POLITICAL THREAD

[TheFrontRunner]

Federal court saves Title lX from liberal insanity:






Kentucky was one of the other five:






Riley been fighting the whole way:

 

[SDC8888]

 

[hmt5000]

I was thinking about a disease that affects mice where it has zero fear of cats. Even if the cat starts to eat other mice present the mice will act perfectly calm and not run or hide... it causes them to completely lose fight or flight instinct.

 

[JumperJack]

They’re also having to pay a greater percentage of their limited wages on rent and utilities. Raising sales taxes increases this burden on them.

The actual burden that’s being placed on them is the inflationary burden caused by government spending. You just said it yourself. Fix that, and sales taxes become manageable once again.

 

[BBUK]

Federal court saves Title lX from liberal insanity:

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Riley been fighting the whole way:

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Never was worth the first second of effort. Just unimaginable this crap has got past one person's suggestion.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

Yeah, I just retired from a midsize wealth management firm. As we grew, we became more corporate, including internal memos about financial planning for LGBTQ clients. When my new assistant sent me an email with his preferred pronouns in the signature, I went to management and HR and said under no circumstances will my assistant be allowed to send an email to clients with that signature. HR individual was surprised and offended that I would insist on that but, as I explained to upper management who agreed with me, half of my clients would immediately start looking for another firm that doesn't wear its politics on its sleeve. Insane that someone in the financial services industry would be so clueless about subtly pushing a political view on your clients. My assistant was fine with the omission and told me he didn't want to include his pronouns but HR specifically instructed him to do so.

The last point is definitely something people are unaware of. These companies kept prompting people to add pronouns. I kept declining and they eventually stopped asking but only because the climate changed. Had common sense not taken over after Elon bought Twitter, it wouldve gotten worse instead of better.

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

I am referring to your reference to post high school performance of kids in public vs private schools. My point is that kids from poverty and kids with disabilities are not going to perform as well in college (typically) as kids from well to do families from private schools.
You are comparing apples to oranges.
If you compare students from similar socioeconomic backgrounds WITHOUT learning/behavior disabilities...You would most likely see very little difference between the collegiate performance of public vs private school kids.
Socioeconomic status is the biggest indicator of student performance at all levels of school.

I dont agree with you and I'd love the debate but I dont have the energy now. Maybe in a few weeks when I'm finally out of the hospital.

 

[HeismaNole]

I'm so tired of the "my ancestors built this country" nonsense. One of the worst parts of slavery is that they wouldn't even let them do basic skilled labot. Slaves were used to pack material... that was about it. Craftsmen were scared to compete with slave labor so it was hugely frowned upon to even teach slaves math.

It's the most ridiculous revisionist history from a group who is notorious for flubbing their actual contributions to the world.

An Irish guy designed the White House. The Irish and Scot migrants did most of the important stuff. Her saying this is like a guy who carried in a box of oranges claiming to have built a restaurant and cooked a gourmet meal.

 

[HeismaNole]

The leve of evil pulling the strings to brainwash people into this is sick.

 

[cole854]

The entire California state government needs to be disbanded, and the territory can be absorbed by the other 49 when the federal government bails them out…

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If only....

Cali needs to do another recall vote after all this is over.

 

[HeismaNole]

 

[mdlUK.1]

Megyn Kelley kicking ass and taking names

 

[cole854]

Even that ain't as bad as it should be. Several companies pushed layoffs back to after Feb so it wouldn't affect the election or Bidens legacy. The lack of fiduciary responsibility is criminal at this point.

But, we need robots and AI everywhere.....F human beings who need a job.

 

[vhcat70]

Many Many of those Multi-Million dollar houses were passed down or bought when they cost pennies decades ago. Most of those people don't have any money at all.

I hope to never set foot in that state again.

You make it sound like the fires are a lib plot to buy all the burned out properties at pennies/buck iot build a mcmansion on them cheaply.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

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[vhcat70]

Megyn Kelley kicking ass and taking names

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She's still hot.

 

[Bigmikeydelight]

Fyi... State Assessments may be predictive of future academic success, if only recent, biased studies are to be believed, but not based on 5 decades of data before now, nor are they predictive of success in life or careers.

There are many reasons they fail as a litmus test outside of narrow academic settings.

Some of the biggest reasons are that they don't teach to or measure adaptability, nor measure creativity in solving problems, or indicate any level of persistence in the face of adversity. They produce drones in other words that are meant to fit within a pegged system, rather than leaders who can solve critical problems and reason through tough situations and circumstances.

Public schools teach "to the test" and have done so for over 40 years. The narrow scope of this education is perfect for indoctrination rather than truly developing an independent, objective, and intelligent mind. It is easily manipulated by simple memorization, which takes little effort at all, but ideally suits someone just wanting a job instead of a career or entrepreneurship.

It is meant to churn out more hive minded people to make the colony grow, but once the colony becomes overcrowded there is a huge die off in terms of employable drones. That's where we are now. The system cannot sustain itself because of natural limits to production and usefulness of people who all perform the same function for too long.

Private schools do not "teach to the tests" because they are busy teaching reasoning and independent thought. Many are teaching the classical education model that gave us the enlightenment and industrial revolution, as well as the robust economy of this country before the 60s led to the destruction of education itself. The last people to be trained classically in public schools graduated in the early to mid 1980s, when several people I knew first hand began teaching. Things got much worse from there and rapidly.

Classical education values a well-rounded pursuit of knowledge that doesn't discount history, literature, and reason. It's a rigorous curriculum that isn't defined by dittos and scantron tests, but essays, reports, and papers/presentations starting in elementary school. The truth of private education is that not everyone that starts out in private schools can afford to continue through high school because of costs, location inconvenience, and extra-curricular limitations that put an economic strain on families already subsidizing public education as well.

If you exclude students who have attended private schools before the high school level, you will see a drop from the upper ranks of high school graduates and statist-preferred testing measurements. There are at least 3 schools in Lexington that I know of personally whose students take the assessments and on average perform more than 10-15% greater than the average of those one or two grades higher in public schools.

They don't need to publish the results because they don't need the marketing, and they know the classical approach is too rigorous for some to take on. It's definitely too expensive for most, but more so for those in lower income brackets without some sort of voucher system. But that's the idea behind preventing vouchers. It's to keep the lower income brackets from escaping that perpetual motion machine of poverty that has ZERO accountability.

Private school teachers that don't perform their jobs well get FIRED. Can't say that about public schools AT ALL.

Most of yall knew all of this, of course, but for those who don't, you're welcome for the cognitive dissonance disruption.

Really nice propaganda you got there.

 

[AustinTXCat]

In honor of our good friend, Gassy.

 

[Girthang]

That's what the whole Gina Carano thing was over. People act like it was other stuff but what pissed off the Disney exec's to go after her was that she was told to put pronouns in her bio and she put "beep bop boop". That was when they went after her with full force.

Yes, and she did it with a sense of humor as well, but we can't have that!

 

[FirewithFire]

 

[Girthang]

i don’t see big mike at pres carter’s funeral service.

Maybe someone slipped viagree in her drink after all

 

[JumperJack]

No surprises here. For a few years we’ve pointed out that DEI would cause all this but man it’s accelerating quickly.

 

[AustinTXCat]

** Wise Words Department **

"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."

-Margaret Thatcher

 

[Girthang]

Fyi... State Assessments may be predictive of future academic success, if only recent, biased studies are to be believed, but not based on 5 decades of data before now, nor are they predictive of success in life or careers.

There are many reasons they fail as a litmus test outside of narrow academic settings.

Some of the biggest reasons are that they don't teach to or measure adaptability, nor measure creativity in solving problems, or indicate any level of persistence in the face of adversity. They produce drones in other words that are meant to fit within a pegged system, rather than leaders who can solve critical problems and reason through tough situations and circumstances.

Public schools teach "to the test" and have done so for over 40 years. The narrow scope of this education is perfect for indoctrination rather than truly developing an independent, objective, and intelligent mind. It is easily manipulated by simple memorization, which takes little effort at all, but ideally suits someone just wanting a job instead of a career or entrepreneurship.

It is meant to churn out more hive minded people to make the colony grow, but once the colony becomes overcrowded there is a huge die off in terms of employable drones. That's where we are now. The system cannot sustain itself because of natural limits to production and usefulness of people who all perform the same function for too long.

Private schools do not "teach to the tests" because they are busy teaching reasoning and independent thought. Many are teaching the classical education model that gave us the enlightenment and industrial revolution, as well as the robust economy of this country before the 60s led to the destruction of education itself. The last people to be trained classically in public schools graduated in the early to mid 1980s, when several people I knew first hand began teaching. Things got much worse from there and rapidly.

Classical education values a well-rounded pursuit of knowledge that doesn't discount history, literature, and reason. It's a rigorous curriculum that isn't defined by dittos and scantron tests, but essays, reports, and papers/presentations starting in elementary school. The truth of private education is that not everyone that starts out in private schools can afford to continue through high school because of costs, location inconvenience, and extra-curricular limitations that put an economic strain on families already subsidizing public education as well.

If you exclude students who have attended private schools before the high school level, you will see a drop from the upper ranks of high school graduates and statist-preferred testing measurements. There are at least 3 schools in Lexington that I know of personally whose students take the assessments and on average perform more than 10-15% greater than the average of those one or two grades higher in public schools.

They don't need to publish the results because they don't need the marketing, and they know the classical approach is too rigorous for some to take on. It's definitely too expensive for most, but more so for those in lower income brackets without some sort of voucher system. But that's the idea behind preventing vouchers. It's to keep the lower income brackets from escaping that perpetual motion machine of poverty that has ZERO accountability.

Private school teachers that don't perform their jobs well get FIRED. Can't say that about public schools AT ALL.

Most of yall knew all of this, of course, but for those who don't, you're welcome for the cognitive dissonance disruption.

Edit- Much of this can be found through a Google or DuckDuckGo search. Google's AI even brought up some of these points. THANKS for playing

This doesn't even scratch the surface of the bullying and physical abuse allowed in public schools where discipline isn't really allowed. Kids discouraged from excelling in school and pushed towards drugs and social trends is a huge problem in public schools that is not seen in private education. Neither are kids in public schools encouraged to help their peers or lower grade students through tutoring and mentoring like they are in private schooling.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

 

[Girthang]

Dayum...

Yeah. That was long, but its something I am very familiar with from researching and with several close acquaintances and family in the teaching field both public and private.

 

[cole854]

This story is gold. Obama, despite his politics, knows that The Donald is in charge.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...s-ignore-president-elect-jimmy-carter-funeral

 

[JumperJack]

 

[HeismaNole]

No surprises here. For a few years we’ve pointed out that DEI would cause all this but man it’s accelerating quickly.

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Woke Commies turn everything to shit. Dumbasses who have no clue and are propped up by everyone.

 

[Girthang]

Oh the things I could tell, if you only knew...

I bet you could.

 

[Bigmikeydelight]

Trump was laughed at during his first term when he quipped about Greenland. The media laughed and so did his uber political liberal opponents. This video is a decent primer, regardless of the guy’s redundancies and political leanings.

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Johnny Harris creates great content.

The actual burden that’s being placed on them is the inflationary burden caused by government spending. You just said it yourself. Fix that, and sales taxes become manageable once again.

Yeah, I’m not so sure about that, but government spending is definitely going down. It’ll be a good litmus test to see if government bloat is the biggest problem to lower class.

 

[Lost In FL]

This story is gold. Obama, despite his politics, knows that The Donald is in charge.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...s-ignore-president-elect-jimmy-carter-funeral

Emhoff looks back and says, "Oh, that is what men talk about..."

 

[TheFrontRunner]

From the article:

• Senators were given previews of some of what they were told would be 100 executive orders, two sources who were in the room told Axios.

One big border plan: Reinstating Title 42, according to multiple sources.

• The pandemic-era public health policy cites concerns about spreading illness to allow for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the border — preventing them from even a shot at asylum.
• There were millions of Title 42 expulsions from early in the COVID pandemic until President Biden ended the policy in 2023.

Other executive actions and plans that Miller outlined included:

• More aggressively using a part of the Immigration and Nationality Act — 287(g) — which allows some state and local law enforcement to assist in some of the duties of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
• Building the border wall, constructing soft-sided facilities to hold migrants and implementing other asylum restrictions.

@SDC888

Seen you post Scott Adams a lot I think, here was his take:





Adams: "Repetition is the key variable in their brainwashing. If Trump makes them change their focus five times per day, the fake news can't cover the new stuff and also repeat the old stuff. Not enough time in the day.Trump found a way to beat the fake news: Overwhelm it."

 

[JumperJack]

Democrats control the weather or so I’ve been told. I’m pretty pissed Newsome didn’t just press the “excessive rain” button to stop the fires and excessive drought or hell at least turn the knob to lower the 85 MPH wind they had during the fires. So much incompetence.

 

[sambowieshin]

I dont agree with you and I'd love the debate but I dont have the energy now. Maybe in a few weeks when I'm finally out of the hospital.

Sorry to hear that man. Yeah, these debates can be fun... Or draining at times. It all started with the Founding Fathers. 🤣
Watching the natural disasters in NC, Cali etc. and recently seeing loved ones battle health issues... It really puts things in perspective.
Sending positive energy and good karma your way buddy.

 

[Girthang]

Huh? I'm referring to kidd who went to college. What are you talking about?

He's a Brandon Racist. He thinks all poor kids are non-white and stupid.

 

[Cold Stout Beer]

🤣

 

[JumperJack]

These people demand trillions and trillions to fix the global climate and they can’t even anticipate and prepare for wildfires in their own cities.

Complete and utter exposure.

 

[sambowieshin]

The leve of evil pulling the strings to brainwash people into this is sick.

Evil is such a bizarre take on this. Why do you care so much?
That like saying someone is evil because they chose to be straight and wear traditionally male clothes by choice.
Or you are evil because you like sports or pizza.
It's their life. It's their body. It's their choice in what to do with it. So long as they don't force any hormones or surgery on you.... Why are you so upset and crying a river over this??
Your concern with how others live is weirder than their lifestyle choice. 🤣

 

[vhcat70]

That’s an extreme point. If we have sales taxes on things like food, detergent, diapers, etc. those are things poor people have to buy regardless. If we cut income taxes, which many don’t pay anyways, They are going to inadvertently pay more by higher sales taxes on above items.

Good to hear from you and I hope you’re having a good 2025.

Sales taxes are paid by those that dodge income taxes, particularly illegals. You could rebate funds to the poor who file income tax returns.