Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the federal shutdown offers evidence that her agency is “unnecessary.”
In a social media post on Wednesday, McMahon said the shutdown has forced agencies to evaluate what work is really needed. She made the comment days after her department started firing hundreds of workers amid mass layoffs across the government.
“Two weeks in, millions of American students are still going to school, teachers are getting paid, and schools are operating as normal,” McMahon said.
Outside looking in, its horrific to see the USA die like this.
It’s not great from the inside either. 90% of my anxiety right now is because of this kind of crap.
I got 99 probs and only 1 is my own personal issue.
I feel especially saddened by it because at one point I felt a lot of hope for this country. I don’t feel any hope anymore. It feels doomed. A lot of people are suffering and it’s going to get a lot worse. Yesterday I saw some (likely) immigrants working on a landscaping project and it hit me in a more visceral way what it must be like to fear your life can be destroyed any time. I really wish that kid hadn’t missed trump. Everyone always says that won’t help anything but I don’t care. He deserves to be gunned down in cold blood if anyone ever did.
I used to think that dying as an old man in my sleep would be the best way to go, and now I’m feeling that that would be a waste. I’m becoming comfortable with the idea that my life may have a twist ending that I wasn’t expecting.
I can’t do anything crazy now, I have people counting on me, but that would change if ANYTHING were to happen to them, who are members of particularly vulnerable groups. I especially feel strongly about my child, and if MAGA did anything to them, I would have nothing to lose, and I would become a very dangerous person.
I honestly believe that things would be worse if he had gotten shot. Trump is a despicably vile human being from every single angle, but he’s also senile, incredibly incompetent and narcissistic to the point it interferes with his goals.
A Vance presidency would be much worse, imho. The same goals, but not nearly as plagued with mental issues.
Maybe. Or maybe Vance is just clinging to power how he can. I suspect from past quotes of his, he cares about what people think of him to the extent that it advances his power grabs. He might not be brazen enough to be this evil without the right kind of pressure. Who knows.
Nah, Harris would have won the election, and MAGA would have ended.
The MAGAs would have gone nuts, of course, they react on instinct, like the feral animals they are, but they are a Cult of Personality, and without Trump, they will peter out fairly quickly. They would continue on for a while, causing trouble like the KKK, but they’d have little to no power, and would have faded into history.
Instead, the kid missed, leaving them the opportunity to steal the election.
Maybe you’re right, I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I see Trump more as the symptom of the rot than the cause itself.
Sure, Trump’s death won’t end Conservative treason, corruption, and racism, but it will take away the lightning rod that attracted them all together.
We’re all dying, but none of us reading this are dead yet.
It’s going to be painful, but honestly the US needs to die if the world is to have any hope of surviving the climate crisis. (Not saying the people should die, just the state and its role as the guardian of capitalism.)
So, you think that Russia and China won’t step in and grab up the spoils and keep the system going? There are plenty of billionaires who aren’t in the US.
There are so many hypotheticals involved in any plausible scenario where the United States government ceases to exist in its current form that it’s pretty worthless trying to guess what other countries or actors will do in response.
I can’t think of one plausible scenario where the US government ceases to exist that doesn’t involve mass death. Think all those aircraft carriers and atomic subs are just going to be quietly decommissioned? I strongly doubt that the Left that couldn’t push past the DNC is going to be able to take control.
Sadly that “death” needs to come with power loss to really be effective. We shouldn’t be in charge of shit right now, not even ourselves.
Yes, a socialist worker’s republic should be built in its place, but the American people still have a lot of learning to do before anything like that can be achieved. Unfortunately for them, that learning will come from experiencing at home the utter barbarity that their overlords mostly only practiced abroad until now.