Comments by Tetradon (page 29)

"The fear and anxiety is palpable in your post, Tetra-Fagg." The facts aren't palpable in yours. How's your pathetic attempt to offload student debt onto the American people going? Lulz.

^ An anomaly in which Democrats are getting awfully cocky for a party that just lost the House, and whose leader has announced that they will double down on their course of action. I know we need to get rid of Trump. But Dems are taking this as a broad-based endorsement of their agenda of American decline.

Trucidos, pick up an economics textbook. But be warned, it might make a conservative out of you.

@25, you're missing the point. I'm saying the _map_ was a favorable one for Democrats. I agree with you that Trump is an albatross among the GOP's neck. Abortion hurt, but plenty of non-Trump anti-abortion Republicans won like in Ohio, Florida, and Oklahoma. Isolate the variable here.

@25, The GOP had the advantage of a highly-unpopular incumbent, but they defended 20 seats vs. the Democrats defending 14. 2024 the Dems defend 23 to the Republicans 10. And 10 of those seats come in states won by Trump outright (MT, OH, WV) or are pretty purple (AZ, WI, PA, NV, MI).

"Their morals culture everything is better than ours." So the woman beating, woman manipulating, pimping, pandering, lying, thieving piece of shit is an admirer of conservative Islam. Hey, that culture allows him to beat women too!

^ Trucidos aka dems_rule aka VH_Kicks aka Yabba-Jabba aka Jonathan999 aka caesarsghost is a serial militple banned troll who only needs one response "Yinz need get fucked, jagoff!" 22 was a great senate map for Dems. Dems going nowhere in 24 with 10 seats to defend in red/purple states. America just isn't a progressive country-- everyone but them realizes it.

^ That was a cue to stop embarrassing yourself. Smoke another blunt to forget what a piece of shit you are. But all the weed in Jamaica couldn't do that.

The pimping, pandering, woman-beating, woman-manipulating, lying, thieving piece of shit proves the saying "it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot than to open it and remove all doubt."

Whole lotta nothing, and that isn't a bad thing. Republicans going to pass bills promoting border security and American energy, and say "give us the Senate and WH in 24, and these will become law."

@BTE, also, the small-dicked one has no grasp of the history of Christianity, if he thinks fundamentalism (which didn't exist in the Founding Fathers' days) is the foundation of the country. A quick Google search dates fundamentalism to the late 19th century. It's also funny because black (79%) and brown Latino Americans (77%) are the most Christian-identifying group vs. whites at 70% and Asians at 34%. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/compare/christians/by/racial-and-ethnic-composition/

@BTE, you're making the mistake of thinking the small-dicked one is saying anything in good faith. He's a malcontent troll from Pittsburgh who only needs these words: "Yinz need get fucked, jagoff." (in that ugly dialect) But yes, simple math dictates one cannot have an expansive welfare state and mass immigration. They are coming here, because in there own words, Biden has opened the border. Businesses also love mass immigration because importing loads of low-wage labor depresses wages; even Bernie Sanders admits this. BLM is where rich white people pay racial penance. It's why they pay $30,000 an hour to have lightweight "intellectuals" like Ibram Kendi speak. A fool and their money are soon parted.

Wow. But it sounds like whoever managed the club, no one patronized it.

@Trucidos, it's laughable how your definition of Christian fundamentalism has nothing to do with Christianity, only the modern progressive racial psychodrama playing out in your little pee-wee brains. Go educate yourself.

"The United States of America was founded by white nationalist Christian fundamentalist terrorists. Yes, I'm white so I can say these things with credence." No, you're just being a provocative jackass. The Founding Fathers were Christians but deists--"fundamentalism" didn't exist back then. Go away, Trucidos.

"Ben Carson and Mehmet Oz scored well on their board exams in med school and looked how fucked up they turned out to be" Recurrent TUSCL troll Trucidos aka VH_Kicks aka Yabba-Jabba aka Jonathan999 aka caesarsghost aka thick-5-incher is calling a former Johns Hopkins Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and an eminent heart transplant surgeon "fucked up." Oh, the irony.

As someone with undergraduate and graduate degrees from these "ultra elite" schools, I've seen and participated in the process. They're called "standardized tests" because it's the only way they can judge verbal/mathematical/whatever aptitude regardless of your curriculum or amount of grade inflation at your high school. And they matter a lot more at the middle tier of schools where admission and even merit scholarships are all about your GPA and SAT scores. Anywhere, more is always better. At my top school, they ranked your academic potential (mostly GPA, but class rank and SAT scores in there) very finely--from a 5 (borderline) to a 1 (a top scholar, summa cum laude potential). But SAT was just one component of it. However, the truly elite schools could admit only valedictorians and perfect SAT scores if they wanted; instead, you need to differentiate yourself on other things--extracurricular or athletic achievement (which is why some parents drive their kids to esoteric sports), or increasingly being of a disadvantaged group. The latter is less out of a grand social mission than buying penance for wrongs they've already committed. Harvard, for one, is a shitty and arrogant local citizen with a messiah complex. Grad schools, it really depends. I'm not a lawyer, but I hear law school admission is very much about your GPA and LSAT scores. Business school, once you've reached a certain GMAT level (typically around 700) you've "checked the box." When I was talking to a coworker who graduated from my top choice business school and told her my GMAT score (I'm a demon at standardized testing, though I hope I'm done for good with them), she said "they're going to think you're a dork." That is, their thought process is "OK, this guy can more than handle the workload. What else can he do?" Standardized test prep is not hard. As a former Kaplan instructor, there is no secret sauce. We didn't do anything that a practice test book from the library or a question bank online couldn't do. Do 10 practice tests under actual test conditions, and you'll know the material and be confident enough for whatever they throw at you. I don't know why they make standardized test prep harder than that. Whether academic success correlates with skill as a doctor, lawyer, or manager, is a different question entirely.

"As far as medical standards. The bar can't get lower" Says someone whose life was just saved less than a year ago by medical professionals who underwent over 10,000 hours of training before they could operate on their own.

I'm in favor of "banning the box" i.e. preventing an employer from excluding due to past convictions unless it's something directly relevant to their fitness as a job, like a child abuser put into a child care position. I'd restore voting rights too after you've repaid your debt to society. Lack of employment opportunities keeps them trapping, drugs sell themselves. Better opportunities within reason will reduce recidivism rates.

^ I would remind you that pimping, pandering, beating women, and grand theft are all felonies, and lying and manipulating women aren't necessarily felonies but acts of a piece of shit regardless.

^ World's richest man and a former president of the US vs serial homophobic troll who keeps getting banned from obscure titty bar website. Read up on network effects and stop embarrassing yourself, Trucidos aka VH kicks aka Yabba Jabba aka small penis

"That's probably one of the few things we can agree on, Tetra-Fagg." Trolling TUSCL isn't writing, Trucidos. Trump wasn't even the topic of this thread but you felt the need to indulge your little fetish. I get the feeling you'd like to RP guard and prisoner with him and get a little kinky...

"I ain't no lawyer so I can't discuss it competently." Trucidos, not being able to say anything intelligent on a matter has never stopped you. I'd come out having written several books. I could care less for chess or spades or most common prison amusements. Writing and lifting is already a good day to me.

@BTE, 5-incher is Trucidos aka TXTittyFag., a recurrent troll around here. He's trying to get reactions, not engage with anyone in good faith. Do not take him seriously. Oh and BLM protestors caused multi-billions worth of damage. And Dem leaders were literally paying their bail.

"Here’s how things work in the real world." If you have a non-dead-end job and an IQ north of 75, you're beyond Icee's reasoning. Of course he sees things in terms of power dynamics; Marxism is a philosophy of failures and excuses.