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Education Secretary Nominee: Schools That Teach Black History Might Lose Federal Funds

If a public school that receives federal funding were to teach about Black history, it might just lose its federal funding, according to Linda McMahon, who has been nominated by Idiot-in-Chief Donald Trump to serve as the next secretary of education.

During the first day of her confirmation hearings, McMahon was asked by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) about Trump’s executive order banning all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

“West Point has closed down all ethnic clubs, so the Society of Black Engineers no longer can meet because they believe that to be in compliance with this order, they cannot have groups structured around ethnic or racial affiliations,” Murphy told McMahon. “Would schools, would public schools be in violation of this order?”

“Well, I certainly today don’t want to address hypothetical situations,” McMahon responded. “I would like, once I’m confirmed, to get in and assess these programs, look at what has been covered.”

Murphy: “That’s pretty chilling. What about educational programming centered around specific ethnic and racial experiences?”

“If you’re running an African-American history class, could you perhaps be in violation of this executive order?” Murphy wondered.

“I’m not quite certain, and I’d like to look into it further and get back to you on that,” McMahon replied.

“There’s a possibility, you’re saying, that public schools that run African-American history classes, right,” Murphy noted, “could lose federal funding if they continue to teach African-American history?”

“No, that’s not what I’m saying,” McMahon remarked. “I’m saying that I would like to take a look at these programs and fully understand the breadth of the executive order and get back to you on that.”

“I think you’re gonna have a lot of educators and a lot of principals and administrators scrambling right now,” Murphy said.

Here’s another question McMahon and Trump need to answer: If they’re so damn determined to do away with the Education Department, why bother to nominate someone to lead it?

But the larger issue is what exactly is wrong with teaching about the many contributions black Americans have made to this country? Are we just supposed to pretend that only white people have done great things for the United States? And if we’re going down that road, how long will it be before the Trump administration starts sending people of color to concentration camps and gassing them?

It can’t happen here? The groundwork is already being laid for it to happen right here. So don’t claim no one warned you.

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‘Efficiency’ Co-Chair Ramaswamy Hints Department Of Education Will Be ‘Deleted Outright’ By Trump

Failed venture capital hack and serial liar Vivkek Ramaswamy said Sunday that once Donald Trump is again in the White House, he will eliminate the U.S. Department of Education “outright” as part of a plan to slash federal spending, even when it helps Americans.

Ramaswamy, the co-chair of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, made that remark to Fox host Maria Bartitomo.

“Elon and I aren’t in this for the credit,” Ramaswamy explained. “But I think we’re gonna build the consensus to make the kind of deep cuts that haven’t been made for most of our history.”

“President Trump has talked about the Department of Education,” Bartiromo noted. “For example, are you gonna be closing down departments?”

With a smile, Ramaswamy replied, “We expect mass would be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government, So yes, we expect all of the above and I think people will be surprised by, I think, how quickly we’re able to move with some of those changes given the legal backdrop.”

He added, “So this is a historic opportunity We’re not actually going to squander this, but I think part of the key is to move quickly to move effectively. I think that mass deregulation that I talked about earlier that gives us the industrial logic to then make cuts to that bureaucracy and moving quickly is our objective.”

While we’re at it, why not sell the White House and most of the monuments in the nation’s capital to the highest bidder, too? Hey, maybe we could even rename them for whoever forks over the most cash.

Just imagine it: The Walmart/Washington Monument. Or what about the Viagra Pentagon, where our Defense Department is hard 24/7 for any foe that might want to challenge America? Not including Russia, of course, because they already control Trump completely.

With people like Ramaswamy, Musk, and Trump running things, we truly are fucked. Make sure your passport is current and valid, because you may need it to escape the coming shithole USA sooner rather than later.

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Historian: Elon Musk Will Soon Be ‘Casually Discarded’ By Egotistical Trump

Even though he donated untold millions of dollars to get Donald Trump elected for the second time, Twitter CEO Elon Musk is about to be unceremoniously thrown overboard by the incoming president, according to a historian, because Trump is not about to share the spotlight with anyone. His massive ego won’t him.

In an article published by the New York Times, David Nasaw predicts Musk’s shelflife as an influencer to the Trump administration will be brief.

“Mr. Trump may be mercurial, but in this situation he is highly unlikely to break historical precedent,” Nassaw notes. “I predict that you will probably join the long list of genius businessmen donors who were casually discarded after they had served their purpose.”

Another reason for Musk’s fading influence is that his promise of cutting trillions from the federal budget would cause an economic meltdown and likely throw the United States into a second Great Depression. That would be political suicide for Trump and the GOP.

“I’m not sure what you were thinking — or if you were thinking — when you clambered on that Madison Square Garden stage and claimed that as chief of the Department of Government Efficiency… you would cut at least $2 trillion of government spending,” Nasaw writes. “The results of such a gutting would, even conservative think-tank analysts predicted, be catastrophic. It is nearly impossible to imagine a majority of Republican lawmakers endorsing your plans to slash a third of all federal spending. To do so would be political suicide.”

So what exactly does Musk get out of his alliance with Trump? More money, of course, as Nasaw predicts his investments — especially Twitter/X — will increase in value, adding to his already massive fortune.

Then again, maybe that was Musk’s plan all along.

 

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Enraged Trump Supporter Claims Schools Are Putting ‘Litter Boxes In The Bathrooms’

According to a supporter of failed former president Donald Trump, children are now “terrified” of going to school because there are “litter boxes in the bathrooms.

Before a Trump campaign rally in Flint, Michigan, Titus Smith of Right Side Broadcasting Network spoke with a woman who said she will vote for Trump so he can be “the voice for our children.”

“You can’t even protect them at school,” the woman claimed. “These kids are terrified.”

“They have put into litter boxes in the bathrooms and everything else, instead of teaching our kids,” she added. “It’s scary what’s happening.”

The Trump acolyte also said her kids are afraid to vote for Trump “because they’re so afraid of what people are going to think of them.”

“They are afraid of politics, completely afraid, because they don’t want to upset anybody,” she continued. “They want to vilify you and make you feel if you say something, what you believe to be true, what you know to be true, that you are the problem.”

The lie about litter boxes in schools began making the rounds among right-wing politicians who asserted that schools were installing litter boxes to accommodate students who identify as cats instead of human beings.

But as Harvard University research director Joan Donovan notes, “What’s most provocative about this hoax is how it turns on two key wedge issues for conservatives: educational accommodations and gender nonconformity.”

In other words, it’s bullshit created to suggest there’s a problem that doesn’t even exist. Then again, the GOP has become the party of conspiracy theories and lies, so it fits right into their bizarre strategy for getting the votes of gullible simpletons.

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Washed-Up Actor Kirk Cameron: Public Schools Turn Kids Into ‘Atheists, Drag Queens, And Strippers’

You probably remember washed-up actor and right-wing blowhard Kirk Cameron from the TV series “Growing Pains,” which was the last time he had a steady gig.

Since leaving television, Cameron has become an evangelist, starred in a string of pathetic B-movies, and is also a fanatical advocate for home-schooling.

Why should parents teach their children from home? According to Cameron, it’s because letting them attend public schools will result in them becoming “atheists, drag queens, and strippers.

Cameron made that ludicrous assertion to podcaster Elizabeth Johnston, telling her that kids should never be exposed to curriculum and teachers who aren’t far-right extremists and Christian wackjobs like him.

“If we outsource our parenting because it’s easier or we believe the lie that we’re not qualified experts to educate our kids so we have to subcontract our parenting and discipleship out to the government, we’re gonna have little kids that come back as little Marxists, little statists, little atheists, drag queens, strippers, drug dealers, and you name it.”

Wow! That’s one hell of a list, isn’t it? Seeing as how I’m a proud graduate of public schools, I was shocked to learn that I’m also a communist who dresses in women’s clothes, earns extra cash on the side by stripping, and also finds time in my busy day to sell drugs. All of this so I can support my family and wreak mayhem on my otherwise peaceful neighborhood in the hope of bringing honor to Lucifer.

Is it any wonder that Kirk can’t get a decent gig in Hollywood? He probably couldn’t get a job at McDonald’s even if a blood relative was the manager.

Fortunately, Cameron’s ridiculous bullshit rant was countered with some heavy internet karma.


Here’s a suggestion for Kirk Cameron: You teach your kids the way you want and stay the hell out of my business. Deal?