White House
Secret Service Would Take Bullet For Jared 'N' Ivanka, Not Allowed To Take A Sh*t In Their House
Washington Post uncovers the juicy, reeking details.
January 14, 2021 04:42 PM
In a great act of public service journalism on the final Thursday of the Trump administration, the Washington Post brings us the story we didn't know we needed to know about the Secret Service detail assigned to protect Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Namely, the agents tasked with protecting their lives aren't allowed to use any of the approximately 478 toilets in the Kushner-Trump manse in the posh Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC:
Instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the couple's house, the Secret Service detail assigned to President Trump's daughter and son-in-law spent months searching for a reliable restroom to use on the job, according to neighbors and law enforcement officials. After resorting to a porta-potty, as well as bathrooms at the nearby home of former president Barack Obama and the not-so-nearby residence of Vice President Pence, the agents finally found a toilet to call their own.
Eventually, the agency was able to find a terlet to let, in a basement studio in a house right across the street from Caca Casa de Kushner, at the price of $3,000 a month, which is all you need to know the house isn't owned by anyone in the Trump family. The space not occupied by the bathroom also serves as a command post and break room for the Secret Service detail, so that works out pretty well for all, particularly the agents who may need to work some things out themselves. What a relief!
<p>The <em>Post </em>does note that not being allowed to poop in the house isn't all that unusual: </p><blockquote>Arrangements that allow for some distance between Secret Service agents and those they guard are not unusual, particularly when the agency's "means, methods or resources" involve indoor plumbing. The people who qualify for such protection often occupy expensive, sprawling properties where a detail can use a garage, pool house or other outbuilding as a command post, break room and bathroom.</blockquote><p>Problem is, the Kushner maison didn't have anything that would work for the Secret Service detail's particular set of spills. </p><p>And speaking of Secret Service details, the WaPo story positively strains to get out the full truth about the great toilet search. We learn that after neighbors complained about the porta-potty out on the sidewalk in front of <del>Shits</del> Chez Kushner, the agents went over to use the loo at the command post in the Obamas' garage. Everything was just swell at first, but soon the arrangement went right into the shitter when</p><blockquote>a Secret Service supervisor from the Trump/Kushner detail left an unpleasant mess in the Obama bathroom at some point before the fall of 2017, according to a person briefed on the event. </blockquote><p>The supervisor left such a huge, filthy, positively <em>agricultural </em>load that the Kushner team was flushed, not by the Obamas, but by the leaders of the Obamas' security detail. Talk about your internal rivalry! </p><p>Also, if you've never read Vice's saga of the time <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190709045634if_/https://www.vice.com/da/article/gq8zdb/someone-did-a-shit-so-bad-a-british-airways-flight-had-to-turn-around-and-land-475" target="_blank">Someone Did a Shit So Bad On a British Airways Plane That It Had to Turn Around and Come Back Again</a>, you should probably treat yourself, if that's the word. Did he work for the Secret Service?</p><p>After the Obama Shitsplosion Incident, agents guarding the Kushners were welcome to use a "bathroom in a stand-alone guard station" at the Naval Observatory, where the Pences live, but that doody station is a mile away from the Kushners, so agents pressed for time or urgency "relied on the hospitality of nearby restaurants." </p><p>Well goddamn it, <em>Washington Post, </em>you didn't tell us if that one supervisor got banned from any of those places for another humongous mondo turd. </p><p>Eventually the Secret Service found the basement studio and all has worked out well; the $3,000 a month isn't especially outrageous for the kinds of rentals the agency does for other protectees, either. Joe Biden charged the Secret Service $2,200 for a guest house it used as a command center, and that was in 2011, so adjusted for inflation ($2,500), it's not a bad deal. <em>[Rebecca always thought it was unseemly that Old Handsome Joe charged for the Secret Service to protect him, and the past four years of Trumpist moneymaking off the Secret Service's captive audience has not changed her mind.]</em></p><p>Also, not surprisingly, the White House says this is all a load of doodoo:</p><blockquote>A White House spokesperson denied that Trump and Kushner restricted agents from their 5,000-square-foot home, with its six bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms, and asserted that it was the Secret Service's decision not to allow the protective detail inside. That account is disputed by a law enforcement official familiar with the situation, who said the agents were kept out at the family's request.</blockquote><p>We may never know. It's just one of those classic "She said, 'Pee shed'" situations. </p><p>In any case, we assume that after Joe Biden is sworn in, the Kushners will be shooting out of DC faster than a little deuce poop after a big dinner at the White House, so the Secret Service can keep on doing its job as needed for new clients. We don't begrudge the cost of a fairly modest basement space for the good of the agents. After all, Secret Service agents are the last people you'd want just going through the motions. </p><p>OPEN THREAD. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/secret-service-bathroom-ivanka-trump-jared-kushner/" target="_blank">WaPo </a>/ Terrible photoshop from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-dc-home-2017-1" target="_blank">Business Insider</a>]</p><p>Yr Wonkette is funded entirely by reader donations. If you can, please donate $5 to $10 a month so we can keep you up to date on all this crap. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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New Years Eve
America's Plague Year Also Featured A Pandemic!
See, not just Trump, that's the joke there.
December 31, 2020 01:55 PM
As the coronavirus pandemic continues on, with predictions that January is going to be even worse than what we've seen yet and the news that the initial phase of vaccinations will be far short of the target, there are already plenty of excellent analyses of where the US went wrong in dealing with the outbreak. The latest is in the current New Yorker, by Lawrence Wright, who identifies three points where the pandemic could have been, if not prevented, then at least better contained, with far less death and sickness. So we're not going to attempt anything like a comprehensive timeline of the pandemic; you can find those all over. Instead, I want to take a look back at some of the stories from the plague year that stuck with me for one reason or another.
Also, this tweet, a summary of the entire Trump pandemic response.
we can cancel Times Square we’ve dropped the ball all year.— Ordinary (@Ordinary)1609200377.0
<h2>I've Got A Bad Feeling About This</h2><p>One of our first inklings that maybe the coronavirus response wasn't exactly being run by steely-eyed missile men came in February, when we found out the State Department was <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/state-department-kinda-making-up-coronavirus-policy-as-it-goes-along-is-that-a-bad-thing" target="_blank">making up coronavirus policy as it went along.</a> More than 300 Americans had been taken off a cruise ship that had suffered a coronavirus outbreak, and which had docked in Japan while the virus kept spreading. The Americans were all ready to be repatriated, waiting on buses at an airport, except oops, it turned out 14 of them had tested positive for the virus, although they had no symptoms yet. (Back then, we still thought that meant they weren't infectious, but you'd think we could have at least entertained the possibility. Oops again.) </p><p>State had said nobody known to be infected would be allowed to board the two 747s — their <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7LM473STFUI6VAGOG6UNIJTMBE.jpg&w=1440" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">interiors stripped of everything but seats</a> — chartered to repatriate the passengers from the cruise ship, but ultimately, overruling advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, brought them all back and put them in quarantine. But hey, shouldn't there have been plans for such a thing? </p><p>We were so innocent then! </p><p>A week later, we learned that staffers at Health and Human Services were sent to airbases in California to help with Americans who'd been repatriated from Wuhan, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/hhs-whistleblower-report-coronavirus" target="_blank">without being provided with any protective gear.</a> At times, the HHS folks, sans personal protective equipment, were working alongside CDC employees in "full gown, gloves and hazmat attire," according to a whistleblower complaint. </p><p>Oh yes, and the whistleblower, who tried to let HHS bigwigs know there were big problems, got reassigned to a job outside her area of expertise and told she'd be fired if she didn't take it. Yep, that's our terrific government response to a crisis, all right. </p><h2>Some Vocabulary Words We Learned in 2020</h2><ul class="ee-ul"><li>Personal protective equipment (PPE)</li><li>Social distancing</li><li>Respiratory droplets</li><li>N-95 masks (let medical personnel have them)</li><li>Flattening the Curve (we briefly did, then nah)</li><li>(The hell is a "coronavirus" anyway?)</li><li>Community spread</li><li>Asymptomatic transmission</li><li>Herd Immunity </li><li>Defense Production Act</li><li>Paycheck Protection Program</li><li>Case fatality rate</li><li>Hydroxychloroquine</li><li>1918 flu pandemic (1917 if you're Donald Trump and heard a movie title)</li><li>Zoom meeting</li><li>Hybrid learning environment</li><li>WFH (work from home, not We're fucking hosed)</li><li>Superspreader event</li></ul><h2>Great Man Reassures A Troubled Nation, Stocks Crash</h2><p>From the very start, Donald Trump made clear where his priorities were. When stocks dived after CDC scientist Nancy Messonnier warned that it wasn't a matter of <em>if</em> the virus started disrupting everyday life but <em>when</em>, Trump took firm action: He <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1232652371832004608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1232652371832004608%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wonkette.com%2Fdonald-trump-super-angry-at-caronavirus-and-stock-market-for-not-helping-his-reelection" target="_blank">blamed the media</a> for making the "caronavirus" seem worse than it was. 330,000 US deaths later, he's remained pretty consistent on that. </p><div id="bbdfd" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e6d61d559f8b47734c3bd2c51ef2d0bb"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1232652371832004608" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as p… https://t.co/bVSoM0VMFZ</div> — Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1232652371832004608">1582722201.0</a></blockquote></div><p>And then he<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/liveblogging-donald-trumps-our-friend-the-coronavirus-book-report" target="_blank"> held a presser</a> that night, in which he downplayed the seriousness of the virus. With roughly 60 cases already reported in the US, he insisted over and over there were only 15 cases in the country, and those folks would soon be all better and there'd be zero cases, problem solved. Also, flu kills lots of people, so let's not get too worried about this. He even claimed the stock market dive had probably been caused by the previous night's Democratic debate, because Wall Street was worried one of those socialists might get elected. </p><p>It was all very reassuring, and don't forget, "Amity" means "Friendship."</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><p>Also, Rush Limbaugh passed along news from wingnut media that <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/rush-limbaugh-so-mad-rod-rosenstein-invented-coronavirus-with-the-deep-state-and-his-sister" target="_blank">Nancy Messonnier is the sister of Rod Rosenstein,</a> which wasn't even a lie, surprisingly! But it proved that the coronavirus was actually just another part of the plot against Trump. And by the end of February, we'd hit two milestones: America saw its<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-acknowledges-first-coronavirus-death-while-still-insisting-its-all-a-hoax" target="_blank"> first death from the virus,</a> and Donald Trump took, briefly, to calling news of the virus a "hoax." Don't you dare say he called the virus a hoax — just everything the fake news and Democrats (which soon came to include the medical establishment) said about it.</p><h2>The Shit Hits The Fan</h2><p><em>Everything </em>went crazy on March 11: These items are all <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/your-daily-dose-of-coronavirus-coronavirus-news-we-mean" target="_blank">from a single roundup:</a> Donald Trump gave a speech insisting the virus was a foreign threat, the stock market tanked the next morning; the NBA cancelled a game, and then the whole season, after a player tested positive; Tom Hanks announced, from Australia, that he and his wife, Rita Wilson, had tested positive and were in quarantine; St. Patrick's Day parades got cancelled all over, and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) did his very best to see if the virus could be defeated by rank assholery: </p><div id="63141" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a170c07751a4bc3aaf7c6c56330b3d45"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1237757020117368832" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">When a reporter in the Capitol asked Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, 85, what precautions he was taking to protec… https://t.co/jwWvcBxq2L</div> — Josh Barone (@Josh Barone)<a href="https://twitter.com/joshbarone/statuses/1237757020117368832">1583939244.0</a></blockquote></div><p>We started having lockdowns, and we heard about people in Italy <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/italian-tenor-serenades-florence-with-lovely-aria-about-wanting-to-marry-a-serial-killing-princess" target="_blank">singing arias from their windows</a> and Americans applauding health workers and <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/nice-time-listen-to-the-helpers" target="_blank">people pulling together</a> because Jesus, this was serious. That lasted a few weeks, even! </p><h2>Government? What Government?</h2><p>But then Donald Trump decided it was time for everything to reopen, and we all know how that went. Loonies started parading around with guns, demanding the right to breathe sickness on us, because that's what the Founders wanted. In Idaho, Ammon Bundy and a bunch of astroturfy jerks<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/idaho-legislators-not-about-to-let-some-dumb-rona-take-their-libety" target="_blank"> held rallies</a> and an <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/bundy-easter-freedomfest" target="_blank">Easter service </a>where the virus could rise again. </p><p>Also, Trump decided, in keeping with <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/idaho-legislators-not-about-to-let-some-dumb-rona-take-their-libety" target="_blank">GOP orthodoxy,</a> that the federal government shouldn't deal with a <em>national</em> emergency, so states <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-gets-in-bidding-war-with-states-for-face-masks-thats-it-thats-the-hed" target="_blank">had to fight each other,</a> and the federal government, to get supplies, because the federal stockpile <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-has-governors-bidding-against-each-other-for-medical-equipment-like-theyre-on-ebay" target="_blank">belonged to Jared Kushner.</a> Eventually, a whole bunch of <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/states-decide-to-try-uniting-for-covid-19-testing" target="_blank">coalitions of states joined together </a>to buy scarce supplies, leading many to wonder what we should call these newly united states.</p><h2>Wedding Planners, Unite! </h2><p>And there was all that grift, like the<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/wedding-planner-guy-might-not-be-best-choice-for-39-million-usda-contract" target="_blank"> actual wedding planner </a>who got a $39 million contract to prepare food boxes for a USDA program meant to get surplus crops and meat to food banks. (Ultimately, the company <a href="https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/wedding-planner-paid-315-million-for-pandemic-food-boxes" target="_blank">only delivered two thirds of the food boxes</a> it had contracted for. But it got paid 80 percent of the contract, or $31 million, so everything worked out well.) And then there were all those <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/us-just-giving-coronavirus-medical-supply-contracts-to-any-old-telemarketer-or-arms-merchant" target="_blank">contracts for medical supplies</a> that went to a bunch of companies that sprang up overnight, including a would-be arms merchant, a telemarketer accused of fraud by the Federal Trade Commission, and a seller of vodka in light-up bottles. The telemarketer guy went on to deliver "test tubes" that weren't actually medical grade equipment, but were in fact <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/if-fema-wanted-covid-19-test-supplies-to-be-sterile-or-usable-it-shoulda-said-so" target="_blank">plastic tubes used in making soda bottles,</a> which were completely useless as lab supplies. That company <a href="https://www.law360.com/articles/1289434/mich-sens-demand-answers-on-unusable-covid-19-tests" target="_blank">went belly-up </a>as it came under investigation. </p><p>Also Trump <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-reassures-fretful-nation-that-he-can-still-write-his-name-with-a-sharpie" target="_blank">was hospitalized for COVID-19,</a> and almost everyone else in the White House got sick, and things just kept getting worse and worse. Eventually Joe Biden was elected and he <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/my-god-bidens-coronavirus-task-force-is-full-of-doctors" target="_blank">picked a whole bunch of competent smart people</a> to clean things up, and the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/lo-unto-us-shall-be-delivered-a-vaccine" target="_blank">vaccines started being rolled out,</a> and we ended this post like a high school history class that never got past the Great Depression because it spent too much time on the colonial period and the founding. We never should have spent two weeks roleplaying the drafting of the Constitution, sorry, my bad, the end, Happy New Year! </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is funded entirely by reader donations! 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Education
Shiny Normal Thing! Joe Biden Picks A Teacher For Education Secretary
Not a billionaire Amway heiress in sight.
December 24, 2020 09:21 AM
Joe Biden made good on his campaign promise to name an actual teacher to lead the Department of Education. On Tuesday, Biden announced he'd picked Connecticut's education commissioner, Miguel Cardona, for the job, saying Cardona "understands that the deep roots of inequity that exist as a source of our persistent opportunities gaps. He understands the transformative power that comes from investing in education."
We'd just like to thank Biden for making it once more possible for us to type the phrase "Secretary of Education" without violently retching. Cardona seems like a hell of a good guy to clean away the mess created by Donald Trump's Ed secretary, Betsy DeVos, who seemed to consider public schools mostly a source of funding for her mission of privatizing education wherever possible.
<p>At the presser announcing his nomination, Cardona <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/politics/miguel-cardona-education-secretary-biden/index.html" target="_blank">said </a>that, as an educator and as a parent, he' recognizes how awful the last year has been for kids, parents, and schools: </p><blockquote>"It's taken some of our most painful, longstanding disparities and wrenched them open even wider," Cardona said. [...] He said that "for too many students, your zip code and your skin color remain the best predictor of the opportunities you'll have in your lifetime.<br><br>He added, "Though we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, we also know that this crisis is ongoing, that we will carry its impacts for years to come and that the problems and inequities that have plagued our educational system since long before Covid will still be with us even after the virus is gone."</blockquote><p>It's really going to be good to have someone at the Education Department who understands that the problems of public schools won't be fixed by giving up on public education and shifting resources to private outfits that serve only a fraction of kids. </p><p>Cardona's own story is about as inspiring as you could want: As a child — he <a href="https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-who-is-miguel-cardona-20201222-t3ok4evvobfhrgwyesjql67vny-story.html" target="_blank">described himself </a>as a "goofy little Puerto Rican kid" at his state confirmation hearing — he lived in public housing in Meriden, Connecticut, where he started school having spoken only Spanish at home. </p><blockquote>"The passion I have for public education stems from my belief that it is the best lever for economic success and prosperity in Connecticut," he told lawmakers. "And the belief that public education is still the great equalizer. It was for me."</blockquote><p>In a Connecticut Mirror profile published when he took the schools commissioner job in 2019, he <a href="https://ctmirror.org/2019/08/21/the-states-new-education-commissioner-collaborator-listener-hard-worker/" target="_blank">recalled </a>that he'd faced stereotyping because of his background:<br></p><blockquote>"For Latino children from communities that are below the threshold of poverty, you know you're not typically thinking, the data doesn't suggest that they're going to be the next principal of the school … or state education commissioner," Cardona said. "There were times throughout my youth that I think people had lower expectations than they should have. It just made me hungrier."<br><br>"It's not lost on me, the significance of being the grandson of a tobacco farmer who came here for a better life, who despite having a second grade education was able to raise his family and create that upward mobility cycle," he added.</blockquote><p>Unlike certain yacht-owning Ed secretaries we could name, all of Cardona's education, from elementary school through his doctorate at the University of Connecticut, has been at public institutions. At his confirmation hearing for the commissioner position, he <a href="https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-who-is-miguel-cardona-20201222-t3ok4evvobfhrgwyesjql67vny-story.html" target="_blank">told</a> lawmakers, ""I hold five degrees or certificates from Connecticut universities and I'm a true product of the system I hope to lead." </p><p>And wow what a career. He taught fourth grade in Meriden schools, and <a href="https://ctmirror.org/2019/08/21/the-states-new-education-commissioner-collaborator-listener-hard-worker/" target="_blank">said</a> he might have been happy to stay in the classroom as a career, but he was encouraged by the system's superintendent to get the training to be a principal, so he did, and at 28 became the state's youngest school principal. Eventually, he moved on to the district offices, and in 2013 became an assistant superintendent, and on and on. </p><p>Here's the part where I get some happy tears: His two kids are now going to school in the same public school system that gave him an education and a career. </p><p>Just <a href="https://ctmirror.org/2019/08/21/the-states-new-education-commissioner-collaborator-listener-hard-worker/" target="_blank">listen to him talk</a> about kids and education, explaining why he decided as an undergrad to teach in elementary ed: </p><blockquote>There's so much promise in young children. There's so much opportunity to help them shape what they want to be or what they want to do. You're able to positively impact children, not only academically but also hopefully leave a little bit of an imprint on how they develop as people.<br><br>For me, the best part of my job in every position I've had has been visiting the classroom, especially the little kindergarten ones or the 4-year-old kids. Being around kids — it really serves almost like fuel for the soul.</blockquote><p>But Miguel Cardona isn't just a bundle of terrific, inspirational thoughts; he also has serious commitment to addressing inequities in education. He <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/r/entryeditor/%E2%80%9CFor%20Latino%20children%20from%20communities%20that%20are%20below%20the%20threshold%20of%20poverty,%20you%20know%20you%E2%80%99re%20not%20typically%20thinking,%20the%20data%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20suggest%20that%20they%E2%80%99re%20going%20to%20be%20the%20next%20principal%20of%20the%20school%20%E2%80%A6%20or%20state%20education%20commissioner,%E2%80%9D%20Cardona%20said.%20%E2%80%9CThere%20were%20times%20throughout%20my%20youth%20that%20I%20think%20people%20had%20lower%20expectations%20than%20they%20should%20have.%20It%20just%20made%20me%20hungrier.%E2%80%9D%20%20%E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99s%20not%20lost%20on%20me,%20the%20significance%20of%20being%20the%20grandson%20of%20a%20tobacco%20farmer%20who%20came%20here%20for%20a%20better%20life,%20who%20despite%20having%20a%20second%20grade%20education%20was%20able%20to%20raise%20his%20family%20and%20create%20that%20upward%20mobility%20cycle,%E2%80%9D%20he%20added." target="_blank">explained </a>in that Connecticut Mirror profile that while his early life experience led him to consider specializing in bilingual education, he decided "it was important non-Latino students saw a Latino in a position as a teacher. So I chose to stay in the regular education setting." And we're sure the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/rightwing-a-holes-read-dr-jill-bidens-dissertation-find-it-needs-more-sex-crazed-pandas" target="_blank">National Review and Tucker Carlson</a> will have a great big freakout over Cardona's <a href="https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/AAI3468062/" target="_blank">doctoral dissertation,</a> which argues that really addressing educational disparities will require greater "political will" among educational leaders. Heavens, the abstract even talks about social justice as a <em>good </em>thing! </p><p>On policy matters, Cardona <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/biden-education-secretary.html" target="_blank">agrees with Biden</a> that the benefits of in-person education, especially for elementary kids, are so important that schools should reopen whenever it's possible to do so safely, although he also respects local districts' authority to make the final decision. Education policy wonk Diane Ravitch <a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2020/12/23/education-week-where-cardona-stands-on-the-issues/" target="_blank">notes</a> that Cardona </p><blockquote>has not taken a strong position for or against charter schools, but the state board has not approved any new charters since he took office in August 2019.<br><br><em>"Charter schools provide choice for parents that are seeking choice, so I think it's a viable option, but [neighborhood schools] that's going to be the core work that not only myself but the people behind me in the agency that I represent will have while I'm commissioner," he said during his state confirmation hearing.</em><br><br>During the campaign, Biden promised to stop federal funding of for-profit charters, a small segment of the industry. Charter advocates are pleased that he is not an opponent, but progressive groups are wary because charters drain funding from neighborhood schools.</blockquote><p>Ravitch also notes that Connecticut only has 21 charters altogether, but that they include "the no-excuses Achievement First, three of whose charters are on probation because of their harsh disciplinary methods. This action was taken last February, while Cardona was state chief." So it looks like he won't stand for excuses from no-excuses outfits. Good! </p><p>We'll close with this observation from the <em>New York Times, </em>which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/biden-education-secretary.html" target="_blank">points out</a> that there are some serious disagreements among progressive and centrist Democrats on education policy issues like the role of charters, the use of high-stakes testing, and teachers' unions. Those arguments are likely to get a lot louder with the departure of Betsy DeVos, who was so terrible that everyone agreed that she was the biggest threat to public schools, which allowed Dems to "paper over the deep differences" on policy. </p><p>While there's probably some truth to that, we're hoping Miguel Cardona will be able to avoid the DEEP RIFTS narrative and repair the damage done by DeVos. You know, for kids. </p><p>[<a href="understands%20that%20the%20deep%20roots%20of%20inequity%20that%20exist%20as%20a%20source%20of%20our%20persistent%20opportunities%20gaps.%20He%20understands%20the%20transformative%20power%20that%20comes%20from%20investing%20in%20education." target="_blank">CNN </a>/ <a href="%E2%80%9CFor%20Latino%20children%20from%20communities%20that%20are%20below%20the%20threshold%20of%20poverty,%20you%20know%20you%E2%80%99re%20not%20typically%20thinking,%20the%20data%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20suggest%20that%20they%E2%80%99re%20going%20to%20be%20the%20next%20principal%20of%20the%20school%20%E2%80%A6%20or%20state%20education%20commissioner,%E2%80%9D%20Cardona%20said.%20%E2%80%9CThere%20were%20times%20throughout%20my%20youth%20that%20I%20think%20people%20had%20lower%20expectations%20than%20they%20should%20have.%20It%20just%20made%20me%20hungrier.%E2%80%9D%20%20%E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99s%20not%20lost%20on%20me,%20the%20significance%20of%20being%20the%20grandson%20of%20a%20tobacco%20farmer%20who%20came%20here%20for%20a%20better%20life,%20who%20despite%20having%20a%20second%20grade%20education%20was%20able%20to%20raise%20his%20family%20and%20create%20that%20upward%20mobility%20cycle,%E2%80%9D%20he%20added." target="_blank">Connecticut Mirror</a> / <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/biden-education-secretary.html" target="_blank">NYT</a> / <a href="https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-who-is-miguel-cardona-20201222-t3ok4evvobfhrgwyesjql67vny-story.html" target="_blank">Hartford Courant</a> / <a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2020/12/23/education-week-where-cardona-stands-on-the-issues/" target="_blank">Diane Ravitch's blog</a>]</p><p>Yr Wonkette is funded entirely by reader donations. 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Donald Trump Dances About Architecture
Nice to see he's keeping busy when he's not sabotaging coronavirus relief.
December 23, 2020 02:35 PM
As his attempts to overturn the election continue to fail, and with the pandemic still getting worse, Donald Trump took a couple of ineffectual steps recently to shore up his Culture Wars cred. Last Friday, he appointed a bunch of people to his "1776 Commission," a little project aimed at teaching American History the Right way, with appropriate worship of the Founders and all the greatest American heroes, plus a paragraph each for Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, but not too much, lest the 1619 Project poison kids' minds. Then, on Monday, Trump finally issued his big executive order declaring that architecture for federal buildings must be "beautiful," and in the neoclassical style whenever possible. Ultimately, neither is likely to amount to a hill of beans, but the important thing is the gesture to rightwing culture warriors, just like how we're now safe to say "Merry Christmas" again without being shot on sight.
Don't you feel more patriotic already?
<p>That "1776 Commission" is Trump's contribution to making public schools' American history curriculum more worshipful of the nigh-infallible Founders, even though the content of public school curricula is set by the states, not the federal government. The commission's membership, as expected, will be loaded with folks from Hillsdale College and the Heritage Foundation, as well as great academic luminaries like <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/all-the-kool-konservative-kids-are-at-charlie-kirks-palm-beach-superspreader-party" target="_blank">Charlie Kirk,</a> Yes Really. As Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/12/18/trump-1776-commission-appointments-448229" target="_blank">explains</a>, the goal here is to fix history education, which Trump believes is full of socialism and teaches children to "hate their own country," what with all the accurate information on slavery, Jim Crow, the genocide of Native America, and the rapacious capitalism of the Gilded Age. All the kids need is a lot more propaganda about how America is the very best country, with liberty and unlimited opportunity for everyone, and suddenly we'll be more united and patriotic. </p><p>In other words, yet another version of the same culture-wars bunkum that's been with us since the 1980s, hooray. Politico points out that the commission members will have two-year appointments, "but it's unclear if those selected will ever meet. President-elect Joe Biden has included addressing racial justice issues among his top concerns when he takes office." Maybe the commission members can be put to some kind of useful work, like cleaning the restrooms at the Smithsonian's <a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/" target="_blank">National Museum of African American History and Culture</a>.<a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/"></a></p><p>Trump's long-anticipated <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-promoting-beautiful-federal-civic-architecture/" target="_blank">Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture</a> (Yes, Really) is aimed at fighting back against degenerate modernism in architecture, as we discussed when a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/architects-designing-buildings-in-d-c-might-soon-need-approval-from-president-pimp-daddy" target="_blank">draft of the order was leaked </a>back in February. The chief difference between that draft order and the actual thing issued Monday is that while the draft would have explicitly mandated the General Services Administration (GSA) use classical style for new federally owned buildings in Washington DC and elsewhere, the final version merely says that public building designs should <br></p><blockquote>uplift and beautify public spaces, inspire the human spirit, ennoble the United States, command respect from the general public, and, as appropriate, respect the architectural heritage of a region. They should also be visibly identifiable as civic buildings and should be selected with input from the local community.</blockquote><p>After general outcry over the draft's attempt to mandate classical style, the order simply claims that </p><blockquote>Classical and other traditional architecture, as practiced both historically and by today's architects, have proven their ability to meet these design criteria and to more than satisfy today's functional, technical, and sustainable needs. Their use should be encouraged instead of discouraged.</blockquote><p>It's also painfully obvious that Donald Trump didn't write a word of the thing, and probably didn't read it, either. </p><p>But golly, the order sure does like to argue a lot about how bad virtually all postwar architecture is, for the sake of griping about snotty "elites," who are bad primarily because they're "elites." We're told that much federal architecture "sometimes impresses the architectural elite, but not the American people who the buildings are meant to serve," and that "Many of these new Federal buildings are not even visibly identifiable as civic buildings." Because where are the Ionic columns, damn it?</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
<img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDk5MTA4My9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNjgxNjg1NX0.zmY6QAWi-Kv0f-uV57EEAIjxQhZctgCGwknmMT0-P8E/img.jpg?width=980" id="ab01c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="08b6283293f4dbd70059da0c5ab860ee" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="848" data-height="708">
<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">San Francisco Federal Building</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Federal_Building_(main_structure,_seen_from_Mission_and_7th,_2020).jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">'HaeB,'</a> Creative Commons license 4.0</small></p><p>Just savor the pure resentment in this paragraph on the Federal Building in San Francisco, and the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City, both of which we think are kind of funky and fun to look at (which we would, because we're degenerates): <br></p><blockquote>GSA selected an architect to design the San Francisco Federal Building who describes his designs as "art-for-art's-sake" architecture, intended primarily for architects to appreciate. While elite architects praised the resulting building, many San Franciscans consider it one of the ugliest structures in their city. Similarly, GSA selected a modernist architect to design Salt Lake City's new Federal courthouse. The architectural establishment and its professional organizations praised his unique creation, but many local residents considered it ugly and inconsistent with its surroundings</blockquote><p><br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
<img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDk5MTExMS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNjkxNzk3NH0.deIvEOeu45vliCbbVlAm2kQ4Ar189nlPjwDXoAUlcWs/img.jpg?width=980" id="f1c79" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2ac744c015c53e5ded374a11201200ed" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="1024" data-height="683">
<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Salt Lake City Federal Courthouse</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by '<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courthouse_slc.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ricardo 630,'</a> Creative Commons license 4.0</small></p><p>Just to be on the safe side, Trump also signed legislation Monday <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/12/21/trump-signs-bill-naming/" target="_blank">renaming the courthouse</a> in Salt Lake City after Orrin Hatch, so maybe that will make it less of a threat to public morality. </p><p>As we say, we think they're nifty, but perhaps that just shows how terribly out of touch we are. Also, as Wonkette's Stephen Robinson <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/architects-designing-buildings-in-d-c-might-soon-need-approval-from-president-pimp-daddy" target="_blank">pointed out</a> when the first draft of the order came along, "We also don't trust the man who willingly lived in this room to make aesthetic appraisals."</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, as plenty of critics have pointed out, the very idea that "classical" design is somehow the acme of human achievement, while modernism is suspicious and degenerate, even dangerous to public morals, is deeply tangled up with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2020/feb/05/trump-wants-more-neoclassical-buildings-but-dictating-to-architects-has-a-dark-history" target="_blank">authoritarian impulses</a>, and as has been documented to exhaustion, your American white supremacists have been<a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/11/6/20919221/alt-right-history-greece-rome-donna-zuckerberg" target="_blank"> borrowing all sorts of imagery</a> from a very shallow understanding of Greek and Roman art and culture. Actual classicist Donna Zuckerberg <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/11/6/20919221/alt-right-history-greece-rome-donna-zuckerberg" target="_blank">explained </a>some of the motives behind the alt-right's Greco-Roman rustling to Vox. They imagine the ancient world was as white as a Hollywood swords-and-sandals epic, which it wasn't, and that America needs to get right with that imagined history. </p><blockquote>[They] want to predict what the future of America will look like, so they turn to these ancient cultures for patterns that reinforce their expectations. For instance, there's a strong belief that liberals are trying to create a chaotic multicultural society that's destined to fail; and the purity and patriarchy of ancient cultures, on their reading, is just a superior model, or at the very least, an argument in defense of their worldview.</blockquote><p>So you absolutely can't have a bunch of buildings that are all wavy and shit, because straight lines and columns make America great, isn't that obvious? </p><p>As Jan. 20 draws closer, Trump is also expected to order that the US Navy begin equipping all ships with figureheads at the prow, because traditional, and to specify they should be "good looking broads with big hooters."</p><p>[<a href="https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/12/18/trump-1776-commission-appointments-448229" target="_blank">Politico </a>/ <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-promoting-beautiful-federal-civic-architecture/" target="_blank">Trump Executive order </a>/ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2020/feb/05/trump-wants-more-neoclassical-buildings-but-dictating-to-architects-has-a-dark-history" target="_blank">Guardian </a>/ <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/11/6/20919221/alt-right-history-greece-rome-donna-zuckerberg" target="_blank">Vox </a>/ <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/far-right-architecture-obsession-just-became-trump-executive-order-and-tucker" target="_blank">Media Matters</a>]</p><p>Yr Wonkette is funded entirely by reader donations. Please, if you can, donate $5 to $10 a month, or the barbarians will win. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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