Or how about a game of “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?” (for our foreign correspondents, we actually have/had a game show on TV by that name). Trump, Biden, and a 5th Grader…my money would be on the 10 year old…
Here’s a good example of why I loath Trump. He’s arguing to abolish the Department of Education. A terrible idea, but probably a typical conversative goal. Fine. We can debate it.
But than he adds the kicker, and makes his whole argument sound ridiculous. Does he truly think people at the Department of Education “hate our children?”
“We’re going to end education coming out of Washington, DC. We’re going to close it up – all those buildings all over the place and people that in many cases hate our children. We’re going to send it all back to the states,” Trump said in a new campaign video.
Of course not, but he knows it’s a workable shortcut for playing on the “all teachers are woke indoctrinators” canard which itself is just an outgrowth of the classic “all teachers are ivory tower elitists” line that conservatives have been leaning on for decades. Reductio ad maga.
It’s probably not a good idea to take anything that Trump says as an indication of what he thinks or believes. Take it, rather, as an indication of what he thinks might fire up his base. Trump is all about appearances and fiery memes.
Abolishing the Department of Education has been a conservative talking point since Reagan (it was one of the three departments which Rick Perry said he wanted to close, before forgetting one of them in a 2011 debate). Funny how they never quite get around to doing it.
This pisses me off to no end. My wife and I are DINKS. But we always vote for more money/anything for schools. But in the red county that we live in it never passes.
And look what happens when education fails. I give you Lauren Boebert, MTG, Matt Gates, Jim Jordan, etal. And we get the idiots that vote for them.
Oh, that doesn’t piss me off, since every day seems to bring him a new loss in court and another inch closer to accountability. And then he goes all Grandpa Simpson on Truth Social.