Basically, everyone who voted for Trump because he said he would bring prices down on day one may take a look in the mirror and slam themselves in the face. Oh, and cancel that gold sneakers order.
And those who didn’t as well. I know we’re all mad at the people who voted for this horror show, but those of us who stood up and voted against this are also dealing with these disasters. It may feel cathartic to say FAFO, but that doesn’t keep my dyslexic kid from being in the crossfire.
One of my grandsons is autistic and another has ADHD. Both are in specialized classrooms. No one in my family voted for Donald, and now he's exacting his revenge.
It's weird how I'm child free and single, I'm actually a waitress in Florida. I'm pretty unaffected by Trump's chaos, I may even benefit if I don't have to pay taxes... However I think it's a good thing that my tax dollars go to educating the next gen, I like having roads & streetlights and signs..
As a child free woman and veteran. My taxes are supposed to be for clean water, safe roads, and the future. Kids are the future. Watching billionaires enact legislation to starve children and other vulnerable people in multiple ways to enrich themselves is sickening. This is not great, it's greed.
When Trump was first elected, I begged my cousin with a precious, autism spectrum grandson to, along with her friends, reach out to their Republican representatives to not dismantle the DOE. Her response was, "school districts don't use the money properly." FAFO
The Republicans love to demonize shit. The DOE was created for poor and undeserved communities.
Look at a demographics map. Blue states have independent school systems that do not need the DOE. Poor ass red states are going to feel this prick.
It was created by Jimmy Carter so that poor states would have the same educational offerings aa poor ones. Soooooooo congratulations Louisiana you just screwed yourself
We do not rely on it as heavily because unlike red states. We do suck down federal funds like red states.
For every dollar in tax revenues that blue states give. Most do not exceed the dollar they put in. Red states for every dollar they send they'll take up to four dollars out. Red states=Takers
My own dumbass mother who along with myself has advocated and worked at multiple group homes helping individuals with a wide range of mental illness and handicapps and my son, her grandson is autistic and she voted for Trump. Needless to say she's been removed from our lives. All because of her man
She let's men do her thinking for her out of fear of being alone. It's the gaslighting that pissed me off the most. She said that she didn't vote for Trump and a few months later I'm annoyed at all the news/politics and finally stopped her and said "you know anyone can see who you voted for"
That's infuriating. She's isolating herself, and she doesn't even realize it. It's pitiful, but at the same time, she's doing it to herself, so i can't really feel that bad for her.
It took decades for me to reprogram myself away from her conservative redneck family and she would rather live with that cult than be with her own grandkid that she wouldn't stop asking for. She won't accept she's part of what will fuck with her grandsons life
They never realize theyre the problem. I dont talk to my dad or sister, i only talk to my brother when it involves my nephew, and yet they all think im in the wrong.
The Churches will love this. Desperate people will flock to them for lies and false hope. Just like all the poor in South America who have been fooled into submission by the churches.
Yes, they are! I tried to tell my fellow parents/caregivers. They told me I was lying. They said the ADA would protect them. They don't realize that it's on the list, too!
And the ADA is a law, not a government agency, not a funding stream…
It would be like eliminating food safety agencies, when there are laws requiring restaurant inspections.
Sure, customers could sue over unsafe/unsanitary conditions, but that is no substitute for enforcement of existing standards.
I think it almost always refers to cognitively disabled children, not adults, and not people who are physically disabled. I don't love it at all, but it has a very specific connotation. There *are* better words.
Getting rid of the Dept of Education will free up thousands of children from the burden of school. We need them for their small and dexterous hands to assemble electronics and car parts due to the lack of labor available to make products in America after the tariffs. Project 2025 is in progress.
The parents who voted for donald will suffer, surely. The students who legally can't vote and who it is our sole job as a society to protect will suffer immensely. Let's not forget this is our future, and we are robbing them of their potential. No children voted for this. Not one.
And I don't care. These people need to hit the bottom of the cliff they jumped off, when they voted for him, before they wakeup. The bottom is were someone they love dies, most likely their own child.
We are in an era where the President of the U.S. demonizes empathy, and Republicans double down. The heart of America has turned cold and hard as stone.
I’m a dem in Texas. As much as I hate them, I work in special education and have a daughter w/Autism w/a 504 plan. Everyday I go to work and think of the 2,000 kids I service that are going suffer by the actions of these people, including my own. It’s not their fault. It’s horrible. 😖
I wouldn’t be so sure. Of course not all will, but I had a conversation with a co-worker today who was questioning their support for Trump after this was announced. You have to realize that a lot of people who supported him did so because of propaganda and disinformation.
Who cares if you dismantle the agency. What are you going to do to the programs. Almost everything they do is transfer payments to primary and secondary schools as well as universities. If you don't get rid of this (which I hope they don't) you aren't going to save any money. Political stunt.
I know a Native American who is married to a Mexican-American whose parents were undocumented. They have two children with special needs, one of whom will need lifelong care. They are both rabid magats. I don’t understand it.
I'm sorry but I have to disagree, I'm Catholic and dislike the entire movement including our current president. Sometimes religion can play a part but it's not true of most Catholics that I know at least.
A lot of good people voted against their own and the best interests of their loved ones because Trump was wily enough to politicize abortion. But it was more than that. The church has always been against the LGBTQ, so they were happy to vote for Trump, because he opposed the “gay agenda”.
It is my personal experience that right wing conservatives have politicized issues such as abortion. While many people disagree with Trump and his tyrannical, anti-American policies, they voted for him because their pastor or priest appealed to them to vote against abortion and for Trump.
Any parent with special needs kids who voted for Trump after his disgusting display of the disabled reporter deserves everything that happens to them. Sorry for the kids, but your parents are morons
Let’s hope Trump doesn’t do away with children’s right to a 504 plan. My granddaughter is graduating from high school this year and going on to college. She very well may not be graduating if she hadn’t had her 504 to help her throughout her school years.
The head of HHS is now in charge of all the disabled students services. RF Kennedy that wants to send everyone with a mental illness controlled by medication to farm camps…oh and they will lose their medication.
You remember when we used to deny people aid and medication and the right to an education so they would be forced to continue working in unsafe conditions alongside children for 18 hours a day, what was the world for that... Slaves?
As a teacher this will be brutal for schools that are already severely underfunded and understaffed to begin with. Red states have the biggest need for those funds and their constituents will remember.
Trump can't dismantle the Department of Education without an act from Congress to do so. Trump is all bark and no bite. A "transgender" mouse could beat his old wimpy ass! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Republicans want to shut down the Department of Education to destroy public schools sol that set up a curriculum in private schools that teaches their far right principles. For example. Abortion is bad. Being rich is glorious. Being poor means you suck and need to help yourself.
Speculation: Cultish MAGAs will at first proudly accept hardship to "save America" at first, maybe till their dying breath depending on IQ and reading ability. Grim. But, not all. Unfortunately, this seems to be the only plan the Democrats have for the next four years. Wait and see, while we suffer.
Trump has a hatred of education, because he was a poor student growing up. He did not appreciate or enjoy learning! With that hatred, he is taking it out on the board of education.
By the time this may or may not be brought up in Congress it will be too late. Equally important they do not want to go on record as voting to dismantle it. Like everything else in violation of Congress, they are happy to give up their power to the dynamic duo. Why do any of them still have jobs?
Absolutely. All those wonderful programs that give their disabled children hope for a good life? Gone. Because trump would rather save a few bucks to use for tax cuts.
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A neighbor down the street has a child receiving special ed services. He had to a #drumf banner across the front of his house. This is in NYState so the student might get be OK re funding. But it's IDEA that mandates services so some benefits could be removed. The dad is not sorry.
It is nearing the "point of no return" but we are not there yet. If you voted for Trump, you can still call Congress and protest the dismantling of our government.
several repubs in the House are preparing legislation to do just that, it will not get the 60 vote threshold it needs in the senate but trump can so cash starve the dept it basically implodes
You must not be paying attention to what the Trump Administration is *actively right now* doing to whole federal agencies that he is *not supposed to* be able to destroy. Yet, he is.
That is not a fact. He can dismantle all he wants because FACT: DISBANDING/DISSOLVING the Dept of Education requires and act of Congress. He can F it up as much as he likes.
I don't want to be right sometimes! Sometimes I predict the party will fight a Color Out Of Space or my country will be illegally dismantled like a corporate takeover!
Congress is normally the branch that holds the president accountable (impeachment), but there isn’t much appetite for that. The judiciary is holding up so far, but now federal judges are facing threats to not just their careers, but the physical safety for themselves and their families.
IIRC, Congres is there to write an enact (to a point) laws, the Executive is there to enforce laws after finalizing their enactment, and the Judiciary is there to review and interpret laws.
Congress more or less did it's part. Musk I, through Trum, doesn't give a fuck about enforcing these laws.
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Congress has abdicated its use of what check it has on the Exec.
The Judiciary is currently doing it's job, but can't enforce their rulings. That takes an active Congress and a reasonable Exec.
And reasonable fled the building.
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I have clients who have multiple special need children who don’t understand why I think this is going yo hurt them.
Your kids schooling is a federally funded special service - if there is no federal funding, they don’t have school. You don’t have child care. How will you work?
Well since the HHS is now in charge of special needs students they will just join the rest of the people at the farm camp for sunshine & labor therapy!
Shame on people who didn’t read about what he SAID he’d do and what was written in Project 2025. Shame on them. I don’t want to hear one whine out of these folks.
If you are a human, with or without children, you should be highly concerned that twenty years from now, there will be a lot of very poorly educated adults. And DJTjr will be President.
This is a Sh*tfest. Wait until the blue states refuse to teach what Trump wants them to teach and cuts of federal funding. This is sad lol about controlling the narrative rather than the economics.
This is a national travesty. Educators and parents of students with special needs simply MUST roll up their sleeves and fight. No way the courts are going to look the other way on this one.
Look.. Hitler hated people with disabilities. The old weak and poor. Anyone that skin color was not like the master race.. so brainless turd is targeting the same type of people. Neighbor just walked by that voted for turd. She did not Harris. Idiot.
They are CLAIMING that it will still exist, to handle "civil right and special needs students issues"-but don't trust them. All so they can give vouchers, which will allow rich kids to go to great schools-while the poor get stuck in sub-par education. The new segregation, with so many more to come
Hubby s retiring from Special Ed at the end of this year and I’m so glad. The stress that will be put on his department, if there even is a department, will be overwhelming.
Well, they'll have to quit their jobs and homeschool. Guess they'll have to file for SNAP and other assistance programs to keep those kids fed and housed..... oh... wait... 🤷♀️ lol- they deserve everything that's coming to them. We have 5000 better things to worry about.
Trump will continue to do what he’s doing until YOU PUSH BACK. Republican lawmakers are telling you they’re more loyal to Trump and their jobs than you. What are you prepared to do? Time to act is NOW. This is a time for Republicans, Democrats, and Independents to come together for our country.
Every single person who voted for Trump is a traitor, but we already knew that. The fact is, though, that 36% of eligible voters lived through the last Trump administration, and decided this time around: "Meh - I don't need to vote against that". This is on them just as much as it's on the traitors.
This, more than anything else is what is so disgusting. Education is a right, not a privilege.. Tim Walz speaks so well on this, but so many didn't listen. 😞
I have been wanting to say this to my trumper uncle. He has been so obsessed with how some student might get a loan forgiven, that he doesn’t see his child who is diagnosed with autism also benefitted by public service.
Funny how I haven’t any sympathy for Trump voters that are being fucked by him now.
They were warned but their hate for another carried them to the voting booth expecting the others to be touched by Trump’s wrath but believed he’d leave them alone. Well they’re finding out the warnings were real.
A lot of those parents probably support Autism Speaks.
Autism Speaks is an awful organization rightfully despised by people who have Autism Spectrum Disorders. Look up at your own peril.
It will also severely undermine the ability for IDEA to be enforced. As a parent to a disabled child this amount of blatant evil makes me sick and it should make everyone else sick too.
The real losers in this case are the very red states that voted for Trump. Abolishing the department of education just threw red states back into the Stone Age academically speaking. Hate to see it happening to innocent children.
here’s tx where schl districts have had no increase in state funds since 2019-soon will lose millions to fund vouchers for evangelical schls, losing DOE funding will hurt every student, losing DOE & medicaid will crush spec ed, bonus-soon to come mandatory 10 commandments & open prayer in classrooms
That's what they want they're trying to remove math and English requirements from graduation exams in Florida because you know people in Florida have probably already reached maximum IQ potential at this point anyway
We've been trying to tell everybody not to drink the fool aid for so long now. , ever since the tangerine, palpa teen first appeared on the political scene, we told you not to listen to him. Fuck everybody who voted for him. Fuck everybody who didn't vote, too! This is on you!
Of course, he wants to destroy the department of education. The reason is that education makes people smarter. It is hard to control people who are smart, so he seeks to make people stupid. This is because it is easy to control stupid people. Incidentally, 45/47's IQ is only 73!
Children with disabilities are federally protected through IDEA (IEP, 504) and the ADA. The IDEA will no longer exist and the ADA only has power if it is enforced.
Disability is nonpartisan. Parents are going to go chick chick boom. They are coming for our kids…
It’s okay the HHS is setting up that farm camp for the mentally ill etc they can just add special needs students for the same sunshine & labor therapy. They wont need an education as farm laborers the produce wont pick itself!
As a parent of a special needs child, the first things States will do is reduce and or eliminate accommodations and support for the kids. We fought it for years even with the laws in place, as they are very vague and leave lots to interpretation. Schools get the funds don’t use as intended.
Who needs equality, when you've got Trump!! As someone directly working with special needs, this is inhumane. Everyone deserves the same opportunity to be a succeful, contributing member of society.
Just wondering how under such a state led education policy, there can be national scrutiny to ensure the assessment standards meet the future meeds of the US workforce
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Look at a demographics map. Blue states have independent school systems that do not need the DOE. Poor ass red states are going to feel this prick.
For every dollar in tax revenues that blue states give. Most do not exceed the dollar they put in. Red states for every dollar they send they'll take up to four dollars out. Red states=Takers
It would be like eliminating food safety agencies, when there are laws requiring restaurant inspections.
Sure, customers could sue over unsafe/unsanitary conditions, but that is no substitute for enforcement of existing standards.
I’m thinking “Yup”
Twump thinks I'm special. Surely he and Musk won't hurt meeeeeee.
Kamala voters, I'm sorry we're all on the same boat with the idiots.
But maga? Fuck you. I guess you'll see how much grandma really loves the kid. 🤣
And non voters? Fuck you too.
It sucks.
But petty is all I have left.
It was never any secret who he is and what he's done and if someone STILL voted for him after all of it, that tells me all I need to know about them.
And you just said it. Your coworker is only questioning their support bc of THIS.
They suck. End of story.
No more free babysitter. Figure it out.
They should not have been so prejudiced.
Please replace the Black Lives Matter plaza slogan with: Stability, Honesty and Sanity (in our president) Matter!!
You remember when we used to deny people aid and medication and the right to an education so they would be forced to continue working in unsafe conditions alongside children for 18 hours a day, what was the world for that... Slaves?
ME!
Are finding out, just how funny that joke is.
#USPolitics #Politics #Trump #DonaldTrump #TrumpIsAToddler #LeopardsEatingFaces #CultOfTrump #MAGAMorons
And yet...
Illegal or not, things are being dismantled in a way that makes it very hard, if not impossible to put back.
You throw a vase against the wall.
Someone says "you can't do that, fix it"
You piece the vase back together.
Now?
Lord Damp Nut will just grind the shards to powder.
Whew!
You must not be paying attention to what the Trump Administration is *actively right now* doing to whole federal agencies that he is *not supposed to* be able to destroy. Yet, he is.
Congress more or less did it's part. Musk I, through Trum, doesn't give a fuck about enforcing these laws.
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Congress has abdicated its use of what check it has on the Exec.
The Judiciary is currently doing it's job, but can't enforce their rulings. That takes an active Congress and a reasonable Exec.
And reasonable fled the building.
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Your kids schooling is a federally funded special service - if there is no federal funding, they don’t have school. You don’t have child care. How will you work?
Trump thinks any “weak” human deserves to die. Many “Christians” believe that if you are suffering it is God’s will.
Personal struggles are not character flaws.
Happy World Down Syndrome Day.
They were warned but their hate for another carried them to the voting booth expecting the others to be touched by Trump’s wrath but believed he’d leave them alone. Well they’re finding out the warnings were real.
https://www.ammoland.com/2023/01/disarming-people-how-dictatorships-used-gun-control/
Autism Speaks is an awful organization rightfully despised by people who have Autism Spectrum Disorders. Look up at your own peril.
Disability is nonpartisan. Parents are going to go chick chick boom. They are coming for our kids…
Whether the ADA is law doesn’t matter. What matters is who is left to enforce it?
I do feel pity for their children, though. They are blameless victims 8n all this.
Apologies for an ableist connotations and please correct me further if I have missed the mark