Hi Zep. It’s been a while.
Feel free to post away all you want, but I’m not going to be responding to any of your future posts. You are very dishonest and do not offer meaningful engagement that will leave me or any reader of this forum better off for having read or responded to it.
You, uhh, think Creshaw is rich enough to be an oligarch?
Who’s on your ticket, might i ask?
He protects the oligarchs.
This is not true. It is narrowing but still large. It’s quite simple, garbage in, garbage out. The government, regardless of what party is in control, can’t and/or won’t fix the communities. Blaming schools for not being able to “cure” kids from dysfunctional communities and families is just a convenient way to divert blame from the failed policies of politicians.
How are you measuring it? Do you think the children in our population centers are better-equipped to compete academically, socially and professionally with the rest of the country now compared to in 1960?
If so, explain.
The conservative position has always been that government can’t fix a whole lot of social problems and, generally speaking, doesn’t campaign on the idea that government will somehow right the country’s wrongs.
The progressive position has been that government can and should fix the problems. Which ones? All of them. Meanwhile, people like to pretend that these radical, transformational policies have no hand in producing radical, transformational outcomes.
Of course, these easily-anticipated bad outcomes conveniently give Democrats an even longer list of problems they claim electing them will solve, and they’ve kept this con up for quite some time now.
That’s why, in this age of the citizen-journalist armed with a cellphone and the ability to instantly upload their images and thoughts, the Democrats are so desperate to control the flow of information across society with brazen censorship and now a brand-new Orwellian federal agency.
That’s why three days after losing just one of the major social media outlets to a moderate liberal like Elon Musk, the Democrats announce the unthinkable, or what should be unthinkable in the USA.
The Disinformation Governance Board
From the same clowns who have worked hand-in-hand with the previous Twitter ownership to censor their political opponents and even reality itself.
I’m sure they’d do fantastic if we put them in charge of healthcare.
I agree, if only because they believe all science and love mask(much like Anchorman’s Brick loves lamp).
I used to teach here: https://ideapublicschools.org/ For 15 straight years every graduate has matriculated to college. I taught on the Texas/Mexico border. Over 80% of my students were first-generation Americans (not all legal). Dirt poor, living in colonias, often in a cinderblock house with one room. It can be done, but ultimately you have to get the parents to buy in. We did home visits to every student during the summer and once or twice during the school year. We were paid a lot better than teachers at public schools and had performance bonuses to incentivize achievement. Overall, though, the school spent about 75% of the state average per student.
I recently read an article that the gap started closing in the 90s, through to today. With that said, it’s still large. Also, the graph did not account for socioeconomic status, just race, so it’s possible that it closed a little because of an increase of black people living in suburbs.
Conservative or Republican? There is no conservative party and few conservative politicians. Republicans claim to be able to cure our problems just as much as Democrats.
Government did create them. It won’t fix them but it created them.
So… you have no ideal ticket for 2024 is what you’re saying.
We’re right back to the same question. How are you measuring it?
Did you read either article I linked to support my notion? The first one examined literacy gaps in the years following the Civil War right up to modern times. Black Americans in particular made tremendous socioeconomic strides during this time, in spite of things like slavery, Jim Crow, and the KKK.
Decade-over-decade improvement still left plenty of bad outcomes for progressives to point out and campaign on fixing via government policy, which really started taking off in the 1960’s. How successful do you believe the landmark progressive Democrat policies have been for the last 50 years?
No, they don’t. Today’s Democrats and Republicans are not even remotely the same league of rhetoric or campaign promises. As usual, you stick to broad narratives and avoid any specific examples.
I said conservative very clearly.
What we’re learning in this thread is that we’ve got plenty of people ready to disagree with named potential Republican candidates. Fair enough. Typically someone from the sitting administration will campaign as an incumbent, and typically there are people who are ready to argue that this is a good idea or at least a better idea than voting for another candidate.
Where are those people?
If they can’t be found, can we find someone who is willing to advocate for another candidate ready to campaign?
C’mon people. We need some alternative to the evil Republicans named in this thread, well-known to be low-integrity puppets of un-named oligarchs and total morons who look stupid when they go on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Healthcare is a mess because of government intervention, not a “profit making system”.
The drug war. Abortion. No child left behind. Don’t say gay. All designed to save us from ourselves.
I reckon it is a bit of both.
And who directs government interference for their own objectives?
And that is a grave matter because…?
It’s not. What I’m saying is you’re the starving person at a buffet. You gaze over the litany of food choices yet do nothing but find reasons you don’t like what’s being served.
Enjoy the meal =)
I wasn’t particularly fond of Ted Cruz (didn’t hate him, just wasn’t fond of him) until I watched his response here. I always appreciated his line of questioning and ability to speak, but got dayum.
Apologies for the typical misleading YAF title.
I don’t agree with his calling that girl’s question “substantive.”
I think it’s an attempt to show remorse before completely demoralizing her via debate format lol
I would rather have heard him say, “I notice you’re at Yale, and not at Grambling State.” And take the next question.