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Of course he does! That is why he so freely admitted it.
What would he do without them?
And pervy Joe Biden loves little children. You've really improved the nation with your vote... NOT!
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Originally Posted by SerlingHitchcockJPeele
Saying things like “Abolish the Department of Education” is nothing more than dog whistle rhetoric. No one is going to replace it, what in the world would you replace it WITH? Maybe, we can all go back to the farm and send kids to school by ringing of a cow bell like on Little House on the Prairie..
You shouldn't mock the simple way the majority lived back then. Life was totally different but it was all they knew and they got by just fine. As it turns out, there was actual learning taking place. It's amazing how little learning is taking place today, with all the technology and resources available in the pursuit of providing quality education to all.
Anyways, future generations will likely mock some of the ways we live which are beyond our control because the life we live is all we know.
Saying things like “Abolish the Department of Education” is nothing more than dog whistle rhetoric. No one is going to replace it, what in the world would you replace it WITH? Maybe, we can all go back to the farm and send kids to school by ringing of a cow bell like on Little House on the Prairie..
I disagree. You have to separate for this conversation the existence of Department of Education at the federal level from the matter of providing public education. Public education is funded and administered at the state/local level for the most part and the part that isn't should revert to the states. The Department of Education has only been around since 1979 and is really something of an overreach of the federal government into matters that should be left to the individual states.
Maybe public schools aren't so bad.
My Son attended all public schools, but scored in the top four percent of all High School Seniors in the country on his college entrance exam. (This was several years back). He received scholarships and He probably could have went to school anywhere, but chose to go to University of Kentucky's college of Engineering.
Of course he does! That is why he so freely admitted it.
What would he do without them?
Trump loves blue-collar workers more than anyone, so he raised his kids in those jobs, and so did his father, giving the Donald and his brothers some weekend construction jobs.
Another CPAC spectacle included a former 1/6 detainee fake crying in a fake prison suit, in a fake prison cell/ cage. The fake security guards parted to allow a very real MTG to enter the fake cell, fall to her knees ( don’t go there) and join the fake inmate in prayer.
Reportedly, some of the viewers, prayed with them or wept or threw $ into the cage.
The Republican party seems to be craving an irrational response to the future right now. It's like a coping mechanism for a rapidly changing world. DJT embodies that irrationality; he emits random messages and his followers can derive whatever they need to feel out of the noise and chaos.
The crowd was raucous in the best way possible. Yeah he's running. The Party leader is still Trump, and DeSantis is waiting in the wings to grab the baton and run with it. We're set for a MAGA comeback of epic proportions. I can live with that. Oh. And for the record, Liz Cheney was included in the straw poll. She got zero percent.
CPAC and Republican Party are not synonymous. Conservative and Republican are not synonymous. Currently I'd say 95% of Conservatives are in the Republican Party with the remaining 5% in the Libertarian Party. 45 years ago it was maybe 80% of Conservatives were in the Republican Party and 20% of Conservatives were in the Democratic Party. The Conservative Democrats were anti-Communist, pro-life, pro-military and pro-family. As the Democratic party moved away from those positions, Ronald Reagan swept them into the Republican Party and won 44 states and then 49 states.
But that coalition that Reagan built wasn't a majority Conservative coalition, it was a broad spectrum of moderates and even liberal Republicans. Reagan never called anyone a RINO. He welcomed everyone after he saw what a purist Conservative Republican Party looked like in Goldwater's defeat in 1964.
Which brings us to 2016, 2020 and 2024. Donald Trump is no Conservative and is barely a Republican. He might have won the Republican nomination in 2016, but he did so without winning a majority of the votes of Republicans in the primaries. More people voted for someone else than voted for Trump in the Republican nominating process. A hardcore base of 30% + a variable 5-10% voted for Trump while 60-65% voted for someone else through the first half of the campaign. If the Republican Party had any leadership they would have called a meeting of the "other candidates" at the end of February and settled on a candidate to challenge Trump.
Trump has not enhanced the Republican Party, nor united it on principles, like Reagan did. Trump has torn down the Republican Party and lifelong Republicans who dared to call him out on his nastiness. He is bad combination of Populist and Narcissist.
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CPAC is a self-selected sliver of the electorate. I will continue to believe in my heart of hearts that a Biden-Trump rematch is the worst thing we could see in 2024 and evidence that both major parties have lost their grip on what the actual majority of the country wants. If either Biden or Trump runs, but not the other, the non-Trump/Biden major party candidate will win.
The country has done this to itself on how it treats candidates or rather would be candidates, and how the "silent majority" has allowed activist, extremists to be the driving forces of the party apparatus.
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What I find amusing is that Mike Pence who is undoubtedly one of the most conservative politicians and very popular when he served as VP is only polling at .03 percent and he only got to .03 percent because he voted for himself. My oh my how times have changed in America, the "conservatives" don't even know who the real conservatives are.
Mike Pence is his own worst enemy by having no personality as Ted Cruz is his worst by having an abrasive personality. Is it too much to ask to ask for a gracious, humorous person who has real convictions?
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Because Trump is a man of people, a populist and a thorn in the side of the vast majority of the oligarchs not just in the USA, but around the world. Trump is basically the closest thing America has to a Robin Hood type figure, and everyone working tirelessly to destroy him are basically serving modern day royalty.
Trump is his own worst enemy. His bullying and petulance in the 2020 campaign cost him dearly. His bullying and abrasiveness in the first debate with Biden cost him a lot of support, cost him an additional debate and probably the election. If he'd been quiet and let Biden stumble through answers and look as befuddled as he is, Trump would have come out ahead.
Then his petulance after losing the 2020 presidential election, and criticizing the second stimulus payment (that his White House had already negotiated) cost the Republicans control of the Senate.
Trump's ego and personal pettiness was/is more important to him than the Party and the Country.
For all the good policies he had, his personal failings have been bad for the Republican Party and bad for the country.
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Originally Posted by SerlingHitchcockJPeele
Saying things like “Abolish the Department of Education” is nothing more than dog whistle rhetoric. No one is going to replace it, what in the world would you replace it WITH? Maybe, we can all go back to the farm and send kids to school by ringing of a cow bell like on Little House on the Prairie..
Quick, name a federal elementary school for me! No? How about a federal high school? College?
The federal Department of Education should absolutely be abolished. There is no proper role for the federal government in education. It is a state and local issue. The $64 BILLION dollars that was the budget for FY 2020, is better spent elsewhere.
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