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Randi Weingarten’s Latest Act of Historical Revisionism and a Sledgehammer from Trump
Yes, that Randi Weingarten—President of the American Federation of Teachers, and arguably one of the most destructive forces in American education. A woman whose influence is so toxic, she should come with a Surgeon General’s warning.
She took a break from collecting checks from her 17 corporate boards (how is that legal, again?) and her grotesque $545,000+ salary to make the rounds on the 5th anniversary of the infamous “two weeks to flatten the curve” lie.
She showed up on mainstream morning shows with a straight face and claimed she “wanted schools reopened as early as April 2020.”
“COVID was a terrible time for us... I wanted schools to be reopened as early as April of 2020.”
“This has been a Republican talking point for a long time…”
Randi Weingarten saying she fought to reopen schools is like Harvey Weinstein claiming he was a champion of the #MeToo movement. It’s not just a lie—it’s the kind of lie that insults your intelligence while dancing on the grave of truth.
And considering how high the bar is for offensive lies during the COVID years, this one clears it with room to spare.
But here’s the thing: the internet is forever.
This wasn’t some offhand gaffe. This woman was everywhere—CNN, MSNBC, The View, Twitter—consistently fearmongering, insisting it was “unsafe” to return to classrooms, demanding more “resources” (read: money), and lobbying the CDC behind the scenes to delay reopenings.
In one infamous email chain exposed by FOIA requests, the AFT was caught directly editing CDC school reopening guidance. You read that right—unelected union leaders rewriting national public health policy.
She used our kids like bargaining chips. She held parents hostage. She buried children’s futures in a shallow grave and walked away with a raise.
By the way, what did that delay in reopening cost us?
Math and reading scores just hit their lowest levels in decades.
42% of U.S. high schoolers now report persistent sadness or hopelessness.
Suicide rates among teens skyrocketed, especially among girls.
And economically? Lost lifetime earnings for this generation are projected in the trillions.
And what did Randi get for presiding over this catastrophe? A $122 billion ransom payout from the Biden administration, labeled “COVID relief” for schools to “reopen safely”—from a virus that posed virtually zero risk to children and very little to healthy adults under 65. Money that’s still unaccounted for, by the way.
You want safe? Vitamin D, zinc, Ivermectin and an ounce of courage would’ve done more for school safety than any mask mandate or plexiglass shield.
And now she wants applause? Now she wants to pose as the hero in the final act of the play she helped write?
It’s disgusting. And it’s unforgivable.
She shouldn't be on a talk show. She should be in a courtroom—or in a more honest society, before a military tribunal. And in my least charitable moments, I’ll admit: I wouldn’t shed a tear if she and her co-conspirators—Fauci, Dazak, Collins—were tried, convicted, and faced a televised firing squad on the White House lawn. That’s not rage. That’s justice for the children, the working parents, the disabled, the voiceless—everyone who suffered while the elite profited.
But let’s end on a high note. While Randi tried to rewrite the past, President Trump was busy writing the future: signing an Executive Order aimed at shutting down the Department of Education.
Finally. A blow struck at the corrupt bureaucratic Hydra that let Weingarten run wild. It’s not just policy—it’s poetic justice.
The reckoning has begun. And it’s long overdue.
Trump’s Education Revolution – The Long Overdue Reckoning is Here
Well, folks, it’s time to pop the champagne because President Donald Trump just dropped a sledgehammer on the bloated, subversive beast known as the Department of Education.
This isn’t some paper-shuffling policy tweak—it’s a long-awaited demolition of a federal leviathan that’s been feasting on taxpayer dollars while peddling radical agendas and padding the resumes of bureaucrats, all while our kids are floundering in a swamp of declining literacy and numeracy.
Defunding or outright scrapping this monstrosity isn’t just a bold move—it’s a righteous, red-blooded gut punch to a system that’s prioritized political indoctrination over actual education. So let’s dive into why this matters—for sanity, for sovereignty, and most of all, for our children.
Let’s start with the cold, unvarnished truth: the Department of Education has mutated into a fiscal and ideological Frankenstein. Since its 1979 debut, its budget has skyrocketed—hitting $79.6 billion in 2024—while salaries and staff ballooned and student performance simultaneously cratered like a tech IPO gone bad.
And what have we bought for that price? Stagnation and decline. According to the NAEP, reading scores for fourth-graders have flatlined since the early ’90s, with just 60% meeting basic proficiency.
Math? Worse. Only 76% of fourth-graders and 61% of eighth-graders cleared the baseline last year—a 9-point drop since 2020. Internationally, U.S. 15-year-olds rank 28th in math out of 37 OECD nations.
Meanwhile, China pumps out disciplined STEM juggernauts and India churns out world-class coders—at a fraction of our spend. We’re shelling out nearly $15,000 per student per year (more than 10x what China and India spend), and still handing out participation trophies like candy at a Halloween parade.
Plot that against the Department’s headcount and spending curves, and you’ll see two lines racing in opposite directions: bureaucracy to the moon, student outcomes to the basement.
Now, credit where it’s due—Title I does help low-income schools, and IDEA supports special-needs kids. Those are real wins. But noble intentions don’t justify a runaway freight train of ideological overreach. The Office for Civil Rights has morphed into an enforcer of woke dogma. The admin class employed by the Department—4,200 strong before Trump swung the axe—burns through 0.31% of total federal wages, a veritable full-employment plan for paper-pushers.
The mission of education has been hijacked by a fringe agenda that turns classrooms into ideological battlegrounds. The good parts? They’re a rounding error. It's time to raze it, salt the earth, and start again.
Now picture something better: a modern National Education Department built like a start-up—data-driven, outcomes-obsessed, and ruthless about results. Think Six Sigma meets Socratic rigor. Every dollar tied to a KPI: reading fluency, math mastery, graduation rates, post-grad success. AI becomes a force multiplier, not a gimmick. It slashes the busywork, personalizes instruction, and frees teachers to do what they do best—actually teach.
Take Alpha School (Alpha Miami)—a pioneer in what 21st-century learning can look like. Their AI-powered “2-Hour Learning” model uses adaptive algorithms to knock out core academics in the morning, tailored to each child’s pace and level. The afternoons? Pure rocket fuel—coding, entrepreneurship, creative writing, public speaking, real-world problem solving. Kids build real skills and real confidence. With campuses in five states, Alpha’s students consistently land in the top 1–2% on standardized tests. That’s not a fluke—it’s a blueprint for the future.
Then there’s Frank Chrisman’s Synthesis School, born out of Elon Musk’s Ad Astra lab. No lectures, no grades. Just real-time collaboration, ethical decision-making, and game-based problem solving. Students work in teams to tackle open-ended challenges—think “What’s the fairest way to distribute resources in a simulated world?” The results? Kids emerge sharper, more resilient, and radically better at critical thinking than their peers in traditional systems. And all of it runs on a fraction of the cost.
We’ve also got Acton Academies, with their Socratic-led studios and Hero’s Journey frameworks. Students drive their own learning through real-world projects and earn badges based on mastery, not seat time. Or Unbound Academy, where AI algorithms adjust the curriculum every ten days based on performance—no kid left behind, no kid held back.
These aren’t experiments—they’re operating models. Sandboxes of innovation. And the outcomes are undeniable: critical thinkers, problem-solvers, self-learners. The exact DNA America was built on.
The numbers don’t lie—and neither does the stench of failure. The Department’s defenders clutch their pearls and screech about “lost funding,” but federal dollars only make up 10% of public school budgets—and they’ve moved the needle exactly nowhere except down.
States already control their own standards and curricula. D.C. has become a bloated middleman, siphoning money and power away from families and communities. Trump’s move is a hard reset—restoring agency to parents, flexibility to teachers, and freedom to students.
Like most federal bloat, the Department started with a noble spark: equal access, fairness, opportunity. But left unchecked, nobility curdles into stagnation. What we’ve got now is a welfare program for educrats, a megaphone for radicals, and a generation of kids underprepared to think, build, lead, or risk.
This isn’t a system that needs reform. It’s a dead end that needs demolition.
But here’s the kicker: from these ashes, we can rebuild. A new education framework—grounded in excellence, not entitlement—can rise. One that wields AI and accountability to amplify teachers, not replace them. One that doubles down on special-needs and gifted kids, expanding access with ruthless efficiency.
One that restores local control, fuels real innovation, and ignites student agency. America’s staring down China and a 21st-century slugfest for supremacy—upward mobility, the American Dream, all of it hinges on kids who can think, not just parrot.
We’ve shoveled tens of billions into this black hole; it’s time for results, not excuses. Trump’s torching the old guard, and from the rubble, we can forge a system that actually delivers—sharp, smart, and ready to win. Let’s get to work.
Where’s Waldo (The House Republicans)
Let’s start with a quick question and a stark observation: Where in the hell are the House Republicans?
Where’s the legislative backbone for the priorities Donald Trump is battling to enact in the arena of American governance? Right now, he and his administration stand alone on the front lines, locked in a relentless struggle against a barrage of judicial activists and violent left wing radicals who seem to believe a single gavel can halt a nationwide executive order in its tracks.
Progress is being sandbagged at every turn, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Rewind to Trump’s last term, and the playbook was clear: his efforts were kneecapped by a cesspool of corruption and, let’s call it what it was—treason—within the deep state.
The Russia Collusion hoax was a masterclass in fabrication, a taxpayer-funded witch hunt orchestrated by Hillary Clinton’s camp. The Durham Report laid it bare: the Steele Dossier, a work of fiction penned by Christopher Steele and bankrolled by Clinton’s opposition research, was the flimsy foundation for illegal FISA warrants.
Those warrants, rubber-stamped by Judge James Boasberg—the same jurist now advocating for Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members to be shipped back to the U.S. with more rights than January 6 defendants who never breached the Capitol—exposed the rot. Special Counsel Robert Mueller chased shadows for years, only to come up empty-handed.
The damage? A presidency shackled by lies.
We will not let history repeat itself.
Trump must wield every legal tool at his disposal to crush these judicial overreaches—whether that’s fast-tracking appeals to the Supreme Court or Appellate circuits, or moving in strategic silence to outmaneuver the professional grievance industry that thrives on throwing sand in the gears. No more telegraphing executive moves to give the radical left a heads-up to litigate. This isn’t a game.
Consider the absurdity: a lone district court judge—some activist in Hawaii, cherry-picked by forum-shopping radicals—claims the power to paralyze nationwide executive action. The Founding Fathers, in their wildest nightmares, never envisioned this.
The Constitution’s framers didn’t craft a system where a single, isolated jurist could override the elected leader of the free world on matters of national security. Yet here we are.
We watched Biden shrug off the entire Supreme Court with his student loan forgiveness stunt—bragging about it to thunderous Democratic applause—while Trump’s every move gets bogged down in judicial quicksand by a single juror and it’s a ‘Constitutional Crisis!’ if he doesn’t immediately bend the knee.
If defiance is sauce for the goose, it’s damn well sauce for the gander. Gloves off, power on.
History offers a precedent. In 1832, Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in Worcester v. Georgia that Georgia’s grab at Cherokee lands was unconstitutional, affirming tribal sovereignty. President Andrew Jackson, unimpressed, reportedly sneered, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.” Georgia ignored the ruling, and Jackson didn’t lift a finger. The judiciary’s parchment power crumpled against executive will. Today’s lesson? A judge’s ink is only as strong as its enforcement.
I pray the Appellate and Supreme Courts muster a shred of wisdom, caution, or reason to check these activist rulings. But let’s not kid ourselves—Trump’s mandate is ironclad. Polls show nearly 80% of Americans back closed borders and the deportation of violent criminals (Pew Research, 2024). The same overwhelming majority rejects men in women’s sports and other cultural absurdities that propelled Trump back to the White House.
Chief Justice Roberts and his robed colleagues should take note: the judiciary’s grip on these issues, especially in uncharted gray areas, hangs by a thread when the public’s will is this resolute. If Trump were to pull back the curtain and expose the judiciary’s impotence, the fallout would ripple for decades, shattering the illusion of their unchecked authority.
These radical judicial activists have no business meddling in national defense and security—domains they were never meant to touch.
Remember COVID? Politicians and judges sat idle as civil liberties were torched over a weaponized flu. Businesses shuttered, jobs vanished, and freedoms evaporated under mass hysteria with zero constitutional grounding. U.S. taxpayers bore the brunt, while the judiciary seemed unbothered and refused to intervene just as they did for the pervasive election fraud we witnessed in 2020.
Now, those same hypocrites weep for the “rights” of Tren de Aragua thugs and Hamas sympathizers? Good luck finding sympathy from the average American.
Trump’s mission is clear: restore sovereignty and safety. There’s no coexisting with the radical left’s dwindling but vicious fringe, who’ve already sketched their 2028 platform in blood and lunacy:
Violent illegal immigrants, gangs, and Hamas supporters must be untouchable—no deportations, no prosecutions.
Borders flung wide open, no exceptions.
Mentally ill men invading women’s sports and locker rooms (see: Deerfield High School’s ongoing debacle).
Climate change hysteria abandoned overnight—now they’re vandalizing Teslas and torching their owners’ dreams.
This is the Democratic vision, limping along at a 27% approval rating, with a measly 7% in the “strongly support” camp (Gallup, March 2025). Is it any wonder they’re bleeding relevance?
Don’t worry though. Help is on the way!
The bottom line: Trump must do whatever it takes—within the law’s bounds or beyond its reach if push comes to shove—to secure America’s future. The people have spoken, and their roar drowns out the gavel’s echo. Sovereignty isn’t negotiable.
More on this and here’s where we are heading if Roberts and the Supremes don’t start doing their job.
Tesla Terrorism: When the Left’s Green Mask Slips
Just when you thought they couldn’t outdo themselves, it appears the radical left’s hypocrisy has hit a fever pitch, and Tesla—once their eco-darling—is now ground zero for their unhinged fury.
The wave of terror attacks against Tesla dealerships and vehicles isn’t just a tantrum; it’s a Molotov cocktail-fueled exposé of their true colors. For years, these climate crusaders shrieked about boiling oceans and existential doom, banning plastic straws and gas-guzzlers under their Net Zero Deranged Fantasy.
They forced electric vehicle mandates down our throats, hailing Tesla as the messiah of green tech. Now? They’re keying, bombing, and torching the very cars they once worshipped—all because Elon Musk dared to back Trump and expose the massive fraud, waste and abuse in the Government Money Laundering Machine.
And just like that, the environment doesn’t matter anymore.
The data paints a chilling picture. Since January 2025, Tesla facilities across the U.S. have been hit hard: Molotov cocktails shattered windows in Loveland, Colorado, with “Nazi” scrawled in graffiti; seven charging stations torched in Littleton, Massachusetts; gunfire ripped through a Tigard, Oregon dealership; and in Las Vegas, vehicles blazed as “resist” was spray-painted in blood-red. Seattle saw Cybertrucks reduced to ashes in suspected arson.
This isn’t protest—it’s domestic terrorism, plain and simple. President Trump agrees, vowing on March 11, “You do it to Tesla, you’re going to go through hell,” while Attorney General Pam Bondi appropriately warned, “If you’re funding this, we’re going to find you.”
The irony burns hotter than a Tesla Supercharger. These are the same leftists who, a decade ago, clutched pearls over climate change, banning internal combustion engines and mandating EVs by 2035 in states like California.
Tesla, the only 100% American-made car company, revolutionized the market—delivering the Model S in 2012 and mainstreaming electric tech while Detroit slept. They screamed, “Save the planet!”—until Musk exposed their NGOs and Soros ties and aligned with Trump’s DOGE cuts. Now, their “empathy and caring” have morphed into firebombs and bullets.
Environmentalism? Out the window faster than a Cybertruck’s 0-60.
This isn’t about principles—it’s about power. The left’s green agenda was always a Trojan horse for control, and Tesla’s success threatened that. When Musk refused to kneel, they turned on a dime.
From banning straws to save turtles, to torching the car company that slashed emissions, their flip-flop is a masterclass in bad faith. Even a child or first year law student understands that, “Death threats, shooting up Tesla stores, and burning down Superchargers are not ‘legitimate forms of protest” as Elon remarked. He’s right. This is a radical left unmasked—violent, petty, and willing to trash their own icons if they step out of line.
With every passing day, the truth becomes harder to ignore: Marxist Democrats aren’t just tolerant of violence—they thrive on it.
Ask yourself: how many Democrat members of Congress have publicly condemned the recent wave of eco-terrorism, dealership bombings, or mobs assaulting Tesla owners (especially those with Trump stickers)?
Crickets.
Here’s the reality: the radical left doesn’t care about the climate. That’s just the branding. Their real mission? Totalitarian control. Crushing dissent. Silencing opposition. Enforcing obedience through fear and chaos.
Tesla’s crime isn’t carbon emissions—it’s that Elon Musk broke ranks. He speaks freely. He won’t bow. And he had the audacity to platform and work side-by-side with Trump. That’s the real trigger for the mob.
The message is clear: step out of line, and you’re next. Tesla’s sin isn’t its cars—it’s Musk and Trump’s defiance of their deranged fictitious reality and grasp to maintain power. And America’s watching.
(And so are the Tesla 360 degree built-in cameras)…
Here’s another point for these geniuses to consider:
And on the climate change scam side….
What I’m Watching and Reading…
Highly recommend the podcast below. Howard Lutnick’s interview on the All-In Podcast is worth a watch. Especially around the 45 minute mark where he begins to muse about GDP and some of the other metrics of how we measure success as a nation and economy. This can be a bit wonky and I’ll expand and simplify it in a future post, but just like the Dept of Education essay above, many of the metrics (dollars per student and staff) don’t always equate to better outcomes and the way we assess economic prosperity needs some adjustments to keep track of today’s global, services and knowledge based economies. It’s an excellent podcast. Highly recommend.
Victor Davis Hanson - The Left Knew They Were Lying to Us All Along.
This should be the final word on the catastrophic side effects of the jab. A study of 99 million people, co-authored by 22 credentialed public health experts from top research universities and national health agencies. Peer-reviewed. Comprehensive. Undeniable.
Bookmark it. Save it. Send it to everyone still living in denial.
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Parting Words…
That’s it for this week folks. Hope you enjoyed! If you did, share it with a friend. -MK
Was so interesting to read about those innovation schools you highlighted, Mike! I had no idea about those! Hope to see more of that happen with the DOE changes.
Great post.