Education For A Republican

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Irritus College has educated republicans for nearly one hundred years, our goal has always been the same, prepare our students with the skills and the experience to keep the corporate status quo solidly profitable and republican. We provide our students with the tools for success and wealth, and a set of ideas that answer all the questions life gives to 'our' people, 'our Americans.' The curriculum provides the very best ideas of republican ideas past and present and prepares the student to be the same republican of the past into the future. A sampling of our core courses is listed below.

[This is an internal Irritus document and if revealed to the public will be denied and the messenger castigated by all the powers and means money can purchase and our media can make up.]

Republican Philosophy 101: No more complicated questions about why we are here, we know why we are here to support corporations and to make money. Face it future republicans, elections cost money and money comes from one place, our friends and benefactors. A favorite topic of the course is 'What's Wrong With Altruism,' an exposition of Ayn Rand's self interest as the only purpose and happiness in life. Self-interest, each person’s pursuit of happiness without any concern for others, is a God given right and one that works best when valued above all else. Unimpeded individualism, unregulated corporate freedom, our philosophy.

Deception Spin Propaganda 101: In this course the student will learn how information can be modified and changed regardless of content or truth. Examples include deficits. While primarily the result of republican policy, learn how deficits can be blamed on your opponent. Learn how Reagan's Phone policy became 'free stuff' from Obama, and how lies about welfare can be started and repeated even when other media sources refute them with facts. Heritage Foundation and other corporate supported think tanks worked with Irritus to refine our spin tactics. Study how Assault weapons changed meaning and use in a updated lecture meant for today's America.

Words and Slogans 201: How about the new buzz word 'demographics,' great diversionary word and the excuse for any republican loss. Immigration is another great buzz word even with our immigrant past. Professor Sterculus PhD covers appropriate buzz words such as freedom, markets, constitution, redistributing wealth, entitlements, fiscally conservative, and other generalities. He also reviews dying phrases such as 'compassionate conservatism' and 'trickle down economics.' Words to avoid are covered: justice, truth, golden rule, fairness, reason and religious. Euphemisms that serve as cover for republican failures are outlined, and their uses in stump speeches articulated. As Lee Atwater noted years ago we must change our dog whistle words and phrases so that meaning is so vague only our own dogs, in a matter of speaking, hear the whistle. Learn how to avoid references to 'food stamps' while meaning food stamps. Tricky would be proud.

Flag Pins and Symbols 101: How to wear your pins, wave your flag, and place your hand over your heart even if your money is in foreign banks, hidden away in the Cayman Islands, or your company outsourced American jobs to a sweat shop in China. Placement of our flag on your status appealing foreign car is covered, and arguments about why you bought foreign are resolved and justly excused with Austrian economic theory.

Regulatory Maneuvering 101: Learn how to use public funds and public land to support private companies and use America's resources for private gain all the while appearing patriotic and concerned about America's future. Loopholes in environmental concerns are covered and explanatory reasons for pollution detailed. Global warming is detailed clearly as a plot against the free market and against corporate success.

Outsourcing 301: Learn how to use terminology that sounds meaningful but isn't related to the topic's underlying purpose. Corporations create their own reality, their own morality, our students are versed in 'it's not about you, it's about the corporation,' or 'the movement of work to China will help us continue the important work we do here at Colossal Corp Inc.' Colossal has hired high level people from AEI and Irritus students may find a suitable position there after graduation. Austrian economics provides the justificatory explanation. [Also check our Words and Slogans study courses]

Filibustering / Obstructionism Advanced Lessons: In this course you'll learn how to ask irrelevant questions, raise slippery slope arguments, defend the status quo, and waste vast amounts of time so as to stop any regulation or imposition on K street's financial backers. Practice is provided introducing the same bills with alternate explanations on why they are solutions for America. Witness Paul Ryan's introduction of the same bill with new and important reasons for passage of the same bill. Michele Bachmann gives a history lesson on why Obama is destroying America with that special reading of history only Michelle can provide.

Gerrymandering 201: Irritus is proud of its obstructionist tactics, when bills that do not support corporations or the wealthy are proposed in congress. It is essential the class of people who agree with our essential beliefs is aligned in such a way so that the largest number of our voting followers are placed together. How else could one get Ted Cruz, Sharon Angle, or that republican candidate who wasn't a witch. We've had some losses lately with too much honesty, but we are learning to stay away from rape, spaceships, aliens, conspiracies, and women's uteri, these complex topics show too clearly the lack of depth of our aspiring leaders.

Government as Cause / Problem 102: Students from Joe McCarthy to Ted Cruz and Alan West have learned how to stir the pot of dissent against government. Reagan lead the way, government interference in the working of corporations is covered and state's rights emphasized whenever federal law and regulation are unfavorable to our republican sponsors. It really doesn't matter that there are no longer communists except as business partners of Walmart in China, many of our rural republicans living in the remote cities in the mid west and south still believe. So mentioning 'the commies are coming' only helps. Use of socialist and socialism as covers for opposition to government is documented. This course covers the transitional change from 'love it or leave it' to the present use of government as problem. It helps to integrate notions of change with the fact nothing changes without republican and corporate approval.

Liberal Media 101: In this course you will study the war on the GOP, on conservatives, and on free market libertarians. MSM will remain the source of complicated and honest reporting and thus will always be the easy foe. If information does not fit a republican narrative of freedom and growth it is by default wrong. Aside from FOX and numerous corporate supported conservative talk shows, any attempt by Media to clarify a complex issue that disagrees with corporate talking points must be labeled liberal bias and thus marginalized. Fox media includes the highest number of Irritus graduates with Heritage, Cato, and AEI as places where our best students find work.

Free Market 101: This course covers any public attempt to control corporations. Positive outcomes are the working of the free market, negative outcomes the work of government. It is really that simple. Two credits are given for learning this mantra. Some of our students actually have it tattooed on their arm for quick reference.

Budgets, Deficits and Healthcare 101: Christian and religious principles must be modified if we are to be profitable in business. if someone mentions racism it must be converted into a slogan rather than a reality. Wars are patriotic, Wars create deficits but they support the corporate complex of the defense industry and provide after college and after congress job opportunities. Let's keep that in mind and remind our libertarian brethren. Ryan's Budget attempts may hurt the lesser among us, but this could help incentivise them to work harder or even provide them placement in privately owned prison facilities, another one our many benefactors and a growth business in America.

Tax Avoidance 101: This course is a hands on tax consultant taught course. Students bring their savings and piggybanks to class and consultants through modeling examples show them where they can hide their capital from taxes and Uncle Sam. Later in the course money is deposited in foreign nations, places like the Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, and Switzerland. This prepares our students for life as a established republican, and even a retired republican benefactor of other republicans, and of course our school.

Freedom and Guns - Extended Class: This course covers the complexity of the often inconsistent approaches required for freedom. Freedom as we know covers lots of bases for republicans. While the 2nd Amendment is about a regulated militia that format does not work for the profit class. America has lots of guns and lots of death, but in a real sense these both contribute to our goals and ideology. Money is made in purchase and money is made in death, and money is received from our support of guns and our cries of a loss of freedom. Whenever regulation is mentioned more money pours in to republican coffers. This topic is a win win for republicans in most areas of America. Always remember when stuck for an answer, freedom followed by States rights, is always the answer.

Gay Marriage: We needed to adjust our focus on this issue, our goal in life is profit and gays buy too. So in this course you'll learn how to address rural folk and how to address city folk. City people may actually know gay people, rural folk only know their neighbor and they ain't gay or at least openly gay. Rural people get all their news from Fox, Rush Limbaugh, and other right wing media. So address your audience accordingly and when on national TV talk about your own marriage and how happy you are. If you are gay, just say you haven't found the right one yet. Use words like tradition, family, and children. 'One man one woman is so American, just like apple pie,' sounds so nice.

Rape Contraceptives Abortion 101: Here's a real life example of how an unprepared republican can get in trouble. The aspirin between the legs didn't go over well, nor did the many exculpatory discussions of types of rape. It is important we test the waters and find common ground before venturing forth in this area. Our teachers bring together religion and rhetoric so the answers bring forth memories of bible study and children. We blend these in such a way that giving birth becomes a woman's greatest freedom. Women make up the majority of voters and while this topic (abortion) is important to our base constituency, we have to find an ambiguous ground in which it's hard to figure out what we are supporting or even what we are saying. 'Mumbling made Simple' is an elective and required for candidates on the national stage. Rick Santorum provides a video conference lesson.

Science Creationism Global Warming: While an elective students flock to this course for fun and speculation. The more science oriented student may want to avoid it but remember much of our base believes this stuff thus we must give them fodder for conversation and dialogue. Science projects can also hurt business: consider acid rain, water pollution, toxic chemicals and global warming. Irritus approaches them from the business person's profit point of view. The Flintstones and Ark building are favorite areas of study and participation. Dead forests are shown as a revival of God's plans. A trip to 'Ark Encounter, Kentucky's Creationist Theme Park is also scheduled.

Entertaining Wealthy / Corporate Sponsors 110: This course was added in 2012 after an unfortunate republican was videotaped outlining genuine republican feelings about the working class in America. Being taped speaking honestly can be a big problem and thus we cover technologies and scanning devices to block and disguise our people. Public pronouncements must never stray from our fundamental slogan terms: liberty, freedom, free market, individualism, growth, patriotism, constitution, and responsibility. We know we didn't build it, but let's not get ourselves in trouble with actual history or our true sentiments. Always remember lots of these lower class workers and jobless vote republican. Remember your whistle words, but use them judiciously and off record.

Irritus College is expanding to Southeast Asia and other locations where wages are low. Just like Walmart and Mitt we believe in cheap labor that creates big profits. Our slogan and theme song: small government, less regulation, lower taxes, growth, patriotism, constitutional principles, and freedom are all you need to know to be a well educated republican. We must adhere to these principles as Ronald Reagan proclaimed, and while we know Reagan was not perfect, history doesn't really matter so long as profits are up. Remember our mantra when in doubt it's the liberal Main Stream Media, or communists and socialists who are trying to transform our nation's values. Our goal must be to modify minds and modify them so they know the real value of American freedom: making money for our people.

Job Placement on K street, the Heritage Foundation, Fox, Cato, or AEI is guaranteed when you have a degree from Irritus College. Our students are the prepared ones, they have the correct answer regardless of the question. We realize these think tanks are not really about thinking, their task is creating ideas that support corporations and muddy the water of rational thinking people. The propagation of these ideas pays very well if our students can't get a cushy job in the legislatures of state or federal governments. We hope to see you soon. Our semester cost structure will be updated in 2013.

Irritus is constantly updating our curriculum so please check often for later updates.
 
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oh gee, someone got up early to c/p an email.

Keep up the good work of not thinking for yourself.

I am usually up early and the words and thoughts are mine. But thanks.

This just in, today you witnessed both a success and a failure of republican education.The McConnell recording could have been prevented had the senator hired an Irritus graduate, but the success was how our Senator handled the question, note how the meaning of video was transformed from dirty politics to criminal behavior by our favorite culprit MSM. Bravo senator, bravo. McConnell campaign calls in FBI over secret recordings ? CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs



"Big Business, in America, is almost whole devoid of anything even poetically describable as public spirit. It is frankly on the make, day in and day out, and hence for the sort of politician who gives it the best chance. In order to get that chance it is willing to make any conceivable sacrifice of common sense and the common decencies. Big Business was in favor of Prohibition, believing that a sober workman would make a better slave than the one with a few drinks in him. It was in favor of gross robberies and extortions that went on during the war, and profited by all of them. It was in favor of the crude throttling of free speech that was then undertaken in the name of patriotism, and is still in favor of it." H.L. Mencken
 
Special Lecture Notice:

'Irritus will conduct a special lecture covering issues that are important to the public at large. Citizens have every right to be safe in America, a massively armed society does not make anyone feel safe. Obviously it's important we support weapon manufacturers but at the same time our people must win re-election. So this lecture will cover how to avoid being looked upon as a nutcase with no concern for voter's safety. Topics include:

If your constituency is not full of rabid gun nuts how you can abstain from voting.

How to answer questions about the death of a loved one by automatic weapons.

How to appear sincerely concerned over children's deaths.

Following the lecture there will be an open forum in which tactics going forward will be covered.

If your constituency, like Ted Cruz's, is full of gun nuts you're among the lucky ones. But death is final so try not to smile so much. We must appear caring. '
 


The Terrifying Texas GOP Platform - Forbes

About the Party :: TexasGOP - Republican Party of Texas

The entire philosophy behind conservatism is "keep things the same" and "change is scary". The party that brought us the Interstate highway system and NASA now believes science is a faith. Their downward spiral momentum is too great. The will have to hit rock bottom before moving upward. The damage to the country their downward spiral has caused has been catastrophic. And their solutions so far have been secession and civil war. We can only hope there will be a country left by the time they are stopped.
 
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Or maybe more like "BOOM!" funny.
 
Excellent.

Funny thing is, the rw's really don't GET IT. They really don't see to see that their stupidity is being used against them AND against their families.
 
[Internal Document - Positively Not For Public Disclosure]

Irritus leads the Way, Proof our methods work

What can we say, do we simply pat ourselves on the back or do we not show results, just say IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Marxism, Socialism, add in an opponent's name and the base follows and repeats. 'Deficits' and 'children's futures' work perfectly. Even 'unemployment insurance' has become a victim whistle word. Our base has helped elect ideologues who parrot the lessons of free market capitalism, free enterprise, they help destroy union fair wage ideas, and they make social justice a negative idea. No raise, no increase in minimum wage, can you spell success.

Recently the Catholic Church elected a Pope who presents a point of view contrary to our goals. So far the labeling has only started with our most ardent free market fundamentalists such as Rush. We need to tread lightly here as the Catholic church position on abortion and contraception, as well as gay marriage, has contributed greatly to our base. Single issues still control many voters, this is a good thing. We will follow up on means and methods to dilute and negate the new Pope's sense of community and old fashioned American values.

We really want to take a bow on the 'Fifty year on Poverty' mantra, say it didn't work, and that it only created an entitled (lazy) class, and you won over our political and corporate supporters. Meanwhile as Reagan and the Bushs did - add in lots of republican held states - and you can see we have won that war. Face it readers, poverty creates cheap labor, and cheap labor increases profits. Insecurity is a great tool. Inequality is another area in which our message is winning the war. Wealth is earned, sorry for you, wages are stagnant, it's your fault. Of course use care when noting these issues and stay away from honest statistics.

It is important we add other subconscious whistles to our stock of easy answers and other distractive elements of communication. With that in mind we have instructed our facilitators to challenge their students and we challenge you reader to do the same. Slogans please, awards will be announced later this year.

In markets we trust, your Irritus faculty
 
Can you feel the tolerance and love for others folks?

and now they are hating on your families too

what a wicked hateful bunch progressives are
 
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shouldn't this be in the garbage forum?

it has nothing to do with education

just hateful lies about people in this country
 
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I stopped reading after the Obama family avi.........

Don't let your hate be a roadblock to learning. One of the best posts yet but he forgot to include "free stuff" in the republican word usage list.


Well, you displayed your hate for the Obama's by not reading a post with their picture in the caption. The sign of a closed minded person that'll never go too far in his learning process but now I'm the hater? Whatever.
 
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I stopped reading after the Obama family avi.........

Don't let your hate be a roadblock to learning. One of the best posts yet but he forgot to include "free stuff" in the republican word usage list.

Don't let your hate confuse my apathy for anything more than it is.

It's difficult for those who can see to listen to a lecture from those who are blind.
 
Asinine doggerel. Somebody's real pleased with himself, but that was just stupid as hell.
 
"Perplexed by the apparently unsolvable nature of various economic problems, the citizen turns to the capitalist in search of some explanation. The capitalist inevitably chides him for failing to use his initiative and for not working hard enough. This lecture is followed by the invocation of a personal moral rigour which turns on risk, competitiveness, market forces and individualism. Finally he refers the citizen to his government, as the party responsible for inflation, unemployment, stock market crashes and restrictions on each man's freedom to act. The citizen turns to go as instructed, but as he does his eye is caught by something strange in the capitalist's appearance. This, he suddenly realizes, doesn't look like a man in command, an owner, a risk taker. He does indeed project assurance, but there is no fire in his eyes. He is too sure of himself to be really responsible. And his clothes are too uniform for an individualist. There is no edge of creativity about him, nor the wear and tear of having built an enterprise. His words are too much part of a universal patter on free enterprise and the profit motive. Suddenly, the citizen understands - this is not an owner of the means of production. This is an employee in drag.... He is chairman, president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer - he is anything he wants to call himself, but he doesn't own the place. He has been hired to do this job. He has a contract guaranteeing him employment under set conditions, cars, first-class travel, pension plans, holidays, club memberships. He is an MBA or an engineer who has a stock option for two thousand shares paid for by the company. Even those aren't his. They're just a legal way to save him years of tax on extra income. He'll sell the shares on retirement and walk away with the cash. And if, for some reason, he were fired, his contract would include a settlement provision to make him a reasonably rich man." p363 'Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West'

John Ralston Saul - excerpt Cafe Hayek interview below.

"JRS: No. What I'm talking about is balance.
Russ: Go ahead.
JRS: What I'm talking about is that the more you are engaged as an individual in the public good, empathy, you know, the idea of imagining the other and what it is like to be the other--the more you are engaged in that way, then the more individualistic you will be, and be able to be. Because there will be this balance between your good and the public good. And there will be room to be selfish there. But it will not be the dominant element. The dominant element is empathy. And you know, we know that's what humanism says. We know that that's how societies function best, is when we have a sense of the other and how we all function together. It isn't about love. That's one of the dangers--well, you'll notice, I'm very, very careful to stay away from concepts of love. Because, you know, how can you say you 'love' your fellow American? You don't even know him.
Russ: It's a meaningless statement.
JRS: You don't even know the people three houses down from you.
Russ: Well, that's my question for you. You are talking about--
JRS: But you don't have to love them. You don't have to like them. You can actively dislike your fellow citizens. That's fine. It isn't about love. It's about empathy. It's about the public good. It's about being able to imagine or feel--and 'feel' is a dangerous word--imagine and feel, together, what it's like to be the other. And then, on that basis, you put in place both public programs and public protections which make for a fair society. And that balance is the tough one. And it's never perfect, it's never right. You have to work at it every day. You have to wake up every morning and work at it. But if somebody wakes up every morning and says, Listen, I'm a citizen; that means I don't have to do this and I don't have to do that, and I paid my taxes, or I don't even want to pay my taxes -- I mean, the very fact that you could have had--sorry to do this--but you could have had a candidate for President who could publicly be proud of the fact that he'd minimized his taxes by sending his money abroad. You know. And that was a statement of copping out as a citizen. Right? Society, whether you are on the left or the right. That that could happen without people saying, Well, that's over, he's out, he can't exist--that shows the trouble we're in.
Russ: He did have a little trouble.
JRS: A little trouble. But not a lot. Not absolutely.
Russ: Fair enough.
JRS: It should have been catastrophic for a citizen to say that and want public office.


John Ralston Saul on EconTalk
 
"Perplexed by the apparently unsolvable nature of various economic problems, the citizen turns to the capitalist in search of some explanation. The capitalist inevitably chides him for failing to use his initiative and for not working hard enough. This lecture is followed by the invocation of a personal moral rigour which turns on risk, competitiveness, market forces and individualism. Finally he refers the citizen to his government, as the party responsible for inflation, unemployment, stock market crashes and restrictions on each man's freedom to act. The citizen turns to go as instructed, but as he does his eye is caught by something strange in the capitalist's appearance. This, he suddenly realizes, doesn't look like a man in command, an owner, a risk taker. He does indeed project assurance, but there is no fire in his eyes. He is too sure of himself to be really responsible. And his clothes are too uniform for an individualist. There is no edge of creativity about him, nor the wear and tear of having built an enterprise. His words are too much part of a universal patter on free enterprise and the profit motive. Suddenly, the citizen understands - this is not an owner of the means of production. This is an employee in drag.... He is chairman, president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer - he is anything he wants to call himself, but he doesn't own the place. He has been hired to do this job. He has a contract guaranteeing him employment under set conditions, cars, first-class travel, pension plans, holidays, club memberships. He is an MBA or an engineer who has a stock option for two thousand shares paid for by the company. Even those aren't his. They're just a legal way to save him years of tax on extra income. He'll sell the shares on retirement and walk away with the cash. And if, for some reason, he were fired, his contract would include a settlement provision to make him a reasonably rich man." p363 'Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West'

John Ralston Saul - excerpt Cafe Hayek interview below.

"JRS: No. What I'm talking about is balance.
Russ: Go ahead.
JRS: What I'm talking about is that the more you are engaged as an individual in the public good, empathy, you know, the idea of imagining the other and what it is like to be the other--the more you are engaged in that way, then the more individualistic you will be, and be able to be. Because there will be this balance between your good and the public good. And there will be room to be selfish there. But it will not be the dominant element. The dominant element is empathy. And you know, we know that's what humanism says. We know that that's how societies function best, is when we have a sense of the other and how we all function together. It isn't about love. That's one of the dangers--well, you'll notice, I'm very, very careful to stay away from concepts of love. Because, you know, how can you say you 'love' your fellow American? You don't even know him.
Russ: It's a meaningless statement.
JRS: You don't even know the people three houses down from you.
Russ: Well, that's my question for you. You are talking about--
JRS: But you don't have to love them. You don't have to like them. You can actively dislike your fellow citizens. That's fine. It isn't about love. It's about empathy. It's about the public good. It's about being able to imagine or feel--and 'feel' is a dangerous word--imagine and feel, together, what it's like to be the other. And then, on that basis, you put in place both public programs and public protections which make for a fair society. And that balance is the tough one. And it's never perfect, it's never right. You have to work at it every day. You have to wake up every morning and work at it. But if somebody wakes up every morning and says, Listen, I'm a citizen; that means I don't have to do this and I don't have to do that, and I paid my taxes, or I don't even want to pay my taxes -- I mean, the very fact that you could have had--sorry to do this--but you could have had a candidate for President who could publicly be proud of the fact that he'd minimized his taxes by sending his money abroad. You know. And that was a statement of copping out as a citizen. Right? Society, whether you are on the left or the right. That that could happen without people saying, Well, that's over, he's out, he can't exist--that shows the trouble we're in.
Russ: He did have a little trouble.
JRS: A little trouble. But not a lot. Not absolutely.
Russ: Fair enough.
JRS: It should have been catastrophic for a citizen to say that and want public office.


John Ralston Saul on EconTalk

Is there a point here?

An entrepreneur often hires someone with business administration credentials to run his business for the same reason he doesn't hire pastry chefs to design his products.

The inclusion of the unrelated interview at the end of the post leads me to believe you may need some time in rehab.

Oh Saul IS a better writer that you, but just as lame.
 

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