For decades the GOP has been working to undermine public education in this country in the hopes of keeping the population ignorant enough to keep voting for them.
This is the result.
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Pretty much sums it up, yes.
Now that trump has halted all immigration I am sure those trump supporters are just itching to get out of the house and go pick some strawberries or other produce. And of course there is always openings at the trump vineyards pruning grapevines 🙂
Food shortages to come. Not just toilet paper, hand sanitizer, pasta and legumes. Pretty soon we won’t be seeing fresh produce and meats. Processing plants are shutting down due to virus outbreaks and with no one to harvest food will rot in the fields. Personally, I think farmers should open their fields to gleaning. Not only would it feed people it would give plenty a good idea of what it feels like to be a farm worker.
When I was in the fifth grade we moved for a year to San José, California. There was a farm at the end of the street that had been sold for development so it was abandoned but nothing was being done. So my Dad would take us down to glean the fields of strawberries. It is back-breaking work. There were also walnut groves so we would gather those as well. The average American isn’t going to want to spend hours bent over in a field picking anything. Certainly not these soft, spoiled whiners that complain about their gray roots and lawn fertilizer.
Next time you go shopping, better pick up some canned and frozen vegetables and fruits. Pork, beef and chicken too. Hope the freezers have room. Time to get that Victory garden planted as you can’t freeze salad.
Millennials would look at the plant and then ask Google to pick the berries.
Well, keeping the population ignorant is certainly a plus but that isn’t their primary goal. Their primary goal is to get those public education tax dollars. The ignorance and distrust generated is just a byproduct. Serendipitous two-fer.
The Republicans have been trying to get their hands on the two pockets of tax dollars that have been beyond their grasp: education and Social Security. That is why there are pushes to privatize both, usually alternating. When one is quashed then they start in on the other. Reagan commissioned his bogus “Nation at Risk” (debunked but too late) to convince people that education was bloated and wasteful, etc. They tried vouchers then. When that failed they were back trying to privatize Social Security. That failed then back to education. No Child Left Behind was a huge win for them. Not only undermining teachers and schools but funneling so much money to private for-profits through testing, scoring, remedial study materials, etc. You’ll recall Jeb Bush’s brother was profiting from this. There was a push to privatize Social Security around the time of the recession so that went no where. Now Trump is looking to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, child healthcare, the whole social safety net. That was Lyin’ Ryan’s plan but he could only manage the tax giveaway before he slinked off to retire on his fat Congressional pension. Not exactly what the Republicans want but it’s a start. They want the money, but they also want to get rid of all of those programs. They want both. With the virus now they can’t get rid of or reduce Social Security, Medicare, the ACA, SNAP, any of it. So I imagine they will swing back to trying to get those education tax dollars.
They’ve only got a small window left as I’m sure they are aware come November Trump is likely to lose and they are likely to lose their majority in the Senate. They are passing all sorts of shit to undermine or destroy everything they can before that happens. That’s why Trump is livid about the virus slowing down the wheels of Congress. He (or should I say the Federalist Society and Moscow Mitch) are pushing to get as many lifetime appointments pushed through while they are still in control. To deregulate, sell off and hog tie as many Federal resources as possible. They’ll be doing it right up to the minute the new members of Congress are seated. Trump will only be a lame duck from Jan 2 to Jan 20 but he’ll still be signing executive orders right up until they come to drag him out of the White House.
Now that mom and dad have to stay home and help their kids with their school work , maybe, just maybe they will appreciate what teachers do everyday, that teachers are not FREE babysitters.
but probable not.
“Probably” not.
You believe that, send your address and I’ll send you that bridge. LOL
They appreciate their oxycontin home delivery more than anything.
Ok, so the maga fellow has two fingers,for showing his IQ? stuck them both up his arse (at the same time? while standing up) because he can and proud of his athletic skills? can count to 2 on two hands ? Asking for 2 more beers at the bar? all of the above?
Those trump suckers are some kind of special.
The way they think about their lil jesus must die. They must go through a “core collapse” in order to finally see correctly.