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Trump announces he will defund public schools if they don’t obey him as president. https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1847258621274415258?s=09

TRUMP JUST SAID HE WOULD CLOSE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, AND DEFUND SCHOOLS THAT TEACH SLAVERY AND THE GENOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS!!!  https://x.com/MentallyDivine/status/1847266058475835747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1847266058475835747%7Ctwgr%5E532db3bdec802f92fb820938ff94aca9ede6de55%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themarysue.com%2Fthen-we-dont-send-them-money-donald-trump-says-hell-defund-schools-that-teach-about-slavery%2F

What we are talking about. How YOUR vote matters, and why your vote is IMPORTANT.

Trump vs. Slavery, American Indians & American History – His Big Intention To Lie, and Uneducate American Children. His wish to punish those who do not follow this doctrine. What it means to our U.S. future and how it shapes the World’s narrative.

During a live appearance on Fox & Friends, Donald Trump promised to get rid of the Department of Education and defund schools that teach about America’s history of slavery or other topics that go against right-wing ideology.

Despite denying any ties to Project 2025, Trump has repeatedly confirmed he will adhere to its plans to shut down the U.S. Department of Education. For decades, the Department of Education has aided in funding public education, including allocating money to high-poverty schools and students with disabilities and working to promote educational excellence and access to education. However, conservatives have long targeted it because they believe it’s funding the teaching of “woke” ideology in schools. Trump previously stated on the matter, “We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth with all sorts of things that you don’t want to have our youth hearing.”

There are many obstacles to abolishing the Department of Education, as federal funding only makes up a small portion of school funds, and it may be difficult to get Congress to approve such an act. However, the Trump administration is still determined to control federal funding of schools, with Trump himself admitting he will abuse this power to defund any schools that don’t teach the curriculum Republicans want to be taught.

Donald Trump wants conservatives to control public school curriculum.

During an appearance on Fox & Friends, the topic of education arose. Trump once again confirmed his plans to abolish the Department of Education, stating, “We’re going to take the Department of Education and close it. I’m gonna close it.” He then starts saying something about how the Department of Education will be replaced with “one person” to take up its duties. However, one of the hosts interrupts him, asking, “So, let’s say you have a liberal city … and they just decide, ‘Oh, we’re going to get rid of that history. We have ‘new history’ that this is America built off the backs of slaves on stolen land.’”

What the host is really asking is what Trump will do if schools teach American history. As much as conservatives want to deny it, slavery and Indigenous people are a part of American history. It’s not “new history.” It’s simply history that doesn’t erase Black and Indigenous people as conservatives want. However, Trump confirmed that schools that teach these topics will be defunded. He says, “Then we don’t send them money.”

It’s interesting how Trump and Republicans claim to be so against federal funding but now want the government to pick and choose which schools get funds based on how well they bend to the conservative agenda. Regardless of whether the Trump administration can actually do this, it’s alarming that it openly intends to try to do it. Conservative attacks on public education have been rising recently, with conservative states pushing to censor the teaching of African American history and ban any mention of LGBTQ+ topics in schools. Florida has even pushed to ban the teaching or mention of menstruation in schools. Meanwhile, a book-banning movement has spread nationwide, causing thousands of books to be pulled from shelves. Most often, books are banned for merely acknowledging LGBTQ+ topics, race, American history, BIPOC individuals, disabilities, and women’s issues.

Now, we have a man running for President who vows to defund any school that teaches uncensored American history. Sadly, it’s not entirely surprising. Conservatives have been pushing censorship in schools for years, even going so far as to redact entire chapters of textbooks and send police officers into classrooms to see if banned books are being taught. Their end goal is to force every public school in America to teach their religious and political ideals while raising the next generation to genuinely believe that racism, slavery, and genocide never happened or existed in America.

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I don’t even know where to begin on how insulting, and ignorant, his ideology is on so many disturbing levels.

To erase OUR true Country’s history and brainwash our children, or punish other children due to your prejudice, racist, xenophobic beliefs is simply down right wrong.

Even though we talk about the Black slaves, there were so many more slaves as well. America was built and made on the backs and minds of so many slaves, Blacks, Asian, Mexican, Irish, Whites, and Children. This is a well DOCUMENTED FACT. It is a part of OUR history. America was stolen from the Indigenous Indians, and fought for against the Mexicans. Negotiated for with the French, English, and Spanish.

There is ZERO way you can, should, or want to whitewash this REAL HISTORY. It is through our growth, perserverence, and acceptance that we have ALL made and make America great.

To whitewash OUR real history, is shameful and delusional. Even more disturbing is that you would lie to our children about their origin, as if we were some Communist, or Dictatorship, or Totalitarian, ran country. No longer based on Democracy, Truth, and Freedom.

Also, with almost everyone on the planet having access to the internet, how would you expect to perpetuate this mind boggling ingnorant lie? Who the hell would go along with this???

Then the worst of it is you would willingly punish children and teachers by WITHHOLDING TAX PAYER FUNDS TO SCHOOLS who did not COMPLY WITH YOUR LIE to LIE TO OUR CHILDREN?!?!?!!!

On what planet is this right?

It is up there with not believing in Evolution of man, or the Sun rising in the East, and setting in the West. It is morally bankrupt and beyond corrupt. It is impure in its entirety from concept to execution. It is simply wrong.

Telling these lies, or denying the truth of OUR history, would be like telling children at 8am, there is no moon, and the earth doesn’t rotate, so there will be no night. Yet at 11pm, they are in the dark outside.

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CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Rachel Ulatowski for The Mary Sue

https://l.smartnews.com/p-2H64A/UvM0UX

(Article includes several links of actual footage from interview, and various commentary with videos)

We follow a few interesting great Podcasts. One is The Rest is Politics US podcast (@RestPoliticUS) on YouTube with British Journalist Katty Kay and American financier, and the Former White House Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci.

The other Podcast on YouTube is The Chris Como Project. By Chris Como.

An American television journalist anchor at NewsNation, based in New York City. He has previously been the ABC News chief law and justice correspondent and the co-anchor for ABC’s 20/20, news anchor for Good Morning America from 2006 to 2009,[3] and an anchor at CNN, where he co-hosted its morning show New Day from 2013 through May 2018, before moving to Cuomo Prime Time in June 2018.

Both of these widely respected, and popular podcasts brought up almost identical commentary when discussing Trump, the U.S. and the World Stage recently.

Trump and his cohorts are agressively trying to alienate the U.S. Alienate us from our allies, and divide us from within at the same time. Meanwhile, the World is watching.

It was mentioned frequently by all parties, that the World is WATCHING OUR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS VERY CLOSELY, as the outcome will have lasting impact to not just our country, but their countries as well.

The sentiment is, ‘if Trump were to win, and alienate us from our Allies, and court dictator regimes… a NEW Superpower would look to fill the void of the United States’. His possible future presidency is being viewed as throwing the World Markets, and World Safety, into chaos, and destruction. Creating damage that would take lifetimes to repair.

This is serious. It is a sentiment that is shared by World Leaders around the globe. That includes many of our own U.S. Leaders in Government, Military, and Commerce.

Look, I don’t care if there are some people that want to put blinders on to his CONVICTED MULTIPLE CRIMES, and IMPENDING MULTIPLE POSSIBLE CONVICTIONS, or his endless constant hate, lies, grievances and rhetoric. But, we can’t let the ‘few ignorant’ destroy the ‘many’. That is where we are at.

I can’t say this enough.

When WE VOTE, we must VOTE FOR OUR RIGHTS to be PROTECTED, and RESTORED to People, to Women, for all People, and for ALL OF  OUR FUTURES! That starts from the lowest office to the highest. We need to elect officials that want to work across the party lines, towards a unified America. Every vote counts, and every person nominated for political office vote counts. If you want to make a CHANGE FOR OUR COUNTRY, YOU NEED TO START at the LOWEST OFFICE in CITY/TOWNSHIP and work your way up to the top office, The Office of the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. Every office matters!

That is how you create change for YOUR FUTURE. For ALL of OUR FUTURES both Domestic and Abroad.

We share this rock we call home, Earth. What affects one, affects ALL. Now more than ever.

Thank you for reading. As always please feel free to comment, or ask questions. Have a great night.

Leila