Montana and the college admissions 'scandal'...

He's brushing it off as he only used him as a consultant for his kids to assist in the college process. A consultant?? Since when is this a thing? Kids go to high school, they work, they learn. Then they get info from the guidence department and go on trips to the school with the parents...you know, normal human being stuff. You don't hire this creep and pretend you know nothing about what was going on. I can't stand Montana and his backhanded compliments of Brady and zero support during deflategate.

Jealous Joe trying to get out front of the investigation.

drop the alex and you have: wait for it :
andria ocasio cortez
triple 6s. she's the devil

Uh, yeah, AOC is a raving lunatic that has absolutely no clue whatsoever. She's so far to the left liberal Democrats hate her. She's insane.

LOL, so what? Bringing her name up in the context it was brought up was ridiculous.

AOC is not a raving lunatic (just paid to be one). She's the front for the fascists/commie cabal that got her elected (like they did Obama. His rise always reminds me of the rise of the POTUS character, with all his well-placed enablers, in the 3rd of the Omen movies - Final Judgement). Yes, Satan does walk among us.

The context was the horrible impact of social media to society. She is one of the worst results of this impact.

I can't get worked up about this "scandal." Rich people pay to get their kids an advantage, film at 11. Yawn.

This one and college basketball coaches getting prosecuted for giving kids money. Who cares? How's that even a crime?

I put all of this crap in the same boat as investigating Asian massage joints. Doesn't law enforcement in this country have actual criminal activity to investigate, they gotta spend time on this nonsense? Frankly, they're the ones who should be investigated for stealing taxpayer money.

I did not think the thread was about social media but about the fraud being used by many wealthy people on behalf of their privileged offspring. 

I WILL CERTAINLY agree with you that there is a horrible impact via social media. I agree. Trump (once again, independent of whether politically one agrees with him or not) is front and center there... But let's just look HERE.... you are posting - a social media sort of thing to do... and you post things like "she is pure evil" and many post extreme statements on this social media site lumping everyone who is left of the far right as socialists, communists, evil... Even to the point of talking about getting out guns.... The extreme and violent and demeaning and wedge inspiring posts are rampant. And I agree they are, here and elsewhere, doing harm to America. Arguing one's case, one's position, one's reasoning is great. The demeaning and the threats are not. I agree.

If we want a meritocracy and so the ability for your efforts to decide how far you go then we need to address these sorts of things. It is hard to get worked up about it because it is in fact the character of our country now. .Not just the rich but certainly so. We cannot name an industry (or walk of life if you will) - even education, health care, politics, insurance, financial, energy, legal, religion, etc, etc, where this sort of trait is not prevalent - even predominant. So we clearly need to start to address it BECAUSE it is so much everywhere you look. 


If we do not want things LIKE preferential treatment of any group than this is one area that needs to be very much included. If you do not like affirmative action for example then this is not to be overlooked. If you are for affirmative action then this is undermining the very principle you are trying to foster. In other words we ALL have great reasons to AGREE on this issue even while you are right and it is eminently understandable to feel what you have expressed. 

We agree that the limited jail time will not change how prevalent this trait is throughout our country.  
We agree that the hysterical reaction in social media is A real story and one worth addressing

I do not agree that it is the "real" story. I think IN THIS CASE the crime is actually truly important because it fosters the EVIL of cheating, lying, stealing, committing fraud, doing anything even illegal or immoral. That trait is one we have to address and remove from the world of what is acceptable. We need to enforce the IDEA of being ethical if we want to live in an ethical world. It cannot be just one class (rich or poor) who are singled out or people of one political ideology (right or left) who are singled out. We need to ... well ... one way to put it is "what would BB do" regarding his roster and team? He sets standards regarding what is and is not acceptable and those standards apply to everyone. We need to embrace OUR OWN WORDS and walk the walk: meritocracy, rule of law, no preferential treatment. 

I suspect we agree on the ideas. We all need to put into practice the integrity that imposes OUR standards on everyone including those we are "for" as well as "against".