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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sensing a complete lack of humor among you lot.  You do realize much of what he was saying was tongue-in-cheek, right?  No, clearly you don’t.  He had a lot of sensible things to say among the kidding around.  Sad that this has to be explained to you, but your outrage is very so typical (and comical).[/quote]

Nothing funny about encouraging a bunch of dumb rubes to blow up their children’s lives. Unlike Tucker’s kids, there is no Plan B Daddy backup plan for an ill-advised gap year or an unplanned pregnancy. Just debt that can’t be paid on wages they are likely to earn.

Poor and LMC folks don’t get to afford “adventures” - that’s a privileged white brat phenomenon. And given the quality of the males watching Fox News, they don’t have the life skills or intelligence to independently assess what he’s saying. They’ll just do it to “own the libs” and find themselves completely p*ned in the process, which is the whole point. [/quote]

Watch the interview instead of deriving your already biased opinion from someone’s already biased tweet. He said he encouraged all of his children not to go to college but they didn’t listen to him and he said his father told him that college was a “holding pen for the middle class” and his Dad looked down at college as an superfluous bourgeoisie right of passage, basically, and that his Dad put more emphasis on being well read than being credentialed. Like PP said his statements were a lot more nuanced and some were tongue in cheek than what you are implying but of course what is a day on the internet without having the opportunity to rage about a tweet about something you haven’t even seen yourself.

As for his points about college, how are they totally off base when college debt is skyrocketing and there are so many young adults saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debts that they can’t pay off with specialized liberal arts degrees that will never get them high paying jobs? Advising a young person to instead focus on a high paying trade job and investing their savings in an index fund from a young age, instead of racking up debts they can’t pay off until they’re 40, is not the worse advise. If you’re getting a STEM degree from a in-state school that’s an exception, but the average young person would be better off financially in the long run learning a highly sought after trade and not incurring so much debt.[/quote]

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