Is today the day we find out if hard working truckers have to pay the tuitions of blue haired brats?

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  1. ECA

    ECA Well-Known Member

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    So you’re for going off emotions rather than actual facts. Got it.
     
  2. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Self driving vehicles.
     
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    Surfer Joe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Lol… sorry, but when you try to push creationism as a science, or spread paranoid ignorant qanon conspiracy theories, you can expect pushback from reasonable, rational people of good will.
    Letting inmates run the asylum is not a good idea.
    And arguing with idiots only lowers you down to their level.
    Higher education demands a more rigorous approach to reality that a trump tweet or a rightwing brainfart.
     
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    Dems Now Oppose a Democratic Process on Student Loans - Jonathan Turley, The Hill

    'Constitutional cruelty:' Too Many 'Democrats now oppose a democratic process on student loans'

    '“Disappointing and cruel.” Those words from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after the Supreme Court’s rejection of the Biden administration’s loan forgiveness program may say more than the opinion itself.'

    'The court’s “cruelty” was in supporting Congress’s core constitutional power of the purse. Schumer’s disappointment in having to address and vote on the forgiveness of hundreds of billions of dollars in loans speaks volumes about the collapse of our constitutional values.'

    'Biden was undeterred after that ruling and promised, “I will stop at nothing to find other ways to deliver [the] relief.” Perhaps, but the Constitution has once again stopped him from becoming a government unto himself.'

    'That brings us back to Schumer. James Madison designed a constitutional system with a frank understanding of the factional and petty impulses of politicians. Yet he believed that he had created a system of checks and balances that could rely on the institutional self-interest of members to jealously protect their powers under Article I. Madison believed that, despite party or ideological affiliations, “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”'

    'In all of his study of the ancient Greek and Roman states and contemporary politics, Madison never encountered the likes of Schumer and his colleagues. Their ambition runs elsewhere, and they view the support of their authority to be an act of constitutional “cruelty.” They are calling on a president to turn them into institutional nonentities legislators who engage in a type of empty performance art as the president governs alone.'

    'It is a curious position for those who have campaigned on protecting “democracy.” These same figures are now calling on a president to avoid presenting this major program to Congress because they know that the majority would oppose it. '

    'Ever accommodating, Biden is now saying that he will attempt to accomplish the same loan forgiveness by taking a “new path.” That path, of course, is not to the co-equal branch just down the street from where his lives. It is rather through a different statute, the Higher Education Act of 1965. '

    'All of this is meant to avoid the one option left to the president going to Congress. After all, the last thing you want in the defense of democracy is to have an outbreak of democratic process.'

    'What is left, to paraphrase Schumer, is a cruel joke. But the ultimate joke is on the American people. Half of their representatives in Congress are struggling to make themselves (and those they represent) entirely irrelevant at this key moment. That is a constitutional debt that should not be forgiven.'
     
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    tharock220 Well-Known Member

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    Gonna be funny seeing baristas complaining about paycheck garnishments. You think a coffee shop doesn't pay much? Wait until you're forced to start repaying that $100k you spent on a degree in conflict resolution.
     
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    tharock220 Well-Known Member

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    It's a way of coping. I watched a video of a black student getting her PhD in African studies at Arizona State trying to talk down to an engineering undergraduate. He simply said "We'll see who's employed in five years" and that along with his Chik Fil A cup and Bass Pro Shop hat was enough to cause her to launch into a flying spittle rant about how he was being aggressive and violent.
     
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    yabberefugee Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I've never seen creation pushed as science. It is a theory however to some that should be heard. Climate Change is pushed as science and not a theory.
    Spoken like a true "holier than thou" elitist. Ever hear of tolerance or diversity of thought?..... or is that only for those left of Karl Marx?
     
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    tharock220 Well-Known Member

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    Creationism is not a theory. It predicts nothing in a testable manner.

    I told you. It's a coping mechanism. When you're a liberal and you see an "uneducated" person who's more successful than you, then you have to convince yourself that they really aren't by whatever means necessary. Sure you know all about the different ways to pronounce the letter "e", but the electrician wants his coffee so he can leave and go earn actual money.
     
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    That's in your own mind.
     
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    Wild Bill Kelsoe Well-Known Member

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    Anyone who has a mind can see it.
     

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