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This American educational competitiveness issus has multiple angles:

1) Social media has distorted our perceptions. The emphasis is now all on the outliers as anyone can post them and we think of them as displaying a new normal. We've always had lazy basket weaving majors from No Name U but now we hear about them every day. My extended family is chock full of liberals yet I don't know of one of them distraught enough over Trumps's victory that they couldn't go to work or school the next day. This is not to say there aren't some disturbing trends.

2) Comparing Indian immigrants to the average American is not all that useful. Indian (and Chinese) immigrants are, by and large, la creme de la creme from those countries. If education in India was so advanced then why is it still a third world country? The more important phenomenon is these people want to come to the USA and generally pick it over most any other destination (or even staying home).

3) Vivek Ramaswamy makes some good points, even if they are uncomfortable to some. However, his example of the Indian-decent CEO is not a particularly good one. If anything, it shows the inherent racism in that CEO's line of thinking. Though editing can distort some conclusions, we're left with the real possibility that CEO would hire a native of India over, say, someone from some other group even if that native of India is less qualified.

4) The USA's willingness to hand out money to most anyone to be educated in most anything has had two negative effects: it's made education more expensive and it fuels a culture of education as an end in itself instead of eduction as a higher end trade school from which to launch a career.
Much to do about nothing as DEI goes away !
 
Excellence as in a world class pathological liar, one who only made it thru college because of Daddy, never went to top tier Law School, in fact is described as functionally illiterate by his staff, like one that escaped service because of Daddy, one that was backed by Daddy financially, like one that went bankrupt 6 times because of excellence, that tanked multiple endeavors because of excellence, became a serial cheater on spouses and best friend to a world class pedophile, excellent in having most cabinet members not support his reelection in fact state that he is unfit to be President. We sure got lucky!

This tracks with what I have been saying.

In many ways, we have accepted less in our society these days. Everyone on the left is OK with things getting worse for everyone, as long as it’s equitable. Everyone on the right has embraced Trump, who has done all of the things you stated, and handed the keys to the country to Fauci.

We are likely to have our 2nd President in a row in pretty serious age related decline. We have several members of Congress already there.

I’m not happy about how things are going in America. I hope we turn it around soon.
 
This tracks with what I have been saying.

In many ways, we have accepted less in our society these days. Everyone on the left is OK with things getting worse for everyone, as long as it’s equitable. Everyone on the right has embraced Trump, who has done all of the things you stated, and handed the keys to the country to Fauci.

We are likely to have our 2nd President in a row in pretty serious age related decline. We have several members of Congress already there.

I’m not happy about how things are going in America. I hope we turn it around soon.
Fauci was in his role for 7 different presidents. Did the Trump administration make covid mistakes? Sure. Any president would have in the same scenario. Fauci was a lying worm.

There are major problems under this administration. We should all be grateful to get Trump at this point.
 
Fauci was in his role for 7 different presidents. Did the Trump administration make covid mistakes? Sure. Any president would have in the same scenario. Fauci was a lying worm.

There are major problems under this administration. We should all be grateful to get Trump at this point.

Deep, deep (and longstanding) issues in our government. He didn’t clean much of it up the first time, the swamp got even more powerful.

I’m optimistic, but he has a lot to prove. Just talk right now. He worked on the economy the first time, and it was humming pre-COVID. Now he has to do more. They will try to stop him. Will he cave again? I hope not.

After the last Trump presidency, we got Biden. Does anyone want to tell me that Biden is an example of the excellence of this country? That would be something. I’m not sure anyone would even say he’s mediocre, and he’s leading our country. With dementia. I have no issue with people talking about how bad things are getting here. We need to fix it, fast.
 
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Deep, deep (and longstanding) issues in our government. He didn’t clean much of it up the first time, the swamp got even more powerful.

I’m optimistic, but he has a lot to prove. Just talk right now. He worked on the economy the first time, and it was humming pre-COVID. Now he has to do more. They will try to stop him. Will he cave again? I hope not.
When did he cave the last time? The last time they framed him for a BS impeachment. The last time he won, on his inauguration day I had an idiot on my FB feed say “impeach him!” I asked her what he should be impeached for. No answer. He had a bunch of neocons not only as the SOTH, but also amongst his staff that he struggled to get much done. The economy/taxes/foreign policy was excellent. As for the swamp getting more powerful, that didn’t happen. The swamp finally showed itself in public and came out from the shadows. We have a free news site called X this go around.
 
Excellence as in a world class pathological liar, one who only made it thru college because of Daddy, never went to top tier Law School, in fact is described as functionally illiterate by his staff, like one that escaped service because of Daddy, one that was backed by Daddy financially, like one that went bankrupt 6 times because of excellence, that tanked multiple endeavors because of excellence, became a serial cheater on spouses and best friend to a world class pedophile, excellent in having most cabinet members not support his reelection in fact state that he is unfit to be President. We sure got lucky!
6 bankruptcies. Could you explain them please? Where were you in the 80’s and 90’s with large investment firms buying out companies, busting up the pieces, selling off the good divisions and bankrupting the rest? Trump is the one who kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Largo. Epstein was his neighbor, not his best friend. As for the cabinet members who did not support his reelection, they smell of the odor call losers.
 
When did he cave the last time? The last time they framed him for a BS impeachment. The last time he won, on his inauguration day I had an idiot on my FB feed say “impeach him!” I asked her what he should be impeached for. No answer. He had a bunch of neocons not only as the SOTH, but also amongst his staff that he struggled to get much done. The economy/taxes/foreign policy was excellent. As for the swamp getting more powerful, that didn’t happen. The swamp finally showed itself in public and came out from the shadows. We have a free news site called X this go around.

When he let Fauci shut down the country. You used to criticize him for that, when you wanted RDS.
 
6 bankruptcies. Could you explain them please? Where were you in the 80’s and 90’s with large investment firms buying out companies, busting up the pieces, selling off the good divisions and bankrupting the rest? Trump is the one who kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Largo. Epstein was his neighbor, not his best friend. As for the cabinet members who did not support his reelection, they smell of the odor call losers.

Trump has identified exactly zero of Epstein’s clients. Probably because a lot of them are in the swamp with him.

Do you think Epstein was selling kids to air? If your neighbor was trafficking kids, and you knew about it, would you expose him and the clients? Or would you act like you were going to and then do nothing?
 
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Yes. His covid policy was crap. He ran to his Democrat side to trust a liar who had worked for 7 Presidents. He got suckered. Not an impressive year for Trump. When did he cave?

Again, when he let him shut down the country. When he let him set policy on social distancing, that was completely made up.

When he said he would expose the Clintons, Epstein and his clients, etc., and then exposed none of them. You realize that, right?
 
Nobody else has either. BTW, Epstein was into minors. Let us all know what Trump was into.

LOL. No one else has promised to expose it, like Trump has. Dem candidates don’t talk about it. Trump did. So you are saying he is just like the others in the swamp? Got it. I agree.

What Trump was into? What are you talking about? I know he was into lying about exposing them.

He said he would expose people and hasn’t. Please don’t shift the conversation. Why hasn’t he exposed them?
 
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This tracks with what I have been saying.

In many ways, we have accepted less in our society these days. Everyone on the left is OK with things getting worse for everyone, as long as it’s equitable. Everyone on the right has embraced Trump, who has done all of the things you stated, and handed the keys to the country to Fauci.

We are likely to have our 2nd President in a row in pretty serious age related decline. We have several members of Congress already there.

I’m not happy about how things are going in America. I hope we turn it around soon.
VOTE
 
Deep, deep (and longstanding) issues in our government. He didn’t clean much of it up the first time, the swamp got even more powerful.

I’m optimistic, but he has a lot to prove. Just talk right now. He worked on the economy the first time, and it was humming pre-COVID. Now he has to do more. They will try to stop him. Will he cave again? I hope not.

After the last Trump presidency, we got Biden. Does anyone want to tell me that Biden is an example of the excellence of this country? That would be something. I’m not sure anyone would even say he’s mediocre, and he’s leading our country. With dementia. I have no issue with people talking about how bad things are getting here. We need to fix it, fast.
Then VOTE, sitting out is just infantile !
 
Again, when he let him shut down the country. When he let him set policy on social distancing, that was completely made up.
Yes. He got suckered. It was an unimpressive year for him.
When he said he would expose the Clintons, Epstein and his clients, etc., and then exposed none of them. You realize that, right?
How does he expose them? The FBI has the list. Expose the Clintons? They’ve been exposed forever. They sold the Lincoln Bedroom for money FFS. Explain how exposing Bill and Hill makes the US an energy exporter, how the economy will grow, how the wars are going to stop, how our money stops getting sent to Ukraine? How does exposing Bill and Hill send illegals back? Does it fix your living conditions with TdA crawling all over your neighborhood? Yes? No? How is RDS being the governor of FL helping you right now in Colorado?
 
Let’s look at the most powerful political names of the last 10 years….

Obama
Clinton
Trump
Biden
Pelosi
McConnell

Give me a number. How many of the 6 do you consider mediocre or better?
 
You drew a blank on the most important one that was up at the top. Excellence?

I wrote in RDS, showing support for a candidate I’d like to see in 2028.

I didn’t want to vote for a mediocre candidate. That was my only option among the 2 at the top. I voted for someone that I believe is excellent at leading.
 
Yes. He got suckered. It was an unimpressive year for him.

How does he expose them? The FBI has the list. Expose the Clintons? They’ve been exposed forever. They sold the Lincoln Bedroom for money FFS. Explain how exposing Bill and Hill makes the US an energy exporter, how the economy will grow, how the wars are going to stop, how our money stops getting sent to Ukraine? How does exposing Bill and Hill send illegals back? Does it fix your living conditions with TdA crawling all over your neighborhood? Yes? No? How is RDS being the governor of FL helping you right now in Colorado?

OK. I got it now. He never really planned on exposing and prosecuting the corruption and sickness in DC. He just said it to manipulate people. Now it’s someone else’s fault that the rot and corruption is still there.

He said he’d drain the swamp. He did nothing to do that. I guess he meant when him and all of his old buddies like Bill, die.
 
I wrote in RDS, showing support for a candidate I’d like to see in 2028.

I didn’t want to vote for a mediocre candidate. That was my only option among the 2 at the top. I voted for someone that I believe is excellent at leading.
Trump is the first Republican since 2004 to win the popular vote. That is excellence. You voted “present” like Obama used to do in the Illinois legislature. Mediocrity at its finest.
 
OK. I got it now. He never really planned on exposing and prosecuting the corruption and sickness in DC. He just said it to manipulate people. Now it’s someone else’s fault that the rot and corruption is still there.

He said he’d drain the swamp. He did nothing to do that. I guess he meant when him and all of his old buddies like Bill, die.
Way to keep things going in circles! Truly a demonstration of excellence on your part. Congratulations.
 
Way to keep things going in circles! Truly a demonstration of excellence on your part. Congratulations.

Haha, you haven’t answered a single question I’ve asked.

How about the list of politicians from the last 10 years? 1 out of 6 meet the line of mediocre?
 
Biden’s greatest success from this Presidency is living to the end of it, and keeping his son out of prison. Seriously, I hope this is rock bottom for our country. If it’s not, we are in trouble.
 
He said "We need to fix it fast".

Sorry, he had the chance to be part of "We" on 5 November 2024. Instead, using his rights as an American he chose not to vote for the one person who can possibly fix it.

Why didn’t he fix it the first time? He didn’t gut DEI, didn’t gut corruption, didn’t reign in the Dept of Education or any other bloated entity. In fact, they got even more bloated under his watch. But I’m sure he will do it as he enters his 80s. Ya, that makes sense.
 


Don’t get me wrong, the top of American culture is still the best in the world. Nowhere else in the world that you can see this.
 
Let’s look at the most powerful political names of the last 10 years….

Obama
Clinton
Trump
Biden
Pelosi
McConnell

Give me a number. How many of the 6 do you consider mediocre or better?
You forgot Paul Ryan and John McCain. They were fighting the Trump agenda the first time while many supposed Rs cheered them on.
 
Why didn’t he fix it the first time? He didn’t gut DEI, didn’t gut corruption, didn’t reign in the Dept of Education or any other bloated entity. In fact, they got even more bloated under his watch. But I’m sure he will do it as he enters his 80s. Ya, that makes sense.
He didn't have a good understanding of who was friend or foe. He was constantly being attacked and impeached. He was called a racist for shutting down flights from China early on, then criticized for not shutting down soon enough. Then criticized for shutting down too short, then it was too long and now it is he shouldn't have at all. Hindsight is 20/20.
 
6 bankruptcies. Could you explain them please? Where were you in the 80’s and 90’s with large investment firms buying out companies, busting up the pieces, selling off the good divisions and bankrupting the rest? Trump is the one who kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Largo. Epstein was his neighbor, not his best friend. As for the cabinet members who did not support his reelection, they smell of the odor call losers.
Oh yeah I forgot you supported Trump only reluctantly. LOL
 
Why didn’t he fix it the first time? He didn’t gut DEI, didn’t gut corruption, didn’t reign in the Dept of Education or any other bloated entity. In fact, they got even more bloated under his watch. But I’m sure he will do it as he enters his 80s. Ya, that makes sense.
You shouldn't be voting for the perfect candidate in the GE. You should be voting for the best of the two. It was not a hard decision for most, luckily.
 
Excellence as in a world class pathological liar, one who only made it thru college because of Daddy, never went to top tier Law School, in fact is described as functionally illiterate by his staff, like one that escaped service because of Daddy, one that was backed by Daddy financially, like one that went bankrupt 6 times because of excellence, that tanked multiple endeavors because of excellence, became a serial cheater on spouses and best friend to a world class pedophile, excellent in having most cabinet members not support his reelection in fact state that he is unfit to be President. We sure got lucky!
It is estimated that Trump has owned all or part of over 500 companies. Only the loons repeat the 6 bankruptcy talk track. Welcome to the world of large investing.
 
Haha, you haven’t answered a single question I’ve asked.

How about the list of politicians from the last 10 years? 1 out of 6 meet the line of mediocre?
So Trump foreign policy and economic policy wasn't excellent? No different than what these Washington dregs of the galaxy promoted? Trump wants to fundamentally change America like Obama? Barry would have gotten away with it, if more people wrote in ballots like you did standing on the sidelines. Truly a moronic list on your part. Trump is different, which is why they needed to invent Russiagate along with impeachment number 1.
 
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