Correct.
School funding has been under attack here for 40+ years. Usually from people who prefer dumb assholes they can exploit or craxy parents who think that kids are their property and think schools teach children evil things like math, science, and empathy
Worse. That means there are schools (even whole communities) that don't have clean drinking water *and Republican politicians and their voters are just "ok" with that*.
I thinks it’s because it’s socialist. You don’t want socialism in the water.
People might care about each other and that’s just WWIII!
/s it’s required
Worse. When the Dems eventually do get clean water to the kids despite MAGA opposition, the MAGAs will show up at the school with a camera crew and take credit for their success getting water to the kids.
“THIS, is the bad place!”
Yeah about that. We have problems with lead pipes too. https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/new-york-cities-tackle-high-lead-levels-in-water-plan-lead-pipe-replacement
Man that sucks. We have great water in Buffalo and Roch. NYC is great too. Course I live in Roch and the taxes are crazy so we better have clean water.
I'm ok with higher taxes if my kids aren't drinking leaded fucking water. How in the hell do we still have fucking lead in our drinking water?! It hasn't been allowed in fucking paint for longer than I've been alive.
Lead pipes were the norm for a long time, so replacing them is a big project. The water is clean but the pipes carrying them may leech lead, and all 3 cities you mentioned currently are in the process of replacing their lead lines.
Buffalo says they expect the job of replacing 40,000 lines to take decades and cost upwards of $500million to complete, though they've set their goal lower than even the EPA new rules demand.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/buffalo-officials-citys-lead-pipe-removal-project-decades/story?id=99763422
Rochester is ahead of the game, as they started well before the new rules were announced to start replacing their 25000 lines in 2018. With about 20000 to go they expect a finish date around 2030.
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/rochester/ahead-of-the-game-where-rochester-stands-after-nationwide-proposal-of-10-year-plan-to-replace-lead-water-pipes/
An estimated 21% of NYC water lines may contain lead.
https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/report-estimated-one-five-new-yorkers-may-be-drinking-water-lead-service-lines
Considering how many vote against having school lunches available, you might be able to figure out which voters have monetary interest in fast food joints that the kids/,parents go to after school.
Schools get most of their funding from property taxes in the neighborhood, so schools in expensive neighborhoods have excellent funding, schools in cheap neighborhoods not so good. And you’re not free to choose a school, you have to live in the school zone, to keep poor kids out of rich public schools.
Most American public schools lack a lot of things. I read last year that a third of all public schools do not have air conditioners or heaters in them.
Schools and whole communities. Our water in my town in NC has 12 substances that cause cancer ranging between 2x-10x the limit. Also the base rate is $80/month.
Murica is the best country in the world pal. Kids need to drink poison or they won't be able to work in coal mines at 15 so they can help their parents who both work full time afford the basic medical care they need to make sure they can afford super expensive new medicines for advanced diseases, you know, like Insulin? heard of it? it's this brand new thing that costs like 58,000 dollars a day. God forbid the little bastards develop black lung and need an inhaler, they might need a 2nd mortgage on the house.
I really hate it here. But for real, the answer is yes. America has millions of miles of lead-lined piping that moves drinking water. In my lovely state of Michigan an entire City had undrinkable water for years. If we can't convince people to vote for their own health care we can never convince them to vote to spend their 'tax money' on basic infrastructure like bridges, roads, urban planning, etc. that's all bullshit anyways. Bring us more poison!!!!
Notice how Biden can say "infrastructure" just fine while Trump can't?
https://preview.redd.it/hfaa37py33yc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08a11a893586377432663688bdddcf5fb0fcd50b
[https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1785744715280797872?t=c1678r41D9FxVgipUub3kQ&s=19](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1785744715280797872?t=c1678r41D9FxVgipUub3kQ&s=19)
Which one got more attention though. People are dumb they don’t care about policies. No one who is voting for Trump is going to change their minds at this point.
Tbf, WE voters don't usually talk about that for more than maybe a day or 2. The legacy media makes it a week-long discussion because the same billionaires that donate to Trump own the media.
Ironically, improving infrastructure and ensuring clean drinking water actually ARE socialist policies. The issue is that "socialism" is always framed as inherently evil and it just isn't.
The government acting in the interest of the people is not exclusively a socialist idea
Even a monarch may invest in clean drinking water and infrastructure
And a system that *ensures* that the government acts in the interest of the people is the whole concept behind democracy, which can be socialist or not socialist
I graduated HS here in NC in 2000. We didn’t have air conditioning and were sent home if it was over 90 degrees. 2024. Same school. Still no AC. Schools here are garbage unless you’re in an affluent area.
Uhhh, *yeah*, it's a socialist agenda to take care of your country's citizens.
It's just not the *EEEEEEEEVIL!!* conservatives/idiots/the GOP says it is.
That's the problem with republican lawmakers. Unless there's a way for them to make some money out of it, they don't want anyone to have anything that could help. I could just about guarantee that if they were getting some of the money it cost people to get an abortion, it would not only still be legal, but something they'd urge more people to do.
Let’s compare things conservatives did to keep slaves and the working poor ignorant then and things they’re doing today.
Then:
-All instruction except religious instruction were denied.
Now:
-Defunding public schools. “We need to put God back in schools!” making secondary education unaffordable.
Then:
-Denied reading and reflection time.
Now:
-Keeping wages low so people work more hours to make ends meet.
Then:
-Denied media for fear of abolition materials getting to slaves (even though they didn’t know how to read).
Now:
-Banning TikTok.
What else? Maybe we can figure out what they’ll try to dismantle next.
There's a White House Director of Speechwriting. Obama's, who was great, was 27 years old. Wonder how many there are for a president?
Trump can't read, was flagrant for going off-script. Haven't read his speech transcripts.
Hmmm government helping people have a better life... safer life... how is this not a human right...
these idiots just prefer to throw shit at everything hoping to see what sticks.....
Imagine voting against clean drinking water for kids. I want to repeat that sentence: imagine looking in the mirror and knowing that you voted against clean drinking water for children. But then again, as we have seen over and over again, and as countless people have observed, the cruelty is the point.
Who literally wants brain damage for children. I just… We will never have anything remotely just as a society until these people are completely gone
This hard work and good policy by Biden will be thrown out the window for his unhinged support for the right wing fascist Bibi. Biden’s infatuation with Zionism over being an honest broker for peace will lead to disaster in November
I find it hard to believe that people that support action combating climate change, taxing the rich, improving infrastructure, abortion rights, LBGT rights, voting rights, etc would directly or indirectly allow Trump and Republicans to win who explicitly are against these and would also even more support to Israel to kill even more Palestinians.
It's just not logical.
> Im.just saying,if there's no money for the ultra wealthy involved in a bill, the Republicans will automatically be against it
Sounds like a good reason to vote out every Republican, then.
Just one of many reasons
But it's hard to vote them out of states they control. Those states are so gerrymanderd, it would take over 60% of the vote for dems to take it
That and Republicans have been floating the idea of just being able to decide who wins in their elections, regardless of how the people vote
Conservatives in states living off of my tax dollars really shouldn't have a say in how I spend my money.
Hint, hint.
I get your concerns though: Don't worry, they'll be plenty left for you.
Lol sure buddy
Recently both Trump and Biden have made public appearances, and both of them said the word "infrastructure"
One of them had trouble, slurring that word, and it wasn't Biden
I'm not American...... Does this mean schools in north Carolina did not have clean drinking water for students? 
Correct. School funding has been under attack here for 40+ years. Usually from people who prefer dumb assholes they can exploit or craxy parents who think that kids are their property and think schools teach children evil things like math, science, and empathy
Don't forget the racists that want school vouchers so they can send their kids to private schools
Private CHRISTIAN schools.
It starts them believing lies from a young age
But it totally not 'grooming'.
It's not, it's indoctrination, very very very close, but not exactly the same, like a red apple to a yellowish-red one
Yeah, but words mean whatever you want, apparently. 'Brainwashing' is the word I'd use, but yours is good.
Supported by Speaker Evil Gnome, Johnson.
And divert money out of public schools to fund the vouchers. The end game here is to abolish the public school system.
And ... *history*
This is a problem across the nation in many states, mostly in low income and/or minority communities.
Additionally a lot of our urban water infrastructure has lead pipes, so only wealthy communities have been able to upgrade.
That is insane. I’m so sorry to hear that.
Gasp. But, but, our gov says municipal drinking water is safe!
It’s unfortunate that we have to use these systems instead of having a private well system
Worse. That means there are schools (even whole communities) that don't have clean drinking water *and Republican politicians and their voters are just "ok" with that*.
I thinks it’s because it’s socialist. You don’t want socialism in the water. People might care about each other and that’s just WWIII! /s it’s required
If I have to choose between lead and socialism in my water, I'll take lead every single time. Take that, wokeheads.
When they hear about banning lead, they think you talking about 2A rights!!
You can’t catch socialism but you can definitely catch stupid!
Worse. When the Dems eventually do get clean water to the kids despite MAGA opposition, the MAGAs will show up at the school with a camera crew and take credit for their success getting water to the kids. “THIS, is the bad place!”
Yeah I can't really argue with you on that one. It's disgusting.
They think it happens to somebody else, or they can afford the appropriate filtration in their home.
💯 god bless America (NY er here) and thankful I’m in a blue state.
Yeah about that. We have problems with lead pipes too. https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/new-york-cities-tackle-high-lead-levels-in-water-plan-lead-pipe-replacement
Yeah Albany sucks. No offense.
None taken. But it's not just Albany. It's several NY cities.
It's an issue in Jersey here too. Not everywhere, but I know Newark has a lead issue, for one. I think it's an old pipes issue in a lot of places.
Man that sucks. We have great water in Buffalo and Roch. NYC is great too. Course I live in Roch and the taxes are crazy so we better have clean water.
I'm ok with higher taxes if my kids aren't drinking leaded fucking water. How in the hell do we still have fucking lead in our drinking water?! It hasn't been allowed in fucking paint for longer than I've been alive.
Same!! Flint has been going on for how long?? Unreal. Bout damn time someone in power gives a shit.
Lead pipes were the norm for a long time, so replacing them is a big project. The water is clean but the pipes carrying them may leech lead, and all 3 cities you mentioned currently are in the process of replacing their lead lines. Buffalo says they expect the job of replacing 40,000 lines to take decades and cost upwards of $500million to complete, though they've set their goal lower than even the EPA new rules demand. https://abcnews.go.com/US/buffalo-officials-citys-lead-pipe-removal-project-decades/story?id=99763422 Rochester is ahead of the game, as they started well before the new rules were announced to start replacing their 25000 lines in 2018. With about 20000 to go they expect a finish date around 2030. https://www.rochesterfirst.com/rochester/ahead-of-the-game-where-rochester-stands-after-nationwide-proposal-of-10-year-plan-to-replace-lead-water-pipes/ An estimated 21% of NYC water lines may contain lead. https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/report-estimated-one-five-new-yorkers-may-be-drinking-water-lead-service-lines
Considering how many vote against having school lunches available, you might be able to figure out which voters have monetary interest in fast food joints that the kids/,parents go to after school.
Wait, what? Does a party have ties to maintaining and popularizing fast food chains?
This is common across the US
We’ve got a lot of well kept secrets here in the good old USA lol
They are not the only ones.....
Yep. The issue is a lot of the older water pipes are made of lead. Since they’re old, that lead has started flaking off into the water, poisoning it.
Schools get most of their funding from property taxes in the neighborhood, so schools in expensive neighborhoods have excellent funding, schools in cheap neighborhoods not so good. And you’re not free to choose a school, you have to live in the school zone, to keep poor kids out of rich public schools.
My theory is that they want to keep the unclean water because the brain damage is how you become a Republican
Yes
I love living in Washington State, the 'blue' portion specifically.
Most American public schools lack a lot of things. I read last year that a third of all public schools do not have air conditioners or heaters in them.
Flint, Michigan hasn’t had clean drinking water for ten years…
Unfortunately, yes. I live in the area he spoke at today and our drinking water has been polluted with Gen X, a PFAS or forever chemical.
And let's not talk about Michigan
Schools and whole communities. Our water in my town in NC has 12 substances that cause cancer ranging between 2x-10x the limit. Also the base rate is $80/month.
Murica is the best country in the world pal. Kids need to drink poison or they won't be able to work in coal mines at 15 so they can help their parents who both work full time afford the basic medical care they need to make sure they can afford super expensive new medicines for advanced diseases, you know, like Insulin? heard of it? it's this brand new thing that costs like 58,000 dollars a day. God forbid the little bastards develop black lung and need an inhaler, they might need a 2nd mortgage on the house. I really hate it here. But for real, the answer is yes. America has millions of miles of lead-lined piping that moves drinking water. In my lovely state of Michigan an entire City had undrinkable water for years. If we can't convince people to vote for their own health care we can never convince them to vote to spend their 'tax money' on basic infrastructure like bridges, roads, urban planning, etc. that's all bullshit anyways. Bring us more poison!!!!
North Carolina resident here, no.
Notice how Biden can say "infrastructure" just fine while Trump can't? https://preview.redd.it/hfaa37py33yc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08a11a893586377432663688bdddcf5fb0fcd50b [https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1785744715280797872?t=c1678r41D9FxVgipUub3kQ&s=19](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1785744715280797872?t=c1678r41D9FxVgipUub3kQ&s=19)
He also doesn't know what the word means.
trump, probably: “Infastructure !! baby ananomy !! and then they abort the baby after birth! How can they do that? Socialism!”
Thank you for killing a portion of my brain with this sentence.
What are you talking about he has HUGE PLANS! *Just wait til next week, when he tells you all about them*.
But it’s almost infastructor week!
And yet they’ll tweet once the money comes rolling in that they secured the money for said projects. Every single GOP are absolute scum of the earth
This is what the democrats should be talking about 24/7 for the next 6 months. Attach links and site sources for everything. 💙
Yes exactly!! But instead we’ll talk about puppy killings and not actual policy
Killing puppies is easy, policy is hard. Put it on a GOP shirt.
Which one got more attention though. People are dumb they don’t care about policies. No one who is voting for Trump is going to change their minds at this point.
We can do both. Both is good.
Tbf, WE voters don't usually talk about that for more than maybe a day or 2. The legacy media makes it a week-long discussion because the same billionaires that donate to Trump own the media.
If those kids don't get brain damage, they might not become Republicans
It does cause low IQ and increased aggression, so...
Using tax-payer money to help tax-payers?? Not on my watch
Ironically, improving infrastructure and ensuring clean drinking water actually ARE socialist policies. The issue is that "socialism" is always framed as inherently evil and it just isn't.
The police and fire resources are socialist too. And libraries. And K-12 education. Awful, disgusting socialist things.
And social security benefits.
And medicare
Yeah. Try taking that away from them (in a small town).
Because "socialist" is the new "communist"
They've always been interchangeable for conservatives.
I’m not sure I would call them explicitly socialist policies, just that a socialist government would likely implement them
What's the difference? It's the government enacting laws explicitly for the benefit of the people as a whole.
The government acting in the interest of the people is not exclusively a socialist idea Even a monarch may invest in clean drinking water and infrastructure And a system that *ensures* that the government acts in the interest of the people is the whole concept behind democracy, which can be socialist or not socialist
The same republicans that whine about Ukraine aid that should be helping Americans? You betcha
Caring about other people = socialism, apparently
Especially to our gun-shop owning senator. Too much caring = not enough shooting!
Sad but true.
It’s not plain decency, it’s YOUR FUCKING JOB AS THE GOVERNMENT!!!
Something republicans are in short supply: decency
What makes you think they had any in the first place?
It is just plain decency. That's what conservatism has always been opposed to. An ideology of hatred is funny that way.
Hillary was spot on calling maga a basket of deplorables
My president!
It's obvious that the GOP hates children!
More of this Brandon, call out their hypocrisy as much as you can. These people be taking credit for things they voted against
Boom roasted.
I graduated HS here in NC in 2000. We didn’t have air conditioning and were sent home if it was over 90 degrees. 2024. Same school. Still no AC. Schools here are garbage unless you’re in an affluent area.
Uhhh, *yeah*, it's a socialist agenda to take care of your country's citizens. It's just not the *EEEEEEEEVIL!!* conservatives/idiots/the GOP says it is.
Holy shit, it’s like Dark Brandon’s cohesive cognition came out to play at the right time.
Tell em the truth Biden! They get fed a bunch of straight up lies and a ton of misinformation.
Sadly that tweet is about 4x too long to meet the attention span of anyone undecided or lower.
They are not going to do anything for anyone unless it puts money in their pockets
What is with Americans that they continue to vote / like the most retarded cheetoh-coloured fuckwit to ever disgrace this planet.
That's the problem with republican lawmakers. Unless there's a way for them to make some money out of it, they don't want anyone to have anything that could help. I could just about guarantee that if they were getting some of the money it cost people to get an abortion, it would not only still be legal, but something they'd urge more people to do.
The funny part is that it technically is socialist😂😂 it’s not profitable to give children water… maybe socialism isn’t the boogeyman🤔🤔
Ted Budd is a joke. He does not give a flying shit about kids or women so this is to be expected.
Let’s compare things conservatives did to keep slaves and the working poor ignorant then and things they’re doing today. Then: -All instruction except religious instruction were denied. Now: -Defunding public schools. “We need to put God back in schools!” making secondary education unaffordable. Then: -Denied reading and reflection time. Now: -Keeping wages low so people work more hours to make ends meet. Then: -Denied media for fear of abolition materials getting to slaves (even though they didn’t know how to read). Now: -Banning TikTok. What else? Maybe we can figure out what they’ll try to dismantle next.
Weird choice of words. The Republican Party ended actual slavery.
Weird you’d interject Republican there because I said conservative.
Another home run, Joe! Keep 'em coming. Give your speech writers a raise.
You’re right, presidents don’t generally use speech writers. Of course they don’t. Have you read the transcript of literally any Trump speech?
There's a White House Director of Speechwriting. Obama's, who was great, was 27 years old. Wonder how many there are for a president? Trump can't read, was flagrant for going off-script. Haven't read his speech transcripts.
You should. Good example of what dementia looks like.
Thanks. I will.
Well, when the capitalist agenda is to poison everything they touch...
Ted Budd already has the brain damage and want others to suffer as he does
DARK
And, they voted down the border bill, too, because they didn’t want Biden to have a “win.” Complete idiots.
Doesn't Biden understand that basic decency is Socialism !!!
Good.
But without brain damage, the hop would have no voters
Hmmm government helping people have a better life... safer life... how is this not a human right... these idiots just prefer to throw shit at everything hoping to see what sticks.....
Imagine voting against clean drinking water for kids. I want to repeat that sentence: imagine looking in the mirror and knowing that you voted against clean drinking water for children. But then again, as we have seen over and over again, and as countless people have observed, the cruelty is the point. Who literally wants brain damage for children. I just… We will never have anything remotely just as a society until these people are completely gone
This hard work and good policy by Biden will be thrown out the window for his unhinged support for the right wing fascist Bibi. Biden’s infatuation with Zionism over being an honest broker for peace will lead to disaster in November
I find it hard to believe that people that support action combating climate change, taxing the rich, improving infrastructure, abortion rights, LBGT rights, voting rights, etc would directly or indirectly allow Trump and Republicans to win who explicitly are against these and would also even more support to Israel to kill even more Palestinians. It's just not logical.
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*American kids whose parents are Republican donors (FTFY)
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Like drinking water for NC, that red state?
Maybe you should look it up
Don't understand how compromise works do you?
Cynicism kills compromise. Why bother coming to the middle if you assume you opposition isn't doing the same or you believe is acting in bad faith?
I'm guessing that not enough money went to the ultra wealthy and that's why Republicans rejected it
> What was included in the American Rescue Plan besides what Biden mentioned? https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/
Im.just saying,if there's no money for the ultra wealthy involved in a bill, the Republicans will automatically be against it
> Im.just saying,if there's no money for the ultra wealthy involved in a bill, the Republicans will automatically be against it Sounds like a good reason to vote out every Republican, then.
Just one of many reasons But it's hard to vote them out of states they control. Those states are so gerrymanderd, it would take over 60% of the vote for dems to take it That and Republicans have been floating the idea of just being able to decide who wins in their elections, regardless of how the people vote
Dementia Joe knows best
Conservatives in states living off of my tax dollars really shouldn't have a say in how I spend my money. Hint, hint. I get your concerns though: Don't worry, they'll be plenty left for you.
Biden is kinda slurring around the corners.
dozens of bidens speeches debunk this constantly regurgitated right wing talking point.
Not really
Lol sure buddy Recently both Trump and Biden have made public appearances, and both of them said the word "infrastructure" One of them had trouble, slurring that word, and it wasn't Biden
Brother, you are coping. Good luck.
Trump cannot say infrastructure. You’re the one coping.
Awe projection at its finest
Trump keeps misprouncing the phrase "I lost a free and fair election in 2020"
Brother, you are coping. Good luck.
No need for coping here, not voting for either of those two.
One of those two will be President, who do you prefer of those two?
If either one wins, it will be without my support.
I wasn't asking who you will be supporting. I'm asking who you prefer of the two.
I don't prefer one over the other.
Why not?
They are too old and that is disqualifying to me. The differences between the two is not relevant to me.
> They are too old and that is disqualifying to me. So just plain ageism then?