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

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.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 天前

    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·
      2 天前

      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.

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 天前

      I honestly believe that things would be worse if he had gotten shot. Trump is a despicably vile human being from every single angle, but he’s also senile, incredibly incompetent and narcissistic to the point it interferes with his goals.

      A Vance presidency would be much worse, imho. The same goals, but not nearly as plagued with mental issues.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 天前

        Maybe. Or maybe Vance is just clinging to power how he can. I suspect from past quotes of his, he cares about what people think of him to the extent that it advances his power grabs. He might not be brazen enough to be this evil without the right kind of pressure. Who knows.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        5·
        2 天前

        Nah, Harris would have won the election, and MAGA would have ended.

        The MAGAs would have gone nuts, of course, they react on instinct, like the feral animals they are, but they are a Cult of Personality, and without Trump, they will peter out fairly quickly. They would continue on for a while, causing trouble like the KKK, but they’d have little to no power, and would have faded into history.

        Instead, the kid missed, leaving them the opportunity to steal the election.

        • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 天前

          Maybe you’re right, I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I see Trump more as the symptom of the rot than the cause itself.

          • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
            2·
            1 天前

            Sure, Trump’s death won’t end Conservative treason, corruption, and racism, but it will take away the lightning rod that attracted them all together.