Because of horrible mismanagement, the Rochester City Schools are facing a huge budget shortfall and are laying off teachers to balance their budget. We live in a rich state where the right answer to this problem would be legislation to close the $65 million shortfall along with some kind of oversight by an outside board of management. Instead, we’re going to take a bunch of kids who haven’t had the best start in life and fuck them over.
I hope the other candidates will say something about this–it’s a tragedy.
debbie
Just monstrous.
ThresherK
There’s no chance that Rochester is gonna get the treatment that Detroit, and Benton Harbor (MI), did. Is there?
AxelFoley
Fuck Bernie.
germy
I wonder if they’ll be asked about it during the debate.
I saw this clip of drumpf. Someone should play it at his rallies – the redcap fans would be confused by it:
Mary G
That’ll change their minds. Not. I find it creepy that Melania’s signature looks so much like Twitler’s and was told by a completely unvetted source on Twitter that he doesn’t sign cards for her, which I thought was the logical answer. Allegedly Flotus changed her handwriting to look like his and started using Sharpies on purpose. Creepy af.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Holy shit. From KOS
mad citizen
Sounds like an opportunity for assorted multi multi millionaires, or better yet BILLIONAIRES, to make it right.
zhena gogolia
@AxelFoley:
Haha, thanks.
NotMax
@Mary G
Anything to save on stamps.
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zhena gogolia
Maxine Waters is really good.
debbie
@germy:
Yowsa! Lots of aging over the past 10 years.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
So is Hines (CT) who’s speaking now.
I listened to most of the speakers. Someone should string together all the GOP statements. They’d sound even stupider than Trump.
germy
germy
@debbie:
The decline becomes more obvious when you see old clips like this.
zhena gogolia
@debbie:
Himes. He’s terrific. Bonus having Barry Berke in the background.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Mary G: Magic 8-Ball says: “Signs point to yes” (photo)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Cool. Maximum exposure. Maximum humiliation. They’ll even per-empt the Network’s prime time shows.
debbie
@germy:
More so if you go back further. He was on local NYC television practically every day back in the 1980s, and the disparity is shocking. If this is what money and greed do to a person…
debbie
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Good god, her signature mirrors Trump’s!
NotMax
@debbie
Portrait in the attic, however, looks better day by day. Reverse Dorian Gray.
:)
ola azul
@debbie:
Loves me some Maxine: “Did I call for Trump’s impeachment early on? Fucking right I did! And y’know what? I was right.”
Back in early ’17, I wrote a 1,500 word bit for the Sitka Sentinel calling for Trump’s impeachment w/in days after Trump fired Comey, admitted to obstruction of justice in front of Lester Holt and millions a on-lookers, and then confirmed it all in front of his handlers Lavrov and Kisliak in the White House the next day.
Paper refused to print it cuz I refused to excise bit about calling for impeachment (which was, you know, the entire motherfucking point), but will say:
Trump entered White House under a shit-cloud of criminality. It’s just got worse in time gone. Ain’t no shame in seeing things clearly, and tho it’s taken folks awhile to come around to Maxine’s way of thinking, am heartened to see her view vindicated.
It’s insulting for these assholes to claim Dems are hell-bent on impeaching Trump for no reason. The reasons, they are legion. Fucking pick one. Or a couple. Or many. They all answer.
zhena gogolia
“He’s had his head held underwater for three years now!” I wish.
Dan B
I get Bernie’s regular posts on facebook. I like them partly because I suspect he doesn’t write them and because they’re informative.
It doesn’t move the needle on my (lack of) support for him. He has little to no understanding of strategy or of how to win over a large constituency or expand beyond his shouty, purity pony, base. This post about Rochester schools doesn’t recommend an action as simple as notifying key legislators and the governor so the response will be unfocused if there is any action besides feeling angry – something his base seems to live for.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
Found her statement on Twitter:
ola azul
@ola azul:
Should amend “admitted to obstruction of justice” to the more accurate (and representative, to say nothing of illustrative, of Trump’s unconquerable stupidity), “bragged about obstruction of justice”.
debbie
@debbie:
No %$#@ editing!
The above was just a portion of her statement. Here’s the full 3+ minutes:
burnspbesq
If white kids in Brighton and Pittsford were being adversely affected, Albany would make the money appear.
phdesmond
@debbie: i read in the Guardian coverage that she was applauded at the end of her speech. there hasn’t been much applause today.
J R in WV
I’m sorry, but Senator Sanders is very seldom right, and then only by coincidence.