I do enjoy this reply to Marco Rubio's tweet.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

Jacob Rubashkin
@JacobRubashkin
Trump — UPenn
Pompeo — Harvard Law
Mnuchin — Yale
Esper — Harvard
Barr — Columbia
Ross — Yale + Harvard
Acosta — Harvard
Azar — Dartmouth + Yale Law
Carson — Yale
Chao — Harvard
Navarro — Harvard


Marco Rubio
@marcorubio
· 17h
Biden’s cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools,have strong resumes,attend all the right conferences & will be polite & orderly caretakers of America’s decline

I support American greatness

And I have no interest in returning to the “normal” that left us dependent on China

Link to tweet

[DonaldsRump]

1. I used to be a huge fan of the Ivy League

Not anymore. After the seeing the idiots from Ivy League schools in the Trump Administration (putting aside the Trumps/Kushner, all of whom bought their way in), I couldn't care less about these schools.

That, plus Operation Varsity Blues, has really made me re-think US higher education.

Life is what you make it, regardless of where you go to school.

[DFW]

4. I went to an Ivy League school, and I'm STILL not a fan of Ivy league schools

The closer a look you get, the less impressed you are.

[DonaldsRump]

8. Agreed. I fell for all the pomp and circumstance.

They are fine institutions, of course. But there are fine institutions everywhere, state and private.

Looking at the line-up of schools mentioned in the OP, I finally realized they are really no better or worse. They're older and have big endowments. That Kayleigh M. graduated from Harvard Law speaks volumes that these institutions do not magically bestow anything to everyone.

Indeed, I took a class at a local community college about a year ago. It was one of the best classes I have ever taken (including post-graduate degrees), and one of the best instructors I ever had.

Ivy League is fine...but, if that image keeps you from seeing the many, many other excellent options, like it did for me until recently, it's not a good thing.

As I age, I guess I wise up!

[DFW]

16. I went for geography

Philadelphia was halfway between New York and Washington, so I went for it. The courses were a mixed bag, but they had the only college balalaika orchestra in the USA, and how do you beat that? My father and grandfather went to Harvard, excelled in their fields. But they were both incredible men, would have done well anywhere. My two siblings went to Harvard, one who can’t tell me what he’s up to due to his security clearance, and one whose artistic career never took off. And yet I, the one of the three who Harvard turned down, am considered the big success story of the three of us. That is always relative, of course.

Interestingly enough, Harvard told my daughter and nephews to fuck off. My one nephew has a PhD in engineering from Stanford and helps out NASA, and the other works for a pro-active think tank in DC, now speaks and writes Arabic, and gets sent to dangerous spots like the Boko Haram area of Nigeria. My daughter went to GW undergrad in DC and « second tier » Pace Law, spending one summer with the UN War Crimes Tribunal in Sierra Leone. She became the youngest partner ever at a big NYC international law firm’s Frankfurt arm, makes multiples of what I do, and often has to dress down snotty interns sent over from NY who think their Harvard Law diplomas are an excuse to do sloppy work and leave the office early every day. Your college diploma only says where you got in, not that the admissions committee was overly wise to choose you, or that you became a genius because your diploma says « Veritas » on it.

[roscoeroscoe]

19. Great run down

Like the last part about the snotty Harvard grads. Sounds like the Trump list, especially Pompeo

[panader0]

22. I was expelled from one college and dropped out of two, but I have a Masters

from the School of Hard Knocks.
(My daughter just got her masters in Economics from Penn State, paid by the Federal Reserve. I think it skips a generation.)
Everyone else in my family are college graduates.

[DFW]

23. Your Master's degree is from one of the easiest schools to get into, and hardest to graduate from

That's a diploma that only a very few can say they earned.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

14. I took my bachelors degree at the University of Wisconsin, and my first masters at Harvard

I have mixed feelings about the Ivy League. I got an excellent education in history of religion at Harvard, and I have found the class that I took on Constitutional law to be very helpful in political discussions.

One can also go there because your family expects it, and the school lets you in because of that family connection. And they will pass you with the "Gentleman's C". That explains how George W Bush got into Yale, and how he managed to graduate.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. GOP left us "dependent on China" by favoring job-exporting CEOs and busting unions.

[zorbasd]

5. So true!

The GOP with Ronnie's Revolution, starting in the 80's, was the beginning of dissolving US manufacturing might in order to build a financial economy, because they wanted to destroy American unions and what comes with that, a strong middle class society. It was all planned, and they succeeded! And they succeeded in placing the blame on the Democrats for 40 years with intense RW propaganda 24/7. This is where we are right now.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. There are graphs to illustrate ...

kpete posted graphs that illustrate Rotten Ronnie's impact:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212789611

[LittleGirl]

13. Thanks for the link. Bookmarked! eom

[Sherman A1]

12. Precisely

That is exactly what they have done to our country.

[Thekaspervote]

3. Little marky says he has no intention on voting for Biden's cabinet picks

Says the Dems were naughty to dotard

[DFW]

25. I hope he doesn't expect them to take his calls when they are confirmed and in office.

But he will, and will whine when they don't.

Then when he is up again for re-election, he will whine about the nasty Democrats in Biden's government, and most Florida Republicans will fall for it. I hope this time a few more do not. He needs to join Fox Noise and get his sorry ass out of the Senate.

[Skittles]

6. someone else pointed out that Marco posted the tweet on an Ipad

you know.....Made in China

[Grokenstein]

9. I would LOVE to hear this little prick publicly define "America's decline."

Or "American greatness," for that matter.

[TeamPooka]

10. meanwhile Marco went to Tarkio College and U of Florida

[brush]

11. Rubio is a disgusting little creep with delusions of granduer. He'll never be anything but...

but suck-up to characters like trump who humiliated him in the 2016 primary.

[maxrandb]

17. No, he actually suffers from "Delusions of Adequacy"

[brush]

21. Heehee! Even better.

[DFW]

24. Rubio will be eternally bitter about being known as the one reaching for a glass of water

During the filming of his SOTU response.

Typical Republican, he will always blame others for his own inadequacy.

[Sunsky]

15. GOP presidential hopefuls are now auditioning for the role of Trump

Lil Marco already tried this during the 2016 primaries and failed greatly. Can't wait to vote out this POS except us Floridians seem to vote against our best interests.

[uponit7771]

20. +1, Lil Rubio's post prove how low character he is and how much Trump will influence kGOP politics..

... until kGOP is made irrelevant

[maxrandb]

18. To the ignorant MAGAts

This just proves how "strong" those asspickles are because they survived the "indoctrination".

It's the same attitude they have about Public Education.

See, 95% of us were educated in the Public School System, but they're the only ones that learned anything.

It's like EVERY public school is "failing", except for the one that educated them.

Kind of like Donnie Dipshit supporters listening to Bruce Springteens Born in the USA and thinking it's a song about them...

Same for The Village People's Macho Man