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The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called
Degreed Experts

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Posted By: JoElla Bee, 7/4/2025 5:16:05 PM

The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes.Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary, spiral.[snip] Instead, recent data show increases in tariff revenue. Personal real income and savings were up. Job creation exceeded prognoses. There was no surge in inflation. The supposedly "crashed" stock market reached historic highs.

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Trump toppled the so-called experts. They have fallen and they can’t get up.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: daisey 7/4/2025 5:28:27 PM (No. 1973013)
We love VDH. Brilliant man.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Timber Queen 7/4/2025 5:33:31 PM (No. 1973015)
In my workplace during the early '80s posted in the break room was a crude drawing of a man relieving himself with the caption, "X-Pert". That is the image in my mind's eye whenever I come across the word "expert". Need I say more?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Mr Clean 7/4/2025 5:49:02 PM (No. 1973020)
Years ago I read an article about how the world was being destroyed by so-called "experts" -- because they were more often wrong than right. The situation has only grown worse.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: crashnburn 7/4/2025 7:01:10 PM (No. 1973033)
This is what happens when ideology Trumps true expertise.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chumley 7/4/2025 7:23:04 PM (No. 1973038)
I learned a long time ago that most experts dont know any better than I do, they just have lots of expensive letters after their name. A real expert wont have to tell you, you'll know.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 7/4/2025 7:30:36 PM (No. 1973043)
The financial, foreign policy, medical experts, journalists, judges, lawyers, professors, Hollywood, have all lost their credibility. They are so insane that I think the have succumbed to the CIA psyops campaigns waged against the American people.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: MickTurn 7/4/2025 7:48:16 PM (No. 1973051)
The "Experts" on the Lame Stream Media are nothing but Leftist Hacks. PERIOD!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: downnout 7/4/2025 7:49:48 PM (No. 1973053)
Ask any engineer what happens when an MBA starts giving orders…. And
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Reply 9 - Posted by: 4Liberty2020 7/4/2025 8:39:38 PM (No. 1973071)
VDH never disappoints, he has more knowledge in his little pinky finger than all the colleges in this country with all their fancy degrees.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: synchronicity 7/5/2025 1:03:44 AM (No. 1973103)
BS - More of the Same (MS) - Pilled Higher and Deeper (PhD)
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Strike3 7/5/2025 5:04:19 AM (No. 1973123)
Apparently, the paper issued to those who majored in African Studies, Basket Weaving or Egyptian Pottery is not worth much in the real world. Artificial Intelligence is not advancing, university graduates are just getting dumber.
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