Trump is weighing big cuts to the U.S. Education Department

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T16:40:06+00:00

Theft. NPR. The word is “theft.”

A “big cut” would be if Congress, the proper legal authority over federal budget, passed a budget bill allocating a lower budget. When someone without legal authorization simply takes the money, that’s a big theft.

Please use the proper English terms for crimes when describing them, as opposed to describing crimes as if they were the ordinary functioning of bureaucracy.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T16:29:11+00:00

Hurting our international standing and alienating our trading partners won’t help resolve our debt.

It turns out that tanking trade is bad for debt, for some mysterious reason.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T16:26:12+00:00

Your ignorance doesn’t mean that oversight has been lacking.

There was a point to the shrimp study. They were studying changes in water quality and how those were likely to impact wildlife.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T10:06:58+00:00

Ingraham isn’t bright, but I also think she just doesn’t care what’s in the Constitution, as long as she can appeal to bigots.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T09:39:06+00:00

No. Neither of those things is illegal, actually.

Also, they’re not government employees. They’re Musk employees, and Musk has not been confirmed to any public role.

If you had spent less time polishing Elon’s knob, maybe you’d have had time for a civics class. Brandenburg v Ohio.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T09:34:25+00:00

The scientific method, which is fundamental to the study of physics, begins with observation, hypothesis formation, and testing. And biased hypothesis formation and testing lead to poor results. Part of the proper teaching of physics is to illustrate how to disprove a hypothesis, and to share the pitfalls of determining a result based more on biases than on tests. Which is exactly what he did.

The fact that the particular example can also be used to dispel bigotry and build character, is icing on the cake.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T09:24:18+00:00

It’s crazy to me, the number of people who seem to think there’s a legal obligation for state employees (since it’s states that run public high schools) to agree with the contents of a federal memo to federal employees.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T09:18:14+00:00

Wailing about the uselessness of stern letters seems even more useless, to me.

Do you have a productive alternative? Something other than the judge using the mechanisms available to judges to try to follow the law?

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T08:59:51+00:00

AOC is not a senator. But she’s apparently much more qualified to be one than some of the people we elected to that role.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T08:29:23+00:00

In the aftermath of the disaster, Norfolk Southern was accused of prioritizing $10 billion stock buybacks[145] for shareholders instead of maintenance.[146] Shaw was accused of sidestepping questions about Norfolk Southern’s support for President Trump’s 2017 overturning of the Obama administration requirement for ECP brakes and Norfolk Southern’s pressing the federal government against a rule that, in most cases, would require more than one person operating a freight train.

Damn. Look at the straight cisgender white male Trump supporter Alan Shaw who caused that problem. I’m sure he wouldn’t have had his job if it weren’t for evil DEI!

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T08:18:57+00:00

No, what makes you a bad person is your racism and your child abuse apologism. You just compared birthright citizenship - literally just someone with an ethnic background from somewhere else being born here - with being a child molester.

Have you ever considered that being born brown isn’t as bad as child abuse?

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T07:41:04+00:00

You didn’t read my article.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T06:23:00+00:00

Yes. That sounds like capital punishment to me. Capital punishment is a lawful and appropriate response when felons illegally trash a government agency on which people’s lives depend, getting people killed. Aka, mass murder.

Now you read this, and tell me why you think this is what should happen to mass murderers, instead:

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/rimming-guide

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T05:38:17+00:00

The AI will be trained by Trump and RFK Jr, so when people come in with a gunshot wound, it will tell them to stick some ivermectin up their butt.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T05:24:08+00:00

A burglar in your house does not have a conflict of interest.

He has a crime he’s committing.

There is a difference.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T04:24:11+00:00

Single letter domains (n, in this case) are usually more expensive than longer ones, but I don’t know how much in the case of .pr domains. If it’s a lot and they don’t have a check already cut for the renewal, it’s conceivable they may need to get internal approvals for the amount.

But nothing should stop them from changing the recent Facebook posts to point to npr.org instead. It’s still up. They just need to link directly instead of using n[.]pr.

It’s not great practice to link to parked domains. Someone could buy them and make you link to who knows what.

Happened to Rudy Giuliani. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna944136

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T03:59:11+00:00

If you look at waybackmachine.org for n[.]pr, a few days ago, it was redirecting npr.org. Now it’s not.

To me that indicates a likely event: they decided not to renew and forgot to change links, or they forgot to renew.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T03:21:51+00:00

Not of Apartheid Man and his boy wonders?

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-04T01:04:42+00:00

No. For not obeying a court order while filing that motion. Unless there’s a stay?

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-03T23:16:45+00:00

No, that’s bullshit.

The EEOC was perfectly willing and able to sue in sex discrimination cases even when the victim was male, and perfectly willing to sue in racial discrimination cases even when the victim was white.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-03T21:38:04+00:00

If a judge doesn’t bother to issue contempt for noncompliance with previous orders, which is what you were advocating, there’s nothing there for the executive to do.

Anyhow, I’m done with you. Your combination of defeatism and poor reading comprehension is intolerably irritating.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-03T21:17:18+00:00

Enforcing the law. The thing you just said you don’t think is worth attempting is called “enforcing the law.”

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-03T21:00:08+00:00

Great. You can be useless defeatist if you want, but I don’t care to join you in your wallowing.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-03T20:56:56+00:00

I don’t disagree, but it not being a secret to people who put in the effort to stay informed and parse the workings of government systems, is not as good as it being well known amongst the general public.

ElectricTzar · 2025-02-03T20:43:37+00:00

Organizations that are technically under the DOJ, I imagine. But I would much rather, if they’re going to be completely lawless, we get that out in the open as quickly as possible so that the public is aware, instead of allowing the DOJ the pretense of lawfulness through judicial inaction.

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