Trump Admin dismantling Dept. of Education — mass firings underway

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[DiehardHeelFan]

“I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em”
RATM - Bulls on Parade

 

[korgguy1971]

I wonder who started the “never compromise” mantra in Washington?

Newt Gingrich is father of today’s compromise-is-surrender GOP politics​

If interested, Steve Kornacki's book from a few years ago is a great read and also very informative about the sudden shift in the 90s to political tribalism (and it is nonpartisan as well for the most part). Kornacki goes into detail about the whole Gingrich thing.

Steve Kornacki - The Red & The Blue

Amazon.com

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[Batt Boy]

Just pitiful. Folks without library cards shouldn't be allowed to vote.

 

[nycfan]

 

[superrific]

So now the measure of effectiveness is head count? I would have thought the 200,000 employee number would be catnip for some sort of efficiency operation.

Seems to me that the DOE, with its 1500 employees managing 1.6T in assets, is doing an amazing job delivering strong returns.

 

[nycfan]

“Departmen”

 

[Mulberry Heel]

“Departmen”

There's something terribly ironic and telling about a twitter photoshop bragging about Trump shutting down the Department of Education while misspelling the word Department. Kind of symbolizes the whole reason why we need a Department of Education. Not that Musk cares, of course.

 

[Bobfripp]

There's something terribly ironic and telling about a twitter photoshop bragging about Trump shutting down the Department of Education while misspelling the word Department. Kind of symbolizes the whole reason why we need a Department of Education. Not that Musk cares, of course.

Maybe they meant 'Depart, Men of Education.' Which is what they want anyway.

 

[nycfan]

 

[BlooVooDoo]

I’d be interested to see similar polling results in 6-8 months.

 

[lawtig02]

There’s never been stronger evidence the GOP is a cult than the fact that 2/3 of them support closing the Department of Education. Absolutely pathetic.

 

[Tarheeljoe]

 

[Zoo_View]

There’s never been stronger evidence the GOP is a cult than the fact that 2/3 of them support closing the Department of Education. Absolutely pathetic.

Didn’t Reagan promise to close the Department of Education?

 

[SmilingJack]

Just saying....

 

[Mulberry Heel]

There’s never been stronger evidence the GOP is a cult than the fact that 2/3 of them support closing the Department of Education. Absolutely pathetic.

What's the photoshop - the one of the potbellied guy with a USA flag undershirt holding a beer saying "And I told that teachin' lady that the only letters I needed to know were U, S, and A!" A big part of Trumpism is that it's a war on "educated elites" - the professional classes. So from their perspective shutting it down makes perfect sense. They really do seem to believe now that getting your information off the dark corners of the web makes you just as much of an expert on a topic or problem as someone with a grad or undergrad degree whose entire career has been in that field. It's in part a movement of opinionated blowhards who think they know everything about every topic, with Rush Limbaugh being a classic prototype.