Thanks for the link, Ted. The site he directed us to seemed cool, so I donated $32.
Trump was apparently talking about Reince today, and this popped up in my feed, and gave me a giggle. Iāll take whatever silly but brief guffaws I can get these days.
Duke is going to be very sorry (they got caught).
I donāt think playing college tennis is much of a springboard to anything. They should have banked the $2.2M and set up the kid for life with that money.
Sucks too that a better player probably was bumped off the team to make room for the kid.
antlers
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I believe the point was not to get him on the tennis team, but to get him past the admissions process with a team recruitment bonus-- much like all the other college admission scandals. He displaced a kid who was academically better qualified, preserving white oligarchical privilege in the process.
Presumably there was no fraud here-- the school knew that the coach was giving the spot on the basis of a donation.
This is both Duke and tennis weāre talking about. White oligarchical privilege would have been perfectly maintained by the kid who did not get a spot, too.
rowe33
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There was a big backlash by the right wing against the elitist lefty celebrities using their power and wealth to get their kids into college so Iām sure that Tucker and Sean will be all over the Postmaster Generalās arse for the next few weeks.
Strollen
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Virtually all of Trumpās actions are easily explained if just assume that he an many of his appointees are on Putinās payroll.
Iām curious what people think of this approach of how to deal with former Trump supporters? I think it is good advice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/04/how-should-we-respond-our-former-trump-loving-friends/?arc404=true
I welcome back any former Trumpers. Anyone can see the light, and a lot of people really barely follow politics at all, and probably didnāt realize what a lifelong fraud this guy was.
tomchick
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Iām not sure I see advice in that column so much as this very obvious point:
People who did something deplorable in 2016 can change, and if theyāre friends, we should welcome that change instead of use it as a cudgel.
-Tom
RichVR
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But keep the cudgel handy. Just saying.
the voters can be forgiven. the gop politicians, i would be fine with every single one going away.
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