Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

My mother-in-law told me a couple weekends ago that Ben Carson "seems like a sensible man."

The vibrations are in the air! It's free money!

 

Kasich at +3500 seems worth taking a flyer.

 

If someone gave me $100 and told me I had to spend it here, I'd probably go with Kasich as the result of a brokered convention. He would be appealing to a lot of Dems looking for not-Hillary.*

*So noted because my mom posted about Kasich last night. That's a mountain of evidence.

 

Bet half on Bush, half on Kasich. You're eventually getting the two moderates in the field at +1750, right?

 

I posted the eventual matchup 10 pages ago.

It'll still happen, too.

 

Once the debates started in the fall, the pro-Carson posts on my Facebook feed suddenly disappeared.

 

Christie is out

Not before he pulled a hit job on Rubio though. Not unlike Rudy G going after Mitt in 2008.

He'll have a warm, cozy spot in a Cruz administration.

 

This.

If anyone thinks we can't afford to make higher education free, they don't understand the scale of the American economy. And anyone who snickers at it as "lol free shit" is a half-wit protolibertarian who might as well be snickering about "free roads" or "free army protection." There are investments for society that can't be left to the market because our collective incentive is more than the sum of our individual incentive, and education is the top of the list. Education is almost fucking magical in the way it pays off long-term.

But the vast majority of Bernie Sanders supporters just like the idea because Europe has it and Europe is cool, and trying to implement fully subsidized college throughout the United States in the next four years would be a total shitshow. The university system would need major reform to be ready to efficiently use the investment, and they'd raise holy hell and no one would have the political capital and will to force it on them. So all we'd do is carpet-bomb it with money and wonder why college became a four-year summer camp for HS grads and we still have a major doctor and engineer shortage.

 

Can't wait until Dr. Q gets here to tell you that you're wrong about this and should just take his word for it.

 

The only way public college will ever be free is cutting military spending at least in half. And the United States is more likely to turn into a fascist state than to cut military spending.

 

I wouldn't say half. The amount that could be saved in college expenses by reducing administrative bloat -- without cutting a single teaching position and probably with adding quite a few -- is staggering. But I don't hold out a lot of hope for that ever happening in a centrally government-run program. (See? I can talk Republican too!)