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Excellent post, JK! Seems like we are witnessing the DC equivalent of the pulling back of the curtain in the Wizard of Oz, revealing the sputtering and incompetent boobs behind the DC curtain. Unfortunately for those DC miscreants, the entire world is watching as their corruption and grift is exposed and the normal people of the US are disgusted 🤮. Elon Musk is the perfect person to orchestrate the defenestration of the DC mob - he has no dog in the hunt as he’s rich beyond comprehension and seems to be indifferent as to politics. Trump can simply stand back and watch the 💩 show play out as Musk absorbs the media criticism and Trump takes credit for the success of DOGE.

While it’s yet to be determined just how much grift and inefficiency will be eliminated, it is clear that this will be the most successful attempt at reduction/restructuring of the federal government we’ve ever seen. Get your popcorn 🍿 ready for Musk’s review of the bigger targets such as DoD.

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"pulling back of the curtain in the Wizard of Oz"

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"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." ~Frank Zappa

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Indifferent to politics but not to profits. I assume the Plan to bring in millions of Indians is still in the offing.

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What plan?

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Wow. Everyone was taking about it a few short weeks ago. But since you didn't like any questioning about your heroes, you never took really took it in. Now it has been completely deleted from your memory files.

To jog your memory or a place to start googling: Why was Vivek thrown under the bus. This is a perfect opportunity for you to learn something about yourself.

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What I heard was a Man frustrated at what has become obvious in this country, we have changed from a national with a wonderful education system that covered needs for all the people, to a national that spends more per student and is #40 of 40 developed nations on tests. The Deep State has just about succeeded in turning us into a national that spends of know-nothing lemmings. When Vivek looked around, he stated the obvious, there are not enough “smart” people here to man the high tech revolution that everyone is expecting. He paid for it. That does not mean it is not the truth.

WE are becoming a nation of burger flippers, wait staffs, BS artists disguised as salesmen and marketeers, health care workers that burn out in five years, all to satisfy the Godhead of the Left, Obama.

Here’s is a good question for you. If we are becoming that desired service sector economy, why do we need college educated people? We supposedly educate all these “smart” people, for what? SO companies and corporations can bring smart people in from other countries to fill the unfilled jobs? Like MDs? When is the last time you went to a physician that was not named Patel or the like? So why isn’t American producing MDs at a required rate? Are we, as a nation, that dumb? And why? Look no farther than our illustrious government in DC. Like anything else, you want something to work properly, keep it the heck away from our government.

Destroy the DOE if you want future generations to have a chance.

One more. Even then, there is a spectrum of talent, intelligence and ability in any society, on this I agree with you. Our illustrious Deep State has forgotten this very basic fact as they have chased just about every manufacturing job out of the US. So if you hate computers, high tech, or AI and have no desire to work with them, you are effed in the future. Personally, when I lost my manufacturing engineering job to China in the 90s, I moved to Nursing. Luckily for me as 90% of my engineering co-workers never got their job back. I thrived for 17 years. They didn’t.

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You clearly have zero understanding of what the DoE actually does, ArizonaBoy...it does not set curricula - that is done at the State level. DoE only ensures that the disadvantaged have SOME hope of getting a foothold in the education system.

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Since the DOE has Ben in DC, the achievement scores have declined in 4th and 8th grades. My daughter is a fourth grade teacher and the cirriculum she aches explains why. The idiot education administrations need to do a class on child development as they ignore the stages of mental development totally. I have been involved in tutoring two generations of kids and have seen the lapse of the learning of math. The biggest deal IMHO, is the denial of the importance of Math facts and the memorization of basic arithmetic. Reading and writing have the same problems. Look at yourself, name-calling to express yourself. The last four years of DEI have just made things worse as tests still are going down and the idiocy of the Covid shutdowns supported by the head of NEA have created a three year period of pupils falling behind. These kids are handicapped for a lifetime because of the foibles of the DOE. Also, the disadvantaged have not improved any more than the rest of the kids.

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Teaches

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You changed the subject. Why? Ask yourself.

Lucky for you that they didn't get their jobs back? Wow, that's dark. I just learned something about you.

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Lugh, you are so full of shit. What to you is dark is light for most. I would never gauge myself against your darkness. Ever.

Why was Vivek thrown under the bus? I just answered and as usual you didn’t get it.

And yeah, by changing careers to one that had demand instead of moving overseas, I thrived. Luckily for me AS 90% who didn’t change course ended up in lower class jobs.

You are so sick sometimes.

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mentally ill is the word.

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