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Defund teachers?!?!?! Seriously dude? Defund yourself a55hole!
May 12, 2021 1:49 PM
CoatHangerSurvivor
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Defund teachers?!?!?! Seriously dude? Defund yourself a55hole!
clintwestwud
Ok but Daniel seems like a MAGAt with just amount of tweet I see.
8harvester6
Is this real? That fucking asshole really said defund the teachers unions?! What a piece of shit.
thenonoman
The real scary part is nearly half of voter supporting straight up fascism. This isn't even subtle or coded. Pure fascism.
joebellson
What the hell is wrong with these idiots wanting to diminish education. Just seems like no one would be that stupid, more malicious.
neodare
Sound like the steps needed to start a military coup.
ThesePipesAreClean
Full blown facists
DrArsMoriendi
RhinoNaut
Is he imagining that unions are funded by taxpayer money?
legsliklittlespiders
Wanna save money? Hold contracting companies accountable that take so much of the military budget for criminal costs and negligence
MyBigMouth
Gym?..... Shut up.
CurbYourClassWar
Oh is that Jim Jordan the pedophile enabler?
HeHulk
You could have just stopped at ‘pedophile’.
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
Someone really needs to beat the shit out of these idiots. A lack of consequences has to be the number one cause of republican bullshit.
therealSnyper117
Could you imagine if teachers and Fauci had the same budget as the military...
roughingupthesuspect
Still no cure for dipshit I see...
DickMundee
He couldn't give a fuck. It's all about self preservation. Prick
hungoveratworkguy
Sounds a bit fascist if you ask me
stronomer
Working towards Idiocracy.
Battle4ngel
Gotta get those votes somehow!
Rascael
That is an insult to Simple Jack... (he was much smarter than Jim)
2sips
CorneliusCornwall
I could honestly see that movie being made.
CorneliusCornwall
He should have won an Oscar.
Shickzilla
Silverwingedfluff
Defund teaching unions? Let's compare. Education: 40 billion. Military: 778 Billion.
georgedragonslayer
None of your taxes go to unions. Unions are self funding by design. Your tax money goes to provide places to learn. If you would pay better.
GlenL
Gym only supports doing the kids, not doing it for the kids.
wandermanspacebot
Like pretty much everything else, JJ doesn't know how teachers' union fees work.
RichFarquharson3000
Your bias blocks you from understanding his statement. He’s appealing to Teachers to defund their Union - obviously Government can’t do that
wandermanspacebot
I do tend to be biased against morons who are just throwing teachers under the bus because their political party thrives on ignorance.
haveyouheardabouttheseinternetmemes
Exactly. How the fuck is the government supposed to defund them? My dues pay their expenses, not your taxes.
TheMonkeysAngst
my dues are just 1 hours pay once a week. but because of that i make pretty good money, great bennies and random things ive never had before
TheMonkeysAngst
like our overtime, none of that over 40 hours stuff. anything over 8 hours a day is OT, saturday is 1.5x, sunday 2x, holidays 3x
BobbieNell
More killing! Less education and more preventable deaths!
mity0k23
Pardon my squirrely ignorance, but who funds teachers’ unions?
Findrek
Teachers, I'd assume he means de-fund indirectly by cutting teacher salary but he also could just be dumb enough to think its gov funded
Timmy79
Teachers, duh.... But he gets extra moron bingo points by squeezing in a reference to a union, and bashing teachers for no reason.
haveyouheardabouttheseinternetmemes
Membership dues. Jim Jordan probably knows this but he's more interested in stirring up outrage than he is in making sense.
kaarbaakimgr
Funded by local and state taxes.
mity0k23
You talking about “release time”?
TheMonkeysAngst
This is exactly why most ppl hate unions, they just dont know anything about them. UAW local 1443, our union has been great in my 11 yrs
rossimus
Thats a weird way to spell "dues"
mity0k23
I guess they’re confused about teacher salaries no longer being taxes once they receive them. Or maybe they’re talking about release time
mity0k23
Which is when public sector employees gets released from regular duties to do union stuff, but continue getting paid.
kaarbaakimgr
Whatever way you want to look at it buddy.
crankyoldgeezer
Does he understand teachers fund teachers unions?
MarsIsAfire
lol
bardock
He worked at a school, of course he does. The gop has been exploiting their base with these blatant lies because they lack integrity and
bardock
know theyll take everything they say at face value and until they start getting expelled for lying like this, have no incentive to not lie
Miller16of16
Only because they get paid enough to do so...because they have union representation...
TheMonkeysAngst
thats how i explain my dues, i wouldnt get paid as much as i do if i didnt have the union. its only 1 hour a week anyways. not just pay but
TheMonkeysAngst
everything else adds up fast
rambilish
Haha because us teachers make so much money! ? whaaat
thejon
Hell gets crowded so heaven develops a new rule, you just have to state your job the last year you worked and how much you made (1/?)
thejon
First an older man walks up, hears the rules and says he was a pilot and made 96k, and is waved inside
thejon
Next is a younger man who says he was a CEO, and made 218,000. He too is waved inside. Last walks up this little old lady (3/?)
thejon
She hears the rules and says "well last year I made about $614". St. Peter jumps in and says "oh? where did you teach?!?" (4/4)
rambilish
AlwaysDownvoteMilitaryAndMarvel
This is the internet. You're allowed to say "asshole" instead of "a55hole".
APointlessBee
Okay, why hate teachers unions? Is it just "My aunt wanted it her way and the union did another way?" or are there legit complaints in place
barnwolf
I've heard they make it basically impossible to fire an incompetent teacher. Unions always protect their own sort of thing.
BatLadyRielle
Teachers are mandatory reporters and gym Jordan is a pedophile.
SybilCrawley
Well, an educated populace is hard for a corrupt government to control.
TheAccursedHamster
Because education is the enemy of the right.
haveyouheardabouttheseinternetmemes
No organization the size of the national teachers' unions is entirely good but the most common complaints against them are entirely 1
haveyouheardabouttheseinternetmemes
bullshit. They absolutely don't make it impossible to fire bad/lazy teachers for instance. 2/2
jrntn
They hate teachers. That's it.
MadCat221
It's a combination of two things that wingnuts loathe: educators and organized labor.
Zindarak1
there were some movies made that heavily criticized the AFT, but they've done good, for example they were among the first to demand
Zindarak1
equal pay between black and white teachers
TheVermonster
Some of the things union's are great at, can be a disadvantage too. Ex, employment protection. It's great for most people, but every so >
TheVermonster
Often there is someone that is able to keep their job despite doing stuff that should qualify them for termination. Also, unions are there>
TheVermonster
To protect the employees, not make schools the best they can be. So "last in, first out" policies can protect the older, less effective, >
TheVermonster
Less passionate teachers leading many young teachers to bounce from bad school to school, leading to high burnout rates.
TheLastBeerBender
Always blows my mind the contempt the right has for teachers. Fox News tells their viewers its a easy job with summers off.
Xander77777
Anything that involves helping other over self-interest is a target of attack, and teaching is one of the most iconic helpful occupations.
ashesnghost
Im a TUTOR for ONE KID and its... its bonkers. No idea how teachers do this for 150+ kids
Ultratoxic
But let schools close for a few months and the right will literally riot.
icyanddicey
Not just teachers. Artists, activists, scientists, protesters, poor people, lgbt, etc. They are bad by default or "one of the good ones"
xyxyxyxy31
duhqueenmoki
They believe educators indoctrinate youth into a socialist democratic agenda. I deal with them constantly.
theirarefourlights
It’s a hard job with a lot of time off that it totally deserves. You want teachers working full time? You them to drink *more*?
catsandcoke
It was illegal to teach slaves to read and write. They kept them uneducated in order to keep them down. It helped maintain slavery and then
catsandcoke
kept black people in servant style jobs for a long time. The GQP wants their people uneducated so they will be subservient to them.
Noctourn
After this year, teachers are basically crawling towards the hope of summer
5NoteHalf
Simple reason: Educated people don't fall for their bullshit.
ICannotSanctionYourBuffoonery
It’s part of their “4 pillars” strategy to discredit and destroy every institution that would inform/contradict their brain washing.
PicassoCT
Bad grades. Drop out of school..
minipancho94
they hate education because a lack of critical thinking is the only reason they still exist. they want cultist/fanatics who dont question.
agentspinnaker
Full time k-12 public school teacher here. I qualify for low income housing .
JonnyTightlips
Ouch. Here in Canada teachers are decently paid at least...like 50-100K, great benefits and amazing pension.
meggo1323
They think teachers are "indoctrinating" kids. With things like, you know, history and empathy
xSoaringWyvern
Education breeds empathy. Empathy breeds non-republican values.
TurtleyaMOOsed
Elementary School teacher speaking - If it’s so easy, why am I so physically and emotionally exhausted I can’t move right now?
BernieMittens
Stupid people are easier to tame
ReasonablySorryButNotTooMuch
Its a simple truth that educated people rarely are "conservative christians". So the obvious solution to them is to shit on education.
300Hectares1TankofKerosene
Educated people don’t become Republicans. If they do, its only to exploit the others.
Darcyhollywood39
It's easier to control the masses when their greatly under educated
cptbootstrap1620
Here's your answer. https://imgur.com/YfeIG88
Jak8714
Do teachers even get paid over the summer? Or do they basically just get furloughed for three months?
KatieVick
You only get paid for 10 months, but most places let you defer pay to the summer. You have to fill out intent to return paperwork.
Ensy
No, they don’t. Where I’m from, you can have part of your paychecks automatically set aside to cover you in the summer.
HaveGinWillBabble
Fix education. If we were smart (Americans) we would care just as much about education as we do the military.
KatieVick
In your opinion, what needs to be fixed? Different people site different problems and issues. Also, Education is a state issue.
Aliubi
They do love the poorly educated...most of their base
thedudeman519
"I love the poorly educated" - Some dipshit reality TV host
Corpserations
I got a friend who teaches private school ant they work him to the bone
haveyouheardabouttheseinternetmemes
Probably gets paid less too.
Dechelonidaemobilis
Maybe it's because educated people are more likely to reject extreme right?
MyHarryPotterHasHogwarts
The GOP hate educated people.
Ninjainslippers
I know several teachers. They work 60 hrs/week in session, so summers off still means they work >40hrs/week if you average it out.
Maldraek
Smarter populace = fewer Republicans.
FreshOutOfMercy
Here's the thing, teachers watch it and begin soaking it up too.. i dont understand it
gladypi
This is exactly part of the problem. I see my colleagues actively vote against their own interests and I just don't understand at all
daguq
*an easy job
jonlememe
Based on last year and how many parents cannot cope with dealing w their own children full time, that opinion may have changed.
oneoldman
The teachers aren't doing enough to support them! Lazy teachers! /S
JustABookworm
You'd be surprised at how many stubborn parents have decreased their opinion of teachers because teachers didn't want to risk their health.
jonlememe
Those cunts do exist but they should be the minority hopefully.
JustABookworm
I mean, fortunately, not a lot, but still, more than I expected, and that's enough to make me sad.
htapoicoS
FOX loves the poorly educated, too. And those people don't like teachers (for reasons)
capturedclay
How is it that the teachers union gets richer and fatter, while teachers are barely scraping by on barely liveable wages?
AssCancerGuy
In areas with strong teachers unions, teachers don't have to scrape by like that. I teach in NYC, and get paid a very fair salary.
capturedclay
At least in California, where teacher unions are securely in power, teachers struggle. I didn't know about other states. Ty.
AssCancerGuy
Damn, hadn't looked into what's happening in Cali. Sorry to hear that. A few states in the Northeast do a decent job paying teachers.
gladypi
I really think it depends on the area in CA. I work in CA, make a fair wage, and my union has my back
redympshyn
My wife is a teacher with a masters in english... She makes 40k a year.
MiZfUnKy45
I've worked 3 years as a teacher each one in a separate district. I only made 41k when I lived in Denver. Our apartment was 1850/month.
MiZfUnKy45
2) other districts were 33k and 37k. Compared to minimum wage it's nice, but I have a masters degree
redympshyn
Hey we live in the springs. she has been a teacher for 8 years with a pay freeze for 2
GinjerbreadMan
American dollars?
NomDeImguerre
They see education as indoctrination. Facts have a well known Anti-GQP bias.
RaqNasty
Right?! If I hear one more time that “college is a liberal brainwashing machine,” I’m gonna flip the nearest table.
HaveGinWillBabble
Liberal arts she be taught in high school.
TheLastBeerBender
I'm torn on this one. I've always believed "the more i learn, the more liberal i get." But all my sources of learning are so-called liberal
TheLastBeerBender
So if I was brainwashed, how would I know?
KatieVick
Most people choose to teach critical thinking. If that makes you liberal, than so be it.
Rascael
I would love to see a poll of how many Fox viewers are homeschooled/ homeschooling their kids...
DarkZoma
They condemned a teacher's strike because they had to deal with their own kids. Basically they view school as a daycare center.
CurbYourClassWar
Too many
reynoldser
Too many but less than they'd like I'm sure. They hate the education love the free childcare.
LateNightBunnyParty
We voted for Bernie and I've homeschooled mine for years. Not the school's fault they don't get the funding they need, but I don't need /
LateNightBunnyParty
my kid learning whitewashed history and getting picked on for being atheist like she was at public school.
benjums
I couldn't tell you what religion any of the kids were at school. How does that even come up?
CurbYourClassWar
"I pledge my life to one nation, under the invisible father, etc etc" A lot of it is embedded in lessons, we just are too used it now.
LateNightBunnyParty
Rural Bible Belt school. That shit is deeply ingrained.
LateNightBunnyParty
This was the school: https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/hell-in-little-axe-an-oklahoma-moms-chilling-battle-with-religious-bigotry
whitefoxkei
What kind of extra shitty public school was this? Is that technically religious discrimination?
LateNightBunnyParty
Rural Oklahoma, man. Super religious area. Only held school 4 days a week.
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
Naw, the reich wing saw to it long ago that choosing not to believe isn't covered by any persecution laws.
LateNightBunnyParty
This was the school: https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/hell-in-little-axe-an-oklahoma-moms-chilling-battle-with-religious-bigotry
coalminersknuckle
Keep them stupid, poor, and easy to control.
WeSingLalaWhileTheDevilDoesTheChaCha
Coffee from Monday to Friday to keep you productive, and alcohol Friday to Sunday to keep you too drunk to question that reality
thedudeman519
I'm confident a fair share of US Citizens do the alcohol M-F too
HaveGinWillBabble
Did that for about a decade.
Oldschoolcsplayer016049879
Its weed now bro
Itslukus
How dare you. Don't lump stoners in with those fucks. But yea they use it to to dull the masses for sure though
Cthulhuonabike
Cthulhuonabike
They have contempt for education. Can't be having people getting involved and asking intelligent questions
theirarefourlights
I think they feed into an inferiority complex too.
dingofdong
It's not even getting involved or asking questions that they resent. It's questioning the dear leader
Supersaiyanricksanchez
They don't want them folks to be all ejamacated
TheLastBeerBender
That too! But can you imagine people getting educated just to educate others? Its a pointless recursive cycle. Where does it stop?
DrunkGermanGuy
Anti-intellectualism is prevalent in right wing politics around the world. Usually it is aimed solely at universities though.
dingofdong
The US already had a massively anti-intellectual streak and always had, so the US right had a higher starting point to work with
665NeighborOfTheBeast
Don't you mean INDOCTRINATION?! Used to work with a guy who was full on wingnut. When I mentioned my daughter had just finished her 2nd year
665NeighborOfTheBeast
of college he asked, "she's not being indoctrinated by lefty professors is she?" SMH. So glad this was before Trump got nominated.
HaveGinWillBabble
This is how R's keep their traitors dumb. They say education is for liberals.
alex5775
Too be fair, a college educated person is more likely to be liberal. Of course, that's not due to any indoctrination, but instead a 1/
Eddyrock
Stuff like this makes me think Boomers have realized they are going to die and see no need to continue a society beyond their own lifespans
shaslam3000
Not so. Many Boomers loath the conservative fascists who seem to be dominating politics around the world.
Eddyrock
I understand that it’s not literally ALL boomers, but it’s an awful lot of them. And it’s those boomers he’s speaking to.
Rheios
For my Dad its the opposite. He just thinks the Democrats will destroy the country's freedoms. He was so defeated seeming when he talked(1)
Rheios
about my future, or my nephew and nieces futures. Why he thought trump was helping didn't track but fear of change + propaganda's a thing.(2
Rheios
Don't get me wrong,I'm avidly pro-capitalist and pretty conservative but it feels like a lot of people moved the definition of those on me(3
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
Next quarters bottom line has been the lodestar of the Republicans since back before there weren't Republicans.
y0usurname
Yuuuuup
TheWombatStrikesAgain
I mean, it's not a new idea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Decree
TimJDrake
James Watts argued this during Reagan. That the end was coming so they could fuck the planet sideways.
Undrave
"After me, the deluge" is a saying
DrankTooMuchMead
Clearly you are right, and clearly that is very arrogant thinking.
captaingrump
I'd be in full agreement except for the fact that I simply don't believe most people who support Jim Jordan are capable of introspection.
Eddyrock
Lol
MundySeme
"An evil enemy will burn their own nation to the ground just to rule over a pile of ashes" Sun Tzu
finetoroastasimamarshmallow
See how many upvotes you got on that comment? Hope the boomers do, it will open their eyes to how other generations perceive them. Just sad
whywouldyouaskmethat
These is a pretty keen observation
palmo
Gym Jordan is 57. He's generation X. The the boomers fucked us all hard, but don't act like generation X is harmless.
Eddyrock
Fair
Onlyhereforthelaughs
And for that purpose, the country will be reorganized into the FIRST, GLACTIC, EMPIRE! For a safe, and secure society! /s
hairytrigga
ILikedTheirOldStuffBetter
Howmuchistoomuchspam
There it is......damn.
djmenyo82
Boomers were raised with a silver spoon up their ass and we're never told no. Jordan is the result of that.
HaveGinWillBabble
Don't forget about Pippen, Rodman, Kerr, Kukoc
shaslam3000
Maybe you should look at the many issues Boomers faced. As a female I can assure it was far from easy in a male dominated world.
djmenyo82
I can see that. But male boomer has that sweet sweet gravy train.
lakenorman360
Not the older group of boomers. Those born in the 60s are a whole different cult.
HeroThatWasNeeded
They were in their 30s in the 80s, makes a lot of sense
palmo
.... The older boomers are the boomers. Born in the 60s are generation X
BisexualAtheistMinister
That's the closest thing to a perfect explanation I've seen
Eddyrock
Being from an evangelical background, I’ve heard them say Jesus is coming back for decades. That the end is just seconds away.
Eddyrock
I think they are trying to force the end to happen instead of being forced to face the truth of a life wasted.
PyroAvok
Riiight, cause trying to force Jesus to comply with your expectations is the perfect way to get to The Good Place
CurbYourClassWar
Actually makes a lot of sense, especially the higher ups funding Israel to try to bring about the rapture. Fuckin insane assholes.
xantous4201
Whats the point of being in a doomsday cult if the doomsday never comes. ORANGE MAN MAKE THE SULFUR FALL!
JustAlex94
In the wise words from Geralt of Rivia - Fuck.
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
Yes actually. Not just boomers either but lots of religious groups. Christianity being an end times cult, has often been used to justify -
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
- treating the world like shit and not planning for the future, cause here comes rapture.
Thewayofthebear
"I wonder how they've treated this planet I made for them, surely they would have been greatful and taken ca...... WHAT THE FUCK.
Fasrill
"What? I lived according to The Bible, and nowhere in there did it say anything about preserving the environment for future generations."
Thewayofthebear
We're like the rich kid who breaks thier iPhone so they'll get bought a new one. Plus, it's just rude not to take care of nice gifts.
RussianMathNinja
Revelation 11:18 explicitly says that those who destroy the Earth will themselves be destroyed. TBF, a lot of Bible thumpers don't read it.