Rural Trump voters literally begged to elect a President to dismantle the Dept of Ed convinced it would stop “woke indoctrination.” All it will do is strip away 10% of your already defunded budget. Your school already writes their own curriculum — you were duped and now your kid will suffer.
Ah yes… “woke indoctrination”, spelt “f-a-c-t-s”, smh. Love your work Jess, keep fighting the good fight.
The most “woke indoctrination” I’ve ever received was in Sunday school. My Bible based teachings as a child are why I’m basically a socialist now.
It doesn’t help when extremists take over your rural school board and continue to lie to constituents about who sets curriculum. It’s rough out here.
I guess they won't need school boards anymore
Of course, you mean suffer more.
They were asleep when they should have been "woke" for the elections, so I find it difficult to feel sorry for these 🫏
Just a bunch of middle-aged and old white people yelling at clouds. It's been the same forever. Let the Young make the world they want to live in and get out of the way. It's no longer for you to understand. The times they are a changing....
As an old person, I am more than happy to get out of the way for the young people.
Same, just as older people eventually got out of our way.
Right now it seems the real enemies of America are all over 70 years old. I am, so I hesitate to say this, but it seems this longer expected lifetime stuff has a negative side. For every Bernie Sanders there are suddenly 10 Trumps. Remember when we thought McConnell was the worst of the worst?
TYW, if someone uses the word "WOKE" to describe what's troubling thing, I basically tune out and am no longer taking them seriously ! If something is troubling you, go on and say it out loud, as to exactly what it is, if you're not to ashamed, to say that evil ass shit you're thinkin', out loud !
Trump loves the uneducated. Let's make MORE!
Yep. It is the same with working class white Trump Voters in Westchester County, New York. Spoke to several people last night and haven't been so depressed since last Friday. It's a cult, but the Democrats have no idea how to mass-deprogram enough voters to save us or stop this. Out of ideas.
These people are .. dare I say .. uneducated? Seriously. Use a search engine & LOOK UP (research) what the function of the Dept of Edu IS!! Educate yourself . Learn. Then criticize if you must. Defunding rural schools will happen. Then what? Small towns die.
In Ohio, the Trump voter areas already have the worst educational issues than the bigger blue areas. The blue cities will take care of their own residents, while smaller and more rural in Ohio will sink much further behind
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It’s unconscionable that McMahon “wants to return education to the states” She’s either intentionally lying or woefully ignorant. Lil column A, lil column B!
Hope none of them have kids in special education.
I hope they starve, their kids too
They are gearing up for exactly that.
Does that mean I can no longer do gender swap surgeries during my planning periods? Or will we be able to keep that one perk we all love so much?
Republicans must be laughing their flat asses off at the country clubs, as they add trillions of dollars in debt onto your children's future, all to give country club members, free money.
As my wife (25-year teacher) said: If we could indoctrinate a kid, we would indoctrinate them to do their damn homework.
Well, the kids in the red states will - where they are funded by money from blue states. It's how they keep Americans uneducated while providing education only to those that can afford it. (aka the 1%)
Yup. People in rural areas already have a considerably weaker education. Statistics on education success bear that out. They are also red states or districts. A scary thought: if the parents are that dumb, what are the kids going to be like?
The powers that be can’t have them learning critical skills now can they? So sickening, just a cycle of ignorance and poverty.
"Woke indoctrination"-teaching everyone in America's history and not just that of ignorant white guys with fragile egos.
And, I might be wrong, the full price of funding local schools will show up in the increased property taxes folks will pay.
Those types have always been in GOP but now emboldened by trump. I was in elementary school PTO for over 10 years (4 sons through the school) and saw the disconnect first-hand. The trump types stick to copy/paste crap without ever seeing how the school actually functions. They're morons. 🤬💯
If I had a dime for every lie people who voted Trump believed, I'd out rank Musk for the richest person in the world.
It’s really brainwashing at this point. They really and truly believe the crap that the con man tells them via his propaganda media.
💯 I am concerned this platform is turning into the same kind of Echo chamber. In this moment of history it's not the worst thing. If we make it through this it will be a big concern.
Go chat on X for diversity views 🤷♀️
I actually reactivated my account over there. Turns out I was last on Twitter in 2017. So far, there is much more diversity of content and no trolls, but I don't follow anyone, so....
Can’t type lol
Oh great! I had a large account there but left a left a few months ago. Most interactions I had were trolls calling me vile names. Not sad to leave. Glad you are happy with it. I am happier here. Go where it works best for you 🤗
I can do both. If the bad place gets bad I can leave but I'm such small potatoes most people won't notice me. Until Bluesky draws more active accounts on more varied topics, there are subjects I'm just not seeing here. I'm not big on these chat platforms so maybe there is more I could curate here.
It’s nice to be able to post something here and not have immediate vile responses from trolls. I was suppressed on X so most of what I posted was seen by few except trolls. And on X, I didn’t see posts from others because they were suppressed. X seemed a hollow platform for Dem views
I don't doubt you.
That’s a very good point and that media silo mentality might very well be why Dems didn’t get the memo about the last election. I share your concern.
Duped duped in the worst way because when you Revel in Racism and this is all this is he told them woke was that Black people were getting too much and they voted against their own Racist Hatred for other people ( GOD Don't like Ugly)
You can't fix stupid.
Those rural voters are a primary reason to eliminate the Electoral College. Their votes carry far too much weight despite their abject ignorance
Yes, but that also means that the kids of people they really hate like will also suffer. Win, win!
Oh but Urban schools Black & Brown kids have always dealt with subpar schools they will continue to overcome we've dealt with this since 1619 We have dealt with Oppression and Hatred Racism we'll move on and we'll deal with it like we always do But that ( No Child Left Behind that was a lie )
Especially if they have an IEP or any special ed services.
Sucks but true Not sure why people these educators are saying I voted for Trump, but I didn’t vote for this when trump said this was his plan all along
Okay, that's fine, but we need to continue allowing stupid people to vote in each one of our elections, because that's their right as human beings and we can't stop stupid People from voting using any kind of test or anything. does everybody understand that?
I have a friend who has a child with special needs who fell hard down the Q Anon hole and voted for trump. Told him he screwed his kid over because special ed gets funding from the federal government. He had a shocked Pikachu face
And it will remove accommodation for kids who need it.
So, there is still a little justice in America!
A lot of maga men cannot stand the idea of their children being smarter than they are.
Most folks have no idea the scope of the federal department of ed. Republicans jumped on this fact to control the narrative. And kiddos and families will suffer.
If this passes and I hear my Christian sister in law that homeschools her autistic kid, bitch about the property taxes on their new house they can’t afford, let’s just say Easter isn’t going to be pretty.
They don’t care. As long as they can teach about Jesus and ban all books about anyone not white. They already think schools get too much money.
Republican want poor kids to be dumb from having no education … so they can keep them knocked down, pay them pennies for menial jobs, and fill the private prisons.
It will hurt kids like both of my grandsons who are autistic. It is already a fight for services.
For rural schools under the stress of lost federal funding, do you think the state will pick up the slack? Our statehouses are also clamoring to reduce funding for our schools with voucher systems and private school tax rebates. In many places, our schools are the heart of our communities
Well, won’t the republicans be overjoyed when students won’t be getting their tax payer supported education for 7 hours a day. The kids will be running around their communities beating, robbing, stealing from the old folks who don’t like paying taxes for police, schools, fire.
Rural Trump voters like illiterate children.
Crazy?
Low income students will not have access to Federal Financial Aid, Pell grants for college. Dept of Education manages that funding.
And instead you get mafia style MAGA indoctrination! Better brush up on those bow skills for the Hunger games, cause I don't think you're on the VIP list otherwise...
I wonder what percentage of them made fun of kids for doing the Tide pod challenge
Trump Cabinet: FU To His Rural Base Racism and Trans, a distraction parade. While cutting rich taxes and Medicaid. MAGA liked him demonizing vulnerable. Will they notice no seat at the table?
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If those kids could read this, they’d be very upset.
If parents have no influence on their children then it's not the school's fault 🤷🏼♀️
I'm wondering do your fellow citizens ever look outside the Continental United States. To see how other countries operate. Re medicine education politics. In Ireland. The Central Statistics Office. CSO. 48% of our population 5.5 Million has a 3rd level Degree. Most have 1 job 35 to 39h week ect 🇮🇪🇪🇺
Special needs students will suffer the most. But that's the point of the conservatives' eugenics playbook, right? Anyone not deemed 'worthy' won't be allowed to exist. Stop the abled poor from getting an education, put them to work early. Kill off anyone different so they don't pollute the pop
And, take away the income & health care once they retire & let them perish
Get rid of anyone considered a drain on resources
The ones yammering about indoctrination are the ones who have been indoctrinated. FFS.
From the 1st email McM sent to the Dept: “As a mother and grandmother, I know there is nobody more qualified than a parent to make educational decisions for their children.” True! And as a #mother, I know there is nobody more qualified than a #parent to make surgical decisions for their children.
Also as a mother I know there is no one more qualified than a parent to fly the planes my kids travel in.
trump & his project 2025 architects knew exactly how to instil fear and loathing into their followers, and still do. Who needs evidence when you can rely on ignorance and hatred.
The “let them eat cake” adage comes to mind but I am woke and think that NO child should suffer!!
They are so uneducated there that most of them have no idea what dismantling the dept of education will do! Education run solely by the states for them will be a disaster Their representatives have been fucking them over for decades.
Yes. This. Exactly. Duped at every juncture, every level, every depth. For decades.
youtu.be/BB2r_eOjsPw?... anti-American Republicans are going to make the RESERVE CURRENCY no longer be the dollar. Even if you aren't an investor, this is why that matters.
If funding is cut, they are going to cry the big tears at our local K-12 school.
They don't even understand the meaning of the word!
" All it will do is strip away 10% of your already defunded budget. Your school already writes their own curriculum — you were duped and now your kid will suffer" yes indeed - we were always told the rural was the home of the common sense and the "salt of the earth" well, not so much it seems
The problem is they don’t care if their kids suffer as long as other people are suffering too (immigrants, LGBTQIA+, ect). My very religious family members have stated they don’t care if groceries are more if it’s because “illegal people” are gone.
What is “woke” indoctrination? Exactly. Trump voters don’t know, either. The GOP excels at throwing out a pejorative and the sheep eat it up.
We’ve survived many things in the past, but the huge number of ignorant people is going to be the death of this country.
Democrats have done a lousy job with a counter narrative. They have not ever tried to explain that "woke" just means to be informed. I am so frustrated by the lack of Democratic leadership.
Money for nothing. Illiteracy for free. Trump is converting Americans to illiterate slaves.
That was the plan all along.
It’s all a con job. All of it. His voters, except the rich ones maybe, have been conned.
Montana voted for Trump. 80% of their school funding comes from the DOE. It's gonna hurt
And your property taxes wi ho up to make up for it
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Multiply this times how many other rural communities.
Show your support of kids and education by supporting your public school and teachers.
Let's all impeach him a third time.
Thats a win to real maga, they want public education permanently destroyed.
And it wasn't just rural trump voters. There are a bunch in cities and suburbs, too. Let's also not forget the 90 million who didn't vote when they could have
Ah.......not everyone who lives in a rural area voted for this shit. I know i didn't
As we will all suffer from a much dumber nation after this presidency.
#FatLeopardEra comes for rural America 🇺🇸 too.
It is so blatantly obvious that they want the people to be as ignorant as possible.
Ms. Piper, I taught for a number of years. You are absolutely correct, each state sets their own curriculum. *All* this does is take away school funding.
Ignorance is bliss!
So frustrating because Trump COULD have run simply on closing the "Office of WOKE" within the Dept Ed. On day one he could say he had signed an executive order to that, done a victory lap and his cult members and the sycophant media would have all celbrated his "victory".
You're right, which means it really isn't about woke. Woke is just the vehicle for their assent while Republicans burn everything down. They'll still think it's okay as they drink ash soup.
No schools, and soon no hospitals. Rural life will be wonderful.
The rural voters I know, who voted against everyone's interest doesn't like to read. This seems to be a generational problem.
Keep them ignorant, sick, & poor is goal of any fascist government! Then they are too dependent and weak to try to change!
Exactly
Kids with disabilities, head start, civil rights, on and on, Folks have no idea.
Tried to tell friends who have kids with Downs this would affect them and they wouldn't listen.
And therein lies the biggest problem with reaching MAGA - no matter how hard we try, we can’t.
In a Pew(?) Study a few years ago, most Republicans reported to think college education was a source of problems (loose idea). Search for the study, it was mind blowing too see the results to the various topics.
I had to look it up, from 2017 so could be even more now. www.pewresearch.org/politics/201...
And they will deserve all of the horrible consequences. This is what they get for the right to hate “the other”.