I haven't used my snow blower all summer! That's evidence it's unneccesary.
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I used to chuckle at how the Confederate Party would often point to the Ant and the Grasshopper - only seeing it as a morality tale to be weaponized against "welfare queens". They did not realize/conveniently forgot that not only are many Confederates welfare queens, but that even the fable, and its interpretation(s), is a bit more complex than that...
If we pull all state and federal funding from schools then tell all the parents they will be arrested if they leave their kids home alone it would make available jobs and housing!
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frankly waiting for them to talk about 'school to work conversion pipelines' and other ways to integrate child labor into the dept of 'education'.
'these are work skills!'
In the last two weeks, no one has tried to rob me. Are the police really necessary?
I haven’t been deported in over 30 years. I don’t think ICE is necessary
Police have only ever made my life worse. Get rid of them all.
Ha. You think the police exist to stop YOU getting robbed?
No, they aren't. At least not in their current form.
Capitalism has entered the chat
The ridiculously unqualified political appointee who ran a pedo-friendly wrestling company for decades says we don't need the department of education.
There's your headline.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
That's the truth they don't care about school shootings as it isn't happening to them. A couple of their schools get shot up and they'd start caring.
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Glad we're taking advice on education from the wife of the world's biggest wrestling promoter.
You might ask why the wife of the world's biggest wrestling promoter is in charge of the federal Department of Education. That is, indeed, a question you may ask.
She just feels strongly that there isn't enough water sports in the curriculum.
Outside looking in, its horrific to see the USA die like this.
We're all dying, but none of us reading this are dead yet.
It’s not great from the inside either. 90% of my anxiety right now is because of this kind of crap.
I got 99 probs and only 1 is my own personal issue.
I feel especially saddened by it because at one point I felt a lot of hope for this country. I don't feel any hope anymore. It feels doomed. A lot of people are suffering and it's going to get a lot worse. Yesterday I saw some (likely) immigrants working on a landscaping project and it hit me in a more visceral way what it must be like to fear your life can be destroyed any time. I really wish that kid hadn't missed trump. Everyone always says that won't help anything but I don't care. He deserves to be gunned down in cold blood if anyone ever did.
I used to think that dying as an old man in my sleep would be the best way to go, and now I'm feeling that that would be a waste. I'm becoming comfortable with the idea that my life may have a twist ending that I wasn't expecting.
I can't do anything crazy now, I have people counting on me, but that would change if ANYTHING were to happen to them, who are members of particularly vulnerable groups. I especially feel strongly about my child, and if MAGA did anything to them, I would have nothing to lose, and I would become a very dangerous person.
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It’s going to be painful, but honestly the US needs to die if the world is to have any hope of surviving the climate crisis. (Not saying the people should die, just the state and its role as the guardian of capitalism.)
So, you think that Russia and China won't step in and grab up the spoils and keep the system going? There are plenty of billionaires who aren't in the US.
There are so many hypotheticals involved in any plausible scenario where the United States government ceases to exist in its current form that it's pretty worthless trying to guess what other countries or actors will do in response.
I can't think of one plausible scenario where the US government ceases to exist that doesn't involve mass death. Think all those aircraft carriers and atomic subs are just going to be quietly decommissioned? I strongly doubt that the Left that couldn't push past the DNC is going to be able to take control.
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I hope this corrupt hag ends up in prison
Worse. So much worse.
I'd like to see a lot of these assholes picking up trash by the highway.
And since apparently that's a thing now, the government should make a really big splash of it, and release slick videos showing all these fuckers working for the first time in their lives, along with voiceovers and dramatic music.
~~Critical~~ thinking is dead.
That’s like saying the department of health isn’t needed because the hospitals still run… what a dumb bitch.
These people think vaccines aren't needed because many people survived the last pandemic. They are deeply stupid, and wedded to a deeply stupid fascist ideology of "let the strong survive and the weak suffer and die," where they get to decide who counts as strong (it's rich white people) or weak (everyone else).
Hey, the COVID vaccine was a scam to the president at the time right up until he needed it to live. Then suddenly it was good. Well, until his stirred up idiot base got upset he would say such a thing about vaccines working - then it was right back to being a scam.
Pretty much everything you need to know about these people.
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I’m pretty baffled by the fact that these chucklefucks sweep into power and immediately start removing the levers of power.
No more DoED? Okay, blue states don’t have anyone telling them what to teach.
“No, not like that!”
I held my breath and I'm not dead yet. Oxygen is a scam!
This stupid nazi cow. How is she going to maintain her billions of dollars when the population is poor and pissed off? What a dumb bitch.
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So quit Linda
But she surely needs education about her department, like what it does and what it is for...
So, she should quit first?
Hey look, the thing we all said would happen is about to happen.
Her saying that it’s not needed is proof that it is needed
Two weeks in and life in America continues. Sounds like Congress is unnif the government has been shut down for two weeks and everything is fine, that means the government in its entirety is unnecessary then. So let's get rid of everyone from top to bottom. From the president down. Give that a spin for awhile.
No one's gotten polio here since I can remember...guess the vaccines aren't necessary
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