A few notes:
I was moved to visit a site purporting to feature a recent “major study” showing that Americans were getting dumber. As I started to read the report, I noticed that this piece was also on the home page: “Luck Is Everywhere For 3 Zodiac Signs All Week, From Now Until October 25.”
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Speaking of “Is We Getting Dummer?,” AOC recently vomited out this: “Public colleges should be tuition free! They are attacking women’s ability to get an education! They don’t want women to go to college!” “They” are Republicans. Women outnumber men in colleges and law schools by a significant number, and men are being targeted for even existing in colleges. And this idiot is considered a power in the Democratic Party…
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And speaking of those colleges, The Washington Examiner points out that by banning alll frat parties and events for the rest of the year, “Cornell is punishing all the other fraternities and students for the actions of a fraternity that does not exist and hasn’t existed for the entire time Cornell’s freshman and sophomore classes have been at the university”…”based on no evidence that a rape ever occurred, other than the female student’s claim, weeks after the encounter” [and] “is imposing collective punishment on its student population that does nothing to punish the alleged offenders, based on an alleged crime that still doesn’t appear to be a crime at all.” The Examiner adds, “Cornell is making reactive decisions based on social media posts and liberal media pressure, with no interest in any sort of institutional integrity.”
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Well, I am officially nauseous.
Now you take over…
“And this idiot is considered a power in the Democratic Party…”
You don’t say; let’s see what Lefty has to say about that:
Bill Gates: AOC is an IDIOT
WaPo: AOC is an ECONOMIC MORON
AOC is the future of the democrat party? NOT EXACTLY
PWS
Discussions about education costs invariably revolve around expensive Ivy League or elite state Universities. They rarely pull in the far more affordable community colleges and not-so-elite state Universities.
For example –
Santa Rosa Junior College in California costs $46 per unit. Taking 15 units per semester, that is less than $1,500 in tuition for an academic year. Of course there are some fees and books, so let’s estimate a grand total of $2,500 for an academic year. Those first two years of general education can be knocked out for almost free. And if you decide to finish a degree at a four-year university, your SRJC credits will transfer well. In addition, SRJC has well over 100 certificate programs in agriculture, business, heath, industrial, culinary, child development, public safety, theater, computers …
So for about $5,000 over two years you can launch yourself into a well-paying career with a certificate program, or into a university to continue toward a degree. A real bargain, and one that people like AOC ignore routinely because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
‘Free’ education just might drastically alter our entire system. Countries that have free university education have stringent requirements that might be determined early on. For example, in Germany there are evaluative tests in early teens to determine your path to high school, vocational school or university. It is free, but you don’t go on a whim. Vetting is serious.
There are plenty of taxpayers who don’t relish the idea of providing free university to unprepared and frivolous young adults, who might just spend time partying or, worse yet, majoring in gender studies. And many of us believe that if you have to work hard and pay for your education, you value and nurture it more.
As a scholarship student I worked especially hard to keep the grades up and the qualifications current. I had a goal, but little money, so I worked the system the way it was intended. Highly motivated students can get a good education at an affordable school. Financial aid is available. Politicians have increased the costs enough with student loans. They need to stay out of education lest they ruin it completely.
1. I have long held that any motivated student can get as good an education at a state school or small, obscure private college as they could at the most prestigious Ivy.
2. The degrees are just credentials that let lazy interviewers and recruiters get away with box checking. At this point, a Yale degree might as well be a purchaded certificate. These signify nothing.
3. The education system is already ruined completely
I keep hoping it can be saved.
It can’t be saved without it crashing. And I, for one, selfishly, hope the collapse occurs in the next few years so it can be back on track by the time my kids get to higher education. Let that bubble burst. Let the dead weight administrators shuffle off, let the tenured high priests of progressivism loop-holed out of the system, let those associated costs plummet.
“‘Free’ education just might drastically alter our entire system.”
Free (frē) adverb/adjective/noun:
At _The_Expense_Of_Others.
PWS
AOC makes $174,000 annually in her job, plus speaking engagements. A few years ago her student loan debt was $19,000 – and according to the New York Post – it still is close to that balance. I would have paid that in my first year or two of earnings, and she’s been making good money for more than seven years now. What the hell is wrong with her?
I know this one. She’s an idiot.
Consider, not only is that her wage;
So for her to still be poor points out incredible stupidity. Multiple people claim she’s just a puppet actor, and these points just reinforce this.
I thought all the residuals and magic money Congressmen earn, in her case, were shuffled off to her boyfriend so she could look “clean”.
Funniest thing; the legacy media gleefully slobbers that the Palantine, IL Hindu Temple shooting plotter is a self-proclaimed Neo-Nazi, they fail to mention that she/he (?) is TRANSITIONING.
Mercifully…er…they’ll be allowed to continue hormone treatments while incarcerated.
PWS
Such a good use of taxpayer dollars.
AOC is a propagandists liar aka a Democrat.
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-6004349/security-expert-discusses-deadly-oregon-school-shooting
How many “security experts” did NPR have to reject before finding one ignorant of what actually stopped the killer?
I wonder…
Remember how the political left to put lipstick on a pig of an extremist liberal moron when they tried to rebrand (aka lie) Kamala Harris as an intelligent moderate liberal?
If the political left chooses Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as their Presidential candidate for 2028, how the hell are they going to put lipstick on that pig of a socialist extremist moron when they try to rebrand her as an intelligent moderate liberal?
It could be an interesting political presidential campaign season if AOC was running against Rubio, in the end it would be really easy to find out how many completely insane Democrats there are. No one in their right mind would vote for AOC, therefore, anyone who voted for her could be considered to be completely insane.
She’s lively, she’s pretty, she’s Hispanic and most importantly – she’s a woman!
She’s also a liar, a moron, probably a communist, but people will vote for her because she’ll be a first. Aaaaaaaggggghhhhh
Ilhan Omar; is there any THERE, there?
PWS
You beat me to it! But I am late to the game commenting at Saturday at a Friday’s forum. The question is whether she committed immigration fraud, and what the consequences are for her US citizenship.
In case she committed fraud I would not mourn to see her deported. Fraud ought to have consequences.