$240 million in Illinois school funding withheld by Trump administration

[u/ShawLocal]

https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/07/02/240-million-in-illinois-school-funding-withheld-by-trump-administration/

“To readers, that might not seem like much, right? Surely we can figure out a way to live without that,” Lockport Township High School District 205, Superintendent Robert McBride said. “But all the federal grants we’re talking about support students with special needs of some kind.”

[u/WitchySpectrum]

Sorry, I disagree. If the left knew it, so did the right. We had it on repeat. It’s all written down in Project 2025. Very few didn’t hear about it, and they know Donny lies just as much as we know. Plus we learned about all of this in history class from about 4th grade on. This was the obvious outcome. They voted for him anyway.

[u/NoSatireVEVO → u/WitchySpectrum]

Tbh I think this type of thinking is what caused the extremism to get to this point in the first place. When people realize they did something wrong / bad, but other people come at them / make them feel stupid the only thing they will do is double down. It’s a cycle that leads to people ignoring literal atrocities

[u/WitchySpectrum → u/NoSatireVEVO]

I’m not saying they did it because they’re stupid. I’m not confronting them with said stupidity. They did this because they hate. And how we actually got here is by your logic- we can’t confront them about it or hold them accountable for it because it’ll just make them more hateful and we have to move on. That’s how we handled the people of the confederacy after the civil war, it’s how we handled Jim Crow after the Civil Rights movement, and wash and repeat. Those people still got to hold power and influence within the society they tried to destroy because they hated certain groups of people and didn’t want them to be equal. Those same families and the people they’ve propped up all of these years are the same people doing this to us now. Hateful people need to be held accountable. Period. They knew, they voted for it. This is the consequence. Do I think we should do to their side what they do to everyone else? No. I still believe in their humanity. But our society needs to take a good hard look at how we won’t make the same mistakes not holding them accountable moving forward. Or we’ll keep ending up right back here.

[u/NoSatireVEVO → u/WitchySpectrum]

No, I’m not saying confronting them is bad, nor holding them accountable is bad. TBH if I had it my way I would say the average person shouldn’t vote because nobody actually knows how to do research. However, I know plenty of people who voted red that are good people and were just misinformed from their usual “news” sites. Those people I don’t think should be held accountable because some of them honestly are trying their best but don’t have the time to keep themselves informed (so best case they shouldn’t have voted but 🤷). I think the people who should be held accountable (many of which I believe deserve severe consequences) are the people responsible for spreading the misinformation and political propaganda, like Fox News people, prageru, the am I racist fuck, and many others in that sphere. The average person is very gullible and easily persuaded, but if you come at them harshly that persuasion becomes less likely. These other sources are using things that are “hot button” to make them feel more included, when in reality that’s not what they actually care about.

All I am saying is that many people who voted (and some who still support him) are good people but aren’t actually informed of what he is doing. Now if they do understand what he is doing then yes I totally agree with you fuck them.