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Summary
The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump’s long-standing pledge.
However, Congress must approve the agency’s abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.
GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.
Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.
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“We don’t need no education” – Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979 & Donald Trump, Crazy Actionism, 2025
So how is Betsy DeVos gonna siphon money for public schools to provide schools?
Keep people dumb. Write their own history to “educate” the dumb. Sounds about right.
For this reason, if you have anything with at least 32 GB of RAM and a GPU, you should get a copy of Ollama and test it out running a local copy of Deepseek. That’s going to soon become the best 0 new dollars tool for access to education.
US Healthcare system is the worst in the world by any measure from cost to outcomes
Republicans: lets do the same to the education system.
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Is this better or worse then him packing the Department of Education with ideologues?
Good luck to your kids and grandkids, education is fucked. Back to the feudal times where only royalty and the rich were educated. If this passes I am not paying student loans anymore. The department that issued them will be gone so why pay.
I’m not eorried about it.
The planet is already going to purge humanity from its face by 2050 or so anyway from the Climate Change crisis.
That loan will just get transferred to DOGE dont worry.
Transferred to X cause it got the license to operate as a bank approved.
I mean that’s the point right? It took a lot of work to get the populous this dumb. Imagine what those that have risen to power can get away with if we make people even dumber!
Smart voters are just no good.
DoE gets in the way of funneling the money to the churches.
DoE gets in the way of funneling the money to the
churchescorporations.Let’s not kid ourselves, the churches will get some money for taking the poor kids, but the goal is to privatize education so that corporations can profit from schooling even more than they already have.
I’m just warning you that education is seen as an “investment”, they are already on the capitalist pigs pathway and well with so many fat pigs I think dirty pork would be best to feed the population.
I’m so sorry, Americans. I’m not sure who is even able to liberate your country. You and the Russians liberated the camps in Europe at the end of WW2, but who’s there for you? I think you might need to liberate yourself. Again. I’m sorry. Good luck
perhaps Germany will fight against the Nazis this time around?
Germany has behaved as a lapdog since WW2, are you kidding?
Could make for one hell of a redemption arc lol /s
There isn’t anyone. Do everything you can to protect your country from us!
Come on, other branches of government do your job. Even if you agree with the executive branch doesn’t have this power.
I couldn’t even imagine what even dumber Americans would look like.
Ever been to Florida?
I refer you to the documentary films “Idiocracy” and “Don’t Look Up”
Idiocracy have aged like fine wine, it’s like someone made it in the future and send it back in the time masheen at costco
Unfortunately, reality has surpassed the referenced films.
Have to continue to create more stupid people to follow him.
the federal department does some very important assistance to state departments and students, but it is worth noting that states do basically all of the actual control and management of schools
It might be worth mentioning that Andrew Johnson signed the Department of Education into law in 1867. It was elevated to a cabinet position in 1979 by Carter from it’s previous position within the Department of Health, Education, And Welfare.
The idea that the government has a constitutional interest in fostering the education of the public is NOT a new thing contrary to what conservatives would have you believe. An educated populace is an essential function of a representative democracy.
Even the moneyed elites should be wary of this since even the regimes were money is the most concentrated in the fewest of hands are proportionally far poorer when their Education systems are bad, probably because o many of the higher value adding businesses require comparativelly well educated workers and even a lot of products require well educated users (who as consumers buy those products).
People who are illiterate, even if only functionally so, can’t handle most modern devices, at work or at home.
At least up to a point, the level of Education of the populous is the difference between being a Latin America style Economy or being an European style one.
But an educated populace is anathema to the ruling class.
In a democracy the people are the ruling class.
Show me a single democracy where there is only one social class.
Show me any government where there is only one social class.
Not when there’s only two parties available: the fascist party and the party of drinking tea while watching the fascists burn the world, voting to confirm henchmen between sips.
The US is no longer a democracy.
Never has been
They want feudalism
But I can’t figure out why. A society with severe brain drain would lead to reduced quality of life for them as well. Are they just banking on AI to do everything while everyone dies in rebellions and counter-rebellions? Shit, that’s probably it.
Think of the rich as aliens. Extract all the wealth from available resources and then move on to the next country. More likely than not, they will die before any of their damage matters enough to bother them. This is why they want to drill.
Yeah, I also don’t understand why they’re aiming for this kind of society. Eventually they’ll cut so much that the actual pie will shrink, so they’ll end up getting less while being surrounded by slums.
Yeah, but at least a black person didn’t get something they didn’t.
More white people on food stamps than black.
I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know that it doesn’t feel true, and therefore I will choose to ignore it.
(please tell me I don’t need the /s)
They measure their quality of life by their ability to dominate others. On top of the desire for feudalism for many of them is a desire for theocracy. For them politics peaked at the divine right of kings.
Neura-starlink, first on prisoners, then on everyone else and apparently the op paperclip people in conjunction with USA make the thousand year reign a reality.
Fascists aren’t particularly smart. They tend to lose in the long run because they just cannot comprehend anything complex. All their philosophy is wishful thinking and simple heuristics that follow their preconceived notions about the superiority of their in group.
They want feudalism because they can’t stand anyone having power other than the people who deserve to rule. They can’t stand that non elites can vote, demand decent wages, etc. so they want feudalism without understanding the downstream effects of that.
They are just fucking dumb. And that is why, if we get enough time, we will win against them. Climate change might get us. But we will fucking destroy these no knowing fuck wits.
If everything is going to shit, getting a slightly less shit deal even if it means everyone else gets a whole lot more shit is a deal people will take just about 10/10 times across an electorate.
