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  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Military, interstate highways, national parks, mail. Is there anything else they need to be spending money on?

    Yeah yeah yeah. Until the first guy on TV is cutting off his Weiner or making an IED on live TV because the FCC doesn't exist. Also don't need the fda until there's listeria in all of our lunch meat or DHS until there's another 9/11.

    Intelligence? Who cares? HUD? Nah, I'm sure that they'll be fine. And I'm sure they'll stay in their neighborhoods when they're not.

    Oh, and I've never met an uneducated person who thinks we need a department of education, but that's just my personal experience.

    These guys are just grooming us by normalizing and mastering public misinformation like Uncle Jimmy does with a 6 year old boy. Unfortunately, some people in this population are already too comfortable giving Uncle Jimmy groin massages when he visits. Wake up people.

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wunderbar.That's hysterical and cringey at the same time.

  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @d_blades said:
    I generally don't want any viewpoint in the education system. Just the facts good and bad would be great.

    What is fact? Have you ever seen a tectonic plate or the big bang? I haven't. What caused the civil war? People in Mississippi still claim "state's rights" despite their secession convention records being completely contrary. Can't teach civics, English, science, health, PE, or even math without subjective content.

    I don't think that anyone wants to see just facts. I think that everyone wants to see facts that they approve of and agree with.

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    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    I figure states should fund their own education. They don't need a radical leftist ideology shoved down their throats in the red states.

    Lol you live in a blue state.

    Education is too big and too important to leave it to the states and municipalities alone.

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    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,577 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 21

    @VegasFrank said:

    @ShawnOL said:
    I figure states should fund their own education. They don't need a radical leftist ideology shoved down their throats in the red states.

    Lol you live in a blue state.

    Education is too big and too important to leave it to the states and municipalities alone.

    I'm not real happy with much of the federal education mandates, really doubt states could do any worse. Education is failing, lots of money but poor results.. Please ramble on.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @d_blades said:

    @VegasFrank said:

    @ShawnOL said:
    I figure states should fund their own education. They don't need a radical leftist ideology shoved down their throats in the red states.

    Lol you live in a blue state.

    Education is too big and too important to leave it to the states and municipalities alone.

    I'm not real happy with much of the federal education mandates, really doubt states could do any worse. Education is failing, lots of money but poor results.. Please ramble on.

    Lol ok. "I got no answers, I just want it different." Sure thing...

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,705 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hey ramblin man, who are you quoting?

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Spineless politicians:

    The House speaker, Mike Johnson, said last week that the government should release everything it has on Epstein’s case. Yesterday he retreated, saying he wanted to give the administration “the space to do what it is doing.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/mike-johnson-epstein-files-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.xOwJ.isY35c_ztwiN&smid=url-share

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    Hey ramblin man, who are you quoting?

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    Spineless politicians:

    The House speaker, Mike Johnson, said last week that the government should release everything it has on Epstein’s case. Yesterday he retreated, saying he wanted to give the administration “the space to do what it is doing.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/mike-johnson-epstein-files-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.xOwJ.isY35c_ztwiN&smid=url-share

    He actually just grasped the reality of the threat.

  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    Hey ramblin man, who are you quoting?

    Dave

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dave's not here.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:
    Dave's not here.

    Wendy's Dave?

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭



    Anybody notice there was no mention in either definition that of the other defined word. They are usually exclusive of the other.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Uneducated people are always saying shít like this ↑

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,869 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VegasFrank said:
    Unindocrinated people are always saying shít like this ↑

    FIFY

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone who's been to trade school then entered a trade and learned the ropes from the more experienced is just as "educated" as Someone who's gone to college. Probably more.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Someone who's been to trade school then entered a trade and learned the ropes from the more experienced is just as "educated" as Someone who's gone to college. Probably more.

    Lol you're funny...something really rubbed you the wrong way. Be well, friend.

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,567 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VegasFrank said:

    @ShawnOL said:
    Someone who's been to trade school then entered a trade and learned the ropes from the more experienced is just as "educated" as Someone who's gone to college. Probably more.

    Lol you're funny...something really rubbed you the wrong way. Be well, friend.

    He said …something really rubbed you…😂😂😂

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh I see what happened. I said I wasn't a maga because I was educated. Shawn's a maga.

    I wasn't saying anything about you buddy. It was just a joke.

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,705 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VegasFrank said:
    Uneducated people are always saying shít like this ↑

    I never say that. I usually say, "I can't believe all these dumbasses have all these degrees". Oh, uh, never mind.

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,248 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some people are just deplorable.

    A little dirt never hurt
  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:

    @VegasFrank said:
    Uneducated people are always saying shít like this ↑

    I never say that. I usually say, "I can't believe all these dumbasses have all these degrees". Oh, uh, never mind.

    Me too.

    I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.

    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is very bad:

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1

    The initiative, spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds, could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 6

    FBI data finds crime in the US went down in every category last year, including murder, violent crime, and theft; violent crime decreased 4.5%, with murder and manslaughter down 15%

    This can't be true. Americans have bought over a million guns per month for the last 5 years. Doesn't more guns equal more crime ?
    Lol.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's only because Trump fired the lady who puts the numbers together and replaced her with someone who would tell him what he wants to hear.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Remarkably stupid

    The Trump administration plans to incinerate $9.7 million in birth control pills and other contraceptives stored in Belgium after U.S.A.I.D. was abruptly shut down.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, that is stupid. Send it all to Africa, where it's sorely needed.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.