FuglyDuck

I have only once bought a bottle of jack.

And it was a joke to somebody who hates the stuff. (Specifically it was a minibar shot bottle… funny as hell though.)

Yeah well I say, musk should be forced to run a camshow called “my little teapot”.

And I have just as much authority as he does, so I guess he’s doing the camshow now.

depends on your definition of ‘work’, I suppose. by mine? and probably most honest people right now… nope. Schumer might be playing a different game, though.

It only works because the democrats are even bigger cowards who won’t exploit the silence to push their agenda.

She truly believes this.

Because she doesn’t actually work.

And they’re lazier than she is.

So they must not work.

of course, the premise that veterans are inherently lazy is utterly false and clearly refuted by, you know, seeing what the fuck they actually do. but Habba doesn’t work, and that includes fact checking her own bullshit.

why would changing the name of English make trump serve the spicy buffalo with the nuggets?

Pendejo.

he’s a litch.

This is just yelling at clouds rather than seeking meaningful solutions to resolve issue. You are complaining that senators are upset about the failure of the educational system. Btw one of those senators introduced legislation to prevent this from happening again. Link.

They’re certainly not going to admit to systemic failures.

Did you read the article? What do you think “State Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding and Sen. Eric Berthel said in their Dec. 19 letter. ‘We continue to seek accountability as to how this student was illiterate when she graduated and how the system failed her year after year’” they meant when they wrote this.

whose the one willfully misreading things now? That was a comment about the school seeking to blame anyone else. the ‘They’re’ refers to the school district mentioned at the start of the paragraph. The point there was that Ortiz was getting rubber stamped through everything. more funding most likely wouldn’t make a significant impact. What I can almost certainly assure you is that standardized testing won’t do a damned thing to stop it. Which is why Bush’s No Child Left Behind fucked up education. What ended up happening with NCLB is that schools were forced to teach to the test, meaning that rather than providing a well rounded education, they were instead basically providing test prep.

Yes, New England Republicans do tend to be much different than other states. No educational spending is not solely tied to party platform that ignores that blue states on average have higher house hold incomes and GDP due to historical & socioeconomic factors.

Most states in fact use a similar system of funding, with state funds being tied to a formula based on the number of students and other demographic factors. Sorry if you misunderstand me. That’s not tied to party platform. What is tied, though, is how much funding that actually becomes. there is a broad and common problem where schools in urban areas are significantly underfunded because people like you insist that local taxes should pay most of it. maybe, maybe not. that’s a different argument, and once again: Does not change that most of hartford’s funding comes from state sources, and republicans in the state legislature bitching about lack of educational standards reads more like manufactured outrage than anything else. At least to me. Maybe I’m wrong, but I rather doubt it.

The socioeconomic factors that give blue states the higher house hold income and gdp you mentioned? yeah, a large part of that is…you know. better public schools. Funny how that works. there is an exceedingly strong, and exceedingly global correlation between public school funding and long-term economic growth (by long term it’s in decades, not two or three years.)

As if Hegseth is sober enough to m own who responded and who didn’t.

Sure. but they all caught fire and burned. Impressive, considering there’s no oxygen.

Sure, but you’ll be getting into a bidding war with Musk.

On your BTW, my point wasn’t about Hartford’s education costs but more on broader educational costs. In suburban CT well funded schools get nearly 70% of their expenses paid for by local property taxes. The failure of the city of Hartford to raise funds on the municipal level vs other municipalities is relevant here. Which of course stems from the difference in economics status between their citizens. Hence my critique of local funding playing such a big role.

CT has some of the finest public schools in the nation. But they sure as hell are not the ones in Hartford.

“well funded schools” in what I’m guessing are… rich, white, suburbs.

hartford is lowest in terms of per-capita income. So blaming the city for their residents not being wealthy is… rather a dick move.

I was stating the CT Republicans had little to no impact on the outcome of this student’s education because they have little impact on local politics in such a blue area. And resulting should have no reason to presume that any policy stances of their have an impact on the people of Hartford.

If CT republicans are more eager to dump money on education int heir state than CT dems are, then they’re an entirely different breed of republicans than anywhere else in this country. Which is why education funding in red states is vastly exceeded by education funding in blue states.

which brings me back to my original point: It’s patently disingenuous, hypocritical and totally on brand, for a republican to call out failures as being related to funding when they’re predominately the ones who predominately called for the funding to be cut. Reduced education spending is a core part of the republican agenda. And it has been for as long as I can remember.

Personally, I rather expect the issue has more to do with school administration rather than funding. Of course, the school district would blame a lack of funding- that’s somebody else’s fault. They’re certainly not going to admit to systemic failures.

so you’re saying it’s not republicans that are predominately concerned with defunding education?

or that republicans are not routinely “surprised” when their policies cause problems- exactly like this?

interesting. You’re right. I’m just flinging mud. I couldn’t possibly have a valid point (like maybe don’t get rid of the fucking department of education.)

By the way. Your stats on funding sources is wrong. (PDF warning, but here’s the budget break down as of April '24

a screen grab of the overall breakdown:

Is it the London Bridge? cuz I don’t buy property in Arizona.

But, eh, lemme know if you get any takers, I got some prime real estate on mars.

Standard republican play book: Break shit and when called out wonder why it’s broken.

The school to prison pipeline is malfunctioning because Ortiz was smart enough to sue.

Here’s a general rule of thumb to know if Trump is lying: is he speaking? see. no need to fact check.

It will if he doesn’t resign, though. And this guy is now between a rock and a hard place. I don’t know if his decisions put him there (IE he coudl be a career civil servant trying to negotiate this bullshit) but so far, it seems like he’s towing the Trump Party Line.

Essentially, if a client doesn’t follow a judges orders (the client is the US gov,) and the lawyer can’t get them to comply, they’re supposed to drop the case (and probably the client,)(in this case, that would likely mean a resignation.)

If the lawyer doesn’t…. They’re on the hook and the first step is their license to practice (yeeting that is called “disbarring”).

The reputation harm from this saga is huge- I wouldn’t want to hire a guy so blithely and publicly pissing off a judge.

The reality is he’s likely found himself between a rock and a hard place and is stuck. But lawyers who help their clients break the law …. Don’t stay lawyers. Look at nearly every lawyer who has worked for trump.

probably playing as Imperium in WH40k.