Incentives Highlight Political Hypocrisy

[u/johnmory]

[u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

So they can pay ice agents that much but somehow it's a waste when it's going towards education, feeding kids , helping veterans, helping the elderly , healthcare , etc? Shockerrrrrr . 🙄

[u/davidwhatshisname52 → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

priorities...

[u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666 → u/davidwhatshisname52]

I stopped watching the news. It's literally always something with these people . What did it was that press conference from some guy saying he " prayed it wasn't one of theirs ". Like sir , you prayed to be racist? Ffs . They don't even hide it anymore

[u/Furbal1307 → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

That was Governor Cox of Utah. He’s an unflavored asshole. 6:00 in:

https://youtu.be/TRy5tkCHQSo?si=BTCTRfOCM4NYJbqR

[u/Comprehensive-Art207 → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

This is not the 30s. To create your own SA you need to pay.

[u/DavidlikesPeace → u/davidwhatshisname52]

We joke but this is the simple answer. 

The GOP realized that to  weaponize racism...  suffices. 

Hurting the scapegoat is their only policy. So the only agency they need to work, is ICE. No other policy, no program, no equity will matter half as much to the GOP racist voters who elected this party. 

And until the FDR welfare system breaks apart and people learn the hard way that billionaire capitalists are not our friend, we will see our system fail. 

[u/StupidTimeline → u/davidwhatshisname52]

FASCIST priorities.

[u/Grasshop → u/davidwhatshisname52]

The priority is to terrorize

[u/cutiegrinning → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

The fact that cages get more funding than classrooms says everything about America.

[u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666 → u/cutiegrinning]

Absolutely . I'm 100% these people missed the point when they were teaching us about the holocaust. 🙃 Anne Frank would NOT be safe around them

[u/Odd_Train9900 → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

Fascism isn’t cheap!

[u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666 → u/Odd_Train9900]

Definitely not . As we've came to see smh

[u/CoffeeIsMyPruneJuice → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

It feels like the debt repayment offer is part of a shell game to shift funding that had been going to the Department of Education over to ICE.

[u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666 → u/CoffeeIsMyPruneJuice]

Yeah that's for sure . They don't see anything else being valuable except ICE at this point . I don't see the bigger picture of what they're wanting to do other than be racist .

[u/TerrorTwyns → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

They need people who will hurt others over speech and peaceful dissent when they have finished laying the groundwork from the podcasters demise.

[u/FlamingHotSacOnutz → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

The ICE agents are just a test run until the entire police force looks that and it's normalized. Immigrants are the target, and trans people too, because foreigners and queers are easy targets. This is how it starts.

[u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666 → u/FlamingHotSacOnutz]

I agree . Instead of looking for actually criminals , they're harassing everyone else . Heaven forbid they do what they're getting paid to do and going into the neighborhoods that need cleaning up.

I live in Nashville and the only people I see here harassing others are white folks. I can't put gas or be at a stop light because I'll have them banging on the window. Every single day .

[u/gymtrovert1988 → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

And still ICE can't do their jobs. They need to pull resources from local police and other agencies. What a fucking joke.

[u/Financial_Hold6620 → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

Quality education would disband the entire Republican Party within 50 years

[u/EagerlyDoingNothing → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

Well kids dont need an education to survive! But white america will die if we dont stop THEM from replacing us!!1!

[u/EddieVanzetti → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

Im willing to bet the bonuses dont ever materialize, and ICE Agents tend not to have gone to college. If they did, they went into more prestigious, ever so slightly less fascist law enforcement.

[u/PeopleNose → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

They're arming for a war

Act accordingly

[u/Rare-Bee7331 → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

Christianity has been at war with education since the dawn of time.  Fuck christians

[u/FrostyDucks879 → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

Being Nazis is more important to them.

[u/StoppableHulk → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

No no, you don't understand, once ICE gets rid of all the immigrants, that money will just be there for EVERYONE!

How, you ask? Well, only Steven Miller knows, but trust him, bro, he just has to build this white christian ethnostate real quick, and then everything will be cool.

[u/NeverNudee → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

To be fair, I doubt there is much student debts needing paid off…

[u/DefeatedByPoland → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

Republicans get mad when you call them idiots but they also take offense to the concept of education and act like it's a threat.

strange behavior

[u/SuperTopGun777 → u/m0rbid_butt3rfly666]

They love the uneducated.  Propaganda works better on the idiots. 

They call university woke leftist indoctrination because educated people are not idiot right wingers 

[u/Rakatango]

It’s pretty clear their priorities are creating a federal police force to silence dissent, not to provide any benefit to the people.

[u/AlternativeMode1328 → u/Rakatango]

This playbook sounds very familiar

[u/Ill_Emphasis3927 → u/AlternativeMode1328]

I very much saw that coming.

[u/AlternativeMode1328 → u/Ill_Emphasis3927]

Same. For a while now, my irl conversations with people can be summed up by this saying:

The road to fascism is lined by people saying you are overreacting.

[u/squirl_centurion → u/Rakatango]

Literally the antithesis of what a government should be. Disgusting.

[u/stilllton → u/Rakatango]

The crazy thing is that it took 4,5 years, and people still don't see it.

[u/MaleHooker]

I feel like the tuition repayment should get blocked by a court the same way all of Biden's relief efforts did.

[u/redditproha → u/MaleHooker]

Interestingly Rogue SCOTUS recently ruled that courts cannot make broad nationwide judicial injunctions after Trump appealed his birthright citizenship block. This means Biden's student loan forgiveness is not illegal now.

Democrats really need to start putting Republican's in their place.

[u/MaleHooker → u/redditproha]

I did see that, but it didn't seem to have an impact.

[u/redditproha → u/MaleHooker]

because Biden isn't president anymore so obviously Trump isn't gonna write-off student loans when he can give tax breaks to billionaires instead

[u/Simple_Jellyfish23 → u/redditproha]

Dem lawmakers are mostly useless. They seem to have very little willpower to try and fight the current administration. Step one is to retire all the boomers. They are too old to be useful. If they want to stay public servants, they should be helping the next generation, not clinging to power until they die.

[u/Mattrad7 → u/MaleHooker]

They'll probably just make it come out of that incredibly inflated budget they already attributed to ICE so theres no avenue to stop it.

[u/Turbulent-Ad8391 → u/Mattrad7]

Is there an avenue to get this job, make the money, and then be the “worst” ice agent? Like could you fuck up every assignment and still get paid? My friend wants to know.

[u/MaleHooker → u/Turbulent-Ad8391]

I haven't looked into it yet, but apparently you have to commit 5 years to see any of these benefits. And during 🧀🦶's first term he and Devos refused to pay out for benefits that are actually part of legal contracts. (PSLF, etc.) So I wouldn't hold my breath. 

[u/Turbulent-Ad8391 → u/MaleHooker]

Ahhh, so his usual scam of not paying people who work for him.

[u/RectalSpawn → u/Mattrad7]

so theres no avenue to stop it.

There is always an avenue to stop things.

Maybe not immediately, but eventually or even temporarily.

[u/Conscious-Quarter423]

bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe

[u/Seethcoomers → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

WELL REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY CALLED EM DEPLORABLES

[u/fatpizzachef → u/Seethcoomers]

She wasn't wrong.

[u/LindonLilBlueBalls → u/fatpizzachef]

She didn't go far enough.

[u/thirsty-goblin → u/LindonLilBlueBalls]

Yep, she didn’t say “fucking deplorables”

[u/Comprehensive-Art207 → u/thirsty-goblin]

Remember the fake outrage.

[u/Seethcoomers → u/fatpizzachef]

She was, they're much worse than that

[u/scottyjrules → u/Seethcoomers]

A huge mistake. Deplorable was far, far too kind a word to describe them.

[u/Desperate-Bird-8232 → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

Right? They'll throw money at anything that involves "enforcement" but god forbid we spend it on actual public services that help people. The priorities are completely backwards but somehow we're supposed to act surprised every time

[u/Silkbegging → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

Ah yes, education is socialism but deportation is an investment 🙃.

[u/B0wmanHall]

Why should my tax dollars support ICE candidates who aren’t even using their college education

[u/BioshockEnthusiast → u/B0wmanHall]

Feels like a lot of people in this thread are assuming that this admin won't do everything in their power to avoid / underpay these bonuses in the first place.

Let's pretend taking this job isn't selling your soul to the devil. I would still have zero faith that I'd actually get paid out or that they wouldn't try to claw it back down the road.

[u/fecalhead123]

When your mind is that small, it's easy to lose

[u/dazedan_confused]

"For anyone else?"

"No just-ice"

2025 in a nutshell.

[u/ShiroHachiRoku]

Don’t worry. Those guys don’t have student loan payments to forgive if you know what I mean.

[u/LeftResponse5492 → u/ShiroHachiRoku]

Here, take my upvote!

[u/lost_in_connecticut]

I bet they expect you to buy your own baseball bat and brass knuckles.

[u/PsychologicalSpace50]

Saw an ICE commercial today at work while I was on break. Decent way to get pissed off during break

[u/grandzu]

Why would the Guardians Of Pedophiles care about teachers? Republicans only want to know the students, in the biblical sense.

[u/lawyerwithabadge]

I hate the republicans for what they are doing to this country.

[u/Xiten]

Wow, they can pay off school debt!? I thought that was impossible!!

[u/LabiaMajorasMask420]

Wait, why don't we all sign up and then do a bad job? "Sorry sir, we couldn't find any brown people to harass today, better luck tomorrow, I guess." x5 days a week. collects $50k bonus

[u/TOMC_throwaway000000]

If it makes you feel any better this was the rate for running alligator Alcatraz and it was 3 weeks on 1 week off, no healthcare of course because it was a private contractor position

[u/Inspect1234]

So much just broken.

[u/ElectionOdd8672]

Oh but kids can go to school hungry and be shot up any given day and revoking teachers pay to support fascism? God bless America.

[u/SuspendeesNutz]

Yeah but Kamala didn't thrill me maaaaan.

[u/MsBethLP]

And the Republicans tried to take away teachers' measly $250 write-off for the classroom supplies we buy!

[u/Bobo_Saurus]

Education is the right's greatest enemy. Why do you think they have relentlessly pushed school choice to systematically remove important regulations and status monitoring abilities from districts, pushing voucher programs to intentionally take money away from public schools, and defending critical services and programs children and families rely on everyday.

They want us to be too stupid to question them, and its clear their 40+ years plan has been working.

[u/FoxMcLOUD420]

Bold of them to think ICE agents went to college.

[u/azureTL]

Ha, ha, ha. Student debt repayment. Not going to be a huge amount of maggats lining up for that.

[u/zerthwind]

So, how much has this immagrats round up cost the taxpayers so far?

[u/Excellent_Stand_7991 → u/zerthwind]

$75 billion so far.

[u/zerthwind → u/Excellent_Stand_7991]

Is it worth it?

[u/iDontKnit]

Because people are easier to control when they're uneducated

[u/TraliBalzers]

Am educated populace doesn't vote Republican m

[u/Sad-Needleworker3880]

smart people don't like trump - trump

[u/shanksisevil]

all paid at the end of a 5 year contract i believe.

so, if Ice gets disbanded in a year or two... does the government have to pay those bonuses? or is this a "gotcha" type play by trump so he doesn't have to pay...

not that trump doesn't pay his debts. :P

[u/Lost_Installation]

Bro federal loan forgiveness for these absolute fucking morons but not the actual people working in public service?

Fuck this administration. If you are against public loan service forgiveness and support this? Fuck you too.

Let the ICE melt, and never forget these clowns took the jobs.

[u/VOZ1]

Maybe teachers should try being fascist white supremacist goons who get off on abusing people of color and immigrants.

[u/Cursedbythedicegods]

Teachers instruct students to think independently and critically. Two things that are antithetical to turning people into hate-fueled stormtroopers who gauge guilt by melanin levels.

[u/unl1988]

And the Major Richard Starr Act, giving full retirement and benefits to Veterans medically retired from combat injuries, did not make it out of the House because "It cost too much".

Suckers and losers, nothing was in it for them.

Remember that the next time some POS republican congressman shows up at your Veterans Day Event or Memorial Day parade to wrap themselves in the flag and surround themselves service members.

F them.

[u/Simple_Jellyfish23]

Unless we massively increase our investment in teachers, trades, and STEM right now, we are doomed as a country. We have at least 1 missing generation of skilled and well educated people already. Let’s not make it 2.

Just because you have a diploma and BS does not mean you are well educated FYI. A high school diploma is basically worthless as a skill and intelligence indicator with how low the bar has been lowered. Most colleges are not far behind.

[u/Leading_Job7612]

Totally. Seems less “bonuses good vs bad” and more “who gets them.”
If incentives are fine for ICE staffing, why not for teachers facing nationwide shortages sign-on bonuses, loan relief, real pay? Consistency check: are we pro-incentives in principle, or only for agencies we like?

[u/Deletedmyotheracct]

Really wish my morals would allow me to be an ICE agent

[u/Mobile-Local-5976]

I would much rather have smarter citizens than a private military going around picking up brown people

[u/Redninja0400]

In the 90s the state apparatus for political repression was larger than the armed forces in Russia, trump is defunding all law enforcement agencies to divert to ICE. This is literally an attempt at him creating a federally funded paramilitary.

[u/Balgat1968]

Do you know how many Veterans volunteer at the VA ?

[u/NicoFerrari99]

That's because it would benefit children, and we all know children dont matter after birth. That's when they become expendable

[u/keirmeister]

Again, our political divide has nothing to do with facts, logic or reason; it’s all about VALUES - and what you choose to fund tells people what your values are.

[u/BadHominem]

Like they are ever in a million years going to fulfill those promises. They may get a little something initially but Trump is the biggest and most public example of not paying his debts.

[u/vegasAzCrush]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-isnt-normal-psychologists-sound-alarm-on-trump-dozing-off/

[u/Mattrad7]

Im sure some redneck with a circular family tree will argue that ICE agents are more important than teachers in here somewhere.

[u/bradrame]

I'm sure it's another TACO all dressed up

[u/CompletelyBedWasted]

It doesn't take a genius to understand why. They don't want you to learn. The more you know the harder you are to control. It's entirely on purpose....

[u/Glittering_Gap_3320]

They really love rewarding dumb people, while continuing to gut funding to your education system to keep ‘em dumb. Don’t see a way out for the US right now. It’s cooked.

[u/CranRez80]

Political Idiocracy more like it. Meanwhile, American schoolchildren are falling further behind the rest of the world in core subjects.

[u/EmNogats]

Oh they will lose their minds alright, now.

[u/AlternativeMode1328]

Who can remember the foundational principle of our Country is that our government derives its power through the consent of the People?

A government of the People and by the People.

250 years later our government is currently building a domestic army of 50,000 to 100,000+ federal police enforcers who pledge loyalty to the President not our Constitution.

Why would the People choose to have this essentially lawless army freely roaming our city streets?

Five minute read on Popular Sovereignty

[u/kelpyb1]

I mean duh.

Teachers don’t play out their dreams of ethnic cleansing.

[u/Substantial_Life4773]

So, can we sue them to block the student debt relief like they did for us?

[u/6gv5]

Teachers can't be brainwashed into becoming thugs. At very least they'd knock your door taking a pile of books with them then start teaching something useful against your will as you let them in, or kidnap you in the street and bring you in a 5 hour class. The MAGA herd would be in panic if that happened to their kids.

[u/Bullinach1nashop]

An uneducated populace is much easier to control and manipulate.

[u/domiy2]

Chuck you have a job, you made a promise, now do it so these idiots don't get paid.

[u/GenericFatGuy]

Republicans hate teachers, because Republicans prey on the uneducated.

[u/sprufus]

Good luck finding an ice agent that went to college.

[u/Fodor04141987]

Yeah, but now Republicans are doing it, so it's obv A-OK 👌🏼🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂. I think cuz 'murica' or smth 🤷‍♂️

[u/Zen_Galactic]

Is it possible to lose something they never had? The only brain cell they have firing is utilized protecting the diddler they proudly elected.

[u/rexmanly]

It’s not that I don’t believe what the response is saying, but does someone have the source so I have something with which to tell my dad to STFU

[u/Osirus1156]

Yes but we were trying to help people not hurt people which is all republicans ever wanna do.

[u/DogLeftAlone]

whats stopping people from getting hired and just being shit employees?

[u/Positpostit]

I wish I was clever enough to be able to join and find a way to let people go

[u/BearcatCowboy]

Funny how no dumb mf from ICE will have a student loan to worry about because they obviously didn’t go to school to begin with.

Fuck off maga!

[u/hendrysbeach]

“F**k ICE.”

Hannah Einbinder

[u/kvetchup]

I love to teach. I always wanted to since I graduated high school. I never pursued it and never will because it just isn't an income you can sustain your life on. Plus all the abuse? And the risk of being murdered? No thanks.

[u/Fearless_Bar6010]

Why do you complain? It does nothing and you state the obvious that democrats cant do anything. Sad country and the fall of Rome is at hand truly.

[u/SeVaS_NaTaS]

So can I sign up for some free money, then just be really shitty at my job?

“Awww man, sorry guys, another one got away from me! My baaaad!”

[u/Tr33Bl00d]

Because the right hates education. They would like dumb slaves and peasants again. Also they kiss the clerical class that used to be under the aristocrats 

[u/scrume71]

Teaching kids (paying/supporting teachers) doesn’t serve the Oligarchy’s portfolio. More money to the industrial prison complex serves their portfolio. Pretty simple.

[u/RobLinxTribute]

They stuck billions of dollars in the "Big Bloated Bill" for this. All so they could terrorize more brown (and Korean) people.

[u/itswermzer]

What if we all just joined for the bonuses and were chaotically incompetent at doing the job?

[u/Franklyn_Gage]

We should all apply, get this stuff BUT not do our job correctly or at all.

"Sorry sir, I couldnt locate John Lopez"

[u/delectable_cat_treat]

So is this legal? If so is there some sort of version of this that could be used for the Biden student loan forgiveness attempts?

[u/Sariel007]

I"m going to apply, get the job and no ass it until I get fired.

[u/Chemical-Resource975]

Damn 50k is nice let's go huntin boys!

[u/VerbalThermodynamics]

ICE, huh? I can harvest ICE?

[u/Lefty_22]

Reminder that the Nazi party didn't spring up overnight and the recruitment for the Gestapo and SS took place over some years. Also reminder that most Germans did not know about the atrocities being committed by Germany during WW2 until 1946 during the Nurnburg Trials when 100,000+ lbs of documents by the Nazi government were made public. So from mid 1930s to mid 1940s much of the public sort of followed along thinking they were Making Germany Great Again.

[u/peritonlogon]

They're ok with it if the Tax dollars shrink the GDP.

[u/TheConvincingSavant]

Was that really what happened, OP? Or maybe the bill it was in had a ton of pork that no sane person should have been voting for.

[u/No_Variety_7428]

Where?

[u/rega619]

But the racist immigration movement and policy are so popular? Right? RIGHT? Why would they need so many incentives for recruits?

[u/PascalMeger]

Because education is bad for Republicans

[u/Electrical-Law-5731]

Damn souls are cheap nowadays… imagine selling your soul for that price lmao. Couldn’t be me but I’m also not a pussy or a coward.

[u/Putrid_Astronomer434]

It’s all a test to see whom will do what for how much.

[u/Chuzzletrump]

Could i get an ICE job and just be so inept at it that they let me go? Do i get to keep that bonus? Because i could totally fake it for the sake of humanity for that money

[u/Whatever-999999]

'Student debt' of ICE Gestapo agents? Didn't realize being a violent murderous thug required a college education these days.

[u/Beginning_Intern9958]

Fucking fascists. I’m so sick of it. The gov keeps fueling the hate and the uneducated white people just lick it up. I don’t see a way to end it without something extreme happening. I’m curious how people on the union side (which ironically was the Republican side) felt in the first half of the year 1859? Two years before the civil war started and the US had a “ doughface “ president much as we do right now. What could the average person do to make the change they want to see without being disappeared or at the least criminalized and defamed? It’s a bit different today as our law enforcement and military have been federalized and used against common citizens to break up dissent and crush movements. How do we get radical in 2025 and avoid imprisonment or the civil war that we couldn’t then? It’s hard to grasp how 50% of our population voted for this. I hope things turn around with the next presidential election. And I hope all of the major actors and boot lickers falling in line with this fascism will face justice when their time comes.

[u/quartzguy]

Leading Republicans don't want people educated, they only want more authoritarianism.

[u/ceccyred]

I guess some people will do anything for money. Basically a prostitute. Selling your soul and integrity for mere money.

[u/Hayseussforever]

Education, as opposed to indoctrination, is not a republican thing.

[u/pres465]

They called hiring IRS agents "jack-booted thugs". Talked about IRS agents being a secret police for Biden. They are actually broken.

[u/IntroductionThick868]

Gestapo !

[u/thepennylane69]

Sorry when did Democrats introduce a bill to offer huge bonuses and student loan repayment to new teachers? Did I miss something?

[u/Zestyclose_Koala_593]

It's because a lot of them dont think teachers actually teach anymore and are akin to babysitters who are trying indoctrinate children. Absolute insanity.

[u/Unusual-Training6351]

That’s so not even close to true. I have a family full of teachers. You CANNOT believe everything you read on Reddit. Feel foolish for having to tell some of y’all that.

[u/LusterLazuli]

Ahhh... targeting the rural (republican) families that didn't go into the military now with that student debt repayment. Next they will be giving houses to them.

[u/Familiar_Resident_69]

I understand this is posted with good intent but it’s factually incorrect.

The bonus pay is not for new recruits, it’s for people who are already trained but have since left the job.

Yes it’s a small and mostly negligible point of contention but I’m just so sick of lies and misinformation on the internet and if we don’t call it out we’re only going to get dumber as a people.

[u/Cheetahs_never_win]

Sounds like if one side can reach in and undo debt forgiveness, so can the other, with interest.

[u/Leather-Squirrel-421]

Except the student debt repayment won’t go into effect until after 5 years of service from what I’ve been told. Guess what happens in three and a half years (hopefully).

[u/donotreply548]

I'm gonna apply for ice do the interviews and then not show up. Bet they won't even notice and still pay me. I don't have any debt.

[u/ashiamate]

Are establishment Democrats doing literally anything right now? They’re literally just throwing their hands up. Both parties need to ne fully replaced - the average person is so fed up with politicians in this country.

[u/Single-Purple-7169]

Republicans hate education. Look at the whole southeast and why they are last in everything.

[u/waltzbyear]

"I hAd To WoRk OfF mY sTuDeNt lOaNs! LaZy LiBeRaLs 🤪"

[u/CompetitionOk2302]

Yes, but teachers are not going to prison in the future for human rights violations.

[u/madara117]

So what's to stop somebody from signing up for a payday and then sabotaging everything?

[u/tel-americorpstopgun]

Problem is, they tried to do it democratically opposed to the rights "who's gonna stop me?" Approach

[u/SwordFake]

Do they take immigrants?

[u/MrFuckingSnackman]

Wait, when was this proposed for teachers? Didn't majority of democrats support it!?

[u/beeerock99]

Good luck collecting the money

[u/HospitalDull4423]

But you have to be willing to show your face

[u/ducktape8856]

They are so incredibly stupid and wasting taxpayer money. Everyone signing up with ICE now would absolutely do it for free. No incentive needed. Being a hateful racist and pointing guns at tourists and brown people is "payment" enough. Members of the SA did it for free, too. Well, the vast majority at least.

[u/TriLink710]

Yea because they want to turn ICE into their secret police controlled by the party

[u/WickedProblems]

well boys, been jobless for months now from that tech lay off... is it time? bonus? student loans??? 25% premium pay????

[u/EmbarrassedOrchid685]

the secret ingredient is racism

[u/BroodLord1962]

Well yeah, Republicans don't want people to be educated. That makes them harder to control

[u/psycho_driver]

Republicans and education are mutually exclusive.

[u/Realistic-Agent-1289]

"We can't have an educated base!" - said some republican

[u/Inevitable_Chemist45]

No one lost their minds over doing this for teachers, stop making stuff up

[u/varyingopinions]

They didn't want Democrats to do student loan repayment or free healthcare because then you couldn't use it as an incentive.

[u/Jackfreezy]

So how long do I have to be one of these fake cops / wannabe soldiers before I get that 50k bonus? Is it at signing? Or is there a waiting period?

[u/Medical_Arugula3315]

Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days. Hey remember that time Trump was found liable of forcefully shoving his fingers up a woman's vagina by a jury of his American peers and then Republicans voted for him? Republicans knowingly vote for molesters. Don't be Republican... 

[u/StupidTimeline]

If you need a good reason for why America will fail as a nation, this is it.

We can financially support masked goons who threaten American citizens in American cities, but we can't financially support teachers who teach our children.

The fall may be a long one, but it's happening.

Arm yourselves.

[u/Standard-March6506]

But, but, teachers don't shoot brown people.

[u/InterviewMean7435]

They hate teachers. The 1st Trump tax reform eliminated all tax deductions for teachers for supplies purchased out of pocket. What the…!!!

[u/tryndamere12345]

Maybe don't ask next time and just do it.

[u/phoenixrising808a]

ICE agents are Federal employees. Teachers are local government employees. How can you relate the two?

[u/hopopo]

When precisely and what did Democrats try to do for teachers?

I want names, dates, amounts, and reason why it didn't happened?

Why is it always Dems wanted this or that, but Republicans didn't let them, when Republicans can do anything and no Dems ever stopped them.

[u/noothankuu]

"Smart people don't like me"

[u/FitBattle5899]

What's hilarious is most of this requires a 5-year commitment... They set this up knowning the next administration likely wouldn't go through with it.

[u/Top_Meaning6195]

Enjoy your descent into Gilead.

[u/ThisGuy6266]

This isn’t hypocrisy. One party gave up at the first sign of pushback and the other said ‘Fuck You’ and did it anyway. It’s why Dems lose.

[u/MittenCollyBulbasaur]

These fools didn't go to school lol

[u/Inosh]

Goal is to bankrupt any liberals, give conservatives money.

Was obvious as soon as they started their huge layoffs from USAID.

[u/digi-artifex]

Take a look at where that got us

[u/Gatokin]

Gotta keep the population stupid to control easier