TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2025
The problem doesn't end there: We swear it! In the course of the next few days, we're going to do it. We're going to walk you through the steps Pete Hegseth recently took to Make Fort Bragg [Be] Fort Bragg Again.
Also, to Make Fort Benning [Be] Fort Benning Again! How do our human minds really work? The anthropological learnings in this story are endless:
Fort Liberty Renamed Fort Bragg, Fulfilling a Trump Campaign Promise
Congress had pushed past President Trump’s veto to rename Fort Bragg, named for a Confederate general, in the final days of his first term.
That said, Chris Matthews has been piling up points on Morning Joe of late. It happened again today, and the learnings we can glean from this case take precedence.
Chris was discussing the economic meltdown the commander seems to have triggered. He related the current situation to some well-known episodes in earlier parts of the president's life—and he related the current situation to a well-known 1979 movie:
MATTHEWS (3/11/25): I look at Trump and I keep thinking, Trump!
The Trump Casino in Atlantic City. That used to be the big casino. You drove right into Atlantic City, and there was that big casino. It’s gone.
The Trump University. It’s gone.
Trump shuttle. We haven’t taken that lately, have we? That’s gone.
This idea that things will turn out [well in the growing economic mess] is right out of Chauncey Gardiner in Being There. He’s telling the president, [actor] Jack Warden, "Don’t worry, we’re going to plant in the spring and we’re going to sow in the fall, and everything’s going to be great."
It isn’t going to be great! This is a trend line, an economic trend line in the markets. And it’s going to be worse in the next couple of days, and worse after that, because he has started a trade war that we’re going to lose.
In Being There, Chauncey Gardiner is a "simple-minded" person who becomes an accidental adviser to a highly gullible president. He has no clue about any relevant topic, but the gullible president keeps adopting his clueless recommendations.
In Matthews' telling, the current president is cast in the role of the know-nothing Chauncey Gardiner. Along the way, he tickles the keys with three episodes from this president's business career, in which the Trump casino, the Trump University and the Trump shuttle all went up in smoke—went bust.
This incipient economic mess will turn out the same way, Matthews said. The incipient economic meltdown will simply be this know-nothing president's latest dim-witted disaster.
Will the economy turn out that way? Well yes, it certainly could! But as he continued, Matthews offered a comment about the people who voted for Candidate Trump.
In many cases, what he said was surely accurate. But the problem doesn't end there:
MATTHEWS (continuing directly): And it's unbelievable that those people believe in it.
[...]
It’s all wrong, the lies and the history. The ignorance of this crowd is unbelievable. And their people out there, the MAGA people, don’t know any better. They go, "Uhhh. That's good. Uhhh."
The strange reaction to "Everything is fine" is these grunts they have.
Along the way, Chris had trashed "the Democrats" for not speaking back more forcefully. We think he overstated that situation—but for now, let's consider his mocking reference to "their people out there, the MAGA people." Consider his mocking impression of those people, of "these grunts they have."
Mockery comes easy to us humans during polarized times. Meanwhile, in its bare bones, what Chris said is technically accurate:
Almost surely, it's true! Many people who voted for Trump don't understand the fact that he has been making ludicrous claims—for example, about the operations of the Social Security system, which Chris mentioned in his larger spiel.
Almost surely, many voters in Red America don't know that the claims by President Trump and Elon Musk have been utterly ludicrous. But before we start to mock the lesser breed for the things they don't understand, we may want to consider the various notions those of us in Blue America often swallowed whole in recent years.
We believed that President Biden was still sharp as a tack. We soldiered on when we were told, again and again, that the southern border was secure—that there was nothing to look at.
We believed it when we were told that the heightened cost of living was all in Red America's heads, Year after year, we managed to close our eyes to the some of the behaviors and policy recommendations which came to be known as "Woke"—to the kinds of actions which helped establish this eternal truth:
There is no allegedly well-intentioned impulse which can't be unwisely pursued.
We poured our energies into the attempt to get Trump locked up. Especially with respect to a few of the flimsier legal actions, does anyone doubt that this allocation of Blue American energy may have helped Candidate Trump?
Many Trump voters were less than perfectly wise—but so were many of our own Biden voters, and so were our tribal leaders. We earned our way out through our own "strange reactions." We managed to lose an election to the least popular and well-regarded person who ever got elected.
Chris was rolling along today, but then he burped out a bit of the Kool-Aid. He behaved in the way we Blues have often behaved as we've managed to earn our way out.
There's more to be said about all this. For videotape of Chris' full statement today, you can click to this report by Zachary Leeman at Mediaite.
All too often, we Blues believed the darndest things too! We'll close with a minor irony:
This very morning, Chris was speaking to some of the very people who kept insisting that our own Blue tribe's True Beliefs were true. In such ways, we earned our way out.
The lack of discernment was on display in Blue America too. This is the nature of human life. In our view, we Blues badly need to come to terms with this ancient, unfortunate fact.
With great wisdom the founding fathers gave us the 2nd Amendment to defeat MAGA.
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ReplyDelete"It’s all wrong, the lies and the history. The ignorance of this crowd is unbelievable. And their people out there, the MAGA people, don’t know any better. They go, "Uhhh. That's good. Uhhh.""
It's great, I love it. As long as idiot-DemocRats keep foaming at the mouth, I know everything is fine.
The more foaming, the better.
It is "Demorats" you simpleton.
DeletePresident Trump just selected a gorgeous red Tesla Model S Plaid to purchase in support of Elon Musk as Musk is targeted by sick, violent terrorist Democrat thugs.
ReplyDeleteTeslas of every color and model were lined up in front of the White House for President Trump to choose from, and the President chose the most expensive but to be fair the best of the lot.
fucking government by carnival show
Deletefucking government by carnival show
DeleteTrump had to make a reality show circus out of picking a car that he could have selected off a webpage (the way most of us bought our Teslas).
DeleteWatch, he is going to turn around and give the car to someone else, because when would he ever have the chance to drive it himself? He's a limo kind of guy, when he isn't driving a golf cart up onto the greens.
He did say he wouldn't drive it because he hasn't driven in so long but that he'd let staff borrow it.
DeleteI think the criminality against Tesla is just going to move a few hundred thousands more independent and swing voters who love their Teslas toward solid Republican voters.
They'll be right at home in the party of crybabies.
DeleteCriminality against Tesla? What criminality? The market has been speaking.
DeleteDomestic terrorism to be exact.
DeleteTrump was asked Tuesday at the White House if he could speak about some of the violence occurring at Tesla dealerships, with a reporter noting that some people think those responsible should be labeled domestic terrorists.
“I will do that, I’ll do it. I’m going to stop them,” Trump said.
“Those people are going to go through a big problem when we catch them. We’ve got a lot of cameras up, we already know who some of them are. We’re going to catch them.They’re the same guys that screw around with our schools and universities, the same garbage,” Trump added. “And let me tell you, you do it to Tesla, and you do it to any company, we’re going to catch you and you’re going to go through hell.”
Go thru hell is a well known criminal statute. Fucking moron, how does he fool folks into thinking he can think?
DeleteCheck out the sales figures for Tesla, here and abroad. It’s tanking.
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DeleteDon't they catch fire and trap you inside?
His rockets accidentally spontaneously dismantle.
DeleteTotally against the law and against any norms of Presidential Decorum. MAGA says fuck ya libtards while the President and the felon rob them. Suckers will go down with the ship screaming BIDENNNNN's fault. Please help me. What suckers the cult be.
DeleteSo the guy that let loosed 1,600 felons on the countryside after they were jailed for violently beating cops, is gonna put the Tesla paint vandals in jail. In a normal country, they all go to court and serve their time as directed by the judge/jury. But this is not normal. It is what you get when you combine two criminal narcissists who inherited too much money from daddy into a demented and ketamined deranged and delusional asshole. We will all suffer thee consequences.
DeleteSomerby believes that the left believed wrong things because Somerby accepts the propaganda of the right. Biden was doing fine as president. He wasn't senile as portrayed in doctored videos, but Somerby believed he wasn't (despite the evidence of his performance right up until his last week in office, when he brokered a cease-fire in Gaza). Prices of eggs and other commodities were not a national emergency and inflation was under control and coming down -- Somerby believed right wing histrionics about eggs, something Trump has still not addressed despite the supposed urgency. The border was under control, lower than at the end of Trump's term and trending lower with every month. That too was not the emergency hyped by Republicans. But Somerby swallowed right wing claims completely, not bothering to investigate their truth. Despite Trump's penchant for lying and years of experience with right wing hype. That is on Somerby, not Democrats and not Blue America or whoever he thinks "we" are. Somerby believed the lies and blames Democrats for following the truth.
ReplyDeleteThen he blames the left for trying to prosecute Trump. If that effort had succeeded, we wouldn't be in our current mess. That can be blamed on Merrick Garland, but Somerby thinks Trump should have been let off the hook. Why think that when Trump was a criminal? And Somerby has never supported civil rights of any kind (not for black people, not for women, not for LGBTQ+ people, certainly not for immigrants). So no surprise he disliked woke (which is defined as anything right wingers dislike). Somerby opposed a whole lot things left wingers think are important and promoted things we lefties disliked, such as book banning and school segregation. That's why there seems to be very little basis for including Somerby among Blue Americans much less believing him when he says we were telling lies.
Somerby asserts a false equivalent between the right and left when it comes to believing false things. That is Somerby's falsehood. Who benefits from telling it? The right. Somerby earned Trump and now he is stuck with him. He is not one of us, not a dissenter against right wing lies but someone who advances right wing propaganda.
You say Somerby never supported civil rights for black people. You're just making that up, right?
DeleteBTW, if you could respond with a citation rather than five paragraphs of verbose obfuscation, I'd appreciate it.
DeleteI've done that in the past. It is a lot of work and you can read Somerby for yourself in his archives. Here are some:
Delete1. Somerby opposed the desegregation of Boston city schools because of the riots by white parents.
2. Somerby said that Ketanji Brown Jackson was not well enough qualified to be appointed to the Supreme Court despite her excellent qualifications. His rationale was that there must be some white guy who is better qualified, so she is a DEI hire.
3. Somerby claimed that black students who are complaining about microaggressions don't have any real racism in their lives to complain about because racism is over, so they focus on manufactured grievances.
4. Somerby claimed that an Asian attorney in NYC who said she was worried about her elderly mother being assaulted due to calling covid Asian flu, was exaggerating the threat, even though she cited a large increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in NYC.
5. Somerby claimed that a black high school student with very high grades shouldn't be encouraged to attend an open entry college on an athletic scholarship because she would fail due to being unable to meet the academic challenge there. He implied that black students generally cannot do well when accepted to competitive schools due to affirmative action.
6. Somerby claimed that black students in MS who showed strong improvement after revision of the training and teaching practices in black schools were only showing improvement due to retention, despite the fact that retention had been in practice for 20 years without such improvement.
7. Somerby has repeatedly said that no one cares about black students because we ignore the racial gaps in reading and math NAEP scores. He said the gaps are intransigent despite repeated efforts to improve black student performance. His implication was that black students cannot learn but that our society refuses to admit it and stop wasting money on helping black kids.
8. Somerby has repeatedly opposed calls by parents of black students in NYC for more seats for black high schoolers in restricted competitive high school science programs. The parents claim that too many seats are taken by Asian students who receive middle school coaching for the entrance exam, whereas black kids do not receive similar coaching and cannot gain admission despite being interested in STEM disciplines. Somerby thought the Asian students would be unfairly penalized if efforts to include more than 8 black students were made.
9. Somerby sided with those wishing to ban books in schools as parental choice, when parents already had the option to opt out of reading such books, despite the fact that the books being targeted for removal were written by black authors. He supported removal of such authors from school curriculums and reading lists, and from library shelves entirely.
10. Somerby repeatedly criticized the black history Project 1619 (developed by the NY Times) saying that it had inaccuracies and problems, without citing any specific problems or mistakes in it.
11. Somerby was criticizing Kamala Harris back when she was not VP, could not bring himself to support her as VP (when he said she was quoting inaccurate stats, actually quoted from the Dept of Labor website, about the gender gap in employment, and did not support her for President despite claiming he would vote for her. He repeated right wing criticisms of her and never praised anything about her except her smile, never debunked any smears (such as she slept her way to the nomination). He clearly considered her an inferior candidate and the reason why Trump won, given his statements about failure to remove Biden soon enough from the Dem ticket.
That should get you started in your research.
Forgot the one where he blamed a black grad student who was kicked out of her own dorm by someone saying she "didn't belong there" for causing a scene over nothing. Also forgot the one where he criticized a summer program for talking about racial sensitivity and inclusiveness to its trainees.
DeleteAnd, over time, if one were to count the criticisms of cable news hosts and journalists singled out by Somerby for negative discussion over the years, the largest group would be black women and gay men of either race (Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, Charles Blow, Ta-Nehisi Coates). Whenever he talks about an unfamiliar journalist and you look them up, they turn out to be a black female who attended an elite university. Way too many times to be a coincidence instead of bias, especially given the statistical respresentation of minorities in media.
Last time Somerby's racism was supported with quotes, it was a waste of time because the person making the request denied that the quotes showed any bias. Why do a bunch of work if that is what happens?
DeleteEach of Somerby's racist incidents has been criticized with references and cited sources and quotes in the comment section. It might help to google the incident itself then read the extensive dialog in comments.
DeleteAnother forgotten incident -- Somerby defended the white guy who shot and killed a black trick-or-treater. He also defended the cops who killed George Floyd and of course, George Zimmerman who killed Trayvon Martin. Somerby was against the entire Black Lives Matter movement. In several cases of black men being shot, Somerby has tried to excuse the cops involved.
Why wouldn't anyone defend a man who defended himself when he was ambushed by a violent criminal who beat the shit out of him while he was trying to keep his crime ridden neighborhood safe? Ambushed while calling the police on a suspicious person who turned out to be a violent criminal who tried to kill him.
DeleteJust as I figured. No citations at all, just an avalanche of unsupported accusations, leavened with some irrelevant whining.
DeleteA true Gish Gallop of a response.
DeleteLet's just take the first one. Somerby opposed desegregation in Boston schools. You told me to look at the archives myself. I put in "desegregation" and "Boston" in the Search -- no results. I put in "desegregation" and "school" in the Search -- no results. Shall I assume you just made this one up?
DeleteI am assuming you made your search up.Try Wed, June 20, 2018; wed May 9, 2018 and surrounding dates. He proposes that kids who come from a “culture of literacy” do well, so programs are useless.
DeleteSee Aug 10, 2023 where he complains busing was only mandated in working class areas, etc.
Somerby appears to have removed his earlier website. 1998-2011
6:04,
DeleteBullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.
Anyone can read what Somerby writes and form their own opinions.
DeleteAnyone can hear what Trump said, and form Putin's opinion.
DeleteWhen you are making a point about someone else's ignorance, you need to be careful to get everything right yourself.
ReplyDeleteThis may be a nitpick, but when Matthews said this, he was wrong himself:
"This idea that things will turn out [well in the growing economic mess] is right out of Chauncey Gardiner in Being There. He’s telling the president, [actor] Jack Warden, "Don’t worry, we’re going to plant in the spring and we’re going to sow in the fall, and everything’s going to be great."
Any gardener or farmer knows that planting and sowing are what you do in the spring (not the fall). You reap or harvest in the fall. Matthews apparently doesn't know the Bible verse either: "As you sow, so shall you reap." Not "As you plant, so shall you sow." which is a tautology.
And Somerby apparently thinks the quote is nifty, given that he repeated it. I am not going to rewatch Being There to see what Chauncey actually said, but he was skilled at gardening and I doubt he would have said something that stupid. But yes, it was stupid of the president to accept what he said as wisdom.
The film illustrates that vague broad statements can be accepted as meaningful or wise because the listener projects their own meanings onto what was said. The wisdom comes from the listener interpreting the words, not from the speaker. Somerby does this himself, his own personal Chauncey Gardener routine, as he says things like "anything is possible" and calls the left and the right equally bad in their way. I have no idea whether Somerby is doing that on person -- the guy in the film was portrayed as severely autistic or mentally retarded but I doubt Somerby is like that. But his routine is tiresome, especially when right wingers here jump on his statements in order to attack the left. Whatever Somerby is playing at, this is not a game and many people are being hurt by Trump, who was essentially let back into office by people like Somerby. But a man who won't take responsibility for his own opinions is never going to accept blame for the consequences of his failure to keep Trump out of office. Everyone lefty with a blog was trying to stop Trump -- except Somerby, who devoted his efforts to stopping Biden from running again and then sabotaging Harris from the supposed left.
Somerby is not cognitive.
DeleteA person isn't judged on her/his failure, S/he should be judged on her successes. Trump bravely attempted a wide variety of challenges. Some failed and many succeeded
ReplyDeleteNo, David. Ethicists balance good against harm. The point being made about Trump's failures is that he wasn't a good businessman, as claimed.
DeleteThere is nothing brave about starting a casino or an online university. There were lots of those that succeeded. In fact casinos were considered so not-risky that people mocked Trump for his failure at an endeavor that usually rakes in money. Online for-profit universities were similarly not risky and generally made a lot of money. They were stopped because the students at Trump's university did not actually get jobs or make money in business as promised. That made his operation fraudulent. He had to give money back to the students he bilked by not providing the advertised services.
When Trump declared bankruptcy instead of paying his creditors, he benefited by carrying his losses forward as a tax deduction. That meant he didn't pay taxes on his other businesses as he should have. In the process, Trump stiffed the people who trusted him and worked for him in the failed businesses. Trump did that as a strategy, which he considered very clever and bragged about. Again, that makes him a conman and a cheat, not someone who took a risk and failed in good faith. Trump gives actual failures a bad name. Trump is a cheat.
Another day, another outrageous act of King Orange Chickenshit. A DOJ official was abruptly fired because she refused to recommend Mel Gibson have his gun rights restored. She was bullied and told he has a personal relationship with King Chickenshit and she still refused because he did not qualify with his conviction of domestic abuse. So Gibson gets his gun rights back and we lose an honest DOJ lawyer with strength and integrity and a concience.
DeleteTell me, Dickhead in Cal, is this one of Trump's brave things you applaud? Go fuck yourself. Go play with you maggot friends, even if you think you're better than them.
"Don’t cross the King — or his friends:
DeleteWe knew that the U.S. pardon attorney was fired by the Trump Justice Department on Friday in a new purge of senior attorneys. Now we know why.
In a interview with the NYT, Elizabeth G. Oyer says she was terminated hours after she refused to go along with a rushed, last-minute attempt to put actor Mel Gibson on a list of people who would have their gun rights restored.
Gibson cannot legally carry a firearm after a 2011 domestic violence misdemeanor conviction.
Oyer describes a careful deliberative process to come up with a list of people whose gun rights could be safely restored then her growing dismay as that process was circumvented to try to add Gibson, who had not been vetted.
Oyer said she came under increasing pressure to sign off on Gibson, culminating in a call from a senior official in the office of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche: “He then essentially explained to me that Mel Gibson has a personal relationship with President Trump and that should be sufficient basis for me to make a recommendation and that I would be wise to make the recommendation,” she said.
They’re actually saying this stuff out loud now, not even trying to make up some kind of story to cover their corruption. Blanche, who was a US Attorney for many years and definitely knows better, just told her flat out to do it for the boss. The corruption is complete.
Can someone please tell me why that drunken lunatic Mel Gibson should be able to own a gun? He’s rich enough to hire security 24/7 and probably does. He’s nuts and he’s dangerous and can only need one to threaten or shoot someone when he’s drunk or angry."
https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/11/take-care-of-the-cronies/
David in Cal,
DeleteSupport the 100% Estate Tax rate. Let your lazy, good-for-nothing, free-loading grandkids get a job. Like I did.
Or you can thumb your nose at a merit-based society. Your call.
You have a good point, @6:16. One argument against estate tax is that the money has already been taxed once. Income tax was collected. But, this argument is flawed. Unrealized capital gains haven't been taxed, but (under current law) they will never generate income tax from my grandchildren because of the "stepup."
DeleteHey Dickhead, how much taxed money has not already not been taxed? Think about it for a few days (Hint: start with the payroll tax) and leave us alone u Not See.
DeleteHey DiC - should President Musk, being a long running anti-semite on X be deported per the Felon's Exec Order? (A true Nazzzi conundrum ain't it?).
DeleteAnti Semitism is ok, as long as the federal government is destroyed.
Delete"A person isn't judged on her/his failure, S/he should be judged on her successes."
DeleteA person should be judged on both, nitwit. And stop using politically correct pronouns,
“Trump bravely attempted a wide variety of challenges.”
DeleteHe ran a lot of scams, DiC.
David in Cal,
DeleteI don't blame any Right-winger who doesn't want to live in a merit-based society, which is completely stacked against them.
The blues were not as blind as as you suggest.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lynchpin to his narrative, now in its 4th decade.
DeleteFrom Digby:
ReplyDelete"Musk: “The waste and fraud in entitlement spending — that’s the big one to eliminate. That’s the half trillion, maybe 600 or 700 billion a year. That’s also the mechanism by which Democrats attract & retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here & then turning them into voters.”
Put it in an ad and get it on the air. Play it until he’s gone or until November 2026."
It shouldn't need to be said, but illegal immigrants cannot collect from any of the so-called entitlement programs, including Social Security and Medicare.
They do pay into them though.
DeleteI agree with you, Ilya. The law is unfair. Still, the law should be followed and enforced. Is hundreds of billions of dollars from SS and Medicaid and Medicare being paid to people who are not legally entitled to these payments? I don't know, but I'm glad Musk is investigating.
DeleteWhy Digby thinks this statement would hurt Republicans politically baffles me. Most people are smart enough to realize that reducing payments
to ineligible people means more money available for eligible people.
No, there are not hundreds of billions to be found. The conspiracy theory itself is ridiculous. Musk makes himself ridiculous by proposing it.
DeleteMusk is demonizing social security. He isn’t trying to save it.
Delete"I'm glad Musk is investigating."
DeleteMusk is propagandizing. He is falsifying. He is sensationalizing.
He is not investigating.
" ... reducing payments to ineligible people means more money available for eligible people."
DeleteCite please for the basic proposition and please point out where Trump, Musk, or anyone involved with the Administration has made this assertion.
Both please.
What would really provide a larger fund is to get rid of the Reagan tax on benefits and to cap benefits of the wealthy instead of figuring out ways to fund unnecessary tax cuts by picking the bones of current Social Security and IRS agencies among others.
Cite please for the basic proposition and please point out where Trump, Musk, or anyone involved with the Administration has made this assertion.
DeleteAnd there goes David, exit, stage left.
When's the next game of "Who Said it? Karl Marx or David in Cal?" start?
ReplyDeleteThis is for anyone who doesn't understand that Trump's animosity toward the Dept of Education is racist:
ReplyDelete"Trump, who recently confirmed World Wrestling Entertainment magnate and Republican megadonor Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education, has made the complete elimination of the department one of his policy priorities — a longtime goal of far-right activists who oppose how the department's civil rights mission purportedly interferes with state decisions on education."
One could equally well argue that the Dept. of Education is racist. It hampers education by requiring ever new approaches that don't work very well. Upper middle class white parents can more easily make up for the school's defects than poor blacks.
DeleteOf course, my argument is silly, as is @6:39's. There's plenty of real racism. We shouldn't stretch to see all events through a lens of racism.
It is nice to have white privilege and then "joke" about what racism is there really?; right dick the racist Nazi? In all these stupid comments nobody even mentions the core of the post; renaming Forts after scum that violated their oath and worked to destroy American Democracy. These acts are racist (and unAmerican) as fuck. It would be like the German government naming Forts after Hitler. The Regime firing black military leaders for being black is racist as fuck. You are such a fascist - I mean racist dork DiC.
Delete@7:08 Fort Bragg is a city as well as a military base. I vacationed there a couple of times. Never did it occur to me wonder about who Bragg was. Why do people want to re-name places that have no racist suggestion to modern day Americans? It's a political stunt. BTW another political stunt is Trump's Gulf of America.
Delete"It hampers education by requiring ever new approaches that don't work very well."
DeleteGive us an example, willya? What's one of the "required new approaches" from DOE?
DiC is saying this at a blog where Somerby used to point out regularly how naep scores have substantially risen for all student groups over the past 40 years. One of the main things Somerby criticized was the facile nature of criticizing our schools and our teachers based upon a shoddy understanding. But of course, DiC learns nothing from the blogger he so admires, yet again.
Delete@7:08 -- black Americans need better education. They need jobs. These are what Trump offers. Meanwhile Dems offer to re-name a Fort, although essentially nobody knows where the name came from. No wonder Trump got a greater number of black votes.
DeleteHow does Trump offer jobs to blacks? Huh? What is his plan for improving their education, DiC?
DeleteImproved education will come from reducing the power of Washington bureaucrats to meddle.
DeleteA lot more jobs will come from tariffs, continuation or reduction of the corporate income tax rate and reducing regulations.
How will educators be able to share best practices without a dept of education?
Delete“ A lot more jobs will come from tariffs”
DeleteI recall you were concerned at one point about the Trump tariffs. You’re like a pod person.
Please, please, for the love of God, don't humor that Dickhead in Cal, trying to make sense of his bullshit. He will keep you chasing your tail on his merry-go-round of infinite illogical contradictions forever. Sure, we must endure the non-stop corruption and lying from the mad king destroying everything, because Dickhead in Cal is concerned about the black students and black jobs. Sure, and who is the fucking one who was so concerned about the name of a fort, Dickhead. Go fuck yourself.
Delete"No wonder Trump got a greater number of Black votes." More votes than who? Trump , of course. A whopping 16% in 2024 , up from 8% in 2016. Pathetic, but DiC calls that a net positive. An innumerate retired actuary. Talk about pathetic.
Delete"the power of Washington bureaucrats to meddle."
DeleteC'mon, David. Just one. One example of a Dept of Ed "required new method."
Dummy DiC, learn the Nazi talking points. It is being renamed for a WWII vet named Bragg, why gosh almighty sweety, it has nothing to do with treacherous traitors like a Civil War General who violated the oath he took at West Point. Honoring traitorous scum, what the Trump cult is all about, you racist Nazi scum.
DeleteIf you said you vacationed in Fayetville, NC I might have believed you, but saying Fort Bragg is also a city - you lie!
Deletehttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=fortbragg+ca&atb=v426-1&ia=web
DeleteRed states that suck at the teat of the federal government will be missing those DoE allocations which as usual are mostly paid for by blue states. Fine by me.
DeleteThe dismantling of the Department of Miseducation has finally begun.
ReplyDeleteConundrum: Trump loves the poorly educated. This new boosting of educational outcomes, presumably the desired outcome, will result in election losses for the trump party.
DeleteDemocrats think education has improved since the advent of the Department of Education union grift.
DeleteMAGAs think the Department of Education is somehow connected to teachers' unions.
DeleteMAGA is the cult of people too stooopid to gradeate from higher edmacation
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DeleteEducation is not a function of the federal government, and therefore there is no reason for federal education bureaucracy. It's 100% waste and fraud.
Demolish it, Donald Trump, please. Save working people's money, and cut our taxes.
It is if Congress says it is, Boris-bot.
DeleteLast year, the House considered an amendment to a bill that sought to eliminate the department but more than 60 Republican members joined Democrats in rejecting the effort.
Oops, looks like "the People" think it is a good idea.
DeleteFederal functions, retarded Soros-bot, are enumerated in the constitution.
Are you asserting, Dr. Otto Yerass, that the DoE is unconstitutional?
DeleteYes, Soros-bot, definitely. Just like the recent discovery that federal "abortion rights" are unconstitutional. As long as the Supreme Court is not controlled by the DemocRat mafia.
DeleteSoros-bot at 8:33, needs a tune-up.
DeleteLeavitt: Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries and a tax cut for the American people.
ReplyDeleteI told her in no uncertain terms, when it comes to this country, Love It or Leavitt!
DeleteThe regressive nature of tariffs on the citizens of this country is hardly mentioned as just one more way Republican policy screws the middle and lower class preferentially.
DeletePerhaps it's hardly mentioned because it's bullshit, Soros-bot?
DeleteWhat difference does that make?
DeleteWe mention you, and you're bullshit.
Why are people wasting time listening to what Trump says? Who cares? He's a liar.
ReplyDeleteTrump could state my name and address, or that all Republican voters are bigots, and I still wouldn't believe him.