ChiGoose

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."

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?

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.

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

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.

Some pretty gross antisemitic stuff. Saw one about how Jews control the world and should be exterminated. Good thing they shut it down

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.

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?

“Why did they make up this other stuff if the Epstein stuff is true?” You’re so close to getting it.

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.

Generally not the biggest fan of the Meidas Touch guys but this was well done. They not like us

Looks like Bessent is in on the coverup too, hiding documents about who financed Epstein. He, along with Bondi and Patel have apparently been refusing to provide to the Senate Finance Committee’s investigation into Epstein.

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.

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.

Pedocon theory remains undefeated

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

You can always just read the order for yourself The 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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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). BBC dunking on Trump

Those greedy people in Lesotho are sending us all these diamonds and denim but not buying anything from us with their $2 per day income! Once we figure this out, next will be the trade deficit with my grocery store. I buy things from them every week but they have never bought anything from me!

I mean, they aren't exactly shy about it: Two weeks have passed since a Florida Highway Patrol officer arrested the Honduran immigrant client of Magdalena Cuprys of Cuprys & Associates. “He was stopped at a weigh station in Tampa because he owns a construction company, and he was required to stop for his truck to be weighed,” Cuprys told me. “The client had a valid Florida driver’s license. The patrol officer called Customs and Border Protection on him. The client called me, and the officer took the phone from him and spoke with me.” She asked why CBP was alerted. “I was advised that the client looked Hispanic, had a Hispanic name, and now they are collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP, and their orders are to call CBP any time they encounter anyone they suspect is an immigrant,” said Cuprys. “I asked if they would have followed the same process if it had been me driving, and the response was it depends if you look Hispanic.” Attorneys Say They Can’t See Immigration Clients At Alligator Alcatraz

"Ending asylum, revoking legal status, and chasing farmworkers away from the fields is not a solution to the border, which is why I believe that anyone who says that ending asylum, revoking legal status, and chasing farmworkers away from the fields is not a solution to the border is dead wrong." Anyway, back to the topic at hand, aside from the tariffs under IEEPA almost certainly being illegal, the idea that tariffs are to both bring manufacturing back to the US *and* as a negotiating tactic for trade deals is dumb because those goals are mutually exclusive. If you're expecting companies to spend tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in CapEx to build out logistics and operations here, you can't keep changing the tariff regime - it needs to be set in stone. If you're using tariffs to negotiate trade deals, then the tariffs need to be flexible so you can reduce them as part of an agreement or raise them if negotiations aren't going well - they cannot be set in stone. But maybe I'm wrong here too. Maybe Lesotho will move their diamond mining operations to the US.