You mean there is a subprime college sector? "According to the paper, those whose loans were frozen by the moratorium actually took on more debt—borrowing more on credit cards and mortgages and even accruing more student loan debt rather than working to pay off other debt they owe." With Columbia (and the other Ivies) being Amway with a better come-on? "To pin student loan debt on society at large isn’t just a textbook case of regressive taxation, but actively subsidizes the problem—a massive moral hazard encouraging naïve kids to make unrealistic decisions while feeding further institutional metastasis. Helping relieve some student debt is a good idea, but doing it sustainably requires putting higher education way more on the hook for its customers’ outcomes."
If you vote Democrat, sooner or later you'll want to have your head examined. "America is getting sick of nonsense, and the problem for any Democrat is that the Democrat Party platform is all nonsense." Make that retrograde nonsense. "Democrat governance – dragging us back to the middle ages, a century and an industry at a time."
The weekly round-up of pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
2. Bud Light forgot who its bosses really were. Worse, "The company was openly insulting its consumer base."
3. As did the Dodgers? "Screw the left, screw the LA Dodgers, and to hell with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence."
4. Voters deserve the blame. "If leading contenders for high office are so terrible, voters should choose somebody else. And if putting the government in the hands of politicians from either major party threatens disaster, it shouldn't have been allowed to accumulate enough power to do such harm." Reject the false binary.
5. Pronouns are a gateway drug. Normies are saying 'Enough!' Would it be caring, loving or humanitarian to indulge such delusions?
6. Heighten the contradictions! "Things are going to have to get darker before they get lighter."
7. Give us men of ability! "Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis" Plus: "Those who understand that the new system makes it hard or impossible for them to advance are demoralized, affecting their performance."
8. Trust is a social construction, isn't it? "The USA’s stock of trust and camaraderie is already running low."
9. His own worst enemy. "Trump managed to blow up Republicans’ chances of running Washington for the benefit of the country. The ills President Joe Biden is inflicting on America could not have happened without Trump’s ham-handed interventions in federal elections across the country." Derek Hunter piles on. "Instead, we get platitudes and promises of only needing 6 months to complete the job. That last bit makes you wonder why, if he can make such a huge difference in 6 months, why didn’t do the things he says he will when he had 4 years?" As does Will Collier. "As a sitting president with a strong economy, he somehow found a way to lose to a senile, doddering old fool who spent the election hiding in his basement. Donald Trump certainly did lose to Joe Biden, and he lost because he can’t control his own mouth."
10. Our Gerontocracy. "Perhaps the pharma lobby is so successful because it is not only the biggest donor but probably the largest vendor to the assisted living facility that is Congress."
11. A light moment from Richard Eskow. "Billionaire CEOs belong to a group whose membership is earned through obsession, greed, competitiveness, and lack of empathy. It is a population self-selected for sociopathy and work-life imbalance."
12. Richard Eskow, these are gains from trade. "Absent force, growth in the wealth of the wealthy will, generally, be accompanied by growth in the economic gains of others, including the non-wealthy." Force, though, is the health of the state. "The state is not entitled to take wealth just because it can. And we should all remember that wealth is created by private, voluntary action."
13. Ask Montgomery County's Moslems. "When you become useless or a hindrance to the movement of History, you will be discarded."
14. Bike lanes might be fiscally conservative, but price the parking properly anyway! "A few million dollars here and there for bike lanes is peanuts compared to what we’re spending on, say, the Gardiner Expressway, or the Ontario Line (which I might add, will mainly benefit suburban commuters)."
15. Ignorance is strength. "But it wasn’t censorship — it was simply 'content removals.'"
16. The Vikings have yet to win a Super Bowl. "Minnesota has turned into a Democrat pilot project for just how far unchecked power can push the envelope." Never mind that Barack Obama approves. "Minnesotans don’t get value for all this money." It's on the Normals who remain to turf them out.
17. Stereotype threat has consequences. "Add in regular messaging about toxic masculinity, male privilege, and the awfulness of the patriarchy, it’s not at all surprising that a call to return to an imagined better past is appealing." Advantage, Cold Spring Shops! "What happens when acting out by red-pilled normies becomes common?"
18. Do you ask then who is John Galt? "Who did these decision-makers think was going to take care of their plumbing, fix their car, install their air conditioning, repair their furnace or rewire their house?"
20. Harvard has always hated America. "He told that the primary social duty of educated men was to enlighten public sentiment as to what truth is, and what law ought, therefore, to be. But here he diverged into a set of monstrous suppositions, expressed or assumed:—that men of letters are the educated men of society in regard not only to literature and speculative truth, but to morals, politics, and the conduct of all social affairs."
22. Congrats, libs. "You’ve made us care. About boycotts. And school board meetings." Withdraw your sanction. "And all of it — driven as it is by a radical rejection of objective truth — is a threat to everything we refer to when we speak of civilization." Reject truth, enjoy the consequences. "Women are being horribly deprecated, and men are being unmanned by going along with it." He doesn't mean that last clause literally, although I never expected to have to use terms like "barrow" and "wether" to refer to humans.
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