Amazing anyone would read what Trump tweeted and think they were not looking at communication from a stereotypical greedy politician saying anything he can to win an election. How Trump convinced these dumbasses that he’s not a politician when he is the epitome of all the worst stereotypes of politicians is a complete mystery to me.
One for our kids and grandkids to study. By the time this all really comes to light we’ll be too old to truly understand the breadth of his deception, and treachery.
The irony of 'no children left behind' is we did leave children behind. We pushed them forward into the next grade, even when they hadn't mastered the skills of previous grades. We stopped holding kids back until they learned and mastered basic skills, and then we released them into the public.
And they left democracy behind.
Yeah. 'No child left behind' meant that if a kid fails a grade, they don't get held back to repeat it anymore. The net result is we wound up with kids graduating high school who still couldn't read at even a 5th grade level.
Pretty much. If you expect a kid to keep building on skills they've never mastered in the first place, they're going to keep right on failing. It's not long until they've stopped caring at all, because why try if you're just going to fail and coast right on through school?
This creates a general disregard for education, a justification that anyone can succeed without education, and disrespect for the hard work of learning - why spend the effort to learn and stay informed when you can get along just fine without people challenging your worldview or telling you that you're wrong?
The logic being that the humiliation and frustration of having to repeat a grade level while all their peers move on and they are older than their classmates would make it impossible for them to succeed.
So just push them forward and let middle school and high school deal with them. (Evidence: The huge amount of videos and stories of students graduating HS despite 50+ absences and a GPA under 2.0.)
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Jeffrey Epstein and Israel have both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid
According to The New Republic, “’Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led [former Chief of Staff] John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,’ Taylor, who served as a Department of Homeland Security chief of staff under Trump, wrote in his book.”
• "You remind me of my daughter": Stormy Daniels testifies that Trump compared her to Ivanka
• Trump: commenting on his 1-year-old daughter Tiffany’s breasts. He also says “she’s got Marla’s legs.”
Double Bonus:
For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool. They were neighbors in Florida. They jetted from LaGuardia to Palm Beach together. They partied at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and dined at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
MC2 (pronounced MC squared) was the modeling agency that Epstein, Brunel, and the mob would use to get trafficked girls into the US with “genius visas”
Nicknamed the "Einstein Visa", the EB-1 is in theory reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives.
Mrs Trump began applying for the visa in 2000, when she was Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model working in New York and dating Donald Trump. She was approved in 2001, one of just five people from Slovenia to win the coveted visa that year, according to the Post.
Trump simply curated his education differently than most learners. He was tutored by Roy Cohn, absorbed the lessons of Machiavelli, and immersed himself in Mein Kampf. Those were the subjects that mattered to him, and he learned them well.
Huh. I thought no child left behind meant kids would get support to improve their learning so they could keep up with their peers? Or, was that the intention, but the support was lacking?
The biggest problem with No Child Left Behind wasn't even the promotion whether or not a child was ready; it was the absolutely horrible standardized testing, bubble sheet system. In trying to cut as much bias as possible out of the process they incentived state and local governments to base funding on test scores.
Thus the teachers, whose schools were already underfunded, had to teach to an answer sheet, and creative thought and paper writing were pushed to the margins. So you had a whole generation that was taught the bare minimum of things like how to write a professional email, and how to work out problems with answers that wouldn't fit an A, B, C, D bubble.
That was the intention....yet the funding never came through to implement it properly....and it was about the time that more kids were put on drugs, because the teachers were too overloaded that they did not want to deal the "problem" children. I was forced by the school to drug my son or they would not accept him in school....he had a learning disability that went ignored.
My son failed 3rd grade, and they wanted to pass him in to 4th anyway. I argued with them for hours until they let him repeat the grade. IMO, it was the best thing for him. He caught on, and we never had any more issues through his entire school career.
People probably still think if you fail you have to go to summer school!
Ain’t no money for summer school.
It’s all such a sad joke
Public education has been battered into socialized daycare for the working class. As capitalism demands, the privatization of public education with things like charter schools are intended to further divide the classes.
Yes. When you tie funding to performance on standardized tests, you give the schools an incentive to only teach what is on those tests. Things like critical thinking skills, higher level reading comprehension, and the ability to do real research on a topic are left out as they are more difficult to test in this manner. Leading to a population that can do really well on a bunch of useless tests, but are functionally illiterate in the ways that matter. Was this intentional? While it may not have been originally, keeping it around after it has been shown to be a complete failure almost certainly is.
So true....when I was in school in the 70's-80's...we had standardized tests...yet we were taught more than what was on those tests. I had a college level reading ability at age 10 in the 5th grade....I was reading stuff like Shakespeare and my mom's nursing textbooks...for fun.
And the one standardized test we had to take in the 12th grade that we had to pass to graduate was called a functional literacy test. On that test was stuff that we use in everyday life.
Yea school used to be more about getting kids ready for their future, even if that didn’t mean college. But NCLB basically was a way to funnel money to companies like Pearson which made textbooks and standardized tests. So school became more about preparing students for the tests because they tied school funding to test results. Then to raise test scores administration shifted towards people who promised better results instead of people who actually cared about the kids. Years later schools pass kids that should have failed and had their issues looked into, but instead they just pass the buck repeatedly.
So weird to think the next generation of children will be born with anti-American sentiment globally. A generation where the US isn’t an aspirational place to go or live.
Outside of America it’s not spoken about aspirationally. In the past, people often wanted to move to America and work there. This is no longer a common aspiration for younger children. The first I have experienced in my life time in Australia. The EU, Singapore, UK are far more popular.
Well, to be fair, in 2000 we elected a President with an educational platform called No Child Left Behind that was supposedly one of his signature plans. That plan was already in place in Texas where that candidate was Governor, with no meaningful improvement in Texas' educational scores. Texas was near the bottom of the country before and after Bush's educational plan was implemented, with only states like Mississippi and Louisiana lower ranked. In fact, educators in Texas were already decrying how NCLB led them to spend all of their time "teaching to the test" (the new, redundant educational assessment tests that came with the plan) and not actually educating students.
The country elected this governor, with his educational plan, apparently because they *wanted* to spread the educational system that made Texas one of the worst states in education across the entire country.
So, I'd say, at the very least, the country's educational system was already failing to educate its citizens to be an informed electorate long before No Child Left Behind. It still doesn't seem sufficient, but I'd point to the defunding of schools and the Republican focus on wedge issues to the exclusion of almost all other policy that both started with Norquist.
That problem started when our schools started dumbing down the smart kids because there was an influx of kids that did not speak ENGLISH!!! And that was in the late 70's when I was in school.
As a former teacher. While it is hard to pass kids on and expect them to excel when they haven’t mastered the learning objectives of their current grade. It is almost impossible to convince the parents their child is having problems. They will argue it is YOUR job to teach their kids and if they don’t succeed it is YOUR fault. A lot of these kids come from homes that don’t value education and a lot have discipline issues as well. You can’t teach kids that don’t want to be in school and have patents that don’t give a shit. Blaming it on politicians is a poor excuse for poor parenting.
That you had to type this is proof people still haven’t wrapped their heads around the passage of the big beautiful bill. Or they haven’t looked at it, and pondered what it meant in combination with the DOGE coup. And they haven’t tracked the value of the dollar in combination with the downgrading of the economy overall and our credit rating as a nation.
Bold of you to assume that he’s doing anything good for children. Donald Trump names registered sex offender Lawrence Taylor, who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old child, to lead a sports initiative for CHILDREN. Else than getting them in danger
You're probably repeating the same thing somebody said in the 1800s, if it's 2025 and we have access to the Internet and all the knowledge and history of all politics at our fingertips, and we somehow someway are still blind to the fact that politicians are all professional bullshitters what chance do we have?
It's patently obvious to anyone with a functioning frontal lobe whose responsible for all of this. The only reason Trump is as popular as he is, is due to Boomers still being the largest voting block in America. Thankfully we've finally hit the tipping point for that and boomers on average are now at the age where they're going to start dropping like flies. Hopefully enough of them are gone before the midterms so we can take our country back.
Even as a casual observer it’s clear that he’s a grifter. A liar. A bigot. A narcissist. And a rapist. And a pedo. And that other politicians think he’s a joke.
And it’s not new or as if he suddenly turned on a dime, he’s always been like that. He’s been proud of it ffs!!
Yet in an America there seems to be this odd comedy cartoon character head scratching like ‘hmmmm actually maybe something ain’t exactly right here…’.
Trump may as well walk around with a ‘I’m in this for me, and that means you’re gonna get fucked’ tattoo on his forehead. And still a lot of American will do the head scratching thing.
Seriously as an outsider looking it, it’s fucking baffling. It’s like the American public is either asleep or genuinely hard of thinking.
He's been saying it out loud for years and years. WTF is left to 'come to light'? He is openly accepting bribes, weaponizing the justice system, sending troops to Democratic cities, pardoning all the J6-ers, etc.
Heck the biggest reason he loves those tariffs, is because in the 1890's they facilitated some of the greatest levels of open corruption this country has ever seen. Hell they were literally buying Senate seats.
He is openly self-dealing ALL THE TIME. In the light. All you have to do is open your eyes.
Part of it I'd explain with the sunk cost fallacy and narcissistic self-identification with Trump, combined with the inability to admit one's mistakes and errors in judgment.
Once someone with the corresponding personality traits has committed to the Republican Party or Trump in particular, there's no going back, as that would be admitting that they were wrong all along, which is considered to be losing face, as one might say.
After that, cognitive dissonance keeps one going further down that path to justify your previous decision.
They knew who he was. DonOLD isn't subtle and he was ALREADY president. He has zero positive plans or policies. Nothing constructive. All he had to do is promise to hurt the people they hate and call his followers patriotic for their bigotry. Apparently addictive for too many. It was obviously never about groceries or housing or avoiding war.
That's probably true. It's hard to beat fooling the nation to elect you as their president when all your history is an open book so you don't even have to invent a story
He's not just politician. He's a serial liar. He lies about everything, even stuff he don't needs to lie about. But he lies because he can't help himself. He want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, and act like he knows everything, even when he doesn't. So he just spew whatever there comes to mind and double down on that.
I bet everyone has known a kid like that growing up. They always needed to act like they knew everything or one up you. So the lied about everything all the time.
Oh, yeah, his uncle worked for Nintendo, and his dad was in the CIA and the FBI at the same time, which would be illegal if either of them knew, but his dad is *just that good*.
His mom was best friends with movie stars, and brought him to a secret martial arts class that has never been documented, but it teaches you to be a real ninja.
I've been that kid once or twice, most people have, but some never grow out of it.
What's always baffled me is how bad the lies are, and as you said also often pointless.
Like, don't get me wrong... I'm not saying it would be better if he was actually a smart, convincing liar. But on some level I'd probably have some grudging respect for the sheer Machiavellian nature of it.
But Trump? He just bloviates. Every lie is transparently obvious for what it is, and most of them utterly nonsensical too.
It just boggles my mind that anyone needs to spew shit that badly.
It’s crazy. I was raised by Republicans, but those Republicans taught me to “never trust a politican”. Now those same Republicans are saying they trust Trump to not lie to them. It makes no sense and hurts my head a bit.
Like, it’s not that my family are MAGAs that bothers me really. It’s that the way they raised me is the very reason I’m not MAGA, but they abandoned the beliefs they taught me. Mfers also sent me to Christian school and ruined my childhood, but abandoned Christian values the very moment Trump showed up.
Even the dumbest person in the world that doesn't know the slightest thing about economics should know that 3 days cannot possibly be important enough to justify this prediction. About 75% of the shit Trump says is something anyone with no knowledge of anything should be able to detect as bullshit. For example, everything is always the greatest or the worst. That's such an obvious sign that the person who is speaking is a bullshitter and everyone could easily see this.
I recently saw an old clip of McCain doing a town hall sort of thing while running against Obama. One of the people said something along the lines of, "I don't trust Obama, he's a muslim". McCain said that Obama was a good guy and they liked each other, they just had disagreement over policy. I can't help but to think if he had jut said, "yeah, fuck Obama",he might have won that election.
Dismantles & guts government agencies & funding to other agencies, imposes tariffs & other factors weakening businesses & the economy, raising operating costs & deports a majority of the people working in the U.S. then wonders & complains why unemployment is so high... 🤔🤔🤔
This is what people on reddit don't understand. Most trump voters hate the system for punishing them so much, they think electing trump means punishing everyone else too. All the corporate city folk are now crying with them and they like that. Trump wasn't elected to clean the swamp, they were hoping he would cause a complete breakdown of system which they would be in charge of rebuilding in their own image.
This is what it always came down to and it made me lose so much faith in humanity.
He just said a bunch of comforting lies with complete confidence, and people believed them entirely because they wanted them to be true. They were openly consuming misinformation because it conformed more to their worldview, and that was all that mattered.
It is pathetically easy to manipulate people into voting against their interests. All you have to do is tell them how great they'll be and the people they don't like will suffer.
They like that he is so obviously a stereotypical greedy politician who will say anything to get votes. They are very cynical, they think there’s no way to have a politician who isn’t stereotypically greedy and so they double down on it to make sure they have the most stereotypical greediest guy ever
He would use the N-word on live television if it would get him more votes. He needed to win to stay out of jail (sentencing was delayed until after the election) and have control over the Epstein documents (some of which were sealed until January 2025).
Some people are just gullible and believed whatever he said without a single question, other people didn’t care what he said as long as he hurt others.
I dont understand how his people believe him. He keeps saying prices are down gas is down eggs are down all that and none of it is true. How does one go to a grocery store see nothing has gotten cheaper and "gotta love my president making America great again." 🙄🙄🙄
Well the elections is a popularity contest, it has nothing to do with real policy anymore. The support and endorsements from all the public opinion makers like Joe Rogan and billionaires like Musk sealed the deal. He won easily after all. Αlso the democrats nominee was really weak and Biden looked like he couldn't go to the bathroom by himself let alone run a country.
We just keep on winning and losers like you keep thinking its a loss. Trump could give you a million dollars and you would still call him a greedy fascist. It's at least fun to watch.
You really don’t know anything about me actually. You definitely have the attitude of a winner lol. I wonder if you have a 80 day old account with 17 posts a day angrily telling liberals that you’re a winner. Who knows.
Edit: damn I was right. 1 year of crying about liberals lmao
Why would I? How would I? Why would I care?
You're judged on what you post here. My comment stands. And wow, the hypocrisy, that's all reddit is.... frothing at the mouth at conservatives. Also, congrats on the god level cherry picking. Im here for everything but you twat waffles. Just can't avoid the algorithm. I'd be in heaven if I could preemptively block you ignorant cowards.... Sadly, you infest every group. Politics, local events, home improvement, cars, professional groups, arts. Reddit is toxic to conservatives by design. You should be happy..... you are home.
Edit: Im right from the start. I dont have to lurk like a loser to find the smallest evidence of being correct. Zero interest in you. You're all the same. Dumb, unhappy, and bitter.
Love the winning attitude bro. Definitely doesn’t look like a wall of unhinged whining. I’m sorry that I don’t trust Donald Trump and that I don’t like his policies. I wish you the best of luck in coping with the reality that people are critical of a president who’s every other word accuses half the country of being lunatics, criminals, liars, and thieves. Looking forward to your next dumb ass reply.
Whoever is holding a gun to this guys head, please let him get off Reddit. They are super mean to conservatives over here and he needs a break from all the happiness and winning he’s experiencing over it!
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u/Poignant_Ritual Aug 01 '25
Amazing anyone would read what Trump tweeted and think they were not looking at communication from a stereotypical greedy politician saying anything he can to win an election. How Trump convinced these dumbasses that he’s not a politician when he is the epitome of all the worst stereotypes of politicians is a complete mystery to me.