Even a sadder group than the trucker funnies......Lil Schitty running on empty again.....BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I guess someone is having trouble sleeping post such trash at 2:30 and 5 in the morning!!!!!!
But this week's developments could provide Biden, stuck in the low 40s in the polls, an opportunity to begin shoring up some of his vulnerabilities nine months out from the midterm elections.
Democrats have long said that first and foremost, the pandemic and the economy would need to be heading in the right direction for them to have any shot at holding the House and Senate this November. As CNN's Stephen Collinson wrote, the Syria raid gives Biden a possible counterargument to Republicans who have painted him as weak on foreign policy.
And the Supreme Court vacancy allows Biden a chance to rally disillusioned members of his base and fulfill a campaign promise to nominate a Black woman.
If Biden can point to a string of positive developments for his administration this week for the first time in a long while. But he will need, at the very least, many more weeks like this to reverse his political fortunes ahead of the midterms.
So the crazy Trumpets don't attempt to impeach President Biden and Kamala Harris, and make the Speaker of the House of Representatives Donald Trump the President of the United States of America.
If Biden can point to a string of positive developments for his administration this week for the first time in a long while. But he will need, at the very least, many more weeks like this to reverse his political fortunes ahead of the midterms.
But Biden was finally on the receiving end of some much-needed good news on several fronts this week. Consider:
1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the US economy had added 467,000 jobs in January, well above what had been forecast.
2) Covid-19 cases nationally are down 38% from last week, according to Johns Hopkins University, while hospitalizations are down 16%. (Deaths were 7% higher, but there are signs that number is plateauing.)
3) A successful US counterterrorism raid in Syria that was months in the making resulted in the death of a top ISIS leader.
4) And on top of all that, Biden kick-started the process of filling the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Plus, the week was marked by infighting for the President's opposition, with the Republican National Committee voting to censure two of the party's most outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump: Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The RNC also received swift blowback for referring to the events of January 6, 2021, as "legitimate political discourse." that is not going to help the Republicans except for his base. Most people are very disturbed about the Insurrection.
And the Supreme Court vacancy allows Biden a chance to rally disillusioned members of his base and fulfill a campaign promise to nominate a Black woman.
So his base is a bunch of mouth-breathing morons who can't see past identity politics.
Nice.
They're shallow AND stupid.
0linsky gives us a LatinX moron, and Slow Joe says "hold my beer."
1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the US economy had added 467,000 jobs in January, well above what had been forecast.
2) Covid-19 cases nationally are down 38% from last week, according to Johns Hopkins University, while hospitalizations are down 16%. (Deaths were 7% higher, but there are signs that number is plateauing.)
3) A successful US counterterrorism raid in Syria that was months in the making resulted in the death of a top ISIS leader.
4) And on top of all that, Biden kick-started the process of filling the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Plus, the week was marked by infighting for the President's opposition inside the Republican party!
1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the US economy had added 467,000 jobs in January, well above what had been forecast.
A massive fabrication otherwise known as a LIE.
2) Covid-19 cases nationally are down 38% from last week, according to Johns Hopkins University, while hospitalizations are down 16%. (Deaths were 7% higher, but there are signs that number is plateauing.)
The common cold tends to do that.
3) A successful US counterterrorism raid in Syria that was months in the making resulted in the death of a top ISIS leader.
He killed 10 women and children while the moose-limb scumbag blew HIMSELF up. Oh, and we lost a MILLION $$$ helicopter in the process. Yay.
4) And on top of all that, Biden kick-started the process of filling the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Yep. According to anonymous sources, Biden was heard yelling throughout the white house "BRING ME A BLACK VAGINA!!!"
...with the Republican National Committee voting to censure two of the party's most outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump: Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
Well after claiming their fealty to their Vodka and Botox Queen Peloshee, it's easy to understand that as a very normal reaction. If Liz and Adam had any real courage, they'd jump over to the democrat party where they obviously belong seeing as how their loyalties lie squarely in that camp.
This is why I am not an angry racist rodent bastard.
every single word is correct about that time in Rapid City! And don't forget the milk man!
I grew up in Rapid City South Dakota I was raised by middle income parents during a time when most everyone treated each other with respect. We didn't eat a lot of fast food because it was considered a treat, not a food group. We drank Kool-Aid made from water that came from our kitchen sink with real sugar. We ate bologna sandwiches, or even tuna (which was in a can not a pouch), PB&J & grilled cheese sandwiches, hot dogs, pot pies, but mostly homemade meals consisting of mainly dough, meat, potatoes, vegetable, bread & butter, and homemade dessert.
We grew up during a time when we mowed lawns, pulled weeds, babysat, helped neighbors with chores to be able to earn our own money. we went outside a lot to play games, ride bikes, red rover, dodge ball, run with siblings and friends & played hide and seek. We drank tap water from the hose outside... bottled water was unheard of. If we had a coke -it was in a glass bottle ... and we took the empties back to the store for a 5 cent deposit. We watched TV shows like Bonanza, Leave It To Beaver, Gilligan's Island, Happy Days, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Little House On The Prairie, and I Love Lucy. After school, we came home and did homework and chores before going outside or having friends over. We would ride our bikes for hours. We had to tell our parents where we were going, who we were going with, and what time we'd be back.
You LEARNED from your parents instead of disrespecting them and treating them as if they knew absolutely nothing. What they said was LAW and you did not question it, and you had better know it!!!
When the sun was starting to set you had better be home. In school we listened to our teachers.
We watched what we said around our elders because we knew if we DISRESPECTED any grown-up we would get our behinds whipped, it wasn't called abuse, it was called discipline! We held doors, carried groceries and gave up our seat for an older person without being asked. You didn't hear curse words on the radio in songs or TV, and if you cursed and got caught you had a bar of soap stuck in your mouth and had to stand in the corner. “Please, Thank you, yes please no thank you were part of our daily vocabulary! You grew up to respect the Nation. I watched it eliminate voter suppression based upon the color of their skin.
Former President Trump wants to reverse everything.
Alky, if you want to know what kind of shape your team is in for the upcoming mid-terms, look no father than the string of "victories" (LOL) you bitterly cling to in the hopes of emerging victorious.
It's laughable.
Your dear leader is a failure by every objective measure. And if your team thought they had a legitimate shot, upwards of 30 democrat parasites would NOT be retiring from congress.
President Joe Biden’s disapproval rating rose six percentage points in one week alone as his approval continues to take a tumble, hitting its lowest point since taking office, a Reuters/Ipsos survey released this week discovered.
The survey found a majority of Americans, 56 percent, disapprove of Biden’s job performance. That reflects a six-point jump from the 50 percent who disapproved last week. What is more, his approval sank to 41 percent, which the survey identified as his “lowest rating for the Ipsos tracker since he was inaugurated.”
The whole story that fucking asshole rat failed to post about test kits....
Hemmer received the 15-minute at-home rapid antigen tests from iHealth Labs Inc. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, but the test is "Made in China," according to the label.
iHealth is a unit of the Chinese company Andon Health Co. Ltd., according to Reuters. It was awarded a $1.275 billion contract for COVID-19 rapid tests with the U.S. government on Jan. 13, according to the Defense.gov website.
The Biden administration said Tuesday not all the 500 million tests were made in China, but there are not enough American-made tests to meet the demand, so they sourced kits made "in other parts of the world."
One of the COVID-19 tests distributed as part of the Biden administration's effort to beef up at-home testing. One of the COVID-19 tests distributed as part of the Biden administration's effort to beef up at-home testing. (Fox Digital) "We are procuring as many US-made at-home tests as are available to purchase, while also purchasing additional, FDA authorized at-home tests that are made in other parts of the world," an administration official told Fox News Digital in a statement Tuesday. "Together this ensures that we are making available as many at-home tests for the American people as possible and importantly, we’re doing so in a way that ensures we are not interfering with other channels where people can ge
Again Biden keeping his promise of test kits for all is a bad thing to idiots from NY who can't see past their own nose!!!!
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Pence aide destroys RNC talking points: There was no 'legitimate political discourse' on Jan. 6
David Edwards
February 06, 2022
Marc Short, an aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, disagreed with Republican talking points suggesting that the Jan. 6 Committee is targeting people for "legitimate political discourse."
"Did you see legitimate political discourse that day?" NBC host Chuck Todd asked Short during an interview on Sunday.
"From my front-row seat, I did not see a lot of legitimate political discourse," Short said. "But from talking to some members of the RNC, I think there is concern that there were people there that were peacefully protesting who have been pulled into this, where I think it's become more of prosecution of the Jan. 6 Committee and feel like they're being unfairly treated."
During an interview with The Washington Post last week, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel slammed the Jan. 6 Committee, calling it a "Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse."
Republican officials have offered little evidence that January 6 defendants are being prosecuted for their political views.
Short is reportedly cooperating with the Jan. 6 Committee after he was subpoenaed.
So getting rid of Nuclear plants is now biting them in their Socialist stupid asses.
"France Braces For Blackouts As Gas Stockpiles Dwindle
By ZeroHedge - Feb 06, 2022, 10:00 AM CST
The Brits aren't the only European nation to find itself on the verge of a full-blown energy crisis. On Thursday, French natural gas pipeline operator GRTgaz warned that French gas stockpiles are much lower at this point in the year than they have been during years past - and as a result, they run the risk of potentially being depleted before the winter is up."
Like Sollozzo in “The Godfather,” Anthony Fauci’s business is drugs. The NIAID boss bags royalties from drug manufacturers but doesn’t tell the patients who participate in his risky drug trials.
By............... no name because the mobster would kill me
“My financial disclosure is public knowledge and has been so for the last 37 years or so the last 35 years. All you have to do is ask for it. You’re so misinformed, all you have to do is ask for it.”
That was Dr. Anthony Fauci last month, in response to Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a medical doctor. As Adam Andrezejewski of OpentheBooks.com learned, the “public knowledge” part is a stretch.
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Fauci’s 2021 salary, and what he earned in royalties, had not been made public. As many as 1,000 National Institutes of Health scientists receive royalties, and each payment is “a potential conflict of interest.” So it was of some concern that “NIH admits it holds approximately 1,200 pages relating to Fauci’s financial information and conflict of interest disclosures.”
As it turns out, this sort of secrecy is standard practice.
According to a 2005 British Medical Journal report now posted on an NIH website, patients who took part in NIH clinical trials “had no idea that scientists at the institutes received $8.9m (£4.8m; €6.8m) in royalty payments and might benefit financially for the use of their discoveries by pharmaceutical companies and device makers.”
“My financial disclosure is public knowledge and has been so for the last 37 years or so the last 35 years. All you have to do is ask for it. You’re so misinformed, all you have to do is ask for it.”
A LIE. Those who sought it out had to dig and dig DEEP to find it.
Fauci’s 2021 salary, and what he earned in royalties, had not been made public.
Fact check: Partially true. We know his salary. His royalties? Not.
But providing protection against liability and a 50+ FOIA block for the vaccine makers was done for a reason.
Phony Fauci is yet another creature of the DC swamp who made MILLION$ as a "public servant." LOL.
Great catch asshole.....never disputed the source you dumb fuck.....but once again your lack of intellect and the ability to read misses the point....Needed world sources to keep the commitment of a test for everyone!!!!!!! If brains were TNT.....you couldn't blow a wet fart!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
iHealth is a unit of the Chinese company Andon Health Co. Ltd.,according to Reuters. It was awarded a $1.275 billion contract for COVID-19 rapid tests with the U.S. government on Jan. 13, according to the Defense.gov website.
STILL LOL @ the BWAA.
Hey BWAA, when the 5th Beatle takes the big dirt nap, the alky will be seeking a room mate. Get your application in early to beat the rush.
President Joe Biden extended the Trump-era tariffs on solar-energy imports by four years Friday but dealt a blow to U.S. solar manufacturers by leaving in place an exemption that has allowed imports of panel technologies subsidized by China to flood the market.
The decision is a boon for renewable energy developers who will retain access to cheap overseas supplies, specifically the two-sided solar panels used by most large-scale solar projects, helping meet the administration's climate targets. For U.S. solar manufacturers and union labor, who favored restrictions to safeguard American jobs, the move is a disappointment.
As usual alky, you left out some of the best parts -
Fauci and Lane were “collecting royalties on an AIDS treatment they’re testing on patients using taxpayer money.” Both doctors “acknowledged they were unwilling to tell interleukin-2 patients about the royalties on consent forms until NIH developed its policy.” That policy had been in place since May of 2000 but not followed, so “hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients in NIH experiments made decisions to participate in experiments that often carry risks without full knowledge about the researchers’ financial interests.”
The NIH did not implement the disclosure policy until 2009, “almost five years after HHS officials pledged to disclose such arrangements to patients.” So Fauci was indeed on the gravy train, and the NIAID-NIH bosses weren’t exactly up front about it. Taxpayers and unwitting participants in medical trials might dial back to Fauci’s first “treatment” for AIDS.
Fauci promoted trials of AZT (azidothymidine), marketed as Zidovudine. This DNA chain terminator was rejected for cancer treatment because of cytotoxicity, lethality to cells. In 1987, the FDA approved AZT at lightning speed, which disturbed molecular biologist Dr. Harvey Bialy, scientific editor of Biotechnology.
“I can’t see how this drug could be doing anything other than making people very sick,” said Dr. Bialy. On the contrary—AZT was making some people very rich. After FDA approval, Burroughs Wellcome stock went through the roof. At a price of $8,000 per patient per year, AZT was the most expensive drug ever marketed.
In her 1995 book, The Search for an AIDS Vaccine, Fauci’s wife Christine Grady said children and pregnant women were suitable subjects for drug trials and touted “the availability and effectiveness of AZT,” as a boon to research. As the couple had to know, it was anything but.
In 2012, the NIH named Christine Grady, a specialist in recruitment of human subjects, chief of the NIH bioethics department. Grady hasn’t disclosed whether the human subjects would have held back from drug trials if they knew the NIAID boss, her husband, got a piece of the action. The NIH inspector general explored that theme in a 2019 report revealingly titled “NIH Has Made Strides in Reviewing Financial Conflicts of Interest in Extramural Research, But Could Do More.”
Two. you support censorship in our schools nationwide.
New rules are limiting how teachers can teach Black History Month
Russell Contreras
Sixteen Black children accompanied by four mothers carry anti-segregation signs in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1956. Photo: Bettmann Collection/Getty Images
Schools and universities are marking Black History Month starting today, but this is the first time it will be celebrated under new restrictions on diversity education imposed by some states.
Why it matters: The constraints — under the guise of banning the teaching of critical race theory — limit what some state-supported institutions can discuss about the nation's racial past. Educators embracing Black history have received death threats.
Details: Since last year, 14 states have imposed such restrictions through legislation, executive actions, or commission votes, an Education Week analysis found.
In addition, 35 states have introduced bills or taken other steps to restrict teaching critical race theory — a concept that focuses on the legacy of systemic racism — or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism.Elementary school teachers, administrators and college professors have faced fines, physical threats, and fear of firing because of this organized push from the right to remove classroom discussions of systemic racism.
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
Those limits would allow teachers to mention that Brooklyn Dodgers infielder Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color line but not allow them to discuss why Black players were banned before him, Sharif El-Mekki, founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, said.Teachers may also introduce Malcolm X but not read his speeches, mention soul singer Marvin Gaye but not discuss his "What's Going On" lyrics, or point out Rosewood, Florida, or Tulsa, Oklahoma, on maps but not talk about the racial atrocities that occurred there.
In many cases, the toughest crackdowns could prevent students from learning about history that happened in their own backyards.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem recently introduced a bill to prohibit colleges and schools from teaching certain lessons on racial atrocities. The state is the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre of Lakota people by the U.S. Army.State legislators in Alabama, where John Lewis was beaten by police during a 1965 voting rights march, are expected soon to take up a bill that would prevent colleges from teaching critical race theory.Lawmakers in Mississippi and Florida are considering bills that would ban history lessons that make students feel uncomfortable about their race.
What they're saying: "These laws supposedly protecting white students from guilt say more about the authors of the law than the students," Manisha Sinha, a University of Connecticut historian and author of "The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition," told Axios.
"There's no reason why a white student can't identify with the abolitionist or the civil rights leader rather than a slaveholder."
Tracey Lynn Nance, a 4th-grade teacher in Decatur, Georgia, told Axi0s she estimates that half of the teachers she knows will continue Black History Month lessons as planned while the other half is distraught.
"I think that many are self-censoring right now. (Many) are feeling angry about thinking that someone is out to get them or they're going to twist their comments."Nance, who has faced a backlash online for defending diversity and equity in education, says she plans to continue her lessons on Coretta Scott King and Black poets during Black History Month.
The other side: James Henderson, an Alabama conservative activist, dismissed complaints that anti-critical race theory laws that he supports would prevent students from learning Black history or Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The teaching of morality is a good thing in public education. And unfortunately, we've largely gotten away from it," Henderson said, referring to King's teachings about being a good moral citizen.
Zoom out: New teaching on race has been criticized by the right and even some on the left. David Bromwich, an English professor at Yale, wrote in The Nation: "The new methods are marked by a certain severity, a pressure to cleanse or catechize."
Yes, but: Even before Black History Month began, the attacks on critical race theory, driven disproportionately by white, suburban and rural parents, had led to book bans and school districts re-examining diversity lessons.
Moms for Liberty in Tennessee, for example, filed a complaint last year asking the state to review certain children's books about King and civil rights advocate Ruby Bridges. The state rejected it.“Dear Martin,” a young adult novel about a Black high-schooler writing letters to King, was removed last month from a North Carolina high school following complaints from parents about the book's expletives.
Flashback: Historian Carter G. Woodson is credited for inspiring Black History Month after he organized the first Negro History Week in February 1926.
In 1976, on the 50th anniversary of the first Negro History Week, the Association for the Study of African American History officially made the shift to Black History Month.President Gerald Ford issued a declaration that year celebrating the month — and every president since has followed.
The bottom line: El-Mekki said he's encouraging teachers to use primary sources in lessons like the racist speeches and essays of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis or Thomas Jefferson. "Teachers can they say...'I didn't say this. They said this.' That's history."
The NIH, which “could do more” to disclose financial conflicts of interest, redacted Fauci’s 2019 disclosure, which had to be obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The NIH director at that time was Francis Collins, who also lied about funding gain-of-function research, and called on Fauci for a “quick, decisive takedown” of the scientists of the Great Barrington Declaration, respected epidemiologists from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford universities. So when it came to Tony Fauci, Collins’ NIH discloses less.
Like Fauci’s claim to represent science, that insults Americans’ intelligence and should make them very angry—and inquisitive. Adam Andrezejewski of OpentheBooks is already there.
“Did Fauci’s early knowledge of the Covid-19 outbreak influence any of his financial trading?” he wonders. Anything in there about masks, test kits, vaccines, and such? And what, if anything, did Fauci make off the cytotoxic drug AZT? Did he tell the human subjects they were taking a DNA chain terminator?
Open the books. Open them wide. The people have a right to know.
Lying to congress is a crime punishable by imprisonment.
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
But statues of G. Washington, T. Jefferson, A. Lincoln, and T. Roosevelt can be toppled fro coast to coast with nary a whimper heard from "Justice and Race reporter" (LOL) Russell Contreras.
Former New Jersey Gov Chris Christie broke sharply with Donald Trump on Sunday as the dispute in the Republican Party continues over whether or not the party as a whole accepts Mr Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election.
Mr Christie spoke on ABC’s This Week, where he became the second former top ally of Mr Trump to refute his repeated, continued assertion that Mike Pence had the authority as vice president to refuse the certification of Electoral College ballots from states where the Trump campaign had baselessly alleged wide-scale fraud. The first to battle that view was Mr Pence himself, who spoke at a gathering of the Federalist Society last week.
“The actions the vice president took on January 6 spoke loudly, and I’m glad that he’s finally put words to it. I don’t know why it took him so long, but I’m glad that he did.”
“Let’s call this what it is: January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress” into overturning the 2020 election, Mr Christie continued.
Mr Christie concluded: He wanted the election to be overturned,” adding that Mr Trump’s actions were beneath the dignity of the White House.
Indeed. And when he does type his own comment, it's usually something short and childish like 'jimmy hitler' or his pleas that 'he's here to help coldheart.'
Like any sane person would accept help from a broken down alcoholic locked in a nursing home.
LOL.
The alky is the embodiment of how the left has failed American society.
Yet another picture of an unmasked Democrat surrounded by masked children. This is at a Decatur, Georgia elementary school, where they have a district-wide mask mandate. #gapol #UnmaskOurKids https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1489817068874747904
Former Vice President Mike Pence this week gave a more direct rebuke of former President Trump's election claims because Trump's assertion that Pence could have overturned the results "merited response," Pence's former chief of staff said Sunday.
Marc Short said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Pence had been "crystal clear from day one" that he lacked the authority to reject the election results on Jan. 6, 2021. While Pence has said as much over the past year, it wasn't until Friday that he explicitly said Trump was "wrong" to suggest otherwise.
"He extended those remarks a little bit his week ... primarily because the president's comments about the vice president had the ability to overturn the election I think merited response," Short said. "Of course there's nothing in the 12th Amendment or the Electoral Count Act that would afford a vice president that authority. It's why no vice president in 200 years has ever used that authority."
Short insisted there were legitimate concerns about the way the election was conducted in states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia, all of which President Biden won in 2020. But the former Trump administration official conceded the time for legal challenges had passed by Jan. 6, 2021, and Biden is the "duly elected" president.
Pence on Friday delivered his clearest rebuke to date of Trump's election rhetoric after the former president had suggested Pence could have overturned the 2020 election results, and later mused that a special House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riots should look into why Pence did not reject the votes that certified Biden as the winner.
"There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress, I possessed unilateral authority to reject Electoral College votes. And I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to ‘overturn the election,' " Pence said at a Federalist Society event in Florida.
""Over the past year, we've lived through some of our darkest days," Biden said in a fiery speech at a packed, mask-free Independence Day party at the White House on a balmy Sunday evening.
"Now I truly believe -- I give you my word as a Biden -- I truly believe we're about to see our brightest future," Biden said
A state-sponsored book burning in China 213 BC, is the first on record according to Matthew Fishburn, the author of Burning Books. The burning was put in place by Qin Shi Huang, the Chinese emperor who also started the Great Wall and the Terracotta army.
READ: Misinformation, Propaganda & Conspiracy Theories lead to tragic events in history
Book burning also brings back memories of Nazis in the days of the Holocaust.
On May 10, 1933, university students burn upwards of 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square. Some 40,000 people gather to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!”
What's next?
Many groups are against the banning of books. Students go to school boards and express how they feel.
Some school librarians fed up with book bans are organizing and fighting back.
The American Library Association is providing legal guidance and support to libraries impacted by the "dramatic uptick" of attempts to remove books concerning LGBTQ issues and people of color.
Two. you support censorship in our schools nationwide.
New rules are limiting how teachers can teach Black History Month
Russell Contreras
Sixteen Black children accompanied by four mothers carry anti-segregation signs in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1956. Photo: Bettmann Collection/Getty Images
Schools and universities are marking Black History Month starting today, but this is the first time it will be celebrated under new restrictions on diversity education imposed by some states.
Why it matters: The constraints — under the guise of banning the teaching of critical race theory — limit what some state-supported institutions can discuss about the nation's racial past. Educators embracing Black history have received death threats.
Details: Since last year, 14 states have imposed such restrictions through legislation, executive actions, or commission votes, an Education Week analysis found.
In addition, 35 states have introduced bills or taken other steps to restrict teaching critical race theory — a concept that focuses on the legacy of systemic racism — or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism.Elementary school teachers, administrators and college professors have faced fines, physical threats, and fear of firing because of this organized push from the right to remove classroom discussions of systemic racism.
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
After spending the last few years banning Dr. Seuss and literally burning copies of Harry Potter novels in bonfires, and denouncing classic children’s literature like Little House on the Prairie and Mary Poppins as racist, leftists are now accusing conservatives of “banning books”.
When a Minnesota school district removed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird from its curriculum because it made students "uncomfortable", the NAACP, which has been trying to ban Huck since at least the 50s, cheered. So did the media which celebrated the effort to remove "racist language" that “triggered students of color” from the classroom.
The removal of Mark Twain's authentically anti-racist masterpiece was carried out by anti-racists in school districts from Burbank, California to Lawrence, Kansas. In 2016, a Virginia school district, now at the center of media fear mongering about book bans after parents succeeded in reclaiming schools from CRT bosses, banned both books because of all the "racial slurs".
Now the censors want to reclaim the mantle of free speech. The media, which described school districts “removing” or “replacing” books on reading lists when leftists were doing it, now calls the removal of books, whether they’re racist critical race theory texts or Maus, as “bans”.
Much like erstwhile liberals went from celebrating Jefferson and Lincoln to toppling their statues, their educational counterparts who had once vocally championed Huck and Mockingbird, and shouted down any effort to keep them out of the classroom, now just as vocally want them out and replaced with the deranged hateful ravings of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi.
Yet instead of being honest about that (or anything else), they duck into a phone booth, doff their censor togs and dress up as free speech crusaders, and then rush back and throw off their free speech tights to go back to burning books. Even by the standards of a movement that is so pathologically Orwellian that it describes protests against vaccine mandates as “authoritarian”, this is a bit much. But the only books they believe should be in school are those whose politics they like, at any given moment, before deciding that they’re hate speech and purging them.
Removing books from a school curriculum isn’t a ban. If it is, then lefties have been banning books forever. It’s not just Huck Finn, there’s hardly a single classic book that hasn’t been denounced for thoughtcrimes. The Wind in the Willows? Rarcist. Narnia? Islamophobic. The Lord of the Rings? Also racist. Any book written by a white man? Systemically racist.
Recently, a university added a trigger warning to 1984 by George Orwell.
Even a sadder group than the trucker funnies......Lil Schitty running on empty again.....BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I guess someone is having trouble sleeping post such trash at 2:30 and 5 in the morning!!!!!!
Funny how I always post the cartoons at exactly 6:00 AM or 7:00 CST, huh?
Almost like I created the postes on Saturday and "scheduled" them to actually publish at those times? Idiot!
But this week's developments could provide Biden, stuck in the low 40s in the polls, an opportunity to begin shoring up some of his vulnerabilities nine months out from the midterm elections.
So he is going to get younger and smarter in the next few months?
HERE'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: RNC Endorses Political Violence February 6, 2022 at 12:42 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 60 Comments
Dan Pfeiffer: “It’s easy to gloss over what the Republicans do in a Trumpian fog of outrage. But we need to be crystal clear about the meaning of this resolution. One of America’s two political parties passed an official resolution declaring a violent insurrection that led to deaths, assaults on police officers, and calls for the murder of politicians to be ‘legitimate discourse.’”
“The RNC is legitimizing political violence. Pure and simple.”
THAT'S A STRONG STATEMENT. WILL HISTORY SEE IT THAT WAY?
Much of lefty politics is built on wearing liberal skins and echoing liberal ideas in between illiberal bouts of destroying everything they don’t approve of and demanding that everyone swear allegiance to their politics. Sometimes it fools the declining population of Boomer liberals.
Just ask Obama.
The very last people who should ever don the mantle of free speech are critical race theorists who believe that everything is racist and should be banned unless it was made by them. They are obsessed with “whiteness” in architecture, art, and literature the way the Nazis were obsessed with finding trace elements of Jewishness in Einstein’s theories and Strauss waltzes.
Banning books isn’t just something you do: it’s central to how you think of the world.
Parents trying to determine what books their children are exposed to aren’t trying to control the world, but critical race theory is concerned not with individuals, but all of society. Leftists believe that they should control not just what they read, but what everyone reads and believes.
This is the authoritarian totalitarian impulse that moves them to both ban and compel books.
Reading to them is not an individual choice, but a collective one. The mass production of books and the transformation of reading from a public activity to a private one made individualism possible. Even in totalitarian societies, people smuggled books and read them secretly. In those stolen hours, seeing words by candle light, they won the freedom of the soul.
Scott you are not anti semitic but you exhibit fascist behavior here every day.
But
History of Book Burning
A state-sponsored book burning in China 213 BC, is the first on record according to Matthew Fishburn, the author of Burning Books. The burning was put in place by Qin Shi Huang, the Chinese emperor who also started the Great Wall and the Terracotta army.
Misinformation, Propaganda & Conspiracy Theories lead to tragic events in history
Book burning also brings back memories of Nazis in the days of the Holocaust.
On May 10, 1933, university students burn upwards of 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square. Some 40,000 people gather to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!”
What's next?
Many groups are against the banning of books. Students go to school boards and express how they feel.
Some school librarians fed up with book bans are organizing and fighting back.
The American Library Association is providing legal guidance and support to libraries impacted by the "dramatic uptick" of attempts to remove books concerning LGBTQ issues and people of color.
Sixteen Black children accompanied by four mothers carry anti-segregation signs in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1956. Photo: Bettmann Collection/Getty Images
Schools and universities are marking Black History Month starting today, but this is the first time it will be celebrated under new restrictions on diversity education imposed by some states.
Why it matters: The constraints — under the guise of banning the teaching of critical race theory — limit what some state-supported institutions can discuss about the nation's racial past. Educators embracing Black history have received death threats.
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
Being married to an Asian American woman doesn't mean you are not a white supremacist asshole like rrb.
“The RNC is legitimizing political violence. Pure and simple.”
Really.
After watching the left spend an entire fucking year Burning, Looting, and Murdering their way across the nation in honor of a piece of shit violent felon and junkie with their "mostly peaceful protests" I'll reject this claim as pure bullshit while considering the source.
No one in my lifetime from the '60's to the present day has "legitimized violence" more than the left.
Two. you support censorship in our schools nationwide.
Teachers are supposed to "teach" their lesson plans, not engage in political rhetoric. It's not "censorship" to ask a math teacher to teach actual math, an english teacher to teach actual english, a history teacher to teach actual history, or a science teacher to teach actual science.
It is literally asking them to do what society pays them to do... because at the end of the day the Parent pay their salaries and elect their school boards. Parents are literally their bosses.
If your boss tells you that you cannot put up political propaganda around the office and engage in political discussions with people who are not interested... the boss is not censoring you. He is making sure you are doing your job rather than something completely irrelevant.
RNC Censures Gets Blowback on the Right February 6, 2022 at 12:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments
The National Review calls the RNC’s censure of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) “both morally repellent and politically self-destructive.”
MY GOODNESS. DISUNITY AND A CALL FOR GREATER DECENCY RISING UP WITH THE GOP EVEN GETTING HARSH CRITICISM FROM THE NATIONAL REVIEW!!!
But Biden was finally on the receiving end of some much-needed good news on several fronts this week. Consider:
1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the US economy had added 467,000 jobs in January, well above what had been forecast.
2) Covid-19 cases nationally are down 38% from last week, according to Johns Hopkins University, while hospitalizations are down 16%. (Deaths were 7% higher, but there are signs that number is plateauing.)
3) A successful US counterterrorism raid in Syria that was months in the making resulted in the death of a top ISIS leader.
4) And on top of all that, Biden kick-started the process of filling the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Plus, the week was marked by infighting for the President's opposition, with the Republican National Committee voting to censure two of the party's most outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump: Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The RNC also received swift blowback for referring to the events of January 6, 2021, as "legitimate political discourse." that is not going to help the Republicans except for his base. Most people are very disturbed about the Insurrection.
If he can motivate enough people outside Trump's base he might save the Senate majority.
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
Being married to an Asian American woman doesn't mean you are not a white supremacist asshole like rrb.
THAT'S A STRONG STATEMENT. WILL HISTORY SEE IT THAT WAY?
Pretty sure history will be just as apt to remember the billions in damages, dozens of lives lost, and hundred of people injured in the 2020 BLM riots as well as all of those politicians who supported that. Including the sitting Vice President who set up funding to bail out those violent rioters who were arrested for things like assaulting police officers.
Than a riot where people are being charged for "parading" and some people are questioning the hypocrisy... and where the total cost of damage was listed at 25 million, which 90% of that being accounted for by additional security measures taken after the fact.
It is literally asking them to do what society pays them to do... because at the end of the day the Parent pay their salaries and elect their school boards. Parents are literally their bosses.
Precisely. Leftists seem addicted to taxpayer funded jobs/careers, but will cry foul instantly if those picking up their tab demand transparency and a glimpse into how they're doing the jobs that the taxpayer pays them to do.
Fuck that.
If you are a public sector employee at any level, and this includes public school teachers, then you work for ME.
Several years ago the school district that I reside in placed a measure on the ballot seeking to use $150,000 to construct a new press box over the football field. The existing press box, while not pretty, was perfectly safe and structurally sound. The Superintendent of the school district made the claim that the request did not seek 'new' school tax $$$ to build the new press box because that $$$ had already been "saved."
The dumb fuck Superintendent who we pay in excess of $200K/year could not grasp the concept that the $$$ he was so proud to have "saved" originated with the fucking TAXPAYERS. He got upset when I pointed that out at the school board meeting leading up to the vote.
If these assholes don't want us to get pissed off at them to the point of protest, then they can start by not insulting our intelligence every fucking day.
Ch can't see the big difference between regrettable riotous behavior in numerous places and a President encouraging people and even his Vice President to overthrow a constitutionally legitimate election of the United States.
White supremacist Fascist like you are the biggest threat today.
These fascist red-hats feel their moment has come. They are as emboldened as ever. They might yet see Donald Trump back in office. That would further validate their mission to fight for “white survival.”
This is America’s new war on terror. In the past, it did not apply to white supremacists. Black and Brown countries abroad, rich with oil and resources? They apply. The price for such blindness is high.
Not only is white supremacy not being treated like the domestic terror threat, which is obvious, but it’s often rewarded or treated with kid gloves. Lives depend on the government getting a handle on this.
GOP Bills Would Allow Taxpayers to Sit In on Classes February 6, 2022 at 12:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 74 Comments
“Lawmakers in at least a dozen states are backing bills meant to increase transparency around school curricula, the next iteration of movements under way to bar teachers from promoting concepts perceived as divisive,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The bills, introduced by Republican legislators, would in some states allow taxpayers to sit in on classes or make staff professional development sessions open to members of the public.”
HOW DARE YOU HURT MY CHILD'S FEELINGS BY TEACHING THAT SLAVERY WAS A BAD THING AND IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR THE SOUTH UNILATERALLY TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I AM FILING A LAWSUIT!
Bonus Quote of the Day February 6, 2022 at 12:31 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments
“You’re gonna carry this thing eventually to your grave, because it is a mark of shame and you are a stone-cold coward.” — Steve Bannon, slamming Mike Pence on his podcast for not overturning the 2020 election.
NO. IN THE HISTORY BOOKS, PENCE WILL BE SEEN AS A PRINCIPLED PATRIOT WHO SIMPLY FOLLOWED THE CONSTITUTION BY RESISTING AN ATTEMPT AT INSURRECTION.
HOW DARE YOU HURT MY CHILD'S FEELINGS BY TEACHING THAT SLAVERY WAS A BAD THING AND IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR THE SOUTH UNILATERALLY TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I AM FILING A LAWSUIT!
Stick to copy and pasting pederast you don’t so well posting something you wrote
The above is abjectly stupid and is posted by a CHILDLESS fool
Ch can't see the big difference between regrettable riotous behavior in numerous places and a President encouraging people and even his Vice President to overthrow a constitutionally legitimate election of the United States.
Well opinions aside...
The sitting Vice President led the charge to raise funds to bail out violent rioters who then went right back out again and violently rioted again. Are you trying to argue that this is not "encouraging" that sort of rioting?
Certainly if it was "regrettable" as you suggest, then someone like Kamala Harris would not have been funding the bailouts. Calling it "regrettable" rather than what it was (cheered and encouraged by politicians on the left) is...
a flat out lie.
When your entire argument is built on a flat out lie, Reverend and you cannot (for whatever reasons) just argue facts and the truth. It's not a very good argument.
It might be what "YOU" believe... but that is the bubble you live in.
Leftist violence and destruction, no matter how deadly, is always excused and allowed.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I guess you fall for the fact it was communists menstruating women's group was a leftist plot because that is what Town Hall said!!!!!! And calling that group of psychotic cunts equivalent to January 6 trump supporters is most amusing and a reach!!! Sorry sport....your bullshit is just that.....bullshit!!!!
HOW DARE YOU HURT MY CHILD'S FEELINGS BY TEACHING THAT SLAVERY WAS A BAD THING AND IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR THE SOUTH UNILATERALLY TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I AM FILING A LAWSUIT!
Wow...
Sounds like you don't believe that Parents have the right to have a say in their own child's education? I think that was the main issue at hand in the Virginia Governor's election.
It's a loser for you Reverend.
I am guessing you don't have any children of your own. So why don't you leave the idea of raising and teaching of these children to those who have a little skin in the game.
At the end of the day...
If a teacher doesn't want parents in the classroom it is because they have something to hide, Reverend. As you always suggest, if there is nothing to hide then investigate, right? Let these parent sit in on these classes. Better yet, let's have cameras in every classroom where teaching can be reviewed. If we can make Cops wear body cameras or dash cameras we can do the same with teachers.
The reality is that Teachers would likely have to change the manner in which they teach if their true bosses (Parents) got to see them do their jobs.
What other career can you have where you can tell your boss that he has no right to watch you do your work?
But maybe rat is onto something in that the May 19th group was declared a terrorists group and most members were arrested for domestic crimes.. That sure adds some credibility to the oath keepers and other violent assholes as being an equivalent!!!!!! Good call rat....MAGA and its adherents are really domestic terrorists!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!L
February 6, 2022 at 12:42 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 142 Comments
Dan Pfeiffer: “It’s easy to gloss over what the Republicans do in a Trumpian fog of outrage. But we need to be crystal clear about the meaning of this resolution. One of America’s two political parties passed an official resolution declaring a violent insurrection that led to deaths, assaults on police officers, and calls for the murder of politicians to be ‘legitimate discourse.’”
“The RNC is legitimizing political violence. Pure and simple.”
Sounds like you don't believe that Parents have the right to have a say in their own child's education?
FUCK OFF ASSHOLE!!!!!! No one is claiming that but calling the tweets feeling being hurt is nothing but an excuse to burn books and ignore history.....dayum....we need some 1000 island dressing for that pile of bullshit!!!!
So what should we make of this? Should we welcome Pence to the resistance, or should we continue to hold him accountable for his years of slavish collaborationism? Or is it possible to do both?
If the point is keeping score, Pence’s latest gesture is obviously inadequate. But if the goal is actually turning the tide and saving democracy, maybe we should make some allowances.
Let’s admit it: this is not an easy call. But desperate times…
I’m conscious of the dangers of defining deviancy down and the risks of lowest-common denominator political standards. There’s a good reason we do not hand out gold stars for people who refuse to run down old ladies, rob banks, or engage in coups. So Pence’s decision to actually obey the Constitution hardly merits a red badge of courage, because it clears the lowest possible bar.
But look how far that bar has fallen.
In times of thorough depravity, even the smallest shoots of decency seem important. Sometimes clearing the lowest possible bar is all we can hope for.
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At best, Pence has opened only the most miniscule of cracks in the solid wall of Trumpist toadying. But those cracks may prove decisive as we confront the ongoing attempts to delegitimize and overturn our next presidential election. He may also have provided a permission structure for others to speak out.
That matters because, ultimately, it may turn out to be Republicans — even former Trump supporters — who will have to a make the final stand against the next coup.
Actually, thing in my life are wonderful, in a few days the goats start having kids. I will begin saving and hatching chicken eggs for meat birds and a few for layers. I have already started hundreds of flowers and veggies to sell and plant here on the home place. In April, around my wife's birthday the cows start dropping calves.
Roger, is in decline. He actual believes he is right now daring to stunningly beautiful babes, he is going to this year's Super Bowl, buying a $500,000 home at Lake Bonnie, Washington and buying a Audi A8.
If you're too fucking stupid to understand that Trump is OUT of power, and your team are the ones IN power, then assuming you could set yourself ablaze with something as basic as a fucking hot plate is a genuine concern.
The alky is quite literally calling for a hot civil war, without being able to grasp the basic premise that those he would wish to go to war with possess 500+ MILLION guns, and a TRILLION rounds of ammunition.
What's keeping him safe from his desired civil war are the very people he despises - conservatives.
And what will likely START his desired civil war will be a deranged leftist like Bernie Bro & Maddow fanboi James Hodgkinson.
These are the inconvenient truths the alky must avoid to get through each day.
If the textbooks are historically objective, the teachers will have nothing to fear from fair minded parents sitting in -- unless those parents are determined to interrupt with racistic propaganda from the Cult of Trump.
Yes, and DO let the sessions be recorded.That will better enable the courts to dismiss preposterously biased parental objections to any fair and balanced presentation of our nation's history, including the numerous mistakes that were made.
Blacks during and after slavery were treated horribly, as were Native Americans from the first. So were the Irish and other Catholics in earlier days, as well as many southern Europeans. So were the Japanese American citizens during WWII.
And the list goes on and on.
These unpleasant facts must not be swept under the rug.
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said... If the textbooks are historically objective, the teachers will have nothing to fear from fair minded parents sitting in -- unless those parents are determined to interrupt with racistic propaganda from the Cult of Trump.
IOW you’re saying your stupid post is incorrect, you fucking hack
HOW DARE YOU HURT MY CHILD'S FEELINGS BY TEACHING THAT SLAVERY WAS A BAD THING AND IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR THE SOUTH UNILATERALLY TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I AM FILING A LAWSUIT!
Those posts are completely opposite from each other
These unpleasant facts must not be swept under the rug.
We must learn from them.
Except for the statues of the founders, Lincoln, and other notable Americans like TR.
THEY must be admonished and destroyed, essentially sweeping them under the rug.
Lincoln especially, since he's the man who freed the slaves in opposition from the DEMOCRATS who wished to keep them in chains and on the plantation...
...just like TODAY.
I'm starting to think that a big part of the reason you clowns demand CRT be taught everywhere is because the actual, truthful history of that time is particularly unkind to DEMOCRATS and it exposes them as the racist shitstains that they are.
What a bunch of BS. Nobody but an extremist fringe element wishes to dishonor Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt. We on the left especially honor both of them. Lincoln for his lifelong aversion to slavery, Roosevelt for his progressive opposition to monopolies and his advocacy on behalf labor unions and for the middle classes.
The Sunday news shows, show that although he is still in charge for now.
Marc Short, a longtime Pence adviser, said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press": "From my front-row seat, I did not see a lot of legitimate political discourse."
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who also voted to convict Trump at his impeachment trial, tweeted: "We cannot deny the truth — to suggest it was 'legitimate political discourse' is just wrong."
And Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, tweeted: "What transpired" during the Capitol riot "was criminal, un-American, and cannot be considered legitimate protest."
McDaniel didn't speak in favor of the resolution as she presided over the vote. But she released a statement afterward saying "Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger crossed a line."
"They chose to join Nancy Pelosi in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with the violence at the Capitol," she said.
Trump was quick to gloat. In a statement Saturday, he commended McDaniel and the RNC "on their great ruling in censuring Liz Cheney and Cryin' Adam Kinzinger."
"The Republican Party would be far better off without them," Trump said.
Speaking to NBC News after the vote, Bossie argued that the resolution wasn't about Trump.
"It has nothing to do with anything but what Cheney and Kinzinger chose to do, which is to be Pelosi puppets," he said.
While party insiders might be at odds over Trump, the rank and file continue to support him.
Polling also finds Trump, fresh off announcing a $122 million war chest, as a clear favorite to win the 2024 nomination.
"I think what you're seeing right now is there is some frustration, but at the same time, I think there's a lot of people that are trying to unify the party," said Paul Farrow, the Wisconsin GOP chairman. "I think what you saw with the [censure] is we're letting those congressmen know they've got to be listening more than they're speaking. And that's what we're hoping happens."
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If the economy continues to grow, and between the fed increases and the supply chain gets better, inflation will start slowing down. And jobs catch up to pre pandemic numbers and the infrastructure jobs speed up job growth,...
Plus the January 6th investigation, may have bombshells!
And rrb nobody is going to remove TDR from Mount Rushmore.
VOX: The GOP’s January 6 lies have reached a fever pitch By Ellen Ioanes Feb 6, 2022, 5:40pm EST
On Friday, the Republican National Committee officially stated that the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, which left at least five dead and about 140 injured, was “legitimate political discourse.”
In a two-page censure resolution condemning Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their participation in the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack, the RNC wrote that “Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes.”
In a subsequent tweet, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel expanded on the language of the censure to clarify that it referred to “ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol.”
The original text of the resolution, however — which, the New York Times notes, was “carefully negotiated in private among party members” before publication — is a fitting cap to a week that saw the GOP, led by former President Donald Trump, draw closer than ever to explicitly supporting the attack on the Capitol and its goal of overturning the 2020 election.
In addition to the censure, Trump last Saturday told supporters at a rally in Conroe, Texas, that he would consider pardoning those charged in connection with the January 6 attack, and Politico reported on Wednesday that he also contemplated doing so before leaving office in January last year.
“If I run and if I win [in 2024], we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly,” Trump said at the rally, without addressing any specific concerns about the treatment of rioters. “And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Trump also said in a statement last week that former Vice President Mike Pence “could have overturned the Election!” — an assertion that, while incorrect, is among Trump’s most overt remarks about the intent behind January 6 and his actions leading up to it.
Trump has not yet announced an official run for the presidency in 2024, but signs point to a likely White House bid as he retains a tight grip on the GOP rank and file.
In the meantime, large swaths of the Republican party, still apparently in Trump’s thrall, have shifted their position on the Capitol insurrection, distancing themselves from the disturbing reality of those events and positioning the insurrectionists as innocent protesters, or even patriotic guardians of the Constitution.
That reversal — from horror at the falsehood-fueled spectacle that unfolded at the Capitol last January to condemnation of Republicans who defy Trump’s narrative — may have coalesced even more clearly over the past week and a half, but it’s been building almost since the attack, spearheaded by members of Congress like Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
While some establishment Republicans, including Sen. Mitt Romney, have spoken out against the censure and praised Cheney’s and Kinzinger’s moral compasses, and while others have expressed dismay at the idea of a future President Trump pardoning January 6 rioters, many have bought so wholeheartedly into Trump’s narrative that they attacked Pence for accurately disputing on Thursday Trump’s assertion that he could have overturned the results of the election.
Trump’s assertion that he wants fair treatment for the January 6 defendants may be superficially benign, but in reality, it’s just one front in the GOP attempt to mythologize the attack as less severe than it was.
Trump, along with members of Congress like Gaetz and Greene and would-be members like Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance, have made misleading statements about the slightly more than 700 people arrested for their roles in the attack, including describing them as “political prisoners” and claiming that they haven’t been charged with crimes (they have).
The subtext of Trump’s argument about fairness is particularly alarming, given the shocking violence directed against police defending the Capitol on January 6. By floating pardons should he regain office, Trump rewrites the limits of acceptable behavior for his supporters — and reinforces that those loyal to Trump are in the right and will be rewarded for their loyalty, while those who oppose his claims to power are not only wrong, but unprincipled.
“There is no room for dissenters from Donald Trump’s views in the Republican party,” Alex Keyssar, a professor of history and social policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, told Vox in a Sunday interview.
Gaetz and Greene — both ardent supporters of Trump — are leading proponents of the narrative that January 6 attendees are being mistreated (they’re not). Last summer, they, along with Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) visited a DC jail where some January 6 defendants were being held, demanding access as members of Congress and erroneously claiming they oversaw the budget for the jail, according to the Washington Post.
The group, joined by Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Bob Good (R-VA), also barged into the Justice Department this past summer, with Gosar calling January 6 defendants “political prisoners” and attempting to ask whether any of the defendants were being held in solitary confinement, the Washington Post’s Meagan Flynn reported at the time.
The January 6 defendants are facing a variety of charges, ranging from obstructing an official proceeding of the government to seditious conspiracy.
Some have already been convicted and sentenced; as of the one-year anniversary of the attack, the longest sentence was just over five years in prison.
As Keyssar told Politico in a 2021 retrospective in December, the insurrection of January 6 accelerated “the downward spiral of American political life” and set off an “intensified, rancorous struggle over the preservation of democratic values and institutions.”
Trump’s insistence on pursuing his self-serving narrative of victimhood — and pulling the Republican Party along with him — doesn’t just affect the GOP, as Keyssar points out; it ultimately affects the functioning of democracy and people’s ability to participate in it. “It’s not just a matter of telling different stories,” Keyssar told Vox on Sunday.
Specifically, he said, Trump’s rhetoric around the insurrection is “storytelling to justify a particular social order.” According to Keyssar, the narratives forming around the insurrection echo the end of the Reconstruction period in the South following the Civil War. The Reconstruction era gave Black Americans unprecedented rights, power, and political representation for a brief period, until the end of the 19th century; in the decades following Reconstruction, the prevailing narrative among white Southerners was that the Civil War was an attack on Southerners’ ways of life, and the Reconstruction period was the result of corrupt Northern “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” taking over the remains of that society.
At the time, Keyssar said, the white Southern narrative argued that the disenfranchisement of Black Southerners and reinforcement of white supremacy “had to be restored in order to have a ‘good society’ again.”
In the same vein now, Trump’s fiction — that he was the true winner of the 2020 election and widespread fraud robbed him of a second term in office; that members of his own party who don’t support his lies are unpatriotic; and that the people who protested and stormed the Capitol on January 6 aren’t criminals — aims to restore him to power.
Just because Trump’s talking points around the 2020 election and the Republican Party’s embrace of them aren’t exactly unprecedented, that doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous, Keyssar said.
The polarization of the two parties, and their dominance in state legislatures, has emboldened some places to propose laws targeting voter fraud — though there was no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election — which can have the real-world effect of making it more difficult for disenfranchised communities, including Black people and those in poverty, to vote.
Furthermore, Keyssar said, the constant effort to delegitimize the election does serve to negate the peaceful means of changing power, which could portend further violence in one form or another. “If you discredit the mechanism of elections,” he said, “then what are you left with? Force.”
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Biden is wrong.
""It's way past time we put an end to the era of shareholder capitalism".
Socialism is a failed system.
Even a sadder group than the trucker funnies......Lil Schitty running on empty again.....BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I guess someone is having trouble sleeping post such trash at 2:30 and 5 in the morning!!!!!!
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Biden is wrong.
""It's way past time we put an end to the era of shareholder capitalism".
Why does the goat fucker keep posting the same drivel over and over???? That is a sign of early onset senility. !!!!!!!
Diesel Fuel, the life blood of the US Farmers and Truckers.
$3.80 today
$2.68 a year ago
He has been mired at a record low level
But this week's developments could provide Biden, stuck in the low 40s in the polls, an opportunity to begin shoring up some of his vulnerabilities nine months out from the midterm elections.
Democrats have long said that first and foremost, the pandemic and the economy would need to be heading in the right direction for them to have any shot at holding the House and Senate this November. As CNN's Stephen Collinson wrote, the Syria raid gives Biden a possible counterargument to Republicans who have painted him as weak on foreign policy.
And the Supreme Court vacancy allows Biden a chance to rally disillusioned members of his base and fulfill a campaign promise to nominate a Black woman.
If Biden can point to a string of positive developments for his administration this week for the first time in a long while. But he will need, at the very least, many more weeks like this to reverse his political fortunes ahead of the midterms.
So the crazy Trumpets don't attempt to impeach President Biden and Kamala Harris, and make the Speaker of the House of Representatives Donald Trump the President of the United States of America.
Banana Republic
If Biden can point to a string of positive developments for his administration this week for the first time in a long while. But he will need, at the very least, many more weeks like this to reverse his political fortunes ahead of the midterms.
Oh look - salad for Sunday Brunch.
Yay.
But Biden was finally on the receiving end of some much-needed good news on several fronts this week. Consider:
1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the US economy had added 467,000 jobs in January, well above what had been forecast.
2) Covid-19 cases nationally are down 38% from last week, according to Johns Hopkins University, while hospitalizations are down 16%. (Deaths were 7% higher, but there are signs that number is plateauing.)
3) A successful US counterterrorism raid in Syria that was months in the making resulted in the death of a top ISIS leader.
4) And on top of all that, Biden kick-started the process of filling the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Plus, the week was marked by infighting for the President's opposition, with the Republican National Committee voting to censure two of the party's most outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump: Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The RNC also received swift blowback for referring to the events of January 6, 2021, as "legitimate political discourse." that is not going to help the Republicans except for his base. Most people are very disturbed about the Insurrection.
And the Supreme Court vacancy allows Biden a chance to rally disillusioned members of his base and fulfill a campaign promise to nominate a Black woman.
So his base is a bunch of mouth-breathing morons who can't see past identity politics.
Nice.
They're shallow AND stupid.
0linsky gives us a LatinX moron, and Slow Joe says "hold my beer."
1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the US economy had added 467,000 jobs in January, well above what had been forecast.
2) Covid-19 cases nationally are down 38% from last week, according to Johns Hopkins University, while hospitalizations are down 16%. (Deaths were 7% higher, but there are signs that number is plateauing.)
3) A successful US counterterrorism raid in Syria that was months in the making resulted in the death of a top ISIS leader.
4) And on top of all that, Biden kick-started the process of filling the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Plus, the week was marked by infighting for the President's opposition inside the Republican party!
1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the US economy had added 467,000 jobs in January, well above what had been forecast.
A massive fabrication otherwise known as a LIE.
2) Covid-19 cases nationally are down 38% from last week, according to Johns Hopkins University, while hospitalizations are down 16%. (Deaths were 7% higher, but there are signs that number is plateauing.)
The common cold tends to do that.
3) A successful US counterterrorism raid in Syria that was months in the making resulted in the death of a top ISIS leader.
He killed 10 women and children while the moose-limb scumbag blew HIMSELF up. Oh, and we lost a MILLION $$$ helicopter in the process. Yay.
4) And on top of all that, Biden kick-started the process of filling the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Yep. According to anonymous sources, Biden was heard yelling throughout the white house "BRING ME A BLACK VAGINA!!!"
...with the Republican National Committee voting to censure two of the party's most outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump: Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
Well after claiming their fealty to their Vodka and Botox Queen Peloshee, it's easy to understand that as a very normal reaction. If Liz and Adam had any real courage, they'd jump over to the democrat party where they obviously belong seeing as how their loyalties lie squarely in that camp.
This is why I am not an angry racist rodent bastard.
every single word is correct about that time in Rapid City! And don't forget the milk man!
I grew up in Rapid City South Dakota I was raised by middle income parents during a time when most everyone treated each other with respect. We didn't eat a lot of fast food because it was considered a treat, not a food group. We drank Kool-Aid made from water that came from our kitchen sink with real sugar. We ate bologna sandwiches, or even tuna (which was in a can not a pouch), PB&J & grilled cheese sandwiches, hot dogs, pot pies, but mostly homemade meals consisting of mainly dough, meat, potatoes, vegetable, bread & butter, and homemade dessert.
We grew up during a time when we mowed lawns, pulled weeds, babysat, helped neighbors with chores to be able to earn our own money. we went outside a lot to play games, ride bikes, red rover, dodge ball, run with siblings and friends & played hide and seek. We drank tap water from the hose outside... bottled water was unheard of. If we had a coke -it was in a glass bottle ... and we took the empties back to the store for a 5 cent deposit.
We watched TV shows like Bonanza, Leave It To Beaver, Gilligan's Island, Happy Days, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Little House On The Prairie, and I Love Lucy. After school, we came home and did homework and chores before going outside or having friends over. We would ride our bikes for hours. We had to tell our parents where we were going, who we were going with, and what time we'd be back.
You LEARNED from your parents instead of disrespecting them and treating them as if they knew absolutely nothing. What they said was LAW and you did not question it, and you had better know it!!!
When the sun was starting to set you had better be home. In school we listened to our teachers.
We watched what we said around our elders because we knew if we DISRESPECTED any grown-up we would get our behinds whipped, it wasn't called abuse, it was called discipline! We held doors, carried groceries and gave up our seat for an older person without being asked. You didn't hear curse words on the radio in songs or TV, and if you cursed and got caught you had a bar of soap stuck in your mouth and had to stand in the corner. “Please, Thank you, yes please no thank you were part of our daily vocabulary!
You grew up to respect the Nation. I watched it eliminate voter suppression based upon the color of their skin.
Former President Trump wants to reverse everything.
Alky, if you want to know what kind of shape your team is in for the upcoming mid-terms, look no father than the string of "victories" (LOL) you bitterly cling to in the hopes of emerging victorious.
It's laughable.
Your dear leader is a failure by every objective measure. And if your team thought they had a legitimate shot, upwards of 30 democrat parasites would NOT be retiring from congress.
Embrace the suck, alky.
Exactly correct.
"CommonsenseFebruary 6, 2022 at 8:04 AM
It's way past time we put an end to the era of shareholder capitalism".
Roger thinks pure capitalism is a touchy/feely farmers market type capitalism.
Without shareholder capitalism there would be no capitalism. Shareholder and financial markets are the soul of capitalism"
Roger declared the China Weaponized Fauci Funded Virus over.
Since then, 9,000 plus Americans have died.
Your two IQ's combined barely get to mine.
You are still the dumbest soars Yahoo!
Brandon stand for.
Broadband
Rail construction
Airport improvements
Non gas vehicles.
Develop mass transport
Overhaul roads and bridges
No lead in our water
You actually believe that Doctor Fauci is a mass murderer who is making millions.
IQ 84
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Your two IQ's combined barely get to mine.
Says the fool locked in a nursing home with an orderly to cut up his 'nannas' at 'Chez Tablecloth du Plastique.'
President Joe Biden’s disapproval rating rose six percentage points in one week alone as his approval continues to take a tumble, hitting its lowest point since taking office, a Reuters/Ipsos survey released this week discovered.
The survey found a majority of Americans, 56 percent, disapprove of Biden’s job performance. That reflects a six-point jump from the 50 percent who disapproved last week. What is more, his approval sank to 41 percent, which the survey identified as his “lowest rating for the Ipsos tracker since he was inaugurated.”
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/ipsos-core-political-presidential-approval-tracker-02032022
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/05/ipsos-joe-biden-disapproval-rises-6-points-one-week-lowest-approval-inauguration/
Slow Joe's response:
"Bring me a black vagina who can maintain the sovereignty of Ukraine's border and end shareholder capitalism!!!"
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Brandon stand for.
Broadband
Rail construction
Airport improvements
Non gas vehicles.
Develop mass transport
Overhaul roads and bridges
No lead in our water
LMAO.
Despite Buying $1.2 Billion In COVID Tests From Communist China, Biden Says We’re Only Buying American
https://youtu.be/PwZNgc5sdLU
The low IQ alky is so grossly uninformed.
"Dr. Anthony Fauci net worth $10.2 million"
Roger, after shelling out "$13,000 for two Super bowl tickets.
Have you secured transportation to the Big game?
Blogger Roger Amick said...
You actually believe that Doctor Fauci is a mass murderer who is making millions.
Alky, this is so simple even YOU can understand it.
If Fauci is tired of being compared to Dr. Josef Mengele, he needs to stop acting like Dr. Josef Mengele.
Imagine...
https://youtu.be/Cg1ISl2u5Lg
The whole story that fucking asshole rat failed to post about test kits....
Hemmer received the 15-minute at-home rapid antigen tests from iHealth Labs Inc. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, but the test is "Made in China," according to the label.
iHealth is a unit of the Chinese company Andon Health Co. Ltd., according to Reuters. It was awarded a $1.275 billion contract for COVID-19 rapid tests with the U.S. government on Jan. 13, according to the Defense.gov website.
The Biden administration said Tuesday not all the 500 million tests were made in China, but there are not enough American-made tests to meet the demand, so they sourced kits made "in other parts of the world."
One of the COVID-19 tests distributed as part of the Biden administration's effort to beef up at-home testing.
One of the COVID-19 tests distributed as part of the Biden administration's effort to beef up at-home testing. (Fox Digital)
"We are procuring as many US-made at-home tests as are available to purchase, while also purchasing additional, FDA authorized at-home tests that are made in other parts of the world," an administration official told Fox News Digital in a statement Tuesday. "Together this ensures that we are making available as many at-home tests for the American people as possible and importantly, we’re doing so in a way that ensures we are not interfering with other channels where people can ge
Again Biden keeping his promise of test kits for all is a bad thing to idiots from NY who can't see past their own nose!!!!
Another traitor according to rrb and Ch
HOMENEW: SHOP TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMWE HAVE ISSUESTRUMPU.S. NEWSVIDEOETHICS POLICYMY ACCOUNTLOGOUT
Pence aide destroys RNC talking points: There was no 'legitimate political discourse' on Jan. 6
David Edwards
February 06, 2022
Marc Short, an aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, disagreed with Republican talking points suggesting that the Jan. 6 Committee is targeting people for "legitimate political discourse."
"Did you see legitimate political discourse that day?" NBC host Chuck Todd asked Short during an interview on Sunday.
"From my front-row seat, I did not see a lot of legitimate political discourse," Short said. "But from talking to some members of the RNC, I think there is concern that there were people there that were peacefully protesting who have been pulled into this, where I think it's become more of prosecution of the Jan. 6 Committee and feel like they're being unfairly treated."
During an interview with The Washington Post last week, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel slammed the Jan. 6 Committee, calling it a "Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse."
Republican officials have offered little evidence that January 6 defendants are being prosecuted for their political views.
Short is reportedly cooperating with the Jan. 6 Committee after he was subpoenaed.
So getting rid of Nuclear plants is now biting them in their Socialist stupid asses.
"France Braces For Blackouts As Gas Stockpiles Dwindle
By ZeroHedge - Feb 06, 2022, 10:00 AM CST
The Brits aren't the only European nation to find itself on the verge of a full-blown energy crisis. On Thursday, French natural gas pipeline operator GRTgaz warned that French gas stockpiles are much lower at this point in the year than they have been during years past - and as a result, they run the risk of potentially being depleted before the winter is up."
The Drugfather
Like Sollozzo in “The Godfather,” Anthony Fauci’s business is drugs. The NIAID boss bags royalties from drug manufacturers but doesn’t tell the patients who participate in his risky drug trials.
By............... no name because the mobster would kill me
“My financial disclosure is public knowledge and has been so for the last 37 years or so the last 35 years. All you have to do is ask for it. You’re so misinformed, all you have to do is ask for it.”
That was Dr. Anthony Fauci last month, in response to Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a medical doctor. As Adam Andrezejewski of OpentheBooks.com learned, the “public knowledge” part is a stretch.
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Fauci’s 2021 salary, and what he earned in royalties, had not been made public. As many as 1,000 National Institutes of Health scientists receive royalties, and each payment is “a potential conflict of interest.” So it was of some concern that “NIH admits it holds approximately 1,200 pages relating to Fauci’s financial information and conflict of interest disclosures.”
As it turns out, this sort of secrecy is standard practice.
According to a 2005 British Medical Journal report now posted on an NIH website, patients who took part in NIH clinical trials “had no idea that scientists at the institutes received $8.9m (£4.8m; €6.8m) in royalty payments and might benefit financially for the use of their discoveries by pharmaceutical companies and device makers.”
Millions of American dollars.
You people actually believe that.
“My financial disclosure is public knowledge and has been so for the last 37 years or so the last 35 years. All you have to do is ask for it. You’re so misinformed, all you have to do is ask for it.”
A LIE. Those who sought it out had to dig and dig DEEP to find it.
Fauci’s 2021 salary, and what he earned in royalties, had not been made public.
Fact check: Partially true. We know his salary. His royalties? Not.
But providing protection against liability and a 50+ FOIA block for the vaccine makers was done for a reason.
Phony Fauci is yet another creature of the DC swamp who made MILLION$ as a "public servant." LOL.
Republican officials have offered little evidence that January 6 defendants are being prosecuted for their political views.
If a 4 year sentence for "parading" is not evidence I don't know what is.
The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, but the test is "Made in China," according to the label.
LOL @ the BWAA.
Great catch asshole.....never disputed the source you dumb fuck.....but once again your lack of intellect and the ability to read misses the point....Needed world sources to keep the commitment of a test for everyone!!!!!!! If brains were TNT.....you couldn't blow a wet fart!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
ASSHOLE!!!!
Keep digging BWAA...
iHealth is a unit of the Chinese company Andon Health Co. Ltd.,according to Reuters. It was awarded a $1.275 billion contract for COVID-19 rapid tests with the U.S. government on Jan. 13, according to the Defense.gov website.
STILL LOL @ the BWAA.
Hey BWAA, when the 5th Beatle takes the big dirt nap, the alky will be seeking a room mate. Get your application in early to beat the rush.
LOL.
The "big guy" is protecting his 10%:
President Joe Biden extended the Trump-era tariffs on solar-energy imports by four years Friday but dealt a blow to U.S. solar manufacturers by leaving in place an exemption that has allowed imports of panel technologies subsidized by China to flood the market.
The decision is a boon for renewable energy developers who will retain access to cheap overseas supplies, specifically the two-sided solar panels used by most large-scale solar projects, helping meet the administration's climate targets. For U.S. solar manufacturers and union labor, who favored restrictions to safeguard American jobs, the move is a disappointment.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-picks-climate-agenda-over-manufacturing-allies-on-solar-tariff-loophole?
First you actually believe that there is a deep state conspiracy organization that censored the news about Doctor Fauci.
As usual alky, you left out some of the best parts -
Fauci and Lane were “collecting royalties on an AIDS treatment they’re testing on patients using taxpayer money.” Both doctors “acknowledged they were unwilling to tell interleukin-2 patients about the royalties on consent forms until NIH developed its policy.” That policy had been in place since May of 2000 but not followed, so “hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients in NIH experiments made decisions to participate in experiments that often carry risks without full knowledge about the researchers’ financial interests.”
The NIH did not implement the disclosure policy until 2009, “almost five years after HHS officials pledged to disclose such arrangements to patients.” So Fauci was indeed on the gravy train, and the NIAID-NIH bosses weren’t exactly up front about it. Taxpayers and unwitting participants in medical trials might dial back to Fauci’s first “treatment” for AIDS.
Fauci promoted trials of AZT (azidothymidine), marketed as Zidovudine. This DNA chain terminator was rejected for cancer treatment because of cytotoxicity, lethality to cells. In 1987, the FDA approved AZT at lightning speed, which disturbed molecular biologist Dr. Harvey Bialy, scientific editor of Biotechnology.
“I can’t see how this drug could be doing anything other than making people very sick,” said Dr. Bialy. On the contrary—AZT was making some people very rich. After FDA approval, Burroughs Wellcome stock went through the roof. At a price of $8,000 per patient per year, AZT was the most expensive drug ever marketed.
In her 1995 book, The Search for an AIDS Vaccine, Fauci’s wife Christine Grady said children and pregnant women were suitable subjects for drug trials and touted “the availability and effectiveness of AZT,” as a boon to research. As the couple had to know, it was anything but.
In 2012, the NIH named Christine Grady, a specialist in recruitment of human subjects, chief of the NIH bioethics department. Grady hasn’t disclosed whether the human subjects would have held back from drug trials if they knew the NIAID boss, her husband, got a piece of the action. The NIH inspector general explored that theme in a 2019 report revealingly titled “NIH Has Made Strides in Reviewing Financial Conflicts of Interest in Extramural Research, But Could Do More.”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/05/the-drugfather/
We need a modern day Nuremburg Trial to deal with Fauci and ALL of his cohorts.
Upon conviction hang them from the neck until dead on a gallows on the National Mall.
And let their bodies rot in the sun on public display.
Two. you support censorship in our schools nationwide.
New rules are limiting how teachers can teach Black History Month
Russell Contreras
Sixteen Black children accompanied by four mothers carry anti-segregation signs in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1956. Photo: Bettmann Collection/Getty Images
Schools and universities are marking Black History Month starting today, but this is the first time it will be celebrated under new restrictions on diversity education imposed by some states.
Why it matters: The constraints — under the guise of banning the teaching of critical race theory — limit what some state-supported institutions can discuss about the nation's racial past. Educators embracing Black history have received death threats.
Details: Since last year, 14 states have imposed such restrictions through legislation, executive actions, or commission votes, an Education Week analysis found.
In addition, 35 states have introduced bills or taken other steps to restrict teaching critical race theory — a concept that focuses on the legacy of systemic racism — or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism.Elementary school teachers, administrators and college professors have faced fines, physical threats, and fear of firing because of this organized push from the right to remove classroom discussions of systemic racism.
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
Those limits would allow teachers to mention that Brooklyn Dodgers infielder Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color line but not allow them to discuss why Black players were banned before him, Sharif El-Mekki, founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, said.Teachers may also introduce Malcolm X but not read his speeches, mention soul singer Marvin Gaye but not discuss his "What's Going On" lyrics, or point out Rosewood, Florida, or Tulsa, Oklahoma, on maps but not talk about the racial atrocities that occurred there.
In many cases, the toughest crackdowns could prevent students from learning about history that happened in their own backyards.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem recently introduced a bill to prohibit colleges and schools from teaching certain lessons on racial atrocities. The state is the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre of Lakota people by the U.S. Army.State legislators in Alabama, where John Lewis was beaten by police during a 1965 voting rights march, are expected soon to take up a bill that would prevent colleges from teaching critical race theory.Lawmakers in Mississippi and Florida are considering bills that would ban history lessons that make students feel uncomfortable about their race.
What they're saying: "These laws supposedly protecting white students from guilt say more about the authors of the law than the students," Manisha Sinha, a University of Connecticut historian and author of "The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition," told Axios.
"There's no reason why a white student can't identify with the abolitionist or the civil rights leader rather than a slaveholder."
Tracey Lynn Nance, a 4th-grade teacher in Decatur, Georgia, told Axi0s she estimates that half of the teachers she knows will continue Black History Month lessons as planned while the other half is distraught.
"I think that many are self-censoring right now. (Many) are feeling angry about thinking that someone is out to get them or they're going to twist their comments."Nance, who has faced a backlash online for defending diversity and equity in education, says she plans to continue her lessons on Coretta Scott King and Black poets during Black History Month.
The other side: James Henderson, an Alabama conservative activist, dismissed complaints that anti-critical race theory laws that he supports would prevent students from learning Black history or Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The teaching of morality is a good thing in public education. And unfortunately, we've largely gotten away from it," Henderson said, referring to King's teachings about being a good moral citizen.
Zoom out: New teaching on race has been criticized by the right and even some on the left. David Bromwich, an English professor at Yale, wrote in The Nation: "The new methods are marked by a certain severity, a pressure to cleanse or catechize."
Yes, but: Even before Black History Month began, the attacks on critical race theory, driven disproportionately by white, suburban and rural parents, had led to book bans and school districts re-examining diversity lessons.
Moms for Liberty in Tennessee, for example, filed a complaint last year asking the state to review certain children's books about King and civil rights advocate Ruby Bridges. The state rejected it.“Dear Martin,” a young adult novel about a Black high-schooler writing letters to King, was removed last month from a North Carolina high school following complaints from parents about the book's expletives.
Flashback: Historian Carter G. Woodson is credited for inspiring Black History Month after he organized the first Negro History Week in February 1926.
In 1976, on the 50th anniversary of the first Negro History Week, the Association for the Study of African American History officially made the shift to Black History Month.President Gerald Ford issued a declaration that year celebrating the month — and every president since has followed.
The bottom line: El-Mekki said he's encouraging teachers to use primary sources in lessons like the racist speeches and essays of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis or Thomas Jefferson. "Teachers can they say...'I didn't say this. They said this.' That's history."
Stalin is laughing from hell.
The NIH, which “could do more” to disclose financial conflicts of interest, redacted Fauci’s 2019 disclosure, which had to be obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The NIH director at that time was Francis Collins, who also lied about funding gain-of-function research, and called on Fauci for a “quick, decisive takedown” of the scientists of the Great Barrington Declaration, respected epidemiologists from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford universities. So when it came to Tony Fauci, Collins’ NIH discloses less.
Like Fauci’s claim to represent science, that insults Americans’ intelligence and should make them very angry—and inquisitive. Adam Andrezejewski of OpentheBooks is already there.
“Did Fauci’s early knowledge of the Covid-19 outbreak influence any of his financial trading?” he wonders. Anything in there about masks, test kits, vaccines, and such? And what, if anything, did Fauci make off the cytotoxic drug AZT? Did he tell the human subjects they were taking a DNA chain terminator?
Open the books. Open them wide. The people have a right to know.
Lying to congress is a crime punishable by imprisonment.
Unless you're Dr. Fauci.
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
But statues of G. Washington, T. Jefferson, A. Lincoln, and T. Roosevelt can be toppled fro coast to coast with nary a whimper heard from "Justice and Race reporter" (LOL) Russell Contreras.
Curious, that.
Another real Republican.
Former New Jersey Gov Chris Christie broke sharply with Donald Trump on Sunday as the dispute in the Republican Party continues over whether or not the party as a whole accepts Mr Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election.
Mr Christie spoke on ABC’s This Week, where he became the second former top ally of Mr Trump to refute his repeated, continued assertion that Mike Pence had the authority as vice president to refuse the certification of Electoral College ballots from states where the Trump campaign had baselessly alleged wide-scale fraud. The first to battle that view was Mr Pence himself, who spoke at a gathering of the Federalist Society last week.
“The actions the vice president took on January 6 spoke loudly, and I’m glad that he’s finally put words to it. I don’t know why it took him so long, but I’m glad that he did.”
“Let’s call this what it is: January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress” into overturning the 2020 election, Mr Christie continued.
Mr Christie concluded: He wanted the election to be overturned,” adding that Mr Trump’s actions were beneath the dignity of the White House.
Well, Roger is in full Spam mode.
No need to interupt.
He can't actually debate so he spams.
Any asshole that a leftist refers to as a "real republican" is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
I'm sure that Christie's nutsack looks just stunning nestled on Liz Cheney's chin.
"Real republican" indeed. Taking marching orders from denture sucking cunt Queen Peloshee.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Well, Roger is in full Spam mode.
No need to interupt.
He can't actually debate so he spams.
Indeed. And when he does type his own comment, it's usually something short and childish like 'jimmy hitler' or his pleas that 'he's here to help coldheart.'
Like any sane person would accept help from a broken down alcoholic locked in a nursing home.
LOL.
The alky is the embodiment of how the left has failed American society.
Yet another picture of an unmasked Democrat surrounded by masked children. This is at a Decatur, Georgia elementary school, where they have a district-wide mask mandate. #gapol #UnmaskOurKids https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1489817068874747904
https://twitter.com/KelleyKga/status/1490074005541466113?cxt=HHwWgsC91bma560pAAAA
Stacy 'Tank' Abrams for the USSC.
Black: Check
Vagina: Probably
Imbecile: Check
There it is.
Problem solved.
Nice chicken and waffle place in Decatur
I’m betting tank was all over it
Even more Republicans have found their souls.
BY BRETT SAMUELS23TWEET SHARE MORE
Former Vice President Mike Pence this week gave a more direct rebuke of former President Trump's election claims because Trump's assertion that Pence could have overturned the results "merited response," Pence's former chief of staff said Sunday.
Marc Short said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Pence had been "crystal clear from day one" that he lacked the authority to reject the election results on Jan. 6, 2021. While Pence has said as much over the past year, it wasn't until Friday that he explicitly said Trump was "wrong" to suggest otherwise.
"He extended those remarks a little bit his week ... primarily because the president's comments about the vice president had the ability to overturn the election I think merited response," Short said. "Of course there's nothing in the 12th Amendment or the Electoral Count Act that would afford a vice president that authority. It's why no vice president in 200 years has ever used that authority."
Short insisted there were legitimate concerns about the way the election was conducted in states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia, all of which President Biden won in 2020. But the former Trump administration official conceded the time for legal challenges had passed by Jan. 6, 2021, and Biden is the "duly elected" president.
Pence on Friday delivered his clearest rebuke to date of Trump's election rhetoric after the former president had suggested Pence could have overturned the 2020 election results, and later mused that a special House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riots should look into why Pence did not reject the votes that certified Biden as the winner.
"There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress, I possessed unilateral authority to reject Electoral College votes. And I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to ‘overturn the election,' " Pence said at a Federalist Society event in Florida.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Even more Republicans have found their souls.
'Found', alky?
Nope.
The word you're looking for is "SOLD"
The three socialist here have to deflect.
Bidenomics has failed America.
Gas/Diesel fuel continue a steady march higher , until Biden understands the carnage upon America , inflation will continue to go up.
As Trump said, everything 'woke' turns to shit...
Science needs affirmative action
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo3934
Roger posted that Biden should claim victory over the China Weaponized Fauc i Funded Virus.
But, what alky forgot, Biden already took a glee filled victory lap in July 2021.
Bidenomics has failed America.
Wages up 5.7%
Inflation at 7.0%
What's 7.0 - 5.7 alky?
July 4th, 2021 ass��
""Over the past year, we've lived through some of our darkest days," Biden said in a fiery speech at a packed, mask-free Independence Day party at the White House on a balmy Sunday evening.
"Now I truly believe -- I give you my word as a Biden -- I truly believe we're about to see our brightest future," Biden said
Then reality cornholed him.
Nov. 9th, "Dark Winter" over took Brandon.
History of Book Burning
A state-sponsored book burning in China 213 BC, is the first on record according to Matthew Fishburn, the author of Burning Books. The burning was put in place by Qin Shi Huang, the Chinese emperor who also started the Great Wall and the Terracotta army.
READ: Misinformation, Propaganda & Conspiracy Theories lead to tragic events in history
Book burning also brings back memories of Nazis in the days of the Holocaust.
On May 10, 1933, university students burn upwards of 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square. Some 40,000 people gather to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!”
What's next?
Many groups are against the banning of books. Students go to school boards and express how they feel.
Some school librarians fed up with book bans are organizing and fighting back.
The American Library Association is providing legal guidance and support to libraries impacted by the "dramatic uptick" of attempts to remove books concerning LGBTQ issues and people of color.
Two. you support censorship in our schools nationwide.
New rules are limiting how teachers can teach Black History Month
Russell Contreras
Sixteen Black children accompanied by four mothers carry anti-segregation signs in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1956. Photo: Bettmann Collection/Getty Images
Schools and universities are marking Black History Month starting today, but this is the first time it will be celebrated under new restrictions on diversity education imposed by some states.
Why it matters: The constraints — under the guise of banning the teaching of critical race theory — limit what some state-supported institutions can discuss about the nation's racial past. Educators embracing Black history have received death threats.
Details: Since last year, 14 states have imposed such restrictions through legislation, executive actions, or commission votes, an Education Week analysis found.
In addition, 35 states have introduced bills or taken other steps to restrict teaching critical race theory — a concept that focuses on the legacy of systemic racism — or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism.Elementary school teachers, administrators and college professors have faced fines, physical threats, and fear of firing because of this organized push from the right to remove classroom discussions of systemic racism.
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
I give you my word as a Biden
The shit I took this morning has more value than this.
RRB challenges Alky.
"What's 7.0 - 5.7 alky?"
After spending the last few years banning Dr. Seuss and literally burning copies of Harry Potter novels in bonfires, and denouncing classic children’s literature like Little House on the Prairie and Mary Poppins as racist, leftists are now accusing conservatives of “banning books”.
When a Minnesota school district removed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird from its curriculum because it made students "uncomfortable", the NAACP, which has been trying to ban Huck since at least the 50s, cheered. So did the media which celebrated the effort to remove "racist language" that “triggered students of color” from the classroom.
The removal of Mark Twain's authentically anti-racist masterpiece was carried out by anti-racists in school districts from Burbank, California to Lawrence, Kansas. In 2016, a Virginia school district, now at the center of media fear mongering about book bans after parents succeeded in reclaiming schools from CRT bosses, banned both books because of all the "racial slurs".
Now the censors want to reclaim the mantle of free speech. The media, which described school districts “removing” or “replacing” books on reading lists when leftists were doing it, now calls the removal of books, whether they’re racist critical race theory texts or Maus, as “bans”.
Much like erstwhile liberals went from celebrating Jefferson and Lincoln to toppling their statues, their educational counterparts who had once vocally championed Huck and Mockingbird, and shouted down any effort to keep them out of the classroom, now just as vocally want them out and replaced with the deranged hateful ravings of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi.
Yet instead of being honest about that (or anything else), they duck into a phone booth, doff their censor togs and dress up as free speech crusaders, and then rush back and throw off their free speech tights to go back to burning books. Even by the standards of a movement that is so pathologically Orwellian that it describes protests against vaccine mandates as “authoritarian”, this is a bit much. But the only books they believe should be in school are those whose politics they like, at any given moment, before deciding that they’re hate speech and purging them.
Removing books from a school curriculum isn’t a ban. If it is, then lefties have been banning books forever. It’s not just Huck Finn, there’s hardly a single classic book that hasn’t been denounced for thoughtcrimes. The Wind in the Willows? Rarcist. Narnia? Islamophobic. The Lord of the Rings? Also racist. Any book written by a white man? Systemically racist.
Recently, a university added a trigger warning to 1984 by George Orwell.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/02/only-ones-banning-books-are-critical-race-daniel-greenfield/
Even a sadder group than the trucker funnies......Lil Schitty running on empty again.....BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I guess someone is having trouble sleeping post such trash at 2:30 and 5 in the morning!!!!!!
Funny how I always post the cartoons at exactly 6:00 AM or 7:00 CST, huh?
Almost like I created the postes on Saturday and "scheduled" them to actually publish at those times? Idiot!
But this week's developments could provide Biden, stuck in the low 40s in the polls, an opportunity to begin shoring up some of his vulnerabilities nine months out from the midterm elections.
So he is going to get younger and smarter in the next few months?
HERE'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
RNC Endorses Political Violence
February 6, 2022 at 12:42 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 60 Comments
Dan Pfeiffer:
“It’s easy to gloss over what the Republicans do in a Trumpian fog of outrage. But we need to be crystal clear about the meaning of this resolution. One of America’s two political parties passed an official resolution declaring a violent insurrection that led to deaths, assaults on police officers, and calls for the murder of politicians to be ‘legitimate discourse.’”
“The RNC is legitimizing political violence. Pure and simple.”
THAT'S A STRONG STATEMENT. WILL HISTORY SEE IT THAT WAY?
Much of lefty politics is built on wearing liberal skins and echoing liberal ideas in between illiberal bouts of destroying everything they don’t approve of and demanding that everyone swear allegiance to their politics. Sometimes it fools the declining population of Boomer liberals.
Just ask Obama.
The very last people who should ever don the mantle of free speech are critical race theorists who believe that everything is racist and should be banned unless it was made by them. They are obsessed with “whiteness” in architecture, art, and literature the way the Nazis were obsessed with finding trace elements of Jewishness in Einstein’s theories and Strauss waltzes.
Banning books isn’t just something you do: it’s central to how you think of the world.
Parents trying to determine what books their children are exposed to aren’t trying to control the world, but critical race theory is concerned not with individuals, but all of society. Leftists believe that they should control not just what they read, but what everyone reads and believes.
This is the authoritarian totalitarian impulse that moves them to both ban and compel books.
Reading to them is not an individual choice, but a collective one. The mass production of books and the transformation of reading from a public activity to a private one made individualism possible. Even in totalitarian societies, people smuggled books and read them secretly. In those stolen hours, seeing words by candle light, they won the freedom of the soul.
Oh looking it is butthurt Little cowardly James.
I was looking for any post of yours that works for God, none ever found.
Found a lot of cursing .
Scott you are not anti semitic but you exhibit fascist behavior here every day.
But
History of Book Burning
A state-sponsored book burning in China 213 BC, is the first on record according to Matthew Fishburn, the author of Burning Books. The burning was put in place by Qin Shi Huang, the Chinese emperor who also started the Great Wall and the Terracotta army.
Misinformation, Propaganda & Conspiracy Theories lead to tragic events in history
Book burning also brings back memories of Nazis in the days of the Holocaust.
On May 10, 1933, university students burn upwards of 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square. Some 40,000 people gather to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!”
What's next?
Many groups are against the banning of books. Students go to school boards and express how they feel.
Some school librarians fed up with book bans are organizing and fighting back.
The American Library Association is providing legal guidance and support to libraries impacted by the "dramatic uptick" of attempts to remove books concerning LGBTQ issues and people of color.
Sixteen Black children accompanied by four mothers carry anti-segregation signs in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1956. Photo: Bettmann Collection/Getty Images
Schools and universities are marking Black History Month starting today, but this is the first time it will be celebrated under new restrictions on diversity education imposed by some states.
Why it matters: The constraints — under the guise of banning the teaching of critical race theory — limit what some state-supported institutions can discuss about the nation's racial past. Educators embracing Black history have received death threats.
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
Being married to an Asian American woman doesn't mean you are not a white supremacist asshole like rrb.
“The RNC is legitimizing political violence. Pure and simple.”
Really.
After watching the left spend an entire fucking year Burning, Looting, and Murdering their way across the nation in honor of a piece of shit violent felon and junkie with their "mostly peaceful protests" I'll reject this claim as pure bullshit while considering the source.
No one in my lifetime from the '60's to the present day has "legitimized violence" more than the left.
NO ONE.
Two. you support censorship in our schools nationwide.
Teachers are supposed to "teach" their lesson plans, not engage in political rhetoric. It's not "censorship" to ask a math teacher to teach actual math, an english teacher to teach actual english, a history teacher to teach actual history, or a science teacher to teach actual science.
It is literally asking them to do what society pays them to do... because at the end of the day the Parent pay their salaries and elect their school boards. Parents are literally their bosses.
If your boss tells you that you cannot put up political propaganda around the office and engage in political discussions with people who are not interested... the boss is not censoring you. He is making sure you are doing your job rather than something completely irrelevant.
Wages up 5.7%
Inflation at 7.0%
What's 7.0 - 5.7 alky?
No fair, Rat.
You are asking a liberal to do math!
RNC Censures Gets Blowback on the Right
February 6, 2022 at 12:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments
The National Review calls the RNC’s censure of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) “both morally repellent and politically self-destructive.”
MY GOODNESS. DISUNITY AND A CALL FOR GREATER DECENCY RISING UP WITH THE GOP EVEN GETTING HARSH CRITICISM FROM THE NATIONAL REVIEW!!!
Jeezus Alky why post the same shit repeatedly?
GO OUTSIDE YOU PATHETIC SOT
If he continues his recent path???????
He is smarter you think.
But Biden was finally on the receiving end of some much-needed good news on several fronts this week. Consider:
1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the US economy had added 467,000 jobs in January, well above what had been forecast.
2) Covid-19 cases nationally are down 38% from last week, according to Johns Hopkins University, while hospitalizations are down 16%. (Deaths were 7% higher, but there are signs that number is plateauing.)
3) A successful US counterterrorism raid in Syria that was months in the making resulted in the death of a top ISIS leader.
4) And on top of all that, Biden kick-started the process of filling the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Plus, the week was marked by infighting for the President's opposition, with the Republican National Committee voting to censure two of the party's most outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump: Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The RNC also received swift blowback for referring to the events of January 6, 2021, as "legitimate political discourse." that is not going to help the Republicans except for his base. Most people are very disturbed about the Insurrection.
If he can motivate enough people outside Trump's base he might save the Senate majority.
The house????
YOU CAN TELL CH IS GETTING DESPERATE WHEN HE THINKS HE HAS TO PUT UP SO MANY "SUNDAY FUNNIES."
Between the lines: Broadly written laws and proposals allow state officials to punish schools and educators for discussing racism and the history of people of color, critics say.
Being married to an Asian American woman doesn't mean you are not a white supremacist asshole like rrb.
FACT ✔ true
"
C.H. TruthFebruary 6, 2022 at 12:29 PM
Wages up 5.7%
Inflation at 7.0%
What's 7.0 - 5.7 alky?
No fair, Rat.
You are asking a liberal to do math"
THAT'S A STRONG STATEMENT. WILL HISTORY SEE IT THAT WAY?
Pretty sure history will be just as apt to remember the billions in damages, dozens of lives lost, and hundred of people injured in the 2020 BLM riots as well as all of those politicians who supported that. Including the sitting Vice President who set up funding to bail out those violent rioters who were arrested for things like assaulting police officers.
Than a riot where people are being charged for "parading" and some people are questioning the hypocrisy... and where the total cost of damage was listed at 25 million, which 90% of that being accounted for by additional security measures taken after the fact.
Rhetoric can only get you so far Reverend.
Then all you are left with are the facts.
Yep, most Americans sure don't think the Capitol riot was "legitimate political discourse."
Nor was the seditious Civil War.
It is literally asking them to do what society pays them to do... because at the end of the day the Parent pay their salaries and elect their school boards. Parents are literally their bosses.
Precisely. Leftists seem addicted to taxpayer funded jobs/careers, but will cry foul instantly if those picking up their tab demand transparency and a glimpse into how they're doing the jobs that the taxpayer pays them to do.
Fuck that.
If you are a public sector employee at any level, and this includes public school teachers, then you work for ME.
Several years ago the school district that I reside in placed a measure on the ballot seeking to use $150,000 to construct a new press box over the football field. The existing press box, while not pretty, was perfectly safe and structurally sound. The Superintendent of the school district made the claim that the request did not seek 'new' school tax $$$ to build the new press box because that $$$ had already been "saved."
The dumb fuck Superintendent who we pay in excess of $200K/year could not grasp the concept that the $$$ he was so proud to have "saved" originated with the fucking TAXPAYERS. He got upset when I pointed that out at the school board meeting leading up to the vote.
If these assholes don't want us to get pissed off at them to the point of protest, then they can start by not insulting our intelligence every fucking day.
Ch can't see the big difference between regrettable riotous behavior in numerous places and a President encouraging people and even his Vice President to overthrow a constitutionally legitimate election of the United States.
History will see the difference.
Forever.
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
Yep, most Americans sure don't think the Capitol riot was "legitimate political discourse."
If only they had detonated a couple of massive bombs in the Senate Chamber vestibule, eh pederast?
Leftist violence and destruction, no matter how deadly, is always excused and allowed.
And not only excused and allowed, but ENCOURAGED.
White supremacist Fascist like you are the biggest threat today.
These fascist red-hats feel their moment has come. They are as emboldened as ever. They might yet see Donald Trump back in office. That would further validate their mission to fight for “white survival.”
This is America’s new war on terror. In the past, it did not apply to white supremacists. Black and Brown countries abroad, rich with oil and resources? They apply. The price for such blindness is high.
Not only is white supremacy not being treated like the domestic terror threat, which is obvious, but it’s often rewarded or treated with kid gloves. Lives depend on the government getting a handle on this.
Decent people must demand it.
GOP Bills Would Allow Taxpayers to Sit In on Classes
February 6, 2022 at 12:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 74 Comments
“Lawmakers in at least a dozen states are backing bills meant to increase transparency around school curricula, the next iteration of movements under way to bar teachers from promoting concepts perceived as divisive,”
the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The bills, introduced by Republican legislators, would in some states allow taxpayers to sit in on classes or make staff professional development sessions open to members of the public.”
HOW DARE YOU HURT MY CHILD'S
FEELINGS BY TEACHING THAT SLAVERY WAS A BAD THING AND IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR THE SOUTH UNILATERALLY TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I AM FILING A LAWSUIT!
You sound exactly like the Dixiecrats of the 50s and 60s
Political parallels between two entirely different situations.
Propaganda
MISS ME YET?
NO, AND THE NEXT ELECTION WILL WIPE THAT SMILE OFF YOUR FACE.
Bonus Quote of the Day
February 6, 2022 at 12:31 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments
“You’re gonna carry this thing eventually to your grave, because it is a mark of shame and you are a stone-cold coward.”
— Steve Bannon, slamming Mike Pence on his podcast for not overturning the 2020 election.
NO. IN THE HISTORY BOOKS, PENCE WILL BE SEEN AS A PRINCIPLED PATRIOT WHO SIMPLY FOLLOWED THE CONSTITUTION BY RESISTING AN ATTEMPT AT INSURRECTION.
HOW DARE YOU HURT MY CHILD'S
FEELINGS BY TEACHING THAT SLAVERY WAS A BAD THING AND IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR THE SOUTH UNILATERALLY TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I AM FILING A LAWSUIT!
Stick to copy and pasting pederast you don’t so well posting something you wrote
The above is abjectly stupid and is posted by a CHILDLESS fool
Ch can't see the big difference between regrettable riotous behavior in numerous places and a President encouraging people and even his Vice President to overthrow a constitutionally legitimate election of the United States.
Well opinions aside...
The sitting Vice President led the charge to raise funds to bail out violent rioters who then went right back out again and violently rioted again. Are you trying to argue that this is not "encouraging" that sort of rioting?
Certainly if it was "regrettable" as you suggest, then someone like Kamala Harris would not have been funding the bailouts. Calling it "regrettable" rather than what it was (cheered and encouraged by politicians on the left) is...
a flat out lie.
When your entire argument is built on a flat out lie, Reverend and you cannot (for whatever reasons) just argue facts and the truth. It's not a very good argument.
It might be what "YOU" believe... but that is the bubble you live in.
Leftist violence and destruction, no matter how deadly, is always excused and allowed.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I guess you fall for the fact it was communists menstruating women's group was a leftist plot because that is what Town Hall said!!!!!! And calling that group of psychotic cunts equivalent to January 6 trump supporters is most amusing and a reach!!! Sorry sport....your bullshit is just that.....bullshit!!!!
HOW DARE YOU HURT MY CHILD'S
FEELINGS BY TEACHING THAT SLAVERY WAS A BAD THING AND IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR THE SOUTH UNILATERALLY TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I AM FILING A LAWSUIT!
Wow...
Sounds like you don't believe that Parents have the right to have a say in their own child's education? I think that was the main issue at hand in the Virginia Governor's election.
It's a loser for you Reverend.
I am guessing you don't have any children of your own. So why don't you leave the idea of raising and teaching of these children to those who have a little skin in the game.
At the end of the day...
If a teacher doesn't want parents in the classroom it is because they have something to hide, Reverend. As you always suggest, if there is nothing to hide then investigate, right? Let these parent sit in on these classes. Better yet, let's have cameras in every classroom where teaching can be reviewed. If we can make Cops wear body cameras or dash cameras we can do the same with teachers.
The reality is that Teachers would likely have to change the manner in which they teach if their true bosses (Parents) got to see them do their jobs.
What other career can you have where you can tell your boss that he has no right to watch you do your work?
What are they afraid of, Reverend?
"Stick to copy and pasting pederast you don’t so well posting something you wrote"
It never does for the butthurt Little cowardly James.
He went to the Alky skol of logic, economic and reasoning.
But maybe rat is onto something in that the May 19th group was declared a terrorists group and most members were arrested for domestic crimes.. That sure adds some credibility to the oath keepers and other violent assholes as being an equivalent!!!!!! Good call rat....MAGA and its adherents are really domestic terrorists!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!L
I'm not exaggerating. The Trump powered Republican party wants a new civil war! I'm praying that my Republicans friends will stop it now!
Pelosi calls for peacefully protests and that all voices be heard if they agree with her.
But, tells American Athletes to shut up while in China.
Gutless whore.
RNC Endorses Political Violence
February 6, 2022 at 12:42 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 142 Comments
Dan Pfeiffer: “It’s easy to gloss over what the Republicans do in a Trumpian fog of outrage. But we need to be crystal clear about the meaning of this resolution. One of America’s two political parties passed an official resolution declaring a violent insurrection that led to deaths, assaults on police officers, and calls for the murder of politicians to be ‘legitimate discourse.’”
“The RNC is legitimizing political violence. Pure and simple.”
Summing up 4,500 plus words cut n paste by Roger
I hate
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
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Sounds like you don't believe that Parents have the right to have a say in their own child's education?
FUCK OFF ASSHOLE!!!!!! No one is claiming that but calling the tweets feeling being hurt is nothing but an excuse to burn books and ignore history.....dayum....we need some 1000 island dressing for that pile of bullshit!!!!
Gasoline and Diesel Fuel rose again today according to AAA.
! No one is claiming that but calling the tweets feeling being hurt is nothing but an excuse to burn books and ignore history..
Damn fatty that makes less sense than the word salads Alky posts
Roger your side has dis-armed and self-feminized.
The "war" would be short.
Are you allowed to have a fire arm in your semi-private room?
So what should we make of this? Should we welcome Pence to the resistance, or should we continue to hold him accountable for his years of slavish collaborationism? Or is it possible to do both?
If the point is keeping score, Pence’s latest gesture is obviously inadequate. But if the goal is actually turning the tide and saving democracy, maybe we should make some allowances.
Let’s admit it: this is not an easy call. But desperate times…
I’m conscious of the dangers of defining deviancy down and the risks of lowest-common denominator political standards. There’s a good reason we do not hand out gold stars for people who refuse to run down old ladies, rob banks, or engage in coups. So Pence’s decision to actually obey the Constitution hardly merits a red badge of courage, because it clears the lowest possible bar.
But look how far that bar has fallen.
In times of thorough depravity, even the smallest shoots of decency seem important. Sometimes clearing the lowest possible bar is all we can hope for.
**
At best, Pence has opened only the most miniscule of cracks in the solid wall of Trumpist toadying. But those cracks may prove decisive as we confront the ongoing attempts to delegitimize and overturn our next presidential election. He may also have provided a permission structure for others to speak out.
That matters because, ultimately, it may turn out to be Republicans — even former Trump supporters — who will have to a make the final stand against the next coup.
Scott is a new Confederate party member
Waiter this was incorrectly delivered to my table.
"Unless a few million Americans infected with Trumpism.
The United States of America will have a second civil war."
I like my salad with blue cheese.
Roger, are you allowed to posses and keep a firearm in your shared studio apartment?
God, what a fairy boi.
"desperate times"
Actually, thing in my life are wonderful, in a few days the goats start having kids. I will begin saving and hatching chicken eggs for meat birds and a few for layers. I have already started hundreds of flowers and veggies to sell and plant here on the home place. In April, around my wife's birthday the cows start dropping calves.
The alky must have developed Tourette's syndrome evident by his repetitive stutter-posts of the same leftist bullshit over and over and over and...
LOL.
THWAP!!!
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Roger, are you allowed to posses and keep a firearm in your shared studio apartment?
He’s not even allowed to have a hot plate
AD0LF TRUDEAU REACTS TO CANADIAN TRUCKERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OyczQW07Rk
Roger, is in decline.
He actual believes he is right now daring to stunningly beautiful babes, he is going to this year's Super Bowl, buying a $500,000 home at Lake Bonnie, Washington and buying a Audi A8.
All by June of this year.
Sunday Funnier than Trump love Syndrome
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1490421850421092352?t=6AN6ra0pzDJwyQCPJ37Wgg&s=19
He’s not even allowed to have a hot plate
And for good reason.
If you're too fucking stupid to understand that Trump is OUT of power, and your team are the ones IN power, then assuming you could set yourself ablaze with something as basic as a fucking hot plate is a genuine concern.
The alky is quite literally calling for a hot civil war, without being able to grasp the basic premise that those he would wish to go to war with possess 500+ MILLION guns, and a TRILLION rounds of ammunition.
What's keeping him safe from his desired civil war are the very people he despises - conservatives.
And what will likely START his desired civil war will be a deranged leftist like Bernie Bro & Maddow fanboi James Hodgkinson.
These are the inconvenient truths the alky must avoid to get through each day.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Sunday Funnier than Trump love Syndrome
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1490421850421092352?t=6AN6ra0pzDJwyQCPJ37Wgg&s=19
Leave instructions for Char-Lee the tran-nee to go with a closed casket for you when the time comes alky.
If the textbooks are historically objective, the teachers will have nothing to fear from fair minded parents sitting in -- unless those parents are determined to interrupt with racistic propaganda from the Cult of Trump.
Yes, and DO let the sessions be recorded.That will better enable the courts to dismiss preposterously biased parental objections to any fair and balanced presentation of our nation's history, including the numerous mistakes that were made.
Blacks during and after slavery were treated horribly, as were Native Americans from the first. So were the Irish and other Catholics in earlier days, as well as many southern Europeans. So were the Japanese American citizens during WWII.
And the list goes on and on.
These unpleasant facts must not be swept under the rug.
We must learn from them.
Lol, oh the level of Drag Queen James Drama is at full tilt..
-- unless those parents are determined to interrupt with racistic propaganda from the Cult of Trump.
Trump's no longer in power, pederast.
You guys "WON" with 81 MILLION votes and the most secure election in the history of the known universe, remember?
Nothing is as angry as a leftist who WON an election.
Oh, and pederast?
"racistic" is not a fucking word. Unless of course you pulled it from the leftists drama queen dictionary.
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
If the textbooks are historically objective, the teachers will have nothing to fear from fair minded parents sitting in -- unless those parents are determined to interrupt with racistic propaganda from the Cult of Trump.
IOW you’re saying your stupid post is incorrect, you fucking hack
HOW DARE YOU HURT MY CHILD'S
FEELINGS BY TEACHING THAT SLAVERY WAS A BAD THING AND IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR THE SOUTH UNILATERALLY TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION! I AM FILING A LAWSUIT!
Those posts are completely opposite from each other
Yep, Drama Queen James is confused, again.
These unpleasant facts must not be swept under the rug.
We must learn from them.
Except for the statues of the founders, Lincoln, and other notable Americans like TR.
THEY must be admonished and destroyed, essentially sweeping them under the rug.
Lincoln especially, since he's the man who freed the slaves in opposition from the DEMOCRATS who wished to keep them in chains and on the plantation...
...just like TODAY.
I'm starting to think that a big part of the reason you clowns demand CRT be taught everywhere is because the actual, truthful history of that time is particularly unkind to DEMOCRATS and it exposes them as the racist shitstains that they are.
.
Tank Abrams not wearing mask in a class full of kids.
I would be honored to be able to support an exceptional African American woman.
But you won't because she is an African American woman.
No matter how qualified she is.
Rep. Eric Swalwell the latest blue-state Democrat spotted maskless in mandate-free Florida"
He too is a must mask person.
"She" is an American
"She" was born in America
She is as American as I am.
We are Native Americans.
Roger AmickFebruary 6, 2022 at 3:06 PM
I would be honored to be able to support an exceptional African American woman"
The last one that was within arms length called the Cops on you , because she feared for her life.
Lydia Survived, barely.
What a bunch of BS.
Nobody but an extremist fringe element
wishes to dishonor Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt.
We on the left especially honor both of them.
Lincoln for his lifelong aversion to slavery,
Roosevelt for his progressive opposition to monopolies
and his advocacy on behalf labor unions and for the middle classes.
, because she feared for her life.
As you should fear for yours being a dumb assed mouth breathing goat fucker with nothing!!!!!!!
You exhibit racistic synonyms every single day
To show signs of racism
You failed English
The Sunday news shows, show that although he is still in charge for now.
Marc Short, a longtime Pence adviser, said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press": "From my front-row seat, I did not see a lot of legitimate political discourse."
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who also voted to convict Trump at his impeachment trial, tweeted: "We cannot deny the truth — to suggest it was 'legitimate political discourse' is just wrong."
And Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, tweeted: "What transpired" during the Capitol riot "was criminal, un-American, and cannot be considered legitimate protest."
McDaniel didn't speak in favor of the resolution as she presided over the vote. But she released a statement afterward saying "Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger crossed a line."
"They chose to join Nancy Pelosi in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with the violence at the Capitol," she said.
Trump was quick to gloat. In a statement Saturday, he commended McDaniel and the RNC "on their great ruling in censuring Liz Cheney and Cryin' Adam Kinzinger."
"The Republican Party would be far better off without them," Trump said.
Speaking to NBC News after the vote, Bossie argued that the resolution wasn't about Trump.
"It has nothing to do with anything but what Cheney and Kinzinger chose to do, which is to be Pelosi puppets," he said.
While party insiders might be at odds over Trump, the rank and file continue to support him.
Polling also finds Trump, fresh off announcing a $122 million war chest, as a clear favorite to win the 2024 nomination.
"I think what you're seeing right now is there is some frustration, but at the same time, I think there's a lot of people that are trying to unify the party," said Paul Farrow, the Wisconsin GOP chairman. "I think what you saw with the [censure] is we're letting those congressmen know they've got to be listening more than they're speaking. And that's what we're hoping happens."
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If the economy continues to grow, and between the fed increases and the supply chain gets better, inflation will start slowing down. And jobs catch up to pre pandemic numbers and the infrastructure jobs speed up job growth,...
Plus the January 6th investigation, may have bombshells!
And rrb nobody is going to remove TDR from Mount Rushmore.
VOX:
The GOP’s January 6 lies have reached a fever pitch
By Ellen Ioanes Feb 6, 2022, 5:40pm EST
On Friday, the Republican National Committee officially stated that the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, which left at least five dead and about 140 injured, was “legitimate political discourse.”
In a two-page censure resolution condemning Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their participation in the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack, the RNC wrote that “Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes.”
In a subsequent tweet, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel expanded on the language of the censure to clarify that it referred to “ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol.”
The original text of the resolution, however — which, the New York Times notes, was “carefully negotiated in private among party members” before publication — is a fitting cap to a week that saw the GOP, led by former President Donald Trump, draw closer than ever to explicitly supporting the attack on the Capitol and its goal of overturning the 2020 election.
In addition to the censure, Trump last Saturday told supporters at a rally in Conroe, Texas, that he would consider pardoning those charged in connection with the January 6 attack, and Politico reported on Wednesday that he also contemplated doing so before leaving office in January last year.
“If I run and if I win [in 2024], we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly,” Trump said at the rally, without addressing any specific concerns about the treatment of rioters. “And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Trump also said in a statement last week that former Vice President Mike Pence “could have overturned the Election!” — an assertion that, while incorrect, is among Trump’s most overt remarks about the intent behind January 6 and his actions leading up to it.
Trump has not yet announced an official run for the presidency in 2024, but signs point to a likely White House bid as he retains a tight grip on the GOP rank and file.
In the meantime, large swaths of the Republican party, still apparently in Trump’s thrall, have shifted their position on the Capitol insurrection, distancing themselves from the disturbing reality of those events and positioning the insurrectionists as innocent protesters, or even patriotic guardians of the Constitution.
That reversal — from horror at the falsehood-fueled spectacle that unfolded at the Capitol last January to condemnation of Republicans who defy Trump’s narrative — may have coalesced even more clearly over the past week and a half, but it’s been building almost since the attack, spearheaded by members of Congress like Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
While some establishment Republicans, including Sen. Mitt Romney, have spoken out against the censure and praised Cheney’s and Kinzinger’s moral compasses, and while others have expressed dismay at the idea of a future President Trump pardoning January 6 rioters, many have bought so wholeheartedly into Trump’s narrative that they attacked Pence for accurately disputing on Thursday Trump’s assertion that he could have overturned the results of the election.
Trump’s assertion that he wants fair treatment for the January 6 defendants may be superficially benign, but in reality, it’s just one front in the GOP attempt to mythologize the attack as less severe than it was.
Trump, along with members of Congress like Gaetz and Greene and would-be members like Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance, have made misleading statements about the slightly more than 700 people arrested for their roles in the attack, including describing them as “political prisoners” and claiming that they haven’t been charged with crimes (they have).
The subtext of Trump’s argument about fairness is particularly alarming, given the shocking violence directed against police defending the Capitol on January 6. By floating pardons should he regain office, Trump rewrites the limits of acceptable behavior for his supporters — and reinforces that those loyal to Trump are in the right and will be rewarded for their loyalty, while those who oppose his claims to power are not only wrong, but unprincipled.
“There is no room for dissenters from Donald Trump’s views in the Republican party,” Alex Keyssar, a professor of history and social policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, told Vox in a Sunday interview.
Gaetz and Greene — both ardent supporters of Trump — are leading proponents of the narrative that January 6 attendees are being mistreated (they’re not). Last summer, they, along with Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) visited a DC jail where some January 6 defendants were being held, demanding access as members of Congress and erroneously claiming they oversaw the budget for the jail, according to the Washington Post.
The group, joined by Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Bob Good (R-VA), also barged into the Justice Department this past summer, with Gosar calling January 6 defendants “political prisoners” and attempting to ask whether any of the defendants were being held in solitary confinement, the Washington Post’s Meagan Flynn reported at the time.
The January 6 defendants are facing a variety of charges, ranging from obstructing an official proceeding of the government to seditious conspiracy.
Some have already been convicted and sentenced; as of the one-year anniversary of the attack, the longest sentence was just over five years in prison.
As Keyssar told Politico in a 2021 retrospective in December, the insurrection of January 6 accelerated “the downward spiral of American political life” and set off an “intensified, rancorous struggle over the preservation of democratic values and institutions.”
Trump’s insistence on pursuing his self-serving narrative of victimhood — and pulling the Republican Party along with him — doesn’t just affect the GOP, as Keyssar points out; it ultimately affects the functioning of democracy and people’s ability to participate in it. “It’s not just a matter of telling different stories,” Keyssar told Vox on Sunday.
Specifically, he said, Trump’s rhetoric around the insurrection is “storytelling to justify a particular social order.” According to Keyssar, the narratives forming around the insurrection echo the end of the Reconstruction period in the South following the Civil War. The Reconstruction era gave Black Americans unprecedented rights, power, and political representation for a brief period, until the end of the 19th century; in the decades following Reconstruction, the prevailing narrative among white Southerners was that the Civil War was an attack on Southerners’ ways of life, and the Reconstruction period was the result of corrupt Northern “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” taking over the remains of that society.
At the time, Keyssar said, the white Southern narrative argued that the disenfranchisement of Black Southerners and reinforcement of white supremacy “had to be restored in order to have a ‘good society’ again.”
In the same vein now, Trump’s fiction — that he was the true winner of the 2020 election and widespread fraud robbed him of a second term in office;
that members of his own party who don’t support his lies are unpatriotic;
and that the people who protested and stormed the Capitol on January 6 aren’t criminals —
aims to restore him to power.
Just because Trump’s talking points around the 2020 election and the Republican Party’s embrace of them aren’t exactly unprecedented, that doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous, Keyssar said.
The polarization of the two parties, and their dominance in state legislatures, has emboldened some places to propose laws targeting voter fraud — though there was no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election — which can have the real-world effect of making it more difficult for disenfranchised communities, including Black people and those in poverty, to vote.
Furthermore, Keyssar said, the constant effort to delegitimize the election does serve to negate the peaceful means of changing power, which could portend further violence in one form or another. “If you discredit the mechanism of elections,” he said, “then what are you left with? Force.”
TRUMP TRIED TO PULL A HITLER.
IT'S NOT WORKING.
AND IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK.
I was there
https://youtu.be/8i9RG6my5xM
Ch has no principles
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I was there
Good for you. I was at the NoLa Tattoo You tour almost a decade earlier
Setlist
Under My Thumb
When the Whip Comes Down
Let's Spend the Night Together
Shattered
Neighbours
Black Limousine
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
(The Temptations cover)
Twenty Flight Rock
(Eddie Cochran cover)
Going to a Go-Go
(The Miracles cover)
Let Me Go
Time Is on My Side
(Kai Winding & His Orchestra cover)
Beast of Burden
Waiting on a Friend
Let It Bleed
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Little T&A
(Keith Richards on lead vocals)
Tumbling Dice
She's So Cold
Hang Fire
Miss You
Start Me Up
Honky Tonk Women
Brown Sugar
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Encore:
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Saw Steel Wheels as well, at Ga Texh not impressed
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