Scot Brocklehurst

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

@DaMegaTaco @Grummz What exactly did he say that would make someone feel unsafe?

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

@GrampsToolshed Must have done a lot of really fast travelling.

[Handre @Handre]

Thomas Sowell spent decades documenting what the Great Society actually did to black American families, and the evidence is brutal if you're willing to read it honestly.

In 1960, before Lyndon Johnson signed a single piece of Great Society legislation, roughly 22% of black children lived in single-parent homes. By 1980, that number had climbed past 50%. By 1995, it was near 70%. Slavery didn't produce those numbers. Jim Crow didn't produce those numbers. A federal welfare apparatus that penalized marriage, rewarded dependency, and treated fathers as financial liabilities produced those numbers. The Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) made a man's presence in the household a disqualifying factor for benefits. Washington literally paid women to be unmarried and paid them more for each additional child. You design incentives, you get outcomes. This is not complicated.

Sowell's deeper point, the one that gets buried, is that black family stability was actually improving before federal intervention accelerated. Black poverty rates fell sharply between 1940 and 1960, before the Great Society existed. Black entrepreneurship, fraternal organizations, and two-parent households were all trending in the right direction under conditions that Great Society architects later described as hopeless. The War on Poverty didn't rescue a broken community; it interrupted a recovery.

Free market thinkers from Sowell to Walter Williams explained that price floors on labor (minimum wage laws), urban renewal projects that bulldozed black business districts in cities like Cincinnati and Atlanta, and the school assignment systems that trapped poor children in failing institutions all compounded the welfare trap systematically. Each intervention generated a problem that justified the next intervention. Government failure reliably became the argument for more government.

The cruelty here is structural. Politicians got votes. Bureaucrats got budgets. Social workers got caseloads. And three generations of children grew up without fathers in the home, with all the documented downstream effects on education, incarceration, and earnings that researchers have been tracking ever since. Everyone in that system got what they wanted except the people the system claimed to serve.

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

@BradRTorgersen @ShamashAran You know, I wish I had $50 for every time you did it too.

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

@GrampsToolshed Probably be crocks instead of boots in my part of Texas.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

I want to see a bunch of mini-series on Christendom fighting Islamic expansionism...Talk about a MOUNTAIN of incredible subject matter! Crusades, Malta, Rhodes, Templars, Hospitalers, Siege of Vienna, The Winged Hussars...

I just don't want ANY of it to be done by Hollywood.

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

Say do you think we can bill Biden and the Dems for it? Pelosi as well.

Gross negligence should have a penalty.

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

What say you?

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

Wow and you graduated? Seriously?

Look, a cultural stereotype relies only on what percentage of that culture is perceived to be doing something.

So, for your reasoning what percentage of Muslims are doctors?

[Kashif Chaudhry @KashifMD]

Muslims make up 1% of Americans, but 5% of American doctors.

If you're going to stereotype us, 'doctor' is five times more accurate than the tropes on TV.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. Your stereotypical American Muslim.

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

Now that you neglegence has slowed the students that earned a spot, how are you going compensate them? You ran an experiment that harmed people, you ignorant asshats. You delayed them. I think perhaps everyone involved in this plan should decline their salary for 5 years.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Absolutely incredible…

University of California professors are now asking the school to reinstate the SAT for admissions because their new students are unable to do high school-level work.

They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

@BladeoftheS Really, I thought the fascists would say, give the government thugs your hard earned money, and DON'T ASK WHAT WE SPEND IT ON.

And it seems both sides are on board with this.

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

@texasbreakfast1 I am not sure you can get to the 4th iteration without living on a deserted island.

Further, remember, we are all intrinsicaly broken. And the holy ghost helps us be better by not really allowing that 4th iteration.

[Pro America Politics @proamericapol]

In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 in the men's division.

So, little known and 203rd ranked men's player Karsten Braasch took them up on the challenge.

Braasch after a night of drinking and smoking with zero practice, destroyed Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2 in straight sets.

The Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes of all time. And they barely made Braasch break a sweat.

It wasn't because Braasch was very good. He wasn't.

But, as a male, he possesses biological advantages even the best female athletes can't compete against.

That's the very reason we established women's sports to begin with.

To even the playing field.

That shouldn't be controversial. And you shouldn't need a biology degree to understand it.

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

Representatives are supposed to represent their voters. If they do not we should vote for other/new/different candidates for that office. Just like we did withthat slub Cornyn.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If our Senators don’t want to stay in DC to do the job they were elected to do,

then maybe it’s time to send someone to Washington who will do it.

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

Perhaps you could start a Go Fund Me and move to Saudi, Iraq, Yemen or any of the other Muslim countries.

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

I learned during my reporting years ago: The military are our vaccine guinea pigs.
They always have been.
The industry/military partnership can study adverse events without reporting them publicly or even telling the soldiers that’s what they may be suffering. (It’s just PTSD or concussive injury, they say, which may also be components. Military mental and physical illnesses are caused by more than one thing. But officials rarely admit vaccine dynamic in it.)
There is a straight line between some vaccine makers and military officials.
But I do not know the full arrangements and relationships.

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

I would love to see investigations into H1B abuse. I think it should have a mandatory 5year sentence for ALL of the C suite for that company.

[JennXTex @JennXTex]

Friday Rant ⬇️

Our youngest son graduated, with honors, in Data Science 9 months ago

Worked his way through school

Applied to everything

Still working where he worked his last semester of college

The kicker?

State universities take HUNDREDS of MILLIONS in Texas taxpayer money

They sell the degree as a career ticket 🎫

Cash the tuition checks💰

THEN…

Act like what happens after graduation is none of their business 🤐

At the same time, STEM programs are PACKED with international students who get YEARS of work authorization through OPT…

Then flood the H-1B pipeline (roughly 70% Indian nationals, mostly computer-related jobs)

That extra supply hits the exact entry-level data roles AMERICAN graduates are fighting for…including, and especially right here in the DFW metroplex

We did everything we were told to do as parents

He did everything asked of him as our son

Strong grades ✅
Hard work ✅
Skin in the game ✅
Generations of taxes paid in this state ✅

The “reward” is a restaurant job

Universities cash the checks

Immigration policy adds the competition

Local kids get left holding the bag

This is broken

I’m PISSED 😡

Families and students invest large sums (and years of effort) on the promise of “better economic mobility”…

While the institutions strongest invectives stop at the diploma 🛑

The promise isn’t just weakening, it’s DYING

Right along with the American Dream

Bonus:

ALL TAXPAYERS PAY FOR IT via state appropriations, capital funding (Texas HEF), Federal grants/contracts

I’m so sick of America’s taxpayers, especially those who have followed all of the “rules”, continuing to get the shaft

You should be mad as hell too, because YOUR tax dollars help fund this mess, as well as mine

Do you think universities should have more accountability regarding actual employment after graduating with a specialized degree?

I do

Honestly, I’d like a refund

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

Yeah, keep your assault guns. I want a Personal Defense Weapon or PDW.

[TacticalStNick @TacticalStNick]

Yeah…….. get fucked.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

You could use a life expectancy chart to see when communism fell

[Scot Brocklehurst @scotdb459]

@omgsidewalks And yet even the poor in America are rich by word standards.

Envy creates crime.