Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

Any comment on Donny deep throating a microphone?

It isn't Ireland, the Feds don't fund every aspect of public life unlike here.

Local school boards control spending, as does the state. Federal dollars (something the current manifestation of the GOP want to severely curtail, cf. Project 2025) are about 8% if you believe the GooG. Local Property taxes pay for schools in the US, yet another thing Project 2025 wants to mess with - no more DoE money, and no tax deductions (per P2025) for LPT, so states and local school boards will need even more money* that won't be forthcoming - so schools will close and standards drop even further.

Also, @Oscar_Madison , I don't think the OP was thinking about university students when they posted about a school teacher providing their own materials. The Biden admin has authorized a lot of spending, like on School infrastructure, funding for at-need students, etc. It's the debt relief that gets all the press, but I think you've missed the details.

Well it's irrelevant considering that's not what the furore is about.

Also he's not been part of a political dynasty which has been largely responsible for a lot of the wars america has got involved in.

Your original comment was classist. This comment clarifies. That wasn't so hard, was it?

Agreed - and at least this administration did what Administrations do: spent money on programs designed to improve things. The previous one (afair) actively worked against positive educational outcomes, one obvious way was the appointment of a 'charter school' activist Betsy DeVos as secretary.

So, this administration spent money, put people in place that wanted to improve things and took the daring step to try and do something about student debt, which wasn't about improving educational outcomes for those that had the debt, just getting the debt off their backs.

There are plenty of announcements on WH.gov about education and funding and programs from this admin (not so its predecessor). Sure they could do more - give them 4 more years and you're likely to see some of it.

A big scary problem is the influence of Teacher's unions, especially at the state level. They're greedy, corrupt and work actively to lower standards. Personally I don't believe they should unionize any white collar workers, starting with teachers. You won't get worse people teaching as a result, they're largely getting dregs now.

Trump has very few endorsements in comparison and those who are such as Hulk Hogan, well let’s face it, would you spend the time of day criticising that cartoon character?

I wasn’t criticising any one “celebrity”- I was making the point that if you think in 2024, that rolling out the best that American dentistry has to offer will influence an audience that’s disillusioned with life in America and are completely alienated by a party they once loved, then sorry you’re using a playbook that’s a good 20 years out of date- those old tricks have long outlived their usefulness, especially in this particular election.

You can go on about your “double standards” all you wish - it doesn’t bother me in the slightest as it’s a broken record at this stage to me - I criticise both sides when I feel I wish too - I have absolutely no interest in listening to or being lectured about “double standards”- especially every second post

That Liz Cheney thing is so layered.

Wonder what kind of Hawkish actions he's referring to. She's likely one of them that's pushing for war with Iran. Or was the nine guns referring to something specific. Her father did pepper a man's face with birdshot.

The comedian as garbage.

Unless You think a stenographer can hear an apostrophe?

Do you?

And welcome back to discussing republicans thinking Puerto Rico is garbage.

Hulk, Kid Rock. They appeal to young, patriotic, military friendly men. They've both done extensive tours overseas at US bases.

Whereas JLo is tainted with Diddy at the moment. Another mis-step by the Harris team. I get the Puerto Rican angle but her appearance, and Ushers involvement will only enrage the Epstein island clan who think that the Dems have sat on their hands and not revealed more.

Your “projection” on to me as to what I “should” and “shouldn’t” do as a poster on a discussion forum is quite frankly scary 😳

I’ve made it clear that I post what I feel at the time - I don’t overthink it- I certainly don’t have an “agenda” - I’m leaving it there.

“The presidents office can only do so much”

Try that line with the undecided voters right now who don’t have a job -Trump is saying he can “do it all”- many believe him - had education been prioritised many years ago by Democrats as the factories and manufacturing industries closed maybe they wouldn’t be where they are now. MAGA didn’t happen in isolation of the Democrats - somewhere along the line they lost a significant portion of their blue collar support - they have to reflect on why at some point

“unless you're looking for a dictatorship, maybe even from day one?”

I’m not “looking” for anything - I don't have a vote.

Even if we accept the most charitable interpretation, I still don't get his overall point here though?

Is it that only ex-serving or currently serving military personnel have the moral right to decide to get the country involved in a conflict? By definition that means those personnel are the government. That's a form of government which has been tried (Latin America, Iberia, West Africa) and has generally gone out of fashion.

Or if we accept that civilians who were never in the military can be in charge of a democracy, but don't have the right to send the troops to war because they themselves never faced a bullet, then we must be talking about some sort of non-militarised country.

So is it a military junta, or hippy pacifism he wants?