Summary
Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced the Returning Education to Our States Act, aiming to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, a long-time Republican goal aligned with Trump’s agenda.
The bill proposes redistributing the department’s $200 billion budget and responsibilities to other federal agencies and states, such as shifting federal student loans to the Treasury.
Critics warn this could undermine protections for students with disabilities and marginalized groups.
While the bill faces significant political hurdles, it reflects broader GOP efforts to reduce federal influence over education policy.
well, duh. it’s the natural progression of the gops war on education theyve been waging since the 60s. turns out it’s way easier to get people to vote for you if you master propaganda and refuse to teach people critical thought.
They done great job too. Not only does my mega family now believe that moon landing was faked, but that the earth is flat. Seriously they are getting dumber by the second. All based on where they get their information.
I know it has an potential to cause great harm, but maybe we should get back to intelligence (or even basic reality) tests, and then weight votes proportional to the score.
Just some agree/disagree statements…
The earth is shaped more like a sphere than a disc.
The human beings have never landed on the moon.
The 2020 general election was fair, and without meaningful fraud.
The efficacy of vaccines are well documented, going back over 100 years.
I’m sure we can come up with a lot.
America has a long history of trying to figure out how to make the votes of certain groups fractional of “true” Americans, the whole 3/5ths compromise and all that.
I don’t think we should be trying to introduce modern day versions of that. I’d much rather see voting day be made a federal holiday, and voting become mandatory.
Agreed, but a country half populated by idiot conspiracy nuts and neonazis with disporpotionately large representation is shaping up to be a bad idea.
Traitors, all of them.
Fine, just murder it already. Sorry we wanted society to have enlightenment. Sorry that got in the way of your insatiable greed.
And religious indoctrination.
So he probably “thinks”: “school did not work for me, why waste money on other having a chance?”
I don’t know the guy in question, but the more likely conservative mindset is “why bother educating the unwashed masses? It’s a waste of resources when we could instead keep them ignorant, under our thumbs, and working in our factories for next to nothing. We’ll just make sure that education is available for people who can pay for it (us).”
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Ignorance is Bliss!“Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.” Thomas Gray [TIL]
That guy looks like he always beats his wife for enjoying sex.
FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF, SOUTH DAKOTA.
You’re a deadbeat state.
The federal share of South Dakota’s state budget has been above 40% since 2021, when it spiked to 56%.
The federal government provides aid to states and local governments in the form of grants for programs like education, transportation, and Medicaid.
If the feds ever pays more than half of a states budget that state should immediately have all standing politicians removed and replaced with a temp government while the Fed undoes whatever garbage policies caused that
In the meantime that state and it’s citizens don’t get representation, they didn’t fucking pay the membership dues to the union
No taxation without representation works the other way
100% agreed
Any bets on how far US will fall in global rankings? I am guessing maybe two or three places in the next five years
Why do some people think that smart immigrants would want to come to the US if the general population is hard to deal with? What part of quality of life do they not understand?
Okay, let’s take some prosaic examples.
— H1-B visa man goes to a restaurant. Restaurant staff are racists, QOL degrades, H1-B visa man rethinks staying long term in the U.S.
— H1-B visa man enrolls children in private school. Private school staff is religious fundies, and education at a public level would be cheaper and better in another country. QOL degrades, H1-B visa man decides to move from the U.S.
For most skilled immigrants the calculus is based around money and what they get out of it, you shouldn’t expect there’s any intrinsic worth to staying in the U.S. if standards are shit and qualify of life degrades.
So in simple terms, you’ll have dumber people on average in house and smarter people on average in other countries.
They will come for the pay and laugh as they leave.
Hell, who is going to want to come study in the US on a visa if we have mass deportations going on? It’s a pretty safe bet that many of those visa holders will get stopped and challenged multiple times by roaming gangs of thugs looking for illegal immigrants to haul away. And it’s also a pretty safe bet that some of them will simply claim the visas are fake or otherwise invalid and make those students lives miserable as they try to sort things out.
Trump (and Republicans) love the poorly educated. This is all part of their plan to keep people stupid so they’re easily manipulated, thus keeping the GOP in power.
This is all part of their plan to keep people stupid
and poor from unplanned pregnancies they don’t want and can’t abort, and future unplanned pregnancies due to lack of contraceptives.
Critics warn this could undermine protections for students with disabilities and marginalized groups.
Meanwhile Republicans:
At first I thought, “ok they’ve got their mind made up no matter what, nothing can convince them” Then I realized it meant they were enjoying marginalized students being at a bigger disadvantage. Clever panel.
This is the chance for one underpaid government tech worker to delete the wrong folder in the transfer and erase the debt
It makes for a good movie plot, but there are likely backups, etc. that could be recovered fairly easily.
Ahh, the ate-too-much-lead-as-a-child-mental-illness-party strikes again
fuck every republican who voted for this.
Republicans are, in fact, fucking you. Because all you do is complain online like all the other democrats.
We lost to an orange rapist criminal because losers like you don’t protest with guns, and just finger waggle until the cops break it up.
Grow some balls like the Black Panther party and buy a fucking gun and protest peacefully or continue arguing from your basement while Republicans gut our programs that help the disenfranchised without consequences.
Because all you do is complain online like all the other democrats.
Oh, you know me personally?
We lost to an orange rapist criminal because losers like you don’t protest with guns
Spoken like a true basement dwelling loser. Go back to 4chan, edgelord
How is it edgy to want to fight to continue to exist? You want people to roll over and die? To just let bad shit continue to happen to them?
Go fuck yourself with this pacifist attitude, it’s done nothing to progress anyone, in fact led democrats to lose to facism.
Go fuck yourself with this pacifist attitude
there you go again, assuming you know anything about who i am, who i support, and what actions i’ve taken/not taken.
my critique of your attitude is that you blame others in a “matter of fact” way without knowing anything about them. childish, immature, and edgy are appropriate descriptions for your reactions. i’m no longer responding after this as clearly you are quick to anger and anger doesn’t lead to rational thought. if you’re not already seeing a therapist, i strongly suggest it. lashing out and projecting doesn’t hurt anyone but yourself.
fuck every republican
who voted for this.Not even if I wasn’t ace.
Exactly. I’ve been saying for years that no Republican should be allowed into office, and I stand by that.
Absolutely no politician deserves a seat at the very table they are trying to destroy.
No Republican (with the exception of two – Romney and Cheney) has not condemned J6 and until they do, they absolutely should not get to sit in office.
Yet…here we are.
No Republican […] has not condemned J6
Double negative :P
By this, I mean the voters deciding, not necessarily legal measures. Although, as you point out, there are definitely times where legal measures should be getting used, such as J6 and the parallel coup attempt.
Just keep going with that logic and defunding every public service and let them separate every state until they all become 50 small autonomous countries.
It’s been a fierce debate and position held by some since before the US was even officially anything.
The people who want a less federal power also often forget that the US has, until now, been largely blessed by not having to deal with an outside enemy state on their own same soil for prolonged time. Loose control could mean that becomes a real and actual problem.
Red states are about to find out how much they depend on blue state money.
I’ve seen GOP Voters on a local news app talking about how they can’t wait to see what happens when “California and New York stop asking other states and Big Daddy Government for hand outs!”
And I had to sit down and say “Oh my sweet summer child”
California is the 5th Largest and Most Powerful Economy in the world lol
They want to defund education. I mean put two and two together, they dumbb.
Putin would love nothing more than for that to happen.
Honestly, let them. Then all the blue states can form a union while the red states become a balkanized bastion of hatred.
Man why are we fantasizing about this. What’s the reddest state you can think of, Texas? 42% blue. Florida? 43%. Even in ridiculous places like North Dakota, 1/3 of the people voted blue. What happens to them when blue states form their little utopia?
Those who can, move?
Is it better to let the entire country suffer then instead? This whole election has been a complicated trolley problem
I hate how accurate this kinda feels 😮💨
Maybe we should try nation-states as an idea?
The problem is that the US is in a fucked up stagnate state, this makes it so the more progressive areas cant improve fast enough and keeps the red states in a place where they are fundamentally incapable of the form required.
They leave those hellholes, to live in better places?
Because its just that simple right? Its not like we’re living paycheck to paycheck already.
Easiest way to keep voters dumb. The GOP relies on people voting against their own best interests.
And we know Trump knows this, as he was recorded years before stating the economy does better under Democrats…
Also remember his first attempt running for President was in 2000, when he said his running mate was going to be Oprah Winfrey. He held events in California, Florida, and Minnesota before dropping out. I believe he talked about 1 or 2 other presidential runs as well, but never had his ducks in a row. So it was about his 4th time attempting to figure it out in 2016, 5th 2020 and now his 6th time running in 2024.
