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Rhiannon12866

(248,098 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 07:40 PM 3 hrs ago

GOP Hearing QUICKLY BACKFIRES as Dems TAKE OVER - Meidas Touch



MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how a Republican House Hearing backfired as Democrats turned the GOP stunt into an opportunity to expose the Republican’s real agenda. - 12/04/2025.
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ancianita

(42,711 posts)
3. No matter what approaches they take, we outthink and out argue them on everything. You just
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:07 PM
2 hrs ago

can't fix stupid.

Let the record of republican hearings show Martin Luther King was righteous and right:

"nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. "

Thanks for posting the Meidas Network news! I'm praying for a huge youth demographic turnout in the midterms over this crap.

Rhiannon12866

(248,098 posts)
4. Agree completely! This is the nonsense rambling we usually hear from the felon-in-chief!
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:15 PM
2 hrs ago

Are they out to annoy the Democrats or have they finally sunk to the level of their leader?? And how does this pointless rambling help constituents who can no longer afford health care and can't deal with the rising price of groceries?? They are nothing but an embarrassment!

ancianita

(42,711 posts)
5. But it also tells you what the 74,000,000 who voted for trump think smart people are. He KNOWS
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:29 PM
2 hrs ago

his base are undereducated and wasn't kidding when he said he loves the undereducated. Sure he's old, dyslexic and depraved, but he still gets to reptilian brains.

We are the richest nation on earth with the least educated population on earth because the slave owning founders didn't make education a fundamental constitutional right. And now we see that 70% of Americans walk around with only 12 years of education.

This is what we're up against, and this is what we have to GOTV to fight.

Rhiannon12866

(248,098 posts)
6. Doesn't the VA offer an updated version of the GI Bill? More vets and their families ought to take advantage of it
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:48 PM
1 hr ago

But kids these days aren't getting an appropriate start. When I was in the grades "reading was fundamental" and encouraged. These days they ban books! And then there's history and Civics - when I was in school I had a teacher who covered the Civil Rights Movement. I can't imagine that is encouraged these days. The way things are going, that would require starting over. Instead they want to hang the 10 Commandments on the walls. If parents want to send kids to Sunday School, it should be their choice.

ancianita

(42,711 posts)
7. I don't know, haven't looked into that, but under this administration, I'd doubt it.
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:54 PM
1 hr ago

Don't get me started on the state of the nation's public schools, which have been defunded, deformed, stigmatized and privatized -- all by design by the top 1%. They don't want competition for their progeny, and so across three generations education has only been preserved by the taxpayers who value it. I've been fighting against this trend since I began teaching high school and college in the 70's.

Education is the foundation of all of civilization. But the rich see this country as their corporate project. Thus, Project 2025.

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