And this is why Democrats will rule the United States for a long long time. Thank you Randi Weingarten
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."
Hurts to read this. James has served his country home and abroad as well
Suspend disbelief for a second.
Pretend my deceased ancestors come back. And I was able to *explain face-to-face to my WWII and Korean Conflict veteran grandfathers, my Vietnam veteran father, and my great (x3) grandfather who fought for the Union at Gettysburg in 1863 with the NYS Militia, that an elected congresswoman in New York City authored a post smirking about wiping her dirtied hand on the American flag, was elected to Congress in 2026, and on election night, wrapped herself in a “keffiyah” (not the flag of her own country), and this was somehow “normal” and barely newsworthy …
People somehow voted for her.
This is our America now. 😢😢😢
Hey @JDVance Iran could have been a barren desert after we leveled it and the GOP was still getting wiped Tuesday. This was not your place to undermine the next day, your place was either support or silence. You have already made it clear you are against the war but you are not running the show and never will. As a military veteran one would think you would have learned that. Did it contribute yes, but it was not the main reason. Too many young voters couldn’t find Iran on a map but are taught to question and hate everything POTUS does thanks to the likes of a Randi Weingarten. Muslim voters, millions of illegal dwellers and city dwellers will never vote Republican. How to combat that is an uphill battle.
Boy did this SNL skit ever come to fruition.
Father Daughter Ad - SNL youtu.be/_L2fazw5Y9k?is=D-7z… via @YouTube
"There are two types of people in this world: those who are humble, and those who are about to be humbled"
Yeah NYC way to go. You put this Hamas loving bitch on a pedestal and hopefully she gets her way and abolishes the NYPD so you can all enjoy the Purge
Nobody on the right gave two shits about the Epstein files. Price of gas, the invasion of millions of illegal voters and Muslims who hate America promising free shit to brain dead indoctrinated college dimwits were the downfall of America
When the GOP loses today, they only have themselves to blame.
We all voted for Trumps agenda and you all betrayed us.
We were promised mass deportations and when you started getting heat from loud mouth liberals, you backed off.
We were promised the Epstein files and when your donors told you not to release all of it, you caved.
We were promised election reform and when the Save America Act was put in front of you, you failed to pass it.
You promised accountability and all we got was empty promises and billions more in fraud.
The fact is, none of you have the courage to get things done because you're a bunch of sell outs who were bought and paid for by special interest.
You've become the swamp you said you'd drain.
Reap what you Sow.
Hits home and lets pray its a happy ending NY. Get rid of the rats infesting City Hall and Albany
Ironic isn’t it we don’t see Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, 3 countries I have been to have these riots. I wonder why.
Illegal Migrants complain that they are not allowed to cross the Polish border:
“We want to enter Poland, but they won’t let us. They are threatening to harm us if we try to cross over. I want to go to Poland or Germany to have a good life.”
Poland says NO to Open Borders! 🇵🇱
Every country needs to be like Poland
But but where are the bodycams to get the Polizei in trouble for bringing order to the insanity and doing a job failed coward parents refused to do.
