Election 2024

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    I am pleased to learn that America's universities are offering safe spaces and therapeutic coloring books for the poor, scared little college babies who are frightened of the election results. I'm thinking we didn't really close the insane asylums; we just started calling them colleges and universities.
     
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    It also says a lot about the maturity of college students in this country. Truly a sad thing.
     
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    I think you can roughly compare a college senior's maturity today to a high school senior of days gone by. And that may be generous. Arrested development.

    That's why there is such a push for IVF. Women foot-drag past their childbearing years now until they have few viable eggs left and conception becomes difficult. Of course guys are losing the ability to produce viable sperm in reasonable numbers very early now as well.

    Remember when 30 was "old?" Biology still remembers.
     
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    Don’t forget that they also spent about $16,000 to bring in alpacas for them for therapy animals for the poor students.
     
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    It's pretty easy to over-react when the people of the US have suffered so much. It's also easy, for me anyway, to misunderstand what I read, or even hear. I'm learning, yep, better late than never, to not answer a post at all, but think about it, and maybe answer it later, or not at all. Just sort of forget it. I need more practice re-reading, and taking things slow :)

    I was just thinking about it being Veterans Day, and how families must be feeling their loss of loved ones in the last 4 years because of incompetent people in our government. There was also a discussion on X Live chat about Retribution vs Justice. I hope to see justice done in several areas, but I may not in my lifetime.
     
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    It's laughable, and really warped at the same time that these kids have been so screwed up by "I guess" well-meaning adults?? Well-meaning, that's a hard one to accuse them of.

    Luckily, we have people like Larry O'Conner hey Ken :rolleyes:
     
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    This was really something to hear and see, thought it might be bologna at first but seems like the straight truth. I've been wrong before, but this is pretty believable now that I think about it. Fox News, Outnumbered on "The Trump Effect". You can skip to 1:17 where the good stuff starts imo ;) I'm pretty happy about Homan as Border Czar, especially after hearing his answer to a rather "idiot-like" interviewer, nailed her good and I wish we could have heard her answer, if she had one ;)

     
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    I don't know if this is a Demand-Pull thing (meaning the students requested it) or a Supply-Push thing (meaning the corrupted university administrations are projecting their own needs onto the students.)

    Universities are suppose to escort the late adolescents into early adulthood. They have been taken over. I hope Trump pulls Federal funding from these places and the can then compete in the marketplace. Exorbitant student debt will go down, as will the salaries of tenured professors who don't even put in a 40 hour week.
     
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    Can we replace the head of the Department of Education? I'm just asking because the guy in there now has been there since 2021 and a Democrat. Just wondering if someone else might be better at the job.

    To me, that seems a pretty important job :rolleyes:
    Our children??
     
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    The only thing that can be done is to defund it. It literally takes an act of Congress to eliminate it (I do not know the process), and even with control of the House and the Senate, I doubt that we'll get enough (R)s to fight the PR battle.
     
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    I get email from both sides and I am amazed on all the Democrats asking for money to fight Trump's win any way we can. Attorneys General, trying to find more ballots in recounts, (Trump was not allowed that) etc. I got two of these today just from Harris but other Congressional hopefuls too.

    Mary, is there anything we can say to convince you to make a contribution to support the Harris Fight Fund program today?

    Please let us try:

    First and foremost, we want to acknowledge the fear, confusion, and sadness many of you are feeling at this moment.

    But what if we told you that as you read this there are U.S. Senate and House races that are either too close to call, or within the margin of recounts or certain legal challenges.

    What if we told you that they all need our help to get across the finish line?

    And what if we told you that your support today will help make sure we succeed and count every vote in these final races?

    You're needed, Mary. Today.

    Please rush a $50 contribution to support the Harris Fight Fund program. The donation you give will help Democratic candidates across the country who need to protect their victories and make sure every vote is counted in their races.

    If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:

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    I guess you could appoint someone who was anti-Education Department since it is a cabinet position. That person could then request a very low budget, which would , in effect, defund it.
     
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    Another race has been called, so the Republicans now control the House unless Trump appoints enough people out of the house to cabinet positions to throw the control to the other side.

     
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    It sounds like Governor DeWine of Ohio might appoint Vivek Ramaswamy to take over JD Vance’s position in the senate, which I think would be an awesomely good replacement.
     
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    I think that's the best way. Rather than eliminating, just keep decreasing its budget, and the smaller it gets, the less power it has.
     
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