Ken Paxton wants to criminally investigate corporations for committing the crime of (checks notes) not giving Elon Musk money.
Bad move. You don’t fuck around with Mo Green.
One possible silver lining: Jeff Bezos gets Trump to make weed legal at the federal level, so people get high and order all kinds of shit off Amazon.
“We don’t need no education”, Republican version (the link goes to AOL):
Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, introduced a bill in the Senate Thursday to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, promoting a policy President-elect Donald Trump backed to close the agency if he regained the White House, according to a news release from Rounds’ office.
Alright Fredo, whatever you say… 
Anyone who read Project 2025 would have seen this coming. It explicitly in there, to eliminate that Department. In black and white.
Granted, it’s 900+ pages of hard road, but it should be mandatory reading at this point.
“The Republican Party platform of 1980 called for the elimination of the Department of Education created under Carter, and President Ronald Reagan promised during the 1980 presidential election to eliminate it as a cabinet post, but he was not able to do so with a Democratic House of Representatives.”
Also,
“The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government. It began operating on May 4, 1980.”
They were against it as soon as it existed.
Trump ‘Loves the poorly educated’ Well, of course, he’s a narcissist and loves himself.
Which is performance art; they need to convince Democrats to go along to pass this and it isn’t going to happen.
It does, however, give Trump something else to crazily rant, whine, and cry about, the big masculine superhero he is.
“The DOE pushes woke and they/them and CRT and the Democrats won’t let us get rid of it!!! Waaaah!”
I want a Republican to define ‘Woke’.
The power is in the vagueness, unfortunately.
Yup. They can define it as anything they want. Send your girl to school, and she comes back a boy. ‘THAT’S WOKE’ No, that’s moronic.
I had a dinner party ~ 6 weeks ago, and one woman kept going on and on complaining about ‘woke’. Neither my Wife or I could get a word in edgewise. My other guests where rather stunned, as they are good decent people.
The ‘Odd Couple’ left first. The woman of the good couple said “That was fucking weird”. She is a special ed teacher, and can recognize odd behavior.
So, I have brain washed ‘neighbors’.
A couple of years ago, a reporter posed this exact question to the esteemed GOP speaker of the Kansas HOR, Dan Hawkins. He told the reporter to Google it.
Yes, he’s an asshole just like almost everybody else in a GOP leadership position these days.
As far as I’ve been able to tell based on Republican behavior, “woke” means treating people different from you with respect.
They’re ok with respect…but of the sort you give your servant or a pet, not to equals.
What it really means is ‘those’ people getting uppity and expecting to be treated as good as they are.
As I may have said before, I consider ‘woke’ to be an up(?)date of Nixon’s ‘Silent Majority.’ Just as the SM (being, by definition, silent) could be made to say whatever Nixon wanted it to say, ‘woke’ evokes an image of an individual’s particular boogeyman. Provided, of course, that said individual has been bludgeoned into a state of perpetual, unformed dread — something the US media have been harping on for the last four years.
Woke is what they used to call PC. Simple terminology for the terminally simple.
Honestly this is the simple truth.
First it was “political correctness” but that’s too hard to say. Then it became “PC” which is a lot easier, but “woke” has half the syllables so that’s now the preferred spooky word.
Soon it will just be some kind of half grunt instead of an actual word.
Woke is weaponized PC. PC was always treated as just something of an annoyance. Those stupid snowflake liberals who can’t take a joke are ruining anything fun.
Woke is a threat to everything you know, forcibly changing the sex of your kids, and making being white or Christian illegal.
From, not to.