Hope and even change is indeed a ridiculous platform to bet your nation’s fate on. But that does mean you admit to voting for hope before?

So, it’s not actually such a bad thing that a truly BAD choice of major ( read: political enthusiasm ) leaves life-long financial punishment.

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The better course of action is to apply the Sherman Anti-Trust laws to Big Academe — which is a CARTEL — plain an simple.

DITTO for Big Medicine.

These two super-cartels are the bane of the entire economy — reaching out to the four corners of the Earth.

Likewise, Big Banking and Wall Street have fused — and have become wholly cartellized.

The wholesale corruption of our securities markets and money exchange — would drive Jesus to distraction. Yes, it’s a hustle.

I won’t vote for someone based on hope again. Everyone who votes for Trump owns the consequences.

O tempora! O mores!

On the Trump quote about his daughter’s beauty—

He didn’t say if he weren’t her father he would think her beautiful. He unequivocally said she is beautiful.

Nothing wrong with saying that, by the way. Those who are critical of what he said are not critical of that, they’re critical of the innuendo that follows: “If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father…”

Trump left the sentence unfinished. So I suppose it is possible to disagree on what he meant, but one thing he did not mean is that he would think her beautiful, since he had already said that, unequivocally.

As far as what he actually would have said if he had finished the sentence, it’s hard to believe he didn’t mean he would like to date her (or more). Personally, I think what he said was in the nature of a comment on Ivanka’s rather obvious beauty—she’s a gorgeous woman—and fatherly pride in that, combined with a joking sexual innuendo that doesn’t really mean he has sexual designs on his daughter. Trump is indeed a guy who talks about sexual things and thinks about them a lot, and it’s somewhat icky to talk about one’s daughter in a sexual way, but I don’t read him as actually having sexual desires for his daughter.

It’s a bit of a tempest in a teapot, a somewhat-inappropriate remark that I don’t find very important in the scheme of things, but I understand why people find it objectionable.

Goshen College’s definition of rape is almost as bad as that of Dr. Liz Kelly, the chair of a Violence Against Women program, who said in her book [1]:

“Sexual violence includes any physical, visual, verbal or sexual act that is experienced by the woman or girl, at the time or later, as a threat, invasion or assault that has the effect of hurting her or degrading her and/or taken away her ability to control intimate contact.’”

Goshen College has some other tips on how the menfolk can help stop rape:

“Don’t allow yourself to be entertained by rape. Rape is a common device used in the media. Many of the myths about rape are depicted in the media. Refuse to watch shows that use rape to “turn on” the audience.”

Who does that? Seriously. Generally speaking, the only people who “allow themselves” to be entertained by rape are women who fantasize about it, which they apparently do a lot.

And no, “rape” is not a common media device, unless it is used as a means to create sympathy for a female character. Serial killers (like Dexter) can still be protagonists and even occasionally heroes in modern television. But not serial rapists.

The Goshen College webpage continues telling men how they can stop rape:

“Examine your own attitudes. We are not static individuals. Examine your attitudes and see if they make sense. People once thought the world was flat. Now we know better. Remember when most people thought women were inferior to men and men had the right to control them? That’s what we’ve been told all our lives. Now we are learning better.”

As in, do I remember an age when men were generally treated as superior in all walks of life? An age when women weren’t viewed as superior to men in some ways as well?

Well no, actually

you guys really should look at what the young men are dealing with…

Sex with consent can still be rape
RAPE you could be doing it without knowing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_mgg4mn90U

here is a SJW telling us what she learned
Men Who Don’t Know They Rape – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7gXJIrxct8
[if your son meets her, run away]
note that its very hard to find the original video she took down after there was a flood of people making videos off of hers in commentary, like above…

there is tons of this, which is why i was one of the founders of MGTOW about 10 years go. its now a movement, but i am not really part of it any more (and never thought it would have taken off like it did, get funding, and have thousands of members in many countries!!). https://www.mgtow.com/

first you have to realize that the definitino of rape has changed… it is not what it used to be… its been expanded to include everything from consenting and changing your mind the next day, to not stopping fast enough, to changing positions without asking permission, and even to staring

Stare Rape
Person 1: What happened to Amy?
Person 2: Didn’t you hear? Her boyfriend violently raped her yesterday in her home.
Person 1: That’s almost as bad as when a man looked at me in a bus and stare raped me!

[neo will find something relative, but not count that this is dominant in colleges, and legal areas in govt, and the others are wackos we are free to hate]

Goshen College declares all male students who stare at women are rapists
Straight from the Goshen College website, on a page titled “What men can do to stop rape”:

“Don’t allow psychological rape or commit it yourself. Psychological rape consists of verbal harassment, whistles, kissing noises, heavy breathing, sly comments or stares. These are all assaults on any woman’s sense of well-being.”

with that said, remember that Trump has a pre-nup, and so, rape would have been a way to break that, but it wasnt.. and if you read the book in which the information was put in, you will find that he didnt actually rape her in the regular sense that you, or i, or reasonable people would take, but something else

[note the reasonable person concept was abandoned in legal circles in the 1980s, as was disallowing hearsay on the womans side as evidence]

During a deposition given to me in connection with my matrimonial case, i stated that my husband had raped me.

I wish to say that on one occaision during 1989, Mr. Trump and i had marital relationships in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marraige. as a woman, i felt violated, as the lvoe and tenderness which he normally exhibited toward me was absent. i referred to this as “rape”, but i do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.

any contraryh conclusion would be an incorrect and most unfortunate interpretation of my statment which i do now want to be interpreted in a speculative fasion and i do not want the press or media to misconstrue any of the facts set forth above. All i wish is that this matter be put to rest

this statement can only be released and used in its entirety.
Approved Ivana M. Trump
Date April 6, 1993

women use the term way too much in areas where it doesnt belong to get shock value and get hatred or ruin lives when the actual item is not what people would normally say was rape!!! not to mention the 40% that have been found to be lying for revenge and today, lying for the feminist cause

did you stare rape someone today?

yes, but this is the new an improved leftist liberal socialist economy, with 15 dollar minimum wages, the aca mandate and more… so you would not have gotten that job before you got your degree and depending on things may not get one after the degree.

what went before when we had 3% average growth turned into 1.2% revisioned downwards for 8-9 years is not the same…

let me guess… you went to college POST reagan before they spent the money he saved from the cold war end that clinton took credit for

and if you were old enough, you could have gotten a really great job at a factory before it moved to china

and dont forget, in tech you have hundreds of thousands of h1b visas too (and in places like colleges the numbers dont count towards the visa total!!! i put that up too but that was cut down as well).

then there are the h2 visas.. the 11 million illegals, and outsourcing and offshoring.

all things probably not as mature as now when you were going..

when i went to school they pulled the finances out from under me for being a white male, and so no scholarships i could not go despite Bronx Science! which is why its 70% women, and 20% foreign, and not much in the way of white males in college, including the college i work for in research computing.

i was homeless and living on a park bench to go to college… my sister on the other hand, who did not go to brons science, had money thrown at her, and so has 4 degrees…

same with my aunt. and she was not very nice… at least till she got two boys of her own and now has to deal with how it is for boys..