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Of course they don't want to put money into education, especially rural. If the kids learn to read, then they'll read books/publications and discover that what they've been told is a lie. If they can do math they'll figure out when they're not being paid fairly or being screwed on their taxes, etc. Can't have the people complaining about how crappy things are in MO, they may not vote Republican next time. The MO gov. is sitting on that money trying to figure out a way to keep it for themselves or their own little pet projects, that much is clear

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Agree

Cheap labor for their corporations

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This is it, Jess. The young man in the interview. He says he is military intelligence. After the long pause later in the interview, he says 1991 he left Arkansas for Colorado. Before that he says he didn’t see Johnson coming. His answer there is confusing to me. How could military intelligence from Arkansas to Colorado in 1991 not see Johnson coming. That is a lot of good information. Great interview right there. Great questions, answers, both of you. That is a lot. That is a lot of obfuscation for his generation of military intelligence for a young man to go through going from Arkansas to Colorado in 1991 and not know to see Johnson coming. An entire region notorious for military intelligence and dismantling and not see Ratcliffe and Johnson coming side by side in region and intelligence and actual geographic districts side by side. I got to Louisiana College before Johnson. I got to Louisiana College before the laying on of hands systemic obfuscation, or reverse engineering of Bush and Barksdale, before Johnson and missions to embed a law center into an obscure private Baptist college. That is the Arkansas 1991 to Colorado path. Same path Bannon took into the desert to Tucson. Don’t get me wrong. Great interview. I believe him. Appreciate his humility in answer and yours in question.

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Help me make it, six more months, Jess. Stephanie Ruhle said six months with the veteran she interviewed. Six months. They agreed on the air on major broadcast TV. it would get done. Six months.

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I was able to say hello today to Dr. Mann on twitter. LSU -BR. The new governor of Louisiana is determined to follow through on his promises made promises kept.

There is some crazy shit down here. Like the reenactment of you are my sunshine roll over in your grave kingfisher FDR kind of crazy.

Well at least my area still has the remains of a handful WPA gingerbread walls and schools for the rural for contemplating building walls, mending fences, and dismantling weapons of vengeance. Like Dr Lector says, sounds charming.

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Would love to hear another interview with the two of you in particular. The education to military intelligence of your generation dynamic. Good find.

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Some people really do not support the concept of public education. They sincerely think that education should be for middle class or "better" Christian churchgoers and everybody else should, frankly, go to hell. As they get older or financially strapped they harden in their views. I live in St. Louis but I do not think these views are unique to my hometown. BTW - Jess, Rosalynn Carter would be such a fan of yours!

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