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.
In the last two weeks, no one has tried to rob me. Are the police really necessary?
I haven’t been deported in over 30 years. I don’t think ICE is necessary
Ha. You think the police exist to stop YOU getting robbed?
Police have only ever made my life worse. Get rid of them all.
No, they aren’t. At least not in their current form.
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.
That’s like saying the department of health isn’t needed because the hospitals still run… what a dumb bitch.
These people think vaccines aren’t needed because many people survived the last pandemic. They are deeply stupid, and wedded to a deeply stupid fascist ideology of “let the strong survive and the weak suffer and die,” where they get to decide who counts as strong (it’s rich white people) or weak (everyone else).
Hey, the COVID vaccine was a scam to the president at the time right up until he needed it to live. Then suddenly it was good. Well, until his stirred up idiot base got upset he would say such a thing about vaccines working - then it was right back to being a scam.
Pretty much everything you need to know about these people.
I mean, for now…as soon as Congress locks in the Medicaid defunding rural hospitals are getting shuttered.
All so billionaires pay even less in taxes than they already get away with. It’s disgusting.
I haven’t used my snow blower all summer! That’s evidence it’s unneccesary.
I used to chuckle at how the Confederate Party would often point to the Ant and the Grasshopper - only seeing it as a morality tale to be weaponized against “welfare queens”. They did not realize/conveniently forgot that not only are many Confederates welfare queens, but that even the fable, and its interpretation(s), is a bit more complex than that…
If we pull all state and federal funding from schools then tell all the parents they will be arrested if they leave their kids home alone it would make available jobs and housing!
/s
The ridiculously unqualified political appointee who ran a pedo-friendly wrestling company for decades says we don’t need the department of education.
There’s your headline.
I held my breath and I’m not dead yet. Oxygen is a scam!
This stupid nazi cow. How is she going to maintain her billions of dollars when the population is poor and pissed off? What a dumb bitch.
Have you seen where her money came from?
I have not, but I’m willing to bet money it’s something unsavory and probably racist.
From Wikipedia:
McMahon, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, founded sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.), where she worked as the president and later CEO from 1980 to 2009
Uneducated and angry is her bread and butter.
We will be too stupid to be pissed.
I hope this corrupt hag ends up in prison
So, she should quit first?
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
That’s the truth they don’t care about school shootings as it isn’t happening to them. A couple of their schools get shot up and they’d start caring.
Living in these childish fantasies is why nothing actually changes.
What’s the solution?
Stop projecting at me
I’m pretty baffled by the fact that these chucklefucks sweep into power and immediately start removing the levers of power.
No more DoED? Okay, blue states don’t have anyone telling them what to teach.
“No, not like that!”
So quit Linda
Criticalthinking is dead.Her saying that it’s not needed is proof that it is needed
We should replace her with A1.
