Post New Article

Are Universities Doomed?

Original Article

Posted By: Imright, 12/22/2022 11:43:53 PM

In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually, then suddenly." "Gradually" and "suddenly" applies to higher education's implosion. During the 1990s "culture wars" universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were unsustainable. Their growing manipulation of blanket federal student loan guarantees, and part-time faculty and graduate teaching assistants always was suicidal.

Post Reply

Reply 1 - Posted by: MrDeplorable 12/23/2022 12:29:16 AM (No. 1363034)
Classic VDH: Simple, logical, irrefutable!
17 people like this.

Reply 2 - Posted by: smokincol 12/23/2022 2:02:41 AM (No. 1363054)
first, the ones in the Northeast and the West Coast and then the ones that have slain the concept of Freedom, in all respects and that would be the majority of the leftovers
10 people like this.

Reply 3 - Posted by: Highlander 12/23/2022 2:43:52 AM (No. 1363061)
This brings to mind a scene from “The Jungle Book” movie where there is shown a magnificent temple complex, long abandoned and in ruins, inhabited by a horde of monkeys, that have no thought about the lost glorious history of the place.
12 people like this.

Reply 4 - Posted by: feet2fire 12/23/2022 5:26:59 AM (No. 1363086)
Attended the graduation events at a liberal arts college last spring. A friend's daughter was in the class...what amazed me most was that the majority of grads were cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude. Talk about watered down! My favorite part was when one of the grads accepted his diploma wearing a mask over his mouth but not his nose. Probably a pre-med guy.
19 people like this.

Reply 5 - Posted by: 5 handicap 12/23/2022 5:38:46 AM (No. 1363087)
There are very few who can disagree with the Good Doctor and those who do are imbeciles!
8 people like this.

Reply 6 - Posted by: Subsuburban 12/23/2022 6:09:32 AM (No. 1363091)
My alma mater, Notre Dame University just hit the $80,000.00 annual expense level. This from the university that spawned the execrable Jenny Durkin, mayor of Seattle and the even more reprehensible Nikole Hannah-Jones, authoress of "The 1619 Project," a concoction of lies spun around a racist black revenge fantasy. In my opinion, this university is already finished. However, like a decapitated chicken, it is still moving around in a spastic reaction until finally falling quietly dead.
18 people like this.

Reply 7 - Posted by: DW626 12/23/2022 6:42:07 AM (No. 1363099)
My personal opinion is that the public schools K-12 are, and have been, for decades, intentionally dumbing down their teachers and students therefore necessitating a college degree, at great coast, to teach the basic essentials students should’ve been taught at the K-12 level instead of furthering one's career goals and ambitions. This increased the need for the middle classes to seek college education. Hence enrollment goes up and money comes pouring in. The easy US government guaranteed student loans eases that cash flow, and as a feature many in the middle class get burdened with an unsustainable debt they can’t get out of should they ever file for bankruptcy. Essentially enslaving them in a way. Employers wanted workers with the university degree at entry level jobs because the high school diploma doesn’t cut it with many of them. It’s become a vicious cycle. Now the college degree is facing a similar fate? I dunno, something eventually has to give.
12 people like this.

Reply 8 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 12/23/2022 7:09:53 AM (No. 1363117)
I think it would be good for America if universities had to go under and rebuild at a modest level. They would not be able to afford big administrative salaries or be able to hide corruption as easily in a tight budget. I am to the point of hoping my grandsons opt for trades, rather than go to college and get indoctrinated.
12 people like this.

Reply 9 - Posted by: F15 Gork 12/23/2022 7:23:57 AM (No. 1363127)
Sooner or later these centers of indoctrination that are cranking out Zombies with degrees in women and queer studies will begin to empty when folks start going to tooly tech to learn a trade that pays very well. A college degree today is damn near useless but it does put you in debt up to your eyeballs...until the government (me) ends up getting stuck with the tab.
10 people like this.

Reply 10 - Posted by: PCMM 12/23/2022 7:38:31 AM (No. 1363134)
#9 I’ve had highly efficient groups of white men install new flooring and new furnace in recent years. Both groups were from Eastern Europe (not kidding). Young Americans are allergic to labor and would happily accept government assistance if it means they can play video games all day. Just my observation.
18 people like this.

Reply 11 - Posted by: franq 12/23/2022 7:43:59 AM (No. 1363139)
The sooner, the better.
6 people like this.

Reply 12 - Posted by: Strike3 12/23/2022 7:44:43 AM (No. 1363140)
Overpriced and underperforming. That normally spells doom for any large organization unless it is government (taxpayer) assisted. We tolerate so many of those, NPR/PBS. The US Postal Service, all public education, US Airlines, GM, Ford, the Leftist media, especially the NYT and the WaPo, the movie industry. Many, many more.
12 people like this.

Reply 13 - Posted by: privateer 12/23/2022 8:32:34 AM (No. 1363175)
FTA: 'Nationwide undergraduate enrollment has dropped by more than 650,000 students in a single year -- or over 4 percent alone from spring 2021 to 2022, and some 14% in the last decade. Yet the U.S. population still increases by about 2 million people a year.' Well, this year the 2 million consist of illegal, invading parasites, drug runners, thieves, rapists and brood sows. They need first grade, not college. No interest in either.
6 people like this.

Reply 14 - Posted by: anniebc 12/23/2022 8:42:06 AM (No. 1363185)
Yes, most of them need to be taken back from the marxists who control them, or we'll find our tax dollars funding them 100% before long. We're now funding the enemedia, so don't say it can't be done.
7 people like this.

Reply 15 - Posted by: udanja99 12/23/2022 9:06:23 AM (No. 1363208)
I certainly hope so. Except for STEM degrees.
3 people like this.

Reply 16 - Posted by: MDConservative 12/23/2022 9:37:40 AM (No. 1363240)
Good gravy, VDH. Get out of that esteemed chair at Stanford and look around a bit. Your university, like others elites, have become class tie mills, not fonts of learning and knowledge. Every cowtown state "university" is begging for students and their tuition money and all else sent with them from the state and federal governments. Overhead costs are immaterial, and employment in these burghs is politically valuable. Anyone thinking that businesses will test applicant does'nt understand the testing business and validity. These "tests" are a lawyer magnet. No one tests because the courts find in favor of the aggrieved for poor test scores and misapplication to school admission or job entry standards. The American public sees university educations as vocational schools. It's that simple. The barbarians have long been inside the gates, with some schools now crediting remedial studies toward degrees. Keeps the $$$ in school. As far as the American male...you've got to be joking. Growing numbers prefer to be either "bachelors" or another/no sex. They cannot form and maintain relationships with the opposite/different sex. They don't want kids to mess up their affluence and "independence." They're all special - ask their parents. The contemporary idea of Greek civilization is a selfie at the Parthnon and a ferry to Santorini, not Athenian philosophers or valiant Spartans. VDH, you've go to get out more.
3 people like this.

Reply 17 - Posted by: bpl40 12/23/2022 9:38:08 AM (No. 1363241)
At least the ones that are not obscenely rich. Shopping malls have been mugged by the Internet. These 'dens of indoctrination' by reality.
2 people like this.

Reply 18 - Posted by: Bluefindad 12/23/2022 10:25:38 AM (No. 1363274)
A couple of weeks ago at the local food pantry I was as paired with a young lady of AA descent. We were assigned "eggs and butter" detail. She was energetic and well spoken. Over the course of a couple hours, I learned that she was a high school senior and had been home schooled for the past couple of years. When I asked her plans and interest she said that she wants to enroll in technical training to become a diesel mechanic. I asked if she'd had any college inclinations and she said that college just didn't seem very relevant anymore and that she didn't want to go into debt. Her interest in becoming a diesel mechanic came about because her father has a trucking company. It was a fascinating and enlightening conversation. She seemed to be a kind of daddy's girl but not overtly feminist, explaining that she loved chivalrous treatment of women and wished for its resurgence. She gave me hope in the younger generation!
12 people like this.

Reply 19 - Posted by: privateer 12/23/2022 10:46:54 AM (No. 1363294)
Bless you 18, for your service to your community, and also for your heartening and uplifting story...at a time when such is sorely needed.
10 people like this.

Reply 20 - Posted by: red1066 12/23/2022 11:18:29 AM (No. 1363314)
The vast majority of colleges should be doomed. Better they become trade schools instead. The education provided would be a whole lot more valuable than what's better provided today and it could do so for less money. Right now, college sports provide more value than any education.
3 people like this.

Reply 21 - Posted by: MickTurn 12/23/2022 12:04:20 PM (No. 1363353)
Simple Solution, CUT OFF ALL Leftist run organizations from any grants or student loans. Then fine them Billions to drain their Slush Funds. That will not just get their attention but it will set them on a downward slide they will not be able to stop!
2 people like this.

Reply 22 - Posted by: Bur Oak 12/23/2022 12:32:33 PM (No. 1363377)
For many university degrees the costs in time an money exceeds the benefit of the degree. The universities for many have become an institution for sports and for the employment of administrators.
1 person likes this.

Reply 23 - Posted by: PIApilot 12/23/2022 1:17:52 PM (No. 1363401)
After my alumni magazine dedicated to all things "diversity" which meant most was dedicated to the LGBTQ+ people on campus (small acknowledgement of minority engineering programs) I opted to stop donating. The primary reason was the college was going to spend a significant amount of money on a new position for Diversity. I figured if they could afford to do that they didn't need any of my money.
1 person likes this.

Reply 24 - Posted by: msjena 12/23/2022 1:28:45 PM (No. 1363406)
Now that universities are supposed to provide job training, it's no surprise that people are finding that they can get job training for a lot cheaper outside of traditional higher education. As for our "elite" institutions, they are failing students by not focusing on the broad liberal education that universities--or at least elite universities--are supposed to provide. That includes studies in areas like history and English as well as the sciences. Of course, those areas have been corrupted by political correctness and "diversity" issues. As for the student loan program, don't get me started. The entire system needs to be scrapped and restructured to provide a moderate portion of help to students who show financial need, with the colleges picking up the rest.
0 people like this.

Reply 25 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 12/23/2022 1:40:11 PM (No. 1363411)
"Universities," you say. Nope. Try social justice factories, all of them.
2 people like this.

Reply 26 - Posted by: Pete Stone 12/23/2022 1:52:06 PM (No. 1363417)
Let 'em fail! The sooner the better. For thirty years there has been pressure to send people to universities who don't need to and shouldn't go there. I'm not referring just to racial minorities or the sex majority (girls) either. High-school graduates who ought to go to tech schools or get into apprentice programs are being lured instead into liberal-arts majors and deep debt. Of course this is biting the academics now. Female-majority student bodies are a bad sign -- not because of the presence of the girls but because of the absence of the boys. The nearly one-to-one ratio of administrative staff to enrolled students is another indication of looming failure. Many colleges try to deal with their financial problems by promoting football and basketball teams. Alumni are persuaded to contribute by having good teams, right? Those alumni are always willing to build a new stadium, field house, or gym, but they're not known for contributing to libraries, classrooms, or research facilities. The tail wags the dog.
0 people like this.

Reply 27 - Posted by: Enoch Powell 12/23/2022 2:01:31 PM (No. 1363423)
Well, the fraud has been going on for some time... my Harvard undergrad friends complained of being taught by teaching assistants... my HLS friends said the first year was a little rough but after that, they basically won't let you fail, and that was decades ago... MIT where I worked for many years is much more meritocratic and frankly honest - you can't fake it in STEM classes, but the array of non-essential departments of the DIE sort was (and probably still is) getting staggering.
1 person likes this.

Reply 28 - Posted by: Ronaldus Magnus 12/23/2022 2:45:55 PM (No. 1363444)
DemocRATS love to divide, divide, divide. They just love finding more and more ways to divide us up, and then pit one group against another. They are, after all, the party of segregation and the KKK. Stanford University, while touting and celebrating ‘diversity’ has developed segregated housing: Ujamaa House is for African-American; Okada House is for Asians; Casa Zapata is for Chicanx and Latinx (99% of Spanish speakers do not like the new Latinx phraseology, and they do not speak Latin either). The Stanford University website explains: “”Our ethnic theme communities have a rich and long history of engaging students at the highest levels of intellectual discovery and advancing diversity”” ‘Advancing diversity’ by segregation. Sounds right out of 1984.
0 people like this.

Reply 29 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 12/23/2022 3:25:04 PM (No. 1363471)
Let's hope.
1 person likes this.

Reply 30 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 12/23/2022 3:35:52 PM (No. 1363481)
Sorry for the second post. I taught middle school until recently. Beginning about ten years ago, I stopped recommending college to students. I didn't actively dissuade them, but I asked them what their goals were. Very, very few 8th grade students have a plan more than fifteen minutes from now, but a small number do. I encouraged students to seek out apprenticeships, tech schools, and mentors. I encouraged them to get any job that they could at their age so they can begin to learn the essential skills that productive people cultivate. I stressed reading and writing clearly as THE KEY to learning anything they needed to be successful. Only 67% of third grade students read on grade level. That means that one-third of our students will likely never read on grade level when they are eligible for graduation. Any elementary school that does not make reading (phonics), spelling, and writing the absolute priority is failing. If you can read, then you can learn math, history, and science. Trust me when I tell you that the reading ability of at least half of students is abysmal. Unless this changes we will continue down the road to Idiocracy.
2 people like this.

Reply 31 - Posted by: Agent Orange 12/23/2022 5:25:32 PM (No. 1363526)
Today’s centers for indoctrination, AKA……todays’ colleges and universities, have stolen the future of our once great country. The garbage being spewed out by the communist that occupy academia, are Hell bent on destroying the American Dream. I never did finish college (three and a half years - 3.95 GPA) as I got tired of the lies and crap that the professors fed us. but every job that I was hired for over the last forty (40) years all required a degree. In some cases, an advanced degree was the primary requirement for the last position I was hired to fill. When I was hired to be the Associate Curator at the Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor, I was up against three museum studies/history PhD’s, two with masters, and me. Where most of the other applicants had the education requirement filled, I had the hands-on-experience, and was hired. So much for the valued college degree. When I was the President and GM for a French technology company in the late 80s to mid 90s, it was my job to look over the preselected resumes of both engineers and sales staff. I think, for the most part, I could put together and better-looking resume with I was in junior high. The garbage that these applicates submitted should sue their respective centers for higher education for fraud. My son, decided he wanted to work with his hands and became a journeyman carpenter, and 20 years later, he is a construction superintendent making a six-figure income, doing what he loves to do and now has six (6) weeks’ vacation and a $60k new Ford crew cab pickup every few years. I could go on forever, but you get the drift. MSgt USAF (ret)
2 people like this.

Reply 32 - Posted by: doctorfixit 12/25/2022 8:16:31 AM (No. 1364373)
Shut off all taxpayer money. Let the little commies and their Commie Coaches scratch around to feed the beast. Universities are centers of Satanist evil in the US, as are government buildings. They should all burn to the ground.
0 people like this.

Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Imright"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Most Recent Articles posted by Imright"
China Expert: Communist China Using TikTok
To Promote Drug Use, Violence In America
In Attempt To Ruin Country
2 replies
Posted by Imright 12/25/2022 7:41:20 AM Post Reply
Gordon Chang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and author of “The Great U.S. China Tech War,” said during an interview this week that communist China is using TikTok to promote social disruption in the U.S. in an attempt to weaken America’s system of government. Chang initially responded to comments from Fox News host Jason Chaffetz about China’s claims that it has legitimate concerns that it wants the U.S. to take seriously. “Well, first of all, China doesn’t have legitimate concerns. It’s not a legitimate state,” Chang said. “And we should stop treating it as such, because as you say, it is committing genocide, crimes against humanity,
Kamala gives Christmas Eve migrants the
cold shoulder: Two busloads of border
crossers are left shivering in sub-zero
weather after being dumped outside VP's
Washington DC residence
3 replies
Posted by Imright 12/25/2022 7:34:28 AM Post Reply
Vice President Kamala Harris gave dozens of migrants the cold shoulder after two busloads were dumped outside her DC residence on Christmas Eve - one of the coldest nights on record. The group stood outside in the freezing 18 degree temperatures with some only wearing T-shirts, CNN reported. Some were given blankets and were placed on another bus headed to a local church.  It remains unclear who is responsible for sending the Christmas Eve migrants to the Naval Observatory on Saturday night in dangerously cold temperatures, but Texas Governor Greg Abbott admitted he had sent buses of migrants north, including to a location outside Harris' home, back in September.
Why so shy, Joe? Biden, 80, avoids taking
traditional Christmas Eve calls from children
about Santa - a year after dad who got
through shouted 'Let's go Brandon' at him
1 reply
Posted by Imright 12/25/2022 7:29:56 AM Post Reply
Joe Biden declined to take phone calls from children about Santa's whereabouts on Christmas Eve - something the president has traditionally done in recent years. Instead, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden could be seen picking up the phone while sitting in front of a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.  'It's almost time to set out the cookies and get the reindeers' carrots ready — NORAD Command just said Santa is on his way to your neighborhood!' she tweeted on Saturday evening.  There was no explanation from the White House as to why the 71-year-old first lady was the one making the calls rather than her 80-year-old husband,
Exclusive: Instagram v. reality! San Francisco
unveils taxpayer-funded open-air Christmas
market that's become dystopian hellhole
after being besieged by city's famed druggies
3 replies
Posted by Imright 12/25/2022 7:15:18 AM Post Reply
San Francisco's taxpayer-funded open air Christmas market, hoped to be a wholesome holiday outing for families, is in fact a dystopian hellhole besieged by the city's famed drug addicts. At least that's what concerned residents living near the market have revealed to DailyMail.com, with one property owner filming and posting to social media what she's described to be a 'horrible decline' in the area. Her clip shows a homeless person under a blanket just a few yards away from the Winter Wanderland market in the sunken Hallidie Plaza, near City Hall. The camera then pans down to the market itself,
Arizona Border Hospital Hit With $20 Million
Bill For Treating Illegal Migrants –
‘It’s Unsustainable’
2 replies
Posted by Imright 12/25/2022 7:10:12 AM Post Reply
One of the reasons that so many illegal immigrants come to America is for health care. In Arizona, one border hospital is being stretched to the breaking point. They’ve been hit with a $20 million dollar bill. Could any community in the entire country handle this? FOX News reports:Arizona border hospital stuck with $20M bill from treating migrants: ‘It’s unsustainable’ An Arizona border hospital has been left with $20 million in unpaid medial services from the massive influx of illegal immigrants over the past six months.
Three busloads of migrants dropped at
Kamala Harris’ home on Christmas Eve
3 replies
Posted by Imright 12/25/2022 7:06:56 AM Post Reply
Three busloads of shivering migrants were dumped in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington D.C. residence on a frigid Christmas Eve, according to multiple reports. The buses, believed to be from Texas, dropped the asylum seekers off in 18-degree weather in front of the Naval Observatory, where Harris lives, late Saturday, according to 7News and CNN. The outlets said the migrants were seen wearing only T-shirts or light sweatshirts in the freezing temperatures. They were given blankets and put on another bus bound for a local church.
Celebrating Christmas, the Birth of Jesus
– ‘Wise Men from the East Came to Jerusalem’
0 replies
Posted by Imright 12/25/2022 7:05:04 AM Post Reply
Christians worldwide celebrate Christmas today, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who was born approximately 4 B.C. in the town of Bethlehem, five miles east of Jerusalem, in the nation of Israel. Four gospel accounts in the Bible provide many of the details surrounding the birth of Jesus, including stories of extraordinary and supernatural events coupled with more broadly known historical details. One is the visit of the magi – or “wise men” – in the months following Jesus’ birth. Tradition says they were three in number, but in reality, the Bible does not specify their names or number, nor which country east of Israel they came from.
Poll: Most Say Americans Have Forgotten
the Real Meaning of Christmas
6 replies
Posted by Imright 12/24/2022 10:37:50 PM Post Reply
Most believe Americans have forgotten the “real meaning” of Christmas, a recent Ipsos poll released ahead of the holiday found. Three-quarters at least somewhat agree that Americans have forgotten the “real meaning” of Christmas, and of those, 42 percent “strongly” agree.  Even more Christians, 84 percent, agree that Americans have lost the true meaning of Christmas, and most Republicans and Democrats, 88 percent and 66 percent, respectively, agree as well.  Further, even non-religious Americans agree that Americans have forgotten the real meaning of Christmas. Notably, the survey did not ask respondents to identify what they consider the “true meaning” of Christmas to be.
Democrat Senator Chris Coons Admits He
Doesn’t Know What’s In the $1.7 Trillion
Omnibus Bill
17 replies
Posted by Imright 12/24/2022 9:54:17 PM Post Reply
Democrat Senator Chris Coons (DE) on Friday admitted he doesn’t even know what’s in the $1,7 trillion Omnibus spending bill. The $1.7 trillion Pelosi-Schumer spending bill passed the senate this week 68-29. The bill is more than 4,000 pages. Both chambers of Congress rammed the bill through without reading any of it or debating.There is zero funding for the border wall but Ukraine gets another $45 billion. “Well, Joe, I voted for the omnibus and I’m proud to support it, but I don’t like the process. A bipartisan group of senators on the floor of the Senate were talking about how we can change this process going forward because frankly,
Dean Cain States a Simple Truth About
Girls That Triggers a Leftist Meltdown
10 replies
Posted by Imright 12/24/2022 9:44:00 PM Post Reply
Dean Cain created quite a furor by stating a simple truth this week. He responded to a video that two people posted acting like girls, when in fact they were men.(Tweets) The original video was deleted, but you get the idea from the screenshot. Cain was then inundated by folks on the left who claimed he was being “hateful.” But he didn’t back down; Cain said his comment wasn’t “hateful,” but only stating the obvious — that the men were not girls.
NYC sees 69 percent spike in snake complaints: data 9 replies
Posted by Imright 12/24/2022 9:30:37 PM Post Reply
New York City slickers are getting rattled. The 311 hotline saw a 69% s-s-s-urge this year in complaints against snakes and their slippery owners, with 22 cases, up from 13 in 2021. Seven of the “coils” were logged in Manhattan and the Bronx each, followed by six in Brooklyn and one apiece in Queens and Staten Island, the data show. None of the Gotham gripes involved snakes on a train. In the Bronx, a vexing viper was said to have slithered into a residence on Park Avenue and East 172nd Street in Claremont
Officials: 4 Dead in 46-Car Pileup on
Ohio Turnpike Due to Winter Storm
3 replies
Posted by Imright 12/24/2022 9:23:19 PM Post Reply
Four people were killed in a 46-car pileup on the Ohio turnpike Friday afternoon due to the winter storm that has swept the nation. The initial crash occurred at around 11:45 a.m. on Interstate 80 eastbound between Route 53 and State Route 4 in Sandusky County near the Eire County line, according to officials via WTVG. At around 12:30 p.m., other vehicles started crashing and forming a major pileup. (Tweet/Photos) Authorities confirmed that the weather was a factor that caused the pileup. The crash is still under investigation. “This is a stark reminder of what can happen when you get behind the wheel and try to drive in bad weather conditions,”
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Judge dismisses remainder of Kari Lake’s
election lawsuit following two-day trial
46 replies
Posted by Navydad 12/24/2022 1:52:31 PM Post Reply
An Arizona judge on Saturday ruled against Kari Lake in her challenge of Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs’s (D) victory, dismissing the highest-profile case challenging the midterm election results. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson following a two-day trial found that Lake had not proven that election officials committed intentional misconduct sufficient to change the race’s outcome.CORRECTION*
Court orders airline to pay for psychotherapy
for Brazilian plus-sized model who was
'stopped from boarding because she was
too big for her seat'
42 replies
Posted by Hazymac 12/24/2022 8:48:29 AM Post Reply
A court has ordered an airline to pay for therapy for a Brazilian plus-sized model who claimed she was stopped from boarding a flight 'because she was too big for her seat'. Social media influencer Juliana Nehme, 38, claimed earlier this year that she was stopped from boarding a Qatar Airways flight because she was too large and accused the middle eastern airline of discriminating against her due to her size. In a post to her 167,000 Instagram followers, Juliana said at the time: 'They are denying my right to travel... I'm desperate, help me, they don't want me to board because I'm fat.' Now a court in Sao Paulo has ordered
McConnell Criticizes Trump Over Senate
Losses, Says His ‘Political Clout Has Diminished’
39 replies
Posted by Black Conservative Voice 12/24/2022 6:28:40 AM Post Reply
Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell attacked former President Donald Trump over the losses the GOP sustained during the 2022 midterm elections. The Senate GOP leader defended his decision to refuse to fund some GOP candidates in competitive races to NBC News Wednesday. McConnell said that Trump’s influence during the GOP primaries is to blame for their losses during the midterms and vowed to “actively look for quality candidates” in 2024 as he’s “less inclined to accept cards that may be dealt to us,” NBC reported.  CORRECTION*
Kamala Harris lashes media for failing
to cover her strengths as VP in gushing
interview - but makes NO mention of worsening
border crisis Biden tasked her with fixing
34 replies
Posted by Imright 12/24/2022 12:39:22 AM Post Reply
Vice President Kamala Harris lashed out at the media in an end-of-year interview claiming they have failed to cover her strengths during her tenure.   Harris, speaking with Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart who lavished praise on the VP, said that 'what you've been able to see is based on what gets covered.' She referenced the coverage of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade and how much coverage she received for speaking out against the decision: 'There are things that I've done as vice president that fully demonstrate the strength of my leadership as vice president that have not received the kind of coverage
Shoplifting has reportedly become a $94.5B
problem for US retailers
22 replies
Posted by Black Conservative Voice 12/24/2022 6:24:47 AM Post Reply
A nationwide shoplifting epidemic is crippling the finances of brick-and-mortar retailers, which warn that they may be forced to raise prices or even shutter stores in order to offset tens of billions of dollars in lost inventory. The National Retail Foundation is estimating that it lost $94.5 billion last year due to “shrink” — an industry term that means lost inventory — which is being blamed primarily on shoplifting, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Democrat Senator Chris Coons Admits He
Doesn’t Know What’s In the $1.7 Trillion
Omnibus Bill
17 replies
Posted by Imright 12/24/2022 9:54:17 PM Post Reply
Democrat Senator Chris Coons (DE) on Friday admitted he doesn’t even know what’s in the $1,7 trillion Omnibus spending bill. The $1.7 trillion Pelosi-Schumer spending bill passed the senate this week 68-29. The bill is more than 4,000 pages. Both chambers of Congress rammed the bill through without reading any of it or debating.There is zero funding for the border wall but Ukraine gets another $45 billion. “Well, Joe, I voted for the omnibus and I’m proud to support it, but I don’t like the process. A bipartisan group of senators on the floor of the Senate were talking about how we can change this process going forward because frankly,
Secret Backchannel Between White House
and FTX Operative Revealed, Raises Serious
Questions About Biden Involvement
15 replies
Posted by Dreadnought 12/24/2022 9:34:11 PM Post Reply
Sam Bankman-Fried, the man at the center of the FTX scandal, is back on US soil after having been extradited from the Bahamas to face federal charges. Naturally, because our justice system is about as coherent as a two-year-old quoting Shakespeare, the notorious fraudster was immediately granted bail and is now spending the holidays with his family. The American oligarchy is alive and well. But I digress, there’s a lot more to the FTX scandal than just Bankman-Fried’s fate, and one of the more interesting aspects of the entire ordeal is just how close many Democrats were to him. In fact, according to Politico, a Democrat operative and close advisor
Report: National Guard to Send Final Paycheck
Before Christmas Late as Biden Admin Sends
Billions to Ukraine
15 replies
Posted by Imright 12/24/2022 10:02:46 AM Post Reply
President Joe Biden’s administration reportedly failed to send National Guard troops their final paycheck of the year during the week of Christmas, according to a letter sent to troops obtained by The Post Millennial. The National Guard troops’ paychecks were disrupted due to congressional drama surrounding the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that Congress recently approved. After weeks of negotiation, Congress came to a deal on the omnibus spending package. Included in the spending bill is, among other things, a $45 billion aid package for Ukraine. The $45 billion is on top of the $66 billion taxpayer dollars that have already been used to fund Ukrainian aid.
'A Charlie Brown Christmas': An Appreciation 14 replies
Posted by ladydawgfan 12/24/2022 5:58:20 PM Post Reply
I don’t know exactly when I became a fan of Charlie Brown and the “Peanuts” characters, but I can remember them being a huge part of my elementary school years, along with a group of friends who loved the comic strip. One thing I do know: A Charlie Brown Christmas has always been a part of my holiday celebrations, including this Christmas. Every year growing up, we would watch A Charlie Brown Christmas when it came on television. It was always on CBS, and Peter Paul candies sponsored it — I still remember the York Peppermint Patty and “Sometimes you feel like a nut” commercials.
Twitter Files part 9: Vast web of coordination
between tech giant and CIA, State Department,
other agencies
13 replies
Posted by Dreadnought 12/24/2022 4:54:33 PM Post Reply
Substack writer Matt Taibbi released the latest installment of the "Twitter Files" on Christmas Eve, detailing that coordination between the tech giant and government agencies went way beyond the FBI. In a massive series of tweets, Taibbi insisted that the FBI was simply the "doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA." The journalist explained that Twitter had so many interactions with OGAs (or "other government agencies" as they are called in the tweets), the company couldn’t keep them all straight: He explained, "Twitter had so much contact with so
Video: Joe Biden Creeps On Little Girl
During Holiday Visit To Children’s National Hospital
13 replies
Posted by Black Conservative Voice 12/24/2022 7:34:55 AM Post Reply
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden met with patients at Children’s National Hospital in Washington on Friday, carrying on a longstanding tradition during the holiday season. The first couple, sporting cloth masks, met with pediatric patients, their families and hospital staff, greeting leadership and emergency department workers. Dr. Biden read Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day” before the Bidens visited with children and their families in the cardiac intensive care unit. “Thanks for coming and listening to me read and have the president hold the book,” she said after reading, as Biden deadpanned, “It’s my job.”
'There was NO insurrection!' Trump releases
video rant branding January 6 Committee
findings a 'monstrous lie' and says they
were fabricated by 'sick people' including Pelosi
13 replies
Posted by Imright 12/24/2022 12:41:22 AM Post Reply
Former President Donald Trump has released a five minute video in which he rambles on how the January 6 Committee findings were a 'monstrous lie'. The video, which was posted to his Truth Social platform on Friday night sees Trump refusing the reports findings that he was ultimately responsible for the 2021 Capitol insurrection. 'The unselect committee did not produce a single shred of evidence that I in anyway intended or wanted violence at our capitol,' Trump said. 'The evidence does not exist because the claim is baseless and a monstrous lie.
Post New Article