Have any of the current Republican candidates bashed the House for passing HR 3016 (now going to the Senate) that castrates family education benefits in the GI Bill? I wanna know if anyone in the GOP running for Commander in Chief actually supports our troops and veterans that they will lead.
Because most of my fellow airmen (and soldiers/seamen) are fucking livid about that, and I personally know and have worked with people who have extended years of their life in service specifically to quality and transfer their education benefits to their kids, that this bill is cutting out from under their feet. It's not even fucking grandfathered unless you already have family collecting. It's cutting out the promise that people signed up for right under them after they held up their end of the deal.
Do any of the Republican politicians criticizing common core actually know anything about it, including the fact that the federal government doesn't control it?
Do any of the Republican politicians criticizing common core actually know anything about it, including the fact that the federal government doesn't control it?
No, why would they need to?
The people on facebook constantly posting stories about how terrible Common Core is (a key Republican demographic) don't know anything about it either. They're just scared of it.
Do any of the Republican politicians criticizing common core actually know anything about it, including the fact that the federal government doesn't control it?
No, why would they need to?
The people on facebook constantly posting stories about how terrible Common Core is (a key Republican demographic) don't know anything about it either. They're just scared of it.
Let's be fair - Common Core as a whole is incredibly problematic. That said, none of the GOP field touches on why that is.
CC, like the ACA, is a classic example of something the GOP championed until Obama also decided he liked it, at which point the GOP had no choice but to reverse course and trash it in order to maintain the narrative that everything Obama does is terrible.
Do any of the Republican politicians criticizing common core actually know anything about it, including the fact that the federal government doesn't control it?
No, why would they need to?
The people on facebook constantly posting stories about how terrible Common Core is (a key Republican demographic) don't know anything about it either. They're just scared of it.
Let's be fair - Common Core as a whole is incredibly problematic. That said, none of the GOP field touches on why that is.
I'm not saying it doesn't have issues, I'm saying that Trump and the people who fill my facebook with screeds about how terrible it is don't know what those issues are and just settle on "It's not how I was taught, and it's weird!"
Campaigns stop because you run out of money or you are hurting your future prospects. If John Ellis Bush loses this election I'm not sure what his political future would be and he has silly amounts of money.
Not true anymore since half these campaigns are glorified book tours
Have any of the current Republican candidates bashed the House for passing HR 3016 (now going to the Senate) that castrates family education benefits in the GI Bill? I wanna know if anyone in the GOP running for Commander in Chief actually supports our troops and veterans that they will lead.
Because most of my fellow airmen (and soldiers/seamen) are fucking livid about that, and I personally know and have worked with people who have extended years of their life in service specifically to quality and transfer their education benefits to their kids, that this bill is cutting out from under their feet. It's not even fucking grandfathered unless you already have family collecting. It's cutting out the promise that people signed up for right under them after they held up their end of the deal.
Do any of the Republican candidates criticizing [literally anything] actually know anything about it?
Highly unlikely. People on the right are reflexively skeptical of big government so all they need to know is that (a) it comes from DC and (b) it isn't SS or Medicare.
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
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Have any of the current Republican candidates bashed the House for passing HR 3016 (now going to the Senate) that castrates family education benefits in the GI Bill? I wanna know if anyone in the GOP running for Commander in Chief actually supports our troops and veterans that they will lead.
Because most of my fellow airmen (and soldiers/seamen) are fucking livid about that, and I personally know and have worked with people who have extended years of their life in service specifically to quality and transfer their education benefits to their kids, that this bill is cutting out from under their feet. It's not even fucking grandfathered unless you already have family collecting. It's cutting out the promise that people signed up for right under them after they held up their end of the deal.
I fucking hate that Republicans constantly get touted by people claiming that they care about veterans, when the evidence consistently points to them not giving the slightest of fucks about any veteran outside of sound bites.
Do any of the Republican candidates criticizing [literally anything] actually know anything about it?
Highly unlikely. People on the right are reflexively skeptical of big government so all they need to know is that (a) it comes from DC and (b) it isn't SS or Medicare.
the cognitive dissonance required to deny that they're reliant on gov't whilst receiving SS/MC checks at the same time is almost poignant
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Have any of the current Republican candidates bashed the House for passing HR 3016 (now going to the Senate) that castrates family education benefits in the GI Bill? I wanna know if anyone in the GOP running for Commander in Chief actually supports our troops and veterans that they will lead.
Because most of my fellow airmen (and soldiers/seamen) are fucking livid about that, and I personally know and have worked with people who have extended years of their life in service specifically to quality and transfer their education benefits to their kids, that this bill is cutting out from under their feet. It's not even fucking grandfathered unless you already have family collecting. It's cutting out the promise that people signed up for right under them after they held up their end of the deal.
I fucking hate that Republicans constantly get touted by people claiming that they care about veterans, when the evidence consistently points to them not giving the slightest of fucks about any veteran outside of sound bites.
I trust that McCain has veterans at heart at least 50% of the time, which was s better than the 0% of his peers. He propsed and wrote the Veteran's Choice Bill that expanded fixed portions of the VA in conjuction with Berne Sanders. (Not that the VA isn't still a clusterfuck.)
The Post 9-11 GI bill was a Democratic Bill puched by Jim Webb and opposed by John McCain.
The previous Montgomery GI Bill was also a Democrat pushed bill for the record.
Our wages have also fallen under inflation and the private sector under this republican run congress.
You would not believe how many times I've been told by my superiors in the force some permutation of 'I can't order you to vote Republican but if you were smart/a True Airman/etc. you will vote Republican."
Have any of the current Republican candidates bashed the House for passing HR 3016 (now going to the Senate) that castrates family education benefits in the GI Bill? I wanna know if anyone in the GOP running for Commander in Chief actually supports our troops and veterans that they will lead.
Because most of my fellow airmen (and soldiers/seamen) are fucking livid about that, and I personally know and have worked with people who have extended years of their life in service specifically to quality and transfer their education benefits to their kids, that this bill is cutting out from under their feet. It's not even fucking grandfathered unless you already have family collecting. It's cutting out the promise that people signed up for right under them after they held up their end of the deal.
Much like with unborn babies, Republican support for troops and veterans does not actually extend to living people. It begins and ends at the rhetorical stage.
I'm speaking about both the politicians, and the voters. They only like troops as a song lyric, when it comes to the actual people they expect them to die on command and don't want to pay a hot cent for it.
Have any of the current Republican candidates bashed the House for passing HR 3016 (now going to the Senate) that castrates family education benefits in the GI Bill? I wanna know if anyone in the GOP running for Commander in Chief actually supports our troops and veterans that they will lead.
Because most of my fellow airmen (and soldiers/seamen) are fucking livid about that, and I personally know and have worked with people who have extended years of their life in service specifically to quality and transfer their education benefits to their kids, that this bill is cutting out from under their feet. It's not even fucking grandfathered unless you already have family collecting. It's cutting out the promise that people signed up for right under them after they held up their end of the deal.
Much like with unborn babies, Republican support for troops and veterans does not actually extend to living people. It begins and ends at the rhetorical stage.
I'm speaking about both the politicians, and the voters. They only like troops as a song lyric, when it comes to the actual people they expect them to die on command and don't want to pay a hot cent for it.
Case in point, the Bush admin having the VA actively turn away PTSD patients and the ensuing spike in veteran suicides we've seen as a result
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Have any of the current Republican candidates bashed the House for passing HR 3016 (now going to the Senate) that castrates family education benefits in the GI Bill? I wanna know if anyone in the GOP running for Commander in Chief actually supports our troops and veterans that they will lead.
Because most of my fellow airmen (and soldiers/seamen) are fucking livid about that, and I personally know and have worked with people who have extended years of their life in service specifically to quality and transfer their education benefits to their kids, that this bill is cutting out from under their feet. It's not even fucking grandfathered unless you already have family collecting. It's cutting out the promise that people signed up for right under them after they held up their end of the deal.
I fucking hate that Republicans constantly get touted by people claiming that they care about veterans, when the evidence consistently points to them not giving the slightest of fucks about any veteran outside of sound bites.
I trust that McCain has veterans at heart at least 50% of the time, which was s better than the 0% of his peers. He propsed and wrote the Veteran's Choice Bill that expanded fixed portions of the VA in conjuction with Berne Sanders. (Not that the VA isn't still a clusterfuck.)
The Post 9-11 GI bill was a Democratic Bill puched by Jim Webb and opposed by John McCain.
The previous Montgomery GI Bill was also a Democrat pushed bill for the record.
Our wages have also fallen under inflation and the private sector under this republican run congress.
You would not believe how many times I've been told by my superiors in the force some permutation of 'I can't order you to vote Republican but if you were smart/a True Airman/etc. you will vote Republican."
so many dumbass chiefs I had said the same damn thing
In some ways even if Trump loses the general, he'll have done irreparable damage simply based on how much he'll have mobilized and energized the cause of fascism, racism, and authoritarianism in this country. He's done some of that already; but primary candidates tend not to impact the political landscape, whereas losing general candidates probably have more lasting effects.
I agree with this, but... JFC, whatever passes as the GOP leadership these days has needed a wake-up call about what the people who are their base actually want and believe. If it takes Trump getting the GOP nomination to heighten their contradictions in the Marxian sense, then so be it.
It'd just be really great to live in a country where there's at least two mostly sane political parties capable of governing effectively, even if I only support one of them.
The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one. I am sincere when I say that the silver lining of Trumps popularity is that it exposes the terrible opinions that parts of this country have and there is no way to deny it. It's not dogwhistles, it's not kept in a bubble or an echo chamber, it's all out in the open. There is a virulent strain of sexism, racism, xenophobia, greed, anti-illectualism, etc. and we need to face it.
Thanks for taking down the billionaires' very own boy wonder before you walked out, Chris.
What is the point of comments like this? You take one of them down, there's several in line behind him to take his place.
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Thanks for taking down the billionaires' very own boy wonder before you walked out, Chris.
What is the point of comments like this? You take one of them down, there's several in line behind him to take his place.
The point is cheering up Chris Christie when he reads it. And he will. This forum's posts are indexed on google, and Christie is exactly the type of guy who would google himself.
Thanks for taking down the billionaires' very own boy wonder before you walked out, Chris.
What is the point of comments like this? You take one of them down, there's several in line behind him to take his place.
Except there isn't. At this point you have ¿Jeb? and Kasich to take the establishment mantle.
Does it matter if they are establishment or anti-establishment? Either category in the GOP party this year are not ideal.
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Campaigns stop because you run out of money or you are hurting your future prospects. If John Ellis Bush loses this election I'm not sure what his political future would be and he has silly amounts of money.
Not true anymore since half these campaigns are glorified book tours
Certainly, the ones who aren't already rich will be able to sell more books and/or become a pitchman for a company that sells overpriced gold coins to senior citizens and/or get at least some work as a Fox News commentator.
Not sure that applies to Jeb Bush, but Ben Carson is definitely going to end up on the Right Wing Industrial Complex's gravy train.
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Also someone named "Fiorina" is suspending along with Christie. I thinks he/she was from the Constitution Party or something?
Have any of the current Republican candidates bashed the House for passing HR 3016 (now going to the Senate) that castrates family education benefits in the GI Bill? I wanna know if anyone in the GOP running for Commander in Chief actually supports our troops and veterans that they will lead.
Because most of my fellow airmen (and soldiers/seamen) are fucking livid about that, and I personally know and have worked with people who have extended years of their life in service specifically to quality and transfer their education benefits to their kids, that this bill is cutting out from under their feet. It's not even fucking grandfathered unless you already have family collecting. It's cutting out the promise that people signed up for right under them after they held up their end of the deal.
Much like with unborn babies, Republican support for troops and veterans does not actually extend to living people. It begins and ends at the rhetorical stage.
I'm speaking about both the politicians, and the voters. They only like troops as a song lyric, when it comes to the actual people they expect them to die on command and don't want to pay a hot cent for it.
My favorite David Cross bit, and one of my favorite comedy bits in general, is when David Cross is discussing Lee Greenwood, and talking about patriotism. He says something like:
"id love to just be at a Lee greenwood concert when everyone is singing along to God Bless the USA, and when Lee sings: 'And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.'
Just fucking shout 'GOOD NEWS! ITS A VOLUNTEER ARMY! LET'S GO! YOU CAN GO STAND NEXT TO THEM! TODAY!'
and see the reaction."
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Campaigns stop because you run out of money or you are hurting your future prospects. If John Ellis Bush loses this election I'm not sure what his political future would be and he has silly amounts of money.
Not true anymore since half these campaigns are glorified book tours
Certainly, the ones who aren't already rich will be able to sell more books and/or become a pitchman for a company that sells overpriced gold coins to senior citizens and/or get at least some work as a Fox News commentator.
Not sure that applies to Jeb Bush, but Ben Carson is definitely going to end up on the Right Wing Industrial Complex's gravy train.
Bush I think is keeping his campaign going to continue paying the salaries of all his crony managers. He can't expect to win at this point so he'll just use all his cash and bail.
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Yup he went down like a fighter delivering a really solid shot to Mr. Roboto.
Bonus Jeb thrashing from yesterday:
Because most of my fellow airmen (and soldiers/seamen) are fucking livid about that, and I personally know and have worked with people who have extended years of their life in service specifically to quality and transfer their education benefits to their kids, that this bill is cutting out from under their feet. It's not even fucking grandfathered unless you already have family collecting. It's cutting out the promise that people signed up for right under them after they held up their end of the deal.
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He will write the best-seller, "How to Blow a Huge Lead in an Election Despite Having a Ton of Money and Name-Recognition Without Even Trying."
jacket blurb:
"It's . . okay." - Barbara Bush
Posted sans comment, as there is nothing I can say that this lede doesn't.
No, why would they need to?
The people on facebook constantly posting stories about how terrible Common Core is (a key Republican demographic) don't know anything about it either. They're just scared of it.
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Let's be fair - Common Core as a whole is incredibly problematic. That said, none of the GOP field touches on why that is.
I'm not saying it doesn't have issues, I'm saying that Trump and the people who fill my facebook with screeds about how terrible it is don't know what those issues are and just settle on "It's not how I was taught, and it's weird!"
twitch.tv/Taramoor
@TaramoorPlays
Taramoor on Youtube
"My mom says it's okay!" - Jeb Bush
Not true anymore since half these campaigns are glorified book tours
Holy what. That is messed up.
Highly unlikely. People on the right are reflexively skeptical of big government so all they need to know is that (a) it comes from DC and (b) it isn't SS or Medicare.
― Marcus Aurelius
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I fucking hate that Republicans constantly get touted by people claiming that they care about veterans, when the evidence consistently points to them not giving the slightest of fucks about any veteran outside of sound bites.
the cognitive dissonance required to deny that they're reliant on gov't whilst receiving SS/MC checks at the same time is almost poignant
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I trust that McCain has veterans at heart at least 50% of the time, which was s better than the 0% of his peers. He propsed and wrote the Veteran's Choice Bill that expanded fixed portions of the VA in conjuction with Berne Sanders. (Not that the VA isn't still a clusterfuck.)
The Post 9-11 GI bill was a Democratic Bill puched by Jim Webb and opposed by John McCain.
The previous Montgomery GI Bill was also a Democrat pushed bill for the record.
Our wages have also fallen under inflation and the private sector under this republican run congress.
You would not believe how many times I've been told by my superiors in the force some permutation of 'I can't order you to vote Republican but if you were smart/a True Airman/etc. you will vote Republican."
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Much like with unborn babies, Republican support for troops and veterans does not actually extend to living people. It begins and ends at the rhetorical stage.
I'm speaking about both the politicians, and the voters. They only like troops as a song lyric, when it comes to the actual people they expect them to die on command and don't want to pay a hot cent for it.
Case in point, the Bush admin having the VA actively turn away PTSD patients and the ensuing spike in veteran suicides we've seen as a result
so many dumbass chiefs I had said the same damn thing
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The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one. I am sincere when I say that the silver lining of Trumps popularity is that it exposes the terrible opinions that parts of this country have and there is no way to deny it. It's not dogwhistles, it's not kept in a bubble or an echo chamber, it's all out in the open. There is a virulent strain of sexism, racism, xenophobia, greed, anti-illectualism, etc. and we need to face it.
What is the point of comments like this? You take one of them down, there's several in line behind him to take his place.
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Except there isn't. At this point you have ¿Jeb? and Kasich to take the establishment mantle.
The point is cheering up Chris Christie when he reads it. And he will. This forum's posts are indexed on google, and Christie is exactly the type of guy who would google himself.
Does it matter if they are establishment or anti-establishment? Either category in the GOP party this year are not ideal.
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Certainly, the ones who aren't already rich will be able to sell more books and/or become a pitchman for a company that sells overpriced gold coins to senior citizens and/or get at least some work as a Fox News commentator.
Not sure that applies to Jeb Bush, but Ben Carson is definitely going to end up on the Right Wing Industrial Complex's gravy train.
Also someone named "Fiorina" is suspending along with Christie. I thinks he/she was from the Constitution Party or something?
My favorite David Cross bit, and one of my favorite comedy bits in general, is when David Cross is discussing Lee Greenwood, and talking about patriotism. He says something like:
"id love to just be at a Lee greenwood concert when everyone is singing along to God Bless the USA, and when Lee sings: 'And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.'
Just fucking shout 'GOOD NEWS! ITS A VOLUNTEER ARMY! LET'S GO! YOU CAN GO STAND NEXT TO THEM! TODAY!'
and see the reaction."
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Bush I think is keeping his campaign going to continue paying the salaries of all his crony managers. He can't expect to win at this point so he'll just use all his cash and bail.
I semi-hate myself for laughing at that.
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