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I'm unfamiliar with her, but good on her for asking questions that are intended to make these people give impromptu and unrehearsed answers to questions that aren't soft queries on banal bullshit.
What were thier responses?
"woke CRT is destroying America!"
Cue right wing audience applause
9-11
“Thanks Obama!”
"Why wasn't Obama at ground zero with the first responders!?!?"
*RABBLERABBLERABBLERABBLE
"Hitler did some good things."
Nine... Eleven.
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Lol what a tool
So DeSantis lied and Pence tried to jump on that then answer her question.
And what assholes told him Florida is number 1 in education?
Yeah its like #5.. jk its #1
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education
That link says #14 in K-12 education, which is what the question was about. So this is a perfect example of cherry picking some data (#1 in higher education) that sounds like it proves his point, but not really.
Additionally, if you click on that #1 Higher Education, it explains that it's based on the share of citizens who have degrees and student loan debt, which could all have little to do with the colleges in Florida. It also takes graduation rates of Florida colleges into account, which is an important metric, but without some context showing the quality of the programs, it doesn't mean much.
So essentially all that metric shows is that people with money who can afford college tend to retire where we all already consider the retirement capital of the county. Neat.
I was just posting what he probably referenced. Its not very nuanced, his voter base isnt going to look too deeply into it...
Shit even you guys wouldnt have looked into it had I not pointed it out.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report_Best_Colleges_Ranking#2023%E2%80%9324_rankings
LoL not even close
lol “the black chick did it”
Weird that he says he's been sleeping with a teacher for so long, I wonder who he's referring to since he and Mother (his pet name for his wife) sleep in separate bedrooms by his own admission.
“You got a positive Yelp review. That’s, in essence, what you just got,” explained Akil Bello, Director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing. The group advocates against the misuse of standardized testing.
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/florida-deemed-no-1-for-higher-education-seventh-year-in-a-row-by-us-news-world-report
A metric shit ton of question dodging occured.
They don't actually say in the article.... I Guess they can take the news out of CNN
I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. They absolutely are prepared to give answers on those questions. They've already been asked them multiple times. Any reasonable debate prep would have also covered it. It would have only been more in their favor if no one had asked them the obvious questions about slavery and LGBT+ people.
The key point of the article is that they haven't actually been asked these questions multiple times, because they exclusively stick to right wing media which exclusively lobs softball questions at them.
These are softball questions. They barely challenge their positions.
It's about making them devise answers on the fly though. They could just say "TRANS PEOPLE BAD" but they won't. The questions were pointed, and asking about very specific thoughts on subjects, which forces these people to either dodge, or give an honest answer. With this crowd, you can guess a lot of idiocy and dodging was used.
Exactly “what’s your policy on lgbt people” can lead to an easy way to say you’ll bring more oppression, but “how will you protect lgbt citizens from illegal violence” forces them to either dodge the question, say that they’ll make the violence legal, ignore it, or go tough on crime but this time with the implication that it’ll be at their base.