Discussion: Another All-Out Brawl Over School Funding Is Brewing In Kansas

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The Kansas Republican Legacy: A Generation of Ignoramuses.

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Worst thing the GOP has done to this country is destroy public education.

And they did it out of white spite because of integration.

I’m beginning to think that this populist moment we’re having in Western Culture is really a gigantic temper tantrum white people are throwing all over the globe because we aren’t in charge of everything anymore and losing more of our power daily.

Personally I think it’s way overdue, but apparently a lot of white people are absolutely enraged - here and in Europe.

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I’ll never understand their reelecting him.

Never.

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That’s how it works, don’t-ya-know. Keep ‘em uneducated and keep feedin’ 'em crap. There’s a reason Drumph said, “'I Love the Poorly Educated…”.

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The solution seems pretty obvious to me - amend the state constitution to eliminate any mention of schools at all.

$4 billion saved. Granted, the public schools will be gone, but I’m sure the private sector will provide a quality education at a price that’s affordable to everyone, right?

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That’s true, but Obama. Remember?

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what the confederacy failed to do to Kansas, their neo-confederate heirs and devises will accomplish.

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Now Brownback is some good Trump VP material!

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Trump would be more comfortable with a traitor like Tom Cotton.

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The problem is that taxes have not been cut enough in Kansas. All good Pubbies know that once the rich folk have enough money then money will start trickling down to the common folk. That is why the rich folk need more tax cuts so that they will have enough money and then the trickling down will work. The politicians must cut taxes even more.

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To everyone who blames us: Kris Kobach is our Secretary of State - that is, the guy who runs the elections. You’ve heard of him? The voter-suppression guy? They guy who is trying to make anyone who can’t prove citizenship unable to vote?
During the last election, Brownback’s opponent and the Independent running for Senate were both several points behind in the polls the week before the election, yet both Republicans won comfortably in an election supervised by Kobach. A Wichita State statistician saw statistical anomolies favoring Republicans, especially in bigger districts, and sued to see the tapes in her county. Many counties, including mine, don’t have any tapes, so there is no way to verify that no cheating occurred. A judge refused to let her see the tapes. I believe that Brownback lost, and Kobach swung the election to him.

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Don’t worry Dorothy the flying monkeys will figure it out.

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That’s the only thing that makes any sense.

My mother’s family were all from Kansas. They were conservative but not stupid.

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When the Koch Bros. have your back and you are in your last term, you can just about do what you please. He’ll be well cared for by the K bros. Not so much the Kansas children.

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True. If Kansas completely collapses due to Brownback’s actions as governor, the only lesson that Republicans will learn from that event is that Brownback wasn’t conservative enough.

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Kansans, by and large, are gentle people… but I at least am about ready! And BB may not even be the primary target, but Kobach, for his vote “engineering”. AZ should sympathize with that, since Kobach spreads his services there too, as well as to other states.

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Clap harder! Free Market Confidence Tinkerbell is dying! Clap, you fuckers! Clap!

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that Conservatism works. Feature, not bug.

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Trump would prefer to have someone who can really stick his neck out there, like David Schwimmer, or, as you’ve suggested, Tommy Cotton.

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As I understand it (from Kansans I know), Brownback’s agenda was working fine. It was only after the election that it was suddenly discovered that there was a a huge fucking hole in the budget that no one could possibly have anticipated.

I mean, there were “expert” opinions from ivory-tower types with their elitist ideas that if you, um, take in less than you spend then your budget won’t balance, but those were just liberals who don’t believe in America. Decent, God-fearing conservatives had no reason at all to think anything was amiss.

But hey … Kansas Public Service … I mean Aquila … I mean Black Hills … they’re doing fine, so it’s all good.

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