D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression. Followed by one day of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.
There was a list of six items that the NEA are wanting to include in their teaching agenda, but this one regarding Black Lives Matter really stood out to me.
Now we can bicker and argue over what is and isn't critical race theory and where the line is between teaching history and teaching kids about existing systemic racism and white supremacy... but there can be no question that having children take part in a Black Lives Matter event and some sort of political "day of action" cannot under any circumstances be considered normal curriculum.
Let's take for a second that the overall opinion of the Black Lives Matter movement has declined to the point where more people view it negatively than positively. If I was a betting man, I would bet the mortgage that this opinion of BLM is lower yet among parents of school aged children. In this case, teachers would be requiring children to participate in something that many (if not most) parents would quite obviously be against.
To be perfectly clear, these teachers simply have no right to push politics on children. Make no mistake, the BLM movement is 100% political. It is not a teaching moment. While the NEA no doubt believes that they are pushing a noble cause; which causes children get involved in are up to the parents, not the schools.
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Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression.
Short version: Keep your kids home from school on October 14th.
While the NEA no doubt believes that they are pushing a noble cause; which causes children get involved in are up to the parents, not the schools.
I disagree. There's nothing noble about the NEA, and they know exactly what they're doing - which is full-on Marxist indoctrination.
“When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.”
-- Albert Shanker
You can't get rid of objective teaching about race just by labeling it BLM or CRT.
Meanwhile, you had a president who said Hitler did good things (see next thread) and a nutcase like this:
Greene Makes New Nazi-Era Comparison
July 7, 2021 at 6:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments
“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday used a Nazi-era comparison in opposing the Biden administration’s push to encourage all Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, calling the individuals leading those efforts ‘medical brown shirts,’” the Washington Post reports.
“Members of the paramilitary organization that helped Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power were known as ‘brownshirts.’
“Greene’s remarks, made in a tweet, came weeks after she visited the Holocaust Museum and apologized for previously comparing coronavirus face-mask policies to the Nazi practice of labeling Jews with Star of David badges.”
GOP Megadonor Bankrolls Eric Greitens
July 7, 2021 at 6:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 9 Politico:
“Richard Uihlein, a billionaire shipping and industrial supply company executive, is donating $2.5 million to a newly formed, pro-Greitens super PAC. The cash infusion will give Eric Greitens a financial lift as many of the party’s contributors shun the former governor, who resigned from office in 2018 amid allegations that he sexually assaulted his hairstylist.
“Greitens, who is running for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Roy Blunt, will need the money. The former governor could face an avalanche of attacks from Republican establishment-aligned groups amid concerns from party leaders that his nomination would jeopardize the party’s hold on what should be a safe seat and imperil their prospects of winning the Senate majority.”
Nice.
Fuck off pederast.
Thanks to rrb for his scintillatingly intelligent commentary.
Vote Out All Democrats
@DemoOut
https://twitter.com/DemoOut/status/1412481171716460545
Julie Kelly
THREAD/Documents: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1412473369614864388
Isn’t this appropriate. Beltway geezer judge again denies release of Jacob Chansley, the so-called Q shaman. He’s been in jail for almost 6 months now. No trial date in sight and suffering major mental health issues:
Here are his charges. What a f*cking disgrace. Shame on you, Royce Lamberth.
No equal justice
actually no justice
Joe Biden's America
Banana Republic
Totalitarianist
Heh:
KEVIN DRUM:
If you hate the culture wars, blame liberals. “On Thursday I posted a series of charts that all documented a similar theme: Since roughly the year 2000, according to survey data, Democrats have moved significantly to the left on most hot button social issues while Republicans have moved only slightly right. . . . I’ve made this point many times before, and I want to make it again more loudly and more plainly today. It is not conservatives who have turned American politics into a culture war battle. It is liberals. And this shouldn’t come as a surprise: Almost by definition, liberals are the ones pushing for change while conservatives are merely responding to whatever liberals do. More specifically, progressives have been bragging publicly about pushing the Democratic Party leftward since at least 2004—and they’ve succeeded. Now, I’m personally happy about most of this. But that doesn’t blind me to the fact that “personally happy” means nothing in politics. What matters is what the median voter feels, and Democrats have been moving further and further away from the median voter for years.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/460275/
Median voters feel that the democrats have gone full-on, apeshit, cray-cray on fucking STILTS.
It will be entertaining and enlightening to watch this democrat over-reach (and they ALWAYS over-reach) result in a very predictable backlash. And the GOP, the party of failure theatre, will most definitely fuck it up as they fuck up every opportunity provided to them on a silver platter by the left.
From last night
Eric Adams Wins New York City Mayoral Primary
The Associated Press called the New York City mayoral race for Eric Adams.
The former Police Department captain ran as a more moderate Democrat and made curbing crime his central issue.
23 High-Ranking Officials in Biden Administration All Came from the Same Shadowy Firm
Many of the highest-ranking members of the Biden administration came from the same shadowy firm. It is a relatively new name among revolving-door power brokers in Washington D.C., which makes it all the more surprising.
Founded in 2017, WestExec describes itself as a “diverse group of senior national security professionals with the most recent experience at the highest levels of the U.S. government. With deep knowledge and networks in the fields of defense, foreign policy, intelligence, cybersecurity, international economics, and strategic communications, our team has worked together around the White House Situation Room table, deliberating and deciding our nation’s foreign and national security policies.”
WestExec Advisors gets its name from “West Executive Avenue,” which the official site says is “the closed street that runs between the West Wing of the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. It is, quite literally, the road to the Situation Room, and it is the road everyone associated with WestExec Advisors has crossed many times en route to meetings of the highest national security consequence.”
At least we can rest easy that it hasn’t been President Joe Biden who has been calling the shots. But a closer look at WestExec Advisers finds that it manages portfolios for some of the biggest companies in the world, drawing concerns about private companies co-opting U.S. security and intelligence policies. However, WestExec does not publicly disclose the names of its clients, only describing them in broad terms.
“The insularity of this network of policymakers poses concerns about the potential for groupthink, conflicts of interest, and what can only be called, however oxymoronically, legalized corruption,” The Intercept/American Prospect noted on WestExec’s influence. “The private sector can in essence co-opt the public sector.”
WestExec has staffed the administration with over 23 of its executives, who have sprawled out across the national security and intelligence apparatus. The Intercept and The American Prospect dug into these profiles, and some of the biggest names in government are among them, including:
Tony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State; Co-founder and managing partner of WestExec
Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence; Principal
David S. Cohen, Deputy Director at the CIA; Principal
Lisa Monaco, Deputy Attorney General; Principal
Chris Inglis, National Cyber Director; Principal
Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary; Senior Adviser
Ely Ratner, Asst. Sec. of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs; Senior Adviser
https://beckernews.com/new-23-list-40126/
who's really running America ? scary
Here are his charges.
I read them. The fact that he remains incarcerated is a disgrace, and perfectly emblematic of the Biden* junta.
The right wing obsession on black lives matter.
Start a “global liberation movement” to overthrow capitalism: “The interlinked systems of white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism and patriarchy shape the violence we face,” the M4BL/BLM platform states. “As oppressed people living in the US, the belly of global empire, we are in a critical position to build the necessary connections for a global liberation movement. Until we are able to overturn US imperialism, capitalism and white supremacy, our brothers and sisters around the world will continue to live in chains.”
The BLM-endorsed document adds that its “struggle is strengthened by our connections to the resistance of peoples around the world fighting for their liberation. … The movement for [b]lack lives must be tied to liberation movements around the world.” It does not list the foreign “liberation movements” with which it wishes to align. However, they will hold the United States and Israel in contempt.
“America is an empire,” and “American wars are unjust,” the M4BL manifesto states baldly. And “Israel is an apartheid state.” America’s “alliance with Israel” makes the U.S. “complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people….it makes US citizens complicit in the abuses committed by the Israeli government.” BLM does not state what punishment it would mete out to civilians complicit in “genocide.” However, it demands lawmakers cut “the US military budget by 50%, which will lead to the closure of the over 800 U.S. military bases the U.S. [operates] around the world” and the return of troops deployed overseas — a move many Americans, especially libertarians, support.
Higher taxes, with a specifically racial focus: The group writes confusingly that governments “have increasingly decreased the use of progressive taxation.” As a result, “the wealthiest Americans and powerful corporations continue to evade their fair share of taxes,” it says. The top 1% of U.S. income earners pay 37% of federal income taxes, and the top 10% pay 47% of all taxes, while the bottom 44% pay nothing. “Begin by raising the top marginal rate first to 50 percent and then gradually up to 80 percent,” M4BL suggests.
The federal government should focus on “taxing ‘bads’ not ‘goods.’” BLM would increase the death tax, the capital gains tax, impose new taxes on real estate transfers and financial “speculation,” and create a national wealth tax. Each state would follow suit by imposing a heavily progressive state income tax on individuals and corporations and 50 state wealth taxes. All “tax reform legislation” must be drawn up “in accordance with racial equity goals” to “help build the wealth of households of color.”
Reparations for drug dealers: M4BL/BLM would legalize prostitution and the “possession and sale of all drugs, no matter the quantity.” Prisoners convicted of these crimes would be released and their records retroactively expunged. But that’s not far enough for Black Lives Matter: Any government savings “must be invested into reparations to all people who have been adversely impacted by the drug war and enforcement of prostitution laws.” The government “must also ensure that people criminalized by the ‘war on drugs’ are able to participate in legal drug markets where decriminalization has already taken place.” Many libertarians support decriminalizing some or all drugs (and prostitution), but they typically envision government regulations on the manufacture and sale of narcotics. One of their most resonant selling points is that “repeal of drug prohibition will take the drug business out of the cartels’ hands.” BLM would guarantee the Medellin cartel a piece of the action.
Reparations for foreign nations and terrorist states: The M4BL/BLM’s thirst for racialized wealth redistribution doesn’t stop at the water’s edge. Their manifesto demands reparations for foreign nations, as well. The group insists the U.S. make “reparations to countries and communities devastated by American warmaking, such as Somalia, Iraq, Libya and Honduras.”
Insider Paper
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1412444681196167177
ALERT: U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left - AP
great "hand-off" Joe
https://blog.acton.org/archives/116471-explainer-what-does-black-lives-matter-believe.html?utm_term=what%20does%20blm%20stand%20for&utm_campaign=Blog+Posts&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=9098040689&hsa_cam=1342215022&hsa_grp=106229721498&hsa_ad=450115316063&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-926975091746&hsa_kw=what%20does%20blm%20stand%20for&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=CjwKCAjwoZWHBhBgEiwAiMN66bcfiq7UkTDrk5OuvivKLKst0qy1cj_U5zI8DOEmLd9QkK38QuZifxoCddQQAvD_BwE
Eric Adams Wins New York City Mayoral Primary
And like fucking magic, Stop The Steal is fashionable again -
https://twitter.com/stevesond/status/1412559471662882816
LOL. No one lacks self-awareness like today's liberal democrat.
Let incarcerated prisoners, illegal immigrants, and felons vote: The M4BL’s voting reforms demand universal voter registration, as well as “preregistration for 16-year-olds, enfranchisement of formerly and currently incarcerated people, local and state resident voting for undocumented people, and a ban on all disenfranchisement laws.” Felon disenfranchisement laws date back to ancient Greece. M4BL’s drive to “expand the range of eligible voters” sleights the rule of law while favoring core Democratic Party constituencies, which favor more expensive government welfare policies.
This list of policy proposals is far from comprehensive. If anything, BLM’s “demands” are more expansive and government-expanding yet. However, this gives an accurate flavor of the platform Black Lives Matter would implement if given the opportunity. It is not one that should be shared by people of faith or supporters of limited government, unalienable rights, and equal justice under the law.
Comfortably Smug
https://mobile.twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1412578999784689666
Imagine if two weeks after Trump
met with Putin, and four weeks after lifting sanctions of a multi-billion dollar pipeline, the Russian government tried to hack the DNC.
You think anyone would have asked questions?
And now Joe is apparently going to lift more sanctions against Iran, Russia and China
Our enemies love Joe.
As do all America haters
Median voters feel that the democrats have gone full-on, apeshit, cray-cray on f****** STILTS.
Sorry, but median voters don't see Uncle Joe B. up there.
New York city Democrats have elected a moderate Democrat black former police officer to run for the mayor of New York City.
NEW YORK (AP) — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing.
A former police captain, Adams would be the city’s second Black mayor if elected.
He triumphed over a large Democratic field in New York’s first major race to use ranked choice voting. Results from the latest tabulations released Tuesday showed him leading former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes, or a little more than 1 percentage point.
“While there are still some very small amounts of votes to be counted, the results are clear: an historic, diverse, five-borough coalition led by working-class New Yorkers has led us to victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York,” Adams said in a statement.
He said he was running to "deliver on the promise of this great city for those who are struggling, who are underserved, and who are committed to a safe, fair, affordable future for all New Yorkers.”
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He might become the next Barack Obama.
Jacob Chansley
The worst of his charges (40 U.S.C. § 5104(e){2){A)) is punishable by a fine or up to six months in prison. Other charges against him are also misdemeanors.
He has already been held for nearly 6 months without bail.
Oh, hey alky. Here for the usual 18-20 hours with Trump and I living rent free in your head?
In anticipation of that, and based on your antics from yesterday, I've reserved for you a table for one in our exclusive "rubber wallpaper" room. The walls of which are adorned with the image of our blog host in top hat and Mardi Gras beads. I hope it's to your liking as it is reportedly one of your favorites. And as an added bonus during your stay with us we've arranged for the installation of new tennis balls on your walker.
This way please. Jimmy Q Hitler Jr. will escort you to your table.
THWAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roger Amick said...He might become the next Barack Obama.
What a racist comment
judge by skin color much ?
Maybe we should look at medical research to make all humans white (or black or brown etc) so you can get over that
Latest Cyberattacks Test Biden’s Resolve Over Russia
July 7, 2021 at 9:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
New York Times:
“The newest attacks appeared to cross many lines that Mr. Biden has said he would no longer tolerate. On the campaign trail last year, he put Russia ‘on notice’ that, as president, he would respond aggressively to counter any interference in American elections. Then in April, he called Mr. Putin to warn him about impending economic sanctions in response to the SolarWinds breach.
“The issue has become so urgent that it has begun shifting the negotiations between Washington and Moscow, raising the control of digital weapons to a level of urgency previously seen largely in nuclear arms control negotiations.”
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Time to stop rootin' for Putin', Coldhearted LIARS.
Sorry, but median voters don't see Uncle Joe B. up there.
Median voters don't even believe Slow Joe is running the show.
LOL.
The nutcase with the crazy costume
Jake Angeli, also known as the "QAnon Shaman", "Q Shaman", and "Yellowstone Wolf", is an American conspiracy theorist, author, and activist who participated in the 2021 United States Capitol attack. He is a former supporter of former president Donald Trump and a proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Wikipedia
Born: 1988 (age 33 years), Phoenix, AZ
Other names: Q Shaman; QAnon Shaman; Yellowstone Wolf
Parents: Martha Chansley
Years of service: 2005–2007
Education: Glendale Community College
Service/branch: United States Navy
A year in prison for attempting to overthrow the election day, appropriate.
How racist to suggest that another black could become Presient.
Well I'll be a sumbitch...
Nation’s Largest Teachers Union Scrubs Website Of Pledge To Teach Critical Race Theory
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nations-largest-teachers-union-scrubs-website-of-pledge-to-teach-critical-race-theory
Fuck. Never saw THAT coming.
LOL.
Good catch.
They will call me a racist for saying that.
C.H. Truth said...
Jacob Chansley
The worst of his charges (40 U.S.C. § 5104(e){2){A)) is punishable by a fine or up to six months in prison. Other charges against him are also misdemeanors.
He has already been held for nearly 6 months without bail.
and without being given access to discovery including 14,000 hours of tapes.
or the status/actions of embedded FBI agents and informants.
in solitary for 23 out of every 24 hours.
A few democrats spoke up when this was first revealed but they've been silenced
There is no justice in Washington DC with a 96% partisan pool of "peers"
including the radical judges
and the state media
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
How racist to suggest that another black could become Presient.
It's "President" pederast.
And if the very first thing you notice about a candidate is his/her RACE, then YOU'RE the fucking RACIST.
Trump to Sue Twitter and Facebook CEOs
July 7, 2021 at 9:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Former President Donald Trump, who has complained about censorship by social media giants, plans to announce class action lawsuits today against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Axios reports.
_________
Trump's position? "I have a right to lie with impunity with no restraints whatsoever."
Sure you do. And Fox will give you plenty of coverage (though you sometimes got upset even with them).
Sleepy Joe Biden was typical example of propaganda, but over 81 million Americans didn't get infected by the former President Trump's campaign slogan.
Because the MSM censored it!!!
Wanna bet how long until we see it here soon??
Steve Herman
"The IRS has never made a case like this," says @Trump corporate attorney Alan Futerfas, contending the case is politically driven.
Mollie
@MZHemingway
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1410673424008155138
The politicized attacks on Trump — including the blatant weaponization of our legal system — are *at best* 3rd-world banana republic stuff but more accurately and disturbingly authoritarian. And everyone knows it.
amen
At least rat got it right that the next Prez could be a he or a she, regardlesss of race.
rrbJuly 7, 2021 at 8:53 AM
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
How racist to suggest that another black could become Presient.
It's "President" pederast.
And if the very first thing you notice about a candidate is his/her RACE, then YOU'RE the fucking RACIST.
It took three minutes!!!
LMAO at rrb
It's "President" pederast.
And if the very first thing you notice about a candidate is his/her RACE, then YOU'RE the fucking RACIST.
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Pete Buttigieg as The President of the United States would drive all of them crazy mothrf***rs!
Biden Seeks to Limit Noncompete Clauses
July 7, 2021 at 9:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“President Biden will push federal regulators to crack down on noncompete clauses, occupational licensing requirements and other measures that administration officials say hurt workers’ ability to pursue better jobs, as part of a broad executive order meant to bolster competition across the economy,” the New York Times reports.
“The efforts to increase competition in the labor market, according to a person familiar with them, will be detailed in an order issued in the coming days.”
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Workers of America, Unite! You have nothing to lose but GOP hypocrisy.
Vernon Jones For Governor
@RepVernonJones
https://twitter.com/RepVernonJones/status/1409998353870557186
With me running for Governor and @HerschelWalker running for Senate, I look forward to the Left trying to calling us RACISTS.
Without the race card, what do they have?
I think the racists say something like if you don't vote democrat you ain't black
James thanks we are having fun messing with the crazy Truthers.
JamesNewLeaf's Fucking DaddyJuly 7, 2021 at 8:59 AM
It's "President" pederast.
And if the very first thing you notice about a candidate is his/her RACE, then YOU'RE the fucking RACIST.
FACT CHECK - TRUE
At least rat got it right that the next Prez could be a he or a she, regardlesss of race.
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1412578109698752526
I wouldn't take healthcare advice from a political party who put a guy with dementia in the white house.
well he can still read note cards
if he doesn't misplace them
and collect his 10% for the big guy
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1411112743780880386
Nightmare inflation.
Nightmare gas prices.
Nightmare open border.
Nightmare job crisis.
But don’t worry y’all - you saved 16 cents on that hotdog ... (and even that’s a blatant lie.)
Welcome to Biden’s America.
disaster
Workers of America, Unite.
At last we have a president who means it when he says he cares about YOU (and is not lying like Trump).
Zach
INSURRECTION VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1411310441079451648
Rioters have lit the secret service guard shack on fire RIGHT OUTSIDE the White House. This is getting out of hand. 40 secret service agents are injured. #Riot2020
John Cardillo
Not one was prosecuted
like the left only likes some blacks they only oppose some "insurrections"
and boy this was a lot more violent
strange the dems were quite happy with this
A larger field might save the GOP from Trump
NATIONAL POLITICS
A Large Field May Save the Day for Cheney, Other Republicans
Charlie Cook
July 6, 2021
Discretion is said to be a major part of valor. In the case of an incumbent who has fallen out of favor with his or her party base, they must apply such discretion in their decision whether to run for reelection.
In cases of a lone, credible primary challenger, the outcome is often clear. It might be time to find an exit from the political stage. If there are multiple credible alternatives dividing the “anti-vote,” there might be a chance for the embattled incumbent.
Which brings us to Rep. Liz Cheney, someone whose votes and positions on issues has been well aligned with her constituents in Wyoming—at least prior to the second impeachment of then-President Donald Trump. Her vote in favor led to her being removed from House Republican leadership earlier this year.
She isn’t backing down. Her decision to accept a slot on the select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 is unlikely to endear her to the Trumpeteers. Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, rarely passed up a fight and it would appear that in this case, the acorn did not fall far from the tree.
A half-dozen Republicans have indicated that they will challenge Cheney in the GOP primary slated for Aug. 16 of next year, and there could well be more. Whether Trump and his allies could clear the field for a single challenger, or at least prune it some by the May 27 filing deadline, is a key question.
Other campaign front-runners, while not incumbents, are hoping for many candidates to fracture their opposition vote. In Missouri, Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair Roy Blunt has announced that after 14 years in the House and 12 years in the Senate, he will not seek a third term. While the seat is arguably a slam dunk for Republicans, the GOP is a bit nervous. The candidate leading in early primary polling is former Gov. Eric Greitens. The Duke graduate, Rhodes scholar and Navy SEAL was elected governor in 2016, serving two and a half years before having to resign from office after a messy scandal and indictment, though charges were later dropped and the Missouri State Ethics Commission "found no evidence of any wrongdoing."
That said, the details were pretty sordid, leaving quite a few Republicans wondering if there is a level of toxicity that could endanger the seat even in such a red state.
While Greitens leads in polling, he has high-profile rivals for the GOP nomination. State Attorney General and former Treasurer Eric Schmitt announced his candidacy in March. A second, rather controversial, candidate jumped into the race in May: Mark McCloskey, the St Louis attorney who was captured on social media brandishing an assault rifle as Black Lives Matter protesters passed his house on the way to demonstrate in front of the home of the city’s mayor.
Last month, six-term Rep. Vicky Hartzler threw her hat into the ring and others are expected to enter the fight. The more alternative candidates there are, the better Greitens’s chances are of winning the primary, as there is no runoff under Missouri law.
Alabama could be another race where one candidate is hoping for a big field of rivals. Katie Britt, a former chief of staff to retiring Sen. Richard Shelby and more recently president of the Business Council of Alabama, the umbrella organization of corporate CEOs in the state, entered the race in June. Shelby quickly endorsed her, cementing her status at the Republican establishment candidate, notwithstanding a very Trumpian video she released to introduce herself to voters. Britt’s 6-foot-8, 320-pound husband, Wesley Britt, was a standout offensive tackle and captain of the University of Alabama football team, going on to play for the New England Patriots and San Diego Chargers.
Britt-backers are hoping that the staunchest of the Trump camp will split between Rep. Mo Brooks a six-term House member, lawyer and former state Representative who entered the race in March, and was endorsed by Trump in April, and Lynda Blanchard, a wealthy businesswoman who served as Trump’s ambassador to Slovenia, the home country of first lady Melania Trump.
Two more examples in the House are Peter Meijer, a freshman Republican who won Justin Amash’s seat in the 3rd District of Michigan. Meijer’s vote for Trump’s impeachment is likely to be very problematic in a primary, though a big field and no runoff means that he has some chance of reelection. Interestingly, Amash did not seek reelection after his own support for impeachment.
In tougher shape would be Tom Rice, who represents South Carolina’s 7th District and also supported Trump’s impeachment. Because South Carolina does have a runoff, even a big field might not enable him to beat his most prominent rival, former Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride.
There is an old (and bad) joke about a woman who’s by a friend, “How’s your husband?” Her response: “Compared to what?” In some party primaries, the question is “Compared to how many?”
Benny
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1407811643904495621
In case you're more confused after watching Biden try to understand the Constitution here, I'll help you out: the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
pretty clear
unlike Biden's mumbles and word salad
How stereotypical...
It was a BLACK GUY who murdered Ashli Babbitt.
Another thing that President Biden should do is to make sure that in the infrastructure bill will outlaw right to vote for less laws in Republican states.
Restoring union membership will be part of the bottom up economic recovery program.
Patrice Cullors asks...
So how can I cash in on THIS one, 'cause mama needs to Buy another Large Mansion...
According to the Escambia County Sheriff's Office (ECSO), student athlete Ladarius Clardy was shot and killed in Pensacola, Fla. last week. At the time of this writing, no arrests had been made.
At a recent press conference, Sheriff Chip W. Simmons said the ECSO received a call from emergency medical services at around midnight on Thursday, July 1 and were told a 2016 Honda had run over the embankment at the intersection of West Fairfield Drive and Hollywood Avenue. Upon arriving at the scene, deputies found two males with gunshot wounds in the car: the driver, 18-year-old Clardy, and a 19-year-old passenger.
Simmons said more than 50 gunshots had been fired at the vehicle and that Clardy was pronounced deceased at the scene. Simmons said, "The injuries that Ladarius Clardy suffered ultimately took his life."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/college-football-star-ladarius-clardy-194500648.html
Roger Amick said...
Another thing that President Biden should do is to make sure that in the infrastructure bill will outlaw right to vote for less laws in Republican states.
Restoring union membership will be part of the bottom up economic recovery program.
What a fucking word salad disaster.
It's probably way too late for a recovery program for you.
and your roommate.
A Virginia man is facing several criminal charges after he allegedly admitted to an undercover federal agent that he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 while dressed to look like an anti-fascist activist and discussed details about his own nascent militia group that had been casing Congress in the months following the riot, according to federal court documents.
In a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, federal authorities revealed that an undercover FBI operative had developed a relationship with defendant Fi Duong following the Capitol siege, embedding himself in Duong’s militia-like group for several months. Several pages of the FBI’s affidavit detail Duong’s alleged interest in Molotov cocktails, a phrase that appears more than a dozen times in the document.
“The recipe that I have. This is just from my own study and from looking at sources that I will not yet name,” Duong is quoted as telling an undercover FBI operative in May, months after the siege of the Capitol, while explaining exactly how he planned to make the homemade incendiary devices. “But again, this is all just in theory. I have not tested any of this out.”
Duong is not accused of any violent acts or actually using the weapons, but authorities cite them to illustrate his alleged rhetoric in favor of political violence, preparing for what he called “the second American Civil War.”
After President Joe Biden nominated David Chipman to lead the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Duong allegedly told the FBI operative that his property could turn into “Waco 2.0,” apparently referring to the 1993 standoff of the Branch Davidian compound with cult leader David Koresh, according to court papers.
According to the complaint, Duong on Jan. 13 told the undercover agent that he was filming rioters inside the Capitol while “wearing all black in an effort to look like a member of Antifa.” Short for anti-fascist, “antifa” is a catch-all term for an amorphous collection of left-wing activists. Those who oppose the movement tend to depict it as a group, rather than an inchoate collective.
While Duong purportedly jockeyed into infiltrate antifa, the FBI quickly became part of Duong’s group, which was referred to as “a Bible study,” but included “firearms and other training events” such as physical fitness training, “hand-to-hand combat,” and training in driving skills. The group also had their own private chat server “to ensure the group could have more secure communications.”
During a group meeting at Duong’s home in late-March, he allegedly told attending members that he was inside the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 but was careful to make sure that he kept a mask on at all times to avoid being identified by law enforcement.
An associate described in court documents as a member of the far-right militia group Three Percenters “addressed Duong’s group at a meeting at his house in Alexandria, Virginia on March 20, explaining that some of the people that went into the Capitol were smart and wore a mask, and as a result, law enforcement could not identify them,” according to the complaint.
Three Percenters get their name from the myth that it represents the portion of colonists who participated in the American Revolution, a notion debunked by historians.
He tried to look like an Antifa etc.
https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/man-who-joined-fight-for-trump-crowd-at-capitol-siege-posed-as-antifa-discussed-molotov-cocktails-with-his-self-styled-militia-feds/
You don't even know what a "right to work law" works because you are just a troll squad asshole.
You don't even know what a "right to work law" works because you are just a troll squad asshole.
Except you said "right to vote," alky live blue-anon asshole.
THWAP!!!
Poor alky. So many rakes, so little time.
Covid-19 Cases Spike Among the Unvaccinated
July 7, 2021 at 11:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
New York Times:
“In many urban and suburban communities, Covid continues to plummet. The rate of new daily cases has fallen below three per 100,000 residents in large cities like Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington.
"As a point of comparison, the national rate of new daily cases peaked last winter above 75 per 100,000 people.
“But in less populated areas — which tend to be more politically conservative and skeptical of vaccines — the virus is now surging, largely from the contagious Delta variant. The states with the worst outbreaks are Arkansas and Missouri
(each with more than 16 new daily cases per 100,000 people)
followed by Florida (10),
Nevada (10),
Wyoming (nine) and
Utah (eight).”
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JAMESNEWLEAF SAYS
Let's just see now... how many of those states are Trump-supporting states? How many of them contain vast numbers of brain dead supporters of Trump who believe his every lie?
I didn't say it before, but I WILL say it now:
This looks like a case of voluntary self murder that could be described as "thinning the herd."
THWAPITTY THWAP THWAP!
rrb said...
You don't even know what a "right to work law" works because you are just a troll squad asshole.
Except you said "right to vote," alky live blue-anon asshole.
THWAP!!!
Poor alky. So many rakes, so little time.
I'm still trying to figure out what his word salad said
Anyone care to help ?
Why isn't liar Ch providing us with the Covid statistics these days?
Anyone care to help him?
UK Covid cases SURGING !!!
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1412769892118536192
Now do deaths.
= no rise
In fact the UK is removing ALL restrictions starting 7/18
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1412529998527881219/photo/1
all those masks, lockdowns, vaccinations etc didn't work...
and this new variant while highly contagious is very weak...
thank God for Republican governors, way ahead of the curve.
THWAPITTY THWAP THWAP!
ROFLMFAO !!!
Your GODdard is failing you
as always
The murder of George Floyd and other high-profile killings of Black people last summer prompted a surge of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts to provide more education about racism and its harmful effects. Many of these efforts have been linked to the academic concept called critical race theory, which posits that racism is not simply acts of individual bias or prejudice, but rather is embedded in institutions, policies and legal systems.
Not surprisingly, CRT has become a target of America’s ongoing culture wars. Recently, Texas became the fifth state to pass a critical race theory bill, House Bill 3979, which states that “a teacher may not be compelled to discuss a particular current event or widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs.” If teachers choose to teach this type of material, they must “to the best of the teacher’s ability, strive to explore the topic from diverse and contending perspectives without giving deference to any one perspective.” More than a dozen other states are also considering critical race theory bills.
Bans on CRT are bans on US history
Negative reactions to critical race theory have reached a fever pitch, with news stories depicting emotional parents at heated forums decrying what they believe to be the ills of critical race theory. There is now an energized conservative movement fueled by activists and politicians, including Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who claim critical race theory is divisive, hostile and anti-American, obsessed with race and "hateful lies," and teaches kids to hate each other.
Critical race theory is not hostile, divisive or anti-American. This characterization is a politicized misrepresentation of the theory that prevents and penalizes any discussion of the idea that systemic racism is, unfortunately, still very much present in American society.
Critics of critical race theory use it as an umbrella term to describe any examination of systemic racism. It doesn’t matter whether schools actually teach critical race theory. In some instances, accusations of teaching critical race theory are simply teaching children.
There's no racial guilt in my classroom
I have taught a lot about issues related to race and systemic racism and have been rewarded for my teaching excellence by being inducted into both the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. I have taught students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, including many white students. I have taught students with diverse political viewpoints, and I have taught students who have not always agreed with me. In all instances, I challenge my students but also allow myself to be challenged.
I have never taught that one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex, and I have never taught that an individual should be discriminated against because of their race or sex. I have never placed racial guilt on students by separating them between oppressor and oppressed, as alleged in a recent email I received imploring me to defeat CRT in my state.
To be sure, that’s not to say that there aren’t some CRT proponents whose approaches to teaching critical race theory may be heavy-handed. In such cases, critics should separate CRT from the messenger. Critics should also acknowledge the intellectual diversity among CRT proponents. For example, while some critical race theorists believe racial discrimination is a permanent condition, others have more hope.
The fact of the matter is that critical race theory promotes difficult – but much needed –discussions about race and systemic racism in this country. As the national debate about critical race theory continues, I hope that people will take the time to educate themselves about what is fact vs. what is fiction.
I recommend Scott should Twitter tirade with him
Kevin Cokley is the Oscar and Anne Mauzy Regents Professor of Educational Research and Development and the director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a fellow of the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers and a Distinguished Member of the Association of Black Psychologists. Follow him on Twitter: @KevinCokley1
Hey alky
It wouldn't matter what they taught you.
You would not have a clue.
it's called mental decline into dementia
and you are in the express lane.
sad
You actually believe this,
But no one is opposed to teaching about America’s difficult racial history, including the evils of slavery and Jim Crow. What parents are awakening to is that their children are being told the lie that America has made little or no racial progress and therefore its legal, economic and political systems must be turned upside down.
Ms. Weingarten must have in the mind those Soviets in Loudoun County, Va., where five families sued last month over school district policies and practices that are rooted in critical race theory. The families claim that administrators chilled speech and discriminated against non-minority students. Watch for similar suits elsewhere. The unions are upset because such parental pushback threatens their control over instruction in schools.
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All of this shows how far the teachers unions have strayed from their original mission of fighting for better pay and pensions. The NEA and AFT have become the ideological and institutional vanguard of progressive politics. They are a powerful wing of the Democratic Party, and in President Biden and his wife Jill they have the most powerful allies.
Voters need to understand the ideological motivations at work in these unions and how that will affect what their children and grandchildren are taught. Parents have every right, even a duty, to fight back against this invasion of progressive politics in their schools.
Thecoldheartedtruth is this
The fact of the matter is that critical race theory promotes difficult – but much needed –discussions about race and systemic racism in this country. As the national debate about critical race theory continues, I hope that people will take the time to educate themselves about what is fact vs. what is fiction.
The Republicans are teaching fiction as fact.
Quote of the Day
July 8, 2021 at 6:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments
“The simple reality is that we do not have a pandemic among the vaccinated. This is only, right now, a pandemic among the unvaccinated.”
— New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), quoted by WHYY.
Yes, I think it would be only fair for Ch to continue listing Covid case and death statistics in his sidebar. We could then see for ourselves which states are now having the biggest problems.
But Ch has a long history of removing statistics from his sidebar the moment they start heading in directions he does not like.
Vote on Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Could Come Soon
July 7, 2021 at 5:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments
“The White House’s long sought-after bipartisan infrastructure deal could hit the Senate floor as early as the week of July 19,” Politico reports.
J.D. Vance Admits He Had to ‘Suck It Up’ to Support Trump
July 7, 2021 at 9:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 175 Comments
Ohio U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance (R) tried to explain away his about-face on Donald Trump in a Time magazine interview but admitted that he had no choice but to “suck it up” and support the former president.
Said Vance: “I’m not just a flip-flopper, I’m a flip-flop-flipper on Trump.”
He called Trump the “the leader of this movement” and that “I need to just suck it up and support him.”
Greene Says Trump Won’t Be ‘Reinstated’
July 7, 2021 at 9:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 91 Comments
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) rebuked the conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump will be reinstated, Newsweek reports.
Said Greene: “I would hate for anyone to get their hopes up thinking that President Trump is going to be back in the White House in August because that’s not true and I’m telling you that as a member of Congress, that’s a very difficult thing to do.”
Lawmakers Send Mixed Messages on Reining in Mega IRAs
July 7, 2021 at 8:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 26 Comments
ProPublica: “Two members of Congress who have long been responsible for shaping federal laws on retirement savings are considering major reforms after ProPublica exposed how the ultrawealthy are turning retirement accounts into gargantuan tax shelters.
“But this new appetite for reining in the accounts may be too late to slow contrary bipartisan legislation already rolling through Congress. Buried deep inside two complex and sweeping bills — each more than 140 pages long — are provisions that could make it harder for the IRS to crack down on the ultrawealthy who dodge tax rules.”
“Those bills, paradoxically, are co-sponsored by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rep Richard Neal (D-MA), two of the lawmakers who are now calling for reining in giant retirement accounts.”
HEADLINES
Youngkin Admits to Hiding His True Abortion Views
Erik Prince Sought to Create Private Military In Ukraine
Giuliani’s Law License Suspended In Washington,
Ex-South African President Taken to Prison
Trump’s Supreme Court Shies Away from Controversy
Tucker Carlson Tried to Set Up Interview with Putin
U.S. Promises No Harsh Conditions If Assange Extradicted
Ted Cruz Will Skip CPAC
Top Republican Throws Cold Water on Global Tax Deal
IMPORTANT~!
Biden Weighs Response to Ransomware Attacks
July 8, 2021 at 7:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
“President Biden emerged from a Situation Room meeting with his top cybersecurity advisers on Wednesday to declare that he ‘will deliver’ a response to President Vladimir Putin of Russia for the wave of ransomware attacks hitting American companies, after hearing a series of options about how he could disrupt the extortion efforts,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Biden’s vague statement, delivered as he was departing for a trip, left it unclear whether he was planning another verbal warning to Mr. Putin — similar to the one he issued three weeks ago during a one-on-one summit in Geneva — or would move ahead with more aggressive options to dismantle the infrastructure used by Russian-language criminal groups.
“Each option runs significant risk, because Russia is capable of escalating its own behavior. And as the ransomware deluge has shown, many companies in the private sector and federal and state government agencies remain rife with vulnerabilities that Russian actors can find and exploit.”
Ice water on Scott's mind meld with Trump
Critical race theory has been falsely labeled as anti-Asian. Helen Raleigh, an Asian American entrepreneur, defined critical race theory as a “divisive discriminatory ideology that judges people on the basis of their skin color” in Newsweek. “It is my practice to ignore critics who have not read the work and who are not interested in honest exchange,” responded one of the three Asian American founders of critical race theory, Mari Matsuda, a law professor at the University of Hawaii. “But I do want to say this for the record: Asian Americans are at the center of CRT analysis and have been from the start.”
How should thinkers respond to monstrous lies? Should we mostly ignore the critics as Matsuda has, as I have? Because restating facts over and over again gets old. Reciting your own work over and over again to critics who either haven’t read what they are criticizing or are purposefully distorting it gets old. And talking with people who have created a monologue with two points of view, theirs and what they impute to you, gets old.
But democracy needs dialogue. And dialogue necessitates seeking to know what a person is saying in order to offer informed critiques.
As a scholar, I know that nothing is more useful than criticism to improve my scholarship. As a human being, I know that nothing is more constructive than criticism to improve my humanity. I’ve chronicled how criticism and critics have been a driving force on my journey to be anti-racist, to confront my own racist, sexist, homophobic, and classist ideas—and their intersections. Constructive criticism often hurts, but like painful medical treatments, it can be lifesaving; it can be nation-saving.
But what’s happening now is something entirely different and destructive—not constructive. This isn’t a “culture war.” This isn’t even an “argument.” This isn’t even “criticism.” This is critics arguing with themselves.
Ibram X. Kendi
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