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Brew

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  1. I would like to hear more about this. I grew up doing single audit work on school districts and other governmental entities. Last time I was heavily involved, the feds primarily provided Title 1, IDEA funds, and USDA funds on need based grant funding. They have been rolling out ARPA funds the last few years related to Covid that have pretty specific spending requirements also. What is the DOE coercing compliance with that you see as a problem and which grant funding program is it coming through? Feel free to be specific. I’ll be happy to pull the audit requirements for the grant for you to see what it is for.
  2. Do you though, because every post above you talk about pushing community education and disbanding DOE. Those two things have nothing to do with each other. Again, specifically what’s your issue with TexasJeff and Goofyboy’s list of things the DOE does since you know they don’t deal with curriculum? Hell, if we’re disbanding entire Department’s, I would think you would at least have some specific relevant complaints.
  3. It ALREADY is, have you not been paying attention? Local districts and state education departments set curriculum and the local education. The feds DO NOT deal with curriculum. They deal with the things that have been mentioned multiple times in this thread. Quit going on about something that doesn’t happen.
  4. I so enjoy the deflect/distract method of discussing politics and political views. There have been numerous things posted above that you could respond to about your specific issues with the DoE and perceived lack of understanding on what they do. Either you have some point that isn’t clear or you’re parroting information found elsewhere with no way to discuss it.
  5. See “only country with decentralized education” and think about the ramifications of that. I am curious what data you are using other than “people are saying” to base your opinion.
  6. One of its core tenets is prohibiting discrimination and providing equal opportunities in education. You lose most of the Trump supporters because of that. Let’s not worry about Title 1 funding and other funding that the government actually requires audits of to determine it is spent appropriately, Pell grants, disability education, research, etc. Those don’t matter, we prefer to discriminate. On your second thought, welcome to everyone getting involved in politics without putting in the time to understand how things work. Twitter said, so it must be true.
  7. This is the basis of Trumpism. It’s not policy driven, it’s isolationism and fear driven. Just the number of people around here and other places online that can’t discuss policy, have no idea what they are even arguing in support of, and really just interact by sticking their fingers in their ears and sticking out their tongues is fascinating.
  8. States and school districts are where the “decision of how to educate” resides. Again, what specifically do you disagree with that the DoE oversees now that your original premise doesn’t hold? Do you even know what they do, why they do it, and that we are literally the only country with decentralized education already?
  9. Who do you think sets curriculum and educational objectives? What do you think the DoE actually does?
  10. Most of these I at least get the premise of even if I don’t agree with them. However, what’s the primary issue with the Dept of Education and what are you proposing to replace it?
  11. I can tell you when my MAGA parents call they aren’t talking about the NYT, WSJ, etc. They are talking about Candace Owens, Joe Rogan, etc which I think was the point being made. What’s the viewership on the Sunday Morning talk shows versus Elon’s followers on Twitter. I would agree they don’t meet the historical definition of mainstream media, but you should be able to agree the R’s own the information/content wars at the moment through the various types of media outside of Legacy maybe. You can debate semantics (which seems popular around here) or you can debate the message/point (which is what most normal people would do).
  12. Steel has worldwide tariffs with exemptions for Canada/Mexico, it wasn’t just a specific tariff directed at China. There are also targeted tariffs on Chinese steel outside of the overall tariffs. Numerous studies have shown the steel tariffs specifically to be detrimental to the consumer from a cost perspective, but there are also issues around the push for production of “clean” steel/aluminum that drive those tariffs as well.
  13. I’m not giving you my “feels”. I’m telling you what my construction clients are seeing in their futures pricing. G650 is telling you what he is seeing/expecting in materials pricing. The guys on my side have all been in the industry a long-time and they are making plans for increased/unstable material costs and are not locking in long-term contract pricing. You have a short window to accept and a short window to pay for/purchase materials. Now, my steel guys are falling all over themselves with the proposed increase in the tariffs. Their numbers will go through the roof because their prices increase substantially with tariffs. They can charge more because of foreign material pricing. The end customer pays similar to what he would for imported tariffed steel (xx% higher than without tariffs) and the steel guys here just make a much larger spread. They love it.
  14. You don’t, you could just respond to the couple of people involved in the industry that have posted. Or not, either way. Yes, the answer is always yes. Remember, deflect, disinformation, distract, it’s the way of their world.
  15. I’m actually trying really hard here to find your point, but I can’t. You clearly aren’t reading along or wanting to discuss the difference between actual things that are said by the individual and can be quoted versus those that are people saying this is what he will do or thinks. We’re back to distract and deflect rather than actually discussing the level of misinformation Trump himself has injected into the narrative.
  16. I can easily agree that his quote is a problem and it’s not a line of thought that normal people would take, but stretching it to “he wants her in front of a firing squad” based strictly on what he said is a bridge too far. There are plenty of people that would agree that politicians often take individual lives for granted in other countries wars while they sit behind their desks which is really the point he was making. Hell, it was a premise of the Democratic Party for some time.
  17. They can’t justify what he says, the company line is to deflect and distract so as not to compound/bring light to how far out on the limb he actually is. It’s a grade school mentality of dealing with things.
  18. You can’t cherry pick one portion of the quote from the entire message. You lose context. Saying that she should be in front of a firing squad is different than what he actually said. Right off the bat, you don’t get a gun if you’re in front of the firing squad. The the part of what he said is below. Liz Cheney is “a deranged person,” the GOP nominee said, “but the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. I don’t want to go to war. She wanted to go – she wanted to stay in Iraq. I took them out. I mean, if [it] were up to her, we’d, we’d be in 50 different countries. She’s a radical war hawk.” He then said, “Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”
  19. I don’t think you really want to go through all of the stupid shit he has said one by one. It will not work out well for you. There are instances where it is spun, there are a lot more instances where he actually said the dumb shit that has been quoted just as it was said.
  20. If you read the whole thing, it’s clear he is saying that lawmakers shouldn’t be sending people to war when they aren’t willing to go be put in harm’s way.
  21. The conversation was on disinformation and people eating up the misinformation that is fed to them. Bringing that into the discussion where it was said to put him in the bullseye of their campaign coming out of the debate isn’t misinformation, no matter how you want to argue context. It’s no different than any other war time reference used by either side. Interestingly enough, he also apologized for the use of the terminology which hasn’t happened on the other side of aisle. You could at least stay on track.
  22. You do see that there is a difference between direct quotes from a presidential candidate/elect and others saying this is what one side or the other will do, don’t you? The horse’s mouth is a much better source of information than accusations by either side and the “horse” is on the record saying the things I mentioned.
  23. Interesting take there based on the amount of BS Trump injected into his campaign (eating pets, FEMA/immigrants, etc) that the lapdogs ate up. If you don’t think pricing/futures in the construction industry is already being impacted, then you don’t deal with the industry. The odd thing about the industry is they have had record years post Covid. I work with 80+ contractors and I can’t think of one that hasn’t had record sales/earnings during that period. They are all as red as they come too, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. There were already signs through the summer that it was checking up especially in certain industries.
  24. I just gave you actual conversations with GC’s and subs I had and what they are seeing with prices and futures, G650 is giving you actual views from the industry and what they are doing on pricing as well. It would be much simpler just to say you’re good with it, you don’t care than ignoring the actual impact on how these things play out.
  25. Let’s say you are right for the moment and the story is fiction, in your mind does that mean the storyline can’t play out that way? I talked to my largest GC yesterday and they are concerned about material costs with the level of imported items in the industry. My largest electrical sub has been loading up on wire this fall to try and mitigate the increase coming there because it’s all imported.
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