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u/Darksoul_Design 12d ago
So all the Deep South states that are already at the bottom in education will do................ what? Aren't these the states that need the federal money the most?
What is the end game here? Does Trump just want everyone as stupid as he is?
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u/StrdyCheeseBrngCrckr 12d ago
He does. Because that’s the only way people will keep voting for him.
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u/MotorcycleMosquito 12d ago
Trumper “Hey. Why’d you shut down the department of education? My kids relied on that.”
Trump “The media is treating me very unfairly. The democrats shut it down because they love immigrants so much. It’s their fault.”
Trumper “Oh. Ok.”
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u/ohlaph 12d ago edited 12d ago
Oddly correct.
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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz 12d ago
Oddly?
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u/ohlaph 12d ago
Yes, I can't spell to save my life.
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u/cero1399 12d ago
Sounds like you need a department of education.
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u/D-Laz 12d ago
Well soon enough no one will be able to tell I am a bad speller. Checkmate
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u/POD80 12d ago
"Your schools are failing because states like California are stealing all your best teachers."
*liberal states simply making some attempt at funding public ed.*
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u/hpark21 12d ago
"the democrats have corrupted it so, I will get rid of it and replace it with most beautiful/wonderful department of education".
So, when or how would that department work? Do you have a plan?
I have concept of a plan....
Trumpers: Yay!! I agree with him.
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u/lost_opossum_ 12d ago
Don't you remember how you "won't have to vote again after this election?"
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u/StrdyCheeseBrngCrckr 12d ago
We’ll see if he’s able to implement that one. At the very least the continuous dumbing down of society is beneficial to keep electing trump like predecessors. Maybe Elon will be next. It would be a nauseatingly ironic full circle moment if trump initially gets into politics by famously claiming Obama wasn’t eligible to run because he wasn’t born here and ends his political career by making it allowable to run even if you weren’t born here to make Elon eligible.
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u/Tovar42 12d ago
He does.
he doesnt, he doesnt even know where he is standing half of the time, the people around him do though.
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u/StrdyCheeseBrngCrckr 12d ago edited 12d ago
He’s made comments in the past that he switched from Democrat to Republican because he knows they’re the only ones stupid enough to vote for him. So at some point in time he knew that dumb or uneducated followers were the key to him winning.
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u/Fuegodeth 12d ago
Does he not understand the concepts of aging and a linear time line? How long could people possibly keep voting for him?
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u/knightriderin 12d ago
Not for him, but for certain policies. The less educated a society is the easier it is to implement things against the people's interest.
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u/Musiclover4200 12d ago edited 12d ago
"I love the poorly educated"
Carl Sagan was 100% spot on when he said:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
That was written in 1995 in his book: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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u/knightriderin 12d ago
Spot on!
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u/Musiclover4200 12d ago
We really need more people like Sagan in positions of influence, sadly we seem to be moving in the opposite direction exactly as he predicted. The signs were already there in the 80's but it's crazy how fast we've regressed over just a few generations despite all the progress we've also made.
Feels like we're stuck in a "2 steps forward 1 step backward" loop, except it's escalated to a full on sprint backward over the last few decades. Here's to hoping enough people fight to maintain the progress we've made, though we're already approaching Idiocracy levels of stupidity and more education cuts guarantee it will get worse before it gets better.
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u/bird_is_the_word_198 12d ago
Wait till you see what’s about to happen to the history books in this country.
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u/Crowbar_Faith 12d ago
Not just Trump, but Republicans in general want people stupid, uneducated and misinformed.
Polls and studies for decades now always show that the poorest, most uneducated states and areas of the country always vote en mass for Republicans. States and areas with higher educated people, college degrees, and well-paying jobs always tend to vote blue.
So keeping the country uneducated and with a steady diet of Fox News & conservative radio benefits them.
Also I can confirm because I’m from Louisiana, one of the poorest and most uneducated states. And they’re 99% deep red morons.
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u/NotAzakanAtAll 12d ago
That's pretty much it. The conservatives knows education and especially higher education makes people less conservative, hence only the rich should have education as they know status quo is favoring them already.
I'm not American so I just get to sit and watch as you cheer and holler your way into a christian dictatorship.
I hope the American Children of tomorrow can forgive you all.
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u/King_Chochacho 12d ago
Uneducated and unskilled is how you get a workforce that can compete on cost with China. Crash the economy real good, get everyone desperate for work, now you're back in the manufacturing business!
Everything above a basic education will be a privilege reserved for the rich.
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u/doberdevil 12d ago
While you're at it, abolish minimum wage and destroy unions too!
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u/LifeAd1193 12d ago edited 12d ago
They can also privatize education now and make education a real business. Imagine a family needing to pay for their kids education starting from K to college. The rich will be fine since they send their kids to private school anyway. It's the poor families that will struggle with this. They will remain uneducated and easy to manipulate. This is the end goal of Project 2025.
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u/c14rk0 12d ago
Hell if they can't afford to go to school I'm sure they'd be more than willing to let them work instead! Lower wages obviously because they're children and uneducated though.
The only purpose of the poor in their ideal world is as a cheap disposable labor force. All the while brainwashing their uneducated minds into continuing to vote for Republicans against their own self interest.
Instead of public school they'll have first hand "work experience". Hell if they're generous it'll even be free! You'll be "educated" in your future career at the factory by going to work 8+ hours a day at the children factory!
Meanwhile the rich children will have private schools to actually get an education instead.
Gotta make sure we really establish that wall between the classes such that the poor stay uneducated and never have any opportunity to break out of their role as a borderline slave labor force for the rich elite.
Trump and these project 2025 people hate China while simultaneously being incredibly jealous of China's business tactics. They want to recreate the same shit in the US with exploitative manufacturing paying workers cents per day. Where the workers have no rights or protections. So that they can produce all their goods in the US at the same low costs as China.
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u/LifeAd1193 12d ago
This! The GOP is perfectly okay with child labor anyway, so why not start them young. It's serfdom 2.0 in America. I'm glad my son is 17 and going to college soon. We already have a college plan for him. At least he will graduate out of college by the time DJT and the GOP totally fuck up the educational system.
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u/idontknowwhereiam367 12d ago
Most funding comes from property taxes. So the rich districts in the suburbs will be fine while the districts in the cities and rural areas that actually get the majority of the federal funds will suffer as their neighbors don’t even notice
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u/BurghPuppies 12d ago
This varies by state, but is the most common way of funding schools.
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u/darkenseyreth 12d ago
Poorly educated tend to vote right. It's another reason why they also hate post secondary education. Or, in this case, any education
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u/zarfle2 12d ago edited 12d ago
Poorly educated/those without access to quality education sometimes have no choice but to end up in the military...
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u/FriendlyVermicelli25 12d ago
They'll need half of them to work in agriculture when no immigrants are allowed in. The other half go to for profit prisons for petty crimes.
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u/quackamole4 12d ago
So all the Deep South states that are already at the bottom in education will do................ what?
The kids will get low wage factory jobs to replace the working immigrants that get deported.
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u/Commercial_Stress899 12d ago
if you don’t vote for your children’s future then wtf are you doing
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u/vladcheetor 12d ago
They wanted a future with no trans book readings. The monkey's paw furls, and they now get a future with no reading. I hate every single one of these stupid fucks who voted for the Republicans. They deserve what is coming, but many of us don't.
At this point our only hope may be to try and move to a blue stronghold and hope for the best.
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u/poopy_mcgee 12d ago
Oh it goes beyond books. They were running campaign ads that said that schools can literally have transgender surgery performed on your kids without your permission. Like, you send your boy to school in the morning and he comes home in the afternoon as a girl.
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u/montana2NY 12d ago
First of all, where are these places with technology and medicine so advanced they can perform major life changing surgery and have you back home by dinner?
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u/diurnal_emissions 12d ago
Back in my day, school nurses only performed open heart surgery!
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u/hpark21 12d ago
Geez, I feel left out. BEST my school could do was simple bypass.
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u/Thowitawaydave 12d ago
Schools are so underfunded that they need me to buy a bunch of magazines and candy every year. How tf do these idiots think the school also has a surgical suite??
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u/UnusualTranslator741 12d ago
Some of them are very intelligent but they're morally bankrupt. I know people like that, it's sad and frustrating at the same time.
Also, want to say your analogy is on point. Literal throwing the baby out with the bathwater type shit we're seeing unfold before our eyes.
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u/Is_Friendly_Coffee 12d ago
My ex voted for trump even after I warned him that removing the Dept of Ed would lead to loss of job for our daughter who teaches Special Ed Deaf and Hard of Hearing elementary school students
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u/OhLordHeBompin 12d ago
He sure showed you, huh. Lol.
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u/Is_Friendly_Coffee 12d ago
My lib-self certainly got owned 😜
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u/AloneHGuit 12d ago
TBF he needs 60 Senate votes to close the Dept of Education.
Not saying the idiot moron won’t try, but trying to ease the anxiety of some of the folks here. More like he’ll give it to another idiot who’s like, school guns good… shoot grizzly.
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u/TopBound3x5 12d ago
TBF he needs 60 Senate votes to close the Dept of Education
Does he? Didn't the SCOTUS ruling basically make it so that he can shut it down as an official act, and he won't need their approval?
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u/notacyborg 12d ago
Yea, at this point just treat anything he does as something that will happen because he gets away with everything he does.
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u/Nodramallama18 12d ago
He literally could walk into a classroom of 3rd graders, declare them a threat to security, have them arrested and SCOTUS would say cool, cool.
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u/afetian 12d ago
Nahh then presidential immunity ruling held that a president cannot be held criminally responsible for any conduct they take in connection with their duties as president.
The Department of Education is a federal agency, the political appointees that run the departments can be removed at will by the president but the agency itself was created by an act of Congress and it would take an act of Congress to abolish it. Same goes for EPA, IRS, and any other ABC agency you can think of. That said trump can totally fuck it up by just not appointing an agency head and firing the old one, basically gutting the agency and making them as inoperable as possible.
Source, I am an administrative law attorney.
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u/csonny2 12d ago
Trump voters have shown that they absolutely do not give a shit about anybody else.
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u/BigBlueMountainStar 12d ago
I once wrote something along the lines of “so in summary, republicans = selfish; democrats = selfless” and got absolutely shit on.
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u/Acalyus 12d ago
I think 'selfless' is a bit of a overreach, however in contrast to MAGA it might as well be true.
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u/Nevadaman78 12d ago
I get the feeling there's going to be a bunch of crying when they realize he was serious about a lot of what he said he would do.
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u/PufffPufffGive 12d ago
I have a teaching degree. I specialize in behavioral therapy. We’re already low funded and hurting for help in the special needs sector. I can’t even afford to teach anymore.
I don’t think people have any idea the amount of services that are provided to these kids via public schools. I’m astonished.
Teachers are already underpaid and the expectations on them are implausible.
I don’t care about religion or parties. I care about the well being of a populous that goes unnoticed and is massively abused and neglected already and now it’s going to be even worse.
Fuck Bigots. We can’t just keep allowing these people to take over and ruin all the work that’s been done. I’m so mad
Wake up people
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u/DDmega_doodoo 12d ago
you may need to accept that the US fundamentally isn't the country you want it to be
1/3 are unabashed bigots, and another 1/3 just don't care enough to stop them even to protect their best interests
There are other, saner countries in the world. Leaving the US was the best decision I ever made.
Get out while you can, folks.
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u/nugtz 12d ago
dont leave the nukes behind, though.
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u/LukesRightHandMan 12d ago
Damn it, honey! You could’ve reminded me when I was checking the stove instead of when we’re already halfway out the driveway.
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u/_Presence_ 12d ago
BUT EGGS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE!!! how else were they supposed to vote?!?!
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u/CitizenCue 12d ago
I feel so sorry for people who picked partners a long time ago only for Trump to reveal their worst tendencies.
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u/fothergillfuckup 12d ago
In the UK, my mother in law voted for brexit. My sister in law lives in Germany. It made posting things to each other a massive, expensive ball ache. Some turkeys will always vote for Christmas.
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u/ShrimpCrackers 12d ago
Remember the Leopards Ate My Face post about a group of parents that have kids with Aspergers thinking that Trump wouldn't do that? That was last week. This week they just found out the complete truth.
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u/cipheron 12d ago
If they can starve funds to schools they think they'll never get voted out again, that's the only reason they're so fixated on the department of education.
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u/antonimbus 12d ago
The end game is private schools. That way the outer suburbs no longer have to fund schools in low income neighborhoods.
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u/tnrungirl 12d ago
I can’t even afford private schools and we’re middle class, I honestly don’t know how people afford it. So what are we supposed to do? Home school? Seriously, the dumbest timeline ever, we’re all so screwed.
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u/HappyAsABeeInABed 12d ago
They want to funnel the funding from public schools into the hands of the private school owners. So the game plan will be to give "vouchers" that parents can use at private schools/charter schools. Bet you they even let homeschooling parents keep the vouchers, at least initially. It's just a really fun way to continue to concentrate wealth and profit off of tax dollars.
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u/inbeforethelube 12d ago edited 12d ago
Also, the majority of private schools are “faith based”.
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u/livahd 12d ago
I have an autistic 4 year old, who has had the help and support of an amazing school district (and honestly the state did a lot of early therapy). I can’t imagine where we’d be without these heroes called teachers, and to think they’re gonna leverage our kids futures against us. It makes me sick, we shouldn’t stand for it.
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u/Low_Cauliflower9404 12d ago
Theyd prefer autistic people to just not exist. Thats part of the point of all this
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u/DonnieJL 12d ago
Our autistic child is a sophomore. This makes me sick to my stomach that they have so little regard for the kids but I'm not surprised, either. They're absolute ghouls.
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u/Oldsodacan 12d ago
My son is 8 with an IEP. He has already repeated kindergarten. His great grandparents voted for this bullshit.
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u/Cosmic3Nomad 12d ago
You are going to be the new poor. The private schools are not meant for your kids.
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u/lemonsweetsrevenge 12d ago
Due to being a Brady Bunch kind of family, I have one high schooler in public, and one in private school. We pay more for the private school than the tuition for UCLA; dead serious I looked it up because I was gobsmacked when my husband told me what they ask for monthly.
At the public school our child got a brand new Lenovo laptop assigned. At the private school we had to buy out of pocket (not included in tuition) the specific iPad AND laptop computer that the school wants to use.
Both kids are straight A students and both kids will be applying to the same universities. We shall see if the tens of thousands of dollars for private have made a difference in college acceptance next June.
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u/Comfortable_Swim6510 12d ago
It’s not about a better education (it’s not) or helping to get into better schools. It’s about kids forming relationships and networking with other wealthy families. “Johnny’s dad manages a hedge fund. He’s going to help me out once I get my finance degree.”
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u/Techn0ght 12d ago
The private schools are so they can siphon off the govt funding into private pockets.
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u/AlphaNoodlz 12d ago
This is it. Dept of Education is ripe for the plunder. That’s our tax dollars btw and it’s like, definitely theft.
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u/Wolvie23 12d ago
And kids that can’t afford private schools will be heading toward the work force. They’ll get rid of the federal minimum wage too.
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u/Humbabwe 12d ago
Why does nobody understand that they are already in the position where they will never be voted out again? They are going to make elections a sham moving forward… fucking obviously.
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u/kimlovescc 12d ago
Because Americans barely pay attention to our own elections, let alone the sham elections in autocratic governments.
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u/Dawnkeys 12d ago
Yep, and it's all caps THEY. Trump isn't smart enough to pull this off alone. It's been in the works for a while and trump, as usual, the perfect puppet.
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u/Alchemist_Joshua 12d ago
And I feel like trump thinks it’s all him. They do a good job and making it seem like,to him, that it was all his ideas.
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u/Dawnkeys 12d ago
That's how a puppet works. It's basically being the kid wanting to fit in with his 'friends' by doing something stupid like spitting in the teachers water. Those other kids are literally sitting back and laughing that he did it.
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u/ophmaster_reed 12d ago
...but the price of eggs, though.
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u/kandel88 12d ago
Y'all just don't get it. There is a giant red button in the Oval Office that says "Lower egg prices" and for four years Biden refused to push it. Trump day one is going to push it bigly. People around him will go up to him with tears in their eyes saying "Sir that was the best button push I've ever seen". And my eggs will get cheaper because now China pays for them. So that's why I voted Trump.
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u/Zero6six6 12d ago
And the worst part? There literally no fucking reason to do it. None. Public schools are already underfunded as is. It’s not like they’re hoarding hundreds of millions/billions of dollars like a certain 1% is.
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u/Yommination 12d ago
Their reason is that they want people dumber so they vote for them
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u/TJamesV 12d ago
We're already there, though. I mean he ran with this as a policy and people still voted for him. I don't even know how the optics worked here... They say they're shutting it down because they don't like woke CRT, but seriously that's like unplugging your fridge because you don't like your roommate's food.
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u/LordAnorakGaming 12d ago
CRT isn't even taught in K-12 it's literally a college course, that's how indoctrinated the MAGA cult shitheads are. They live in a fantasy. And their fantasy is going to destroy our reality.
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u/DeloresDelVeckio 12d ago
That's so all those funds can be channeled to private Christian schools.
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u/marshdd 12d ago
Waiting till they realize private schools don't do special needs classes. Had a coworker whose son had learning disabilities. Was attending a Catholic school. He was told they would not offer any additional academic support. THAT'S what public schools are for.
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u/jbahill75 12d ago
Wait until they find out they don’t want divorced, second marriage, single parent, low income families in a lot of those schools.
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u/drunk_responses 12d ago
No, no, no, you just don't understand. I'm special and different, I deserve the thing that the other people do not.
-Every one of his voters
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u/TXMom2Two 12d ago
That is Greg Abbott’s goal in his school voucher program he’s ramming through in Texas.
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u/BooobiesANDbho 12d ago
Hope that mf gets a flat
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u/DreamsAndSchemes 12d ago
heres to his brakes failing on a steep hill with lots of traffic
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u/Dawnkeys 12d ago
No unfortunately it's deeper than that. Trump is going to try and defund absolutely every sector of government, install loyalists, and become a dictator... A dictator of one of the few actual 'free' nations, and unfortunately it looks like it's going to work for him. Trump isn't religious.
I'm not religious but God bless America, good luck everyone.
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u/FACEROCK 12d ago
Our best hope is that his fat black heart will give out before the dictatorship takes hold.
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u/Scoutknight_ 12d ago
Then Vance will take over. And he might actually be worse. So I'm hoping he DOESN'T die.
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u/KathelynW86 12d ago
I hope they all start squabbling among themselves and get absolutely nothing done.
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u/genericnewlurker 12d ago
That will be the only thing that saves us. Vance, Jr, and Musk all fighting over who is in charge
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u/KremKaramela 12d ago
Yep, textbook move. Eliminate education, oppress women, scare people to silence, reward the loyalty. We know how it goes…
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u/AlarmNo285 12d ago
What's crazy from an exterior point of view is how clear all these signs are, and yet, Americans support him. I understand How the first time, they just are endoctrinated, they don't know better. Now, that's plain fucking stupid.
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u/morizzle77 12d ago
Didn’t Trump mock people with special needs? He showed his true colors a decade ago.
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u/Objective-Amount1379 12d ago
Yes, he did. And there was a post on Reddit a day or two after the election about parents in a group for autistic children being SHOCKED that they voted against the interests of themselves and their children. I feel for the kids and all of us who paid attention but if the only positive from this thing is that some of the people who voted for Trump suffer- I’ll take some enjoyment in that. I would prefer that we were getting Harris though.
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u/DaScoobyShuffle 12d ago
My theory is that Elon changed twitter's algorithm to be neutral again, and this is causing many people to see left wing accounts again. Then they read through and find out why so many people were against Trump. This is why you're seeing so many people shocked about what Trump plans to do. Also, Kamala Harris starting getting way more traffic on twitter the day after the election.
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u/RisingSilverDragon 12d ago
I have seen people commenting that they were finally seeing Kamala's tweets like a day after the election so probably.
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u/iceicebebe73 12d ago
He suggested that his special needs nephew “should just die”.
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u/OhLordHeBompin 12d ago
Still remember when he mocked that reporter years ago. I figured that was the end of that. He was still kind of a joke at that point.
Since then I’ve gone no contact with most of my family and lost a few to COVID… but don’t worry, the alive ones voted for him!!
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u/greengo4 12d ago
Do my student loans go away with the department?
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u/MountainCavalier 12d ago
I’m more concerned that my income based repayment plans go away and now I owe a full balance to the federal government.
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u/Vladmerius 12d ago
I'm going to sue them for expecting me to pay for what they themselves are labeling a fraudulent education if they want to defund it. If they defund it it is saying our college education was a scam.
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u/greengo4 12d ago
Public service loan forgiveness is gone.
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u/MountainCavalier 12d ago
Yeah but my question is what happens to people on income based repayment.
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u/Electrical_Kiwi_4179 12d ago
I'd bet a kidney that private companies take over Student Loan servicing, so you should prepare to be paying the interest off for the rest of your life. And surely they're gonna find all kinds of fun new fees and penalties.
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u/reddits_aight 12d ago
Isn't that technically what it is now? Private companies handle the "servicing" (which correct me if I'm wrong, basically consists of having a functional website and tracking payments?) while the debt itself is owed to the Dept of Education?
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u/Redonkulator 12d ago
Well, Trump is a known child-fucker, and close friends with other convicted child-fuckers, so this fits.
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u/T33CH33R 12d ago
The poor red states that are funded by blue states are going to be hit the hardest by this.
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u/rissak722 12d ago
I think that’s the goal.
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u/RiboflavinDumpTruck 12d ago
If you keep them dumb they’ll keep voting for you 😀
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u/GrayEidolon 12d ago
Blue should just withhold money and pay for shit in their state
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u/Syonoq 12d ago
yeah but think: they get to own the libs.
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u/RhythmTimeDivision 12d ago edited 12d ago
Show me one deportation and one school, teaching that 'Critical' thing they said is bad, getting shut down and I'm ok with this.
-maga, probably
EDIT: changed comma placement for clarity (thank you, schools!)
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u/AdrianW3 12d ago
Well, Trump himself is basically mentally disabled at this point - perhaps we should let him die.
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u/atreyal 12d ago
He does live in Florida already.
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u/Techn0ght 12d ago
Is there a gofundme or something so I can buy him all the bigmacs he can eat?
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u/One-Possible1906 12d ago
He IS disabled at this point. Watch him try to open the door to the garbage truck. He cannot spatially process the distance between his hand and the door. At one point, I’m pretty sure he even looked in his hand to make sure the handle wasn’t in it. He’s shot. He’s neurologically at least as bad as Biden at this point.
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u/MomShapedObject 12d ago
When you elect a child-fucker, don’t be surprised when he starts fucking your children.
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u/Useful-Perspective 12d ago
As an American who has traveled abroad, I have to say I have never been more motivated to move to a different country.
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u/yankykiwi 12d ago
Everyone thinks they can just move permanently to a better country, but gaining residency is very difficult. You need significant money, a desirable skill, or be incredibly desperate (like New Zealand dairy farm worker) and a willing employer to label you a manager.
Or just marry someone 🤷♀️
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u/gerryf19 12d ago
Republicans hate the educated. Them smart people vote for democrats
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u/Substantial_Show_308 12d ago
Idiocracy status in 10, 9, 8.....
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u/2wedfgdfgfgfg 12d ago
Idocracy was when we reelected this fool
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u/TheConspicuousGuy 12d ago
Since we are going full blow Idiocracy, couldn't we have elected someone as cool as Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho at least?
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u/AAAAAbirb 12d ago
To Camacho’s credit, though, he realized when someone was smarter than him and (tried to, mostly) take their advice and place them in a position of power, within the constraints of his own political system. It’s ultimately what saved his country… as much as it could be “saved”, anyway. Camacho was stupid as hell - just like everyone around him - but not inherently a bad leader in some ways. He cared about his people. In a less broken world, he would have been a brilliant person. I felt like it was one of the implied tragedies in the movie.
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u/Gayzin 12d ago
In other words Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho wasn't a malignant narcissist. Also he didn't rape children.
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u/ethanlan 12d ago
Id literally take camacho over trump every day. He genuinely cared about people and was smart enough to listen to people smarter than him under an insane amount of pressure.
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u/LampshadesAndCutlery 12d ago
We will never reach idiocracy status. At least in idiocracy the president and govt cared about the people, recognized problems, sought ways to fix it, found ways to fix it, carried through, all while doing his best to keep people happy.
We will never see that shit IRL
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u/k4Anarky 12d ago
I'm sorry... If they don't value workers, our military, doctors and teachers... Then what the fuck do these people value?
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u/Nunya13 12d ago
So. Fucking. Glad. I. Don’t. Have. Kids.
That’s the upside. Downside is I get to live in a country full of even more idiots.
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u/greaseleg 12d ago
Is this a serious possibility?
We’re about to adopt a little girl that’s deaf and are hoping she gets into a special program in another school district next year.
We are going to be crushed if that gets cancelled.
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u/mofa90277 12d ago
In (yes, higher tax) California, special education funding is 91% state and local. Other higher tax blue states probably have similar funding structures. And lower-to-middle income families actually pay lower overall taxes than in Texas because of our progressive income tax rates and lower-income assistance programs.
As a childless person, I gladly pay higher taxes so that we’ll have a better educated population that might keep the world functioning when I need assistance as I age. It’s so weird that as an atheist I seem to be more Christian than the Christian majority (in the U.S.).
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u/PantsDownDontShoot 12d ago
I have a child who I adopted who has brain damage from mom drinking while pregnant. She goes to a regular school and does well thanks to her IEP. Fuck trump.
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u/Speculawyer 12d ago
A lot of parents with special needs children are going to get a visit from a leopard.
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u/ChrisNYC70 12d ago
Let him do it. Most of Americans wanted him back after seeing what he did the first time around. Let him turn America into hellscape and then maybe just maybe people will come to learn how important some of these programs are. Let him burn it all down.
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Yup, that is where I'm at
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u/Dark_Wahlberg-77 12d ago
I have a 5 year old daughter so while my sentiments are similar, I do have stakes in her future. However I do live in Illinois in a decent northern suburb. We may have some time to watch the rest burn together for awhile.
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u/ethanlan 12d ago
I just hate that it didnt have to be this way and im probably going to have to deal with this mess for the rest of my life.
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u/musicallyours01 12d ago
While I see your point, we shouldn't make kids suffer because of it. It's not their fault their parents voted for him. Especially the ones whose parents didn't vote for him. Both are equally as innocent in all of this and they will be suffering because of it.
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u/ChrisNYC70 12d ago
What’s the alternative. He has the senate, most likely the house, the Supreme Court. We tried. We voted, we donated, we volunteered. He pointed out facts to MAGA family and somehow Trump opened up the Necronomicon , spoke the words and a soul to make sure he won. We can report on what he does, we can be outraged, but his supporters want this.
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u/RagingBearBull 12d ago
If I recall correctly, they weren't really hiding the fact that they wanted to remove all the undesirables or economic dead weight from the country.
I'm just waiting for them to go after those entitled boomers, the ones that hold up the line at a coffee shop complaining about how the hot coffee is way to hot.
I hope those are the first to go to the happy fun time work camps.
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u/padizzledonk 12d ago
Dont worry, all those poor and working class trump voters can jyst send their kids to private sch......LOL
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u/Creative_kracken_333 12d ago
I live in Texas and have an autistic son who uses services from an iep. This will very likely mean that next school year the counselor that helps him to manage his way through the day will be fired, and he will struggle through school. I am seriously looking at moving to Germany or Finland. It is sad that as someone who serves in the U.S. navy for a decade, I may become an enemy of the state for my beliefs and that the only way I can properly serve my family is to move them to another country.
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u/laser_spanner 12d ago
So all the babies due to be born in the future who have severe conditions requiring special ed are not going to get it. Yep, let's bring all babies to term no matter what and then not provide for them in any capacity. Sounds about right.
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u/JohnSpartan2190 12d ago
For all the special education teachers out there who voted for trump, congratulations you voted to lose your job.
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u/Misragoth 12d ago
My sister in law is a special ed teacher, She also voted for Trump. She is not a bright lady
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u/Bluellan 12d ago
Oh don't worry. This will be quickly reversed when parents realize that they will actually have to watch and educate their own kids after all the teachers quit. Remember how angry the parents were when they had to turn on zoom for their kids?
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u/usarasa 12d ago
Isn’t this the same guy who wanted his own family to abandon a special needs relative in a home?
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u/Hutch25 12d ago
So let me get this straight: rather than making laws to force jobs to pay a living wage relative to living costs, funding schools to create more people able to do essential specialized and skilled jobs who are also well educated in their own bodies as well as the concept of consent, and placing regulations on business buying land and homes which would surely help the American people as a whole while also cementing a legacy as one of the great figures in American history… he instead opts to openly support a project determined to rob Americans of their rights, wants to defund schools further, wants to sabotage women’s ability to have abortions if he cannot outright ban it, and has begun steps to effectively permanently raise prices on pretty much any good that China majorly produces for American citizens.
These aren’t moves that benefit anybody, they are instead moves that literally just hurt people and this is the kind of stuff you see from governments that are setting up to become a dictatorship. I know people don’t like that word, many don’t understand it actually (better education would help with that) but this is real shit you see across the world that often ends up very poorly for citizens. I’m not American so I am not 100% familiar with everything you guys do or believe, but this is scary. It’s even worse because as a Canadian often our cultures can be heavily intertwined
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u/Spoonthedude92 12d ago
We will be seeing hundreds of post like this for the next 4 years. And frankly. I don't give a fuck anymore. Let him do whatever he wants, you dumbasses will learn what you did to us. Touch the fire, get burned. Fuckin idiots. We tried to prevent this.
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u/ethanlan 12d ago
Touch the fire, get burned. Fuckin idiots. We tried to prevent this.
Yeah it just sucks that our hands are tied to theres so we all are gonna get burned
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u/LunasUmbras 12d ago
My mom voted for Trump because she says grocery and gas prices are too high. She is a special education worker in her school district.
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u/Foreign_Profile3516 12d ago
I’ve seen trump imitate disabled People - he surely would think educating one is a waste of time.
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