Thought For The Day – Is Our Children Learning?*

Children Might Be, Many Adults Is Not
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Students Of And Against History

April 18, 2025

Tomorrow marks the 250^th anniversary the Shot Heard Round the World – the start of the American Revolution, the battles of Lexington and Concord – April 19, 1775. We hopefully all learned about this as children. Today however, it seems that far too many of us did not learn from it. Much of America is happily moving full-speed-reverse away from democracy and toward autocracy. 

Bruce Cockburn – Call It Democracy

Back then, the only people who were not illegal immigrants were not white and did not speak English or Spanish or French. The only real “Americans” had been here for tens-of-thousands of years and were doing just fine (and may have been much more democratic than we will ever be) until some lost Italian fuckface turned everything upside down and sideways. We all know some version of the story.

That Was Then, This Is WTF

Today, Wannabe King Don – who is completely ignorant of history – and his fellow travelers are constantly accusing Democrats of purposely bringing illegal immigrants into the country in order to turn them into Democratic voters. Is there ever anything they will not lie about?**

Funny thing, a much more reasonable argument could be made for the idea that by killing the Department of Education, in no small part by tapping an ex-pro-fake-wrestling executive with zero experience in education or personal intelligence – Linda McMahon (who recently made headlines by repeatedly referring to AI as A-1 – as in steak sauce) – Don is bent on building an army of the uneducated in order to ensure more reliable morons who will vote for Don and his ilk.

Education Secretary McMahon in a much more appropriate role

If you're like me, and we both hope you're not, you may recall Dumbass Don chirping "I love the poorly educated" during his first ungodly run for president. Remember the good old days when we were able to think he was a big fucking joke, instead of now when we have to think of him as a noocular* weapon in a badly fitting suit?

Recently, bearded puss-wart JD Vance – the pet-project of scumbag billionaire Peter Thiel – gave a speech entitled “The Universities are The Enemy”. Vance graduated from Ohio State University and Yale Law School. A case could be made that by accepting, “educating” and graduating the likes of Vance and other soulless mental defectives, these institutions are complicit in destroying democracy and America. This was not, however, the premise of Vance’s idiotic diatribe.

In his screech Vance whined, “We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.” In case you are busy trying to lift your jaw off the floor – and you might want to leave it there just a bit longer – the country Vance was squawking about is America. The United States of. That country.

In his defense, Vance is a radical religious fanatic and a hypocritical halfwit. And according to many people, a furniture fucker.

 

Half-president Don hard(ly) at work, preparing

to miss another putt before cheating again

Half-president Don is now poised to take a break from “golfing” in order to sign another fascist/executive order terminating the Department of Education. . He also wants to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS because these unrepentant woke do-gooders continue to insist on attempting to make Americans less stoopid. With a stroke (wishing this sentence could end right here) of his oversized Sharpie (or maybe it just looks big in his tiny, baby hands) the dimwitted half-president hopes to make America dumber than ever. He is off to a good start as evidenced by the 2024 election.

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*George WTF Bush quote
**Spoiler Alert: NO!

This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day.