The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. - Page 624 - Politics and Economics

Arrest made in JCC threats

http://bigstory.ap.org/84aedc5f0e524...&utm_medium=AP

Apparently this guy used to write for The Intercept but was fired for making **** up

https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/statu...89920059805696

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/...86659445624832

03-03-2017 , 12:04 PM

#15577

m_reed05

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 8,611

What an idiot flailing around trying to deflect attention from Russia.

03-03-2017 , 12:05 PM

#15578

dinopoker

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 9,437

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minirra

I'm sure they were just talking about perogies and snow and ****

Solid.

03-03-2017 , 12:08 PM

#15579

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

The Russians are sending con artists, spies, and white nationalists to be the members of Trump's cabinet. They aren't sending their best! I'm just saying it's time for a ban on All Trump Administration members until we figure out what's going on. We need some extreme vetting in this country.

03-03-2017 , 12:23 PM

#15580

GTO2.0

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 3,959

I just noticed that The ever-present "Obama student loan program" ads on my Facebook have been replaced with "Trump mortgage program" banners. What a world

03-03-2017 , 12:30 PM

#15581

sylar

Ivan Drago's homeslice

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 20,307

Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

You don't suppose that some of them are good people? Or people in general?

03-03-2017 , 12:37 PM

#15582

yeSpiff

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,313

Quote:

Originally Posted by CalledDownLight

when the pissing video comes out, EVERY SINGLE PERSON who values democracy and the future of the United States has an obligation to show the video, in its entirety, to their entire family during Thanksgiving dinner. More specifically, it should be played in full for each Trump supporting relative, specifically the olds and religious.

03-03-2017 , 12:56 PM

#15583

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

https://twitter.com/FrankCundiff/sta...07598296203264

03-03-2017 , 01:06 PM

#15584

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

https://twitter.com/cayojones/status/837706279686668290

03-03-2017 , 01:08 PM

#15585

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

https://twitter.com/American_Bridge/...09408029200384

03-03-2017 , 01:18 PM

#15586

dudeoflife

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 3,533

Today will be good test to see which FB trumpkins that have been in hiding will post something regarding Juan Thompson being arrested for Jewish threats, who was fired from the intercept previously for making up stories.

03-03-2017 , 01:18 PM

#15587

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/sta...13651868004353

03-03-2017 , 01:21 PM

#15588

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/stat...14305952919555

03-03-2017 , 01:22 PM

#15589

iron81

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 17,730

Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

Arrest made in JCC threats

http://bigstory.ap.org/84aedc5f0e524...&utm_medium=AP

Apparently this guy used to write for The Intercept but was fired for making **** up

Quote:

Originally Posted by iron81

Because that kind of interstate terrorism would normally be handled by the feds, the chance that guy gets caught has to be zero.

Whoops

03-03-2017 , 01:23 PM

#15590

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

Quote:

Originally Posted by iron81

Whoops

Important to note:

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/...85505160531969

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/...87020369690624

03-03-2017 , 01:35 PM

#15591

dinopoker

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 9,437

Quote:

Originally Posted by truefish

No we don't. How have we created war zones in Central America?

Have you ever heard of, you know, drugs?

03-03-2017 , 01:35 PM

#15592

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

Republican State Senator angrily yells at children and parents, tells them taxpayer money is not your money, taxpayer money belongs to corporations and lobbyists:

Quote:

“What are you scared of,” he can be heard shouting at the beginning of the video. “What are all y’all scared of?”

A person in the audience can be heard responding: “That money you’re sending to private schools should be used to enhance public schools.”

Huffines, clearly enraged responds: “What makes you think it isn’t? What makes you think it’s your money? It’s the businesses. It’s their money. Sixty-two percent of all property tax is paid by business.”

http://samuel-warde.com/2017/03/repu...hool-children/

03-03-2017 , 01:37 PM

#15593

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

Quote:

As The Dallas Morning News reports, “During one exchange, a student pushed back against a proposal to give students a stipend to attend private schools. She said, as other critics contend, that the voucher would not be large enough to allow the student to go to many high-dollar schools in North Texas.”

She can be heard about 30 seconds into the video, asking:

“Excuse me Senator, I don’t mean to offend you but you are speaking on behalf of the students, and as a student of public education I disagree with this completely. I’ve gone to a private school before…with these vouchers, what are you going to get — $5000 a year? The majority of these private schools are $5000 a semester. How are lower income families supposed to pay for the rest of the school year?”

Huffines can be heard exploding on her, calling her selfish.

““Oh, so it doesn’t pay for all their education. It doesn’t pay for all their education, does it? The $5000 won’t pay for it, right? So you’re saying since we’re not giving them enough money to pay for all their education, screw ’em they can’t go to private school! Do you want me to give them $15,000? Is that what you want? So they can all go to Hockaday or St. Mark’s? That’s the most selfish thing I’ve ever heard.”

http://samuel-warde.com/2017/03/repu...hool-children/

03-03-2017 , 01:38 PM

#15594

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

Note the context of all of this: He is going to defund the schools these parents' kids go to, then offer them not enough tax voucher money to send their kids to the private/charter schools. The message is clear. If you can't afford private school on your own, your kids are going to be screwed. If you can afford private school on your own, we're gonna give you vouchers of public money to send your kids to private school for free.

EVERYONE pays taxes, Republicans. Public school is for EVERYONE.

03-03-2017 , 02:01 PM

#15595

3fiveofdiamonds

adept

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 964

Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

Correct me if I'm wrong as I'm not well versed in the entire school system debate but I just want to make sure I have the jist of it.

On the path that is currently going into effect, private schools are going to get better and public schools are going to get worse? Throw out the federal government and leave it entirely into the state's hands and the poorest states public schools are going to be left in shambles and the curriculum might be drastically different than say an elementary school in the Northeast?

If this is the case, the whole anti immigration platform starts to make more sense. It isn't for security but to replace those immigrants with American Serfs and set up a Feudal system.

Or maybe I'm off base.

03-03-2017 , 02:10 PM

#15596

Zimmer4141

Wet

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 33,690

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...22869106880517

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/837725408405618688

03-03-2017 , 02:14 PM

#15597

iron81

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 17,730

Private schools won't get better, they'll get worse as they get roped into taking the less motivated students. Meanwhile, the public schools will be left with less funding and the toughest cases.

03-03-2017 , 02:16 PM

#15598

einbert

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 14,911

Quote:

If this is the case, the whole anti immigration platform starts to make more sense. It isn't for security but to replace those immigrants with American Serfs and set up a Feudal system.

Although I disagree with the first part of your post, this paragraph is absolutely correct. Republicans have been doing this for long before Trump as well. What iron said is basically what will happen IMO. Remember private schools/charter schools have all kinds of rules in place so they don't have to take "undesirable" students because those bring their test scores down, which reveals the fact that their performance ISN'T significantly better than public schools across the board.

03-03-2017 , 02:21 PM

#15599

3fiveofdiamonds

adept

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 964

Quote:

Originally Posted by iron81

Private schools won't get better, they'll get worse as they get roped into taking the less motivated students. Meanwhile, the public schools will be left with less funding and the toughest cases.

ok that makes sense. So the average private school will get worse, becoming the new regular school, and the best private schools will still be good, but probably cost more to weed out the least "motivated".

So basically the price of education is going to go up and those that can't afford to keep up with the inflation are probably going to get stuck in the lower class more so than they already are