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19 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
Head Start is not part of the Dept of Education. Early Intervention is administered at the state level. Laying off bureaucrats in Washington has no impact on either of these things.
American students have been repeatedly failed by Washington over the last several decades regardless of the party in control of government. Time for a new approach. Let’s see how the states do. Seemed to work well enough prior to the feds unsuccessfully attempting to save the day.
The MAGA lie here is that they have a plan to transition these programs to the states. They don't. They're just getting rid of the people who ensure that the programs are meeting kids' needs and letting it all fall to the wind. Sure, some states may step in to close the gaps, but many can't or won't. And the kids in those states will suffer because of it.
They could have proposed a plan to transition programs, to ensure there won't be negative externalities, but they didn't. Because they don't care. "Let's see how the states do" is just "I don't give a damn about other people's kids as long as I get mine."
Interesting idea that this all "Seemed to work well enough prior to the feds unsuccessfully attempting to save the day" when the point of the Feds coming in is that states were violating students civil rights and not providing help of those in need.
The bottom line is that they have zero solutions. Anything they don't like, they'll burn to the ground and let other people sort out, no matter the consequences.
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26 minutes ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:
Yes let's please keep doing something that clearly isn't working.
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5 hours ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:
Overall testing scores have plummeted since the creation of the department. We are lagging behind so many countries in key areas. I'd say it's a complete failure.
So screw kids with disabilities or development delays, or in low-income households / areas? Stop enforcing civil rights in the education space?
It really feels like much of MAGA is "I don't like the status quo but instead of trying to actually fix anything, I'd like to burn the house to the ground and make everything worse."
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Why would the party of Edison Misla Aldarondo, Randal David Ankeney, Robert Bauman, John Allen Burt, Keola Childs, Dan Crane, Richard A. Delgaudio, Joseph Russell Dendy, Mike Folmer, Jack W. Gardner, Philip A. Giordano, Mark A. Grethen, Jon Grunseth, Dennis Hastert, Paul Ingram, John Jessup, Earl Kimmerling, Anton Lazzaro, Donald Lukens, Jon Matthews, RJ May, Roy Moore, Jonathan G. Newell, Tim Nolan, Jeffrey Patti, Mark Pazuhanich, Beverly Russell, Larry Schawrz, Ralph Shortey, Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr., Donald Trump, Robin Vanderwall, Ruben Verastigui, Keith Westmoreland, etc. want to cover up for pedophiles?
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4 hours ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:
What has the department of education done to help students? It's a failure. If Biden did it, you would applaud it.
It is pretty crucial for families in need, kids with developmental delays, teacher training, research, protecting civil rights, and setting minimum standards, among other things.
One of the reasons it exists is because without federal administration and funding, some states either could not, or would not do these things, leading to increased disparity in opportunities for kids and students.
Before it was elevated to a cabinet level department, it was founded as the Office of Education as part of reconstruction to ensure civil rights in education. Even now, one of its functions is to disburse funds to low-income students through Title I. With the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title VI, it is in charge of prohibiting racial discrimination because federal funds are involved.
Without the Department of Education, states can stop providing for these programs and will have an easier time discriminating against populations.
Which I think is the point.
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Republicans block effort to force release of Epstein files in Congress
Republicans on the House Rules committee voted to block an amendment requiring Bondi to compile and release the Epstein files within 30 days.
Ralph Norman was the only Republican to vote for the amendment. Chip Roy did not vote.
GOP: Guarding Our Pedophiles
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1 hour ago, JDHillFan said:
Oh my. You are being serious with this, aren’t you? Surely no one in DoJ would have been helpful in trying to paint Trump as a pedo. They are above politics even when they are facing an existential threat to democracy.
This is almost as good as you blaming staffers for Joe having lifted so much classified info in his time.
If you think they would have had the balls to break the law to end Trump, you have a much higher opinion of the Democratic Party than I do. -
47 minutes ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:
What else did elmo say lol?
Some pretty gross antisemitic stuff.
Saw one about how Jews control the world and should be exterminated.
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23 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:
Except some of them were proven not to be true. If you voted for Trump and hadnt seen the photo of him with Epstein and Maxwell, you were either blind or completely stupid. Being at the same parties, having conversations, flying on the same plane, and taking pictures together is not the same as taking part in the molestation of children. Again, if there is evidence that Trump molested children why did the democrats not release that?I'd guess some combination of a variety of reasons:
- They wouldn't expect it to be salient since they assumed that MAGA was already aware that Trump was so close to Epstein that he's almost certainly in the files
- Not a great look to have Slick Willy stumping on the campaign and mention Epstein since he's also almost certainly in the files
- I doubt there was anyone in the party or campaign that had access to the files. They'd be at DoJ and out of reach of the politicos
EDIT: Also, I don't think they would expect it to be a more important campaign issue than what they were already campaigning on.
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10 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:
"We did everything we could to destroy him and his career, except use the one thing we had that would have surely done it"
Try again.
Simplest explanation: they were all true.
Also, I think a lot of us are realizing that MAGA wasn’t aware of Trump’s connection to Epstein. It’s been publicly known for decades, so I’m not sure why you’d expect that reiterating it would have done anything.
Had people recognized that this was a blind spot for MAGA, they may have pushed it more, but how could you predict that the people obsessed with Epstein were unaware of one of his closest friends?
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33 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:
If thats the case, and maybe it is, why didnt Biden and the democrats use this information against Trump in any of the elections? They fabricated stories about him and Russia, they brought every woman they could find out of the wood works, had him detained and charged with felony white collar crimes, but didnt use the easiest smoking gun they had at their disposal to ruin his political career? Does that pass Occam's razor?
“Why did they make up this other stuff if the Epstein stuff is true?”You’re so close to getting it.
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After WWII, we build a system that put the US at the top of the Western world. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, we became the head of a global hegemony.
Now, with China ascending and the US becoming an unreliable partner, our former friends and allies are building a Western system without us.
American Allies Want to Redraw the World’s Trade Map, Minus the U.S.
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Generally not the biggest fan of the Meidas Touch guys but this was well done.
They not like us
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Looks like Bessent is in on the coverup too, hiding documents about who financed Epstein.
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2 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Trump is not involved.
Original thought made.
Auto Pen Admin would have told you.
When people start resigning bc of it - they have careers after Trump leaves in 3 and a half years, then we can raise eyebrows.
Just like Biden officials started resigning when they realized they were covering up for a corpse.
Good to know that Epstein’s buddy who bragged about Epstein liking young girls, and also talked about how attractive his own daughter was, and was president when Epstein died in US custody, and wanted to appoint a pedophile as his AG before picking Bondi (who later said she had the Epstein list on her desk before saying it didn’t exist), and then continued to back her obvious lies when his own base was upset, was not in anyway involved with the whole Epstein thing.
One of these days, you’ll make a post without resorting to whataboutism, but today is not that day.
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5 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Post your quotes demanding Biden release the files.
I’ll wait.
In fact, let’s find the quotes of you mocking it
Imagine having a life so utterly pathetic and meaningless that you post this.
Newsflash: pedos are bad and should be prosecuted. Does everyone need to state that when they log into a website? Or is this just another utterly pathetic attempt to distract from that fact that you’ve been supporting a pedo, who wanted to appoint a pedo as his AG, and is now defending his backup AG for covering up for a pedo?
You can say it, man. You can just say “wow, I really think Trump is involved and needs to go.” Nobody is going to hurt you. Be a big boy. Express an original thought.
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Pedocon theory remains undefeated
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1 minute ago, Homelander said:
You know they realize there’s an issue when they just continuously push the whole whataboutism line to distract.
They have no answer for why Epstein’s buddy, who originally wanted a pedophile as AG, is trying to quash info about Epstein.
They know. So they must distract to save Dear Leader
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5 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
You can always just read the order for yourselfThe TRO* is based on the possibility of any of the following three claims made by Planned Parenthood succeeding:
1. The provision is a bill of attainder because it defines its target in a way that Planned Parenthood is basically the only organization that qualifies
2. It violates the First Amendment’s right of association because there are Planned Parenthood organizations that don’t meet the qualifications for the provision applying to them but they may be barred anyway because they affiliate with orgs that do meet the qualifications.
3. It violates the Fifth’s Amendment vagueness clause because it isn’t clear whether it applies to certain organizations. This goes hand in hand with the 1A claim: it’s not clear if PP orgs that don’t meet the $800k threshold or those that don’t perform abortions at all are still barred due to their relationship with PP orgs that meet those requirements.
*Remember that this is just a pause on enforcement to maintain the status quo while the merits of the claims are sorted out
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11 minutes ago, Homelander said:
Exactly. Can’t have bridges or schools when some billionaire’s third yacht is one gold-plated toilet short. Gotta slash services so they can gamble on DOGE and still squeeze out another offshore tax dodge.
I sometimes think about how those communist bastards in the Netherlands wouldn’t demolish a historic bridge to allow Jeff Bezos’ yacht to pass through.
I mean, how many free school lunches would it have cost to demolish the bridge and then rebuild it so a billionaire’s yacht could get through?
I’m sure the benefits would have eventually trickled down. Maybe a poor hungry kid would have found a neat rock that used to be part of the bridge!
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17 minutes ago, Homelander said:
You do you.
To be fair, those contracts needed to be cut because the oligarchs needed bigger tax cuts.
I mean, do you expect these guys to get by with just a billion or two? They had to do a DOGE to squeeze out a couple more bucks.
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Aww, poor Bingobongo was so used to the easy job of talking nonsense into a mic that he couldn’t hack it in a big boy job where you have to have facts that now he’s crying about quitting.
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2 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:
Well if Blondi is gone, why not Matt Gaetz? What's he up to anyway?
Cut out the middleman, install the underage sex fiend himself.
Makes sense to me.
Replace the person who works for a pedophile with an actual pedophile and see if we can get this whole thing sorted out.
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Genius surprised that a guy from an English speaking country speaks English:
“Well, thank you. It’s such good English, such beautiful — Where did you, where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Where — were you educated? Where?” Yes, sir. “In Liberia?” Yes, sir. “Well, that’s very interesting. That’s beautiful English. I have people at this table can’t speak nearly as well. They come from —” (link)
You would think that somebody on his staff would have been aware of Liberia's history and could have briefed him ahead of time (you know Stephen Miller is very interested in a country like Liberia).
Colbert CANCELED!!!
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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ITT: Self-proclaimed free speech warriors / anti cancel culture people excited that someone whose speech they disagree with is being canceled almost certainly to facilitate a corporate merger.
I can’t remember the last time I watched Colbert but dear lord you’re all telling on yourselves here.