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Does this photo make you cringe?

Trump holds up an executive order to dismantle the education department, in Washington DC on Thursday.

I think it is horrible that he used some kids as props. Cheers! 


Posted - March 20

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  • 11469

    Here is one of the jokes that Trump and Musk might be getting their jollies with.

    Knock knock.

    Who’s there?

    Algebra.

    Algebra Who?

    Algebra Smellgebra – you won’t need algebra to flip our burgers kid.

    Cheers!

      March 20, 2025 4:04 PM MDT
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  • 8292
    Not at all, it's about time we educate our children properly. 
      March 20, 2025 5:51 PM MDT
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  • 35107
    Nope. Education should be in the control of the states and local government.  So they can push the Woke BS out of the schools. 
      March 21, 2025 8:34 AM MDT
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  • 223
    Reported. 
      March 21, 2025 9:58 AM MDT
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  • 35107
    Ok. 
      March 21, 2025 5:51 PM MDT
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  • 4331
    Define "woke."
      March 21, 2025 10:06 AM MDT
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  • 4331
    Define "woke."
      March 22, 2025 7:14 AM MDT
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  • 35107
    It used to have to do with being aware of racial injustices in the past. 
    But it currently means extreme leftist ideology.  
      March 22, 2025 5:02 PM MDT
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  • 17127
    You MAGAs regard anything to the left of Mussolini as "extreme leftist". The Democrats are actually center-right with rare exceptions like AOC (who is a Bernie disciple - Bernie himself is now independent).
      March 22, 2025 8:09 PM MDT
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  • 35107
    Democrats are leftists.  And they are on the left on USA which the topic at hand.  It does not matter where they are on the global scale.  This about American politics and the Democrats are on the left. And some on the extreme left.  

    We all know who they are and what they stand for. And that is why Trump won.  They always go to far and Americans push them out.   Bernie has always been an Independent who caucuses with the Dems...and yes AOC started as a Bernie campaign volunteer.   But those are hardly the only woke leftists in the Dem party.
      March 23, 2025 7:15 AM MDT
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  • 4331
    Define "extreme leftist ideology."
      March 23, 2025 8:48 AM MDT
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  • 35107
    You know what the left and the right side of political positions are in the USA. You do not need me to explain it to you. 
      March 23, 2025 8:50 AM MDT
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  • 4331
    I would like to know what YOU consider extreme leftist positions.
      March 23, 2025 9:31 AM MDT
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  • 35107
    We have been on this site for years, if you don't know by now, there is no point in bothering. 
      March 23, 2025 12:55 PM MDT
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  • 4331
    So youi freely use a phrase that you can't define.  Got it.  
      March 23, 2025 2:17 PM MDT
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  • 35107
    I did define it.  
    We all know what positions are left and what ones are right and we all know what is extreme and what is not. 

    No need in pretending we don't know. 
      March 23, 2025 6:40 PM MDT
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  • 4331
    No, you did not define it.  You skirted the issue because you really don't know what constitutes being "woke" or "extreme leftism."  You merely parrot what Trump tells youi to think.  End of discussion because it's a fruitless to waste of my time.
      March 24, 2025 9:03 AM MDT
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  • 223

    Although I haven’t read the accompanying text, the charts in the link seem relevant, given that extremists currently see themselves as representative of the median: https://www.voteforcox.com/country-bicycle

      March 24, 2025 3:33 AM MDT
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  • 4331
    Interesting link.  Basically, there re good and bad points in whichever stance you take, but the real goal is to wind up somewhere in the middle, which is probably where most voters are, irrespective of their party affiliation.  
      March 24, 2025 9:07 AM MDT
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  • 223

    Yep, I agree. Politically I tend to sit somewhere between centre-left and centre-right, depending on the issue. In the last five UK elections, I’ve voted for three different parties, depending on their visions for the country. It amuses me that xenophobic, compassionless, self-centred bigots believe they’re now the centrists.

      March 25, 2025 6:18 AM MDT
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  • 4331
    Much like you, I am center left when it comes to social issues and center right when it comes to financial issues.  I think most people are somewhere in the middle, but the two extremes are louder so they get more attention.
      March 25, 2025 6:24 AM MDT
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  • 11469

    Wonder if the students in the photo above know that the guy that is signing the executive order to control public education - once had a University called Trump University and it was shut down because it was a scam.

     

    Cheers and happy weekend!

    This post was edited by Nanoose at March 23, 2025 8:48 AM MDT
      March 21, 2025 12:29 PM MDT
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  • 35107
    An EO to release control of public education  (returning it to states and local gov)

    Trump U was not an university.  It was a program with many different courses in real estate.
      March 24, 2025 4:14 AM MDT
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  • 11469

    When Trump first launched Trump University in 2005, he claimed that the Trump University program was devoted to helping people gain real estate skills and knowledge.

    Today, it’s clear that Trump University was far from charitable. In fact, Trump University’s real estate seminars often didn’t provide that much education; at some seminars, it seemed like the instructors aimed to do little more than bilk money from people who dreamed of successful real estate careers. Lawyers eventually filed three separate lawsuits from 2010 to 2013 against Trump University for, among other claims, “deceptive practices. Trump agreed to pay a $25 million settlement to the people who attended Trump University.

    Cheers!

     

      March 24, 2025 7:49 AM MDT
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