NintendoLogic Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 5 hours ago, odessasteps said: My big question now is: what has to happen for "moderate" Republicans to jump ship or is that just not possible/realistic? If Trump tries to raise taxes on the rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 6 hours ago, odessasteps said: My big question now is: what has to happen for "moderate" Republicans to jump ship or is that just not possible/realistic? Can that happen before theres a SC confirmation? McCain and Graham have positioned themselves firmly in the "Fuck you, we have always and will always think you're a piece of shit" camp and have been pretty verbally anti-Trump. Now will that hold once something actually gets to a vote instead of everything getting implimented via Executive Fiat, time will tell, but at least those two have been at least publically showing a spine, unlike our Speaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 I never thought I'd find myself longing for the steadfast, articulate leadership of George W. Bush, but here we are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Paul Ryan hasn't been anything since Biden eviscerated him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 On 1/26/2017 at 9:30 PM, Kuetsar said: Speaking of which, prime Dr. Gonzo would be nice as well. . . . I'm not a doctor. I don't even play one on television. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 God dammit. Quote President Trump has rewarded one of his most outspoken campaign surrogates, Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University and son of the Religious Right icon Jerry Falwell, with the top spot on an education policy panel. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported yesterday that Trump asked Falwell to “head up a new task force that will identify changes that should be made to the U.S. Department of Education’s policies and procedures.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 As my friend (who happens to be a teacher) put it elsewhere, to which I agree: (spoilered for accurate font) THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 On 2/1/2017 at 3:26 PM, Ryan said: God dammit. Quote President Trump has rewarded one of his most outspoken campaign surrogates, Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University and son of the Religious Right icon Jerry Falwell, with the top spot on an education policy panel. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported yesterday that Trump asked Falwell to “head up a new task force that will identify changes that should be made to the U.S. Department of Education’s policies and procedures.” Look on the bright side. At least you won't have to help your kid with science homework for the next four years. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Virgil has the best crowds, the biggest you've ever seen, everyone is saying so. Great crowds huge HUGE crowds not like those other losers who have no crowds, none at all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Ape Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Related; just got a letter from my daughter's small K-8 Lutheran school (read: a good school without all the dogmatic crap Catholic schools teach) that there's gonna be a vote in March for whether or not they should close for financial reasons. We live in Philadelphia, and I'm sure I don't need to talk about the abysmal public schools here. Fabulous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 1 minute ago, Super Ape said: Related; just got a letter from my daughter's small K-8 Lutheran school (read: a good school without all the dogmatic crap Catholic schools teach) that there's gonna be a vote in March for whether or not they should close for financial reasons. We live in Philadelphia, and I'm sure I don't need to talk about the abysmal public schools here. Fabulous. Best wishes, pal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share Posted February 2, 2017 I am so glad I do not have children. I am worried for all my friends and relatives that do along with the fact my family has a lot of teachers in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 McCain being actively anti-Trump is amusing. I guess he remembers Trump calling him a coward for being captured, not all things are easily forgiven and I am sure he feels very comfortable in his position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 6 minutes ago, Ryan said: I am so glad I do not have children. I am worried for all my friends and relatives that do along with the fact my family has a lot of teachers in it. My daughter's 18 months old. I have no idea what we're going to do. We may have to make some major sacrifices to home-school if things don't turn around before she's elementary age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 On 1/31/2017 at 1:24 PM, Niners Fan in CT said: Paul Ryan hasn't been anything since Biden eviscerated him. #1 verbal beatdown ever. I legitimately thought Ryan was going to cry. The education thing is awful, but honestly, schools as currently designed are very flawed anyway. There are textbooks that try to refer to slavery as unpaid labor with the kidnapping, selling of humans, destruction of families, raping, and killing conveniently forgotten. Really? REALLY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 6 minutes ago, Burgundy LaRue said: #1 verbal beatdown ever. I legitimately thought Ryan was going to cry. The education thing is awful, but honestly, schools as currently designed are very flawed anyway. There are textbooks that try to refer to slavery as unpaid labor with the kidnapping, selling of humans, destruction of families, raping, and killing conveniently forgotten. Really? REALLY? I'm sure this will make that better, not worse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Probably, for the doofs among us. Just that in my former line of work, I learned that education in general is often lacking in the most fundamental of ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 A lot of what goes in text books is decided on by lunatics on that one Texas board, so this is not surprising. They're not any better in charter schools. In fact in many they're way worse. Voucherizing the entire country under guise of school choice is what they want to do to push out the entire public education sector and privatize everything. That's the literal goal of someone like a DeVos, not just a conspiracy theory. Tax dollars paying for religious education regardless of whether you believe in it or not on a national level, somehow I don't think that's constitutional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 19 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said: McCain being actively anti-Trump is amusing. I guess he remembers Trump calling him a coward for being captured, not all things are easily forgiven and I am sure he feels very comfortable in his position. I'll wait until McCain actually does something before I pat him on the back. W dragged his war record through the mud when he ran against him in 2000 and McCain still fell in line like a good little Republican after Bush was elected. This is also the guy who held down MMA back in the Zuffa days (testifying that it was "human cockfighting") because he was in the pocket of boxing promoters. The dude has no integrity and has lived off his POW stories longer than Ricky Martin lived off "Livin' La Vida Loca." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 So in terms of horrible things that Muslims did that really didn't happen what is worse. The thousands of Muslims in New Jersey who celebrated 9/11 or this Bowling Green massacre that Conway is trying to pimp now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Poor Bowling Green, it's been massacred a lot in the last year: (Spoilered for Image Size). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Never have I seen an administration actively do so much to either have itself forcibly removed or give it's own party enough reasons to impeach to just get rid of the headache. Dear Republican Party, Trust me, Mike Pence will do all of the same shit you want Trump to do, without all of the headaches, without having to call fucking Australia to apologize, without having to cringe while talking about inauguration attendance, without having to facepalm because your president and blogger in chief forces through such and such bullshit, etc. etc. etc. You have enough reasons to impeach the guy, but still be able to keep the world order, fuck around with public education, fuck around with health care, and more. You know you desperately want to kick this guy to the curb and there's no point in waiting for his approval numbers to drop low enough so you don't need to worry about his army of trolls coming after you. And for you Paul Ryan, you likely get to become VP. Be like Mike and just do it. Please. Love, America 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Y'all went way past the point of toeing the No Politics line My own fault for not checking this thread in awhile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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