Hope you’re right, but shit like this is already happening. The feds could stymie the legal industry in NV before it even gets started.
In other news…Trump’s tone-deaf Betsy Devos on school “choice”.
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Eh so far I see that stuff like everything else. Trump talking big with no follow through. Imo the best thing that could happen to legalized weed is to have Trump crack down on it. The movement will see a swell of support that it’s never had before, and before sundown the articles of “Trump interfering with State issues” or “Trump ignoring state decisions” will start showing up.
If it was a lib president that’d be one thing, but a GoP POTUS overriding state decisions and wasting tax payer money to do so would be a shitshow even Kellyanne can’t talk her way out of.
In the absence of a public school system I bet schools would voluntarily racially segregate in the same way churches do.
I think we used to do that with bathrooms too. I don’t think it worked out very well in the end.
Fire hoses and German shepherds too.
Busy news day…
Thug protesters at it again…
You are referring to the 9th district court a long time liberal entity. Other judges might see things quite differently.
Yeah I could go for that
I just thought of a good way to either stop the protestors, or at least cut back on their rank and file. Have a job fair down the exact streets that they are marching…
If he gives amnesty a lot of this Trump movement will have been for nothing.
But we heard that we was softening his stance during the election run as well then a speech a fee days later he showed he was sticking to his original message
Jim Crow was not voluntary.
I’d be happy with shipping back to Mexico all of the US Mexican illegals who are in either state or federal prison. That is one gigantic cost that we don’t need.
I’m actually referring to the exact opposite. Isn’t getting the federal govt to keep it’s shit out of state affairs kinda a GoP talking point? I have a hard time believing all the GoP federal judges lost their knads (or lady knads) in the past 6 months.
She’s right, and wrong. It’s clear that many of the people making comments don’t understand the history of school choice, at least in the lower grades. Black Education advocacy groups DID pioneer public school choice in k-12. A black woman was in fact a huge force/ advocate in the school choice movement. Unfortunately, I can’t recall her name at the moment, Tyler, but she’s famous for being a sort of grandmother of school choice.
After Jim Crow, white people fled to private schools, leaving black kids in underfunded public schools. There was a core group of black parents who ALSO wanted to privatize their own schools, in order to seek better educational options for their kids. DeVos is right about that part. Black parents have seen it as critical to self-determination for their own communities and the history of the school choice movement is FULL of black parents and teachers who wanted the freedom to found better schools for their kids. Charters remain incredibly popular with Black and Hispanic parents, particularly in unsafe urban neighborhoods. I sincerely believe it would not be a partisan issue if it were not for the teacher’s unions. There’s a history of many prominent Dems supporting school choice, including the Clintons and Elizabeth Warren.
Black Parents in Chicago have been outraged that so many of the teachers in the public schools there put their own children in private schools, something like 40%, and there was at least some backlash from Black community groups as the NAACP and Dems abandoned school choice prior to the election.
This is one of the big pro-choice organizations - Black Alliance for Educational Options
http://baeo.org/?ns_ref=14&id=5457
A really nice quote by Senator Cory Booker. Although he voted against, DeVos, his sentiments are pretty clear. I heart this.
Sen. Cory Booker, who voted Tuesday against confirming Betsy DeVos as education secretary, speaking in 2012 at a conference of the American Federation for Children, the advocacy group chaired at the time by Mrs. DeVos:
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I cannot ever stand up and stand against a parent having options, because I benefited from my parents having options. And when people tell me they’re against school choice, whether it’s the Opportunity Scholarship Act or charter schools, I look at them and say: “As soon as you’re telling me you’re willing to send your kid to a failing school in my city [Newark, N.J.], or in Camden or Trenton, then I’ll be with you.” . . . I’m going to be out there fighting for my president, but he does not send his kids to Washington, D.C., public schools. I got a governor in the statehouse, he does not send his kids to Trenton public schools. I could go all the way down to city council people in Newark, that do not send their kids—so what have we created? A system that if you’re connected, elected, have wealth and privilege, you get freedom in this country? And now you want to deny that to my community? No. I am going to fight for the freedom and the liberty and the choice and the options of my people, in the same way you will defend that right for yourself.
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Personally I have no idea what they will do. But it wouldn’t surprise me if they backed Trump’s play regarding drug usage. GOP Federal Judges are notorious for not appreciating drugs or drug users.
Theoretically, yes.
In practice, LOL.
Any thoughts on Trump’s speech before congress?
I personally was pleased with much of it.
However two things that made me yell at the T.V an wake up my wife: Spending an assload of money on an infrastructure plan and “replacing” Obamacare. The majority of Republicans didn’t have enough spine to oppose Obama’s spending. I can’t see a situation where they are willing to fight Trump.
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Alrightmiami:
Agree. Good speech. Presidential. Emotional at times.
As Van Jones (of ALL people!) said…“Trump became President tonight…”
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He DID propose a “Democratic” shitload of spending…and you won’t be able to pay for it all by cutting NPR and The Dept. of Education.
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Will he remain “Presidential”? (Time will tell)
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Speeches are one thing…governing and results are another.
(Things are about to get REAL…)
All in all? Good speech!
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