Learning Recession

[Correll]

Deep state? Who's in the deep state? Trump is in charge of the deep state now dude. He used to be a measly millionaire in 2015 but duped America and now he's got 10 billion dollars. Compare that to the Clinton's 120 million. Or Obama's 70 million. Remember, you think they are deep state globalists. Not Trump? Trump with 500 LLC's in how many countries?

Don't say stupid shit. The deep state is yours. Or you are theirs.

Correll thinks Trump wants to only buy and sell to Americans. While he's over in China trying to get us all that business he lost us. I told you idiots Americans won't buy enough from us to make up for all the business he's going to cost us. Trump has ruined our alliances. Exactly what China wants. They'll make friends with the people Trump is making enemies with.

Idiocy.

Trump's going to get us out of NATO? He backed out of the Climate agreement? America doesn't do Battery cars? Okay dummies. China will be happy to make new alliances. Something we had. Something we are losing because of Republican idiots in charge.

China will crash and burn in your lifetime.

 

[DGS49]

As I enter the years of my dotage, I have come to realize that America can only be understood properly, in virtually every area of interest, as a nation of "silos." That is to say, general statements about "America" are almost always misleading and rarely relevant. Looking at average reading and/or math scores for the entire country tells us next to nothing.

Within the same states, counties, and regions, public education has districts that are exemplary and some that are utterly failing. In both cases, the reasons can be explored, but there is no doubt that the competence and efficacy of the schools themselves is rarely the cause. If you took the faculty of the most successful High School in the region and had them trade places with the faculty of the worst educational shit-hole, does anyone really think that the affected students would perform differently? Hardly. The students still come from homes that are either relatively successful or relatively underperforming - not just academically, but in life.

And we know this inherently. It is why parents strive to live in districts that are academically superior, and why those districts have the highest housing prices in the region.

But I live in my silo, where senior public school teachers make six-figure salaries, where virtually every student graduates into some form of "higher education," and where the social problems mainly arise from kids having too much money and too much stuff. It is a district where test scores indicate that the students lost NOTHING due to the constraints of the Pandemic. Why should I feel badly that America's public school students, on average, are not getting the quality of education that "we" are all paying for? It does not apply to me or anyone else in my silo.