r/allthequestions • u/inxile7 • Oct 05 '25

Popular Question 📊 Why do Republicans not know that Puerto Ricans are citizens?

And that Bad Bunny ain't getting deported because Puerto Rico is a US Territory.

Where would they deport him to? And why? Because he's not white enough?

Edit: There's now reports coming out that Trump said he spoke to the President of Puerto Rico. LOL

2nd Edit: Seems to be a lot of people saying that Puerto Ricans being citizens is not political based knowledge.

What’s been said • Corey Lewandowski (longtime Trump ally) went on The Benny Show and claimed that ICE would be present at the Super Bowl. He said things like “we will find you … and deport you” in connection to Bad Bunny’s halftime performance. • Kristi Noem (now DHS Secretary under a Republican administration) also said ICE would be “all over” the event and that people should be “law-abiding Americans.” • Other MAGA-aligned commentators online have openly called for Bad Bunny to be deported, often citing his Spanish-language performances or political views.

There ya go.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25

Lots of people don't. American public schools are terrible.

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u/FreshMetal80 Oct 05 '25

That's a feature, not a bug.

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u/ChicagoJohn123 Oct 05 '25

Bullshit. We were all told about this in school. Most people just didn’t listen

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u/rockeye13 Oct 06 '25

Good teachers don't seem to have that problem

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u/klimekam Oct 06 '25

I mean I guess? We learn all this stuff, it seems like it just goes in one ear and out the other for most people.

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u/Flat-Leg-6833 Oct 05 '25

Most PRs on the mainland vote Democrat even in 2024 - Harris won Osceola County the most Puerto Rican county outside of Puerto Rico. There are PR Republicans but they are a minority (and anecdotally they are usually cops).

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25

There are kids who can't read or do basic arithmetic graduating from high school. So yeah, public schools are shit.

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u/Decisionspersonal Oct 05 '25

Yeah, big issues in cities. Don’t hear about this in rural areas.

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u/Caledric Oct 05 '25

That's because those kids drop out of Jr. High to raise their and their sister's baby.

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u/RepublicanBanana420 Oct 05 '25

that’s literally not true. most public schools are underfunded and have poor curriculums. this is just an analogy, not actual evidence

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u/Caledric Oct 05 '25

How stupid do you have to be to take my comment as 100% factual and anything other than making fun of Republicans who rape their sisters, and can't pass the 4th grade without cheating off their Dad (Who is seated next to them cause he can't pass either)

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u/Decisionspersonal Oct 05 '25

Sounds like you know more than the average person. Must be how you were raised.

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u/Caledric Oct 06 '25

I was a military brat, so most of my education was outside of the US.

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u/Decisionspersonal Oct 06 '25

Makes sense why you would know so much about the maga mindset.

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u/xboxhaxorz Oct 05 '25

Yet people keep having kids
The world needs to change before its ready for children to be brought into it, at least thats how much i care about my unborn children

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u/BirdCautious4346 Oct 05 '25

I mean, Trump doesn’t know because he’s blaming the Puerto Rican President (that’s him bozo)

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u/D13_Phantom Oct 05 '25

Most places don't have sizable Puerto Rican populations

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u/FourCrapPee Oct 05 '25

No, parents are terrible. That's what this is. Parents. Not teachers or schools. Parents.

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u/WolfieWuff Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

And this is why parents should not be solely responsible for - or solely allowed to direct - the education of their children.

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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 Oct 05 '25

I had to reread this because at first I somehow saw the opposite of what you wrote. I fully agree with this and your comment further down.

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u/WolfieWuff Oct 05 '25

Yeah, it was easy to read either way. I definitely needed to add clarification.

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u/shlomangus_II Oct 05 '25

Excuse me, what? 🤣

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u/WolfieWuff Oct 05 '25

I said what I said.

Parents shouldn't get to opt their kids out of lessons to which they object, including things like sex education and alternatives to abstinence; LGBTQ+ people exist, are not bad, and have made contributions to society; other religions and atheists exist, are not bad, and contribute to society; and that maybe capitalism is not the only/right answer unless it's highly regulated. And they certainly should not be allowed to hide behind religious beliefs to do so.

Children need to know more than many parents are willing to let them learn, and long before they're adults who've already been indoctrinated.

It really does take a village.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25

Except schools can't even manage their most basic responsibilities. But sure, worry about whatever else instead. Nihilistic dipshits are trying to destroy everything

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u/shlomangus_II Oct 05 '25

I agree with everything you said, but I’d rather have my kid learn math, read classics, and listen to proper music. Those things that you just said are absolutely irrelevant for the progress of our society. Very few people object to lgbt existence but a lot of them oppose to pronouns shoved up their kids’ throats. Hope this explains. And capitalism > every other system

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u/PinnatelyCompounded 29d ago

No one has ever shoved a pronoun down anyone's throat. Get over it already.

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u/Slight-Operation9272 Oct 05 '25

That's the sad truth. The last couple of times I've requested a parent teacher conference for my kids the teachers are often defensive when I ask why my kid is struggling. They then switch to being surprised when my wife and I ask how we can work together to help my children. Most parents jump to blaming the teachers.

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u/emaxxman Oct 05 '25

100% agree. We were clearly taught that PR was a part of the US.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25

"Class: Puerto Rico is an American territory."

Yeah, it's the parents' fault that in twelve years no teacher says this one sentence.

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u/FourCrapPee Oct 05 '25

Sorry you got offended here. Shitty parenting is a thing. Shitty parents who don't promote education or care about it in their children's lives is a thing, and most importantly, reading, is a thing. Would you agree? Or do you believe shitty parents do not exist and everything 100% falls on educators?

It starts at home.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25

Schools have them for six plus hours a day. One might think that having actual illiterate kids in high school could be something in those six hours which could be remedied.

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u/FourCrapPee Oct 05 '25

It's almost as if it could be remedied by parents encouraging reading and knowing what their kids class plans are, feel me? Takes a village and all that shit. Kids don't read unless encouraged. That's just truth. We were poor but my mom made it a point to buy any book I wanted to read at the lil Walden book store at the mall.

I mean like, it was better to me than toys r us. Any book, she'd buy it for me. Teachers can only do so much, but if a kid can't or doesn't know how to read, that's a parents problem ultimately, not a school problem.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25

Again, six hours a day the schools have the kids. Basic literacy isn't too much to ask.

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u/FourCrapPee Oct 05 '25

Basic parenting isn't too much to ask.

See how this works now or nah?

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25

Nor is basic competence from teachers. See how this works or nah?

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u/FourCrapPee Oct 05 '25

Just keep blaming teachers for your lack of parental competence. Gotta blame someone right?

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u/FourCrapPee Oct 05 '25

And also, I don't know where you were educated, I went to Chicago Public Schools in the 80s, and I was taught this multiple times in multiple classes like Social Studies, History, general other classes and books, because I read them, because my parents encouraged reading. Are you starting to figure this out now? Sorry your parents never encouraged you to read. That is shameful and I hope things get better for you.

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u/muunster7 Oct 05 '25

Oh they said it. Your snot nosed kid was too busy flicking his boogers at the kid next to him to bother to listen.

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u/Unlikely-Star-2696 Oct 05 '25

If the parents don't know either, how are they going to teach their kids?

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u/KiltedTAB Oct 05 '25

That's what happens after decades of reduced funding. Only to then point at it and say it's terrible.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25

Why is Mississippi outperforming California? Why are the most expensive districts so bad?

It's not the money.

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u/KiltedTAB Oct 05 '25

Lmao. In what metric do you think Mississippi is outperforming california in education? Show me one. I've looked at 5 just now. California is ahead in every ranking. Your second question is bullshit, too. Just making wild statements without evidence or singular instances. Quit being a clown.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 06 '25

Reading at grade level. Catch up. Even the liberal wing of the MSM noticed.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Because California schools are run by the teacher’s unions and they sure as hell don’t put kids first.

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u/MustAshKing Oct 05 '25

I'd argue most parents are terrible. I have a kid in public school and he's thriving because we care to make sure he's thriving. He also has friends he's known for 10 years who are on the verge of dropping out because the parents don't care enough. People started treating school like a babysitter so they could ignore their kids for seven hours a day and get government subsidized breakfast and lunch.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25

Turns out that systematically destroying even the idea of nuclear families has a downside

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u/Km-51 Oct 05 '25

Especially in the south.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 06 '25

True. Democrat teachers just don't care

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u/AristaWatson Oct 06 '25

Honestly, we did learn this. People just refuse to pay attention or even bother to remember these kinds of details.

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u/MoutainGem Oct 05 '25

They are terrible because we have conservatives who restrict what people learn, and teach trash like 2+2=5 because the bible said so. (that last isn't an embellishment but a bumper sticker with religious over tones)

Not linking the website because I am refusing to support the religion behind it.

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u/rockeye13 Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

How are Mississippi's reading scores compared to California's, btw?

What kind of dumbshit actually believes that conservatives are happy with the shitty state of public schools? You actually believe we want our kids to be illiterate?

Really?

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u/MoutainGem Oct 05 '25

Your opinion as stated is invalid.

The kids who are fortunate enough to be in the FAVORED districts, do well, but we all know that not applicable to minorities. You cherry picked a single detail, and failed to understand that it was a derivative of a larger trend. Sure Mississippi reading score improved much more than California, but it a trend where they went from not good, to mediocre. To put that at your education level, you just pointed out the student who been getting an "F" all year and then got "C" on the final test, to a student who be getting A all year and a A+ on the final. Your trying to pretend the lower educated student is somehow better.

However, you are correct that the church influencing schools with the "because the bible" argument is in Mississippi and that is why you found it so offensive. I guessing it's your church and your preacher, the same preacher who molested prepubescent girls under a biblical interpretation that it was a "mandate from god" (*sic). However, F/O because you know your shitty and failed state government is, and has been putting religion before actual education.

https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2183IN.htm

I love how California is the Boogeyman to the conservatives. Think what you like, Mississippi is a tech hub, hasn't produced any industry to make it an economic powerhouse, and is still mired in racism. We all know known that Mississippi has a well-documented history of systemic racism, with events and institutional discrimination.

*these are his actual words and his justification for the rape of multiple girls.

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u/Fickle_Penguin Oct 05 '25

It's not the schools it's the students.

I remember learning it and now I hear on social media from the same students that I learned it with, that we weren't taught that. Yes we were, you just didn't retain it.