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Not Enough Day DrinkingStephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/12/19 4:32pm
That’s the ‘right’ way to bribe your kid into college. Even the guy who did the scam with the celebrities admitted to it
Essentially, the ultra wealthy bribe the institution directly. The nouveau riche have to bribe the doorman to club because they don’t know the owners.
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  ofaycanyouseemeNot Enough Day Drinking
  3/12/19 4:41pm
  Since the ultra rich are being criticized, we should expect to be told we are jealous by poor people who Stan for the rich in every matter. Any minute now. Jealous.
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  The Ghost of James Madison's Rage BonerNot Enough Day Drinking
  3/12/19 5:00pm
  That’s the point that a lot of folks are missing here. It’s not quite “rich people cheating their way in,” it’s not-rich-enough people having to scam a game they can’t afford the tickets to play in.
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ArtistAtLargeStephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/12/19 6:09pm
“My book exposed a grubby secret of American higher education: that the rich buy their underachieving children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations,”
Secret? Since when?
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  Allan SmitheelArtistAtLarge
  3/12/19 6:13pm
  DJT sux. Family too.
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  myopicprophetArtistAtLarge
  3/12/19 7:35pm
  Precisely. Everyone is so wrapped up in the now that they forget wondering how W got into Yale as an underacheiving drug addict.
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SkaOreoStephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/12/19 6:34pm
But I’m sure they’ll tell us that socialism is bad and all that because people won’t want to work.
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  CommentingWhileAmbivalentSkaOreo
  3/12/19 7:26pm
  They’ll also tout how hard they and their hell spawn work as to why they are CEOs etc. etc. and that it has nothing to do with favor for a favor and all that.
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZSkaOreo
  3/12/19 10:09pm
  That was Ivanka’s line. I know you’re not listening to her.
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The Ghost of James Madison's Rage BonerStephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/12/19 4:30pm
There’s a reason Harvard has a $40 billion endowment.
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  ImaginaryMagaryThe Ghost of James Madison's Rage Boner
  3/12/19 4:55pm
  The endowment alone would make Harvard the 85th richest country in the world.... unreal
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
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  AlexisgpThe Ghost of James Madison's Rage Boner
  3/12/19 10:15pm
  But free education would bankrupt the country!
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Pretty TerryStephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/12/19 4:29pm
Those broads just played the game wrong. They put the money in the wrong people’s hands.
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  TheLostJediPretty Terry
  3/12/19 4:34pm
  Yes. The bigger the crime the more legal it is. Dealing drugs on the street corner could land you in prison for decades if not life.
  But dealing drugs through your pharmaceutical company? Just ask the Sackler family how that worked for them:
  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
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  MayhemsDayJobTheLostJedi
  3/12/19 6:24pm
  No! No! No!
  You need venture capital and be part of the C suite of the pharma dealing out addictive drugs. Get paid not in cash, but in stock options. Then backdate that shit if the market does not agree with your “compensation package”.
  Bro, do you even grift?
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Rooo sez BISH PLZStephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/12/19 9:59pm
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ofaycanyouseemeStephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/12/19 4:39pm
I’m sorry, but that dude looks like a damn pedophile.
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  eager.ophiuchusofaycanyouseeme
  3/12/19 9:03pm
  That’s one impression. I think she’s a 15-year old girl rocking a cute pixie cut.
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frederico802Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/12/19 10:24pm
This is why there are so many sh*tty managers and poorly run companies out there. Programs like this get these unqualified people in, they get jobs with titles at companies where their over inflated egos make them think they actually know how to run an organization. They then do what rich people have been taught to do: squeeze every last drop of blood out of your employees while underpaying them and cutting safety standards so you get that big bonus before bailing and going to work for another friend.
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  againstallformsofstupidityfrederico802
  3/13/19 2:32am
  You deserve a medal, not just a doggone star.
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  dde69frederico802
  3/13/19 10:27am
  Some of them even become President of the United States.
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jcn-txctStephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/12/19 6:31pm
Not a good student before going, Dad steps in and paves the way. He probably wasn’t a good student while he was there, just like his dumb father in law.
All of this probably endeared Jared with Trump. The only difference is he is banging Ivanka and Trump wishes he could.
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  Quiietfirejcn-txct
  3/12/19 8:17pm
  Who’s to say he even graduated or any of them? Just like they bought their way in, they paid someone to take tests all the way through. This has been going on for eons. Over 40 years ago a college instructor told our class the same thing . Most of them list a degree for a school they never attended, but get a pass because it’s assumed they’re beyond reproach. Even those that do attend are not fit including past presidents because they don’t have what it takes on any level. Payola privilege allows them to appear qualified when at best all they really did is party the whole time and end up governing America.
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BrwnskngurlStephen A. Crockett Jr.
3/13/19 12:49am
Congress, the GOP, SCOTUS and conservatives in general, have laid blame at the feet of a diminus number of black and brown college admidants, as the reason regular white kids were shut out of elite colleges!
Ding, ding, ding, ding, DING!! WRONG ANSWER, Alex!
Lay the blame at the feet of the wealthy one percenters—white people—for your tractor-riding, bake sale-tending, middling white kid who doesn’t get admitted to their school of choice!!
Focusing your ire on nepotism, wealthy donors AND WHITE PRIVILEGED CHEATERS!!
But blaming the black/brown boogeyman is always a better trope!! Easier, right?
White folks need to WAKE the F UP!
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  ZachsterBrwnskngurl
  3/13/19 6:31pm
  That’s the thing tho. It’s so carefully orchestrated it’s ridiculous. The wealthy one percenters don’t want a civilian uprising so they’ll make the rest of us all hate each other so we’re too busy to pay attention to them.
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  ManchuCandidateBrwnskngurl
  3/14/19 6:45am
  My uncle and aunt (both asian) are firm believers of this bullshit trope.
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