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Republicans decimated the public school funding for decades so that they could have a population full of rubes who think this guy was a genius. That's not counting the smart ones who are just trying to buy there way into policy-making that favors whatever scheme they pull in their respective industry.
Otherwise I don't see how any person with half a brain could hear this guy speak and say yeah, this guy should run things.
Donald Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, a stupid man's idea of a smart man, and a loser's idea of a playboy.
He is a caricatute and nothing more.
Fuck. That needs to be a bumper sticker.
Probably would end up with dumbasses putting rocks through your windows every other day, but it might just be worth it.
People reading that bumper sticker:
https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1125904178679832576
John Mulaney, I think.
That’s probably the most apt description I’ve heard yet.
It’s been floating around since at least 2016. But that doesn’t make it any less apt.
Damn that’s good!
You know the world is doomed when trump is jealous of a dictator, because he’s a dictator and he can dictate. That’s the power trump wants.
Also one of the reasons a degree will cost you 100 grand.
Nobody in power is served by an informed and educated electorate, so you get loaded up with debt before you even start work. This makes sure you don’t get any funny ideas about changing the world for the better - because you gotta service the debt before you make any other plans.
The question is: how did all of this change? People reminisce about when it was like $700 and you could easily finance that with an average summer job. When and why did it take such an insane turn?
When government subsidies allowed greedy universities to jack up their tuition. If we wanted accessibility we would have been first to actually subsidize it through taxation instead of whatever the fuck is going on right now. Like idk who thought "I can borrow it all now and pay it back with interest later? Lets make this the norm".
Like all the ills in today’s society, there’s no easy answer. And the reason for that is so that there can be no easy fix.