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re: What's the backstory of Garret Graves not finishing college?
Posted on 7/29/26 at 10:26 pm to danilo
Posted on 7/29/26 at 10:26 pm to danilo
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Strange he hasn’t gotten an online or independent study degree by now.
Exactly...lots of successful people do not have or need a degree...but you would think someone who is a career politician would get piece of paper from somewhere since education is normally an important topic with the voters
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 10:29 pm to junkfunky
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Politics is a professional career? Seems like it started out as a civil service and then went straight to popularity contests that was primed to get even worse with social media.
My point is a college degree is the bare minimum for most professional careers. Expecting a congressman to have a college degree isn't an unreasonable standard.
Whether one views politics as a "profession" or not is debatable.
Posted on 7/29/26 at 10:53 pm to FlyingTigerBo
If you are, you're a dumbass for saying you do it
Posted on 7/29/26 at 11:01 pm to AndyCBR
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Expecting a congressman to have a college degree isn't an unreasonable standard.
I agree jumping around between three colleges and never finishing raises some questions about dedication, etc. But a degree shouldn't be a prerequisite. We need farmers, tradesmen, small business owners in Congress.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 5:47 am to AndyCBR
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My point is a college degree is the bare minimum for most professional careers
As you mentioned, a college degree primarily proves you have the determination to complete something that only 25% of the US population has completed.
I won’t pretend my undergrad degree was some earth shattering feat, but I do know how difficult it was to complete in its entirety.
Idgaf what your degree is in, the fact that you have one tells me a lot about you.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 5:57 am to AndyCBR
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Expecting a congressman to have a college degree isn't an unreasonable standard.
Yet he was one of the best members of Congress we've ever had. He would likely still be there if Jeff hadn't fricked him over with redistricting because he refused to follow the GOP leadership crowd and anoint Jeff as godking before the election.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 6:15 am to Everyday Is Saturday
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Those words scream “I grew up privileged, and I have no clue what it is like to not have enough to go around.”
Those were my words moron. It’s called vocabulary and the word nexus simply means connection in it’s simplest form
Posted on 7/30/26 at 6:20 am to AndyCBR
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Now, are you claiming Garrett is some type of savant that the world would have been deprived of his gifts in "public service" had he stayed on to finish his degree?
Your words not mine… I simply gave the likely and known answer. You could add that his family background added in this path and that’s a fair representation of the truth .. college isn’t the only path. Checking a list of ultra successful people without one proves this reality
Posted on 7/30/26 at 6:25 am to Stevo
Personal experience, pussy and booze. Not going to class because you are getting laid, and not studying because partying.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 6:31 am to FlyingTigerBo
Posted on 7/30/26 at 7:43 am to el Gaucho
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pull a few strings and the musician alter ego mysteriously disappears in a river and your son is working in washington
What’s wrong with trying to make it as a musician first?
Why don’t you like him?
Posted on 7/30/26 at 8:08 am to UptownJoeBrown
It was what you call a joke baw
But Garrett graves really is Jeff Buckley
But Garrett graves really is Jeff Buckley
Posted on 7/30/26 at 8:12 am to el Gaucho
Is Graves going to run for governor next year ?
Posted on 7/30/26 at 8:14 am to Sofaking2
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11k a year after taxes isn’t cheap. Add another kid or 2 and you are writing 25K in checks a year. That’s why people feel like they are getting a break if their kids live at home and go to a local college.
Catholic is more than 11k now.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 8:20 am to FlyingTigerBo
Who cares about a college degree except for maybe 4-5 job fields and even that is because of graduate school not really college itself.
I have a college degree in Information Technology in 1994.
There is absolutely nothing that degree taught me I have used since IP was invented
I have a college degree in Information Technology in 1994.
There is absolutely nothing that degree taught me I have used since IP was invented
This post was edited on 7/30/26 at 8:21 am
Posted on 7/30/26 at 8:20 am to FlyingTigerBo
Like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, and Rush Limbaugh, he will likely not amount to much.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 11:15 pm to FlyingTigerBo
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How do your parents spend all that money at Catholic and you bounce around 3 colleges and still don't graduate?
I’m sure his parents are so disappointed how he turned out.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 11:25 pm to FlyingTigerBo
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I also work on the Jeff Landry 2027 gubernatorial oppo research team.
GG is going to start coming at JL hard in Feb-March. Going to paint you as contributing to traffic problems and selling Louisiana jobs and data out to H1B visa farms.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 4:02 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
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I’m sure his parents are so disappointed how he turned out.
Perfectly said. I was hoping that society was getting past this idea that a college degree confers credibility .
This post was edited on 7/31/26 at 4:15 am
Posted on 7/31/26 at 4:07 am to Jim Rockford
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We need farmers, tradesmen, small business owners in Congress.
Which one is Garret Graves?
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