLRSq)
Got any bilious cynicism? I like to keep my tank topped off.
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at March 14, 2019 12:50 PM (RD7QR)
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Posted by: critic of the Godless at March 14, 2019 01:14 PM (1XtI9)
It takes two to tango. FBI and DOJ in this instance. Having done this against real organized crime for years, (although not in the FBI), an agreement to prosecute under RICO is rare.
This is a criminal conspiracy, maybe, but a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization under the spirit of the statute? No.
Should they be charged? That's a decision made by an Assistant US Attorney or DOJ trial lawyer after looking at the evidence, but there's no way DOJ should have charged this under RICO. Doing so tells you everything you need to know. This is a publicity stunt prosecution.
Posted by: Bones at March 14, 2019 01:18 PM (dBiBP)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 14, 2019 01:28 PM (iw59Q)
Posted by: Oddnot at March 14, 2019 01:33 PM (ozn55)
You read that quote ? Out on $1 Million cash bail over paying to get her kid listed as an athletic recruit.
Why on earth would you "run" from that ? Are they seriously going to throw you in jail for this minor white collar bribery crime ? Give me a fucking break.
I want to know how much tax money they burned through to get this major conspiracy that literally nobody cares about, but everyone knew was going on anyhow.
Oh, and it will CONTINUE in a week or so.
Posted by: deadrody at March 14, 2019 01:41 PM (9v7bY)
Not how it's supposed to be.
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