Who do you think is going to win and why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[reposting]
Only DCUM wouldn't understand that Stanford/Berkeley PHD parents aren't middle class.

Literally the first answer from google:

Assistant Professor: $128,000–$152,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Associate Professor: $165,000–$180,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Full Professor: $190,000–$320,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year

Chickenshit salaries compared to what tech and finance and law pays. Those people start making money right out of undergrad or a short stint in law school. Academics are often pushing 40 by the time the lucky few land a tenure track job after years of lowly paid training positions. Their classmates who chose differently are far ahead of them financially by that point. Only an ignoramus would claim academia is a path to riches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[reposting]
Only DCUM wouldn't understand that Stanford/Berkeley PHD parents aren't middle class.

Literally the first answer from google:

Assistant Professor: $128,000–$152,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Associate Professor: $165,000–$180,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Full Professor: $190,000–$320,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year

Chickenshit salaries compared to what tech and finance and law pays. Those people start making money right out of undergrad or a short stint in law school. Academics are often pushing 40 by the time the lucky few land a tenure track job after years of lowly paid training positions. Their classmates who chose differently are far ahead of them financially by that point. Only an ignoramus would claim academia is a path to riches.

God, whining academics are so tiresome.

There is a difference between “a path to riches” and “significantly privileged and stable compared to the rest of the country.” It is absurd to pretend that Harris did not have a privileged upbringing. Let’s move on from that — after all, Trump’s upbringing was ridiculously privileged — but please stop pretending that this was an upbringing that was unstable. It’s insulting to the millions of Americans who actually live hand-to-mouth with no job security.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[reposting]
Only DCUM wouldn't understand that Stanford/Berkeley PHD parents aren't middle class.

Literally the first answer from google:

Assistant Professor: $128,000–$152,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Associate Professor: $165,000–$180,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Full Professor: $190,000–$320,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year

Chickenshit salaries compared to what tech and finance and law pays. Those people start making money right out of undergrad or a short stint in law school. Academics are often pushing 40 by the time the lucky few land a tenure track job after years of lowly paid training positions. Their classmates who chose differently are far ahead of them financially by that point. Only an ignoramus would claim academia is a path to riches.

You’re not wrong, but the number of those jobs available is tiny relative to the number of recent grads competing for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[reposting]
Only DCUM wouldn't understand that Stanford/Berkeley PHD parents aren't middle class.

Literally the first answer from google:

Assistant Professor: $128,000–$152,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Associate Professor: $165,000–$180,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Full Professor: $190,000–$320,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year

Chickenshit salaries compared to what tech and finance and law pays. Those people start making money right out of undergrad or a short stint in law school. Academics are often pushing 40 by the time the lucky few land a tenure track job after years of lowly paid training positions. Their classmates who chose differently are far ahead of them financially by that point. Only an ignoramus would claim academia is a path to riches.

Reading comprehension isn't your thing, is it? What does tech and finance have to do with my post?

To reiterate, I said "middle class". The median income in the US is $80k. First google result.

I'm an ignoramus for saying that their combined income of $256k (low end of assistant professor x2) isn't middle class?

[Anonymous]

Harris campaign pulling 1.7 million in broadcast ad spending from North Carolina. - Chris LaCivita

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harris campaign pulling 1.7 million in broadcast ad spending from North Carolina. - Chris LaCivita

And?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[reposting]
Only DCUM wouldn't understand that Stanford/Berkeley PHD parents aren't middle class.

Literally the first answer from google:

Assistant Professor: $128,000–$152,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Associate Professor: $165,000–$180,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Full Professor: $190,000–$320,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year

Chickenshit salaries compared to what tech and finance and law pays. Those people start making money right out of undergrad or a short stint in law school. Academics are often pushing 40 by the time the lucky few land a tenure track job after years of lowly paid training positions. Their classmates who chose differently are far ahead of them financially by that point. Only an ignoramus would claim academia is a path to riches.

Reading comprehension isn't your thing, is it? What does tech and finance have to do with my post?

To reiterate, I said "middle class". The median income in the US is $80k. First google result.

I'm an ignoramus for saying that their combined income of $256k (low end of assistant professor x2) isn't middle class?

Her parents were divorced and near as I can tell her mother was not a professor. A PhD doing academic research makes less than a professor and probably even less in the 70s during Kamala’s childhood.

Also, I am Kamila’s age and the child of a professor in CA, married parents, both worked and arguably the bottom end of UMC. Her parents divorced when she was 5, as a single parent her mother was not UMC.

Well educated yes, rich no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[reposting]
Only DCUM wouldn't understand that Stanford/Berkeley PHD parents aren't middle class.

Literally the first answer from google:

Assistant Professor: $128,000–$152,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Associate Professor: $165,000–$180,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Full Professor: $190,000–$320,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year

Chickenshit salaries compared to what tech and finance and law pays. Those people start making money right out of undergrad or a short stint in law school. Academics are often pushing 40 by the time the lucky few land a tenure track job after years of lowly paid training positions. Their classmates who chose differently are far ahead of them financially by that point. Only an ignoramus would claim academia is a path to riches.

Reading comprehension isn't your thing, is it? What does tech and finance have to do with my post?

To reiterate, I said "middle class". The median income in the US is $80k. First google result.

I'm an ignoramus for saying that their combined income of $256k (low end of assistant professor x2) isn't middle class?

Yes you are. $256k in San Francisco is barely anything today. And Harris’s parents were not making anywhere close to that during their time. Double ignoramus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone remember that Kamala called Joe Biden a racist during a debate in the 2019 primary, but as soon as it advanced her interest, she said "it was only a debate" and she didn't mean it? She is doing the same thing today with this Nazi stuff and nobody believes her.

Do you remember when Vance called trump America’s Hitler?

And…
A moral disaster
A total fraud
Reprehensible
A cynical a$shole
A cultural heroin and just another opioid for Middle America
One of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[reposting]
Only DCUM wouldn't understand that Stanford/Berkeley PHD parents aren't middle class.

Literally the first answer from google:

Assistant Professor: $128,000–$152,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Associate Professor: $165,000–$180,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year
Full Professor: $190,000–$320,000 for the 2025–2026 academic year

Chickenshit salaries compared to what tech and finance and law pays. Those people start making money right out of undergrad or a short stint in law school. Academics are often pushing 40 by the time the lucky few land a tenure track job after years of lowly paid training positions. Their classmates who chose differently are far ahead of them financially by that point. Only an ignoramus would claim academia is a path to riches.

Reading comprehension isn't your thing, is it? What does tech and finance have to do with my post?

To reiterate, I said "middle class". The median income in the US is $80k. First google result.

I'm an ignoramus for saying that their combined income of $256k (low end of assistant professor x2) isn't middle class?

Yes you are. $256k in San Francisco is barely anything today. And Harris’s parents were not making anywhere close to that during their time. Double ignoramus.

I mean this is all ridiculous. It's based on someone looking up median salaries for tenured professors in 2024. It means nothing. Harris's parents were still working on grad degrees when she was born. It's not even clear that their first few positions post-degree were tenured. They both moved around a lot. Then divorced. She only lived in vicinity of her dad for a few years, and not clear how much time she spent with him or if he paid child support. Even when she was in Montreal, I can't tell if her mom's position was tenured-- she didn't technically work for McGill but at a hospital associated with the university.

There are dual-professor families where both parents make 100k+ and they are UMC. There are also SOME tenured professors who make closer to 200k. But it's highly unlikely Harris's mom was one (or made the 1970s equivalent) and Harris grew up in a single-parent household. She was almost certainly middle class for most of her childhood, maybe her mom was doing well enough by HS that she was UMC. She went to public schools and had what sounds like a MC experience.

Donald Trump was the son of a wealthy business man who attended private schools his entire childhood (including an expensive military boarding school). No aspect of his life, at any point, resembles that if a middle class person.

What are we even arguing about???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harris campaign pulling 1.7 million in broadcast ad spending from North Carolina. - Chris LaCivita

It must be that bad for Trump for LaCivita to make up something like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Things seem to be coalescing for Harris. Some of it is due to people recognizing how awful most Republicans are. In the past couple of days we have Speaker Johnson vowing to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. We have Republican at MSG celebrating their hatred for Latinos. We have Republican billionaires like Elon Musk advocating for a 2 trillion dollar budget cut. And we have young moms in Texas dying from miscarriages because Republicans have taken away women's access to health care. Taken together, it's clear Republicans are nuts and cruel. Those that have been on the fence are increasingly breaking for Harris. The CNN polling in Michigan and Wisconsin bears that out. I used to think Trump will win, but I'm increasingly confident it'll be Harris.

Your confidence appears to stem solely from DCUM posts and left-leaning news outlet headlines.

+1
Things are coalescing for Harris yet you can’t say one single good thing about her?
The mark of a losing campaign is 100% reliance on negative messaging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harris campaign pulling 1.7 million in broadcast ad spending from North Carolina. - Chris LaCivita

But why? She is drowning in $$$ per DCUM!

[Anonymous]

academia is full of bloated management that survives on overhead and that makes everything expensive for everyone including to do research as well tuition for kids. Democrats would never touch it since it is their vote bank

[Anonymous]

Bad typo-
Project 2025 will now troll us.