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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the federal shutdown offers evidence that her agency is “unnecessary.”

In a social media post on Wednesday, McMahon said the shutdown has forced agencies to evaluate what work is really needed. She made the comment days after her department started firing hundreds of workers amid mass layoffs across the government.

“Two weeks in, millions of American students are still going to school, teachers are getting paid, and schools are operating as normal,” McMahon said.

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[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 229 points 10 months ago

In the last two weeks, no one has tried to rob me. Are the police really necessary?

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 126 points 10 months ago

I haven’t been deported in over 30 years. I don’t think ICE is necessary

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Ha. You think the police exist to stop YOU getting robbed?

[-] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Police have only ever made my life worse. Get rid of them all.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I haven't eaten since breakfast and I'm fine. I think needing sustenance is just a conspiracy by Big Food, you guys!

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

No, they aren't. At least not in their current form.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago

Capitalism has entered the chat

[-] Aliktren@lemmy.world 115 points 10 months ago

Outside looking in, its horrific to see the USA die like this.

[-] tupkcakes@piefed.social 100 points 10 months ago

It’s not great from the inside either. 90% of my anxiety right now is because of this kind of crap.

[-] _wizard@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

I got 99 probs and only 1 is my own personal issue.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

I feel especially saddened by it because at one point I felt a lot of hope for this country. I don't feel any hope anymore. It feels doomed. A lot of people are suffering and it's going to get a lot worse. Yesterday I saw some (likely) immigrants working on a landscaping project and it hit me in a more visceral way what it must be like to fear your life can be destroyed any time. I really wish that kid hadn't missed trump. Everyone always says that won't help anything but I don't care. He deserves to be gunned down in cold blood if anyone ever did.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 10 months ago

I used to think that dying as an old man in my sleep would be the best way to go, and now I'm feeling that that would be a waste. I'm becoming comfortable with the idea that my life may have a twist ending that I wasn't expecting.

I can't do anything crazy now, I have people counting on me, but that would change if ANYTHING were to happen to them, who are members of particularly vulnerable groups. I especially feel strongly about my child, and if MAGA did anything to them, I would have nothing to lose, and I would become a very dangerous person.

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[-] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

It’s going to be painful, but honestly the US needs to die if the world is to have any hope of surviving the climate crisis. (Not saying the people should die, just the state and its role as the guardian of capitalism.)

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[-] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 86 points 10 months ago

That’s like saying the department of health isn’t needed because the hospitals still run… what a dumb bitch.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 37 points 10 months ago

These people think vaccines aren't needed because many people survived the last pandemic. They are deeply stupid, and wedded to a deeply stupid fascist ideology of "let the strong survive and the weak suffer and die," where they get to decide who counts as strong (it's rich white people) or weak (everyone else).

[-] III@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Hey, the COVID vaccine was a scam to the president at the time right up until he needed it to live. Then suddenly it was good. Well, until his stirred up idiot base got upset he would say such a thing about vaccines working - then it was right back to being a scam.

Pretty much everything you need to know about these people.

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[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 79 points 10 months ago

I haven't used my snow blower all summer! That's evidence it's unneccesary.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I used to chuckle at how the Confederate Party would often point to the Ant and the Grasshopper - only seeing it as a morality tale to be weaponized against "welfare queens". They did not realize/conveniently forgot that not only are many Confederates welfare queens, but that even the fable, and its interpretation(s), is a bit more complex than that...

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

If we pull all state and federal funding from schools then tell all the parents they will be arrested if they leave their kids home alone it would make available jobs and housing!

/s

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[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 10 months ago

Glad we're taking advice on education from the wife of the world's biggest wrestling promoter.

You might ask why the wife of the world's biggest wrestling promoter is in charge of the federal Department of Education. That is, indeed, a question you may ask.

[-] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

She just feels strongly that there isn't enough water sports in the curriculum.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

The ridiculously unqualified political appointee who ran a pedo-friendly wrestling company for decades says we don't need the department of education.

There's your headline.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

I held my breath and I'm not dead yet. Oxygen is a scam!

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

I hope this corrupt hag ends up in prison

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 10 months ago
[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I'd like to see a lot of these assholes picking up trash by the highway.

And since apparently that's a thing now, the government should make a really big splash of it, and release slick videos showing all these fuckers working for the first time in their lives, along with voiceovers and dramatic music.

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[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

That's the truth they don't care about school shootings as it isn't happening to them. A couple of their schools get shot up and they'd start caring.

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[-] bagsy@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

This stupid nazi cow. How is she going to maintain her billions of dollars when the population is poor and pissed off? What a dumb bitch.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Have you seen where her money came from?

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[-] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

We will be too stupid to be pissed.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 30 points 10 months ago

But she surely needs education about her department, like what it does and what it is for...

[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 24 points 10 months ago

So, she should quit first?

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

I’m pretty baffled by the fact that these chucklefucks sweep into power and immediately start removing the levers of power.

No more DoED? Okay, blue states don’t have anyone telling them what to teach.

“No, not like that!”

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

So quit Linda

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Her saying that it’s not needed is proof that it is needed

[-] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Two weeks in and life in America continues. Sounds like Congress is unnif the government has been shut down for two weeks and everything is fine, that means the government in its entirety is unnecessary then. So let's get rid of everyone from top to bottom. From the president down. Give that a spin for awhile.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

Hey look, the thing we all said would happen is about to happen.

[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Ok, let's start by firing the management, since their the most expensive employees

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

WWE isn't needed either. Let's look at the NHL and NFL. Hey! They aren't needed either!

[-] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

No one's gotten polio here since I can remember...guess the vaccines aren't necessary

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

We should replace her with A1.

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

She clearly has no idea what her department even does

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
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