35 Burst results for "Ivy League"
Overthrowing Education
A highlight from Batsheva Frankel Wraps it Up
"And just as two things that I was thinking about, but one directly related was that even with all the ways that we teach there, whether it was art or now qualia, students do get into really good schools and, you know, the ones they get to go to the ones they want to and the ones that are good for them. And a lot of those are, you know, really great schools that I should say, they're probably all really great schools. Just, you know, the ones that have these reputations of being, you know, with the Ivy Leagues and stuff. Yeah. And I think that's another, you asked about shifts. I think that it's very clear to us, you know, we graduate these kids, we don't have APs, I'll quit before we offer, you know, before we purchase a curriculum from a, a for -profit, I don't know that they're for -profit, but from a large corporation. They are. It's the college board. Yeah. Yeah. Our teachers are smart enough to create their own curriculum in, you know, in concert with the students. But our kids don't have that sort of 1990s, you know, I took these six APs just like, you know, that the other 20 million kids that applied this year. But they have a, an extraordinary resume of self -directed academic projects that are not frivolous in the least, including a very deep senior thesis experience program also where they, where they also mentor younger students, have an opportunity to teach something they're passionate about. And that's just carried the day for, you know, as far back as I can, I can think in the history of the school, but especially recently, I feel like with standardized tests becoming, you know, optional at a lot of places, including the university of California, which is a still a jaw dropping realization for me, right. That there's more and more looking at the actual child. And if, if your child has, you know, scholarly fervor to, to coin an awkward term, if there's a kid that is so excited about learning and they're still excited when they're 18, it hasn't been beaten out of them. And you have a resume of writing and presenting experiences to back that up. I think you're, you're operating in the real currency of academia, right? So, you know, professors aren't promoted through multiple choice exams. And so I think that... Neither are most people in their jobs. Yeah. Yeah. How about that? I know, right? So I think that that's another, you know, another place where I'm, I'm optimistic is that the institutions that we've, for better or worse, given the power to arbitrate what's, you know, what counts as smart, are getting it right more and more. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's, that's great. And I think that bodes well for the types of freshman classes that they're, they're going to get. I think it's great for them. I think it's great for, for kids. And I think it may trickle down to teaching the, you know, the parents as the consumers or the sort of important decision makers in their kids' lives might trickle down to them wanting their kid to have that resume of deep learning experiences, as opposed to the transcript of, you know, more or less meaningless letters and numbers. Right. Right. Exactly. Well, that brings us to kind of my next topic, which is talking about what some of the most important, I guess I'll use the word again, topics or themes are that you think are important. And certainly the ones that I have are very much reflected on this podcast. Like what, what would your. Yeah. I mean, we're, we're on one right now. It's student empowerment. Student empowerment in, in the educational setting, in the individual classroom setting and in school -wide setting. And I'm not just talking about the student body president and. Right. Secretary and treasurer and, you know, five. Right. Five weird kids who, who, you know, who care about the school at large. By the way, I just want to say when we say weird kids, we usually, that's a very positive thing. Yeah. I mean it in quotes. Yeah. In the best way. Maybe they're unfairly perceived as weird, not by me. Right. Yeah, or us. Cause they actually care. Yeah. We use that in our own, in our own sort of way, but, but yeah. Getting, getting, uh, getting kids to demand better education. I would say is one I'll throw that one out. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to say that for me, it was something that I got from working at Arte, which is, uh, going gradeless and grading. And we've worked, we worked with many different kinds of iterations, but, and we've talked about this even with you, I've talked about this on the show. And we've talked about it all the time. I have many, many, many episodes on it because I think it's probably one of the most important things that could happen in education is that we stopped grading our students and we start giving them just feedback, working towards mastery. You know, just to me, that's, that's what causes students to become curious and interested. It doesn't, you know, it makes all the difference. And I also say like, I never had kids really cheating. Why? Like, why would you cheat? You're not getting graded. What system are you trying to beat? The system where you, uh, grapple with ideas and, and enhance the quality of your life. I think that it, you know, maybe, uh, the way that the ungrading thing could be glossed would be creating great independent learners, creating kids that just don't care about grades. Even if there are grades, their, their motivation is not coming from there. I think getting rid of the grades really helps the kids to not fall into the trap of doing things to please the teacher or, or even worse, doing things to get the grade or get the assignment out of the way. It's really what we're aiming for is a motivational system that is sincere and authentic. Right. So that's a big change to me. If somehow we were able to do that, I think we would see a lot of other really positive changes kind of fall into line as well. And you know, of course, obviously the assessment process altogether, like, you know, I'm, we, we used to have a thing when we did the, do you remember when we did the open houses and we said, it said something like, I really loved that final I took, or I really loved that test that I said, no one ever or something, whatever. I can't remember what it was, but I loved that we were just so upfront.
Mark Levin
Fraudulent Law Professors Won't Debate Mark Levin
"None of them will debate me. None of them. I mean, I'm just a regular schmo. I went to Temple University Law School. It's not an Ivy League school. It's all we could afford, but I didn't clerk at the Supreme Court. I still have my wits. I'm ready to duke it out with any of them. But unfortunately, it's not going to happen. There's a piece here. So that is what's going on in Georgia, awaiting a possible tonight. indictment Now, why would they indict tonight? Because they can do whatever they want. Although, blame it on MAGA and violence. Was there violence in Washington when indictments came down? No. Was there violence in New York? No. So what are they talking about? Nothing. 117 charges. I want you to understand what this means. This means, technically, Trump if Donald were convicted of everything and got the full sentences, he'd be doing a thousand years in prison, Mr. Producer. First in federal prison, then they'd have to move him to state prison in New York, then they'd have to
The Eric Metaxas Show
Biden Wants to Send Black Women to the Moon? Col. Allen West Reacts
"Really is amazing to me that things have gotten this far. I mean, I know that Joe Biden made some comment the other day, you know, we're talking about sending people back to the moon. And, you know, I don't know if he said we want to send, you know, three black women or whatever, but it just sounds laughable. It sounds laughable. I mean, I'd love to send Barack Obama to Mars, if there's a, you know, if we're going to send to Mars, but it's sort of, I would say that it really is denigrating to black people. I would be offended if I were black, the idea that you're, you know, you're kind of, you're disrespecting me by referring to me principally by the color of my skin. There's something about that, which is itself racist, ironically. It is. And think about this, you know, right now you have the people on the left who are saying that math is racist. And of course they want to use that as an excuse, since in the public school system, most black kids are not reading or doing math at grade level. But remember, if we want to talk about going to the moon, remember that movie Hidden Figures that highlighted those black women, they were brilliant mathematicians. So why would we come back and say that you're not capable of doing math? It's a racist thing. Two plus two equals four is not right. We don't need to have any college interest exams, but just give us the standard. And what I like instead of this equity thing and this equality of outcomes and this whole focus on identity politics is the equality of opportunity. And as you well know, you know, being highly educated and an Ivy League kind of guy, the quality of education opens the doors. And you've got to set the conditions starting very early on. And when you look at the decimation of the traditional nuclear family, having that good mother and father in the home, that's what made the difference in my life. The reason why I became an officer in the United States Army was because my dad challenged me at the age of 15 to be the first officer in our family.
Mark Levin
Kamala Harris Is the Real Person Dividing Our Country
"Up the Marxism, when you stand up the racism, when you stand up to the sexualizing of your children, when you stand up to their teachers union, when you stand up to their phony experts like Fauci in Washington DC, they're the ones shutting down social media sites, they're the ones taking the law and power. We're the ones trying to divide? We're the ones trying to divide. No. An agenda to attack the importance of diversity and equity and inclusion. First of all, nobody's attacking the importance of diversity, except the Democrats. Now ladies and gentlemen, who was it that was standing in the Harvard school way doors to stop Asians from getting entry? The Democrats. Not us. And by the way, in the 1920s Harvard did the same thing to Jews. So did Yale, so did Princeton. All these sanctuaries, if you will, for the left Ivy League. They did it. Was it the plumber? Was it the electrician or the truck driver back then? Was the it butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker? It was them. They did it. Equity? Nobody fought for equity. Marxist principle. Notice they don't talk about under the law. That's so yesterday. Go ahead. The unity of the Rainbow Coalition. These wrote extremists legislation and brought litigation to the United States Supreme Court of Thurgood
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Carl Jackson: Do the Right Thing and Your Feelings Will Follow
"Is part of the point with the left, that I guess there's I guess you're supposed to believe that the government really cares about your feeling, the feelings that government institutions. I know Ben Shapiro, he says facts don't care about your feelings. I believe I believe that's the statement that he makes. And I think it's kind of the opposite. Facts do care about your feelings, but you have to deal with logic. You have to deal with reason. There's a there's a scripture in the Bible. I forget where exactly. So forgive me. But I believe it's in Genesis and it tells us to do the right thing and then your feelings will follow. So actually, facts do care about your feelings. So you do the right thing and the feelings will follow. You abolish racism, essentially, in college, in college. Man, I can't even think of the word in college admissions. So you abolish that. You treat people as if everyone has dignity, as if everyone is capable, as if everyone has opportunity, as long as they work hard. And then guess what? You go apply to the college. Now, here's the fact. Some people will not be able to get into an Ivy League college. Some people are going to have to start at a junior college. But guess what? That's OK. You'll save money anyway. But guess what? That's OK. That's OK. It doesn't end anybody from applying to college or anyone getting accepted into college. And quite frankly, we got a lot of work to do on college campuses anyway because they're run by a bunch of Marxists.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A Shocking Date With Ivy League Insecure Man
"So what was I saying? Oh yes, I was on the state and the guy went to an Ivy League college. And he had this complex and I could detect it. It was sort of like a little under the radar where I think he felt insecure about the fact that I went to Harvard. And he didn't. And he did it. But he went to an Ivy League school. And so at one point in the middle of the dinner, he was like, well, those of us who went to Ivy League school. And that's when in my head I was going, I mean, it was just, I don't know. I couldn't imagine thinking that way. And then towards the end of the day, he said, because I was talking about a book that I was reading that interested me, and he said, oh, I took a class in college on a similar subject. The professor of the class was just as smart as any of the professors you had at Harvard. And that's when I detected. So that was the second time. It was the second happened twice in that date, and so he's feeling inferior. Yes, and it was so unattractive to me. I can't even tell you. It was unattractive to me that he was talking about the ivy leagues. Literally I was sitting there and I'm like, oh, you're right. You know, it's so not a part of my daily life, and I'm not saying this in a cell. I'm trying to illustrate. Go further. I just want to make clear, look, I believe you because you're a truth teller. It's hard for me to believe you think about it that infrequently. But it doesn't even matter. Only because it's recent.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Trish Regan: The Connection Between Canceling Tests Scores & CRT
"I mean, you think about Columbia University. My Alma mater, by the way, saying, okay, you don't need the SAT anymore. Well, part of that is because it's rooted in this CRT, which came out of a lot of academia, specifically law schools, critical race theory, which suggests that you're never going to get a fair shot in this country. If you happen to be born black. And so we need to somehow correct this. And the idea is, well, if we have more people that we allow into these quote unquote Ivy League schools, they'll get that stamp of approval, which will enable them to be on a certain course in life. And the only way may be because unfortunately, and this gets back to some root issues to quote Kamala Harris, rue issues, we got education systems in so many poor minority communities that are beyond messed up Chicago, Compton, out in California and New York City. I did a story years ago about how kids were getting passed from grade to grade all the way to 12th grade. They couldn't read Mike. I mean, this is a problem. And so the answer is somehow, okay, well we're going to just get rid of SATs because we can bring all these people in and I think they're afraid of lawsuits because what about the poor kid who, you know, whose parents immigrated here from India or the Philippines and has been studying his tail off for years and years and years and gets a perfect score on the SAT and straight a's, but that child because he's from Asian descent may not be able to get in. They're preparing for this. There is an agenda. They think they can fix it this way with handouts with college degrees. And the truth is you can't because it goes back to something pretty simple. We need to do a better job organizing at the local level to ensure everybody's got some kind of access to opportunity. We don't do that. When you see Lori Lightfoot out in Chicago, thank goodness Chicago voted her out,
Tech Path Crypto
"ivy league" Discussed on Tech Path Crypto
"Would you buy your wife an ETF or a diamond? I'd rather have one on the real thing, Bitcoin. I'm kind of curious when you think about Bitcoin versus going into the ETF. I feel still that the ETF is just really for people who are not ready to jump into self custody just yet. Or or people that like to see their asset exposure on one statement from their brokerage house that says, oh, yeah, here. I have 5%. So I love that statement. The only wrong allocation to Bitcoin is owning zero. That's very smart. It's more risky. I say it all the time. It's more risky to own zero percent Bitcoin in your portfolio than it is to have a proper allocation. My allocation is fairly heavy relative to my recommendation, but my recommendation is everybody. Every allocate every portfolio in the world should have between 5 and 10% of their portfolio. Well, or insurance, okay? And here's the funny thing. When they have 5% in it Paul, it's like they forget what the other 95% of their portfolio is in. And they only focus on this 5%. Oh my God, it's up and down. Hey guys, it's fire insurance. Let's talk in 20 years. Do not focus on this in the short term. So that's my best advice. Interesting stuff. All right, a couple other questions. Why would anybody probe Bitcoin want to harm what? Want to arm the big boys to legally manipulate the price of Bitcoin. Do you think that that's wrong? That's wrong. Don't you think they could manipulate the price of Bitcoin easier through a futures based ETF? Exactly what they have. It's cash settled. They could print as much money as they want and short sell Bitcoin in the futures market and cash settle it. Versus a Bitcoin cash ETF. So that statement is wrong. I have to take issue with that. Yeah, no problem. Okay, here's a good one. When will crypto decouple from the U.S. stock market? Do you think it already Chris Pollard? Chris Pollard, great question. Look, whenever the Ivy League cuts start realizing that it is a risk off asset, not a risk on asset. But until then, you are hostage to the stupid kids coming out of Ivy League schools of which I'm one of them. And my portfolio is 90% Bitcoin, LOL. I'm okay with that. But I'm not telling guys have to be 90% because the greatest asymmetry of all time means
AP News Radio
Biden says Labor nominee Julie Su represents American dream
"President Biden has tapped a nominee to lead the Labor Department. Julie is the American Dream. The president says Julie Sue is committed to making sure that dream is going to reach for every American. She's the daughter of Chinese immigrants and says a union job gave them a path to the middle class and her a path to the Ivy League. So to all workers who are toiling in the shadows, to workers who are organizing for power and respect in the workplace, know that we see you, we stand with you, and we will fight for you. Some Republicans, though, call Sue anti worker, while Democrats strongly back sued to replace Marty Walsh, the president had been under pressure to name his first Asian American cabinet secretary. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak and Eric Discuss the 'He Gets Us' Super Bowl Ads
"Get to talk to my friend John smirke for a few minutes. John, what else should we talk about today? Well, I've got another piece that stream dot org called AOC warns us, adds like he gets us, won't stop her from coming to get us. That's the Super Bowl ad. Yeah, now I didn't know there was a Super Bowl happening, but I heard about it afterwards and that there's this thing in the middle called a halftime where they have TV commercials. And in that, you know, let me correct you. The Super Bowl has been happening for a half a century. It's good to ignore it. But halftime is really where they bring out kind of pornographic performers and things. It's not for the kids. Let me tell you. But a lot of people do run these ads throughout the Super Bowl. You referring to one that was about Jesus, and it was called he gets us. And it was a kind of a pro Christian ad just designed to kind of pull people in and say, you know, Jesus isn't a boogeyman of the religious right, but he is the savior of the world. And he loves you. Right. And so I looked at they have a whole bunch of these ads. They created a whole campaign and they put several of them on the Super Bowl. And they seem to be a well meaning effort to dismantle hostility towards Christianity, but I'm kind of uncomfortable because what they do is Jesus was an immigrant. He was a refugee. Jesus was poor. Jesus resisted the power structure. Jesus was a victim of capital punishment. All the things about Jesus that don't matter at all. Because I say he was actually from Guatemala. Did they get that in? Nicaragua. And you have to say it in that NPR accent. So I was like, well, I'm next. I think the people who funded this were well meaning. I think they probably hired a bunch of woke tattooed Ivy League grads, but like, how can we make Jesus less repulsive? I know, we'll emphasize the fact that he had darker skin than, say, like, yeah, he wasn't white. He realized that he wasn't white, like the bad people.
Mark Levin
Ron DeSantis: Coming Out of the Ivy League More Conservative Than Ever
"Was kind of those rust belt values that raised me I get to Yale I had no idea what I was getting into I didn't even know colleges were liberal I mean I was like 18 years old I show up my first day And in Florida we would wear things like Jean shorts flip flops and a T-shirt so I show up my first day wearing that And you've got kids from Andover and groton and I was a fish out of water And it was a major major culture shock I wasn't like a refined conservative in terms of politics because I was mostly into sports and things like that But you start sitting in some of these classrooms and even though one of Yale's mottos is for God for country for Yale said in the classroom attacking religion attacking God attacking the United States I'm sitting in class and they're saying that the U.S. was to blame for the Cold War not Joseph Stalin So this is the and I had never experienced that because growing up in dunedin I didn't know if people were a Republican or Democrat You know you had both of them but everyone kind of believed in the core American principles And so that was my exposure to the left And I think what it did for me was it was so different from what I thought was appropriate that I wasn't influenced by it in terms of it pulling me in that direction I rebuild the other way So by the time I got through college and law school I was definitely set Although when I was running for Congress I kind of tell the story in the book I was green I had never run before You know I had an impressive resume I had served in Iraq and done things So there were things that conservative primary voters would like But you know you see Yale and Harvard that is like people say liberal elitist stuff And so the question was how do I prove that I'm actually mean what I say And I was like listen how many people that you know go up to Washington They say they're going to do these things And then the swamp co opts them and they end up not falling principle Well let's look at me I got through Yale and Harvard and came out more conservative than when I went in The swamp's going to have nothing on that and they appreciated that
The Charlie Kirk Show
How the Truth Changes Everything With Dr. Jeff Myers
"Truth changes everything. I hope you believe that because it's true, we're going to talk about what is actually true and why does that matter? Jeff Myers is with us doctor Jeff Myers. Charlie, it's great to be with you. This is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to have a fun day. Yeah. We're working yet. We're putting you on tour, so we got a whole hour here, and then we're going to dream city church in a couple hours, and we're going to hopefully have a really big group there. I want to talk about some ministries. I also want to talk about your book, which I found to be really, really helpful, and I really enjoyed. So but first tell us about some administration the work you do. Well, some in manage two springs, Colorado, little hippy down, right at the foot of speed. We have been some administration has been there for 60 years and during that time, they have focused on helping to equip and support a rising generation to embrace God's truth and to champion a biblical worldview. So we're not just looking for young adults who believe that Jesus is real. But who take that as the basis of their reality and expand it to everything else. So we want them to go into law and politics and the military and medicine and science and all these different areas taking those biblical convictions with them to some that's been able to train about a 100,000 young people. It's two week long courses. You spoke at one of them. We met over at Arizona Christian. I was really impressed with the kids. They're really impressive, aren't they? Yeah. And the cool thing is, some of those kids are headed off to Ivy League schools, some of them are headed off to trade schools, some of them are going straight into the workforce. They're all across the spectrum, but once they learn that they can learn and they love to learn, then all of a sudden they light up, they want to grow, they want to read, they want to ask questions. They realize every kid is smart, different kinds of smart, but we can't all be the sort of people who make a difference.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Wharton's Majoring in Woke Capitalism
"Wharton business school is the business school at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, sounds like a state school, but it's not. It's an Ivy League school, and Wharton is one of the very top business schools in the country. In fact, it has been for 30 years. Small personal note, I almost went to Wharton. I was admitted and I remember talking to the dean and I told him that I was going to Washington to work in politics, and I wanted to defer my admission for two years. And he was like, oh, yes to mesh. That's absolutely fine because we actually like our students to have some work experience before they come back. Well, as it turns out, I never went back and the reason was that I got a job at the Reagan White House, almost exactly at the time I was supposed to tell Wharton that I was going to show up that fall. So I changed my mind. I convinced my family. Well, I'm telling you all this because just read an interesting investigation. It's in real clear investigations dot com, which sometimes does really good work. And this is exposing the penetration of woke ideology and specifically this so called ESG business. I've talked about ESG, ESG is basically the climate agenda. And what I found a little bit startling, well, number one, business schools have tended to be by and large, a little more conservative than liberal arts universities in general. So you can and that's because they're anchored in economics. You've got students who by and large are coming there because they want to learn economic skills. They want to go out and make a bunch of money. So it's very interesting that we see woke ideology penetrating a place like Wharton to this degree. Well, to what degree we might expect there to be some left wing professors there. We might expect that they have kind of some kind of a diversity statement, but no, they actually have majors in diversity and inclusion diversity equity and inclusion that's DEI. And they now have a new major in ESG. So in other words, what is what is a major in ESG? It is using the climate issue as leverage to, in a sense, bludgeon companies into only investing in kind of carbon free or carbon reducing projects.
Mark Levin
Larry O'Connor: Larger Corps Don't Have Visionaries Anymore
"You saw it with Apple At one point and I think you're seeing it with Apple again With their currency Where you have a visionary like herb Kelleher like Steve Jobs Like Walt Disney and frankly after him it wasn't until Michael eisner And Jeffrey katzenberg where you actually had visionaries back in charge of Disney Where you had people who had a passion for the product that the company made And then they go away for one reason or another sometimes because they die or retire Or move on Sometimes there's a hostile takeover by investors Who want to go in another direction And then they put somebody in place that doesn't have that love for the product They don't even understand the product that the company sells Wall Street would have you believe that the product doesn't matter The people with MBAs coming out of your Ivy League schools will have you believe that knowledge of the actual end product is superfluous to running a good company That there's some sort of mold or cookie cutter That you can just put in place And in Apple is the perfect example They get rid of Steve Jobs they put in a guy whose claim to fame was running Pepsi Ah you know same thing It doesn't matter it's a consumer product You can sell a soft drink At the time probably 75 cents Or you can sell a $1500 personal computer It's really ultimately the same business That's the mindset That's the mentality
Mark Levin
Survey Finds a Lack of Republican Professors in U.S. Universities
"Zero Republican professors in more than half of surveyed university departments My eyesight is not perfect mister but do you remember the source this I have a I'm looking at the bottom line but the font is too small despite my using Human events I apologize human events Alex Timothy even though I'm using this try and see a recent survey carried out by the conservative higher education news outlet the college fix Great site Has revealed that a shockingly large number of university departments don't have a single Republican professor Only 61 Republican professors were identified across the entire survey Compared to 667 Democrats Who are outnumbering their GOP counterparts 11 to one By the way this is intentional Because a lot of these department heads are very influential if not ultimately influential in the selection of faculty and it's very much sort of an inbred process They pick from the same schools typically Ivy League schools they're very careful about their ideology even though they may not say so out loud And this is how they pick the faculty These results should be another wake-up call that higher education is severely biased and broken so Jennifer kabani editor in chief of the capital fix College fix rather The foxes regarding the hen house she said the parents politicians and watchdogs wonder why students go into college as innocent and eager 18 year olds and come out four years later As mouth breathing progressive social system Democrats look no further than the people teaching them what to think day in and day out of college
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Chip Roy: Talk to Everyone to Get out & Vote in November
"Did not have a great result in New York 19 That molinaro race which was a special election for Congress We should have won that seat And we didn't I mean I'm not as optimistic And I think we're not doing any favors by telling people it's going to be some landslide Sometimes fear can be a powerful motivator You better get out and vote and we may not we may lose There's no question on that last point Okay every lister out there If you don't show up you don't knock doors If you don't talk to your friends around the dinner table or your church groups or your local organization if you don't talk to everybody you know to get out and vote we may not take the house back and then you've got two more years of this garbage But I'll tell you this I didn't think three months ago that we should all be talking about a big tidal wave nor do I think right now oh my God the sky is falling I believe in the long haul nature of a campaign and that there's time and we got to drive out voters But I'll tell you this You don't win based on the fact that you're counting on voters to be mad at the other guy You win by going on offense And unfortunately Republican leadership is not doing that A lot of my freedom caucus colleagues are I'm trying to put stuff out there but you need leadership to galvanize that get everybody behind it and have 200 of us standing on the steps of the capitol making a solemn promise that we're going to take this damn country back We're going to do it for all of the founders We're going to do it for our granddad's new storm Normandy We're going to do it for the cops throughout there on the beat getting persecuted We're going to do it for the kids who did it all right and are getting screwed while we pay off the loans of a bunch of Ivy League lettuce We're going to do it for the men and women in uniform We're getting fired because they refuse to take a jab We're going to go fight the authoritarian state We're going to stop spending money We don't have We're going to secure the border and we're not going to turn this country over to the leftists I want leadership to stand on the steps of the capitol and say that But I can promise you I'm going to keep saying it
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Chip Roy: Student Loans Versus a Loan Congress Voted On
"A little stroll down memory lane Leftists came forward with this massive cares act which then funded people not to work Republicans said they would fight it and then you as they usually do they crawl up into the corner whining and simpering that they couldn't fight to stop the plus up in an unemployment spending that has caused our economy to get absolutely wrecked while we shut down and then pay people not to work In the process they passed the PPP It was imperfect It was a mess but I'll tell you what in the face of a government using the power of government to shut down small businesses it was at least something to try to keep some of these people afloat So some people take advantage of something that was voted on by Congress in order to keep their business afloat while a bunch of crybaby minnies shut your government down and shut the biggest economy down in the history of the world And then these leftists come up and they say oh oh this is hypocritical You took out a loan A loan that Congress voted on And then they knew what the deal was with taking the loan out to get it paid back beforehand Instead you got a bunch of Ivy League leftists who got a sociology or a gender studies the great sitting in their parents basement they can't get a job And now they need to have their loan quote paid off On the back of a plumber who started a business or a responsible student who actually paid his or her loan off I am so sick of this garbage and saw the American people But that doesn't do enough We have got to get a Republican Party who will stand up and do what they said they would do and stop this and fight it and care more about freedom than their damn job They got to go fight
The Dan Bongino Show
Chip Roy: If You Don't Show up & Vote, We May Not Take the House Back
"Some people may think oh well I don't need to vote them We did not have a great result in New York 19 That molinaro race which was a special election for Congress We should have won that seat And we didn't I mean I'm not as optimistic And I think we're not doing any favors by telling people it's going to be some landslide Sometimes fear can be a powerful motivator You better get out and vote We may not we may lose There's no question on that last point okay Every lister out there If you don't show up if you don't knock doors if you don't talk to your friends around the dinner table or your church groups or your local organization if you don't talk to everybody you know to get out and vote we may not take the house back and then you've got two more years of this garbage But I'll tell you this I didn't think three months ago that we should all be talking about a big tidal wave Nor do I think right now oh my God the sky is falling I believe in the long haul nature of a campaign and that there's time and we got to drive out voters But I'll tell you this You don't win based on the fact that you're counting on voters to be mad at the other guy You win by going on offense And unfortunately Republican leadership is not doing that A lot of my freedom caucus colleagues are I'm trying to put stuff out there but you need leadership to galvanize that get everybody behind it and have 200 of us standing on the steps of the capitol making a solemn promise that we're going to take this damn country back We're going to do it for all of the founders We're going to do it for a granddad's new storm Normandy We're going to do it for the cops that are out there on the beat getting persecuted We're going to do it for the kids who did it all right and are getting screwed while we pay off the loans of a bunch of Ivy League lettuce We're going to do it for the men and women in uniform We're getting fired because they refuse to take a jab We're going to go fight the authoritarian state We're going to stop spending money We don't have We're going to secure the border and we're not going to turn this country over to leftists I want leadership to stand on the steps of the capitol and say that But I can promise you I'm going to keep saying it
The Dan Bongino Show
Chip Roy: Lefties Are Complaining About a Loan Congress Voted On
"Can not think of a more cynical disgusting thing you were unloading on these idiots for this morning Then this is really a new low for this disaster in The White House You can't even put it into words For the listeners out there a little stroll down memory lane Leftists came forward with this massive cares act which then funded people not to work Republicans said they would fight it and then you as they usually do they crawl up into the corner whining and simpering that they couldn't fight to stop the plus up in an unemployment spending that has caused our economy to get absolutely wrecked while we shut down and then pay people not to work In the process they passed the PPP It was imperfect It was a mess but I'll tell you what in the face of a government using the power of government to shut down small businesses it would at least something to try to keep some of these people afloat So some people take advantage of something that was voted on by Congress in order to keep their business afloat while a bunch of crybaby minnies shut your government down and shut the biggest economy down in the history of the world And then these leftists come up and they say oh this is hypocritical You took out a loan A loan that Congress voted on And then they knew what the deal was with taking the loan out to get it paid back beforehand Instead you got a bunch of Ivy League leftists who got a sociology or a gender studies the great sitting in their parents basement They can't get a job And now they need to have their loan quote paid off On the back of a plumber who started a business or a responsible student who actually paid his or her loan off I am so sick of this garbage and saw the American people But that doesn't do enough We have got to get a Republican Party who will stand up and do what they said they would do and stop this and fight it and care more about freedom than their damn job They got to go fight
Newsradio 700 WLW
"ivy league" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"I'm kind of one. So let's all get together then and see if these guys knew what they were talking about. Everything this older, uh, cloud Iranian warm today high of 83 more rain and mild tonight low of 71 tomorrow, more rain and warm, So it's just going to be wet here for the next 24 36 hours 80 for the high tomorrow. Maybe some sun on Wednesday and Thursday again a high of 83 today, 71 right now, But as I like to say whatever high works for you You go right ahead and chase it. All right, Straight ahead. Amy Wagner is going to join us. She, of course. Simply money and we'll get into a various things. We're waiting on earnings reports and markets and then more juicy topics with Amy involving your money. Just how you can find some deals. If you're looking to go somewhere this summer that is close to home and doing more of a staycation and we're also going to take a look at, uh How the Wall Street Journal looked at how Ivy League institutions encourage students. They encourage them. To take out six figure loans for degrees with very low expectations of realizing any of that money back in actual jobs and then down the road. He wants a piece of Facebook and Twitter wants him now taking the tie off getting ready to muss up his hair. Donald Trump wants to take on Facebook and Twitter. How successful will that be? And what does it mean for him? We got a lot laid out right till noon on 700 wlw. News, traffic and Weather News Radio 700 w L LOVE you. Cincinnati The focus today on guns. This is the 10 30 report. Sandy Collins breaking down President Biden will focus on action to reduce gun crimes. Today, the president will meet with Attorney General Merrick Garland as well as law enforcement elected officials. And a community violence intervention. Expert. The White House says that today's meeting President Biden will discuss his crime reduction strategy, which includes allowing cities and states to shift covid 19 relief funding to efforts to improve public safety. The president will also highlight his support and partnership with local leaders to work to reduce gun crimes in their communities and discuss the federal government's efforts to stop the flow of guns used in crimes. One of the local leaders invited to attend the White House session, Eric Adams, who just won the Democratic primary in the race. To become the next mayor of New York City..
The Erick Erickson Show
"ivy league" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
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The Erick Erickson Show
"ivy league" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"Loans. I don't understand how anyone thinks that they could make a useful living in america by getting a degree where they learn to stick their arm of the backside of a puppet. I genuinely i have no idea how anyone thinks..
The Erick Erickson Show
"ivy league" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"And you you deduce this stuff before you get into statutory law statutory law is the actual law written by the legislature in. How do you read it. And how do you interpret it. And how do you apply it. And so you learn the skill set in law school. You don't really learn the law per se you learn the basics but then you learn from the basics and how to research and how to think and how to read and how to right now to research how into go out and figure out what the rest of the law is. There's too much actually learned law school. Then you take the bar exam. And that's where you actually learn georgia law when or north carolina. Texas lawyer florida law. You go through the bar exam and you have to take a a section specific to your state and you go through a prep course and the prep course gives you the nuances of your state's laws. And that's kinda where you get most of your lou actual practical legal training. But i had to take out loans for los. I'm still paying those. I all my shoot older paid for except for law. School and i did not have a job. Did i have a scholarship in. So i financed one hundred percent of my legal education and the theory was as they lawyer. You would make enough money over time. Don't worry about it and that to this day is what a law schools will tell you. You'll make so much money as a lawyer. don't worry about your student loans. And so people take a lot of out and they never pay it back or it takes them forever to pay it back. The fact of the matter is i got to law school and was making. I think forty two five was my salary is a lawyer. By the time. I left practicing law. I was on the verge of being a partner. I did not want to be a partner. I didn't want to continue brittle as making fifty thousand dollars a year. i had student loans. I.
The Erick Erickson Show
"ivy league" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"Dollars but still had to borrow one hundred two thousand and federal owns. She's graduating in two thousand twenty two another student patrick limit also film. Fine arts major graduating in two thousand twenty with three hundred sixty thousand dollars in debt as a poor kid and a high school dropout. There was an attraction to get an ivy league measuring it was a high school dropout and made it to the ivy league did disclose income. Now listen i got some real world experience in this. I went to college at mercer university in. Macon georgia and i got a great scholarship. In fact i got a scholarship to go to duke and got a really good deal to mercer. I really did not have a great experience looking at duke university. Decided i would go to mercer is smaller school at kinda regretted it and i like a it is duke versus the school. No one's ever heard of. But i got a great. I got a fantastic education. I met my wife Still live in macon georgia. It was it was a great college environment. And i gotta say. As i've mentioned before one of the crazy things when i got involved in politics is i kept encountering people who went to the ivy league and withrow. It's you that. Why would harvard or yale or princeton. And it's it's they got a degree in dushi this and that's about it. I mean they. They had no real academic indepth knowledge of anything they relied on mommy and daddy and gone through the ivy league and it's i don't know what education they got. It made me feel good to know that. I could go to a school that no one had ever heard of and get an education be smarter than these people i was on. Tv with just assumed by virtue of having gone to the ivy league that they were in some way a genius. Would they weren't. But i stayed in went to law school at mercer the walter f george school of law and i am still paying off my student loans. I.
The Erick Erickson Show
"ivy league" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"I want to get to the student loan. So i will take your calls as well. Eight seven seven nine seven eric. Eight seven seven nine seven three seven four to five. The wall street journal has a story out about students facing highly competitive programs and getting just melt for cash by academic institutions now. This is which is referring to the wall street journal piece. The wall.
The Erick Erickson Show
"ivy league" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"The rest of us is for those of us who sit being shut up which is why they wanna get rid of talk radio and fox news and the republican party and anything that stands against them. They now worship a god of their own creation in that. God looks exactly like them. Intolerant and scared can we dwell on these curates a bit more. This is the it actually kind of infuriates me. i believe it was a p t magazine and now The different news outlets are all talking about carrots. And now it looks like there's a an ad campaign a well The exciting new veggie bolt handles farms wonder routes Their noodled raced carrots and carrot dogs. It's it's the big push now. I kid you not They are pushing for you to give up your hot dog now for the summer and have carrots instead. Oftentimes rice carrots rice gears. Rice scherzer finely chop curates that are then pushed back together softened and push back together in the shape of hot dog. And that's what they want the the. The media is insufferable in trying to get you to give up your hot dog. I i they told you to give up your beef and we went through. The nonsensical stuff of synthetic beef is just as good. You can't tell the difference. It's like coca cola. push out new coq new coq. You can't tell the difference l. Course you can tell the difference which is why they abandoned new coke and went back to kokin. They used it as a as a pause so that they could reintroduce with fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar. Now you get mexican coke real coca cola and then they got on the well synthetic it's just like real big. Go to go to burger king and get your possible burger beyond burger whichever one. There's impossible burger. There's beyond burger and it's just like eating the real thing with synthetic hemoglobin except it's not and then there was the the fake chicken sandwiches. Well yes we've gone to the chicken vase look most of you. Don't even remember it. It was so terrible and now. We've got two carrots for hotdogs. It's an entire ad campaign by company that itself Is trying to convince you that you should ditch your hot dog beef or pork or mystery meat and go for the carrot. I'm just emotionally exhausted with the american media. Trying to push this because you have a bunch of global warming freaks. Come out and say you're gotta stop eating meat to save the planet and now every news outlet in america. Wants you to know that. That doubles tastes. Just like owls that sh- tebow's just they tastes just like chicken. You should just eat the vegetable. It'll keep you regular to the fiber will help you. it's exhausting. How do people do this. Honestly like trinity fashion. I don't buy trendy clothes. I i never by trinity because if you buy a trendy piece of clothing you pay a bunch of money for it in five months. It's going to be out of trend and you're going to be ridiculous just by timeless stuff about by close with that kari grant would wear and you'll be just fine. It's timeless wardrobes. The same thing goes true with with these food crazes particularly from the left wing hipsters these days. Who don't want you eating meat anymore. They want you to eat carrots for hotdogs now the only people who really have ever a carrot for a hotdog or blind people who were abused by the food testers who want to say. Let's trick the blind guy. Tell them it's hot dog..
The Erick Erickson Show
"ivy league" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"This happened to me and it's all experience. It's all emotion. It is all. I've got to have experienced like the show. Me state missouri is the show me state. If it hasn't happened to me. I can't process it. I can't develop my truth based on a understanding other people. In part of this is relational part of this is we. If it doesn't happen to us or someone we're emotionally connected with. We no longer can accept that something is true and that's where we are with the younger the youngest generation right now gen z is completely abandoning any belief in the divine and part of it is they haven't had a real world experience that makes them think maybe something else out there now. Eventually many of these people will in fact a lot of people who have they've they've got a in the back of their head. There must be something more but they've not yet had experience in their life. That makes them think there really is something more. They've never had the experience yet. that makes them realize. I can't explain this. That just happened to me. Perhaps maybe possibly there is a god and and that's the only explanation they haven't had the miracle happened yet therefore they don't believe in miracles but most people in their life tin to have that experience where then they begin to wonder and that wonder opens their minds to the possibility beyond the abstract scientific theory. That maybe there's something more i mean. The difference. people. Talk about people who have faith in their dismissive people of faith these days but it takes just as much faith to believe that there was nothing before the big bang as it does to believe there is a god before the big bang takes just as much faith to believe. We're not alone in a universe team with aliens as it does to believe we are divinely created and put on this planet it takes faith..
KTLK 1130 AM
"ivy league" Discussed on KTLK 1130 AM
"When the only lens most people ever see is through CNN International or BBC or Al Jazeera? Of course, they're going to hate America because those outlets frame us in a way that It's that, Of course, there's a story here from Fox News. North Korean defector says Even North Korea was not this nuts after attending Ivy League school, um this woman escape the oppressive regime in 2007 at the age of 13, and it goes into the article. It talks about her time, Um, her time at this Ivy League school at at attending Columbia, Columbia and the infiltration of this critical race theory and it got me thinking. And we haven't talked about this a lot on the show. We've obviously been discussing the critical race theory and how racist it is. But, um, dropping back further than that, you're really was Trump was so pro America. Right that the left had to go like anti America and that just kicked opened the door for the anti American race baiters and individuals who promote things like critical race theory to go stepping right through it. I mean, when you really sort of boil it down to its essence. That's a big reason of what happened. Trump got was so pro America and you could not be onboard anything. Trump. The left had to take this and they've always kind of lingered in that part of the pool. But they really went all in on this anti American sentiment, and unfortunately, you know, sort of the worst offenders and believers of that are taking advantage of it right now. Yeah, he He was the first one to actually call them out directly by name on it and that hold them out of the tall grass, and they finally just said, screw it. Let's expose ourselves for who we are, and a lot. A lot of people were surprised by this critical race theory, the gender stuff everything. We're seeing Hate America stuff. As if where did this come from? When you know it was places like the Ivy League has been for decades and decades and decades that has planted this seed the progressives took over the teachers unions they've taken over the teachers. Colleges would certify all of our future teachers. They take over decide who gets professorships who gets tenure. Who the administrators are. They control Every aspect of the pipeline. We should. I mean, we're fortunate..
Diary of a Nation
"ivy league" Discussed on Diary of a Nation
"You're paying every time the ambulance would come. Get me when i would overdose. You are paying. When i went to treatment. And you're paying every time. The police arrested me. You're paying every time i was in jail. You're paying you know. I had some nice newton's when i was in jail once you paid for those fig newton's you're already paying you're paying for vagrancy vagrancy as crime in most states every time the cops have to go up and break that up you are already paying. And every as far as i know every study that i've seen shows that it will be cheaper to decriminalize legalize and stop policing put. Oh jeez i'm forgetting the word for it. Things like needle exchanges helped me here. Create the needle exchange programs on. There's a special word for harm-reduction harm reduction programs. You put harm reduction out there. People are less likely to end up in hospitals. You know you stop policing it. You don't have to pay the police as much and people choose treatment given the option. Most of the time they choose it the problem right now is especially in this country. We don't have enough beds. We have this thing called the critical period rate in psychology in substance use disorder. Often times you times. I said i wanna go to treatment and a bad wasn't available for a couple of days. The critical period was gone. I changed my mind rate so when someone makes that decision of i want to get clean we need to have a place for them to go right away and just one last thing ten on that would say you know you got yourself into this place. Get yourself out you know. I don't want to spend money on it not for nothing. I was a homeless junkie. And i'm doing some pretty cool stuff with my life. You know what i mean. I'm i'm valedictorian. Probably going to go onto a pretty good school. Probably gonna contribute a good amount to society not just in taxes which i will i do but in helping people right so a lot of people that i met in active addiction extremely intelligent. Extremely empathetic contribute. Amazing things to this country if they were just given the chains. What are some of those resources that can help people who are struggling in the way that you had so my biggest suggestion. If anyone is struggling in the way that i had twelve step meetings saved my life saved my life If you go to twelve step meetings new england eventually you will find me. Because i'm always around. I'm doing service work. If that's not for you which. I understand i could not go to a twelve step meeting for you know for most of my life because i was really afraid of the big. Gee word didn't like god. You know how much they talked about god. You don't have to believe in god to come just going to throw that out there. Go to treatment. There are options. If you're in new england at care hospital which is where i got clean will pick you up anywhere in new england.
Diary of a Nation
"ivy league" Discussed on Diary of a Nation
"You know. In their twenties drugs drexel people in their sixties homelessness drug addiction do not discriminate based on age race sexual identity creed religion lack of religion. It doesn't work your socioeconomic. Status definitely. Doesn't discriminate there. I met every type of person you could imagine not just people that were from my situation from you know poverty and you know bad home lives people that had perfectly normal home lives and just for one reason or another and you know as drug addicts and then ended up homeless help humanize the person who misuses drugs who are some of those people you came across and what are some of their stories. I have met so many so many beautiful people both in active addiction and recovery One of my very good friends She is a nurse. I have another good friend. That is a lawyer Both of them are clean today. Obviously that i don't think they'd be able to hold down those jobs if they weren't we. The best thing that i can say is that we're everywhere. We are literally everywhere. I had one friend. When i was an active addiction. And i remember she had a son that was a little bit younger than me and she used viciously as i did and i just found out that she passed away a couple of months ago and i remember her and her son were so close so close and he often tried to convince her to go into treatment and sometimes she would. Sometimes she wouldn't. And i think about him even though i think i only met him once i think about him and just doing okay and i. I hope he understands that. He couldn't have done anything right. He couldn't have fixed it so she was someone's mom you know i'm someone's daughter. My another good friend of mine is someone's dad you know and people you know. Fight to get their families back after you know if they're in recovery your and sometimes they never deal sometimes their families never forgive them or you know they view it as a moral failing rather than a disease you know so the thing that they made bad life choices and they can never trust them again rather than seeing it for what it is. Let's talk about education when your life was off track. You said that one of the last things that you lost was your books and you would always carry them around with you. And i wonder why was that. And what books specifically were so important to you. So as i mentioned earlier both my parents were very intelligent and they both loved to read. I guess that love of reading as well and when the drugs weren't giving me the escape that i needed anymore. Bookstore bookstore and i particularly carry it around novels and had a couple of textbooks. Life of pi was actually one that i managed to hold onto you and i still have to this day That one really gave me a lot of hope..
Diary of a Nation
"ivy league" Discussed on Diary of a Nation
"Big stuffed brand new teddy bear for me just because i used to hang out with my mom at the shelter when they all knew me and just that capacity for kindness and giving what little you don't even have you know the little that you have but i can't even say they had anything they have some of the biggest hearts that i i've ever known now in respect to homelessness particularly in new england. I've recently done a little bit of research on this. Anybody that wants to go to homeless shelter in new hampshire particularly needs to clean their. What's called dry shelters. You can't have a positive drug test. You can't drink while you're there or you will be kicked out onto the street doesn't matter if you have anywhere to go not now. I'm of the opinion that that is not the correct approach massachusetts. I believe it's about forty percent are what are called wet shelters soon go there. You know they prefer not to be belligerently drunk. If you are under the influence they ask you to go to your room. But kicking people out onto the street especially in new england where we have harsh winters. We have harsh weather. I just don't see that being the answer. Cutting people off from society. Saying you're you're so taboo that you can't even be with the other on housed people. It's just not it's not the answer. It hasn't worked. We've tried this for so long. It doesn't work. We'll get into some of the ways that you think things could be better and how government and individuals could be more helpful. A little bit later on. Do you have any other stories of people who are or were housed. Guess i'm trying to ask you to help. People who have not been in. That situation relate to them on a human level and be more compassionate. I remember. There's this this one man right and i was spending the evening with my mom. She had worked overnight to the time we ordered a pizza and it was snowing outside and we weren't even really watching the cameras as well as you know..
Diary of a Nation
"ivy league" Discussed on Diary of a Nation
"Worcester massachusetts and thank god that government assistance check didn't come for ten days and they gave me a seven day taper for methadone because at that eighth day when i had no drugs in my system it was like i woke up from behind the wheel of a car going ninety and wondering how i got there. What's that process like on the taper. So it's very it's very painful. It's they start you at usually what they do what they call what's called blind dosing so you don't know how many milligrams of methadone they're giving you but you can assume it's lower than what you'd like and what they do. Is they bring you down a little bit more every single day so that you go through withdrawals but it's not as severe as if you had nothing at all still very uncomfortable. You know still a lot of stomach. Pain still a lot of physical pain. You're just so uncomfortable when you're going through withdrawal and the methadone takes the worst parts of it off. It takes the worst of it off. By at some point you have to detox. You have to get these drugs out of your body. I went into treatment april twentieth of two thousand eighteen. I spent fifteen days. There and one of those days was actually my birthday. April twenty-seventh i turned twenty six in treatment. And i remember at this point. You know me and the other people in the treatment facility had gotten to know each other really well and my birthday fell on a friday friday. We ordered pizza and when they asked oh. Can someone help hand out the pizza. One of my friends shot his hand right up. He said i'll do it. He ended up hiding a whole pizza. And bring it to me that night with another good friend of mine latina and they said we couldn't get you a cake but we got you apply. It was just thought. Yeah absolutely you know so. Even in that first fifteen days at that point i'd only been there for seven Seven or eight and even in that first few days i was already seeing the amazing capacity of kindness of people right. These people that society is thrown away. We used to have. This is a horrible horrible joke. And i don't mean it But we used to have this joke that we are somewhere just above child molesters and rapists on the social scale just above like but not. But we're still like below violent criminals. You know huge stigma absolutely an all of us have been cast out right at some point we've been cast out from the rest of society. But they were. They had this great capacity to to love and to love to love me to love each other. But we didn't none of us knew how to love ourselves you know..
Diary of a Nation
"ivy league" Discussed on Diary of a Nation
"Because i never picked it over anything else so i know she didn't either but you did think that at one point when you were younger and didn't understand everything absolutely one hundred percent thought that i really did think that she had picked drugs over us over all of us. He said the first time that your friend shot you up. He had this explosive feeling. Was that better than any other type of drug you'd ever tried before. And what is that like. What's your body feeling so having done. Opiates before it was similar right. It was that similar feeling but the delivery method. It goes straight to your brain. There's no waiting period. There's no you know having gone to school a little bit. Now there's no Going through your stomach and then into your bloodstream. And then pass the blood brain barrier it goes straight to the brain so it's more intense. It's very intense particularly the first time and it's a sense of relaxing session that nothing can touch you. Nothing can harm you. Just don't care about anything as someone who is constantly thinking of everything that could go wrong. Not only in my own life but in the lives of everyone in the world just as an example. When i was i think five i always had insomnia. I don't know if you remember but there used to be those commercials infomercials of if you donate five dollars a month you can save this african child. Yes oh my god. Then they had this extended stomachs and they were crying to. Am and i woke my mom up sobbing. We have to save them. So that's always been my mentality. It is my job to save everyone. It is my job to fix all the problems in the world so for someone. That's always had that mentality to not care and not feel anything it. It was like a dream. It was really like a take me through a day or a week in the life of someone who is using heroin every single day as the exact same. There's no difference in days. They all blend together For me before. My parents passed away before i became homeless. I would wake up. And if i was lucky. I'd saved myself some heroin from the night before. If i was unlucky. I woke up sick immediately right away. Sick first thing on my mind. How can i get money. Who can manipulate. Who can i rob..
Diary of a Nation
"ivy league" Discussed on Diary of a Nation
"I picked up my best friend and we had done a couple pills here. And there. And i i never liked them. They never made me feel anything so it was like. What's the point of this. I'm not spending money on this. I'm driving home from work. And i just gotten a facebook message from my My rapist and i you know blocked him On several different accounts. And he i remember. I was just crying in my car. And saying i'm never going to be able to get away. I'm never going to be able to get away and my best friend. You know trying to help not knowing at all what you know what was in store for both of us in the future offered me up and i said you know what fine. Yeah anything right now. Anything to get away from this feeling and that was kind of the beginning of the end. I don't know if you know if your listeners but percocet oxycontin those are forms of. Opiates as heroin is as Is they're all the same feeling they'll give you. The same feeling is just method of delivery and intensity so that was the beginning. That was the beginning. And i didn't under-. I didn't understand what i was doing. You know what i mean. My mother Was a heroin addict as well and i didn't understand that i was basically doing heroin. I really was so. I started and i just kept doing it and i was like. I wanna keep feeling this way again. I want to feel that numbness. I wanna feel nothing. Because most of my life i've been told i was too much. You know i feel too much. I'm too emotional too loud. I mean so. I wanted to show that part of me and in doing so. I ended up becoming addicted. Not even knowing. I didn't understand that. I was getting a physical dependence until one day This was a year and a half into my active addiction..
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"ivy league" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
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