Elon Musk says Department of Education no longer ‘exists’
Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (D-CT) joins Michael Steele as the Trump administration prepares to gut the Department of Education.
Elon's latest crusade against the Department of Education plays like a Silicon Valley remix of Atlas Shrugged – all disruption theater masking a fundamental disdain for public infrastructure. Dissolving federal oversight would turbocharge the existing educational caste system, where zip codes determine destiny and critical thinking gets outsourced to charter school grifters.
The student loan rage reeks of survivorship bias from someone who cashed out an emerald mine privilege card. Decrying "bureaucracy" while building rocket empires on government contracts is peak hypercapitalist cognitive dissonance. Local control sounds quaint until you realize which local oligarchs get to rewrite history textbooks.
This isn't innovation – it's demolition derby governance. The rubble left behind would make great feedstock for AI training data, though.
My right wing college prof was ecstatic about this. Wanted bibles in schools and paddles for spanking too.
Oklahoma just introduced a bill to ban corporal punishment for children on IEPs. It’s currently entirely legal to paddle any child - disabled or not.
Kinda weird for a teacher to want to be spanked but I'm not gonna yuck his yum
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Something tells me he hasn't looked at how his college pays the bills.
Or who runs student loans.
Eeewwwhh leave the sex stuff at home please. Sir this is a wendys
Sir, this is a Weimar.
(Pronunciation makes the meme not work as well as it should.)
yeah because the last thing America needs is an education
Fuck you, Musk. The Department of Education is approved and funded by Congress who we voted for! You're an unelected piece of shit Nazi fighting against literal knowledge.
Why burn a book when you can burn down the entire library?
I walk past the rubble that used to be a library only bring to mind cemetery now
The dumbass thinks getting a college degree means you are already failing or something.
He's suuuuuuch a dipshit, but also a complete asshole.
I don't understand. Does he think that people can somehow learn a lot of shit by reading part-time for a year? That is fucking impossible. I went to university to learn accounting and it was the most grueling thing I have ever done academically. I never got my accounting job, but I did prove I can survive through very hard and demanding work.
This fucker just can't do shit.
A safe, healthy, and broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.
Once all of this damage is done there will be people who wonder why they can never get ahead in life. Why so many roads towards wealth have been cut off from them.
The days from the 80s to today, especially this recent event, are what lead to it. But sadly they’ll be so uneducated that even this they will not understand.
Like being in a prison whose walls you cannot see and whose bars you cannot feel. There is no greater wealth than education, no greater poverty than ignorance.
Once all of this damage is done there will be people who wonder why they can never get ahead in life. Why so many roads towards wealth have been cut off from them.
That day has been here since the mid 2000s. More than half the country lives paycheck to paycheck with less than 1k saved, and will be stuck there working until they die.
Damn am I high af or is that last line just summing things up so beautifully..
I am glad to finally see people on social media actually pointing out how our education system has been systematically under attack for decades to make a more malleable gullible voter base and preparing future voters with propaganda early
Por que no los dos?
Ngl, this post kind of saddened me. I don’t want to believe it, but the possibility of what you’re saying being true is bleak to me.
These same people will vote for qons even harder, assuming we even have free and fair elections. Why? I'm sure it will be for very stupid reasons, like seeing a trans women in sports somewhere, even if it's not even in this country. Or because they thought Hollywood "talked down to them" or whatever the fuck.
They might be forced to move out of their trailer and take up "urban camping". They and their kids may have no food, no clean water, and no health care, but by Zeus, they'll be ahead of those Blas and those trans and those Mexicans!
It’s going to be worse than that. AI may take your job, automation will dramatically advance, and you will be left with little more than the virtual realities created by some corporation to fill your day with. Ready Player 1 may have the most realistic future.
It started in the 70s, but yeah.
Goosebumps man.. what a comment.
Just wow.
Didn't he come here on a student visa?
What an ungrateful bastard
The man is backing a man who vows to end electric cars and increase our reliance on fossil fuels.
The man sells electric cars.
This man obviously doesn't have his head screwed on straight.
He did sell electric cars.
Now he sells space access and likely an AI built on all US government records soon.
Doesn’t matter. He has his fingers in the treasury. He has all the money, what good are silly businesses to him now?
He creates shareholder value. That's all that publically trades companies do. It's their goal.
Everything else is just ways they attempt to do that, and someone like Elon does it with hype, since the agencies that are supposed to prevent such nonsense abandoned their responsibilities a long time ago.
Tesla stocks are now a ponzi scheme. At some point, someone'll be left holding the bag.
TSLA is just a front for securities fraud.
In all liklihood, this is a ploy to sell and rebuy tesla stocks to become the world's first trillionaire faster than the other robber barons who have achieved the green light from America's fascist movement.
“Got mine. Fuck you.” - Elmo
Don’t insult Elmo. Elon Musk would get his ass kicked off Sesame Street
Best believe that Elmo would cut a bitch if he ever got to Sesame Street.
The cons in that sub believe the department should be gone as it steals money and indoctrinates kids. They say test scores haven’t gone up so what’s the point.
They also say America went to the moon in 69 and the doe was invented in the 70s. Therefore it’s not needed.
They never really say this exactly but I believe they are fine with getting the money but want it no strings attached. This is an old objection, such as from Title IX and the ADA.
You should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and walk right in even if you’re mobility impaired. Only boys want to play sports: why waste money on girls? Our priority is a new stadium at this top school: why do we have to put money into this failing school? Why can’t we use education money for religious indoctrination and just leave us public school for the poors? /s
Then you’ll see some sort of contorted logic about divisive inclusiveness and unfair equity
Or at least this new attempt to destroy Education looks a lot like those older complaints
"They also say America went to the moon in 69 and the doe was invented in the 70s. Therefore it’s not needed."
Maybe if they were actually educated, they'd realize an anecdote aint worth shit 🤷♀️
For what’s worth, DoE was established in 1979.
A federally managed DoE goes all the way back to 1867 - it became a cabinet-level department with a specified 'Secretary of Education' in 1979.
Well, if the one who holds my loans doesn't exist, I suppose I can just not pay them.
Joe Biden canceled student debt by running for president again and getting Trump reelected so the department of education could be destroyed. /s
No, they will make sure you pay
At what point is violence the correct response?
Nobody has the intention to build a wall eat the rich.
8 years ago
Yes
A few years ago
NOW
Comme on, Democrats, run someone in every fuckin district of every fuckin state and just run excerpts of this fucker on repeat, s maybe victory in the house and Senate in two years - is there still are elections by then - will be the only way these shitstains might be stopped
But then they might anger rich people:(
maybe victory in the house and Senate in two years - is there still are elections by then - will be the only way these shitstains might be stopped
So they can do whatever they want for 2 years and nobody will stop them.
Great so now they can privatize student loans. I was going to go back to school at age 40 and get my bachelors degree
I hope this is /s
The interest rate on those private loans are going to be much higher and more difficult to obtain than the government backed ones
Exactly I wonder how much higher they’ll be and if they will basically make college only affordable for those who are super rich and needs loans and I’m sure there will be a sharp decline in college admissions which is what the super rich want. Keep the poor and middle class uneducated and fighting with each other
And if it is private you can file for bankruptcy, right? Right?
In Canada they closed that loophole in the 90's
Funny, because their website is still up and looks normal.
Maybe he means "won't exist for much longer"? But if that's the case then describing it as "no longer exists" shows either a poor grasp of language or a deeply flawed understanding of the past, present, and future.
It effectively doesn’t exist if all the people are gone. Legally he can’t remove an agency that Congress created, but legally he can’t get rid of employees without due process nor can he choose not to distribute money Congress allocated. Legally. But enforcement is throught the courts and Congress so we’re screwed
His brain is probably fucked from the amount of ketamine he has used. When rich bastards like musk use drugs its never a normal amount of too much its usually a how the fuck are you still alive amount.
The department of education do have a lot to answer for. If Americans were properly educated and able to parse opinions and bullshit out of Fox News articles Trump and Musk wouldn't be running the country in the first place.
Are you aware that Education is mostly a state and local thing? Federal Education money helps in places where money is lacking but they can’t really do much besides put strings on that money
If Americans were properly educated and able to parse opinions and bullshit out of Fox News
You’ll find many Americans who do fit this. They’re from locales that take education seriously and they do tend to be Liberal since that has turned into a code word about caring for anyone beside yourself
Federal money has helped a lot despite its very limited authority. Kids with disabilities are required to be able to get some kind of education, schools must offer some sort of girls sports, schools must support federal school lunch program, schools must be accredited, kids who can’t afford college can get help, etc
More effective ways to fix education might include
expand national standardized testing like SAT to happen at more levels, and focus on grading the schools, not the kids
No - this is part of the problem. We aren’t allowed to teach anymore. I taught chemistry, but I was told that I needed to focus on the ACT - like, I needed to regularly incorporate entirely unrelated material for test prep.
Elementary school is even worse. Science and social studies are deprioritized because the big testing is on reading and math.
GOP once again
They've been doing everything they can to degrade the department of education for 40 years.
Something George Carlin kept warning us about for nearly his entire life and now it's here
Congrats, you fell into the trap.
The trap of observing that Americans are poorly educated and poorly informed generally? Well I am sorry
