Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the federal shutdown offers evidence that her agency is “unnecessary.”
In a social media post on Wednesday, McMahon said the shutdown has forced agencies to evaluate what work is really needed. She made the comment days after her department started firing hundreds of workers amid mass layoffs across the government.
“Two weeks in, millions of American students are still going to school, teachers are getting paid, and schools are operating as normal,” McMahon said.
Outside looking in, its horrific to see the USA die like this.
I feel especially saddened by it because at one point I felt a lot of hope for this country. I don’t feel any hope anymore. It feels doomed. A lot of people are suffering and it’s going to get a lot worse. Yesterday I saw some (likely) immigrants working on a landscaping project and it hit me in a more visceral way what it must be like to fear your life can be destroyed any time. I really wish that kid hadn’t missed trump. Everyone always says that won’t help anything but I don’t care. He deserves to be gunned down in cold blood if anyone ever did.
I honestly believe that things would be worse if he had gotten shot. Trump is a despicably vile human being from every single angle, but he’s also senile, incredibly incompetent and narcissistic to the point it interferes with his goals.
A Vance presidency would be much worse, imho. The same goals, but not nearly as plagued with mental issues.
Maybe. Or maybe Vance is just clinging to power how he can. I suspect from past quotes of his, he cares about what people think of him to the extent that it advances his power grabs. He might not be brazen enough to be this evil without the right kind of pressure. Who knows.
It’s going to be painful, but honestly the US needs to die if the world is to have any hope of surviving the climate crisis. (Not saying the people should die, just the state and its role as the guardian of capitalism.)
Sadly that “death” needs to come with power loss to really be effective. We shouldn’t be in charge of shit right now, not even ourselves.
Yes, a socialist worker’s republic should be built in its place, but the American people still have a lot of learning to do before anything like that can be achieved. Unfortunately for them, that learning will come from experiencing at home the utter barbarity that their overlords mostly only practiced abroad until now.