Category: MAGA / Republican

PA Governor To Trump: “Stop Shit-Talking America”

PA Governor To Trump: “Stop Shit-Talking America”

June 11, 2024 Democrats, Trump Lies

 

“All they hear from Donald Trump is a whole bunch of whining about this country. And I think Donald Trump’s got to quit whining, go to quit trying to divide us. I mean, consider this, Jen.

“We’re producing more energy than anyone before in this nation. We have the strongest economy in the world and we are beating China for the first time in decades. More people went to work this morning in America than any other time in our nation’s history.

“So, I got a message to Donald Trump and all of his negativity and whining: stop shit-talking America! This is the greatest country on Earth and it’s time that we all start acting like it. The good people of Pennsylvania understand that this is a great country, understand that we got a whole lot going for us.

“And not it’s time for us to continue this path of progress that Joe Biden has laid out and not go back to a negative time, not listen to the whining of the former president, and instead, focus on a positive future for all of us.” – Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

 

MackiesDad a day ago

While I agree with Shapiro’s thinking in general, he lost me at “greatest country on Earth.” The U.S. is a great nation, and deserves allegiance. But it’s not the greatest on Earth. We’ve got problems. We’ve always had problems. There are other countries who’ve done better during their histories than the U.S. Maybe it’s time to acknowledge that we are a nation of immigrants and try to implement the best of our diverse backgrounds.

TnCTampaa day ago

WHERE THE FUCK is the Presidents cabinet shouting these talking points? Where are the house minority leader and Senate leader at shouting this info??

Get this man to DC and get him to train those people in messaging.

April in OK a day ago edited

Hey, DNC. THIS is the message you need to put out nationwide but especially in the swing states.

Time to put on your steel toe boots and start kicking back!

another_steve  April in OKa day ago

Denigrating America won’t lose him any votes among his MAGAt base. They’re a bunch of morons who believe the Deep State is spraying chemtrails over their homes in order to sterilize their teenage daughters. Or something.

Maybe it’ll affect a few independents and moderate Republicans.

Maybe.

April in OK  another_stevea day ago

We need to quit trying to win over the Trump cult members. If Dems can convince more of the middle third of voters to do the right thing. To get them energized, especially in those six important states. How we need their help just maybe we can save this country.

another_steve a day ago

Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post has done a piece entitled “Is Trump Okay?” “Okay” in the sense of “mentally-well.”

Trump’s recent campaign rally speeches have gone beyond standard Trump rhetorical garbage; they’ve been largely incoherent. He rambles on with one non sequitur after another. His recent rally tirade concerning battery-powered boats and sharks and stuff, just one example.

He may very well be losing it.

Serious, literal, “losing it.”

Sam_Handwich  another_stevea day ago

Could be why Hannity is already prepping his audience for Dump chickening out of the debates.

another_steve  Sam_Handwicha day ago

Exactly. I had the same thought when I read the Hannity post here on the blog.

We can assume Trump’s handlers (or at least the people who attempt to handle him) know that he’s not capable of remaining coherent away from a teleprompter.

The handlers must be shitting bricks with respect to the prospect of Trump on live TV without a teleprompter.

ErnestMc  banda day ago

Trump may indeed want more debates, if they are on his terms at least, but I wouldn’t take his calls for more debates at face value. He also insisted he wanted to testify at his trial. Who knows?

ErnestMc  banda day ago

He did sit out all of the Republican primary debates because he assumed, rightly, there was no benefit for him to debate. He may think debating Biden will be good for him (and it could be, depending on Biden’s performance) and therefore he wants to do it, but I don’t take his insistence that he wants more debates any more at face value than his insistence that he’d love to testify.

thatotherjean  another_stevea day ago

“May well be”? Trump has been, literally, “losing it” for years. His brain is, right out loud and in public, turning to mush. The stress of his criminal trials is speeding up the process, I think. Eugene Robinson is being far too kind. Trump is, right this minute, unfit for any office of any sort.

I hope his brain is a total loss before November. We, the People, can’t let him back into the White House. VOTE BLUE!

thatotherjean  another_steve a day ago edited

If he keeps telling his rally-goers, over and over, that story about electric motorboats and sharks and how he’d rather be electrocuted than eaten by a shark, then telling his faithful that he doesn’t care about them, just their votes, it may not be such a hard sell by November. Even they have to see how far gone he is, eventually (I hope).

Paul ‘n Minnesota  thatotherjean a day ago

I was surprised a bit that Trump said he just wants the votes of people he doesn’t care about…on the other hand, this is how I and many other people viewed Trump years ago. He promises everything and doesn’t deliver, plus he hates his base.

David Raymore  another_stevea day ago edited

Some of the rally goers in Nevada who went to see TFG left early because they were bored hearing the same things he said in 2020 and 2016. Michael Cohen said TFG never changes anything he says or does because he is an unhinged creature of habit.

When has TFG ever say what he wants to do for the country and Americans in the future except meandering on and on how this country is a complete failure? He even said that he did not care about his fan-base except he wants their vote.

He always complains he is the victim when in fact he keeps doing crimes. He did this to himself except he never takes any responsibility and blames others for his misfortune.

I hope more and more of his fans are finally seeing who he truly is, and they are very much disillusioned with him. May be they will wake up from his nonsensical ramblings and vote for Biden.

About 44% of Independents will vote for Biden, and I am sure millions of women are mad as hell because what the GOP and him keeps doing to women’s healthcare after Roe v. Wade was appealed by the Supreme Court. Let’s hope Judge Merchan will put him in jail for a long time on July 11th, 2024.

 

 

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Erasing the Line that Separates Church and State in Education

I want to thank Zorba for the like.  Their link below.   Hugs.  Scottie

Erasing the Line that Separates Church and State in Education
Erasing the Line that Separates Church and State in Education

A quote from the article.  

“The expansion in voucher programs is part of a broader move in some states toward more government-sponsored religion inside public schools. New laws allow schools to hire chaplains for counseling…. In West Virginia, a new law allows teachers to discuss alternative theories to evolution. Seven states have passed measures mandating elective courses focused on the Bible… In Oklahoma, the state Supreme Court in April considered what would be an unprecedented step toward the mingling of church and state in education, weighing whether the state could directly fund what would be the nation’s first religious charter school.”

Jon Stewart Smashes the Myth of Corporate Morality in Pride, BLM, and Beyond | The Daily Show

It’s Pride Month! While some corporations like Target are hiding their pride for the sake of loud conservatives, others are doing everything they can to virtue signal to consumers. Jon Stewart rips off the mask of corporate “values” and examines how corporations will perform caring about issues like DEI, climate change, or patriotism, as long as it means bigger profits, and how quickly they backtrack on those moral stands when it no longer suits their bottom line. #DailyShow #Pride #Diversity #Target

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Billions In Public Money Now Go To Religious Schools

Billions In Public Money Now Go To Religious Schools

The attempt to turn the US in to a theocracy in red states run by republicans is being done by a minority of a minority.  The reason they have the legislative power they do is they have gerrymandered and used voter suppression to get only their supporters into power.  Churches which pay no taxes fund the campaigns of people who will give the churches more power and tax payer money.  Churches pay no taxes, the pay no property tax on housing for clergy and many other tax free give a ways.  Yet they are constantly demanding a share of the ever shrinking tax payer funds.  They don’t add to the treasury but they want some of it.   Why because they are greedy, but their numbers are shrinking, less butts in pews means less money in collection plates.  That was their real beef with the Covid restrictions, they were losing money.  So by forcing kids to see and learn religious stuff they hope to reverse the trend and get more people back to church.  Some of them want to force people to attend at least one religious service a week.  Democracy and the freedom from religion is being attacked hard, we need to defend them just as hard.  Plus private schools get to be choosy in who the accept, so they can’t be openly racist and bigoted, they also get to refuse admission to kids that are difficult to teach or have specials needs.   Hugs.  Scottie

June 9, 2024 Christianists, Education

 

The Washington Post reports:

Billions in taxpayer dollars are being used to pay tuition at religious schools throughout the country, as state voucher programs expand dramatically and the line separating public education and religion fades.

School vouchers can be used at almost any private school, but the vast majority of the money is being directed to religious schools, according to a Washington Post examination of the nation’s largest voucher programs.

In Florida, several programs combine to make every student in the state eligible for vouchers, with more than 400,000 participating this year. At least 82 percent of students attend religious schools, The Post found. Florida is first in the nation in both the number of enrolled students and total cost of the voucher program — more than $3 billion this year

Read the full article.

The linked piece notes that much of the voucher money is going to families that would pay or already are paying for private or religious schools themselves.

 

Reverend Chase Cox  vap10 hours ago

Another giveaway to the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

Cattleya1  Reverend Chase Cox9 hours ago

Because the vouchers pay the going price of the private schools, and come out of the county schools budgets.

Friday 10 hours ago

Rich Christians looting the public for their indoctrination camps and gutting of real education.

patty thomas  Friday9 hours ago

And then they’ll point to public schools failing in order to defund public education even more. It’s a self fulfilling prophesy. Of course most of these private schools don’t take special needs or difficult children or POC (except just enough of the smarter ones to avoid racism charges). The planning on this began when schools were desegregated….in many states, it’s now complete.

Cel 10 hours ago

This is a major win for the Christianists. Most likely the biggest so far. Since when should public taxes be used to teach Christianity. That’s what churches are for…this is complete bullshit!

kaydenpat  Cel10 hours ago

And now public dollars are subsidizing the teaching of Crrationism and other religious bunk in red states

 

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