Is Trump deliberately trying to destroy the nationalist-populist movement that propelled him into office a second time? Would you have voted for Trump – if you did vote for him – if you heard him say, before the election, that importing 600,000 Chinese students is a “pro-MAGA” stance? Did we not – those of us who vote for Trump – vote for him specifically because he bellowed that he was going to put a stop to such importations?
Now – safely elected – he says the importation of more than half-a-million Chinese students is necessary to maintain the profits of American colleges and universities. They have – say it in the guttural/lusty way that Trump does – a lot of money.
Oy vey, someone might say.
“Why sir is that a “Pro-Maga position?” the incredulous interviewer – conservative journalist/commentator Laura Ingraham asked. “So many American kids want to go to school and there are places not for them and these universities are getting rich off Chinese money.”
“We do have a lot of people coming in from China,” Trump replied. “We always have.” Well, there are also a lot of people being rounded up by Trump’s ICE goons. Why that – on the one hand – but on the other, 600,000 Chinese being welcomed? The interviewer answered that question. The Chinese bring with them a lot of money – and for Trump that is always the most important thing. Miriam Adelson has a lot of money, too.
Just look what it bought her.
Trump tried to defend his open borders positions by arguing that if 600,000 Chinese are not admitted to American colleges and Universities, “half of them” might just have to close their doors. In fact, they’d have to lower their tuition costs in order to keep them open – absent a flood of Chinese money. In other words, it is “MAGA” to keep tuition costs high since it benefits the institutions that are impoverishing young Americans.
Trump tried to argue – absurdly – that “historically black” colleges would suffer especially if not for an influx of Chinese students and Chinese money. So let’s make them Chinese in order to keep them open, basically.
It’s of a piece with “saving millions of lives” via the neither safe nor effective drugs peddled as “vaccines.” That were pushed on Americans, to be more accurate.
“So we’re dependent on China to keep our university system going?” Ingraham asked, the expression on her face similar to the grimace one sees when someone smells a really nasty fart. “I actually think it’s good to have . . . outside countries . . .” Trump said, before he stopped himself.
Outside countries?
Didn’t we vote – those of us who did vote for the man – to keep outside countries out of the United States? That is, people from other countries. We should have listened more closely. You see, he really meant only some countries. And certain people. Those dirty (and poor) Mexicans. Not the industrious (and rich) Chinese.
“They’re not the French,” Ingraham responded. “They (the Chinese) spy on us, they steal our intellectual property.”
“I’m not so sure,” Trump shot back. “We’ve had a lot of trouble with the French.” The man just makes stuff up as he goes. And farts in our faces as he does it.
“It’s not that I want them,” Trump says – of the 600,000 Chinese students who’ll be coming to America. “I view it as a business.” Exactly. America – to Trump – is a transaction more than a country. If money can be made then anything goes, especially if it means money for Trump’s billionaire grifter friends – no matter what it does to Americans.
No matter what it does to America.
A nationalist populist president would never take that view. He would put America – not money, especially Chinese money – first. But – for Trump – all that matters is cashing in, no matter what it costs America. Including American college students. Does the idiot not understand that the latter are being pushed into the arms of Karl Marx by his insolent and heartless grubbing for money?
Or is it deliberate?
Almost everything the man has done since that other reported asked him about Epstein a few months back – prompting an outraged How Dare You! from Trump – seems to have as its purpose creating a ruckus so as to keep people from talking about Epstein anymore. Which really means talking about the nature and extent of an international honey pot operation used to compromise American politicians, one of whom just may be the man we thought we elected last November. That man increasingly looks like a con man – who may also be a compromised man. Possibly a man who takes a cut of a lot of money.
Do you have voter’s regret yet?
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“Do you have voter’s regret yet?”
With the alternative being Harris and Waltz? Not really. The last, only, person I actually voted FOR was Ron Paul.
Trump has always been about Trump. He wants to go down in history as the many who fought impossible odds and saved the country, earning its adoration in perpetuity. As long as he does what the people who elected him want done, nobody cares about his ego but him. If he keeps going against the script which won him the election, he will find out that truth: people support what he says he’ll do, not him personally. I hope he’s smart enough to see this past his ego and then act accordingly.
He needs to reduce government, start paying down the debt, get rid of illegals and back WAY off on legal immigration, especially the H-1B types who effectively take jobs from Americans as they take over our corporations and businesses. I would say we need to send most of the already here H-1Bs and “refugees”, including those already “residents/paper-Americans” back. If you didn’t come here to join America, to be American, you need to go back.
Some nuclear power needs to put this freaking country out of it’s misery.
EVERY president during my lifetime has been worse than the one before him.
How could anyone be worse than Clinton?
Bush answered that question.
How could anyone be worse than Bush?
Heeeeeere come da nigga!
Then Trump the first time…
Then freaking Biden…
Now Trump again. Not only outdoing Biden’s evils, but outdoing even the evils of his own first term….
But the sad thing is, the majority just keep voting, and it just keeps getting worse.
And we are told even by fellow Libertarians that we should participate in that spectacle, because somehow we’ll help ensure a “lesser evil” gets elected. I have never seen one of these lesser evils in my lifetime. All I’ve ever seen is the same evil. Voters just get a turn every 4-8 years at having the evil be a member of their party and saying the things that they want to hear [Or at least, some carefully-crafted vague rhetoric that they can extrapolate into being what they want to hear].
“But it could be worse! Imagine if ‘the other side’ had won!”.
Hate to admit it, but compared to everyone who’s come since, Bill Clinton now seems like the LEAST egregious…. And THAT’S saying something. (Especially compared to this Orange Bozo!).
Can you imagine what horrors lie in store for ’28? If the country doesn’t implode by then (And if it doesn’t, it surely will soon after).
RIP America.
Make Guillotines Great Again
600,000 military aged foreigners from a single country sounds like a stealth army invasion.
“Would you have voted for Trump…”
Insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.”
“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be
thankful for, as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”
H. L. Mencken
News flash:
“America would like to have more choices but the Republicans
and Democrats have gotten together, colluded in essence, to
keep competition out. If we did that in the private sector, people
who did it would be in jail. But it’s almost impossible to get third
party movements going now in America because the
Republicans and Democrats have rigged the rules.”
– Richard Viguerie
Chump told us that he just wanted to “Make America Great Again”. He never said for WHOM.
Trump most certainly is MAGA.
MAGA = Miriam Adelson Governs America
Excellent Horst!
Bullseye
Nailed it!
Yes, let’s blame the importation of Chinese students on “ardent zionists”. Typical libertarian logic.
What next, you blame bad weather on “ardernt zionists”?
Ah, yes, yes…. No globalism or watering down (destroying) of the goyim race and Christian society here. No sireeee, Bob! Bringing in two-thirds of a million young foreigners from one [communist] country is as natural as taking a shit! Nothing to see here folks! Must just be paranoia, of course! Not like we’ve ever seen a certain group of faux Middle-easterners ever inventing liberalism, or pushing ‘diversity’ on every other country but their own….
You are regurgitating the same new-libertarian slop. No facts, no logic.
About “watering down (destroying) of the goyim race and Christian society here”:
The 40-45 thousand people dying on the US roads yearly are no-doubt victims of “a certain group of faux Middle-easterners”. After all, most of them are goyim.
The 240-250 thousand people dying from medical errors in the US yearly are also no-doubt victims of “a certain group of faux Middle-easterners”. After all, most of them are goyim.
Libertarians today are a mentally deranged lot
Hasbara AG engages in the logical fallacy of a straw manning. You must maintain the illusion of victimhood at all cost.
Hasbara AG: You’re the only one here that used the phrase “ardent zionists” and deceitfully pawned it off as if you were quoting another commenter. Ahhh, the tried and true false flag. A well recognized Israeli tactic, no?
“MAGA = Miriam Adelson Governs America” — Never thought one modestly rich widow can govern this country, against the power of the greatest military and law-enforcement machinery in the world.
I guess the entire “state” is manned by greedy treacherous bitches in uniform. But the “libertarians” of course know better
Me thinks Hasbara AG, the Ziobot, protests too much. I guess we just shouldn’t believe our lying eyes then? Gaslight much?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niHpK9gUy24
Hi AG,
“Modestly rich”? It’s reported she gave Trump $100 million. I wish I were a “modestly rich”!
Eric, please…
How much could Mr.Musk spare to stop the zionist onslaught? $100 million is basically pocket change for him. Ditto for Mr.Gates.
As to Mr.Trump, who is supposedly a billionaire himself, why does he turn himself to a traitor for the measly $100 million? In these people’s world, this is not the money you would hang your fate and legacy on.
Better ask the question – what leverage does Mr .Xi have on Trump to get him admit our enemies in hundreds of thousands?
Why not ask the obvious question instead of chasing the “zionist” bogeyman (an elderly bogey-woman ion this case)
Eric please, AG?
You described Adelson as “mildly rich.” I pointed out she donated $100 million – which makes her extremely rich. And she got what she paid for.
Eric, you are hairsplitting the definition of “modestly rich” while avoiding answering my question. This woman is in any case not the richest in the US. She does not have even close to the amount of money the Gulf petrocracies or China can throw it.
Qatar gifted a $400million aircraft to Trump. I suppose this beats Mrs.Adelson hands down
I am “hairsplitting” your definition of “modestly rich”?
Oy vey!
Adelson is worth billions. Describing her as “modestly rich” is like describing Sydney Sweeny as “ok looking.”
Hasbara AG:
You employ yet another bad faith tactic of diversion. Don’t even consider this “mildly rich” ultra Zionist, Miriam Adelson, that gave Trump $106mm since Musk and Gates have more money than her. How you can in good faith make an argument that Adelson is only “mildly rich” is beyond comprehension. According to Wiki: “As of October 2025, estimates placed her wealth at $34.6 billion, making her the 48th richest person in the world.”
Guys, come on. There are 47 richer people on the planet so Miriam doesn’t have any real influence on US politics. Nothin’ to see here.
Again, here’s Wiki:
“Adelson has said that her heart is in Israel and that she got “stuck” in America after meeting her husband. She is credited with influencing Sheldon Adelson’s political views on Israel and inspiring him to donate larges sums of money to Zionist causes. Adelson is a financial supporter of the Zionist Organization of America, the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and memorial in Jerusalem, and various U.S. groups that fundraise for the Israeli military.”
Bad news Hasbara AG, I doubt your low IQ posts are going to qualify for the $7k that’s normally given.
My latest comment on Unz:
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/why-is-trump-creating-all-of-this-chaos-is-it-a-conspiracy/#comment-7382759
“600,000 Chinks have displaced 600,000 citizens, who would of been mostly white. Orange faced Trump prefers yellow people over white people. Fuck that betraying bastard.”
In related news is Trump’s latest mortgage extension scam:
A 50-Year Mortgage Does Nothing for “Affordability,” Is a Terrible Deal for Homeowners and a Superb Deal for Banks & Investors
“Interest paid over the entire term of the $500,000 mortgage:
15-year mortgage: $235,375
30-year mortgage: $604,779
50-year mortgage: $958,514”
https://wolfstreet.com/2025/11/11/a-50-year-mortgage-does-nothing-for-affordability-is-a-terrible-deal-for-homeowners-and-a-superb-deal-for-banks-investors/
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Trump is representing the banks, not the people as he falsely claims. Trump is the perfect charlatan scum bag poseur, claiming one thing then doing exactly the opposite.
Trump says he wants MAGA but allows 600,000 Chinese students to displace our own students. How is that making us great? Trump is making China great just like Trump is making Israel great.
The bottom line on Trump’s mortgage proposal is that it will keep homes high priced and unaffordable for the younger generation – which is now voting socialist for creeps like Mamdani. Trump is a damn fool and handing the nation over to a Soros directed communist (Bolshevik) future.
I can only hope the Trump family gets the Czar Nicholas treatment. If I was Eric Trump I would on long been gone from my corrupt Zionist murdering father. Any family member sticking with dad ‘Zion Don’ is risking a hail of bullets when Antifa overruns the White House.
Reality seems to be that we resort to importing scientists and engineers from Asia. Probably because our domestic supply is busy smoking weed and playing video games, or have pink hair, nose rings, ear loops, tattoos, and an entitlement attitude. If only our culture valued, say, hard work and education. If only our students took the Asian approach where in grades A means average. If only our culture promoted intelligence and scholarship instead of sportsball.
Pretty much right on. Colleges are cash factories based on useless degrees, partying and semi-pro sportsball. I went through a big flagship state university and even the engineering department is a den of slack and mediocrity. They talk of world class this, field leading that. But it’s all bluster. Teaching was a distance thought unless you were a promising graduate student but even that only meant you had the ability to bullshit. The whole thing was a huge circle jerk of telling each other how special their research is but so little of it concrete or actually novel. I had some well meaning grad assistants and professors who were willing to work with you individually but you really had to take the initiative on your own. I could not wait to get my paper. Now it’s not a small thing that I was a non-traditional student who came to school after a hitch as cannon fodder. So I knew a little about how much the world sucked and was motivated in a way 18 olds just can’t be in this world anymore. For most people college is just the last 4 years of high school.
No, it’s because our domestic supply has no patience for being jerked around by corporate types, and/or has no idea how the world actually works, and/or ran afoul of the DEI quotas that we don’t have.
You have to be smart to do that stuff, and if you’re smart (particularly if you have street smarts) you don’t stick around the environment that’s been created.
Trump has split MAGA. There is a part of MAGA with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) where he can do no wrong, and there is a part of MAGA which really does want American interests to come first, and that means no wars, no empire building, no foreign aid particularly to Israel. Trump and his allies have lost that second group, so I think the next president will be a Democrat because the people who helped Trump win, new media people like Tucker Carlson, Theo Von, Charlie Kirk, no longer support Trumpist MAGA.
I agree with you almost. But I’m not so confident about the democrat president thing. Yes all of the republican problems that you mentioned exist. But the democrats are imploding too, and the trumpist faction might well pick up a bunch of those splinters. (So might the maga faction, for that matter.). I agree the Dems have a reasonable shot, but I don’t think they’re a shoo-in.
It’s all n dimensional chess. The Chinese have leapfrogged ahead by studying successful American/western education from the golden age, their engineers use American texts from the 1940s and 50s. If we suck them into the American university system, they’ll become tainted and then outright poisoned with the communism/Marxism/femmunism that is indoctrinated there. The Russians and the Chinese went through their own sick fever dreams of Marx and have emerged on the other side scarred, tougher, and meaner.
Need I append a /S to that?
I voted for Trump because he is the wrecking ball to tear down the insane asylum that was built around us, to be the catalyst for the reaction which will convert the toxins in the system to something better.
I don’t vote for a savior, I already have one and it’s not subject to a vote.
It does raise the question, though.
Why do the Chinese even want to send their kids through Harvard in the first place? Are they going to get -more- Marxist? It’s reinforcing what they presumably already are, right?
The other side of that coin is if China is becoming traditionally Western liberal economically and socially would sending a horde of mush brained American college grads back to re-infect it with No Kings and trans activism work to shunt it?
Bear in mind that the Zionist agenda is to destroy ALL goyim nations through destabilization, immorality and chaos. They’ve clearly got America in the end stages of the plan; now it looks like they found a great way to do the same to China. (Lesser places they got just by importing Hollywood TV and movies. China saw that one coming and effectively resisted. But “education” is their weak spot.).
Hmmmm. That’s an interesting point: Trump only as a wrecking ball. He does seem to have wrecked a number of things that were truly awful such as USAID, leftist woke, affirmative action and the Obamacare individual mandate. Of course, we now have hyper Zionism, but that may just be Zionism in its death throes.
For all his fault, Trump has somehow caused a political atmosphere where a lot truth and clarity have been revealed.
Zionism, like liberalism is a mental illness. It’s once again playing the victim, trying to slink away to reemerge another day. That the truth is coming out about all these bad things regarding our once venerated institutions is more a cyclical matter than having to do with one person. Prison populations ultimately revolt when conditions get bad enough. Then they get put down and the whole thing repeats, just like the seasons, same as it ever was.
I’ll give Trump credit where credit is due. His Grab em by the pussy comment changed the narrative. it was the first plate of political correctness being broken in DGAF fashion with no apology. I still hope at some point he nuts up and rejects all the jewish blessings we’ve been cursed with.
Norman, you sure don’t have a mental illness. How do you connect the importation of chinese students with zionism?
That Mister “Liberty” says that does not surprise me. But you are not mentally deranged
Hasbara AG, you always make things up in order to maintain your supposed victimhood. Please direct me to where I “connect the importation of Chinese students with Zionism.”
I voted for Trump. Do I have voters regret? No. Am I disappointed in him? Yes. Maybe my view borders on the psychological, but why should I feel regret over someone who promised one thing, but delivered something else? That’s not my fault, but theirs. I took the information I had at the time and made a decision.
Long, long ago I went on a date with a guy from my 10th grade biology class. He was kind and funny. We had a good time, but never went out again. A decade later I read in the local paper that he was arrested and jailed for the distribution of drugs. Do I regret going out with him? No, because he wasn’t like that when we met. Should I beat myself up that I should have seen this coming?
Should I be regretting decisions that involves someone else’s personal life choices? If that is the case, then I would never have a moment of clear consciousness. I can only control what I do and what I say. It is not my job to rue how others react and conduct their lives. Nor is it my job to forecast the future. If I could predict that I would be a billionaire relaxing on a yacht off the coast of Tortola.
Giant douche vs turd sandwich.
‘Should I beat myself up that I should have seen this coming?’ — Raider Girl
Or this: ‘$10,000 invested in Amazon at its IPO in May 1997 is worth nearly $25 million today.’ Chart:
https://postimg.cc/dLbJq1bv
I had $10,000 to invest in May 1997. But I wasn’t even aware of Amazon. Still went to Borders bookstore at Garden State Plaza mall to spend a few hours ogling new titles.
Should I beat myself up? No. But such hindsight-derived insights are expressly designed to plunge a ‘coulda, woulda, shoulda’ dagger into your heart. 🙁
Amen, Jim!
Here’s my Sad Story: In the early ’90s, me just out of college, I could have bought an “all there” ’74 SD-455 Trans Am with a four speed. It was tired and had some rust. But it had the SD-455 engine and the four speed. It was Buccaneer Red and the For Sale sign said $4,000. At the time, that might as well have been $40,000 for me. But – god-damn! – that car today would be worth $100,000-plus.
Now that bees an investment!
I had a 70 GS455 stage 1 convertible with a factory 4 speed. I had to sell it for $3000 in college money in about 86. I feel yer pain!
I had the opportunity to buy a Yenko Camaro, but would have had to drop out of college to pay for it. That degree turned out to be almost worthless, since jobs in my major were regulated out of existence. Yenko Camaros, not almost worthless.
Exactly, Jim. I am not spending the rest of my life on what ifs. It is time consuming and counter productive.
If it makes you feel better I sold AMD stock at $39 per share after I purchased it at $19. I was so proud of myself for doubling my money. 🤦♀️
Ditto … x 100.
Ha. I considered buying Bitcoin years ago when it was about $1 (back in 2010 or so). If I had bought $1,000 worth I’d be worth $100 million now. Of course, that would have never happened. I’d have done something like hold until it until they were $3 and then been ecstatic that I tripled my money.
I bought $500 in bitcoin back around 2013 or so. This converted to about 3.5 BTC. I only bought it to learn about how the system worked and to try to buy something using bitcoin. At the time there were a few restaurants in the Denver metro area that claimed to accept bitcoin, including one that actually had a faux-neon bitcoin symbol in the window. None of them had any idea what I was talking about, so the wallet sat on my phone and I forgot about it.
Sometime around 2018 a company started up that would trade BTC for gift cards. I checked my wallet – Woo Hoo! those digital numbers had doubled in value since I bought them! Cashed ’em out for gift cards, happy to get a return. Of course we all know what they’d be worth today.
Shoulda held man!
Well said.
Thank you, Peter.
Good points RG.
I have a personal fault that most people get mad at me over. I’ve done it my whole life, IDK why.
I trust first. The large majority of people in my biz are good. There are always a few percent that are not good, and we always find them out, and then never do biz with them again.
The way I look at it (against my Acct’s Rec. person’s wishes), is we give some people a chance, sometimes on a whim, even when we probably shouldn’t, on-paper. But if they end up being bad, we’ll, it’s over for them and us. The positive, is said people know we are giving them a chance, and likely end up being life-long clients.
Hi Chris,
I do the same in my business. I deal mainly with small businesses and I usually start everyone with a Net 30 account with no credit app. In 20 years I may have written off about $3k total. Usually, it is a small amount like someone paying $400, instead of the billed $425 or someone has hit hard times.
Personally, I think that is why so many of my clients have been with me for so long…I don’t make them jump through needless hoops that waste my time and theirs. Fortunately, I don’t deal with too many deadbeats.
Some of the most beautiful teakwood yachts you’ll ever see call Sopers hole marina, BVI home. Easy living down there for sure.
Hi Norman,
It has been about a decade since I have been to Tortola, but I remember seeing the yachts. Stayed at the Sugar Mill and had a great time. The roads are madness, but the islands are absolutely beautiful. I wish I had made the day trip to Jost Van Dyke…maybe sometime in the future.
Hi RG,
I’ve become disappointed in Trump myself, though that doesn’t leave me wishing I voted for Kamala Harris, as she was a horrible candidate. Had the Democratic Party allowed Robert F Kennedy Jr to run in a campaign against Joe Biden, Kennedy might have become the D Party nominee instead of Biden or Harris, and it would have been harder for me to choose between Kennedy & Trump, as RFK Jr dropped numerous truth bombs on various issues such as Tony Fauci, COVID, the Ukraine War, & vaccines, and Trump did some dumb things in his 1st term. I also credit RFK Jr with my trying to avoid food at the grocery store that contains toxic ingredients, and support him as Trump’s HHS Secretary, though powerful special interests and the Deep State are undoubtedly doing their dirtiest to stop him.
Many people also bought the narrative that RFK Jr was a QUACK, and the narrative that Kamala Harris MAGICALLY became a popular presidential candidate despite being the MOST unpopular Vice President in decades. Curiously, these people also went from a YUUUUUGE DISLIKE of Dick Cheney when he was VP to PRAISING him when he endorsed Harris over Trump last year, and some of them continued praising him after his recent death.
Should you feel regret over voting for Trump? Yes, absolutely. You should know perfectly well the truth of the bromide, “history repeats” and “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” — especially when it comes to the political realm. What was the final result of Trump’s first term? The worst wrecking-ball job of the U.S. economy in history, with trillions added to the national debt, and a shutdown of the economy over a nothing cold virus with all its attending social/economic ills. Short memories are indeed causes for regret.
“Should I be regretting decisions that involves someone else’s personal life choices? If that is the case, then I would never have a moment of clear consciousness.”
Amen to that!
In the 1980s a company called Grass Valley Group made video switchers. They were high end devices that would be found in television stations and video production houses. They were running on high end microprocessors and had a lot of computing power under the hood, so they were subject to export restrictions. The Soviet Union couldn’t have rotating video cubes, that was too much of a security risk.
It is looking like by the end of the year Chinese drone manufacturer DJI will be cut out of the United States market, ostensibly for security reasons. Turns out having semi-anonymous cameras flying overhead with ties to the CCP makes people in DC nervous, so they have to go.
The Rosenbergs were executed for selling tech secrets to the Soviets.
US Universities are still the premier schools for learning how to program, engineering and basic science. The cornerstones of the Information Age. Yet anyone from anywhere in the world can just waltz in and get training in the fundamentals of cyber warfare? Why aren’t professors put on trial for treason for teaching our presumed enemies the secret alchemy of writing software? I’m serious. If a cheap drone bought at Best Buy is now a spy weapon, how is it that universities are just as open as could be? If a video box that puts a graphic over a newscaster’s shoulder is banned for export, why shouldn’t our textbooks be considered “dual use” or classified as munitions?
Besides, there are only so many seats in the classroom. If most of them are taken up by F-1 Visa holders, there’s less space for US students.
Old saying: “Four years ago, I couldn’t even spell “engineer.” Now I are one.’
It’s “Now I is one”, silly.
Do you have voter’s regret yet?
Yes. 🙁
““So we’re dependent on China to keep our university system going?” Ingraham asked,”
Yes, the Ponzi Scheme of “higher education” needs more suckers entering the con. It’s based on Debt Slavery that starts when you sign on at 18 years old and never ends. A recent chart that showed student loan delinquency by age group included those over SIXTY YEARS OLD!
Colleges and universities are nothing more than finance companies that deal in books and pencils. It’s no different that car dealers that are finance companies and furniture stores like Rooms2Go are merely loan sharks with sofas.
It reveals to total financialization of society that has taken over. It’s no different that those touting the 50 year mortgage as a great way to get rich off your house…if you treat it as an “investment” rather than a Home where familial memories are made and nurtured. They are draining the humanity out of our lives.
OK, now I’m rambling…
“I’m not so sure,” Trump shot back. “We’ve had a lot of trouble with the French.”
Mais oui — comic gold!
Who can forget the cantankerous Charles de Gaulle, who provocatively kept his distance from NATO while having his own force de frappe? Or the hilarious Franglais that the defunct British magazine Punch used to publish weekly?
‘Ayez un nice jour.’ — bwa ha ha ha.
But de Gaulle perhaps was most renowned for his flippant comment after meeting with Japanese prime minister Ikeda, whose country then occupied the position China does today. ‘Who WAS that transistor salesman?’ deadpanned de Gaulle.
But fate demands that Trump, whose name appears on a ghostwritten book titled The Art of the Deal, get royally suckered by the wily ‘foreign student’ peddler Xi Jinping.
‘All your base are belong to us!‘ snarked Mr Xi, after the departing Trump was safely out of earshot.
Is there any documentation of that Xi comment?
At least deGaulle had the smarts to get France’s gold out of the USSA and back to France. Will we ever find out how much gold is actually in Fort Knox? Another promise Trumpenstein welched on, an audit of the gold holdings there.
Based on how much spying and forwarding of information to China that that Chinese students are reported to be doing should we also be worried that 600,000 military age young people could inflict a lot of damage to our infrastructure in the event of a war?
As for our glorious universities, from what I’ve seen of their graduates in the last couple of decades they aren’t there to help you get an education that will help you get a good job.
Doing the jobs Americans won’t do…
Welp. The narrative of foreigners supporting our colleges is out there.
Good to see you here, amigo!
Now, as to the rest. Do you mean Trump’s advocacy for importing the 600,000 Chinese students is to reveal to the normies that foreigners are supporting American colleges?
Tbh I don’t think he’s “advocating” in fact, only in narrative. I’ll look for something else to come out of this story. May be down the road a bit but narrative has been seeded.
PS: This piece by Anglin is really good: https://www.unz.com/aanglin/why-is-trump-creating-all-of-this-chaos-is-it-a-conspiracy/
The modern university system was built up after World War II and the GI bill, then just in time came the huge influx of Boomers. The system was set up for high volume and big classes. Now that the population is cratering (actually just reverting to the mean), the colleges are desperate to keep the numbers up. They’ve been expanding for the last 70 years and don’t know any other way. Empty classrooms aren’t going to feed the system, so they look to new markets like sub-100 IQ students, foreigners and “non-traditional” students.
Really? You think Stanford would have any problems filling up their classrooms. I know people whose straight A kids apply to these schools along with multiple safety schools because they know getting into Stanford is a complete crapshoot. They get thousands more applicants than they admit. Ditto all the Ivy Leagues.
Sure, but what about all the other schools that these kids end up at when the rejection letters roll out? The top tier schools aren’t the ones who need to worry about enrollment, it’s the hundreds of state schools (in the network), quasi-public schools, private liberal arts schools, etc. If there’s a space filled at Harvard it means there’s an opening at Penn State. And while PSU has a reputation for accepting anyone with a pulse, at some point when 3/4 of the freshman class drops out after two years, it might invite a few questions… like why are unqualified students admitted even though there’s no chance of them graduating?
I went to college for a while, dropped out and ended up at a tech school. The tech school let anyone, and I mean anyone, in. I’m talking about illiterate kids who didn’t know how to use a simple calculator, let alone a word processor or typewriter. The first trimester we had 6 classes of about 30 students each. By graduation day that had winnowed down to about 40 kids total for the program. I’d guess most of those dropouts were stuck with student loans they had no way to pay back, no prospects for jobs and did more real world harm to the program than Jerry Sandusky.
I went off to Texas A&M on a full ride, but found out the place was a cult or hive and ended up hanging with the stoned Gulf coast surf contingent. After that I moved closer to family and finished up at CSU Chico, which was Playboy’s #1 party school and had a pretty solid engineering program. I made it through but it took about 6 years off to clear my head and work for a living. I do wish I had dropped out but I was a smart dumb kid listening to my dad and uncles. Those years of employee training have permanently blunted my entrepreneurial ability.
The Ivy League was the Ivy League prior to the GI Bill. The college “industry” is under threat. These monster state research schools with 50,000 under grads and the tons of mid-level regionals that ballooned from small teachers colleges to 20,000 student universities. All those beautiful campuses and football stadiums aren’t cheap to keep up. The last thing academia wants to do is look inward and justify their business model and tenures.
The whole concept of tenure needs to be rethought. Its one thing to reward someone with a lifetime of valuable accomplishment with the immunity to being fired, its a whole other to grant it based on time served and lists checked.