2020 Democratic presidential primary

it's also tactically unsound, like pretty much all centrist attempts to meet the right half way by means testing a benefit.

But he read Joyce so it all evens out

I don't quite understand that Butt quote. I've never heard this argument before. I can kind of interpret it in my own way, that a lot of well paying jobs technically don't need higher education expertise but discriminately only hire people with college degrees. I have a liberal arts degree from a good school that has never been applicable to any of my nice jobs that would only hire higher ed graduates.

yeah, it's very tangled reasoning. Isn't the idea that more people would choose to go to college if it were free?

I probably should look up the context in which he said it. I'm into free college, but I also think other types of programs should carry the same weight as 4 year degrees. I especially think there needs to be free medical school programs.

I probably would be just as happy if rich people transparently paid a very high fee to buy an elite school diploma without even going through the act of the kid attending school. That money can go into the education budget. It will free up physical space at schools, add funding and no one has to pretend.

Not to keep beating up on Nathan J Robinson ( I totally am) but not everyone is able to attend a 4 yr private university, then go to Yale Law and then saunter over to try to get a Harvard PhD (maybe he got a stipend here) without being concerned about a decade of super pricey US tuition fees and no real job. That is extreme privilege.

I kind of agree with Mayor Pete on this one. I’d like to see free college as an option in the US but I think it should be offered alongside an option of free technical school, apprenticeships, trade school etc for jobs that don’t or shouldn’t require a traditional 4 year degree.

Is that what he's saying? It's not how I read the quote.

the GI bill covers vocational training IIRC, so in my mind expanding "free college" naturally includes that

Yeah

But also if people want they should be able to take some time to explore greek literature or whatever

Buttigieg did.

Maybe in theory it includes it, but the US is weak in this area compared to places like Germany and if I had to choose where to expend political capital to improve the status quo, I’d start there.

Exploring greek literature is money. If you do not come from a well off family, you pretty much need to start earning as soon as you are able.

Anyway, shut up, y'all, because Peggy Noonan drops science about Joe Biden.

I liked reading that because of the paywall so I only got the first 4 paragraphs and am pretending that was the entire article.

is there no hack to get past that paywall , who the fuck pays for TWSJ ?

I am sure I can read it incognito, but I don't want to.

- the rich
- those who want to know how the rich think
- errr
- that's it

Xp yerac, yeah now that is the deal but it could be different. I’s want to work toward a world where people could spend their linited time on earth doing something besides scrambling to survive.

I want to work toward a world where people can read Peggy Noonan without a fire wall.

you get to read my takes for free i'm not sure why you feel deprived

a world where more people run the risk of being freely exposed to the slurry inside peggy noonan's skull is objectively worse imo

https://images.gawker.com/184e9f9viatsejpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg

who the fuck pays for TWSJ ?

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stepdads

I have a gen z (i think—dunno the cutoff) coworker who reads it every morning.

I've got friends (in their early 40s) who I think subscribe to it, along with the Times. They really like most of the paper, the reporting and arts coverage and whatnot, enough to put up with the editorial side. One of them might need to get it for work, though.

My friend’s parents read it—very liberal and cosmopolitan and mid-60s

I want to work toward a world where people can read Peggy Noonan without a fire wall.

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I want to work toward a world where people can put Peggy Noonan against a wall and fire

Lovely

oh cmon not really

just like maybe w Super Soakers

I do not like all these Bernie emails specifying what I donated before the 2016 election. I don't know where that berning feeling went.

They text me all the time

I want to work toward a world where people could spend their limited time on earth doing something besides scrambling to survive reading Peggy Noonan.

fixed

WSJ's news section remains excellent, their editorial page is a cloaca.

'fortunately' i'm now too poor to even consider political donations, which keeps me from enabling the "money is speech" madness

I love hot cloaca on a winter evening

crossing a line

xpost After the 3rd Bernie text, I told them to stop texting me and they removed me completely.

*waggles eyebrows suggestively at morbs*

since i had my cloaca installed in '08 i've enjoyed the luxury of freely picking and choosing from across the entire spectrum of pants, safe in the knowledge that everything from a jegging to a harem pant will be flattering AND comfortable

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NEW: Sen. Elizabeth Warren will call for elimination of the filibuster, endorsing a drastic change to Senate rules that would allow Democrats to pass sweeping, progressive bills w/ only a simple majority if they controlled the Senate w/ @Phil_Mattingly https://t.co/Ezo5W7y8ZC

— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) April 5, 2019

I really wanted Warren to run in the last election, but cooled on her since then. Been warming back up this last week. She really is the strongest overall.

here, have a hot cup of cloaca

If only you and Wm F Buckley had dueled with your thesauri.

biden out here really showing his ass

.@JoeBiden invites kids on stage. "Everybody knows I like kids better than people." Also, "He gave me permission to touch him."

Watch full video here: https://t.co/WnmNr3JGba pic.twitter.com/edGivdq5WF

— CSPAN (@cspan) April 5, 2019

wtf ?

so I know the last comment is the inappropriate one but also lol at "I like kids better than people"

well, they are kinda pre-people