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THE MORNING RANT: Harvard MBAs Are Struggling to Get Job Offers Amidst the School’s Ongoing Challenges
There’s no sugarcoating it: Nearly one-quarter of job-seeking Harvard MBAs couldn’t find jobs this year, by far the largest portion of a graduating Harvard class to struggle in the market in the last decade — a decade, let’s remember, of widespread economic tribulation and pandemic.These are students who graduated with their Harvard MBAs in May of 2024. By the end of 2024, 25% of the class still hadn’t found employment. By contrast, 95% of the Class of 2022 had received job offers within 90 days of graduation. The article noted that Harvard delayed the release of this poor jobs data until the Christmas holiday, which is a significantly later release date than the timing of the report in prior years, when the numbers weren’t so embarrassingly bad. So who stopped hiring? A breakdown of the sectors where Harvard MBAs found work revealed that several sectors remained steady, such as tech at 16% of the class. But job offers in consulting were greatly reduced, with only 18% of the class of ‘24 getting jobs in that field, versus 25% for the Class of ’23. That would indicate there is a decreasing demand in the greater private sector to hire consultants inculcated in the toxic leftism that defines a Harvard education. Meanwhile, President Garber is warning Harvard’s faculty that the university’s radical leftism is putting its massive endowment in peril. The Harvard Crimson reported in December that Garber, in a closed-door meeting, advised the faculty that they must re-think their messaging now with Republicans having won control of Congress and the White House in an “anti-elite repudiation by the American electorate.”
During the meeting, Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications Paul Andrew described what University officials consider to be key legislative threats to Harvard — such as an endowment tax, congressional probes, and threats to federal research funding.The Crimson also quoted President Garber as stating that an increase to the endowment tax is the “threat that keeps me up at night.” As well it should. Harvard didn’t need to take a leadership role in the culture war against mainstream Americans, but it did. Malicious actions and poor choices have consequences. If Harvard didn’t want to suffer the consequences from being on the losing side of the culture war, it should have abstained from it.
In 2021, a speaker at a Claremont Institute conference on woke capital had this to say, “The biggest capital allocator, or at least one of the biggest capital allocators, in the world is that woke social-justice hedge fund known as Harvard University.” That speaker was citizen J.D. Vance, who would be elected Vice President of the United States three years later. Mr. Vance went on to say about Harvard’s endowment that it “funds some of the most destructive ideologies all across our country, and literally trains the next generation of priests in the seminary that’s dominating our professional class.” He added that Harvard’s endowment “is literally ammunition for the Left and we, through our public policy, have given that endowment more power.”
When citizen Vance became a U.S. Senator in 2023, he introduced a bill titled the College Endowment Accountability Act which would raise the excise tax on endowment net investment income from 1.4% to 35% for private colleges and universities with at least $10 billion in assets. Fellow Republican Senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill in 2021 that would levy a 1% annual tax on the value of mega-endowments held by the richest private colleges. In Harvard’s case, with an endowment of about $50 billion, the school would have to fork over about $500 million each year just for this tax alone. These bills did not proceed to become law because Democrats controlled the Senate and the White House at the time, but Democrats were flushed out of power in the 2024 elections, so President Garber now has valid reasons to fear for Harvard’s endowment. It was used as a financial weapon in Harvard’s culture war against American values and against the majority of Americans who do not share its radical left-wing views. Harvard is now on the losing side of that culture war, and targeting its endowment is a legitimate response to disarm Harvard from ever going on offense against us again. In fact, Republican Congressman Troy Nehls has recently introduced a bill to increase the investment tax on the largest university endowments from 1.4% to 21%. With its graduates becoming unhirable, its reputation shattered, its benefactors closing their wallets, its anti-semitism exposed, its indifference to plagiarism, and its general debasement of the academic inquiry that higher education once stood for, Harvard has taken a mighty fall. We must ensure that it never again regains the influence and esteem it once had. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 11:00 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 28, 2025 11:00 AM (dDmld)
Never mind!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (Cki93)
Apps from ivy league grads go straight into the trash.
Posted by: heya at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (qKjjK)
Why? Let it die.
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (7ldzJ)
Posted by: steevy at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (KQk9m)
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*sniffs*
So?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (j7z0w)
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (Nmmyc)
Never mind!
Posted by: Lizzy
The Paolo hopes that his endowment is never taxed.
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (GBKbO)
Apparently, Harvard spend 69% of scientific grant money on administration.
Cut all of the Harvard grants now, send them to smaller, worthier -- non-woke -- colleges.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 11:03 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 28, 2025 11:03 AM (7ldzJ)
That's what she said!
Another round, Paolo, dear?!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 11:03 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: browndog knows that area well at February 28, 2025 11:03 AM (TTAGa)
Usually, people hire consultants WITH EXPERIENCE, not freshly graduated students.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:04 AM (vHL8T)
Why? Let it die.
Posted by: Bulg
Sorry, I misread that. My eye left out the "neve," so I thought that you were advocating for a restoration of Harvard's "influence and esteem." My bad.
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 28, 2025 11:04 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism
F'n Siri.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:04 AM (vHL8T)
Posted by: Alternate Universe Barrack Obama! at February 28, 2025 11:04 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 28, 2025 11:05 AM (7ldzJ)
Posted by: Most people at February 28, 2025 11:05 AM (DobEs)
Smell the Glove,
Which General Mike Flynn account?
There are a lot.
This is a really big deal because this is the first real campaign against the Deep State.
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 11:05 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
Allegedly it's Harvard MBA types in Hollywood studios that have destroyed that business. So...yeah, hire fewer Harvard MBAs!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 11:05 AM (Cki93)
I'd rather talk about how much damage could be prevented if we confiscated the endowments of all the Ivy League.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (j7z0w)
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (89FJt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 28, 2025 11:00 AM (dDmld)
Claudine Longet >>> Claudine Gay
Posted by: zombies Spider Sabich and Andy Williams at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (TTAGa)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Big Ballz to the white courtesy phone. Big Ballz, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (vHL8T)
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (jvJvP)
Lucky for them, the military is hiring.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 11:07 AM (NR6c1)
Learn to coal.
Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at February 28, 2025 11:07 AM (DobEs)
Old and busted: Veritus
New hotness: Diversity-Us!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 11:07 AM (Cki93)
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:07 AM (mWSu4)
If he also thinks capitalism is evil, well, then, he doesn't need to participate in it. Right?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 28, 2025 11:07 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (89FJt)
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Get those poll workers back in here. Turn those machines back on!
Posted by: Randolph Duke at February 28, 2025 11:07 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 28, 2025 11:08 AM (TLf/c)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 28, 2025 11:08 AM (t/2Uw)
But Harvard Business School traditionally admits people with some work experience, in part because it makes their graduate statistics look better.
The average age of an MBA applicant who is admitted to the Harvard Business School is 27, with 54 months of work experience.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 28, 2025 11:08 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
Smell the Glove,
Which General Mike Flynn account?
There are a lot.
This is a really big deal because this is the first real campaign against the Deep State.
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 11:05 AM (QB+5g)
I like that Trump has been empowering people with a grievance against the Deep State.
General Flynn needs to be put in a position to destroy the FBI.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 28, 2025 11:08 AM (j7z0w)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 28, 2025 11:00 AM (dDmld)
Claudine Longet >>> Claudine Gay
Claude Rains >>> Claudine Gay
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:09 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 11:09 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:09 AM (WR88G)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 28, 2025 11:09 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 11:09 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (VofaG)
Quick, let's issue some more H1B visas! We'll hire foreigners to do the jobs that Harvard MBA's aren't willing to do!
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Ordering his Newest Sex Slaves at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 11:05 AM (Cki93)"
It's not just Harvard and not just Hollywood either.
MBA's are a plague. Largely responsible for the last 40+ years of eating our own seed corn for short term gain. They're wrecking so many companies - before bailing to go wreck another - that there are greatly reduced opportunities for newer MBA locusts to get in on it.
If you want something emblematic of this, look at Intel fucking around with finance shell games to dick with stock prices instead of actually investing in making chips. They never recovered from that and probably never will.
Posted by: heya at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (qKjjK)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (uCjyK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (GBKbO)
The elite universities with massive endowments long ago crossed the threshold into for-profit corporations.
They should be treated as such by the tax code.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (mWSu4)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (TLf/c)
I assume its the same sort of tax dodge that Bezos uses. You keep your capital locked up and tax free while borrowing money (because you have plenty of collateral) which is also...tax free
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (t0Rmr)
The elite universities with massive endowments long ago crossed the threshold into for-profit corporations.
TBH they are just one specific type of the NGO/non-proft scam.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 11:11 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 28, 2025 11:11 AM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (y9ksN)
Seriously... I think every entity that's "funded" is a goddamn grifting op for the feds and their hangers on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)
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So I see we're carrying over the Fecal Friday theme from the thread below? I guess it's a thing now.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (LxER7)
They should be treated as such by the tax code.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (mWSu4)
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Posit:
Non-profits should only be run by individuals who take vows of poverty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (GBKbO)
So we can talk about that Egyptian judge demanding Trump give money to Egypt now...?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (t0Rmr)
But, allowing taxes to go up on every American, except the wealthy, due to the SALT deduction going back to pre 2016 levels, is completely okay.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (VofaG
Yeah but they quit the jobs to attend.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (WR88G)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 28, 2025 11:08 AM (j7z0w)"
I get that he and his family have suffered greatly for his willingness to speak out, and we all know how he got railroaded... but I can't say I'm impressed by many of his choices in terms of allies. This may just be a matter of taking whatever opportunities you have, but he seems like one of those first-Trump-admin guys who keeps stepping on rakes.
Posted by: heya at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (qKjjK)
Right?
That concept died 30 years ago. I had a job in a very well-funded start-up on the late 90's. They hired an army of Andersen consultants to get it off to a big start. Most of the ones I had the pleasure of working with* were consultants right out of grad school. There was one project for something I was capable of doing, but per my boss, it was cheaper to pay 2 consultants to do it. Naturally, I was tasked with providing all of my experience and insight to them in numerous sessions. It was a total scam and insulting to all of us who were hired for our experience.
*There were some real gems, though, and they were all people who had years of experience prior to being hired by Andersen.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (Cki93)
But, allowing taxes to go up on every American, except the wealthy, due to the SALT deduction going back to pre 2016 levels, is completely okay.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (tT6L1)
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I have another idea:
Let's eliminate SALT completely!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: DaveA at February 28, 2025 11:14 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025
***
I'm sure there's a Latin tag to express FAFO.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 11:14 AM (J2vNu)
So we can talk about that Egyptian judge demanding Trump give money to Egypt now...?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (t0Rmr)
Oh, okay, we're allowed to talk about this now? Because I have some grievances to air about our New Americans, but whenever I do I'm told "they're just as American as you are even if they showed up in the US from India or China 6 years ago."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:14 AM (uCjyK)
Let's eliminate SALT completely!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)
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With the firing of IRS agents, this may be an idea who's time has come.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:15 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Resist_we_much at February 28, 2025 11:15 AM (cpys8)
That 50%-60% fee they charge grants is a national disgrace, and the Trump administration was 100% correct in changing it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:15 AM (mWSu4)
Seriously... I think every entity that's "funded" is a goddamn grifting op for the feds and their hangers on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (Q4IgG)"
Nah, universities are normally endpoints for the graft. They take in money and provide kickbacks, and pay out for sinecure positions. They pay people to oversee and receive grants, generally, not give them themselves.
USAID is spending "other people's money". Harvard, etc's, endowments are "their" money.
Posted by: heya at February 28, 2025 11:15 AM (qKjjK)
I see. So now, when the illegals claim that America is their home and they know no other, we can just ask them if they've been here for 22 years or more. No? Off you go!
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:15 AM (xCA6C)
'Cause that would be awesome.
I mean, the left loves to take my money and give it to their people, why should we not return the favor?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 11:15 AM (uLKZx)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (RDw3D)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (EG7Bp)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: DaveA at February 28, 2025 11:14 AM (FhXTo)
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Imagine if all students who were sold student loans on a fraudulent premise were allowed to sue their alma mater.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (tT6L1)
That's different because shut up!
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (ewjUl)
Oh, okay, we're allowed to talk about this now? Because I have some grievances to air about our New Americans, but whenever I do I'm told "they're just as American as you are even if they showed up in the US from India or China 6 years ago."
I know a bunch of Indians some are on visas, some are on citizens, but when the Indian guy became leader of Britain they were all very, very happy about it. Note - I'm in the US not Britain...but they saw him as one of them and "taking over Britain" as righting a historical wrong.
Note: They did NOT have the same reaction to Kamala.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)
NOOOOOOoooooo ....
Posted by: Nancy Crater at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (TTAGa)
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Marcy would only answer with a lot of clucking
Posted by: Al Bundy at February 28, 2025 11:17 AM (y9ksN)
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:17 AM (89FJt)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:15 AM (tT6L1)
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Won't anyone think of the accountants who have specialized in tax accounting?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 11:17 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)
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They'll make it up in volume.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:17 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 11:17 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 28, 2025 11:17 AM (VwHCD)
"My degree is from Harvard."
"Excellent! Harvard Keyboarding School out on Route 141?"
"No, Harvard University in Cambridge, MA."
"I see -- that's too bad, really. We have a crying need for an excellent keyboardist. Well, good luck to you, then!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 11:18 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 28, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I don't think "fuck around" was a Latin idiom, so what's Latin for "idiocy begets understanding?"
Posted by: mikeski at February 28, 2025 11:18 AM (nkrO4)
That would be an important analysis point to determine if the drop off in offers is indeed tied to Harvard's politics and reputation.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 28, 2025 11:18 AM (9ptcg)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:13 AM (tT6L1)
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I suspect that the fringes of the Democrat party are fraying even more with every passing day because of stuff like this.
Nothing to dismantle the party, but just enough for those who thought the Party wasn't deeply racist to go, "Why isn't this obvious racist not being punished by leadership?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
What is the Latin word for "f**k," anyway? Something related to "coitus?"
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)
The Celebration Parallax: The Celebration Parallax may be stated as: “the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it.” In contemporary speech, on any “controversial” topic—or, to say better, regime priority—the decisive factor is the intent of the speaker. If she can be presumed to be celebrating the phenomenon under discussion, she may shout her approval from the rooftops. If not, he better shut up before someone comes along to shut him up.
When *we* complain about illegal immigrants, we're racists.
When *they* complain about immigrants, they are patriots.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 11:19 AM (Cki93)
Posted by: ...
Humerous thread about a doctor who can't believe people voted for this shit.
https://is.gd/FmghQC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:19 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 11:20 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Resist_we_much at February 28, 2025 11:15 AM (cpys
This is entirely true.
We joke about Harvard MBA's here, and I agree there are not a very sympathetic bunch.
But let's look at it another way: in a masters degree program filled with employed people and the biggest nepo babies in the history of the world, only 75% were employed after graduation.
25% of the people who were given the most legs up imaginable by their degree were still unable to find work.
If they can't find work, what hope does the kid who went to Boise State or whatever for his MBA have?
And yet all the major corporations are saying they can't find any qualified employees and thus must hire exclusively Indian and Chinese people to work those jobs.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:20 AM (uCjyK)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (tT6L1)
The government needs to get out of the student loan business, and then make them dischargeable in bankruptcy.
That would be awesome.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:20 AM (mWSu4)
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Used to be, they'd hire for the prestige of having Ivy grads on staff.
And in having access to the elite connections of those grads.
Those were pretty good returns on investment.
Now, instead of "what can you do for the company?" it's "what can I do to the company?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 11:20 AM (uLKZx)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 28, 2025 11:21 AM (Rkk5d)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 28, 2025 11:21 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)
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Democrats aren't going to like the fact the new crop of GOP politicians are more than willing to call them out on this kind of thing. See: JD Vance and, "I said what I said." Along with, "I really don't care, Margaret."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:21 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
Taking this seriously for a moment...
South Africa was aligned with Biden and wants more USAID type hand outs
Canada was also aligned with Biden and wanted his tariff/border/censorship policies.
A casual review of Musk's personal initiatives and Trump's overall policies show the only country that will directly and immediately gain is...the United States.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 11:21 AM (t0Rmr)
Maybe he can get on by his birthday on March 9th.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 28, 2025 11:22 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:09 AM (xCA6C)
Claude Balls, zombie lion tamer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 11:22 AM (8zz6B)
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I'm guessing maybe 70% of them have wealthy (Ivy League?) parents paying the way for their little darlings.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 28, 2025 11:22 AM (Cus5s)
They dont loan the money.
They dont guarantee jobs.
They live of the dreams of the student who is stuck with maybe 20 years of payback.
Make them put up some $$$$$$.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 11:22 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
What is the Latin word for "f**k," anyway? Something related to "coitus?"
Posted by: Bulg
Futuo Circum, Invenire Foris
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:22 AM (vHL8T)
Posted by: Pompeii at February 28, 2025 11:22 AM (Rkk5d)
That would be awesome.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:20 AM (mWSu4)
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I agree with that. But, I also believe schools need to be have some skin in the game when they dole out student loans.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
Wouldn't a Hung Cao actually be a bull?
Sorry, my bovine gender knowledge is limited.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Doc Holiday at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (zBOzm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (HlDm/)
Posted by: My Sweet Lord at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (qeQZL)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:09 AM (xCA6C)
Claude Balls, zombie lion tamer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Clawed Balls, Failed Lion Tamer
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (vHL8T)
Posted by: Elric Blade
But in 2022 95% had jobs.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (QMLHi)
Posted by: Skip at February 28, 2025 11:24 AM (roDMe)
Interested in how many of these stellar grads transition into the NGO world in a neat, family arranged USAID order.
Posted by: Auspex at February 28, 2025 11:24 AM (j4U/Z)
Of course, and by way of compensation, the parents get to "drop" that their kid went to Harvard. Quid pro quo.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:24 AM (xCA6C)
Evil never sleeps. Shit, it never even dies.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 28, 2025 11:25 AM (1k+0C)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:25 AM (QMLHi)
If google translate is to be believed: Stultus Parit Intellectum
Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 11:25 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
Wouldn't a Hung Cao actually be a bull?
Sorry, my bovine gender knowledge is limited.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
Trump is going appoint Hung Chow as Precuror of Military Rations.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:25 AM (vHL8T)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 11:25 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: My Sweet Lord
Then they could not have been very bright. Truly intelligent people are not conformist thinkers.
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
If they can't find work, what hope does the kid who went to Boise State or whatever for his MBA have?
I have a feeling a State university MBA grad would happily accept jobs that pay a lot less than a Harvard MBA would accept.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2025 11:25 AM (JCZqz)
I am at peace with it.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (1k+0C)
Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (tT6L1)
Absolutely! But if the gov. gets out of the loan game, who else will give 18-year olds with no collateral any money? The colleges will be stuck. If they don't loan the money, they will have to contract.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (mWSu4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 11:14 AM (J2vNu)
That's an easy one, Wolfus. But Latin does it verb last, so it's AFOF*
*Aroundus Fugus, Outus Findis.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 28, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
In our area, I've met quite a few Harvard grads while taking the kiddos to their games.
anywho, the bulk of them say this about a Harvard degree,
"Yes, a Harvard MBA (law degree, etc) will definitely get you in the door. But, it's only good for a couple of years. If you don't produce, you'll get fired same as anyone else."
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (iJfKG)
Zelensky is not a happy camper.
Contrast that to yesterday when Keir Starmer showed up at the WH with a stupid grin on his face the whole time.
Just...interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Auspex at February 28, 2025 11:24 AM (j4U/Z)
Or become lead prosecutors in the Jeffrey Epstein case, the Ghislaine Maxwell case, and the Sean "P-Diddy" Combs case.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (9ptcg)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2025 11:25 AM (JCZqz)
If they even get an interview. What percentage of these high paying bullshit "consultant" jobs are going to American citizens, and what percentage are going to foreigners?
I don't know the answer, but I suspect that a lot more are going to foreigners than you'd imagine.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:27 AM (uCjyK)
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I assume its the same sort of tax dodge that Bezos uses. You keep your capital locked up and tax free while borrowing money (because you have plenty of collateral) which is also...tax free
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (t0Rmr)
Something like that. I'd bet that a lot of their endowment was spent on property or things like art. Possibly worth a bunch but difficult to unload quickly.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 11:27 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: mikeski at February 28, 2025 11:18 AM (nkrO4)
In essence: pedicabo ego, et irrumabo vos....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 28, 2025 11:27 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2025 11:25 AM (JCZqz)
Which kind of defeats the purpose of getting the mba in the first place.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:27 AM (QMLHi)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (mWSu4)
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Didn't the student loan business thrive because Obama signed legislation to take over the business?
Also, wouldn't it be an incentive on the part of the universities to downsize their offerings to more appropriately focus on their core mission?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 11:28 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Capt, Kirk at February 28, 2025 11:28 AM (0eaVi)
1) made student loans non-dischargeable
2) made it much harder to get a Chapter 7 on credit card debt
Both of those led to an explosion of middle class indebtedness.
Like, perfectly designed to crush the most upwardly mobile Americans under oppressive amounts of debt.
And guaranteed huge profits to colleges and credit card companies.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 11:29 AM (uLKZx)
But, Harvard murdered the reason to get a Harvard degree by turning the bulk of their grads into
PITA Progtard Nuisance Lawsuit Generators.
And nobody wants that in their office.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 11:29 AM (iJfKG)
Despite nearly 250 years of history, the U.S. has never had a federally recognized national language—until now.
Posted by: Stultus Circum, Invenire at February 28, 2025 11:29 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: heya
My firm hired a couple of Ivys a few years back. Neither lasted six months in a company that requires actual knowledge.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 11:29 AM (lTGtQ)
Just...interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
Starmer has four more years left. Z man not so much.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:30 AM (89FJt)
-- Cicero
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:30 AM (77rzZ)
Zelensky is not a happy camper.
Just...interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
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The arrogant little prick, pardon the language, finally realized he needs to bend the knee?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:30 AM (tT6L1)
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Part of Obamacare. What college loans have to do with health insurance is anybody’s guess. But it was part of the bill.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:30 AM (QMLHi)
Anti-elite, oh my
Posted by: Javems at February 28, 2025 11:30 AM (8I4hW)
Once your company brings McKinsey consultants in, update your resume.
Then there is the government money laundering industry which funnels money to hacks through "consulting" fees.
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (zBOzm)
Posted by: Nancy Crater at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (TTAGa)
Suckerrrrr.
Posted by: Capt, Kirk at February 28, 2025 11:28 AM (0eaVi)
I was wondering if someone would do a deep dive on that sock
Thank you sir ...
Posted by: browndog sniffing about at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (TTAGa)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:30 AM (tT6L1)
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Well, he probably realized that earlier this week when he agreed on the mineral rights agreement concept.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 11:20 AM (uLKZx)
Speaking of which, apparently Kathleen Kennedy isn't retiring from Lucasfilm.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (y9ksN)
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The Left: Maybe we shouldn't have made up crimes and convicted him.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (89FJt)
1) made student loans non-dischargeable
2) made it much harder to get a Chapter 7 on credit card debt
Both of those led to an explosion of middle class indebtedness.
Like, perfectly designed to crush the most upwardly mobile Americans under oppressive amounts of debt.
And guaranteed huge profits to colleges and credit card companies.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 11:29 AM (uLKZx)
Oh, fuck W.
He showed his anti-middle and working class bias right here in Texas as guv when he worked overtime to-
murder the Texas Homestead Act.
Total asshole move esp for the poor and retired.
Fuck that guy.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (i24o9)
-- Cicero
Posted by: Bulg
Someone tried, on Facebook, to game out who would win if it was a squad of Marines vs a Roman Legion. LOL
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (vHL8T)
Anti-elite, oh my
Posted by: Javems at February 28, 2025 11:30 AM (8I4hW)
Yes, it is always fun when they refer to themselves as "the elite." Self-appointed, of course.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:32 AM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Nancy Crater at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (TTAGa)
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The salt monster scared the bejaysus out of me when I was a little kid. Still don't like to see it even now.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 11:32 AM (LxER7)
‘they're just as American as you are even if they showed up in the US from India or China 6 years ago."’
This concerns me too. I’m not reassured when a flood of natural democrats come in to this country just because they followed the legal process.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2025 11:33 AM (jbnUc)
This could become a real problem for colleges, as so many TA (Teaching Assistants) don't seem to be able to speak English
Posted by: Stultus Circum, Invenire at February 28, 2025 11:33 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (mWSu4)
At least in my day, the banks worked with universities and had no problem handing out unsecured student loans.
The difference is, my loan was for $1200 a semester. The math is very different when you loan out $40,000 a semester.
A removal of the government from the secondary expectation loan market would invariably drive down the cost of tuition, as the number of applicants able to afford college via family wealth or loans would dry up.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 28, 2025 11:33 AM (9ptcg)
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My favorite is:
Hey, 18 year old! Want $100k to "follow your dreams" and go to college? Any degree you want, who cares! Here, sign here, no credit or collateral required!
Oh, you're 25 and want $100k to grow your successful plumbing business from the current 3 employees to 5?
That's too risky, sorry--denied.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 11:33 AM (uLKZx)
Clients always get fucked. But the execs who hire the consultants have a scapegoat when shit hits the fan. Hey man don’t blame me I hired experts. They’re the ones who fucked up.
I was in meetings some time with 10 people each billed at $200+ an hour. Of those 10 maybe 3 actually needed to be there. But that was SOP and nobody ever questioned it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:34 AM (QMLHi)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
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Saw a video of Rubio interviewed by Catherine Herridge. At least, I think it was Herridge. (No idea if I spelled her last name correctly) Rubio, in no uncertain terms, and using slightly more diplomatic terms, called Zelensky a "two faced lying shitweasel."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:34 AM (tT6L1)
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The Left: Maybe we shouldn't have made up crimes and convicted him.
Posted by: ...
Maybe y'all should have kept your dirty dick skinners out of his wife's underwear drawer and maybe not tried to kill him.
You're lucky it's him and not me. I'd already have a body count.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:34 AM (vHL8T)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:16 AM (tT6L1)
You mean similar to the way Trump University was sued?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 28, 2025 11:34 AM (D7oie)
Despite nearly 250 years of history, the U.S. has never had a federally recognized national language - until now.
Posted by: Stultus Circum, Invenire at February 28, 2025 11:29 AM (RHGPo)
"REEEEEEE!!!!!" - leftists
Presumably this will only affect feralgov documents and websites. Can we also get funding cut from companies with 'press X for espanol' on their phones, or for that matter, why do many ERs post a sheet with about 82 fcking languages offering "free" translation as a "right"? I'm guessing that's probably part of JEFcare?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 28, 2025 11:34 AM (Vqx30)
Professors salaries?
Administrator to professor ratio?
Administrator salaries?
Govt shouldn't be in the loan business. Period
Govt shouldn't be in any business. Period
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 28, 2025 11:35 AM (FZs2o)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:34 AM (vHL8T)
Trump plans on setting their movement back 50 years. And could easily do it if it wasn't for the treacherous GOP.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:35 AM (89FJt)
most well-known grads, you shouldn't be surprised that your reputation is in the toilet.
Posted by: mr tmz at February 28, 2025 11:35 AM (rJ48h)
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No French !
Posted by: runner at February 28, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)
In the here and now, an MBA is pretty much an entry level requirement in the business job market. Having one is only the ante.
It's part of the long shift from "educated" to "credentialed."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 11:36 AM (PzXaK)
This could become a real problem for colleges, as so many TA (Teaching Assistants) don't seem to be able to speak English
Posted by: Stultus Circum, Invenire at February 28, 2025 11:33 AM (RHGPo)
Pfft...
That was an issue back in the 70's...except it was the Prof's, not the TA's.
Goddamn Stat teacher was Indian (with a dot) and could.not.speak.english.
Posted by: browndog sniffing about at February 28, 2025 11:36 AM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:36 AM (QMLHi)
Posted by: Skip at February 28, 2025 11:36 AM (roDMe)
Posted by: runner at February 28, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)
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"The Conservative Case for a Pluralistic and Multi Lingual Culture" by David French.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:37 AM (tT6L1)
But when Daily Caller reporter Andi Napier asked Jeffries to provide actual evidence of these supposed Medicaid cuts, his response was as empty as President Biden's schedule.
“So Republicans have been very adamant that Medicaid will not be gutted by this budget resolution,” Napier began before asking, “What is the proof that Medicaid will be gutted by it? If there is any?”
Jeffries spent over a minute dancing around the question without providing a shred of concrete evidence. His big smoking gun? “Republicans are lying to the American people about Medicaid.”
Posted by: Stultus Circum, Invenire at February 28, 2025 11:37 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: blake
After seeing everything we've seen with USAID and all the others, I honestly think Zelenski is telling the truth about not receiving the $157 billion we supposedly sent him.
I honestly think $100 billion never made it further east than the Cayman Islands.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:37 AM (vHL8T)
Posted by: tubal at February 28, 2025 11:37 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2025 11:33 AM (jbnUc)
And they are legitimately getting a massively disproportionate number of the high paying jobs in the country. Department of Labor numbers show virtually all jobs created since COVID have gone to immigrants. https://tinyurl.com/3usvh6tv
And in my experience, they do not think very highly of America, American history, "American values" and view this country as a place you come to to get rich scamming people. Indians in particular, with their hundreds and hundreds of years of caste systems, bring their mindset of class and castes to the US.
But also, their exposure to America is American movies and CNN international.
So it's understandable that they think Americans are a bunch of racist inbred retards and they should come over here and get their cousins in every good job in America while playing off White people's racial guilt.
All sponsored by the US Deep State.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:37 AM (uCjyK)
If you can't read and write English how can you be an informed voter?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 28, 2025 11:38 AM (FZs2o)
ABC News@ABC
Two of the 170 migrants recently held at Guantanamo describe the conditions on the base.
. . . .
"From the moment we were there, we tried to kick the doors, we went on countless strikes," Jose said. "We clogged the toilets and protested, we covered the cameras because the confinement is unbearable."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (vHL8T)
There are plenty of YTers doing that too. Those things are stupid. I've watched one where modern military goes against medieval troops and only lose a few compared to destroying the middle agers. It's crap, as you never see the modern troops stopping to reload or get hit by artillery weapons. Even a modern squad or company would lose to a full sized ancient army once their ammo ran out. Which it would.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 28, 2025 11:38 AM (0eaVi)
My brother-in-law was a grad in the 60's. He was brilliant. A sociopath, but brilliant.
Posted by: Ib1netmon at February 28, 2025 11:39 AM (vTTFR)
It's part of the long shift from "educated" to "credentialed."
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Which gets us back to Griggs v Duke Energy and the avoidance of racism by outsourcing certification of basic job skills and competence to colleges.
Colleges, administering standardized test to evaluate ability? Not racist.
Corporations, administering standardized test to evaluate ability? Racist.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 11:39 AM (uLKZx)
Two of the 170 migrants recently held at Guantanamo describe the conditions on the base.
. . . .
"From the moment we were there, we tried to kick the doors, we went on countless strikes,"
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Next stop, El Salavador jail.
Posted by: runner at February 28, 2025 11:39 AM (g47mK)
That was an issue back in the 70's...except it was the Prof's, not the TA's.
Goddamn Stat teacher was Indian (with a dot) and could.not.speak.english.
Posted by: browndog sniffing about
My brother has a story about when he was at Michigan in the 70s. One of his history profs was from Nigeria. One of the black-panther types who was in the class submitted a term paper written totally in jive. The Nigerian Professor returned the paper to the jive student in front of the whole class, thundering, as he did so, "YOU REWRITTE THIS IN THE KING'S ENGLISH!" LOL.
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:34 AM (vHL8T)
Trump plans on setting their movement back 50 years. And could easily do it if it wasn't for the treacherous GOP.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:35 AM (89FJt)
I think 50 is the low goal, and 100 is the "stretch".
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 28, 2025 11:39 AM (Vqx30)
It could just be an intentional "flood the zone" kind of strategy. Who cares if this thing really stands up or not? It will still serve the purpose of turning their OODA loop into a pretzel.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 11:39 AM (VoAdT)
ABC News@ABC
Two of the 170 migrants recently held at Guantanamo describe the conditions on the base.
. . . .
"From the moment we were there, we tried to kick the doors, we went on countless strikes," Jose said. "We clogged the toilets and protested, we covered the cameras because the confinement is unbearable."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
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Reporting this is supposed to win over the hearts and minds of the Average American? How dissociated from the reality of current American politics are these people?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:40 AM (tT6L1)
If you can't read and write English how can you be an informed voter?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 28, 2025 11:38 AM (FZs2o
Because any new citizen is just as American as apple pie. Unless you've been here for 22 years like Elon.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 11:40 AM (y9ksN)
Psycho: The name's Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I'll kill you.
Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis.
Posted by: Stultus Circum, Invenire at February 28, 2025 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
Zelensky is not a happy camper.
You'd be sad, too, if you were signing over all of your citizens natural resources to America in perpetuity and turning your entire country into a Syrian oil field, where BlackRock siphons off all the value of your nation under the protection of the US military.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 28, 2025 11:40 AM (9ptcg)
It'll be interesting to see how the faculty perceive this.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 11:40 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: tubal at February 28, 2025 11:41 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 11:31 AM (iJfKG)
The further we get from the Bush years... the more I despise him and his ilk.
And that fake folksy demeanor he affects is vomit inducing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:42 AM (mWSu4)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 28, 2025 11:42 AM (Dv3i1)
Maybe because he has to haul out his own poop?
Posted by: Bulg
Golf clap.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:42 AM (vHL8T)
And that fake folksy demeanor he affects is vomit inducing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:42 AM (mWSu4)
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Preach.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:42 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Stultus Circum,
The cuts to medicaid being decried are the illegals being kicked out of the program.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 11:43 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:43 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Yes, they're describing being in a prison, and then trying to create prison riots.
Next they're going to be complaining that they don't have enough money on their commissary to buy ramen noodles and that the prison won't even supply them with beer or cigarettes.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:43 AM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (ewjUl)
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 28, 2025 11:40 AM (9ptcg)
He's reached the "finding out" stage. Sucks to be him.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (8zz6B)
And that fake folksy demeanor he affects is vomit inducing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:42 AM (mWSu4)
I hate being wrong...I hate being fooled even more.
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Kennedys, Bushes, Sununus...All those NE political dynasties are crap.
Even the Adamses went on far too long.
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 11:34 AM (vHL8T)
Trump plans on setting their movement back 50 years. And could easily do it if it wasn't for the treacherous GOP.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:35 AM (89FJt)
Get out the way bitch! We've got caps to pop and bodies to drop!
George Washington, James Monroe, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 11:32 AM (LxER7)
"Nancy" was laughing off a massive pounding from Spock, then she casually tosses him into a wall. McCoy STILL didn't get the hint that this wasn't his old girlfriend and fire his phaser.
That was the first episode broadcast, which didn't please Roddenberry or the cast since they didn't wan't the show to be "monster of the week".
The first episode produced after the pilot was "The Corbomite Manuever" which still had the big scary muppet but also Clint Howard as a child lying in bed and drinking a lot.
Would have been a far better episode to kick the series off with.
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2025 11:45 AM (zBOzm)
Interesting. If he used those words, he's admitting that DEI is the opposite of merit.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:45 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever!
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Thinking that climate was a lot less bearable after they clogged the toilets.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 28, 2025 11:45 AM (FZs2o)
"Language Police Have Taken Over the White House"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 28, 2025 11:42 AM (Dv3i1)
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Oh, that's funny.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 11:45 AM (AhYe1)
It's part of the long shift from "educated" to "credentialed."
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Which gets us back to Griggs v Duke Energy and the avoidance of racism by outsourcing certification of basic job skills and competence to colleges.
Colleges, administering standardized test to evaluate ability? Not racist.
Corporations, administering standardized test to evaluate ability? Racist.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
I got a graduate degree precisely because of reverse discrimination.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 11:45 AM (lTGtQ)
Then they "graduate" these same groups 4 years later, whether they have truly earned their degree or not.
I think THAT is what is driving this non-hiring phenomenon - the reputation that used to be associated with a Harvard education isn't there any more. Their social justice admission/graduation policy has finally caught up with them and now they are paying the price for their hubris. Employers know just "what" a Harvard degree means these days and hire/don't hire accordingly.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)
You and me both!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (mWSu4)
It's like you're in my head. Scary.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (89FJt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (8zz6B)
Mmm...not sure about that. Have you seen his real estate holdings list. He's doing alright,
It sucks to be a Ukrainian.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (9ptcg)
Cite?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:43 AM (xCA6C)
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She is.
In her interview she says, "I'm not retiring. I'm just setting up a succession plan to step down before the end of the year."
But the headlines say, "Kathleen Kennedy says she's not retiring."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 28, 2025 11:40 AM (9ptcg)
Yes, well ... kind of a predictable outcome when you get involved with the CIA in overthrowing a government and naming yourself as leader, unfortunately.
Kind of sold his soul to the devil there. Oh and managed to get god knows how many Ukrainians and Russians killed in the meantime.
Not that I'm condoning this.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: runner at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (g47mK)
But the ones who came here via H1B, not so much. Even if they’ve been here 10 years they’re still Indian.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (QMLHi)
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)
You and me both!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM
Thirded. I can't beleive I ever voted for and defended that POS and his ilk.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:47 AM (ewjUl)
Penn Medicine graduate programs instructed to cut Ph.D. admissions by 35% due to funding uncertainty
"A Medical School professor, who requested anonymity due to fear of retribution, previously told the DP that the school was told to make cuts to Ph.D. programs prior to the National Institutes of Health funding cuts, but additional cuts were implemented following executive actions from the Trump administration. The professor expressed concern that Penn may have to cut other programs within the school to account for the loss of federal funding.
On Feb. 7, the NIH proposed a funding cut that capped indirect costs — which cover overhead expenses and support staff — at 15%. While a judge temporarily halted the changes after Penn and 12 other universities brought a lawsuit against the NIH, future funding remains uncertain. According to an email from Interim Penn President Larry Jameson, the University stands to lose $240 million from the proposed funding cuts.
More...
Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 28, 2025 11:47 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2025 11:45 AM (zBOzm)
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Aaaah, tranya!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 11:47 AM (LxER7)
"From the moment we were there, we tried to kick the doors, we went on countless strikes," Jose said. "We clogged the toilets and protested, we covered the cameras because the confinement is unbearable."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Kicking down doors and clogging toilets, where do they think they are, a luxury hotel in NYC?
Also, what's this guy's status? Seems like he's out of Gitmo and... roaming around where?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 28, 2025 11:47 AM (7uzX3)
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)
You and me both!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM
Thirded. I can't beleive I ever voted for and defended that POS and his ilk.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:47 AM (ewjUl)
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Count me among the fooled and defended.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:47 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: runner
I would take the results from either one of them with a grain of salt.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 11:48 AM (lTGtQ)
The Left sees us laughing about this, and awkwardly hiding our schadenboners, and concludes "the cruelty is the point". That we just like inflicting pain on people for amusement.
They don't realize it's more....retribution? Justice? These people are here illegally, cause (in general) many negative consequences for the legal citizens, and have resisted calls to peacefully and voluntarily return to their homes.
Now, they're finally getting their comeuppance. Fuck 'em.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go to urgent care...my recurrent priapism is flaring up again...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 28, 2025 11:48 AM (JCZqz)
Would be nice if hospitals were no longer required to hire interpreters for any non-English speaker that enters their ER. So many languages came in illegally ... even Mexico has a few of their own non-Spanish languages.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 28, 2025 11:48 AM (Cus5s)
It sucks to be a Ukrainian.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (9ptcg)
He's probably not going to live long enough to enjoy all the wealth he has stolen.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (8zz6B)
But the ones who came here via H1B, not so much. Even if they’ve been here 10 years they’re still Indian.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Their caste back in Inja also makes a difference. The ones from the lower castes tend much more conservative. The high-caste ones tend to be liberal assholes.
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 11:45 AM (AhYe1)
It's the shamelessness of it.
If you've ever dealt with a sadistic variant narcissist in your life you immediately recognize the Left's tactics.
It really is sadistic narcissism writ large. It's that say anything, constantly put you on your back foot, engulf oneself in the victim suit, get caught lying and challenge you to do anything about it while still lying, stuff. Weird.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (89FJt)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (tT6L1)
They don't know how the processes work. They don't know how the tech works. They're f*cking worthless and I end up having to take up 50% of the hour long meeting explaining to them how our industry (and therefore our company) works.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (WYStd)
Turns out, companies are desperately looking for people to DO stuff ... to get sh!t done. They don't need the advice of freshly minted graduates, thank you very much.
Posted by: Jose Roig at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (ImjkS)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:47 AM (ewjUl)
It might be amusing to do a post about the most disappointing Republican politicians of our era.
George Bush might be at the top, although Ryan might give him a run for his money.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (mWSu4)
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)
You and me both!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM
Thirded. I can't beleive I ever voted for and defended that POS and his ilk.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:47 AM (ewjUl)
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Count me among the fooled and defended.
Posted by: blake
Don't be so hard on yourself. Had things turned out differently, we would be in the second decade of a carbon tax.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: browndog sniffing about at February 28, 2025 11:36 AM (TTAGa)
My Linear Algebra professor was Iranian but had been raised in Sweden which was hilarious since he looked like you'd imagine but sounded like the Swedish Chef.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 11:50 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 11:50 AM (7fElN)
‘From the moment we were there, we tried to kick the doors, we went on countless strikes," Jose said.’
It would make me very happy to learn the G’t’mo jailers beat the absolute shit out of José and his friends after this.
They probably didn’t but it would make me happy.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (mWSu4)
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Budget Hawk Paul Ryan who, once Speaker of the House with a Republican President, couldn't defund NPR or Planned Parenthood to find the money to fund Trump's border wall?
Why would he be disappointing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 28, 2025 11:50 AM (dxSpM)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (8zz6B)
We'll see.
Whether he live to a 100 years old or die next week, he'll still have to kneel before the Lord and give an answer.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (9ptcg)
Cite?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:43 AM (xCA6C)
https://shorturl.at/QEV4B
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (y9ksN)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:36 AM (QMLHi)
1. It costs him nothing to sign the order.
2. It costs them something to fight it.
3. It is demonstrative for the citizenry.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (ExV1e)
I'm going shopping. And, for once, will enjoy it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (dxSpM)
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs
Don Lemon to Megyn Kelly: “Tell your husband to stop looking at my husband”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)
One of my developers is a lower caste Muslim Indian. He's amazing but he also cannot be called upon to answer questions in a meeting. It's like he's a dog thats been abused as a puppy... just clams up. One of the most technically gifted people I know... he's a master of python spark.
Can't get him to act as anything other than my devoted slave.
The first time I got him to laugh I considered it a huge win.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (WYStd)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)
Cite?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:43 AM (xCA6C)
https://shorturl.at/QEV4B
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (y9ksN)
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Kennedy added: “What’s happening at Lucasfilm is I have been talking for quite some time with both Bob and Alan about what eventual succession might look like. We have an amazing bench of people here, and we have every intention of making an announcement months or a year down the road.”
This is an admission that the original report was true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
Promotion?
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (89FJt)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 11:50 AM (ExV1e)
Calculus II. Chinese instructor who literally spoke no English. He knew the math words, but outside of that? Nothing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (mWSu4)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)
They're not really liberal assholes.
They're classist assholes.
And they are (in their minds) in the international High Class, and they mimic what high class Americans do. Vote Democrat, and shit on the majority of Americans.
It's obnoxious enough to hear an American in NYC talking shit about the inbred cousin fuckers in the hinterlands, it's a whole different level of infuriating to hear some asshole from India who leases a $800 a month car and pays for an $800 a month parking space, bitching about American consumerism and lecturing us on how stupid, uneducated and fat Americans are.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (uCjyK)
they had been riding the crest of the wave for so long, they never expected being unceremoniously dumped ashore
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:49 AM (mWSu4)
Juan McStain and Mittens Rombley get some votes.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (QMLHi)
They don't know how the processes work. They don't know how the tech works. They're f*cking worthless and I end up having to take up 50% of the hour long meeting explaining to them how our industry (and therefore our company) works.
Posted by: Defenestratus
With regard to the Ivys I mentioned above, I spent a good 45 minutes trying to explain the concept of a valve to one, and then gave up.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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What is the Latin word for "f**k," anyway? Something related to "coitus?"
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025
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Something like "fornax," from which we get "fornicate"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (QMLHi)
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Neither of them had any promise, therefore they are smaller disappointments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
Lol.
Poopy Friday it is, then.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM
Make them carry it with them to their new digs in ElSalvador.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:52 AM (ewjUl)
Employers know just "what" a Harvard degree means these days and hire/don't hire accordingly.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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This MUST be happening, but I don't think we have any facts on it. No one in finance or consulting or management who has experienced problems with the DEI crop is going to admit it. Maybe someday, after everyone is retired and it's safe to go back in the water.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 28, 2025 11:53 AM (Z8nyJ)
With the Monroe Doctrine not just being a policy but expansion, leading to, more or less, all of the Spanish-speaking countries in the Western Hemisphere becoming actual states.
Swapping Hawaii for the Philippines
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 11:53 AM (uLKZx)
Posted by: It Is What It Is
Really? If my country were incredibly poor, and I truly feared my belligerent neighbor could very possibly invade and kill me at any time, I'd be stoked if the US came in, hired a bunch of us to work in new businesses they created (and all the infrastructure and service industries they'd help create), while simultaneously guaranteeing the evil Russians I headed wouldn't dare attack.
Posted by: Military Moron at February 28, 2025 11:53 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 11:53 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)
I haven't seen anything. I guess the presstitutes don't need that as a distraction to wave around, yet...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (Vqx30)
Employers know just "what" a Harvard degree means these days and hire/don't hire accordingly.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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This MUST be happening, but I don't think we have any facts on it. No one in finance or consulting or management who has experienced problems with the DEI crop is going to admit it. Maybe someday, after everyone is retired and it's safe to go back in the water.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Maybe the 1/4 that aren't being hired are the white males. All the minorities and women in the 3/4 were snapped up to fill DEI quotas.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (Dv3i1)
Leftard Uniparty explains it all.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (89FJt)
Posted by: Defenestratus
Muslims are part of the caste system?
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: browndog sniffing about at February 28, 2025 11:36 AM (TTAGa)
My Linear Algebra professor was Iranian but had been raised in Sweden which was hilarious since he looked like you'd imagine but sounded like the Swedish Chef.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 11:50 AM (ExV1e)
My high school French teacher was from Panama. French is hard enough to learn without the Panamanian accent.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (y9ksN)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)
I haven't seen anything. I guess the presstitutes don't need that as a distraction to wave around, yet...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (Vqx30)
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Apparently, he's out of critical condition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)
You and me both!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:46 AM
Thirded. I can't beleive I ever voted for and defended that POS and his ilk.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:47 AM (ewjUl)
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Count me among the fooled and defended.
Posted by: blake
We won't get fooled again!!! Yeahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:55 AM (xCA6C)
Lol.
Poopy Friday it is, then.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Those are weak toilets. Biden toilets...no good. We're going to bring the good toilets back, the very best. Toilets that can flush anything. It's gonna be unbelievable. The best toilets in the world.
Posted by: Trump at February 28, 2025 11:55 AM (JCZqz)
Congratulations! You have reached the finding out part of the program.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 11:56 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (Dv3i1)
That's likely. Or they were the 25% who got in on merit, not on legacy or DEI status.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:56 AM (uCjyK)
The first episode produced after the pilot was "The Corbomite Manuever" which still had the big scary muppet but also Clint Howard as a child lying in bed and drinking a lot.
Would have been a far better episode to kick the series off with.
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2025
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It might have been; it's still one of my favorites for sparkling dialog. But "Man Trap" showed more of the ship and gave the other bridge people like Sulu and Uhura something to do. The viewer was introduced to the ST "universe" on a broader front, right away.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 11:56 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at February 28, 2025 11:56 AM (7F3TY)
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Apparently, he's out of critical condition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
Yeah? Is he working out yet?
Posted by: Zombie RBG at February 28, 2025 11:56 AM (Vqx30)
Maybe the 1/4 that aren't being hired are the white males. All the minorities and women in the 3/4 were snapped up to fill DEI quotas.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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True.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 28, 2025 11:57 AM (Z8nyJ)
"Your people consider streets to be a toilet. Your opinion means nothing to me."
Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 11:57 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
And write the edict in some language nobody speaks or can read.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 28, 2025 11:57 AM (B7eg3)
So they've struck out at honest work, and are doubling-down to get a place at the Big Trough?!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 28, 2025 11:57 AM (UxAmE)
I pointed out to them that that was why he would win.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 11:57 AM (lTGtQ)
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Cite?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:43 AM (xCA6C)
https://tinyurl.com/3paru7m3+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
Went on for about three weeks, then a group of troublemakers got the Dean involved. Turns out the Russian wasn't at all even cleared to work in the US, let alone teach.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (PzXaK)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)
I'm not an expert, I'm just going off of what I've been told by the other engineers (who are Indian). I've been told he's lower caste and also I know he's Muslim due to his religious holiday observances.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (WYStd)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 11:57 AM (NR6c1)
lol. I can't say anything. I would lose my job in about two seconds flat and probably have to move to a different state.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (uCjyK)
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (89FJt)
Posted by: Sharkman at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (HfCWn)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 11:23 AM (tT6L1)
Absolutely! But if the gov. gets out of the loan game, who else will give 18-year olds with no collateral any money? The colleges will be stuck. If they don't loan the money, they will have to contract.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (mWSu4)
It means goodbye to DEI majors and studies. They'll be forced to accept only those majors that have a chance of repaying a loan.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (QMLHi)
Can't get him to act as anything other than my devoted slave.
The first time I got him to laugh I considered it a huge win.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 28, 2025 11:51 AM (WYStd)
I didn't think Indian muzzies were part of the caste system. It's pretty much a part of Hindu beliefs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (8zz6B)
Ah, my boy, in the world of finance, one man’s loss is always another man’s gain.
Posted by: THURSTON HOWELL 111 at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (W2EWw)
Cite?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:43 AM (xCA6C)
https://shorturl.at/QEV4B
I think that they've been letting her hang on under the assumption that her tenure was very limited. Saying "I'm never retiring" means that they have to take action to get rid of her.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:59 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:59 AM (89FJt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 28, 2025 11:59 AM (FZs2o)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:59 AM (QMLHi)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Hang on. Did they think it was Election Night?
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 11:59 AM (89FJt)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 28, 2025 11:57 AM (UxAmE)
No, it's credential creep. To get promoted in to middle management in most major multinational companies, they want to see a lot of credentials. an MBA from Harvard used to be the gold standard.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 11:59 AM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (8zz6B)
Perhaps I've been misinformed then.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 28, 2025 12:00 PM (WYStd)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 28, 2025 12:00 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 11:59 AM (xCA6C)
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She says in the interview that she's retiring.
It's just a question of...within the next year.
Which perfectly aligns with the initial reporting.
It's ass-covering and trying to retake the initiative on her own narrative, but she actually doesn't counter any of the initial reporting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
But all you really have to know is that 87.5% of statistics are randomly made up on the spot.
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 12:00 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)
60% of the time it works 100% of the time.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 12:02 PM (QMLHi)
Posted by: Bulg"
That's an outdated statistic.
Posted by: eleven at February 28, 2025 12:02 PM (0HaGk)
“I will die making movies,” she said in an interview with Deadline on Thursday. “The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies.”
Sounds like she's saying she'll retire from Lucasfilms, but will keep making movies at some other studio. I think she's in for a rude awakening as to her salability.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 12:02 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:59 AM
I think he was the one who coined the "religion of peace" bullshit.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 12:02 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
But all you really have to know is that 87.5% of statistics are randomly made up on the spot.
Posted by: Bulg
And 78.63% of those are wrong 82% of the time.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 12:02 PM (vHL8T)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
And write the edict in some language nobody speaks or can read.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 28, 2025 11:57 AM (B7eg3)
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A single sentence in Ithkuil should do it...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 12:02 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 11:58 AM (8zz6B)
Like most things, it's complicated. Technically Muslims don't have caste systems. But in India, it is completely entrenched in the culture and so in practice there is a caste system among Muslims.
But in the Hindu caste system, the Muslims and Sikhs are non-people. Like the untouchables.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 12:03 PM (uCjyK)
“I will die making movies,” she said
Your terms are acceptable.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 12:03 PM (vHL8T)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 12:02 PM (xCA6C)
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She will get $1 billion in seed money for some independent studio.
She will produce one movie that costs 9 figures.
It will bomb horribly.
The rest of the money will vanish. No one will care.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
I haven't been to Guantanamo, but know plenty of people that have. I always assumed, being focused on Middle Eastern prisoners, they'd have Eastern-style "toilets". I might need to ask...
https://tinyurl.com/42ystv74
Posted by: Military Moron at February 28, 2025 12:04 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
But all you really have to know is that 87.5% of statistics are randomly made up on the spot.
Posted by: Bulg
And 78.63% of those are wrong 82% of the time.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 12:02 PM (vHL8T)
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4 out of 5 statisticians agree.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 12:04 PM (7fElN)
But in the Hindu caste system, the Muslims and Sikhs are non-people. Like the untouchables.
I always laugh at people who think India is some airy-fairy land of Jains and Gandhis, all seeking enlightenment through meditation.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 12:04 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 12:03 PM
It's like the Ukraine of Hollywood.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 12:04 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 12:05 PM (xCA6C)
“I will die making movies,” she said
Your terms are acceptable.
Posted by: rickb223
That explains why she's making so many bombs...
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2025 12:05 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at February 28, 2025 12:06 PM (9DX0S)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 28, 2025 12:06 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 12:09 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 12:17 PM (QB+5g)
The light on my thermostat comes on but there's no click and the equipment doesn't turn on. (feeling stupid) Is my thermostat broken?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 28, 2025 12:18 PM (FZs2o)
Are you trying to heat or cool?
If you are trying to cool, the condensate overflow float switch might be active keeping your system from turning on and making a mess.
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 12:24 PM (QB+5g)
I went to dinner with him and a man he knew from Aetna. They were bemoaning the plague of MBA nitwits in the 1970s. Dad said, "Yeah, I remember when Aetna hired all those guys. That's how we took 20% of your business from you." The other guy groaned and said, "Yeah, it was awful."
He also came home one day bitching about the Personnel Dept. numpties making everyone, including the C-Suite, do "trust and bonding" exercises: but he really lost it when they asked him, "What is your Warm Fuzzy?"
[insert swearing here]
Dad had a business degree from Emory, and large scorn for the know-nothing 'theory guys' who'd never spent five minutes at the coalface, doing what the company does.
Posted by: Beverly at February 28, 2025 12:33 PM (Epeb0)
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