He will do ANYTHING to win. He craves power to rule forever just like his idols Putin and Kim Jong-un.
She is the spitting definition of a lifelong politician, she cannot commit to a dam thing even when she knows its wrong........she is pathetic
This is the man the Republican Party has the highest approval rating for running in 2024. Why? Is this the kind of leader they want? Sick! Georgia prosecutor asks FBI for security help after Trump rally comments BY GRAHAM KATES UPDATED ON: JANUARY 31, 2022 / 6:59 PM / CBS NEWS Excerpts Trump, who is at the center of at least two criminal investigations, told a rally of thousands of supporters on Saturday that "if these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protests we have ever had, in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere." Trump called the prosecutors investigating him — in Manhattan for fraud and in Fulton County for election interference — "vicious, horrible people." "They're racist and they're very sick. They're mentally sick," Trump said. "They're going after me without any protection of my rights by the Supreme Court or most other courts. In reality they're not after me, they're after you and | just happen to be the person that's in the way." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-georgia-prosecutor-fbi-security-help-rally-comments/ Trump couldn't have described himself any better when he said "They're racist and they're very sick. They're mentally sick." This is a dangerous and disturbing man who will do or say anything to rule again. He loves to stir up hate and violence more than anyone who has ever led this country.
Maine re-elected her pathetic ass despite initial polling weakness, so i guess she did something right?
There's a few tens of thousand galaxy-brained Biden-Collins morons in Maine who she/deadlocked government appeals to, I guess. **** these people and abolish the Senate.
book banning probably deserves its own thread. related: https://radicalclassicalliberals.com/author/jamesstaceytaylor/ NO, MAUS WASN’T BANNED BY A TENNESSEE SCHOOL BOARD. JANUARY 31, 2022 JAMES STACEY TAYLOR There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the decision of the McMinn County Board of Education in Tennessee to remove Mausfrom its 8th Grade ELA curriculum. Much of this discussion has focused on the claim that Board has “banned” Maus from the school; this had led some to claim that the Board did so in to move away from teaching about the Holocaust. Fortunately, we can assess these claims easily as the transcript of the Board meeting is available online. One of the Board members did state that the Board was considering banning Maus. (This same Board member was also skeptical that removing the text was appropriate, noting both that he was concerned about the removal based on “a few words”, and that he had read the background on this author and the series, talked to some educators, and it is a highly critically acclaimed and a well reviewed series and book context”.) But what was actually under discussion was not the removal of Maus from the school, but its removal as an anchor text in a module on the Holocaust. The reasons for this had nothing to do with objections to teaching the Holocaust. Indeed, several Board members stated how important it was for students to learn about it, noting that the module on the Holocaust involved students reading “news articles from BBC, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, survivor stories, and excerpts from other books….. [and] There is even a section where we go to the Jewish Virtual Library and look at some selections from that.” The concern was primarily about the “objectionable” language used in the book–words that “if a student went down the hallway and said this, our disciplinary policy says they can be disciplined, and rightfully so”. Secondary concerns included the presence of a nude picture–of a female mouse!–the fact that some of the objectionable language involved a boy “cussing out” his father, which wasn’t respectful, and that the author Art Spiegelman had drawn illustrations for Playboy(!). Possible solutions short of removing the book were suggested–such as whiting out the offensive words completely (deemed a violation of copyright, and so unacceptable), whiting them out partially (but then the kinds could guess them!) and writing to Spiegelman to ask if their removal would be permissible (that would take too long). After canvassing the possibilities the Board decided that despite the merits of Maus (one Board member said she would still teach it to her children) since the language it contained violated the speech code of the school it should be removed from the curriculum. Note that all that was decided was that Maus should be removed from the curriculum. The Board members didn’t vote to remove the text from the school. Maus wasn’t banned. Was this a good decision? In my view, no. Against the horrors of the Holocaust a few “damns” don’t mean a damn. But from the perspective of the Board members the “cussing” was clearly extremely offensive–and ancillary to the main message of Maus. And they couldn’t find a way to keep Maus without the wording that violated the speech code to which they required students to adhere. This wasn’t a good decision, but it wass an understandable one. More understandable, in fact, than claiming falsely that Maus was banned because of the putative far-right sympathies of the McMinn County Board of Education. seems like there is a nonzero probability of confusing and/or misleading reporting going on out there
What I can't find on the internet is what year Maus was added to the McMinn County curriculum. It was published decades ago. So, why is it this moment, co-incident with Texas' efforts to ban books, that McMinn County is considering this change? Or is it that Maus is being added to and subtracted off of schools' curricula all the time, but no one would have bothered reporting on it if not for the dipshits in Texas?
The funny thing... its probably not even in the top ten things chip roy has done to embarrass Texas...
Libraries can "rent" digital copies to card holders. I really want a state like California open up access to blacklisted books so anyone who signs up with an out of state card can read these books (let's be real, it's a small number). Or we can be more like China and burn those books, pretend there's a reset and call it a day.
What happened to free speech? Oh, only when it fits their agenda. Censor, Censor, Censor those who aren't on board with our candy coated version of history.
Yes like claiming that Neil Young voluntarily removing his music from a platform is a dangerous trend of censorship.
what was censorship was NOT his removing his music from Spotify. what was censorship WAS his demand that Spotify remove Joe Rogan's podcasts from Spotify.
So... if censorship is asking/demanding that music be removed from a platform, isn't asking/demanding that a book be removed from a platform (curriculum) also censorship?
It's not censorship when media actual gets banned. It's only censorship when you ask for media to be banned. Try to keep up here. It's like no one is smart enough to understanding the point I'm making. So agree to disagree.
