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Republicans are diverting more of our tax dollars from public schools to charter schools — As a result, you’ll pay more taxes to make up the difference. So now that charter schools receive public funding, shouldn’t charter school teachers have to follow all the burdensome requirements in House Bill 1134? Or are Republicans favoring charter school teachers over public school teachers? This is just one more way Republicans are trying to dismantle public education.
Why aren’t more people questioning the serious attack on education and teachers by the Republican Party? Instead of doing everything possible to make sure that every child gets the best possible education, and that every teacher and every school gets all of the resources they need, these current Republicans obstruct every path. They would like to control the education funds and steer them to charter schools and religious schools, so that they could skim a good portion for themselves. If they break up public education as is their goal, they will be able to manipulate future voters to their will.
Republicans encourage the Canadian protesters and excuse the Capitol riots, but lose their collective minds if a football player takes a knee over racial injustice. Why is one okay and not the other? Because they don’t really believe in a right of expression or right to protest. They only believe in their ideology. Same thing with religion. Conservatives don’t truly believe in freedom of religion as our Constitution states. They only believe in freedom of Christianity and the belief system that they choose to follow. They don’t care about anyone else’s freedom or religion if it’s different than theirs. This does not make them patriots. It makes them ignorant, hypocritical, regressive and un-American.
Eight Republican Senators are opposing the creation of a “no-fly” list comprised of passengers who have committed in-flight violent acts against airline personnel and even other passengers. Their reason? They don’t thing passengers who are “skeptical” of the value of wearing masks should be punished. Skeptical of masks? Hundreds of these anti-mask skeptics have assaulted and battered others on board flights. This is not just being “skeptical.” It’s being criminal, and these Senators don’t want those who support their own anti-mask positions to be punished for it. Just another instance of law and order Republicans deciding for purely political reasons what laws should be enforced and which should not. I suppose brutal attacks on airline employees and other passengers are just more of that “legitimate political discourse.” I’m not sure how much more of that we can stand.
How many times do I have to say this for some to understand? Why do we continue to criticize Todd and Mike, our Indiana Republican senators? They didn’t put themselves in office. Republican voters did! Blame your Republican voting neighbor. Oh, I forgot. He is your golfing buddy!
An opinion piece written by a theologian in Saturday’s Chicago Tribune decries the basic “sinfulness” of Trump, his family, his congressional allies, and his millions of supporters. You can be sure that this will mean nothing at all to the millions of so-called Christians who will dismiss it and continue to insist that Trump was “sent by God.” Far more likely he was sent by the other guy.
They should sell health care policies based on your political beliefs. If you don’t believe in science, they can simply provide thoughts and prayers to help you heal.
“Hatred for Dems.” If people can be manipulated to hate their family, their friends and their neighbors just because they don’t think alike, we have very serious problems. How many of these people claim to be Christians, and go to church every Sunday? Is this what they teach you — to hate people that don’t think like you?
A judge has ruled that Trump and two of his adult “children” must testify in an investigation into possible fraud in their financial affairs. How many months or possibly even years do you think it will be before they testify, if ever? They have already announced their intention to appeal the ruling. They will do what Trump and his kin always do, stall, delay, and use every conceivable loophole their attorneys can come up with in order to derail this investigation. And one of these lawyers actually suggested to the judge that they should not have to testify because they are part of “a protected class.” It seems unbelievable, but it’s not.
A Quickly reader complained about the length and content of some Quickly commentary. I respect the reader’s right to give an opinion. I firmly believe that Quickly became more popular when longer comments were allowed. There are times when longer commentary is needed to make sense of a point that is being made. Commentary should provide enough information, support and evidence to make sense. We were taught this in third grade! Quickly is also very popular because it promotes honest and open commentary by not revealing names. I have a suggestion for the Quickly editors. To satisfy those who feel that longer contributions violate the original purpose of Quickly, why not consider a revised title? Why not ‘Quickly and Beyond’ or ‘Quickly and Slowly?’ ‘Variety is the spice of life.’ Let’s not take the spice out of one of the most popular columns in the P-T!
To the Quickly poster who thinks the peacefully protesting truckers are being used as propaganda to make Biden look bad … no worries, he’s doing that all by himself.
Donald Trump’s PAC Save America is sitting on over $100 million, but has paid out less than four hundred thousand since July. Meanwhile in Arizona, Rep. Mark Finchem has his hand out trying to raise money for his own defense after being issued a subpoena to testify in the Jan.6th insurrection hearing. Why doesn’t he go to his savior Trump for the money? He’s the one who got Finchem into the mess in the first place. That’s Republican intelligence for you. Donate money to a con artist who’ll leave you hanging high and dry.
Bought me a new car this week. Who says they are not available? It’s a deal and selection that are not available. You take what they got and pay sticker price or you walk! The only plus is 0% loans are readily available. Electric cars? Saw none but was told they can be ordered. No thanks.
Last week all we heard from Fox was Hillary spied on Trump because of the Durham report. Of course we know that it’s fake news. The reason for this is because they are trying to deflect the real story about Trump and his family being indicted for tax fraud and misappropriation of campaign finance funds. How gullible do you have to be to still support this con man?
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