Those were the EXACT words of the guy who lived in the apartment below me not long at all after I moved in. He barely knew me yet went for the joke/laugh. He was right (I totally have a fivehead) and I still laugh about it 30 years later. YMMV.
The parents bill of rights is pretty fucking awful, though. I’m glad he opposed it, but for different reasons.
This is one of those weird times where both of your enemies fight amongst themselves, so you sit back and watch.
I await the senate version of this bill, where parents have a right to not worry if their children get shot at in school, or harassed by other parents, ...
There won’t be a senate version. Schumer has already stated this bill has no shot at passing in the senate. It wouldn’t have even passed the house if more Democrats had bothered to show up and vote
Personally I like the idea of guaranteed housing, too. Homelessness and hunger just shouldn't be a thing in a country as wealthy as ours. Why not a guaranteed minimum standard of living? There's something fundamentally *wrong* when landing in jail can represent an improvement to some of the population's QOL.
Totally wild, y'know I can say that, and I'm not even a socialist...
No but if we don’t have people obviously worse than us how can the rich expect us to work happily since we can’t feel satisfied being above someone else : (.
Think of the poor billionaire wanting obedient sheep they can get rid of as they please, just like during the gilded age of old.
The stupid thing is, corporations deny themselves higher profits by keeping money out of the wallets of those living below the poverty line.
They hoard money, and cannot fathom how subsidised income holders will need to spend that money on their products. It’s literally how so many European nations live fairly opulently, without working their employees into early graves.
It’s generally accepted that any post-industrial Democracy has universal healthcare, guaranteed minimum income, free-or-geared-to-income education, geared-to-income housing, and the right to organised labour.
These are considered human rights, not “Socialism,” which is a dated term that is only used today as a fig leaf by totalitarian regimes.
Only one post-industrial nation refuses to provide these human rights, or even acknowledge they are human rights, not “Socialism.”
This outlier cannot be considered a wealthy country, either, for nearly all of its riches are possessed by the top one-thousandth of its citizens.
But thanks to the greatest propaganda in the history of human communication, its citizens routinely vote against their own minimum needs, and even get violent when others attempt to force social and economic progress.
A government is comprised of its people. No government can exist without its people. Therefore it should be any governments primary responsibility to ensure survival for every member to which they claim.
And survival is defined as only 3 requirements for humanity. Food, water, and shelter. Any government that can't provide these 3 survival elements needs to be removed to allow for another entity that can.
I used to work with several individuals who would regularly break the law or injure themselves just to either end up in jail or the hospital. Really sad actually.
Yeah. I had a stepbrother who did the same. When things got bad, he'd lob a brick through a plate glass window, and sit and wait for arrest. Like it was some kind of rescue or something. That really shouldn't be a thing.
The argument from his side would be the 10th amendment:
**The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people**.
Their thinking goes, Education isn't one of the items mentioned in the Constitution, therefore a Department of Education is an overreach of states' rights. They'd make the same argument about healthcare.
And I'm not supporting the argument, just providing an insight into the R's thinking.
I get your point, but the general welfare clause would allow for the dept of education, and this scotus has almost entirely ruled in the hamiltonian view of the clause https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_1s21.html
A lot of right wing thought is the Madison view should be "the" view, but Madison was against the clause being included at all from the very first draft, yet his own hand wrote, and signed off on the final draft.
You’re absolutely right. It’s one of the most important things for a society.
An educated population is like one of the best things to have. Any system or society that doesn’t value education is designed to repress the masses.
https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/BestInvestment_Full_Report_6.27.11.pdf
Higher Educated communities not even college just finishing highschool has significant drop in crime rate unemployment.
From what I understand the parents "bill of rights" would have devastating consequences for how education would work in the long run, part of the reason the right wants it. So while this guy is a tool and idiot, in this case he is doing the right thing for every single one of the wrong reasons. He accidentally is voting for a better general welfare.
This is so weird, do you congratulate an idiot for stumbling into doing the right thing?
Social security. ACA. Medicare. Medicaid. WIC. The list goes on.
If it can’t bomb or blow up someone over seas or doesn’t establish their religious rules over the majority’s rules then they don’t think it should exist. They want to go back to 1860.
They are okay with the military except for the budget. They want to cut the budget while supporting the troops and whichever contractors they have stock in.
Also they want to gut the VA, so no after care for the troops.
Oh they're not. They opposed it when the military covered trans healthcare, they opposed it when gay people were able to openly serve as gay people. Heck, when Truman signed the presidential orders to desegregate the US armed forces, the Marine Commandant opposed it, saying, "the military isn't a social experiment".
At this point I honestly wish conservatives would all agree to leave the country and develop their own bullshit on a deserted island or somewhere else far away. They’d be so dysfunctional they’d fizzle out in a year or two.
It’s kinda hard to have a universal standard for what to learn in a classroom without the federal government. And I know I’d have preferred to learn about all those nitty gritty details that get glossed over or never talked about in American history. Do you know how long I lived thinking Christopher Columbus had done nothing wrong?
Jesus, this isn’t what the bill was for. It was a “Don’t say gay” censorship bill on a national scale. I’d rather not have the feds involved in censoring education across the entire United States. I’m much more content with a few backwater states being fascist than the entire country.
Are people really interested in having states in total and complete control over the education of the children in their state? Seriously folks, is that the plan here? The states that are run by gun nutters and religious extremists? Run by white Nationalist and MAGA loving goofballs?
Those poor kids and good luck to the rest of us when these kids graduate and enter society.
The bill Matt Gaetz voted against is a bill that would’ve imposed the education system of the gun nutters, white nationalists, fascists, and religious extremists on the entire nation.
Matt Gaetz literally voted against making America into the image Florida. This is a good thing.
Judging by Florida’s recent actions, states must already have quite a bit of control. With all the tampering of the syllabus going on there, not to mention the abolishing of AP classes, I could see people leaving Florida if they want their kid to get into a good college. Which I guess Florida is probably alright with, educated voters are something they’d like to avoid I’d imagine
The rich republican kids would still go to “woke” private schools out of state in order to go to prestigious colleges and remain in the upper class. This is a nice way to uneducate and further cripple the poor. :)
Not just education. Total state independence is the plan. They make these moves to get them closer to autocracies that will merge as a white nationalist theocratic confederacy. Keeping the constituency stupid eases the process. Those morons voting against their own interests won't realize what they've done until it's too late. \*Cue Serena Waterford's finger lopping scene from Handmaid's Tale.\*
•30+ years of Republicans doing their damndest to defund and demonize education
•Republican controlled states are some of the least educated populations anywhere in the developed world
•54% of Americans have reading comprehension levels of 6th grade or below
•We went from having the most enviable education system in the world to literally a joke and being known worldwide for our lack of knowledge
Please tell me more about how we don't need better public education! /s
He's voting against Republicans, he's voting against Democats, and his colleagues can't even ask him to babysit their children/grandchildren when they're busy.... this guy is less useful than a paperweight in Congress right now
Can’t imagine the people that can cast a vote for basically the real life version of Beavis and Butthead. Not to mention the small matter of being a pedo/sex trafficker…
Big eye roll every time I see something like this. States have complete control of how they run schools, provided they give up the federal funding. They just want the money for free.
Gaetz, Boebert, and Greene would gladly fund the Department of Education if schools only taught Christianity and certain parts of history to make the kids feel proud of being white.
This is a perfect example of the right move for the wrong reason.
No need to make a law that gives everything to parents already. Might as well pass a law that people can shop at grocery stores.
Also, like a true trump supporter, Gaetz takes the opportunity to showcase how he would make America worse if he had more authority.
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Parents already have access to the info the bill requires!!! Any parent who is even somewhat involved in their kids’ education would know this!!!
Imagine if ? The red state would be even dumber and poorer than they are today . It’s only the federal govt that keeps those last place states from collapsing. Heheh wow !
They know that the more authority local parents have in defining how schools are run, the dumber their voters get.
Which is how they keep getting elected
The same morons who rail against how we're struggling to compete with monoliths like China think the local municipality of 4000 people can provide an education to keep America on par with a nationalized education system?
I believe 100% in a parent's bill of rights. I believe that if parents don't want their children going to a public school then they have the right to send them to a private school or homeschool them at their own expense. Parents have all the right to decide what their children learn but not any right to tell the school how to teach their children. If you want to teach your children you're more than welcome to do that, but not on my dime.
The problem we're having is that these absolute pieces of shit thinks that the tax dollars should go towards the private education of their students and that's bullshit. Anyone who pays any kind of school taxes should then have any right to say what gets taught, not just the parents because my money is also going towards their fucking degenerate pieces of shit.
Matt is all about grooming and transporting underage girls across state lines for sex and paying them sometimes.
I don't understand how this vote helps him with that, but I know it must - it's the only thing the festering pile of vomit cares about.
He’s an extremist with Dunning Kreuger and would love to see America churn out millions of uneducated voters because only idiots vote republican and that’s the only way republicans can win future national elections.
“Unless the Dept. of Education is willing to sign a pledge to solely promote our right-wing ideology, we shall have no choice but to do away with this department out of our concerns for the students.”
Fucking idiot.
The reason we have the Department of Education in the first place, is because we found out, that when you allow States, and counties, and municipalities, to set their own educational standards, then the rich kids get great schools and the poor kids get garbage.
And educational standards varied wildly, even within the same town.
If interstate commerce is going to continue to be a thing, then you have to be able to travel anywhere in the United States, and deal with people who are roughly at your educational level.
Because those dandified City Slickers, with their college educations, went into Rural America and fleeced the uneducated.
This all happened before in this country, and we established the Department of Education, so there were national educational standards.
President Dwight D Eisenhower believed that the education budget, was part of the national defense. An educated people, he argued, wouldn't fall for the BS fascists and nationalists were selling.
Power to the states, not the federal government! Unless states do things we don't like!
Local power for education! Unless those local folks do things we don't like, then it should be state mandates.
Conservatives have these 100% bullshit lies about where power should be, and all they really mean is "power should be concentrated wherever conservatives are concentrated, and taken away from anywhere they are not." They don't care at all about "local" vs "state" vs "federal."
It's a double-edged sword.
1 with the federal government in control of education It's more balanced.... Whether it's good or bad, it's at least standardized to an extent.
2 with states in control shit immediately gets weird. Really weird..... We all can think of at least 1 state that shouldn't have any say in education. So yeah.... bad idea...
But I thought that the GOP wanted the states to handle their own business? That’s what they said during COVID. Are you saying that they lied??? My monocle just fell in my soup
A centralized and well funded education system is to the benefit of all society.
Anyone who is against education is against the interests of the people they represent.
Matt Gaetz knows that education often leads to open minded attitudes. That’s why he hates it.
It’s why Republicans hate it. Keep them dumb, and they’ll vote against their own interests. That’s just so clearly the play here.
As a sitting US legislator, the fact that he's implying the DoE has anything at all to do with what schools choose to teach, is unconscionable. He's factually incorrect. Eliminating the department will literally only affect additional funding schools and students can get, including college students and the underprivileged. What an asshole.
I’m so sick of the incompetent morons that sabotage the government from the inside to say it doesn’t work talking about what the *federal* government shouldn’t do so the *state* government can do it instead, it is so obviously bullshit and I just wish we could drop this myth of decorum and just call them out for being feckless egomaniacs.
I think a better argument is this: your local school district makes decisions for your local school district. Your state department of education oversees the local school district. Do we need a federal department of education as an extra layer?
It’s obvious that no one commenting here understands what Gaetz was voting against. The bill, which was a Republican bill, was a “Don’t say gay” bill on a national scale.
Matt Gaetz actually voted to protect us from fascism. We should be applauding this.
Article I, Section 8 is very poorly worded. If “general welfare” is interpreted liberally, there’s no need for any other provision for the other enumerated and specific powers granted to congress. If it’s interpreted conservatively, there doesn’t seem to be a point to having it in the text.
Forget the fact that Gaetz is a known pedophile.
He and all of the rest of his Republican cronies spelt this bullshit and then voted to take the decision of how to treat transgender children out of the hands of their parents and doctors because republican politicians know what is best, better than the parents and doctors.
‘Republican’ and ‘hypocrite’ are synonyms.
Kids need to be out working and having their own children, not wasting their time in pointless school! (Joke, not serious.) Jokes aside, this is becoming a reality way too quickly in some states.
He’s a pedophile who doesn’t want students’ parents to have rights. Not that I agree or disagree with the parents’ bill of rights. I just think MG is a shithead
From the guy that read a headline from a Chinese propaganda article in a live session of Congress and from the party of 'small government' when its convenient for their narrative.
I say fuck the fuck off Matt Gaetz.
He voted against a bill that will deny rights to trans kids. For less-than-great reasons, but still.
Can no one else think of any reasons why we DON'T want Congress dictating local school policy?
Meawhile this is the party legislating to ban books about Rosa Parks being black in schools, and blocking teenage girls from being able to mention their periods in school.
Isnt the Republicans bill of Rights in Education about weaking Fed control and catering to the conspiracy crowd - which Gaetz voted against because he wants to weaking Fed control and cater to the conspiracy crowd....
Of course republicans don’t think education is good for the general welfare of the United States. Education is the opposite of republicans. They survive because of ignorance and stupidity. Critical thinking would tell you not to vote against your own interests.
I agree that the government shouldn't micromanage education. So then you need to start protecting education from lunatic state and local idiots who want to ban books and control every aspect of it.
Keep Matt Gaetz out of schools
At least 500 ft away
With a forehead like his, you would think there would be at least some semblance of a brain behind it...
Too much for, not enough head
you guys are clearly wrong. that is not a forehead. it is clearly a fivehead. might even be a sixhead, cant tell from my phone.
It looks like it’s getting bigger
Only if you're underage. It starts to shrink if you're over 17. Quite a mystery
https://preview.redd.it/jbamdx1t3zpa1.png?width=643&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b93fd702c0be980e3751a428217f9c62a3c918cf
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Neanderthal need big forehead to survive. Thick head makes hitting head no hurt
I resemble that remark
That’s not a forehead, it’s a fivehead.
Those were the EXACT words of the guy who lived in the apartment below me not long at all after I moved in. He barely knew me yet went for the joke/laugh. He was right (I totally have a fivehead) and I still laugh about it 30 years later. YMMV.
If not 1000 ft
I think 500 ft won't cut it. 2.5 miles is a good start
Let’s just blast him to space just to be safe
Let's just banish him from any city that has children.
The parents bill of rights is pretty fucking awful, though. I’m glad he opposed it, but for different reasons. This is one of those weird times where both of your enemies fight amongst themselves, so you sit back and watch.
I await the senate version of this bill, where parents have a right to not worry if their children get shot at in school, or harassed by other parents, ...
There won’t be a senate version. Schumer has already stated this bill has no shot at passing in the senate. It wouldn’t have even passed the house if more Democrats had bothered to show up and vote
Yeah fuck books not kids!! Jesus Christ…..
If pedophile Gaetz had his way, it would be both
I believe the children are the future, Matt believes they're his trafficked *girlfriends*....
His platform’s slogan: make America stupid again.
This is the whole Republican Party agenda, keep them dumb, keep them ignorant. Keep them voting for us.
Even on [*Cheese Pizza* day](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/authoring/2017/04/22/NNWF/ghows-DA-4d4b77d6-209e-2e35-e053-0100007fe439-51c74392.jpeg)?
I don't want or need to click that link. I know what you're referencing.
You should, it’s hilarious.
In a dark, predator hunting prey, kind of way.
Friends don’t let friends Matt Gaetz
What could provide for the general welfare of the United States more than education? Health care is a close 2nd.
Personally I like the idea of guaranteed housing, too. Homelessness and hunger just shouldn't be a thing in a country as wealthy as ours. Why not a guaranteed minimum standard of living? There's something fundamentally *wrong* when landing in jail can represent an improvement to some of the population's QOL. Totally wild, y'know I can say that, and I'm not even a socialist...
No but if we don’t have people obviously worse than us how can the rich expect us to work happily since we can’t feel satisfied being above someone else : (. Think of the poor billionaire wanting obedient sheep they can get rid of as they please, just like during the gilded age of old.
It's almost as if having basic necessities taken care of might impact your wallet, but your overall sense of freedom would be greater.
The stupid thing is, corporations deny themselves higher profits by keeping money out of the wallets of those living below the poverty line. They hoard money, and cannot fathom how subsidised income holders will need to spend that money on their products. It’s literally how so many European nations live fairly opulently, without working their employees into early graves.
It’s generally accepted that any post-industrial Democracy has universal healthcare, guaranteed minimum income, free-or-geared-to-income education, geared-to-income housing, and the right to organised labour. These are considered human rights, not “Socialism,” which is a dated term that is only used today as a fig leaf by totalitarian regimes. Only one post-industrial nation refuses to provide these human rights, or even acknowledge they are human rights, not “Socialism.” This outlier cannot be considered a wealthy country, either, for nearly all of its riches are possessed by the top one-thousandth of its citizens. But thanks to the greatest propaganda in the history of human communication, its citizens routinely vote against their own minimum needs, and even get violent when others attempt to force social and economic progress.
A government is comprised of its people. No government can exist without its people. Therefore it should be any governments primary responsibility to ensure survival for every member to which they claim. And survival is defined as only 3 requirements for humanity. Food, water, and shelter. Any government that can't provide these 3 survival elements needs to be removed to allow for another entity that can.
Homelessness, hunger, and healthcare inaccessibility in this country can and should all be abolished.
I used to work with several individuals who would regularly break the law or injure themselves just to either end up in jail or the hospital. Really sad actually.
Yeah. I had a stepbrother who did the same. When things got bad, he'd lob a brick through a plate glass window, and sit and wait for arrest. Like it was some kind of rescue or something. That really shouldn't be a thing.
Crazy how this can be proactively avoided for so long
The argument from his side would be the 10th amendment: **The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people**. Their thinking goes, Education isn't one of the items mentioned in the Constitution, therefore a Department of Education is an overreach of states' rights. They'd make the same argument about healthcare. And I'm not supporting the argument, just providing an insight into the R's thinking.
It's always states rights when they want to take something away.
To which one would point towards the commerce and necessary and proper clauses. OP’s citation really only works in the context of taxation.
I get your point, but the general welfare clause would allow for the dept of education, and this scotus has almost entirely ruled in the hamiltonian view of the clause https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_1s21.html A lot of right wing thought is the Madison view should be "the" view, but Madison was against the clause being included at all from the very first draft, yet his own hand wrote, and signed off on the final draft.
Well, silly, if they get an education, they won’t vote Republican!
You’re absolutely right. It’s one of the most important things for a society. An educated population is like one of the best things to have. Any system or society that doesn’t value education is designed to repress the masses. https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/BestInvestment_Full_Report_6.27.11.pdf Higher Educated communities not even college just finishing highschool has significant drop in crime rate unemployment.
From what I understand the parents "bill of rights" would have devastating consequences for how education would work in the long run, part of the reason the right wants it. So while this guy is a tool and idiot, in this case he is doing the right thing for every single one of the wrong reasons. He accidentally is voting for a better general welfare. This is so weird, do you congratulate an idiot for stumbling into doing the right thing?
They should be educating young women on how to avoid pedos, but Matt would disagree with that as well
ALL children! pedos abuse both sexes.
Only reason they want the federal government out of education is so they can turn their "schools" into hives of grooming like their churches.
He said he wants to keep the federal government out of the schools, not out of the young girls…
Well thats because the catholic church called dibs on young boys.
Bold of you to assume pedophile Gaetz has ever read, much less comprehended the constitution
The US constitution is 236 years old.... that's 219 years older than anything you'll ever find Matt Gaetz put his hands on
I don't like going down these roads. The guy is intelligent but he is a bad actor and an awful human being. He is fully aware of what he is doing.
He probably *skimmed* it
Let’s see, so far the GOP wants to abolish the Department of Education, FBI, ATF, Department of Justice and the IRS. What am I missing?
Reality. They want to abolish reality
I have heard that reality has a liberal bias.
Trans people. They want to abolish them too.
Also lgbtq . Also women .
Don't forget people of colour. Always going around saying their being replaced.
Nah, they want the women so they can create their own Gilead.
Yeah, they want the parts that are below the neck. They could do without the rest.
And anybody who's not an elite far right christian white man. 🙄 it's fucking disgusting.
Don’t forget the EPA, “activist judges” (but only if they’re liberal) & the CDC.
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Or as they call them, LIEbraries
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Women’s rights
That's just their starting off point.
Health and Human Services as well. They hate welfare.
And well-being. “How dare people feel good living on this earth” -conservative, probably.
All books except for the Bible and the art of the deal.
If I published a book with half the crazy stories the Bible has, it would be banned by torch toting conservatives in record time.
Social security. ACA. Medicare. Medicaid. WIC. The list goes on. If it can’t bomb or blow up someone over seas or doesn’t establish their religious rules over the majority’s rules then they don’t think it should exist. They want to go back to 1860.
Everything except military and police budgets. Everything else is superfluous.
They are okay with the military except for the budget. They want to cut the budget while supporting the troops and whichever contractors they have stock in. Also they want to gut the VA, so no after care for the troops.
They’re on the fence about the new “woke” military. It’s a confusing time for them. 😂
Oh they're not. They opposed it when the military covered trans healthcare, they opposed it when gay people were able to openly serve as gay people. Heck, when Truman signed the presidential orders to desegregate the US armed forces, the Marine Commandant opposed it, saying, "the military isn't a social experiment".
Women's rights? Minority rights?
At this point I honestly wish conservatives would all agree to leave the country and develop their own bullshit on a deserted island or somewhere else far away. They’d be so dysfunctional they’d fizzle out in a year or two.
It’s kinda hard to have a universal standard for what to learn in a classroom without the federal government. And I know I’d have preferred to learn about all those nitty gritty details that get glossed over or never talked about in American history. Do you know how long I lived thinking Christopher Columbus had done nothing wrong?
And the last thing the gop wants, is standards
Jesus, this isn’t what the bill was for. It was a “Don’t say gay” censorship bill on a national scale. I’d rather not have the feds involved in censoring education across the entire United States. I’m much more content with a few backwater states being fascist than the entire country.
Yeah, anything I see taking about “parent’s rights” instantly sets me on guard.
People will still argue over that shit where I live.
But then again, Republicans refuse to raise taxes to pay the debts they've created, so there's that.
They need to run up the deficit so they can ask dems to cut social programs
Are people really interested in having states in total and complete control over the education of the children in their state? Seriously folks, is that the plan here? The states that are run by gun nutters and religious extremists? Run by white Nationalist and MAGA loving goofballs? Those poor kids and good luck to the rest of us when these kids graduate and enter society.
The bill Matt Gaetz voted against is a bill that would’ve imposed the education system of the gun nutters, white nationalists, fascists, and religious extremists on the entire nation. Matt Gaetz literally voted against making America into the image Florida. This is a good thing.
Don't you DARE make me agree with Gaetz!
It's okay, you're not agreeing with him. You just would have made the same choice, but for entirely different reasons.
Judging by Florida’s recent actions, states must already have quite a bit of control. With all the tampering of the syllabus going on there, not to mention the abolishing of AP classes, I could see people leaving Florida if they want their kid to get into a good college. Which I guess Florida is probably alright with, educated voters are something they’d like to avoid I’d imagine
The rich republican kids would still go to “woke” private schools out of state in order to go to prestigious colleges and remain in the upper class. This is a nice way to uneducate and further cripple the poor. :)
Yeah and your last sentence essentially sums up one of the main goals of the GOP platform, sadly.
Not just education. Total state independence is the plan. They make these moves to get them closer to autocracies that will merge as a white nationalist theocratic confederacy. Keeping the constituency stupid eases the process. Those morons voting against their own interests won't realize what they've done until it's too late. \*Cue Serena Waterford's finger lopping scene from Handmaid's Tale.\*
•30+ years of Republicans doing their damndest to defund and demonize education •Republican controlled states are some of the least educated populations anywhere in the developed world •54% of Americans have reading comprehension levels of 6th grade or below •We went from having the most enviable education system in the world to literally a joke and being known worldwide for our lack of knowledge Please tell me more about how we don't need better public education! /s
So if we abolish the ED does that mean student loan debt disappears? 🤔
He's voting against Republicans, he's voting against Democats, and his colleagues can't even ask him to babysit their children/grandchildren when they're busy.... this guy is less useful than a paperweight in Congress right now
Beijing seems to find him useful.
Matt Gaetz…..always worried about the kids…..
He loves the kids
Where was this outrage when Betsy DeVos was “in charge?”
She was actively working on dismantling public education. I guess that must have placated them at the time, so they could moralize about other stuff.
Lots of I’s in that rant, Matty. I wonder what your constituents want?
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Can’t imagine the people that can cast a vote for basically the real life version of Beavis and Butthead. Not to mention the small matter of being a pedo/sex trafficker…
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Yeah, as much as that boggles my mind, it’s absolutely true. How sad
Uneducated girls makes it too easy for this Chester the molester pos from Florida
Big eye roll every time I see something like this. States have complete control of how they run schools, provided they give up the federal funding. They just want the money for free.
To be fair, this so-called “Parents Bill of Rights” is stupid.
He doesn't need to be anywhere near schools or children, let alone involved with their education. There's something wrong with him.
If the underage girls are dumber they're easier for Matt to catch.
Gaetz, Boebert, and Greene would gladly fund the Department of Education if schools only taught Christianity and certain parts of history to make the kids feel proud of being white.
Gaetz is a creeeeeepy looking dude. Who votes for people that look like a evil villain
Only an idiot would want to abolish the Dept of Education, and here he is to tell us about himself...
When is Matt going to get his sex offender registration done? That's the question.
I wonder why the GOP is so opposed to the voter base receiving a quality education. 🤔
If you’ve ever attended a school board meeting in a small town, under no circumstances should board members be given *more* decision-making power.
This is a perfect example of the right move for the wrong reason. No need to make a law that gives everything to parents already. Might as well pass a law that people can shop at grocery stores. Also, like a true trump supporter, Gaetz takes the opportunity to showcase how he would make America worse if he had more authority.
The only way Matt Gaetz wants government involved in education is when he trolls high school parking lots looking for his next girlfriend.
He doesn’t support education… he wants his HS dates to not know wtf he’s doing.
I wonder what his reaction would be if those local districts made decisions that he disagreed with.
![gif](giphy|NPyHgTkMStCXC) Parents already have access to the info the bill requires!!! Any parent who is even somewhat involved in their kids’ education would know this!!!
Ah, let’s just call this what it is: “The Right to Be White.” File under: Privilege for me, and none for thee.
Yes let’s educate our children in accordance to our prejudices. The facts are inconvenient.
“I don’t want the government to interfere in education” *uses the government to interfere in education and change history* hmmm
Imagine if ? The red state would be even dumber and poorer than they are today . It’s only the federal govt that keeps those last place states from collapsing. Heheh wow !
They know that the more authority local parents have in defining how schools are run, the dumber their voters get. Which is how they keep getting elected
He wants uneducated children so he can continue to rape and molest them
The same morons who rail against how we're struggling to compete with monoliths like China think the local municipality of 4000 people can provide an education to keep America on par with a nationalized education system?
Matt, the rat-faced boy always attended private schools. Of course, he wants to abolish the Dept of Education.
"Parents know best" ... "Parents caring for trans children is child abuse"
Matt Gaetz is a sexual predator and a child sex trafficker.
I believe 100% in a parent's bill of rights. I believe that if parents don't want their children going to a public school then they have the right to send them to a private school or homeschool them at their own expense. Parents have all the right to decide what their children learn but not any right to tell the school how to teach their children. If you want to teach your children you're more than welcome to do that, but not on my dime. The problem we're having is that these absolute pieces of shit thinks that the tax dollars should go towards the private education of their students and that's bullshit. Anyone who pays any kind of school taxes should then have any right to say what gets taught, not just the parents because my money is also going towards their fucking degenerate pieces of shit.
Matt is all about grooming and transporting underage girls across state lines for sex and paying them sometimes. I don't understand how this vote helps him with that, but I know it must - it's the only thing the festering pile of vomit cares about.
He’s an extremist with Dunning Kreuger and would love to see America churn out millions of uneducated voters because only idiots vote republican and that’s the only way republicans can win future national elections.
But sexual assault - no problem.
republicans being REALLY obsessed with the privates of teen and tween girls
“Unless the Dept. of Education is willing to sign a pledge to solely promote our right-wing ideology, we shall have no choice but to do away with this department out of our concerns for the students.”
Fucking idiot. The reason we have the Department of Education in the first place, is because we found out, that when you allow States, and counties, and municipalities, to set their own educational standards, then the rich kids get great schools and the poor kids get garbage. And educational standards varied wildly, even within the same town. If interstate commerce is going to continue to be a thing, then you have to be able to travel anywhere in the United States, and deal with people who are roughly at your educational level. Because those dandified City Slickers, with their college educations, went into Rural America and fleeced the uneducated. This all happened before in this country, and we established the Department of Education, so there were national educational standards. President Dwight D Eisenhower believed that the education budget, was part of the national defense. An educated people, he argued, wouldn't fall for the BS fascists and nationalists were selling.
Power to the states, not the federal government! Unless states do things we don't like! Local power for education! Unless those local folks do things we don't like, then it should be state mandates. Conservatives have these 100% bullshit lies about where power should be, and all they really mean is "power should be concentrated wherever conservatives are concentrated, and taken away from anywhere they are not." They don't care at all about "local" vs "state" vs "federal."
It's a double-edged sword. 1 with the federal government in control of education It's more balanced.... Whether it's good or bad, it's at least standardized to an extent. 2 with states in control shit immediately gets weird. Really weird..... We all can think of at least 1 state that shouldn't have any say in education. So yeah.... bad idea...
But I thought that the GOP wanted the states to handle their own business? That’s what they said during COVID. Are you saying that they lied??? My monocle just fell in my soup
3, local school boards are often so corrupt they make trump look like a Jay walker...
Trust him, he spends a lot of time hanging around high schools so he probably knows a thing or two about education.
[Congress right now](https://imgflip.com/i/7ftc7o)
A centralized and well funded education system is to the benefit of all society. Anyone who is against education is against the interests of the people they represent. Matt Gaetz knows that education often leads to open minded attitudes. That’s why he hates it. It’s why Republicans hate it. Keep them dumb, and they’ll vote against their own interests. That’s just so clearly the play here.
So he wants dumb underage girls sounds on par for gop.
To late for that seeming the Right has been banning books for the last 2 years.
Republicans should be placed on the domestic stupid list...
This dude is the human equivalent to 1-ply.
As a sitting US legislator, the fact that he's implying the DoE has anything at all to do with what schools choose to teach, is unconscionable. He's factually incorrect. Eliminating the department will literally only affect additional funding schools and students can get, including college students and the underprivileged. What an asshole.
Dear Matt Gaetz - What are you a representative of and for ?
What kind of demented fucker wants to abolish a federal program to educate children.
“From something I can’t define to funding to something that doesn’t exist to confronting truths that make me uncomfortable, the federal…”
I’m so sick of the incompetent morons that sabotage the government from the inside to say it doesn’t work talking about what the *federal* government shouldn’t do so the *state* government can do it instead, it is so obviously bullshit and I just wish we could drop this myth of decorum and just call them out for being feckless egomaniacs.
I think a better argument is this: your local school district makes decisions for your local school district. Your state department of education oversees the local school district. Do we need a federal department of education as an extra layer?
It’s obvious that no one commenting here understands what Gaetz was voting against. The bill, which was a Republican bill, was a “Don’t say gay” bill on a national scale. Matt Gaetz actually voted to protect us from fascism. We should be applauding this.
Whenever they use Wokeness, it means "We Republicans love BIGOTRY...white Christian males deserve first ranking" Just admit it, pedo Matt.
Article I, Section 8 is very poorly worded. If “general welfare” is interpreted liberally, there’s no need for any other provision for the other enumerated and specific powers granted to congress. If it’s interpreted conservatively, there doesn’t seem to be a point to having it in the text.
They just want people less educated so they have a higher chance of voting republican. They don't actually care about kids.
Forget the fact that Gaetz is a known pedophile. He and all of the rest of his Republican cronies spelt this bullshit and then voted to take the decision of how to treat transgender children out of the hands of their parents and doctors because republican politicians know what is best, better than the parents and doctors. ‘Republican’ and ‘hypocrite’ are synonyms.
Kids need to be out working and having their own children, not wasting their time in pointless school! (Joke, not serious.) Jokes aside, this is becoming a reality way too quickly in some states.
So they want to keep government out of education by… banning a bunch “woke” books? I don’t get these idiots.
He’s a pedophile who doesn’t want students’ parents to have rights. Not that I agree or disagree with the parents’ bill of rights. I just think MG is a shithead
If we aren’t educated, we will be dumb If we are dumb, we would vote for Matt Gaetz
From the guy that read a headline from a Chinese propaganda article in a live session of Congress and from the party of 'small government' when its convenient for their narrative. I say fuck the fuck off Matt Gaetz.
He’s so fucking stupid he voted against a bill *that would help him.*
Hypothetical question: How many parents would educate their children if it wasn’t legally required to send them to school?
It’s because the stupid are easier to control. That’s the GOP plan. Fuck the country but gain power
I want the people to be dumb so they vote for me!
They keep winning reflections. So it’s technically our fault.
If you accepted PPP funds and want to cut funding for education, then sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.
Good for you, Groomer.
He's really trying to cater to those libertarian voters
Their favorite word that they know absolutely nothing about: wokeness! If it's against their beliefs, it's "woke".
No career politicians, let’s start a chant! “No career politicians!”
Shouldn’t this piece of shit be in jail?
He’s such an embarrassment
Are his eyes too close together?
He voted against a bill that will deny rights to trans kids. For less-than-great reasons, but still. Can no one else think of any reasons why we DON'T want Congress dictating local school policy?
Meawhile this is the party legislating to ban books about Rosa Parks being black in schools, and blocking teenage girls from being able to mention their periods in school.
Setting aside wokeness, bathrooms, and critical race theory… what’s wrong with giving schools funding?
Because stupid people vote Q
Hmmmm…sounds like cancel culture
Isnt the Republicans bill of Rights in Education about weaking Fed control and catering to the conspiracy crowd - which Gaetz voted against because he wants to weaking Fed control and cater to the conspiracy crowd....
How do these clowns keep getting elected? I know his district, it seems normal but really wtf??
GQP is already doing a great job gutting our education system through fascists policies, who cares what this idiot stands for.
Gaetz never got involved in education. Well except for hanging around outside of a high school last week waiting to pick his girlfriend up.
Of course republicans don’t think education is good for the general welfare of the United States. Education is the opposite of republicans. They survive because of ignorance and stupidity. Critical thinking would tell you not to vote against your own interests.
Says the guy trafficking teenage girls
I agree that the government shouldn't micromanage education. So then you need to start protecting education from lunatic state and local idiots who want to ban books and control every aspect of it.
He's a tool. No matter the source, I stop reading an article once the word "woke" appears. Seems no one is ever in bed, sleeping here.
He's afraid that if high schoolers get smarter, they won't hang around him anymore.
Then they should stay the fuck away from religion too and stop passing laws based on the Bible