I was going to ask if this means I no longer have to pay back my student loans, but of course I know better than that.
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Shit is getting done so scattershot, I think there's a really, really good chance that a lot of records are going to fall through the cracks or "fall through the cracks" as different databases are deleted, offices closed, code based altered, and agencies demolished.
Would be funny af if some madlad goes maliciouscompliance and deletes all records on student loans or something like that.
Thats the goal.
Evennif somehow there is another election, everything will be too broken to even begin to repair it.
In case anyone is still wondering if Republicans are enemies of the United States of America, you need not wonder anymore.
Suprise to know their even was one.
The executive order’s a symbolic gesture—Congress won’t scrap the Department outright. But the subtext? Steady erosion. Shift student debt oversight to Treasury, pare back civil rights investigations, let federal education funds atrophy. States then fill the vacuum: red ones push vouchers, defund “woke” curricula, blue ones scramble to plug gaps.
The playbook’s transparent. Undermine trust in public institutions, then offer “choice” as salvation. Rural GOP districts take the bait, then recoil when their Title I lunches and special ed services evaporate. Even conservatives quietly rely on federal data systems and grant streams—hypocrisy’s baked in.
Latest school choice expansions? Distraction tactics. Real damage accrues in the margins: disabled students lose protections, civil rights complaints backlog, teacher retention plummets. ED’s survived 40 years of GOP vitriol because dismantling it’s all optics, no payoff.
Predictable cycle. Provoke outrage, let chaos incentivize privatization. Rinse, repeat.
The executive order’s a symbolic gesture—Congress won’t scrap the Department outright.
You're wrong. They will not wait for Congress to do anything.
Who the fuck is going to stop them, you?
The playbook’s transparent. Undermine trust in public institutions, then offer “choice” as salvation.
So that's the game
Been the Republicans game for as long as I can remember.
"The government sucks, it's too big, and it's broken. Elect me so I can break it more to prove I was right"
Congress doesn't need to be okay with it if Elon's cronies waltz in and kick everyone out.
It's crazy that people still don't seem to understand this.
The White House is drafting ~~an executive order~~ a royal decree to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump's ~~long-standing pledge~~ long con.
~~Critics~~ An overwhelming consensus of experts, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.
Trump also recently signed ~~an order expanding school choice~~ a decree lowering educational standards, reinforcing the Republican agenda of ~~decentralizing education policy~~ dismantling public secular education in favor of religious and political indoctrination.
There, fixed the "we must obscure reality by using their terms so they won't come after us next" cowardice.
Congress is required for all sorts of shit that Elon is doing but that isn’t stopping Elon.
Laws are not some sort of natural force. They are implemented by people and all of those people are either fascists or cowards.
Trumps immunity plus his pardon power make him king. All of his minions can do all the illegal things they want. Trump can then pardon them and he isn’t liable for their crimes if he is doing something roughly in line with his duties are President. John Roberts fucked us all.
The only way this is going to be solved is by people power. Organize. Fight these fascists.
They already blocked organization by controlling the mass media and major social platforms are in cahoots.
Facebook, Twitter/X and tiktok all pushed trump and hid Kamala during the campaign. Not to mention the influencers that got paid to push Trump.
Any type of hashtag or trend that tries to fight back is just going to get pushed down in "the algorithm" or straight up blocked (search kamala on twitter)
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This is exactly why musk is not appointed, he can't be impeached and as you said DOJ and pardons will protect him.
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If the Federal Government doesn’t want to be responsible for anything, why even be a country? Each state be their own I guess /s
Also are they going to reduce taxes for all the cuts? Doubt it, but states would have to make increases to cover all the new work.
we live in the dumbest timeline.
Literally what the fuck are we paying taxes for, they are dismantling every bit of representation of the people possible. Well only have ruch fucks and bombs left to pay for.
Right, but do away with the federal income tax, and good luck ever getting it back. That would be the final nail in the coffin, and the end of the United States of America.
Dude, the US is already cooked. I'm not seeing a way back from this.
The US is already over mate.
Legitimately considering calling my HR and changing my tax status so I don't pay any tax on my paychecks. I won't be filing. Why in the actual fuck would I continue to pay taxes. I cant even tell what it would go towards at this point. Can someone honestly tell me? Where are the taxes taken off my next paycheck going to go? I could just buy a blue checkmark if I wanted to enrich elon directly.
Literally DONT pay taxes.
Unless they do away with the IRS altogether, they'll still use it as a cudgel against the poors, and political foes. I would not count on there being no enforcement there.
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You laugh, this is literally Curtis Yarvin's (one of Elon's mentors) vision of America. A patchwork of corporatocratic fiefdoms, technically beholden to a federal government that basically only exists to be the arm of violence. The whole "no authority higher than a county sheriff" thing? Came out of his books. The idea of being "educated" will only be for the vaunted manager-class. All of us not lucky enough to be in the millionaire's club, or one of their trusted lackeys, will be lucky to know how to read beyond a 3rd-grade level, or do math beyond simple arithmetic.
So, neofeudalism.
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It might be worth mentioning that Andrew Johnson signed the Department of Education into law in 1867. It was elevated to a cabinet position in 1979 by Carter from it's previous position within the Department of Health, Education, And Welfare.
The idea that the government has a constitutional interest in fostering the education of the public is NOT a new thing contrary to what conservatives would have you believe. An educated populace is an essential function of a representative democracy.
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Good luck to your kids and grandkids, education is fucked. Back to the feudal times where only royalty and the rich were educated. If this passes I am not paying student loans anymore. The department that issued them will be gone so why pay.
I'm not eorried about it.
The planet is already going to purge humanity from its face by 2050 or so anyway from the Climate Change crisis.
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