Jeb! Bush says a free college education will kill you. Or be very tasty.

[seafan]

DailyKos, November 18, 2015




(Don't the faces in his audience tell the tale??)

Jeb! Bush is opposed to free public higher education because it represents the idea that “the government can just take care of us” blah blah blah usual Republican culture of dependency rhetoric. But then, speaking at a South Carolina campaign event, Bush brought a more unusual explanation:

“It’s like the crabs in the, you know, whatever —the crabs in the boiling water,” Mr. Bush tried.

“Frogs,” an audience member shouted out, helpfully.

“The frogs,” Mr. Bush continued. “You think it’s warm, and it feels pretty good and then it feels like you’re in a whirlpool—you know, a Jacuzzi or something.”

He concluded with a morbid twist: “And then you’re dead. That’s how this works.”

Yes, we let the government “take care of us” by paying for a level of education that is, today, as crucial for entry into the middle class as a high school education was at the time the government began “taking care of us” by paying for free universal public high school … AND THEN WE’RE DEAD. Like the crabs and the frogs in the boiling Jacuzzi just waiting to be eaten.

Finished.

But he still thinks all his money will shoehorn him in there....


Reminds me of this:

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. He concluded with a morbid twist: “And then you’re dead. That’s how this works.”

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[LiberalElite]

2. Now i get it

education = death

[brush]

3. What does that even mean?

Poor, poor analogy — stupid, stupid man.

Just this should cause all his financial backers to pull funding immediately because he's getting into Ben Carson territory.

[PersonNumber503602]

5. You'd think that nonsense would completely destroy him

but many republicans seem to eat that weird logic up. Which republican was it that describe healthcare to be like crack? Was it Palin?

[geomon666]

4. Isn't he supposed to be smarter than W?

I mean you have to be pretty damn stupid to out stupid W.

[pediatricmedic]

6. Still just room temperature

[smirkymonkey]

12. I would say it's a toss up. Have you seen his commercials?

His campaign manager is as brain dead as he is. They are ridiculous to the point of being laughable!

[Ilsa]

7. His body language is just like Dumbya's.

Look how his neck sticks out while he attempts to transform his bullshit into logic. Same mannerisms.

Why would anyone want that again?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Mangled metaphors seem to run in the family.

They always said Jeb! was the smart one, but now it appears that he's just as confused and dumb as his big brother.

[struggle4progress]

9. "If everybody ever figures out what we've been up to, we're all dead!"

[Hydra]

10. ...

"...I'm gonna die soon? Feels pretty good..."

[MisterP]

11. squawking about "government dependence"? what is this, 1979?

we've had 37 years of neoliberalism and it's given us everything from 7-year stretches of unemployment to McMansions

[RichGirl]

13. How many partime jobs did he have....

...to put himself through college???

If his mommy and daddy paid for his college...and of course they did...then it was FREE to him! How is that different than getting it from the government?

I can't get over how we thought he was the smart Bush. GWB seems like a genius compared to Jeb!

[GreatGazoo]

14. JEB?! is boxed in. His father expanded the federal government by 41% and his brother:

Here is a more accurate assessment: "President (GW) Bush increased government spending more than any of the six presidents preceding him, including LBJ." I didn't write that; the astute libertarian economist Veronique de Rugy did. She also points out that during his eight years in office, Bush's "anti-government" Republican administration increased the federal budget by an extraordinary 104 percent. By comparison, the increase under President Bill Clinton's watch was a relatively measly 11 percent (a rate, I might add, lower than Ronald Reagan's). In his last term in office, Bush increased discretionary spending—that means non-Medicare, non-Social Security—by 48.6 percent. In his final year in office, fiscal year 2009, he spent more than $32,000 per American, up from $17,216.68 in fiscal year 2001.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2010/08/americas_peculiar_amnesia.html

JEB?!'s twisted metaphor has an echo of Reagan's battle cry: "government so small you could drowned it in a bathtub" but JEB?! can't pull it off. Can't even get the words out of his own mouth perhaps because he is so conscious of the Bush track record of government expansion.

[lostnfound]

15. As compared to ps tarting life off $100,000 in debt.

[B Calm]

16. I bet his daddy paid for his free college education!

[milestogo]

17. Jeb! has crabs

and he is treating it with boiling water.

[Vinca]

18. Oh, the irony.

Given the Bush family fortune, he was born with a diamond-encrusted, gold spoon in his mouth and daddy would have taken care of him and bought him his own college if he didn't get in. STFU Jeb!

[Thav]

19. Higher Education

Will make you, you know, dependent on the government. If government pays, and people take taxes from you, that's bad. That makes you like crabs in the, in the water. When it's warm you think it's nice, but then, before you know it, then you're not warm. YOU'RE DEAD! IT WILL MAKE YOU DEAD! BE SCARED OF IT!

Word salad is really hard to do.