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Remember Unite the Right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#/media/File%3ACharlottesville_'Unite_the_Right'_Rally_(35780274914)_crop.jpg Remember this guy? https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/15/politics/kevin-hunter-seefried-confederate-flag-capitol-riot/index.html Kind of weird how all of the states with confederate memorials are deep red, eh? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You’re citing a group literally founded and funded by white supremacists and eugenics promoters. This is the founder of FAIR: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tanton Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m in one of the most conservative cities in America. Taxes aren’t high enough. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’d say paying teachers a shit wage is a pretty clear lack of respect. An entry level teaching position at the elementary schools my kids will attend pays less than a third of the median household income in my zip code. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lack of funding from the states and federal government. See: Reagan, Ronald. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

High costs = lack of qualified teachers to teach them. Teachers used to be able to go to school for very little and have a well paying job when they graduated, with very little or any debt. Now, they have massive debt and are paid very little relative to the cost of living in their school district. So, no one wants to be a teacher anymore. Turnover is incredibly high, particularly among younger teachers. Turns out, crippling debt isn’t what they had in mind when they decided to become a teacher. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Maybe the cost of higher education has something to do with that? The generations that had the highest rate of GI Bill usage and lowest tuition had the highest educational attainment. Shocker. Here’s an article about it from those uber-libs at AARP: https://blog.aarp.org/bulletin-today/u-s-global-education-rankings-slipping-boomers-once-held-strong-lead Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You’re failing to take into account the simple fact that other countries developed their economies and governments to fund education at rates similar to ours. If other countries had remained static, we might still be at or near the top. They didn’t, so we didn’t. Combined with cultures that actually care about education, that’s a recipe for massive improvement in all sectors of academic achievement. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My dad paid like $360 per semester for tuition at Penn State in the early 1970s. He literally paid for each school year (including housing) in its entirety, by working for the athletic department, at minimum wage, each summer. Also, as an Illinois graduate, that tweet pains me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“Once the gov got involved”. So, since the beginning of publicly funded education in the US? The 1700s? US attainment relative to the rest of the world has dropped because our public funding of education has actually dropped (as a percentage of GDP) while other countries outspend us and/or keep increasing their funding. Then, combined with cultures that actually value education, they magically get better results. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Try reading what he wrote. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You are the perfect mark. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So why is it that the many, many judges appointed by Trump, including three on the SCOTUS, dismissed his allegations of voter fraud? Time and time and time again. Could it be, as in the case of Rudy Giuliani, that he simply didn’t have any proof of what he said, and just made shit up? Seriously. Have you ever considered the possibility that both of them just lied to the American public? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wyoming gets one electoral vote per ~150,000 people. The Dakotas, one per 190k and 210k. Alaska, one per 175k. In Texas or California, it’s one per 500,000+. NJ, one per 439k, PA one per 490k. Rural, low population areas are given unreasonably high representation in the electoral college. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Following the lead of Alex Jones, another guy that Willie didn’t think was all that bad. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have to ask you: Have you actually seen how produce is harvested? Because I've worked and lived in multiple areas with significant undocumented immigrant populations. It's all manual labor. There aren't any machines doing that work. It's men and women working in orchards picking your apples and cherries, groves picking your oranges, fields picking your lettuce.

Masking agents have been added to the WADA/USADA banned lists in great numbers in recent years. I have to ask, when was this?

The difference between what Lance Armstrong did and what a middle school, high school or college wrestler would be able to do is night and day. A team of actual scientists and doctors helped him get his blood values right up to the legal limits, and keep them there. Which in itself would have triggered a modern day biological passport violation. And, despite the public perception that he never failed a drug test, he did, and retroactive (post-retirement) analysis of his blood samples with modern techniques has detected the presence of multiple substances that, individually, would've resulted in 2 year bans.

Based on what, exactly? What personal knowledge of anti-doping science do you have that leads you to question the legitimacy or accuracy of testing performed on NCAA athletes?

If you can detain someone based on the color of their skin and suspected national origin, yeah, that's pretty problematic. I mean, you're literally conducting a search and seizure with no specific, actual crime in mind, and hoping to arrive at a crime after the fact. That's insane. Something something 4th Amendment.

I won’t pretend to know the level of training of the average LEO. Let’s get that out of the way right now. Friend of mine is a State Trooper. Been on the force for more than a decade. He gets to the range once, maybe twice a year. Last time I saw him he told me he’d put more rounds into dying deer, elk and bears along the roadside than paper targets that year. In the military, your training (in an infantry unit) is exhaustive. It identifies those ill suited and removed them. Those that can be reformed and remediated are trained up to standard. You carry a loaded weapon, all the time, at the low ready, and shoot regularly. Radio use and etiquette. You work on battle drills, movement, actions-on-contact scenarios, etc. You know who combatants are, when you must render aid. I would imagine this is very different than the average patrolman. So, is Parkland LEO prepared to enter a complex, unknown scenario? Likely not. I get any reservations he or she might have. However, you never, ever have perfect knowledge of a situation. Your job, regardless of what the courts say it is, is to save little kids from being shot to death. That said, holy shit, man. Uvalde cops? Should be fired to the last man. I don’t believe in capital punishment. But in cases of pure cowardice, by armed men, I might be fine with them bringing back the old Roman tradition of decimation. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Actually, that is still a crime which can be charged as a capital offense. Misbehavior before the enemy, and desertion. Purportedly, COs were more likely to just execute people on the battlefield in WWII than bother to actually press charges. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think Texas will rethink this when their economy crumbles. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do you have the same body now, that you had at 21? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Willie is never going to respond to this; he has no ability to read anything other than quick talking points from Twitter and quite literally can't comprehend the difference between making claims in a hearing vs providing proof in a court of law.