STEVE BANNON: Let's go to Texas, because to me, Texas is the most important of everything to happen, given it is the railhead of the MAGA movement, and it is the crown jewel in our union.
Texas has so many other issues, and the left has really made a massive investment in ground game. Texas has so many other issues, and the left has really made a massive investment in ground game.
It wasn't about Paxton. Abbott and the political class of the Bushes were beaten by seven or eight points. Texas is a country. You have to have huge name recognition. The woman who ran against Abbott had no name recognition and no money. That was a rejection of the political class on a massive order, even more than President Trump. We have to solve that because it is close to becoming a sanctuary state. If it becomes a sanctuary state like California, Illinois, or New York- The country's over.
If they're not focused on Texas now, then they don't understand the issues politically that conservatives, the Republican Party, and MAGA have in this country.
@StevenEdginton
Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.
The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.
MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."
HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."
MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."
HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."
MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."
HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."
MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"
HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."
MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."
HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."
MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."
ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."
MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."
CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.
And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.
Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.
A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.
If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."
Bill Maher Challenges Charlie Rose: “Islam is not like other religions. It is a unique threat.”
Bill Maher: I think liberals should stop booing me for pointing out that Islam is not like other religions, that it is a unique threat.
Charlie Rose: But it's not Islam you're against.
Bill Maher: Howard Dean said, “The people in ISIS... I'm about as Islamic as they are,” distancing the vast numbers of Muslims around the world from it. That's just not true.
Charlie Rose: It is true.
Bill Maher: It is not true, Charlie. There is a connecting tissue between
Charlie Rose: You mean behind every Muslim is a future member of some radical
Bill Maher: Let me finish.
There are illiberal beliefs held by vast numbers of Muslims that I don't think have
Charlie Rose: Vast numbers of Christians, too.
Bill Maher: No, that's not true.
Vast numbers of Christians don't believe that if you leave Christianity, you should be killed. They don't treat women as second-class citizens, and they don't believe drawing Jesus should get you killed.
Does ISIS kill people indiscriminately who aren't like them? Yes.
Would most Muslims do that or condone it? No.
But most Muslims in the world do condone violence just for what you think.
Charlie Rose: How do you know that?
Bill Maher: First of all, they say it. There's a Pew poll of Egypt where 82% said stoning was the appropriate punishment for adultery, and over 80% thought death was appropriate for leaving Islam.
So to claim this religion is like other religions is naive and wrong.
Saudi Arabia has also beheaded people for nonviolent crimes, including homosexuality.
Charlie Rose: They even cut the hands off a thief.
Bill Maher: Right. We're upset when ISIS beheads people, as we should be, but Saudi Arabia does it too, and they're our friends because they have oil.
This is the centre of the religion. In Mecca, non-Muslims aren't even allowed into the holy part of the city.
If people were being beheaded in Vatican City, don't you think there'd be a bigger outcry?
This is the soft bigotry of low expectations. When Muslim people do or believe things we consider extreme, it's somehow not discussed nearly as much.
Charlie Rose: I don't believe what we see with ISIS represents Islam. I don't think the Quran teaches them to do this.
Bill Maher: Well, you're wrong about that. The Quran absolutely has horrible things about how infidels should be treated.
And can we really say women are treated equally in the Muslim world?
Their testimony in court is often counted as half. They may need permission to leave the house, and women are forced to wear burqas.
And I hear liberals say, “Well, they want to.”
They've been brainwashed.
@lkraus01@jjz1600@IlhanMN Because our president is a fn liar and won’t do what he says he is going to do. This is all his fault for refusing to listen and communicate.
In addition to Ilhan Omar’s reelection to Congress, NINE more Somalis were elected to the State Senate and State House across Minnesota, Ohio, and Oregon.
I am speechless.