Sure, he was talking to his base yesterday, and he is spouting to them just what he plans to do:
Harris campaign response:
When Vice President Harris says this election is about freedom she
means it. Our democracy is under assault by
criminal Donald Trump: After the last election Trump lost, he sent a mob
to overturn the results.
This campaign, he has promised violence if he loses, the end of our
elections if he wins, and the termination of the Constitution to empower
him to be a dictator to enact his dangerous Project 2025 agenda on
America. Donald Trump wants to take America backward, to a politics of
hate, chaos, and fear - this November America will unite around Vice
President Kamala Harris to stop him.
Project
2025’s proposal for America’s education system would be one of the most
extreme plans yet, calling for eliminating the Department of Education,
getting rid of all teachers unions, and tearing down regulations on
education spending. Far-right “parental rights” organization Moms for Liberty and the anti-union Institute for Education Reform have partnered with Project 2025 to create these proposals.
The first sentence of Project 2025’s
chapter on the Department of Education simply states: “Federal education
policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of
Education should be eliminated.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]
Citing “the path outlined by Milton Friedman
in 1955,” Heritage’s Lindsey Burke advocates for American education
through school vouchers, claiming, “Ultimately, every parent should have
the option to direct his or her child’s share of education funding
through an education savings account (ESA), funded overwhelmingly by
state and local taxpayers, which would empower parents to choose a set
of education options that meet their child's unique needs.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]
Project 2025 seeks to eliminate the National
Education Association’s congressional charter, which allows for the
existence of teachers unions, calling it “a demonstrably radical special
interest group that overwhelmingly supports left-of-center policies and
policymakers.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]
The plan also wants to remove federal
oversight for funds under Title 1, “which provides support for
low-income districts,” instead handling them as “no-strings-attached”
state grants “with no regulation or oversight.” Federal
education funding for students with special needs would “also be
converted to unregulated block grants.” [Bucks County Beacon, 11/20/23]
The proposal also aims at eliminating any
policies implemented under the Obama administration that support
diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives or so-called “critical race
theory,” arguing that CRT specifically disrupts “the values that hold
communities together such as equality under the law and colorblindness.”
[Bucks County Beacon, 11/20/23; Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]
Pennsylvania's governor, Josh Shapiro, is one of the favorites for Harris's VP pick. From where I sit, Shapiro's position on school privatization should eliminate him from the running.
Shapiro
said during the [budget] address that he still supports some form of voucher
funding for students in underperforming school districts to spend
towards “extra tutoring, books and computers, or yes, going to another
school.”
Shapiro
added, “the Senate passed a proposal last year that included important
elements of that, and it’s something I support and consider to be
unfinished business.”
On
social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and
prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on
34 felony counts. . . .
NBC
News’ analysis of all of the former president’s public remarks shows
that his recent statements and social media posts have taken a dark and
aggressive turn.
The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, as the gunman who fired multiple shots with an AR-style rifle in a failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. . . . During the attack, Crooks wore a gray T-shirt with an American flag on
the sleeve, matching merchandise sold by the popular YouTube firearm
channel Demolition Ranch. The channel has over 11 million subscribers
and frequently posts videos about various types of weaponry.
Last evening Lawrence O'Donnell had a video clip of Joe Biden publicly speaking yesterday at AFL-CIO headquarters for 6 minutes without notes or teleprompter. Lawrence's setup begins around 10:20 of the clip from his show, and Biden's impromptu remarks end at 19:25. The remaining four minutes are pretty priceless, so watch the rest--please.
O'Donnell notes that this video was available yesterday to all networks, channels, stations, URLs, etc., but no one in the media, not one outlet bothered to show Joe Biden walking normally or speaking normally in public. This self-imposed blindness by the news media provides a prime example of what can happen when the most common cognitive bias-- which is confirmation bias-- sets in at an institutional level. Any evidence that does not confirm the breathless conclusion formed during and just after the first presidential debate is summarily ignored. And it was a performance by Biden that actually confirmed an already strongly-held
hypothesis made possible by months and months of hammering the
proposition that Joe Biden is too old to be President.
The corporate media echo chamber, led by the New York Times and Washington's Amazon Post, is now so invested in destroying Joe Biden's candidacy that they cannot or will not see any evidence that runs contrary to the news story (now a fortnight old), a news story that has now taken on the full dress of a major propaganda campaign designed to poison public opinion about Joe Biden, all for the purpose of confirming a conclusion made possible by a 90 minute debate performance.
So as knowledge is the only remedy for beliefs that do not depend upon evidence (all the evidence), have a 10 minute lesson in what the corporate media is not telling the world. And someone call Mr. Clooney and let him know that it's alright for him to come out from under his blankie and watch, along with the adults.
How about this headline that actually matches what we find in the text that follows: No change: Evaluating the short-term impact of the first presidential debate on voter preferences
Here is a brief clip from the new research:
The predominant pattern we see in the data is stability in voters’ preferences.Overall, 94% of those who chose Biden and 86% of those who chose Trump in our May survey still preferred the same candidate after the debate. There was a small rate of change from Biden to Trump or vice versa –less than 3% shifted in either direction. We observed more churn between those who favored either Biden or Trump and the “Other” category. About 4% of Biden’s and 6% of Trump’s supporters in the earlier wave shifted to “Other” post-debate. At the same time, 6% of “Other” shifted to Biden, and another 6% shifted to Trump.
Will this research be reported on or even acknowledged by the New York Times?
