Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent the need to obtain congressional approval to formally close a federal department.
The administration may eventually pursue an effort to get Congress to shut down the agency, Trump said at a signing ceremony at the White House on Thursday, because its budget had more than doubled in size in recent years but national test scores had not improved.
The federal government does not mandate curriculum in schools; that has been the responsibility of state and local governments, which provide 90% of the funding to schools. Nevertheless, at the White House, Trump repeated his campaign promise to “send education back to the states”.
Every Trump announcement or headline no longer means anything to me about this orange beanbag.
Instead, every headline reflects to me just how stupid the American people are. They are literally being fleeced and sodomized by a group of idiots and they just lie there taking it all.
Many of us are calling and writing our Senators and Representatives daily and protesting often. There are protests in NYC almost every day.
Yeah, so many dictators abdicated because they realized their people didn’t like them. It really hurt their feelings.
You can’t complain a dictator out of power.
They’ll make protesting illegal before it changes their minds. Hope you’re all planning for that.
The Constitution defines power of the President. If Trump disables the Constitution without a 2/3 state ratification, he demotes himself from POTUS to old guy who can’t take a punch.
Laws are only as good as their enforcement mechanisms. And if there are no enforcement mechanisms… well…
Every now and then I write Ted Cruz a letter. Sometimes he sends me back a bullshit letter about something entirely different. At least he responds sometimes though unlike the other fuck head.
This is part of the ignorance. They’ve given you ample proof that they don’t and will never give a shit.
All these people understand is money and violence. Do you have as much money as the people paying for both Dems and Republicans?
No, I also don’t have as much violence as they do either.
So it’s ignorant to use the avenues of influence at my disposal? It’s only ignorant if I expect results. It’s more ignorant to expect them to know what their constituents want without informing them.
What do you propose we do instead?
It absolutely is if you’re constantly taking an hour of your day writing or on hold to speak to a guy who has historically never done anything you’ve asked them to (but blames it on a dude he works with, both of whom get elected on the dime of the same guy).
Take that time to join a worker’s organization, or organizing to unionize your workplace, or engaging in mutual aid, or anything that isn’t talking to the guy whose job is making sure workers think they have any influence over him instead of the people paying him, who always get whatever bills they want passed.
I’m currently disabled, but I can get out for a few hours at a time. I use that to protest. Daily messaging takes ~5 minutes. The call takes 15-20 minutes including wait time. I’m all ears if you have any other suggestions.
I didn’t say the protests were a waste of time, writing to congress is. Worker’s organizations include a lot of disabled people and they actually do care, unlike democrats. Membership in a third party (that can also use all the help they can get and are actually engaging in mutual aid and not just profiteering) is the only way voting can get you anything from Dems, because as long as you vote for them they have all they want from you.
I’m still in support of replacing deadwood centrist Democrats with progressives. I personally believe we have a better chance in raising the primary and midterm voter turnout up from its current 20%, than to rally a state as big as NY behind a third-party in 18 months.
Midterms are meaningless. What have Dems done to stop this? Absolutely jack shit. What did they do on his first term to mitigate the damage? Take some pictures and write some tweets?
Donald Trump is willing to rule by decree and push his policies by force of arms if necessary. Short term “pragmatism” is exactly what led to this and it’ll just dig a deeper hole.
The ones that affect you directly hit the hardest.
No, the majority of them don’t lie there and take it, they are cheering and shouting “More! More!”
This is ridiculous and untrue. There are a lot of crazy shitheads in our country, but they definitely are not the majority.