College Rules

E in Spanish is "eh." Beh-to. If you want "bay-to" you have to spell it "beito."

One problem that Texas is getting into, is that when the leftys flee the disaster they voted for in PRC (People's Republic of California) to Texas, they start voting for the same disaster they just fled. Which explains Beto's near-victory over Ted Cruz.

And Beto as the Democrat nominee isn't just Trump's worst fear. It is - or at least should be - the country's too. Does anyone think fun-loving Beto would nominate anything close to conservative judges/justices, etc? But heck, he's LIKEABLE! In that sense he's no different from Clinton and Obama. And yet I can easily believe Rob Long and Jonah Goldberg and many others would vote for Beto over Trump in 2020. Or not voting at all, which contributes to the same result.

Think of all the people whose candidacy you would support for the Senate but would not support for the White House. The Senate is not a stepping stone, in my humble opinion, to the White House. Few Senators have risen to President, and Beto never served in the Senate to begin with. He lost to someone who is divisive, viewed as arrogant, and has been called "the most hated man" in the Senate. Beto ran so far to the left that Texans who didn't want Cruz voted for him anyway. And Beto lost to Cruz. (I happen to admire Senator Cruz's service a lot, which goes to show how much I care about 'popular opinion.' )

How many House Members or Senators have risen to President without serving as Vice President first? I can only think of one: the 44th President. That was a fluke.

I agree that the Democrats are always looking for someone to fall in love with, and that they would like Beto to be the next RFK. But Beto is unprepared and obviously so. He's not even plausible. He ran an expensive (the most expensive) campaign in history, I think. He spent more than Jon Ossoff and came up short. Maybe he could run as Vice President. Maybe, if Democrats thought he could carry Texas. But I wouldn't bet on either. It would be dumb to do it.

Regarding the college entrance scandal, I doubt many if any of the students involved were actually not smart enough for the schools their parents targeted. None of their test scores were THAT low. What their parents were basically doing is extra-gaming the already-corrupt system where students were not admitted based really on academic merit, but on a panoply of other "Affirmative Action" criteria such as "activities." Where the kids of rich parents already have a huge advantage because mom and dad can pay for them to spend a summer in El Salvador or wherever a particular college might think somehow makes them a better person or student.

Or, maybe someone could explain to me how being a FAKE football player is less relevant to admission to USC or wherever, than being an ACTUAL football player would be?

Race is also an issue. Those schools all admit less-qualified students by race.

The overall admissions are "zero sum" in that if they have a hard limit of X admissions, if one person games the system and gets in then some other person who isn't gaming the system quite as much doesn't get in. But those who game it more aren't therefore "unqualified." Unless you want to claim that somehow the school has determined that only those X students out of the whole country/world are really "qualified" and the X+1th person and beyond are just too dumb for college. Or at least for THAT college.

By the way, can I trade places with Rob in that photo? I'd love to be that close to Lori Loughlin! She's one of the most gorgeous women ever. (As opposed to AOC for example, who I've heard is "attractive" but I just don't see it.)

Or if you can't set me up with Lori Loughlin, then Neve Campbell will do. :-)