KingofRogues
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I personally Feel our leadership is just trying stuff without an actual plan involved. It scares me.
Apr 3, 2025 2:35 PM
KingofRogues
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I personally Feel our leadership is just trying stuff without an actual plan involved. It scares me.
battousai124
There IS a plan. It's called "Taking and keeping power at all costs"
akafluffy
oh, he's got a plan all right. Do whatever Putin tells him is a good idea.
QuitLookinAtMineAim
Oh there's a plan
Awmph
the plan is to wreak havoc and destruction on the "Free World"
zenxan
Tariffs ONLY work if you go to great lengths to support every aspect of a given industry. Including education. Setting up broad tariffs with no plans for industry-specific infrastructure is like your grandad forcing your dad to quit working and move back into his childhood bedroom so that he can focus on his studies.
Shade169
they have a plan - educated voters dont vote for the gop
chefsoda
Hunh, it's almost as if they don't really want to strengthen American products, so what could their goal be...
remindmetostopprocrastinating
Actually, it siggests chaos is the plan
painstream
You need better schooling and to incentivize local manufacturing. But the oligarchs don't want either.
Beleg7
The plan is to destroy public education. Both so that expensive private schools can funnel money to cronies, and so that the poor and marginalized don't have access to education.
johnvictor
They're like crack fiends breaking into unoccupied homes to tear out all the electrical work to sell the copper. Sorry to crack fiends.
JustDontCare
It's almost as if you have to spend money on your citizens to improve their lives and improve your country. But hey, what do I know about governing.
Mr21782Man
That was your hint that they have no plan?
expectnothingstillletdown
Honestly, a big thing I've learned dealing with management types is that they don't believe skilled labor is a thing. They will constantly assign people tasks they are not trained on or qualified for because they see all laborers as little more than a warm body. Trump is likely the same.
lordnequam
Hey, we're already trying to produce bulletproof children! What more improvement do you want from our schools?
300Hectares1TankofKerosene
These are decisions are being made by sociopathic old men intent on dividing up the pie amongst themselves, and eating the pieces as fast as they can before they die. They have about 10-15 yrs of life left and they want to leave the world burning.
thoushaltnotpass
If the voters could read, they'd be very upset
BellsTheorem
Education, incentivization, investment, regulation.
RetroBlast
They have a plan - the plan is whatever random idea floats through Trump's head, minute-by-minute*. (*plan subject to change without notice, or even forethought, really...)
Seanspeed
Trump is one of the most easily manipulated people ever. Whoever has his ear at any given moment has phenomenal power. Trump has no ideas himself, and is too dim and narcissistic to be able to assess the merits of arguments and claims and provide and real insight of his own. All people have to do is sell Trump on how HE will look good or benefit from something.
Seanspeed
Technological leadership is a big part of what propelled the US to the superpower it is today. Brain drain absolutely kills the economic might of a country over time(and thus its power to do many other things for its people). Russia is a great example of this, and seems to be the strongest example of the direction the US is heading currently.
codenameRadical
Who says they want that? The plan is to ruin America, cause Putin said so, and hope they get to take advantage of the fall.
cambriago13
The plan is to funnel tax dollars into private schools owned by political donors.
chefsoda
And, critically, serving only a very small portion of citizens, with the rest funneled directly to vo-tech training
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Yes, it's reinforcing a class hierarchy. Only those with money will get education, the rest end up on the factory floor.
chefsoda
or in the fields, at war, then eventually as soylent green
Mikataki
The plan was always to remove every regulation possible, and preferably anyone capable of re-instituting such regulations in the future.
Jimthebutler
The attempt is to privatize schools and brainwash kids. It's not about making the us better it's about building a puppet state.
nosnowyno
Thought that said “pepper sauce” where are my glasses
Jimthebutler
All about the pepper sauce.
RetrogradeLlama
Naw, ya think? No plan? It couldn’t just be idiots lashing out recklessly.
The fact is that the most educated country wins the economic battles. Republicans are too short-sighted and ignorant to recognize that.
Seanspeed
Republicans are chock full of white supremacists and sexists who believe that if they can just ensure that white men are defacto favored for all positions of power and importance, then all will be well. Their beliefs in innate genetic superiority is absolutely ruinous and the opposite of the meritocracy they claim to want.
Arcanum3000
They have a plan. The goal of the plan is not the goal they're telling you about. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you will understand everything else that's happening.
Seanspeed
The source of most of this tariff obsession comes from Peter Navarro, a Trump economic/trade advisor and loyal Trumpist 'friend'. He's considered a complete hack by basically all economists, but he managed to gain Trump's ear through typical bootlicking. Most everything we're seeing now is very clearly Navarro's quack 'fair trade' ideas being put into practice.
StarscreamAndHutch
Being named trump suggests you have no real plan.
Boppster
He doesn't read intelligence reports, he doesn't listen to intelligent news, he's a complete idiot doing idiotic things :o(
ShoopDeDoop
They're tearing down the federal department of education. Each state will still have their own department of education, as it should be.
happyrabbitzz
You lack a useful understanding of different functions of state vs. federal departments of education.
ShoopDeDoop
I feel the same way about you.
Exyr
So the red states will stop schools and just have child labor?
ShoopDeDoop
I hope not.
keyblader1985
Hoping red states will do the right thing is a recipe for disaster.
devolutionary
You know what would keep you from “hoping” and ensure that this horrible thing *doesn’t* happen?
ShoopDeDoop
Mind control?
devolutionary
A Federal Department of Education that sets standards for the nation.
KingofRogues
i mean...that is exactly why the Dept of Edu was established in the first place. A bunch of our ancestors came together and said this was too much, we need a national agency to help us.
mardukkur
Specifically they said the post-confederacy needs to stop segregating their schools. Everything is downstream from that.
ShoopDeDoop
Ancestors? The federal department of education was established in 1980, and America's education scores nationwide have decreased steadily since then.
getadogupya
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/11/22/us-education-rank-1979-fact-check/76451360007/
ShoopDeDoop
Yeah, I guess you can cherry-pick statistics on either side, but my opinion will always be that education should be handled at the state level. Parents have a lot more of a chance of being able to change their child's education standards at the state level than they ever will at the federal level.
OctiLuna
You are absolutely delusional. Most parents don't have much time beyond the weekends, or whenever they actually have days off from work. Maybe if a child is lucky their parent(s) will be able to help their child onto the right path, but each child is going to learn a bit differently. So any parent who has more than one kid is screwed, unless they have help somewhere to cover where they can't be.
gablestout
What a laughable drone argument. Individuals have just as much influence at the State level as they do at the Federal level.
You want "Parents' Rights?" Fine. Take your kids out of the public system. That is your right.
But you don't want that. You want to influence the public system and impose YOUR beliefs on it.
chefsoda
Depts of Education serve different purposes at state and federal level. The state level cannot legally do what the federal does, which is why both are needed.
ShoopDeDoop
People have a lot more of a say what changes at the state level when compared to the federal level. The federal government already fucks enough stuff up. I'd rather keep the control at the state level, where parents have more of a voice.
chefsoda
What say in the Fed DoEd do you want? Are you trying to prevent them from enforcing anti discrimination laws, managing student loans, or distributing the federal funds needed for school operation? You haven't been tricked into thinking the Fed DoEd sets curriculum or hires teachers, have you? Because those have always happened at the state level.
ShoopDeDoop
I would like the states to have the final say in what their education departments do. Everything the federal department of education does can be done at the state level. And again, at the state level, parents have more control than at the federal level.
chefsoda
The states already have the authority you are asking for, you simply do not understand how any of this works. The states cannot enforce federal laws, distribute federal funds, or manage a national loan system, those are simply false claims. You're simply parroting nonsense you've been told, without any factual basis. That you're eager to harm others without any understanding is terrifying.