It’s a great idea if you’re a billionaire and have a diverse team of qualified teachers to manage the schooling of your child(ren) at your home, you can spend more time with them and keep them guarded from kidnappings.

For everyone else it’s usually a disaster, and they find out that teaching isn’t just a matter of babysitting and reading a few textbooks with them, it’s actually hundreds of years of knowledge distilled into design, practices and pedagogy - none of which your average homeschooling parent knows much about. Then they give up homeschooling after 2-3 years and bring a kid back to grade/primary school or high school who has now been set back multiple years behind their peers.

Then… there’s also the abuse that goes on outside of the view of the government-supervised schooling system (with mandatory reporting laws, welfare checks, etc).

That could definitely be part of the strategy, but it’s honestly simpler.

Taxing the rich and addressing wealth inequality as goals are incompatible with the goals of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and other billionaires.

Fascism is entirely compatible with capitalism, especially for monopolies and the ultrawealthy group above.

This isn’t a new behaviour. They have always broadly pushed conservatism, deregulation, ‘small government’, and a captured political class hard from behind the scenes.

Didn’t you hear?

Late night variety/talk shows: journalism, they must abide by FCC ‘equal time’ rules

Fox News: purely entertainment, no FCC rules apply.

I don’t wanna shit on the positive result of a good environmental policy, but it sure is hard to sit it in my brain alongside the knowledge of the semi-militarized Chinese mega-trawler fleets that are devastating the oceans while this is happening…

Did this all last term to no consequences

Put out racist/inflammatory/severe mental error/obvious lie comments, then his team would go into damage control and claim it was a technical error / intern / junior staff, then someone would ask him about the mistake/lie and and his ego would cause him to pipe up that he did it on purpose and it was a good statement, throwing his own team under the bus as liars again, and again.

His cult member voters don’t care, its the post-truth era.

This would be absolutely cringe if a high school kid was doing it as a petty insult to their rivals… But it’s the president of the USA.

I know its a melting pot of factors that has caused it, but it still blows my mind that “normal” for the USA has fallen so fucking far, so fast since Trump came on the scene. 10 years ago a fucking tan suit was ‘weird’ for a president…

The Trump companies have been sued and lost dozens of times - and as figurehead and CEO of most of them I presume civil damages cases could wipe out a lot of the Trump family fortune. But, Trump has been working with the mob since the 80s and had Roy Cohn (mob laywer) as his personal laywer back then and for many years, so being career criminals (essentially a mob family), I’d not be surprised if most of the money and assets are carefully squirreled away in offshore accounts and trusts and whatnot.

Also given that the US is doing everything it can to pull apart legislative protections against the billionaires class, it would probably all be a major uphill battle without a sweeping change of government and an expansion of the supreme court.

It doesn’t just cover service members, they would classify as appointed officials.

“a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government”

Edit: Jeez, just read it, it’s not even long. They would absolutely fall under it.

The act gives the president power to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”.

If they sent them to the Hague, then Trump would just send the US military to the Hague to rescue them by “all means necessary” and it would all be entirely legal, frankly because the USA is a country run predominantly by criminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act (aka Hague Invasion Act)

Does this not fly in the face of the First Amendment - why are conservatives not mad about this as well?

Those shot seem to have been protesting peacefully with no weapons or military protective gear on public lands, and then ICE walked into them and pulled a protester away, intentionally escalating conflict, then firing into a protesters face at about 2ft away.

Insane that there is still no general strike over ICE (and more).

ICE agents are federal law enforcement officers, working under the DHS.

Anyone calling ICE agents ‘officers’ is stating fact.

“But he is right about diet”

They wrote unironically, about a man with a well-documented history of hosting a tapeworm that damaged parts of his brain, due to eating poorly sourced and poorly prepared pork.

I’m guessing hes copying the Arc de Triomphe simply because he hasn’t seen the Brandenburger Tor.

I wonder when he’s gonna approach Hugo Boss for new uniforms for the Secret Service.

Biden and Obama pardoned a bunch of people (thousands iirc) who were doing long federal sentences for weed possession.

But you know, it’s theatre to justify having the pardon power. The heartwarming story at the end of the daily newsreel of corruption and conflict.

The better solution there is to fucking reschedule it. Treating the burns while the fire still rages is stupid.

Get rid of pardons, their abuse is more damaging than their utility.

I’m sure the paper trail showing what the lobbyists were paid is the mere tip of the iceberg.

There’s no way in hell the founder of a cryptocurrency exchange didn’t give Trump a massive payday of crypto off the books to secure his pardon.

Youtu.be is YouTube’s default short URL when clicking the ‘share’ function on videos on mobile iirc. I’ve seen it thousands of times.

So many commenters have short as fuck memories.

Biden administration never could have done it because it requires Congress to accept nominations and confirm them - the process is not controlled by the president, only initiated.

The senate was 48-50 split between Dems and Reps but with two independents generally caucusing/voting with Dems (Bernie and King) taking it to 50-50. However, two of those Democrats were Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin - who both commonly voted against the Democrats legislation and acted as key swing votes for their own benefit.

There is absolutely no way Biden could have convinced them to expand the court, Joe Manchin voted to confirm Brett Kavanagh for fucks sake - voting against his own party to side with the Republicans and allow a serial rapist into the supreme court.

I don’t like Newsom (and am not from the USA), but the context of this Tweet is very clearly a response to Trump and an attack on his behaviour (especially of late), re: insulting/mocking Rob Reiner’s death. His office/PR has regularly used Ronald Reagan’s quotes (as the former hero of the Republicans) to point out how completely embarrassing and perverse Trump’s presidency is to their former ‘ethics’ and values, and to ignore that context as tacit approval for Reagan is disingenuous.

This article (from a UK publisher) is really clutching at straws.

Having said all that, personally I think AOC or Bernie would be 100 times better candidates. Original Tweet below.

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