Triple H, Stephanie, and Shane McMahon at Linda McMahon’s confirmation hearing
WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque, his wife Stephanie McMahon, and her brother Shane McMahon along with his wife Marissa, were all in attendance this morning for Linda McMahon’s Senate confirmation hearing as she works her way towards being the next Secretary of Education under the second Trump administration.
“Thank you very much, Chairman Cassidy. I would like to introduce my daughter Stephanie McMahon, her husband Paul Levesque, and my son Shane McMahon,” McMahon said at the start of her confirmation hearing as all three sat behind her.
As soon as McMahon’s hearing started, someone from the audience jumped in and caused some commotion in protest. She was eventually escorted out.
The hearing, which involves Linda answering questions from the Senate members about a variety of subjects, including obviously education, is currently ongoing at time of this writing.
It’s being streamed live at https://www.help.senate.gov/.
Colin Vassallo been editor of Wrestling-Online since 1996
Is introducing your family something you usually do in US politics in such situations?
Also, is Shane’s wife second class or something? Did Marissa piss into Linda’s caviar?
@Luke–In the Trump 2.0 era, yes. It’s to make them seem more ‘human’ and ‘relatable’. That’s why Co-President Musk had his kid with him in the Oval Office the other day.
Linda is the best woman for this position, and the leader the education system needs to improve right now.
Our education is in good hands. No more woke agenda poisoning our children and youth.
@art123guy
But the stupid already idolize them and the rest never will, so what’s the point? And completely ignoring one member of her family makes her come off like a total piece of crap.
By the way, do they have any plans for after they close shop, or is this just gonna end up like with immigrants?
I was under the impression that the goal was to get rid of the department. If so, any moron with no skills can do that. It takes brains and skills to improve, revamp and/or create something.
When you’re drowning, getting rid of the weight tied your neck is a good idea. Much like the education department being the weight drowning the students burdened with financial debt, and poor outcomes. Carter and the unions have done a huge disservice to the standards of education in the USA. And now, that great disservice will be relegated to the wastebasket of historical mistakes. MEGA – Make Education Great Again.
@DB
When you’re drowning, do you want a lifeguard or your drinking buddy who can’t swim?
Like Art said, there’s no art (sorry, couldn’t help myself) in destruction. Please enlighten me what they intend to do afterwards.
@Luke, since you asked nicely, the states will be responsible for a government framework on education, just like it was when the US was ranked top five in education before the US Department of Education. The states that provide superior outcomes can be used, while parents in states that continue mimicking the current federal standards will be motivated to force changes.
Parents will have a greater say in their children’s education. More choice for children’s education will allow greater competition to provide better services. Children deserve the best chance in receiving a good education.
Universities and schools that treat students as cash cows, while overpaying their administration staff, will have to become more competitive to attract students. Reducing the costs of education will benefit students as they will have less of a financial burden after leaving university, and their burden of public debt will also be reduced.
Teacher unions have far too much power, especially in the worst education regions such as Chicago and Baltimore, and must be brought into check. These unions are so powerful, that their members can game the system by not being punished for poor returns on taxpayer investment, given tenure without producing good results, leading to poor results by students.
As with everything, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is just insane. More so if the results are trending negative.
If you disagree, please show us how the current system is working for the benefit of society.
@DB
I do disagree, but that doesn’t mean I think your current system is anywhere near good. You really need to start thinking outside this little “us vs. them” mentality. Try to stretch the box a little.
All I see here is people looking to transfer power to benefit themselves. This won’t improve the quality of education. If you want to improve the quality of anything, you need to actually care about that thing. Then you need to learn all you can about it. Then you need to make the best (OBJECTIVE!) decisions in order to improve it. Best, not most popular ones. These people don’t know anything about it and they’ll never be willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good if such a need should arise.
Hint: the problem here isn’t the system, it’s the people. Education can be improved under both the current one and the one you described, but a pissing contest won’t benefit anyone except the pissers…
Parents in general should NEVER have a say in education. Most parents are unfit to even have children, what makes you think they know what children should know? School should teach facts, not opinions.
By the way, these parents were educated under the system you seem to hate so much. So you want education to be decided by the uneducated?
Please give me one historical example where populists improved education. Just one.
@Luke You are conflating “us versus them” with identifying the problems and getting rid of those problems. If those problems include grifters, then I have no problem with getting rid of them too. I’d like to see more competition in education. Some states will make necessary changes, other states will dogmatically hold firm to the status quo. Let’s see in a few years which system works.
One area which has improved education is home schooling, such as through the Ron Paul Curriculum. Another is school choice and vouchers, allowing parents to move motivated children away from poor outcome schools. The current education system was implemented by “populists”.
Maybe the parents have experienced poor outcomes themselves, or have seen how dumbed down the school work has become compare to their time in school. Most parents are not unfit. Most care about their children, and I can guarantee they care much more than bureaucrats do.
On the subject of schools teaching facts not opinions, please tell that to the militant unionized teachers that shut down any debate that doesn’t align with their opinions. That would be a good place to start.
So if the current system isn’t working, does doing thew same things over and over again, while costing more, sound sane to you? You mentioned pissing. Pissing money away for no gains lets down everyone.
I’d like you to please show us how the current system is working for the benefit of society.
@DB
Why do you continuously insist that I support your current education system in any way and think that by insulting it you somehow insult me? In both this and the other discussion? Don’t you think saying check mate to someone who’s not playing on the same board (or even the same game) is rather stupid? The current education system no longer matters, your insistence on referring to it is exactly the kind of pissing contest I was talking about. You don’t really care about education, you just want to see things done “your way”, you want to win. If the average American somehow goes even dumber in the next four years, you’ll just come up with an excuse that it was somehow “the other guys”, that what they broke couldn’t have been fixed in such a short time.
Also, caring doesn’t mean crap in this case, it’s actually a detriment. You don’t teach with your heart, you need a brain, and that’s where most parents (and humans in general) fail miserably.
Just out of curiosity, what’s your stance on creationism in education? I fully expect you to not answer this question directly.
Once again, Luke derails the conversation into a mud slinging debate. I believe I have responded with reasonable points, yet I do not receive the same courtesy. And the article hopping with his posts are just, as the kids would say, cringe.
Based on Luke’s post history on this site, his country’s education system may very well be as bad as the USA’s. He won’t mention the country he’s from either, maybe due to embarrassment of his home nation.
@DB
Who are you talking to? No one else cares…
The last part’s not true, but if you missed it and you’re curious, all you have to do is ask. I won’t ignore your questions, don’t judge me by your personal standards. I don’t consider things I have no say over (like nationality, race, height, sexual orientation and a few other things) as a point of either pride or shame. And yes, while my country’s education system may not be quite as bad as the current (or future) US one, it’s far, far from stellar. But I’m not a product of it.
How is endlessly asking me to try to validate your current system that I completely agree sucks a reasonable point?
One person cared to comment on my posts. He possibly may be one of those Australians that live in the woke centers of Melbourne or Canberra. Not to paint all Australians with the same brush. I have met many Aussies, most have been, as the saying goes, true blue.
Anyhow, I’ve made some points unchallenged above and I stand by them. No matter what, Trump won and Linda will do a great job with improving US education standards. I’ll leave it at that.
@DB
“No matter what, Trump won”
That statement sums up your mentality perfectly.
Australia??? Yeah, that and “Linda will do a great job with improving US education standards”…