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BREAKING: This MAGA Congresswoman just HUMILIATED a 10-year-old who wrote her a letter supporting EV subsidies. A fourth grader wrote his congresswoman a letter about electric vehicles for a school project. She wrote back and told him his teachers are propagandists who won't help him learn to think. The child is ten years old. Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina — 82 years old, former college professor, current member of the House Education Committee — received a letter from young Christian Mango, who had researched electric vehicles, cited facts, made arguments, and proposed a $5,000 tax rebate for EV purchases. His mother said he was proud of his work. Foxx's response started with a thank-you and quickly devolved into a lecture about the national debt, climate change skepticism, and the failure of American education. "YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt," she wrote — capitalizing YOU for maximum impact on a ten-year-old. She directed him to Fox News, National Review, The Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal editorial board to learn more about climate change. Because nothing helps a fourth grader's research project like the Fox News opinion section. Then she went after his teachers. "Please ask your teacher to explain propaganda to you," Foxx wrote. "My guess is that your teachers will not give you a good educational experience and help you learn to think, as they are too interested in indoctrinating you. How sad." A congresswoman who served on a county Board of Education for 12 years, taught at multiple colleges, and currently sits on the House Education Committee told a child that his teachers are brainwashing him — because he wrote a school essay about electric cars. Christian's mother was furious: "You don't deserve to be on a Committee for Education when you talk to children like this and think so lowly of teachers. No wonder NC is 50th in education funding level under your 'leadership.'" North Carolina ranks 50th in education funding. Foxx has represented her district for over 20 years. She has a Trump endorsement and is running for re-election. She used it to bully a ten-year-old. Please like and share this if you think attacking a fourth grader's school essay promoting a solution for climate change is not what congressional constituent services are supposed to look like.
BREAKING: Meet the Trump cabinet member who COULDN’T ANSWER the most basic questions about the agency he leads. With the abundance of wildly incompetent people filling major roles in the Trump administration — some of whom, like RFK Jr., Kash Patel, and Pete Hegseth, dominate the media regularly — it’s often easy to forget how even the less visible members of Trump’s cabinet are remarkably unqualified for their positions. Take Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner, for instance. Turner appeared before the House Appropriations Committee today and demonstrated, in excruciating detail, that he does not know the basic numbers behind his own department's budget proposal. Rep. Rosa DeLauro asked Scott Turner how many beds of permanent supportive housing are funded by the Continuum of Care program. Turner thanked her for the question and launched into talking points about the "failed Housing First model." DeLauro cut him off: "I need a number." Turner had no number. DeLauro provided it: 170,000 beds. She asked how many of those beds would be eliminated under his proposed budget. Turner said they'd "be able to serve more people." DeLauro provided the answer again: 170,000 beds eliminated, affecting an estimated 217,000 people — including children — who currently rely on that housing. She asked what the fastest-growing population among people experiencing homelessness is. Turner said he was "here to listen." DeLauro answered: 146,000 seniors. Forty percent of people in permanent supportive housing are older adults who have finally achieved stability after homelessness. She asked which communities would suffer most from eliminating the program. Turner pivoted to talking points. DeLauro answered: rural and suburban communities. Oklahoma: 100% of permanent supportive housing beds funded by federal dollars. Arizona: 98%. Montana: 98%. Kentucky and Indiana: 82%. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development apparently did not know any of this, or if he did, he did not care to share that information that so undermined his talking points. Then Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina asked the simplest possible question: "How do you house people when you take all the money away?" Turner's answer: "Housing First is a failed model." Clyburn's response was perfect: "I'm not a sloganeer. I'm not dealing with sloganeering here. How do you house people when you take the money away?" Turner had no answer. Clyburn yielded back. This is the man proposing to eliminate housing for 217,000 Americans — including 40 percent who are elderly, including children, including people in rural red states where 100 percent of supportive housing beds are federally funded — and he cannot answer a single factual question about what he's proposing to do. "What I can say is that we'll be able to serve more people." 217,000 people losing their housing disagree. Perhaps the people Turner proposes to serve are the billionaire donors to the Republican Party and the Wall Street hedge funds who are buying up the nation’s housing stock to reap massive profits from. One thing is certain, it’s time to have the Housing and Urban Development run by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about. Please like and share this if you think the HUD Secretary should know how many people his budget will make homeless.
BREAKING: AOC absolutely DOG-WALKS Senator Ted Cruz after he insulted her working class past as a bartender in a sneering line of attack. She certainly sounds like a president to us... "Congresswoman, real quick, I'm sorry to ask you about this, but Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. Any response to this Junior Senator from Texas," a reporter asked Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "I mean, listen, it's not a secret the disdain that Ted Cruz has for people who work working class jobs," said AOC. "It's not a secret that, you know, what he thinks of the waitresses, the line cooks, he thinks that we're less than him." "He thinks that because he has a Harvard degree and never scrubbed a table, that that makes him better than someone who's actually had to work for a living," she continued. "And I think it's funny that he's been taking a government paycheck for twenty-three years, but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here." "And you know, if that's how he feels, that's how he feels. I don't take it personally. I'm okay with it," she added. In a recent podcast appearance, Cruz — who is best known these days for abandoning his constituents in Texas during a deadly winter storm to vacation in Cancun — attacked Ocasio-Cortez for daring to state the truth that billionaires "can't earn" that much wealth. He referenced her past employment as a bartender and said that it's "probably true" that people in that line of work can never earn a billion dollars. He added that she went from that job to "being a government employee and a parasite sucking on the taxpayer." The stunning irony here is, of course, that Cruz himself draws a taxpayer salary and has been doing so far longer than Ocasio-Cortez. The difference is that AOC actually works to improve the lives of her constituents while Cruz actively immiserates them on behalf of corporations and corrupt oligarchs. The congresswoman is also right about his underlying beliefs. Cruz, like so many Republican politicians, believes that the rich are inherently better than working class people. They view a vast swath of the American electorate as subhuman peons to be exploited and extracted from. Men like him should never be given power
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