Tucker Carlson tells college students to "drop out & seek adventure"

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Anonymous wrote:He's actually right. Did you listen to what he said?

He said, unless you are seeking an occupation in something that requires college, don't go....And, with the debt that is such a burden for so many young people today, it is wise advice.
Far too many kids go to college with no clue about what they want to do. Better to figure that out before you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to figure it out.
He was essentially saying, "Don't be afraid to take risks." Nothing wrong with that.

Take risks, be a plumber...fine. live that life as am educated person instead of an uneducated person.

Exactly, isn't this what community colleges are for, do two years for minimal expense, get a good liberal arts foundation, and then if you want to keep going, two more years to pay for, which doesn't equate to hundreds of thousands. My plumber has a bachelor's degree, is very well read, subscribes to the NY Times and WAPO, loves jazz and classical music, and is a season ticket holder at the Kennedy Center, and has a number of interests outside of the blue-collar world of plumbing. His line of work gives him freedom and financial security to pursue his many interests, interests that were introduced to him through the foundation of his liberal arts studies.

Also, he thinks Fox News is a clown show car wreck with a few two many circus rings.

Oh yeah? Well my plumber has a part time job teaching CRT to preschoolers AND recycles.

Ivy humor I suppose.

I’d love someone here to tell me why my son should have gone to Harvard for his computer degree instead of local GMU. He’s making great money in cyber security after graduation with no debt.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s not wrong re college. College has become a racket. You can learn almost any useful skill on you tube or by working in the field. It’s really scammy to encourage poor people to incur massive educational debt to go into low paying fields.

Good luck getting hired with "Lurned It on You Tube" on your resume

Ha, seriously. Tucker is an old out of touch rich shut-in with no understanding of the real world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He's actually right. Did you listen to what he said?

He said, unless you are seeking an occupation in something that requires college, don't go....And, with the debt that is such a burden for so many young people today, it is wise advice.
Far too many kids go to college with no clue about what they want to do. Better to figure that out before you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to figure it out.
He was essentially saying, "Don't be afraid to take risks." Nothing wrong with that.

Take risks, be a plumber...fine. live that life as am educated person instead of an uneducated person.

Exactly, isn't this what community colleges are for, do two years for minimal expense, get a good liberal arts foundation, and then if you want to keep going, two more years to pay for, which doesn't equate to hundreds of thousands. My plumber has a bachelor's degree, is very well read, subscribes to the NY Times and WAPO, loves jazz and classical music, and is a season ticket holder at the Kennedy Center, and has a number of interests outside of the blue-collar world of plumbing. His line of work gives him freedom and financial security to pursue his many interests, interests that were introduced to him through the foundation of his liberal arts studies.

Also, he thinks Fox News is a clown show car wreck with a few two many circus rings.

Oh yeah? Well my plumber has a part time job teaching CRT to preschoolers AND recycles.

Ivy humor I suppose.

I’d love someone here to tell me why my son should have gone to Harvard for his computer degree instead of local GMU. He’s making great money in cyber security after graduation with no debt.

He didn’t drop out, right?

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Anonymous wrote:"Everyone who doesnt make all the same decisions as me is miserable and poor."

Yeah, that sounds like a healthy and realistic outlook.

Does anyone else find it hilarious that we are 10 pages in, and not a single person has acknowledged the fact that CNN, nemesis of Tucker's Fox, was founded by a college dropout?

Also, I dont want to shake anyone to the core, but America's most famous editor in chief, Anna Wintour, didnt go to college.

Lots and lots of people that everyone assumes went to college either didnt or didnt finish.

Ted Turner and Anna Wintour both had family money and are now old AF. Live in this century, please.

Okay, in this century-- basically every billionaire tech bro, except for Elon Musk, dropped out and none of them came from rich families (apart from Elon).

No they didn’t. Sergey brin and Larry page met and came up with the idea for google while they were graduate students at Stanford. They obviously had undergrad degrees. Warren buffet has an undergrad degree and an MBA. Steve Ballmer, former Ceo of Microsoft and billionaire many times has an mba too. And even The idea for Facebook came when Mark Z was at college and his co-founders were his friends there. Good universities bring smart people to together.

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Anonymous wrote:Born rich slackers like Tucker and his coddled kids should get credentialed partying through a pointless easy degree and marry well and hoard the cushy careers and power. But if you lose the birth lottery, just finish high school and get a blue collar job and impregnate Crystal or Marylou from the nearby trailer park as quickly as possible. And drink Bud Light and cheap whisky and get fat while watching sports Nascar and Fox News. Surrender all political and economic power and accept your lot in life, you peasants.

I’m wondering how outraged you’d be if some dolt - like you - wrote the above but used the names LaTonya and Danisha instead. And changed all the rest of your racist and classist descriptors to the “nearby ghetto,” etc. You’ve just completely outed yourself as a total rube and a$$hole.

Tucker doesn’t have hoards of Black fans. He’s talking to his low and middle class white base. He is advising them to relinquish all economic and political power and remain in flyover country pursuing adventure with a dead-end job and a dumb redneck wife.

Amazing how you managed to double-down on your gross racism/classism and still not answer the question.

What are the job options for college dropouts in 2022? What junior management track positions are avail to them at News Corp? Zero. What’s the dating pool like for college dropouts? Bleak and trashy. I’m damn sure Tucker’s own debutante daughters aren’t dating an $18 hr Amazon deliver driver. My language is harsh because that is the reality. There isn’t any adventure out there for the poor schmucks who take this deluded blue blood’s advice seriously. And there’s no rich and connected dad to save them when they fall behind.

You sound severely unhinged. I am the only person in my family to go to college, whereas almost all of my SO’s family went to college. I have contracting business owners, master electricians, and high end car salesmen in my family who are much happier and self adjusted than almost anyone in my SO’s family, most of whom are either overworked, depressed, full of anxiety, or all of the above. Think going to college is a fool proof ticket to happiness? Go to a cafeteria in a federal building and gauge the joy inside. Not full of fulfilled, happy people tbh.

Ignorance is bliss

And…your point?

Disregarding your classism, why are you assuming all these people mentioned are ignorant? Are you that shallow that you think the only way to learn is through a 4-year university? People read books on their own sometime. You do know that, right?

Cormac McCarthy, arguably one of the best writers of the past 50 years, dropped out of school to join the Air Force. The reason why the working class characters in his novels, and their occupations, are written with such fine detail is that he actually lived an adventurous life and didn’t spend most of his waking hours at a desk. Ditto Earnest Hemingway, who never went to college at all.

The hubris of these middlebrow office drones in this thread is mind boggling. Using “ignorance as bliss” as a put down as if being happy was less important than being a unhappy credentialed snob.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s not wrong re college. College has become a racket. You can learn almost any useful skill on you tube or by working in the field. It’s really scammy to encourage poor people to incur massive educational debt to go into low paying fields.

Good luck getting hired with "Lurned It on You Tube" on your resume

Ha, seriously. Tucker is an old out of touch rich shut-in with no understanding of the real world.

There are thousands of people in this area with IT jobs who pull down $150,000+ without an undergrad degree. A lot of employers value skills over a diploma.

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Anonymous wrote:Born rich slackers like Tucker and his coddled kids should get credentialed partying through a pointless easy degree and marry well and hoard the cushy careers and power. But if you lose the birth lottery, just finish high school and get a blue collar job and impregnate Crystal or Marylou from the nearby trailer park as quickly as possible. And drink Bud Light and cheap whisky and get fat while watching sports Nascar and Fox News. Surrender all political and economic power and accept your lot in life, you peasants.

I’m wondering how outraged you’d be if some dolt - like you - wrote the above but used the names LaTonya and Danisha instead. And changed all the rest of your racist and classist descriptors to the “nearby ghetto,” etc. You’ve just completely outed yourself as a total rube and a$$hole.

Tucker doesn’t have hoards of Black fans. He’s talking to his low and middle class white base. He is advising them to relinquish all economic and political power and remain in flyover country pursuing adventure with a dead-end job and a dumb redneck wife.

Amazing how you managed to double-down on your gross racism/classism and still not answer the question.

What are the job options for college dropouts in 2022? What junior management track positions are avail to them at News Corp? Zero. What’s the dating pool like for college dropouts? Bleak and trashy. I’m damn sure Tucker’s own debutante daughters aren’t dating an $18 hr Amazon deliver driver. My language is harsh because that is the reality. There isn’t any adventure out there for the poor schmucks who take this deluded blue blood’s advice seriously. And there’s no rich and connected dad to save them when they fall behind.

You sound severely unhinged. I am the only person in my family to go to college, whereas almost all of my SO’s family went to college. I have contracting business owners, master electricians, and high end car salesmen in my family who are much happier and self adjusted than almost anyone in my SO’s family, most of whom are either overworked, depressed, full of anxiety, or all of the above. Think going to college is a fool proof ticket to happiness? Go to a cafeteria in a federal building and gauge the joy inside. Not full of fulfilled, happy people tbh.

Ignorance is bliss

And…your point?

Disregarding your classism, why are you assuming all these people mentioned are ignorant? Are you that shallow that you think the only way to learn is through a 4-year university? People read books on their own sometime. You do know that, right?

Cormac McCarthy, arguably one of the best writers of the past 50 years, dropped out of school to join the Air Force. The reason why the working class characters in his novels, and their occupations, are written with such fine detail is that he actually lived an adventurous life and didn’t spend most of his waking hours at a desk. Ditto Earnest Hemingway, who never went to college at all.

The hubris of these middlebrow office drones in this thread is mind boggling. Using “ignorance as bliss” as a put down as if being happy was less important than being a unhappy credentialed snob.

Nice self righteous rant. Feel better now?
I went to trade school and am a member in good standing of a labor union, so you can
take your “classism” put downs and shove it.
My point is that when you aren’t aware of the big problems, you are likely happier.
But someone has to be in charge. Someone has to make policy.
Those someones need to be educated.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Born rich slackers like Tucker and his coddled kids should get credentialed partying through a pointless easy degree and marry well and hoard the cushy careers and power. But if you lose the birth lottery, just finish high school and get a blue collar job and impregnate Crystal or Marylou from the nearby trailer park as quickly as possible. And drink Bud Light and cheap whisky and get fat while watching sports Nascar and Fox News. Surrender all political and economic power and accept your lot in life, you peasants.

I’m wondering how outraged you’d be if some dolt - like you - wrote the above but used the names LaTonya and Danisha instead. And changed all the rest of your racist and classist descriptors to the “nearby ghetto,” etc. You’ve just completely outed yourself as a total rube and a$$hole.

Tucker doesn’t have hoards of Black fans. He’s talking to his low and middle class white base. He is advising them to relinquish all economic and political power and remain in flyover country pursuing adventure with a dead-end job and a dumb redneck wife.

Amazing how you managed to double-down on your gross racism/classism and still not answer the question.

What are the job options for college dropouts in 2022? What junior management track positions are avail to them at News Corp? Zero. What’s the dating pool like for college dropouts? Bleak and trashy. I’m damn sure Tucker’s own debutante daughters aren’t dating an $18 hr Amazon deliver driver. My language is harsh because that is the reality. There isn’t any adventure out there for the poor schmucks who take this deluded blue blood’s advice seriously. And there’s no rich and connected dad to save them when they fall behind.

You sound severely unhinged. I am the only person in my family to go to college, whereas almost all of my SO’s family went to college. I have contracting business owners, master electricians, and high end car salesmen in my family who are much happier and self adjusted than almost anyone in my SO’s family, most of whom are either overworked, depressed, full of anxiety, or all of the above. Think going to college is a fool proof ticket to happiness? Go to a cafeteria in a federal building and gauge the joy inside. Not full of fulfilled, happy people tbh.

Ignorance is bliss

And…your point?

Disregarding your classism, why are you assuming all these people mentioned are ignorant? Are you that shallow that you think the only way to learn is through a 4-year university? People read books on their own sometime. You do know that, right?

Cormac McCarthy, arguably one of the best writers of the past 50 years, dropped out of school to join the Air Force. The reason why the working class characters in his novels, and their occupations, are written with such fine detail is that he actually lived an adventurous life and didn’t spend most of his waking hours at a desk. Ditto Earnest Hemingway, who never went to college at all.

The hubris of these middlebrow office drones in this thread is mind boggling. Using “ignorance as bliss” as a put down as if being happy was less important than being a unhappy credentialed snob.

Nice self righteous rant. Feel better now?
I went to trade school and am a member in good standing of a labor union, so you can
take your “classism” put downs and shove it.
My point is that when you aren’t aware of the big problems, you are likely happier.
But someone has to be in charge. Someone has to make policy.
Those someones need to be educated.

Anyone who writes For Whom the Bell Tolls, Old Man and the Sea, Blood Meridian, or The Road is smarter than your average Senator. You can be successful, well read, erudite, and make wise decisions without going to college. Conversely, there are a lot of foolish morons out there with degrees.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Born rich slackers like Tucker and his coddled kids should get credentialed partying through a pointless easy degree and marry well and hoard the cushy careers and power. But if you lose the birth lottery, just finish high school and get a blue collar job and impregnate Crystal or Marylou from the nearby trailer park as quickly as possible. And drink Bud Light and cheap whisky and get fat while watching sports Nascar and Fox News. Surrender all political and economic power and accept your lot in life, you peasants.

I’m wondering how outraged you’d be if some dolt - like you - wrote the above but used the names LaTonya and Danisha instead. And changed all the rest of your racist and classist descriptors to the “nearby ghetto,” etc. You’ve just completely outed yourself as a total rube and a$$hole.

Tucker doesn’t have hoards of Black fans. He’s talking to his low and middle class white base. He is advising them to relinquish all economic and political power and remain in flyover country pursuing adventure with a dead-end job and a dumb redneck wife.

Amazing how you managed to double-down on your gross racism/classism and still not answer the question.

What are the job options for college dropouts in 2022? What junior management track positions are avail to them at News Corp? Zero. What’s the dating pool like for college dropouts? Bleak and trashy. I’m damn sure Tucker’s own debutante daughters aren’t dating an $18 hr Amazon deliver driver. My language is harsh because that is the reality. There isn’t any adventure out there for the poor schmucks who take this deluded blue blood’s advice seriously. And there’s no rich and connected dad to save them when they fall behind.

You sound severely unhinged. I am the only person in my family to go to college, whereas almost all of my SO’s family went to college. I have contracting business owners, master electricians, and high end car salesmen in my family who are much happier and self adjusted than almost anyone in my SO’s family, most of whom are either overworked, depressed, full of anxiety, or all of the above. Think going to college is a fool proof ticket to happiness? Go to a cafeteria in a federal building and gauge the joy inside. Not full of fulfilled, happy people tbh.

Ignorance is bliss

And…your point?

Disregarding your classism, why are you assuming all these people mentioned are ignorant? Are you that shallow that you think the only way to learn is through a 4-year university? People read books on their own sometime. You do know that, right?

Cormac McCarthy, arguably one of the best writers of the past 50 years, dropped out of school to join the Air Force. The reason why the working class characters in his novels, and their occupations, are written with such fine detail is that he actually lived an adventurous life and didn’t spend most of his waking hours at a desk. Ditto Earnest Hemingway, who never went to college at all.

The hubris of these middlebrow office drones in this thread is mind boggling. Using “ignorance as bliss” as a put down as if being happy was less important than being a unhappy credentialed snob.

Nice self righteous rant. Feel better now?
I went to trade school and am a member in good standing of a labor union, so you can
take your “classism” put downs and shove it.
My point is that when you aren’t aware of the big problems, you are likely happier.
But someone has to be in charge. Someone has to make policy.
Those someones need to be educated.

Anyone who writes For Whom the Bell Tolls, Old Man and the Sea, Blood Meridian, or The Road is smarter than your average Senator. You can be successful, well read, erudite, and make wise decisions without going to college. Conversely, there are a lot of foolish morons out there with degrees.

Understatement of the century. And yes, I did earn degrees, but would never state that those who went to college are somehow smarter than those who did not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Born rich slackers like Tucker and his coddled kids should get credentialed partying through a pointless easy degree and marry well and hoard the cushy careers and power. But if you lose the birth lottery, just finish high school and get a blue collar job and impregnate Crystal or Marylou from the nearby trailer park as quickly as possible. And drink Bud Light and cheap whisky and get fat while watching sports Nascar and Fox News. Surrender all political and economic power and accept your lot in life, you peasants.

I’m wondering how outraged you’d be if some dolt - like you - wrote the above but used the names LaTonya and Danisha instead. And changed all the rest of your racist and classist descriptors to the “nearby ghetto,” etc. You’ve just completely outed yourself as a total rube and a$$hole.

Tucker doesn’t have hoards of Black fans. He’s talking to his low and middle class white base. He is advising them to relinquish all economic and political power and remain in flyover country pursuing adventure with a dead-end job and a dumb redneck wife.

Amazing how you managed to double-down on your gross racism/classism and still not answer the question.

What are the job options for college dropouts in 2022? What junior management track positions are avail to them at News Corp? Zero. What’s the dating pool like for college dropouts? Bleak and trashy. I’m damn sure Tucker’s own debutante daughters aren’t dating an $18 hr Amazon deliver driver. My language is harsh because that is the reality. There isn’t any adventure out there for the poor schmucks who take this deluded blue blood’s advice seriously. And there’s no rich and connected dad to save them when they fall behind.

You sound severely unhinged. I am the only person in my family to go to college, whereas almost all of my SO’s family went to college. I have contracting business owners, master electricians, and high end car salesmen in my family who are much happier and self adjusted than almost anyone in my SO’s family, most of whom are either overworked, depressed, full of anxiety, or all of the above. Think going to college is a fool proof ticket to happiness? Go to a cafeteria in a federal building and gauge the joy inside. Not full of fulfilled, happy people tbh.

Ignorance is bliss

And…your point?

Disregarding your classism, why are you assuming all these people mentioned are ignorant? Are you that shallow that you think the only way to learn is through a 4-year university? People read books on their own sometime. You do know that, right?

Cormac McCarthy, arguably one of the best writers of the past 50 years, dropped out of school to join the Air Force. The reason why the working class characters in his novels, and their occupations, are written with such fine detail is that he actually lived an adventurous life and didn’t spend most of his waking hours at a desk. Ditto Earnest Hemingway, who never went to college at all.

The hubris of these middlebrow office drones in this thread is mind boggling. Using “ignorance as bliss” as a put down as if being happy was less important than being a unhappy credentialed snob.

Nice self righteous rant. Feel better now?
I went to trade school and am a member in good standing of a labor union, so you can
take your “classism” put downs and shove it.
My point is that when you aren’t aware of the big problems, you are likely happier.
But someone has to be in charge. Someone has to make policy.
Those someones need to be educated.

Anyone who writes For Whom the Bell Tolls, Old Man and the Sea, Blood Meridian, or The Road is smarter than your average Senator. You can be successful, well read, erudite, and make wise decisions without going to college. Conversely, there are a lot of foolish morons out there with degrees.

You can be educated without a degree. Unfortunately many of the working class feel genuine hostility toward education and expertise.
Or they just don’t care, and that’s fine too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He’s not wrong re college. College has become a racket. You can learn almost any useful skill on you tube or by working in the field. It’s really scammy to encourage poor people to incur massive educational debt to go into low paying fields.

Good luck getting hired with "Lurned It on You Tube" on your resume

Ha, seriously. Tucker is an old out of touch rich shut-in with no understanding of the real world.

There are thousands of people in this area with IT jobs who pull down $150,000+ without an undergrad degree. A lot of employers value skills over a diploma.

Just learn to code you rubes and you can be one of the thousands in a nation of 350 million people to make $150,000. Really great odds. And Tucker in this very interview said such desk jobs are soul destroying. Not adventurous enough for the dainty blue blood with school boy hair.

[Anonymous]

Tucker Carlson is such a hideous hypocrite. For his own kid Buckley, he emailed a prominent Democratic first son to ask him to pull strings to get him into Georgetown. (His kid didn’t get in even after that, he went to UVA as a legacy.) So Tucker can pretend he’s a man of the people but for his kids he wanted them to be college grads at elite universities.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/19/tucker-carlson-hunter-biden-georgetown
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Emails reveal the ‘extent’ which Carlson was willing to turn on Biden’s son since the 2020 election, Washington Post says

The existence of emails about getting Buckley Carlson into Georgetown has been known for some time, thanks to a laptop once owned by H Biden that was obtained by Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and pushed to media in 2020.

[Anonymous]

Tucker Carlson is the manager of the Daily Caller. He clearly isn’t hiring college grads to work there because the spelling errors there are similar to the ones my 10 year old makes.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s not wrong re college. College has become a racket. You can learn almost any useful skill on you tube or by working in the field. It’s really scammy to encourage poor people to incur massive educational debt to go into low paying fields.

Good luck getting hired with "Lurned It on You Tube" on your resume

Don’t you know. . . It’s Lurnt it. There I fixed it fer ya!

[Anonymous]

One of Tucker Carlson's mentees describes the social orbit and dating pool avail to men who don't go to or drop out of college.