Your spelling almost blew a vein in my forehead
Well played!
Your spelling almost blew a vein in my forehead
Well played!
It's not a PhD but the Centcom commander "is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and earned a master’s degree in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University. He studied international relations at Harvard and Tufts Universities," so while I'm not a fan of him or anything, on paper at least he's not as totally unqualified as the the other three morons.
Look, nobody's perfect. I'm sure once Hegseth finds out he'll quickly rectify his mistake and kick him out in favor of a less qualified sycophant.
Well they need to take back his degree. He and his bosses royally fucked this.
The only real "DEI" hire we should be worried about.
On the way over, Vance compared this negotiation to the time he told Usha she was not allowed to go skydiving.
That did not give me confidence in the outcome.
Did Usha go skydiving?
No. JD Vance told her not to do it, so she didn't.
This is how negotiations are supposed to work.
Jared Kushner reminds me of a fencepost.
A fencepost is actually useful.
He's a thrift store mannequin, complete with a little bulge where his junk should be.
Just another swampbaby nepobaby:
Netanyahu has long been a friend of the Kushners, and particularly Jared’s dad, Charles Kushner, a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes. One time, Kantor reports – she doesn’t specify when – Jared gave up his bed and moved to the basement so Netanyahu could spend the night at their home in Livingston, New Jersey.
A long while ago, I was considering taking an MBA, until I talked to my friend's dad of Iranian ancestry.
I did not bring it up, in the middle of an unrelated conversation he just dropped that he was disappointed that his kid(bordering 40s) was not a PhD, and how MBAs are ruining the world.
Every single people of Persian ancestry I met in my life takes education very seriously, maybe not so much the younger ones as they only aim for a master's degree and hurt their parents feelings. :P
Business degree is worse than nothing imo. All the debt, all the indoctrination, very little exposure to anything potentially educational or enlightening. Come out of a program like that as a certified yes-man with bills to pay, the shame it brings to your family is just the tip of the iceberg
I took a few MBA graduate level courses because a job was paying for them. The professors really didn't like it when you trash the entire premise they are trying to teach.
Now the economics professor was fun. He had a better understanding of statistics and the inherent data integrity issues, biases, and heavy reliance on correlation that plagues the field.
MBA programs aren't about the classes or any kind of academic rigor. They're almost entirely networking plays: go get an MBA from a high ranking program, where you will drink with new friends you've made at different events, and then learn socially how to fit in with these MBA types, and then everyone gets their first post-MBA jobs at a big 3 consulting firm where they'll do a bunch of stuff with executives of Fortune 500 companies, get to know execs who will vouch for them when the next VP position opens up. Then, 20 years after getting their degree, they still have an address book and text message threads with a lot of people who just happen to be the who's who of senior management in different industries. All made possible by the MBA program, none of it coming from the coursework itself.
Business degree is worse than nothing imo. All the debt, all the indoctrination, very little exposure to anything potentially educational or enlightening.
The indoctrination is the enlightenment. You're gaining the ability to recognize what your senior peers in business consider valuable and reflect those values back to them.
What do you think the PhD board is screening for in Iran? You are as much learning the cultural touchstones and taboos as the specifics of the field. Academic institutions all have their own orthodoxy, their own dogma, and their own heresy. Some of this is the product of accrued trial and error. Some of it is purely ideological - a matter of personal persuasion handed down from master to student, which must be adhered to if one wishes to be recognized as a full member of the institution.
Come out of a program like that as a certified yes-man with bills to pay
It isn't that simple. Yes-Manning works if you can find a billionaire (or an Ayatollah) with an ass that needs licking. But eventually people have to actually do shit.
What Trump's team has mastered is the art of the grift. They aren't merely yes-men, they're confidence men. They've all become exceedingly wealthy based off their ability to rook their peers.
What the Guardian Council of Iran's team has mastered is navigating the space between religious orthodoxy and practical politics as an upstart surrounded by wealthier rival states. They have been dancing through a mine-field for 47 years and now they can't dance any further.
So it is still very much an open question of who comes out ahead, even if the US has proven disastrously inept at getting the short-term high-profile domestic media wins that the current president demands.
thats asian upbringing to, they expect you to be MD/ Law which is a doctorate, or a scientist, or one that has a high income. any other jobs they will constantly compare and keep complaining every single time.
Not sure why you are replying me to complain of OP, but I will take the bait.
Many countries have diploma purchase(or diploma mill), when we are hiring we avoid those business. Or the employee do not last long. Back in the day, I had some masters that could not do a thing if the answer was not online. That said, I still prefer to hire someone with higher education that someone with none, too many kids that value "skills" with no understanding of basic concepts of the profession, things taught in the first years of a post secondary education.
I know that instance does not say much, but I am replying from Canada, the Iranian ancestry I talk about are people who got their PhD from McGill, UofT and others. I know we have private diploma mill problem in Canada, but I don't know anyone from those business.
Second, this is a meme comm, I don't think you will find any source from OPs. Very few posters, usually the good ones, put the source or a brief explanation on their memes.
High level education is a form of social reproduction, the world over. We have moved away from strictly family-oriented hereditary management and adopted a broader ideological basis for transferring political authority and private ownership.
Case in point, Kushner, graduated with a JD/MBA dual degree program at the New York University School of Law and New York University Stern School of Business in 2007. He interned at Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau's office, and with the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He's a New York Business Deals Guy, which is why he ran in Trump's circle and ultimately married his daughter.
Similarly, Vance earned his JD from Yale in 2013, then spent his early career working for perennial Texas Senator John Cornyn and chief justice of the Eastern District of Kentucky circuit court system. To say he's uneducated would be absurd. He is in a direct pedigree with a long line of far-right apparatchiks.
All these Iranian diplomats went through a similar matriculation in their younger days. They've been promoted as much due to their loyalty to the project of Iranian independence as their raw educational background and attainment of certification.
What do people think someone with a PhD did to earn the degree? What do people think someone promoted to a C-level position at a major corporation or partnership at a ranking law firm did to earn the post? You might be surprised to discover the degree of overlap. Much of it boils down to standing up in front of a board of your professional peers and proving you're able to discourse with them at an equivalent level.
Grok write for me a big text that says I don't know what post secondary education is without saying I don't know what post secondary education is.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/provinces-cracking-down-on-private-institutions-1.7091194 and? Do you think McGill and UofT are issuing fake PhD titles?
Did you even read the link you sent? It even explains every country countermeasure to avoid diploma mills.
Grok, please read this Wikipedia article for me, and reply very verbose because I don't believe in higher education.
Do you think McGill and UofT are issuing fake PhD titles?
Do you think George Bush Jr got passing grades at Yale?
It even explains every country countermeasure to avoid diploma mills.
Given that it's a pejorative? Hardly.
Grok, please read this Wikipedia article for me
This is the brainrot inflicted by AI.
Hahahaha, ok that was funny.
I lost when you said you don't read the article you sent because it is pejorative. Touché.
He's not just a failed author, he's also a couch fucker extraordinare. Give the man some credit!
Happy to see so many women in top positions.
Why have competent people with independent thoughts in positions of power, if you can have loyal people who do what you tell them to?
Trumps son in law getting work from him is outrageous. Utterly indefensible
I bet you those americans pose like it's nobody's business though. All the current us power folks seem to be in cosplay mode. Acting like what they see on TV, not acting like real people.
If I were the Centcom Commander in this picture I would have done a retake.
He doesn't look nearly bloodthirsty or alcoholic enough to properly represent the US military.
How does one become a failed author? Is that even possible?
Right a book that no one reads?
Don't get published.
Does the current US administration have a 'best' to send? It really seems like we should be framing this as 'least worst' and even that phrasing confers too much positivity.
They're not sending their best.
an author describing how he was "gay" but his grandma said dont say such things. JD owes his current existence by being plucked from obscurity by PETER THIEL, who has intention of using him to run for office.
Gold buddy?
JD Vance is a piece of shit and I'm sure his book(s) suck, but is it truly failure if Netflix buys a film based on your book?
Did Amazon make a documentary about Melania Trump because she was so fascinating and her life needed to be recorded?
Yes. Netflix isn't buying it because they believe it's good. It's always business and it's good business (at least it was) to be involved in maga money. Look at Melania movie. Doesn't make sense at all to exist.
I would define success other than financial but I'm not Netflix nor most people
Also Melania is a bad example. Seems like it flopped despite having every advantage
For a corporation there is literally no other definition of success unless it's financial. And if they are presented with a choice to make money or do the "right" thing they are legally obligated to choose money because share holder value takes priority
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