Hey, Donald! Your stewardess (because, come on, does anyone think Il Duce invited Kristi along for that overnight flight to do anything other than serve cocktails?) isn’t listening:
President Trump had threatened to withhold federal funding from any district that didn’t bring students back to class.
Noem says she doesn’t think that is a real possibility [“SD Governor Kristi Noem Working with State Schools on Reopening,” WNAX, 2020.07.20].
Governor Noem sounds like she’s willing to defer to the local school boards and their decisions about what format of learning best serves their needs amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic… but I have to ask: what new information, equipment, facilities, and/or staff have our schools acquired that make opening our K-12 schools for regular face-to-face instruction any less dangerous than it was in March, when Kristi Noem directed every school in the state to shut its doors for the last quarter of the school year?
With her infinite wisdom of leadership, its “pass the buck”.
But is it really a threat when your blindly following orders anyway?
Don passes to Kristi. Kristi passes to mayors. Mayors to school boards and school boards to you. AHA! Just as Donald suspected, it was YOUR fault all along! ;-)
Trump now says wearing a mask is Patriotic. Start the countdown clock! See how long before Thune, Rounds and Noem are seen in public wearing one! (Sorry Dusty, you jumped the gun).
Why aren’t the out-of-state name-callers who usually holler “misogynist” on any blogging they perceive to demean a woman hollering on this blogging?
Has no one here flown when they have male stewards? I admit, they are usually assigned to first class, so perhaps you fellows haven’t seen them.
In fact, the only person to have served 5 presidents on Air Force One is a man.
https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/2019/07/03/ex-air-force-one-steward-reflects-his-time-serving-five-presidents/1637673001/
I wonder if she’d be so quick to thumb a ride on Air Force One after he’s tarred and feathered by thinking American’s vote on Nov. 3rd. All about appearances ya know-don’t wanna associate with a loser ya know..
I think congress should withhold funding to any state for anything that allows gerrymandering, so that makes us even.
If Trump tries to withhold federal funds from schools, every state will immediately sue, saying Trump has legal authority to deny schools their special ed funds. Trump will lose that suit. He probably hasn’t thought about the real nature of federal K-12 aid or any legal basis on which he could withhold those funds.
“He definitely hasn’t thought. Ever. Just whined and felt butthurt.
I say let him cut the funds, then schools CLOSE — no do distance learning, but shut them down.
Here in SD, is our Constitutional obligation to provide for public education dependent on federal assistance? I think President Trump is pulling his old dirty trick of just not paying the bills for the work he has received.
Cory, I had a similar thought should the Governor decide to reduce schools’ funding during the school year. I imagined that one or more districts would sue for those allocated, Constitutionally required funds.
I don’t see going to war with schools as the right political tactic at the state or national level. (Sure it pulls in Grudz, but his support was on lock anyway.) President Trump’s base is not enough to get him re-elected; he must pull in more than that legion of sycophants to get a second term. The national discussion of the past year show that any fringe allegiances he grabbed in 2016 are fleeing like rats off a sinking ship.
Mr. o, you are not paying attention. grudznick did not vote for Mr. Trump in the past elections, and will not in the next one. He is insaner than most, and wish washy, and impolite and undignified. He’s a rude fellow.
Chunky Cheater’s support just barely breaks 40% on 538’s average of polls and that includes tepid support. Gung ho trumpelstilskins are closer to 25%. Just about every move he has made, or weaseled out of making in this time of pandemic has cost him voters. The only thing he’s done well is even more clearly revealed his massive ineptitude, insanity, cruelty and desperation.
grudz – She’s the governess. Grammatically correct.
Trump makes these empty threats all the time. It’s just a bone that he throws out to keep his cult energized. Now I do think districts have to justify how they use those funds. They do have to provide education and other services to students in the targeted program areas. How they do that is tricky in a Covid environment. It can’t be back to normal if there is community spread.
iowa’s bimbo eruption of a guv is nearly as bad as Noem Nothing without direct access to Fake Noize.
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/21/whats-the-matter-with-iowa-gov-kim-reynolds-turns-hawkeye-state-into-trumps-petri-dish/
Knutter Kim wants iowa to be drumpf’s failed proving grounds for elementary school kids forced to risk illness to save drump’s mangy orange hide come November.
Speaking of poo poo….
(A research engineer with the University of Iowa recently found that the state’s nearly 24 million hogs produced more fecal waste per square mile than the entire state of California; in a state of 3 million people, the porcine population pumped out waste equivalent to that produced by 83.7 million.)
governless
As I recall, Dusty wore a mask on July 3rd.