Far be it from me to dissuade the leftist lemmings from tumbling off the cliff, but holy cow – these knuckleheads couldn’t screw up better if I had mapped out a road map to failure for them. From deciding to die on Groomer Hill to bringing up a new gun control initiative right around the time crime is getting out of control, these guys almost seem like they want to get slaughtered in November. I, for one, am all here for it.
There’s another big push for President Crusty to “cancel student debt.” Let’s leave aside that anyone who graduated from a university or college without the words “Hamburger” or “Clown” in its name who thinks the president has a magic wand to decree stuff like that needs to demand a refund. I have a basic objection to this. I don’t want to pay for other people’s stuff, especially when doing so empowers and perpetuates the ideological abscess that is academia.
Is This a Suicide Pact or What?
Far be it from me to stop an enemy when he/she/xe/other is making a mistake, but you almost have to marvel at just how badly the Democrats are setting themselves up for failure in seven months. Do they want to be squashed like a bug? Is it some sort of kinky humiliation wish? Or are they just stupid? That’s the problem when your politics becomes a pagan religion so completely out of touch they can’t even contemplate that maybe they should at least try to fact not being raving loonies in order to get some normals to vote for them?
What kind of party decides that its red line is defending the alleged right of perverted teachers to groom kids in the classroom? Not the kind of party that actually talks to normal parents. Sure, there are Munchausen Mommies out there who fill up their empty lives with their sex-shifting spawn but other than those monsters, no one thinks weirdoes should access their kids in schools.
Then they decide to ban all sorts of fossil fuel stuff and act surprised when prices rise to dizzying heights. And here’s their solution – “Go buy an electric car!” Yeah, let me go drop fifty large on a glorified go-cart because your angry weather goddess is upset by my perfectly good Ford F-150.
And 200,000 Third World peasants a month is not enough. No, we gotta drop the COVID restrictions that let us turn them right around, which will double the border flood. Sure, it’s nice to see they finally found a COVID measure they didn’t like – Grandpa Badfinger still won’t drop the dumb airplane mask kabuki performance – but this is nuts. Where exactly is the constituency that thinks all Oaxaca should get to move to Tennessee?
Crime is out of control, so I guess it’s a good idea to control the access of normal people to guns. And to put a judge on SCOTUS who thinks criminals a misunderstood.
Did you see how blue Philly is reinstituting masks? And they seem to have let Fauci out of his hamster cage because he’s running around spreading his pandemic erotica again. No party that wants voters outside of Santa Monica would ever tug the ball-gag out of that malignant gnome’s piehole.
Who told them this was all a good idea? Well, the answer is obvious: They told each other. The did it on social media, in the NYT and WaPo, and on MSNBCNN. Maybe they did it on CNN+ too, but no one watches that crap.
The point is these guys are not in an echo chamber. It’s an echo vault, totally impenetrable from the outside and, at the same time, totally inescapable. Virginia and New Jersey were warnings, but you can’t make someone listen who refuses to hear. That’s the problem when your politics morph into a pagan religion to fill up the hole where God should be. You cannot deal with heresy. Instead, you just gather with the rest of the congregation in cyberspace or in line at Whole Foods, complain about how stupid everyone else outside your caste is, and stagger obliviously into the electoral woodchipper.
I’m thinking the GOP takes 40 House seats, 50 if it’s smart, so 40. And we’ll take at least 53 Senate seats unless Trump keeps listening to Hannity and endorsing Democrats because they were on TV.
My Solution to the Student Loan Problem
Here it is – pay your debts.
Simple, elegant, and best of all, it does not involve me or you paying for other people’s degrees in Phallocentrism Studies from Gumbo State’s Department of Sexual Ambiguity.
I sympathize with dumb people who borrowed more than they could pay back. If you want to be a social worker and take out $200,000, you are going to experience a significant impact on your lifestyle for the next few decades. That’s a problem. But it is also your problem. I have my own problems, none of which I expect other people to pony up to pay for.
Now, you notice that the problem is portrayed not as that the garbage leftist elite’s academic franchise has ripped off a generation of kids by suckering them into mortgaging their futures in exchange for useless credentials. It’s portrayed as poor so-and-so owes so much money and it’s sad. But the problem really is that what we have here is a system – one entirely dominated by liberal Democrats, mind you – that shamelessly grifts these kids in order to line its own pockets.
So here’s an idea to solve the real problem. No more government guaranteed student loans. If the schools, many of which are hedge funds with frats, want to lend money, cool. It’s their problem. But the rest of us need to be out of the business of enriching these parasites.
Seems fair to me. Everyone wins. Kids don’t get taken. We don’t have to bail them out. And academia…oh wait, it gets screwed because its gravy train gets derailed.
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