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[Huntn]

Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'​

Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'

Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the 2024 election.

www.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON – It looks like American politics is entering a new age of anxiety, triggered by an unprecedented legal development: The potential indictment of a former president and current presidential candidate.

Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests by his followers – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the unknowable impact all this will have on the already-tense 2024 presidential election

I’ll reframe this is a more accurate way, Are Presidents above the law? This new age was spurred into existence when home grown dummies elected a corrupt, mentally ill, anti-democratic, would be dictator as President and don’t bother to hold him responsible for his crimes, don’t want to because in the ensuing mayhem and destruction, they think they will be better off. The man is actually advocating violence (not the first time). And btw, screw democracy too. If this feeling spreads, we are In deep shirt.

This goes beyond one treasonous Peice of work and out to all his minions. This is on you or should we be sympathetic to the idea of they can’t help being selfish suckers to the Nation’s detriment? Donald Trump is the single largest individual threat to our democracy and it‘s all going to boil down to will the majority of the GOP return to his embrace and start slinging his excrement to support him?

 

[TampaJoe]

Ah, you get intimidated by intelligent people. Copy.

That’s not the case here obviously.

 

[bird]

Yeah, that’s not coming back.

No, of course not.

How silly of me to think that. Maybe it is the Ten Commandments bullschlitz or the study the Bible bullschlitz or the school vouchers.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

That’s not the case here obviously.

Sure, Jan. I'll buy that the day you understand the difference between holding an opinion and providing evidence for said opinion, or using context clues to follow a conversation, or demonstrate a grasp of basic logical thinking skills.

 

[Sendai]

One of my friend’s granddaughters attends a Catholic school in Nashville, and her mother (the child’s parent) was called to a meeting because the family had not been attending mass. While they are Christians, they are former Catholics.

This raises an important point: even if a religious school provides a quality education, its focus on teaching and enforcing specific religious practices makes it unsuitable for all families. Some parents may not want their children to be indoctrinated into a particular faith, especially if it conflicts with their own beliefs or values.

Religious schools often serve a specific community, which is their right. However, it also underscores the importance of public schools that provide an inclusive education free from religious mandates, ensuring that all children—regardless of their faith or lack thereof—have equal access to learning opportunities without feeling pressured to conform to a particular ideology.

No indoctrination. Simply the importance of a good education. And many of those low income families put Catholics to shame when it comes to praise Jesus. Top local catholic high school has a healthy number of Hindu students. This is an area of very poor performing city public schools. One huge top tier Magnet school. So the alternatives are important. We also have an outstanding Christian Academy. One of the best science and technology labs you can find in a school. A Greenhouse with associated horticultural program.
They also welcome all and have a substantial endowment for funding low income.

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

"Dismantle"?
No.
The majority of rank and file GOP members (of which I am NOT one...I'm and independent)
....the majority of rank and file GOP members do not wish to dismantle public education.
Yet many of them DO wish to give some money to other educational institutions.

See @TampaJoe
If you look at my posts, my fellow forum mates specialize in posting laughing emojis.
They are not respectful and that is why I'm not here very often.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

See @TampaJoe
If you look at my posts, my fellow forum mates specialize in posting laughing emojis.
They are not respectful and that is why I'm not here very often.

Are you for real? Joe is the guy who posted an actual emoji as a response when he didn't have the big boy words to have a conversation. lol

 

[gummbo]

You criticized me for a generalization and then you follow that with your own generalization. Ironic isn’t it?

If your public school system works for you. That’s great. Congratulations. Keep up the good work.

But if you live in an area where schools don’t work, be they public, private, charter, you need options. Not promises that don’t come to fruition. So as I said, I don’t care about the delivery mechanism. That isn’t the primary mission of the education system. I care about results. Outcomes. And if the current system isn’t delivering the service and isn’t accomplishing the primary mission, it’s time to consider different models that will.

Please highlight the area that you feel I generalized, you fail to except the fact that greed plays a major part in the quality of education that happens throughout the country, you also failed to acknowledge the part where the majority of this greed happens in red states. Do you want to complain about the quality of education in certain ? great! Do you want to do some thing about the quality of education in these particular areas? Then I suggest you go out and vote but first do your due diligence in finding out what type of candidate you’re voting for.

 

[gummbo]

What’s wrong Joe, the truth makes you sleepy?

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

What’s wrong Joe, the truth makes you sleepy?

Many ( but not all ) of these people are not worth your time @TampaJoe
*
Their beliefs don't align with much of America
There is a Republican President
A Republican House
A Republican Senate
and there are more Republican Governors than Democrat Governors.
They can't face reality but they ARE really good at posted laughing emojis.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Many ( but not all ) of these people are not worth your time @TampaJoe
*
Their beliefs don't align with much of America
There is a Republican President
A Republican House
A Republican Senate
and there are more Republican Governors than Democrat Governors.
They can't face reality but they ARE really good at posted laughing emojis.

I challenge you to show me that the 53 Republican Senators account for people than the other 47 Senators. The same for the lower house!

Last time I checked, the congressional D's represented almost 40% more of the population (ACTUAL INDIVIDUALS) than the R's. That's a reality check!

 

[bird]

No indoctrination. Simply the importance of a good education. And many of those low income families put Catholics to shame when it comes to praise Jesus. Top local catholic high school has a healthy number of Hindu students. This is an area of very poor performing city public schools. One huge top tier Magnet school. So the alternatives are important. We also have an outstanding Christian Academy. One of the best science and technology labs you can find in a school. A Greenhouse with associated horticultural program.
They also welcome all and have a substantial endowment for funding low income.

Anecdotal.

The destruction of public schools has been a goal since Brown v Bd of Ed. It is race-based.

I can also show you examples of inner-city schools that perform well.

People that do not work in education have no clue about the actual workings of education. This particularly applies to politicians in general and Republicans in particular.

Do I have experience in education, you might ask? Nope. Why is my opinion more valid than say, the current Secretary of Education designate? 39 years of living with and observing a teacher that taught in first ring suburban Chicago high schools and an inner-city Catholic high school.

 

[MT15]

What did I say that wasn’t true?

You said the US ranks last in eduction among the industrialized world. We have been shown that is far from true.

 

[MT15]

"Dismantle"?
No.
The majority of rank and file GOP members (of which I am NOT one...I'm and independent)
....the majority of rank and file GOP members do not wish to dismantle public education.
Yet many of them DO wish to give some money to other educational institutions.

Please educate yourself on the consequences of giving taxpayer funds to private schools. You’re in education, for crying out loud.

The money drain is unsustainable for public schools. They will fail, and IMO that’s part of the objective.

Here’s a quick synopsis of the issues with “school choice”

1. It's ransacking public education to fund religious schools.
2. It's a giant subsidy to private schools who will just crank up tuition costs, so no it's not actually going to help poor kids - they're still going to get priced out in the long run.
3. It's sucking out all of the "cheap to educate kids with involved parents" and leaves public school with only the most difficult and expensive children - special needs, behavior challenges, severe poverty
4. It's intended to destroy public education - "Starve the beast" mentality and to make it so that people don't, as a community, see it as a collective issue & responsibility. If lots of people's kids aren't gong - they dont give a f@ck if it works or is funded properly anymore and a much more likely to stop supporting public education altogether.
5. Poor kids get left out because private schools don’t have to provide transportation for them, rural poor kids especially get left behind because nobody is opening private schools where they live and they often cannot afford to get to the private schools.
6. Private schools don’t have to take special needs students, leaving them out of luck.
7. In some states, like MO, so much money has been taken out of the public schools that they are operating on 4-day school weeks to try to make it. These kids are being robbed of educational opportunities.

 

[MT15]

There have been both Republican and Democrat governors in my lifetime. The last Dem was Phil Bredesen and that was probably 20 years ago. The last two or three Govs have been Republican.

More to the point. Schools in Memphis were managed by the City and about 10 years ago merged with the County. The City is and has been Controlled by Democrats for the last 30 years. The City Council has been controlled by Democrats for the last 30 years. The school board has been controlled by Democrats for the last 30 years and the school superintendents have been democrats for the last 30 years. Those are the folks who control and manage public education in Memphis.

None of this addresses the fact that the funding is controlled by the GOP in the state for the last 20 years according to you.

 

[MT15]

No indoctrination. Simply the importance of a good education. And many of those low income families put Catholics to shame when it comes to praise Jesus. Top local catholic high school has a healthy number of Hindu students. This is an area of very poor performing city public schools. One huge top tier Magnet school. So the alternatives are important. We also have an outstanding Christian Academy. One of the best science and technology labs you can find in a school. A Greenhouse with associated horticultural program.
They also welcome all and have a substantial endowment for funding low income.

What do special needs kids do there? What do kids from rural areas surrounding your area do?

What you are describing is like the perfect situation. That’s great for your area, but I think this situation is a rare exception rather than the rule. I read many reports that after vouchers passed in various states that private schools immediately upped their tuition by the exact amount of the vouchers, thereby essentially making it a straight up transfer of taxpayer money into private schools.

As for no indoctrination, I would imagine there are mandatory masses to attend and mandatory religious instruction classes for those kids. I’ve never seen a religious school that didn’t find various ways to highlight and push their own religion. Not one.

Do you mind revealing the state or the area? I understand if you don’t want to.

 

[Lapaz]

What do special needs kids do there? What do kids from rural areas surrounding your area do?

What you are describing is like the perfect situation. That’s great for your area, but I think this situation is a rare exception rather than the rule. I read many reports that after vouchers passed in various states that private schools immediately upped their tuition by the exact amount of the vouchers, thereby essentially making it a straight up transfer of taxpayer money into private schools.

As for no indoctrination, I would imagine there are mandatory masses to attend and mandatory religious instruction classes for those kids. I’ve never seen a religious school that didn’t find various ways to highlight and push their own religion. Not one.

Do you mind revealing the state or the area? I understand if you don’t want to.

Increasing their congregation is one of the main reasons religious schools exist, so of course they require religious instruction. Other than the ethics, and perhaps the reading, it is largely wasteful. A real voucher program would make it an even playing field such that the schools all had the same standards, including admissions, or they can't use the vouchers. No school would be required to take vouchers, but if they did, they would have to play by the same rules. The only exception I would be okay with is to allow them to teach their religion. Other than that, they would have to teach real science, such as evolution.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump’s pledge to rename the highest mountain in North America has sparked backlash among some Indigenous Alaskans and Alaskan lawmakers, including Republicans.

Trump reiterated his intentions to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley during his inaugural address. Barack Obama had dubbed the mountain Denali during his presidency, undoing the 1917 designation made in honor of the 25th president, William McKinley.

The declaration of renaming has proved to be highly controversial. The Koyukon, an AlaskaIndigenous Athabascan group, referred to the mountain as Denali for centuries before McKinley took office or Alaska became a US state.

The name was officially changed to Denali in 2015 to “recognize the sacred status of Denali to many Alaska Natives” though it is known by other names in other Indigenous Alaskan languages.

Alaska News Source reported research that suggested that Alaskans are against changing the name back to McKinley by about a two-to-one margin, despite Alaska being a state that is overwhelmingly supportive of Republicans.

Emily Edenshaw, president and CEO of the Alaska Native Heritage Center, told EarthBeat: “Keeping this name honors that connection and recognizes the enduring contributions of Alaska Native peoples.”

Alaskan lawmakers across the political spectrum have reacted negatively to Trump’s announcement……….

Indigenous Alaskans and Republicans dismayed by Trump’s Denali renaming

Obama had restored peak’s Koyukon Athabascan name, undoing designation in honor of 25th US president

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Former president Joe Biden’s reign in the Oval Office was completely removed from the Google search results for the term “US Presidents” for a time on Thursday morning.

The glitch was fixed around 2am Eastern time; it’s not clear for how long Biden was written out of Google’s history. The list gave President Donald Trump as having served as the last two presidents of the United States. The list was correct before that, naming Presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton and so on.

The erasing of the Biden administration was first noticed by BlueSky users, many of whom believed it was big tech’s latest attempt to cosy up to Trump……..

Google search results omits Biden’s presidency

Was this another attempt by big tech to cosy up to Trump?

www.independent.co.uk