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    "Hachi"Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 1:14pm

    *insert head exploding gif*

    *puts my head back together*

    Root peeps please, please, please do not get discouraged (well, I’ll be sour for the rest of the day but I need to get over this quick!). There are so many things we can still do. I just found out that my MOC is having a town hall next week (oh, how convenient it was announced last minute) and my state hoping to override a veto on an important issue so I’ve been bombarding my state senators (who can be swayed quite easier because they have more of a direct link to constituents).

    I’m not going to get fucked both ways (sorry, Stephen to be graphic). If you can get involved locally, do it. That is how we infiltrate. A bunch of us organized after the election and demanded that our MOCs meet with us. We won a small victory (seriously, I’m pissed it was announced last minute) with the town hall. This is a platform where we get to lead the discussion.

    We can still hold the line. We can!

    Also, fuck Mike Pence.

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      Ugh."Hachi"
      2/07/17 1:21pm

      Fuck discouragement. Now is the time for “Alright, hoss, have at it. When you fuck up, we will not - EVER - let you escape the fact that you - and ONLY you - have fucked up. And we’ll let you and your bosses know it at the earliest opportunity.”

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      World's Moistest Jheri Curl"Hachi"
      2/07/17 1:35pm

      He will get all his nominees through (including Labor). We’re fucked!

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    FauxcusedStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 1:09pm

    And, by the way, she is for “school choice”. Which is white America’s code phrase for “let me send my kids to the school with the fewest brown students”.

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      Ugh.Fauxcused
      2/07/17 1:21pm

      I don’t think that “school choice” necessarily needs to mean that. The implementation, as always, just plain sucks.

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      FauxcusedUgh.
      2/07/17 1:30pm

      I do, absolutely, believe that for many conservative voters it means precisely that.

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    Manitos, The Tiny Hands of TrumpStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 1:44pm

    Meanwhile, on Earth 2, President H. Clinton has appointed someone actually qualified to help our struggling education system, despite unified Republican opposition.

    Thank God wypipo saved us from that.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZManitos, The Tiny Hands of Trump
      2/07/17 2:26pm

      Well ... you nailed the fact that it’s going to be kids of color (and rural white kids from broke families) who are going to be hurt the worst unless we start more concerted efforts to homeschool them, that’s for sure.

      Because they’re going to do their best to make sure the charter schools are completely physically inaccessible by public transportation, just like they made sure the polling places in marginalized neighborhoods in key states were only open one day per week. It’s in the nitty-gritty application that they make sure the “system” only works for some people.

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    FauxcusedStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 1:08pm

    Here is a woman who clearly had no qualifications at all for the cabinet position that she was nominated for. This was absolutely made crystal clear.

    What she did so is donate $200M to the GOP.

    And she was richly rewarded for this donation by being given this cabinet position.

    I am not seeing how this does not meet the definition of “corruption”.

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      RerFauxcused
      2/07/17 1:15pm

      Today is the day that calling your representatives to voice your concern over a highly questionable decision died.

      We may think otherwise, but when it comes time to fall in line with their party, Republicans don’t give a flying fuck what their constituents think.

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      "Hachi"Rer
      2/07/17 1:18pm

      I know it feels like it right now but please don’t be discourage from continued civic participation/activism.

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    zakany001Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 1:41pm

    She gave Sen. Portman $40,000 for his war chest. He gave her his vote.

    We all know what Sen. Portman is, we’re just quibbling over the payment.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZzakany001
      2/07/17 2:28pm

      I saw a petition yesterday that demanded that Senators who’d received five-figure payments from DeVos recuse themselves from the vote.

      I was furious that that concern hadn’t floated that plan weeks ago, when there’s a possibility of it having been implemented. I don’t understand it when Dems do that. Tactical ingenuity ... waaaaaayyy too late to be effective. That’s, in essence, playing to lose.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZzakany001
      2/07/17 4:39pm

      Here are your maps for who should be fired – who enabled this insanity, who was bought and paid for, and who didn’t do enough to stop the travesty from happening.

      You’re welcome.

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    macoog95Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 1:26pm

    So how much does the federal government have on what or how the states conduct their education? Is it all funding based because I don’t think they have a say (yet) in what is taught.

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      Manitos, The Tiny Hands of Trumpmacoog95
      2/07/17 1:50pm

      That’s the whole point. She’s committed to moving funding away from public schools and towards private/charter schools. Schools that desperately need public funds to operate at a basic level will now see that given to voucher programs to get white kids to better schools.

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    gregmintonsteethStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 1:06pm

    I wonder if Betsy will require all future History curriculum’s to contain the great Bowling Green Massacre of 2016?

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZgregmintonsteeth
      2/07/17 2:10pm

      It’s not going to contain the Selma March, that’s for sure.

      I’d give a lot to hear Ava Duvernay’s take on this blatant piece of corruption.

      I’m so furious at the Dems that they couldn’t get one more Rethuglican to bend I’m not sure I can talk about it.

      I know there were campaign contribution violations that the PAC she ran in OH (yes, I know she’s from MI – the woman’s bald-faced corruption is widespread) was found to have committed, but she slipped out of paying the $5.5M in fees the Dems said she should have paid based on – IDK, some argument her attorney apparently made that she wasn’t a party to the lawsuit? I’m not sure. (And of course none of it came out in the ethics vetting because McConnell and those other goosestepping Senators tried to ram the confirmation hearing through before the vetting was completed.)

      I’d like to find enough instances of that and her flagrant incompetence to get her to be forced to resign before she does too much damage – but once again this is a situation where the Dems didn’t do enough to stop the avalanche of disaster before it starts, so we have to expend at least twice as much energy to even try to stanch the river of sludge to follow (I’m not going to just shrug and assume that can’t happen)

      Rahm Emanuel said something last night – he said Dems like to be right more than they care to win. Which is – I think you have to be principled IN ORDER to win … and then you can’t monkey out and be afraid to do whatever it takes TO win. (Which is why I have to go send some info to the CREW people now; I cling to the hope that if Benedict Donald can get taken out on a specific combination of grounds, all his picks will be invalidated and this corrupt fraud – ALL the corrupt frauds who perjured themselves in their hearings in order to get confirmed – will have to go. That theory has to be in there somewhere.)

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    TimpranilloStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 1:50pm

    No legitimate business would hire a candidate as unqualified. No legitimate business would hire a candidate that couldn’t even be bothered to attempt to understand the basic tenets of the business. No legitimate business would hire a candidate who has stated that her goal is to destroy that business.

    But, when it comes to the self proclaimed “pro business” GOP none of that matters. What matters is the wealthy donors of the GOP getting rewarded. What matters is to ensure that the gravy train of GOP donations continues to roll in. What matters is this ponzi scheme heiress and her GOP pals getting even richer.

    What most certainly does not matter to the GOP is the education of America’s children.

    Pro life, indeed.

    Fuck the GOP and fuck every single person that votes for these evil fucking monsters.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZTimpranillo
      2/07/17 4:40pm

      Here are your maps for who should be fired – who enabled this insanity, who was bought and paid for, and who didn’t do enough to stop the travesty from happening.

      You’re welcome.

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    TRT-XStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 5:16pm

    This is moving too damn fast to keep up...

    http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/318310-gop-lawmaker-proposes-abolishing-department-of-education

    At what point do we throw decorum out the window? Marches are great but they’re not listening anymore.

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    SaidTheTickTockManStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    2/07/17 2:23pm

    The rise of school choice is a testament to how creative racists are about acting racist while mainting plausibly deniability. Evidence was clear as day in 1954- separate schools will never be equal.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZSaidTheTickTockMan
      2/07/17 2:27pm

      Exactly.

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