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Higgenbotham wrote:The election of AOC and the attention paid to her is in my opinion the start of a significant swing in social mood. The establishment (what I am calling the 97th Percentile, for one reason to indicate they are not invincible or bright, either one) has practically created AOC.

Why the college admissions scandal could lead to ‘the death of a nation’

This kind of story ends in one of two ways, he says: war and plague. “Think of every great empire from Rome to the United Kingdom that ultimately disintegrated into its excesses after massive income inequality,” Altucher said.

Below is a list of everyone involved:

THE PARENTS

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin
Occupations: Fashion designer and actress, respectively.

Felicity Huffman
Occupation: Actress

Gamal Abdelaziz
Occupation: Senior executive of a resort and casino operator, News 3 Las Vegas reports

Gregory and Marcia Abbot
Occupation: He is the founder and chairman of a packaging company for the food and beverage industry, according to New York Daily News

Diane and Todd Blake
Occupation: He is an executive at a retail merchandising firm; entrepreneur and investor, New York Times reports

Jane Buckingham
Occupation: Parenting and self-help author of The Modern Girl’s Guide to Life book series on “practical advice for the busy modern woman” as well as the founder and president of consumer insights firm Trendera

Jane Buckingham
Occupation: Lawyer and co-chairman of Willkie Farr & Gallagherthis link opens in a new tab, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a partner in the Private Equity Practice Group and Corporate & Financial Services Department

Robert Flaxman
Occupation: Founder and CEO of Crown Realty & Development

I-Hsin “Joey” Chen
Occupation: Provider of warehousing and related services for the shipping industry, The New York Times reports

Amy and Gregory Colburn
Occupation: Gregory is a physician, according to New York Magazine

Elizabeth and Manuel Henriquez
Occupation: Manuel is the CEO of Hercules Technology Growth Capital

Douglas Hodge
Occupation: Former CEO of Pimco, according to the NYT

Agustin Huneeus
Occupation: Owner of vineyard in Napa, California

Bruce and Davina Isackson
Occupation: Bruce is the president of Woodside-based real estate company WP Investments, the NYT writes

Michelle Janavs
Occupation: Former executive of a food manufacturer

Elisabeth Kimmel
Occupation: Owner of Midwest Television

Marjorie Klapper
Occupation: Co-owner of a jewelry business, according to New York Magazine

Toby MacFarlane
Occupation: Former senior executive at a title insurance company, The New York Times reports

William E. McGlashan Jr.
Occupation: A senior executive at TPG, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms

Marci Palatella
Occupation: Founder and owner of Preservation Distillery

Peter Jan “P.J.” Sartorio
Occupation: A packaged-food entrepreneur, New York Magazine reports

Stephen Semprevivo
Occupation: Executive at an outsourcing company Cydcor

David Sidoo
Occupation: Businessman

Devin Sloane
Occupation: Founder and chief executive of a drinking water and wastewater systems business, CNBC reported

John Wilson
Occupation: Founder and chief executive of a private equity and real estate development firm, Hyannis Port Capital

Homayoun Zadeh
Occupation: Associate professor of dentistry at U.S.C., CNBC reported

Robert Zangrillo
Occupation: Founder and chief executive of Miami-based venture capital and real estate firm, Dragon Global Management

Higgenbotham wrote: > The 97th Percentile (the people who run the US) are "DUMB"
> And their kids are "DUMBER"
> "DUMB and DUMBER"

John wrote:

Higgenbotham wrote: > The 97th Percentile (the people who run the US) are "DUMB"
> And their kids are "DUMBER"
> "DUMB and DUMBER"

This is just the next of the Generation-X disasters that you and I
have both written about.

I see this sequentially. Gen-X "financial engineers" caused the
housing bubble and financial bubble by knowingly creating fraudulent
subprime mortgage based securities with the intention to defraud their
parents' generation, the Boomers.

Alan Greenspan expressed shock and surprise that so many bankers were
willing to defraud the public.

Obama's Justice Dept refused to prosecute the banks, but instead chose
to receive tens of billions of dollars in political contributions from
the banks, in lieu of prosecution.

These same bankers stayed in the same positions and went to commit
other kinds of frauds -- eg the Wells Fargo credit cards, and Forex.

Then there was Obamacare, which was the stupidest economic policy
since Richard Nixon's Price Controls.

When I wrote my 2015 article on Healthcare.gov, even I was astounded
by the level of fraud. Obama authorized $500 million for development
of Healthcare.gov, and 90% of dissipated through fraud and corruption.

So now we have this college scandal, which appears to be growing
quickly, and may end up encompassing hundreds of colleges and
universities and many corporations and much of Hollywood.

You can just see the sequence:

- The Gen-X bankers created tens of trillions of dollars of fraudulent
securities

- Obama refused refused to prosecute the bankers, but instead took
many billions of dollars that he need to fund his own corrupt and
fraudulent Obamacare scheme.

- Millions of people saw how corrupt Obama was, and they decided that
corruption and fraud are easy ways to make money -- which resulted in
the massive and growing college admission scandal that we're now
witnessing.

What I'm saying is that if Obama had not set an example, and instead
had prosecuted the bankers for the financial crisis, then the college
admission scandal would not occurred.

Meanwhile, SAT scores have been going down for decades, because
schools don't teach anything but sociology and women's studies.

And the stupidest people, like AOC, the depth of whose stupidity is
breathtaking, are in leadership positions.

However, feminists should be very proud of AOC. She may be
incredibly stupid, but there are millions of even stupider males who
have been following her and listening to her. AOC is a great feminist
icon, a stupid woman able to lead even stupider men. Feminists should
be very proud.