The Senate is voting on whether to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief, a role that would place her atop a department President Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle.

Idiocracy is unfolding right before US.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    3 hours ago

    McMahon will face the competing tasks of winding down the Education Department while also escalating efforts to achieve Trump’s agenda. Already the Republican president has signed sweeping orders to rid America’s schools of diversity programs and accommodations for transgender students while also calling for expanded school choice programs.

    At the same time, Trump has promised to shut down the department and said he wants McMahon “to put herself out of a job.”

    Go team! Asinine to the very end. We will not become a failed state. /s

  • wanderwisley@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    The only thing Linda can do is ignore her husband’s cheating and human trafficking, and taking a stone cold stunner.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 day ago

    And I still have to go to fucken work every day like shit is normal. We should be camped out at the capital.

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      12·
      1 day ago

      we know you are all concerned about the political climate but it would be better for us if you just did your best to ignore it at work - - work leadership last meeting after saying here’s a place that’s tracking if funding we need gets cut 🤷

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      1 day ago

      And I still have to go to fucken work every day like shit is normal.

      This has become more and more difficult for me as the days go on… Despondent is the only word I can think to describe it.

      It’s just hard to care about anything else when our house is on fire

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Stop doing it. I’m organizing in my state. Planning to go to DC. You should do the same.

  • danekrae@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 day ago

    That reminds me, I need to hire a gardener for my lawn, that my neighbor is in the process of illegally paving.

    I know how to prioritize, much smart…

    • Moose@moose.best
      5·
      1 day ago

      Nah, this is closer to hiring a gardener for your lawn that YOU’RE in the process of illegally paving over. There’s no external 3rd party forcing the closure of the Department of Education, it’s all Trump’s actions.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        Gianforte assaulted a reporter for asking him a question and Montana said “yeah we want that guy for governor.”

  • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

    She is unqualified for the role, but qualified to dismantle the department of education. Things may seem dire, but don’t let this woman distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.