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I feel for these people that have to sit there and just kind of nod and smile through these hearing. I heard the clip of him asking if he could identify as an Asian. Like just SMH. Something wrong with his medulla oblongata
I think we should recognize that the jack*ssery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE)
(Cruz, Hawley, and Cotton are all Harvard law. It’s not that their stupid or don’t have a full grasp of sentencing guidelines or the issues they are carping about. They’re all just grandstanding for 2024 and trying to paint Democrats as “woke” and “soft on pedophiles”)
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I think we should recognize that the jack*ssery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE)
I have found myself nodding my head in the affirmative quite a bit listening to him speak. I think partially because it wasn’t absolutely clear to me what party affiliation he had when I arrived in the middle of his questioning while starting a drive and tuning into NPR.
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Just to be clear. The statement above should not be interpreted to mean I am supportive of all or any of Senator Sasse’s policy positions. Some of them I find abhorrent.
However, I do feel he conducted himself with grace, at least for the minutes I was able to listen. I wish there were more like him in his approach. The minutes of Graham and Cruz I heard were cringe worthy and absolute “jack**sery”.
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(Cruz, Hawley, and Cotton are all Harvard law. It’s not that their stupid or don’t have a full grasp of sentencing guidelines or the issues they are carping about. They’re all just grandstanding for 2024 and trying to paint Democrats as “woke” and “soft on pedophiles”)
Proof positive, Democrats love pizza. So where best to have a pedophile ring.
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The Republican Party is fng nuts
I know the democrats have issues too
But holy sheet are the republicans fng insane
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The Republican Party is fng nuts
I know the democrats have issues too
But holy sheet are the republicans fng insane
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The Republican Party is fng nuts
I know the democrats have issues too
But holy sheet are the republicans fng insane
this is a decade old now, but it still holds true … the degree of polarization is asymmetrical.
[link=https://grist.org/politics/asymmetrical-polarization-the-lefts-gone-left-but-the-rights-gone-nuts/] The left’s gone left but the right’s gone nuts: [/h3] [/link][T]hese developments have not produced two mirror-image political parties. We have, instead, asymmetrical polarization. Put simply: More than 70 percent of Republicans in the electorate identify themselves as conservative or very conservative, while only 40 percent of rank-and-file Democrats call themselves liberal or very liberal. It is far easier for congressional Republicans to forge and maintain a united front than it is for Democrats. George W. Bush pushed through his signature tax cuts and Iraq war authorization with substantial Democratic support, while unwavering Republican opposition nearly torpedoed Barack Obamas health-reform legislation. When Democrats are in the majority, their greater ideological diversity combined with the unified opposition of Republicans induces the party to negotiate within its ranks, producing policies that not long ago would have attracted the support of a dozen Senate Republicans.
Heres the way [i]Id[/i] put it: Today, the national Democratic Party contains everything from the center-right to the far-left. Economically its proposals tend to be center to center-right. Socially, its proposals tend to be center to center-left. The national Republican Party, by contrast, has now been almost entirely absorbed by the far right. It rejects the basic social consensus among post-war democracies and seeks to return to a pre-New Deal form of governance. It is hostile to social and economic equality. It remains committed to fossil fuels and sprawl and opposed to all sustainable alternatives. And it has built an [link=https://grist.org/article/2010-09-09-the-rights-climate-denialism-is-part-of-something-much-larger/]epistemological cocoon[/link] around itself within which loopy misinformation spreads unchecked. It has, in short, gone [link=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/opinion/15krugman.html]loony[/link].-
The mountains to mole hills argument. Hardly justification. Just do the right thing.
As someone who has declared they could never vote for any Republican, you are a poor judge of who all Republicans are. Your side has this as its only hope. Make every conservative or right leaning or moderate voter associated with the crazies of the Republican Party.
There is a better and easier way. Just put up candidates that the aforementioned will vote for.
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[h1][b]Putin Again Says the West is Trying to Cancel Russia[/b][/h1]
Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed in a speech the West was trying to cancel Russian culture, similar to author JK Rowling, [link=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-jk-rowling-cancel-culture-b2043978.html]The Independent[/link] reports.
Said Putin: They are now trying to cancel our country. Im talking about the progressive discrimination of everything to do with Russia.___
Darned “woke” Ukrainians!
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Always wondered how Ted Cruz gets popularly elected to anything. A real wonder. Sez too much about Texas.
And speaking of Ted, remember when he tucked his genitals/tail between his legs after Trump insulted his wife?
Anyone watch or hear about that incident at this years Oscars where Will Smith smacked Chris Rock for making fun of Jada Pickett-Smiths alopecia?
I think Will Smith wayyy over-reacted with that slap but he does draw quite a comparison to Ted Cruzs cowardice.
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[link=https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1511020659660447746]https://twitter.com/Accou…us/1511020659660447746[/link]
The GOP’s war on Mickey Mouse continues:
After accusing the left of being “child predators,” Marjorie claims, “Disney wants to…take your children and…indoctrinate them into sexual immoral filth.”
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Henry Winkler put it best. Paraphrasing his Twitter. People have been going to Disney to for 50+ years. Has it turned you or your kids into sexual deviants?
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Ha. I would agree repubs take it too far in blasting an issue. But come on- Disney is also off the rails. Now they cant say ladies and gentleman, boys and girls? Its just little dreamersor something now. Kind of absurd.
Also the republican bill in florida just doesnt want teachers talking about sexual orientation before a certain grade. Its not the teachers place to do that anyway. Just like they shouldnt be teaching first graders about sex-ed in general. I bet if you have kids you wouldnt like their teacher going over condoms and male female anatomy either. Sexual orientation should be discussed between parents and a child the same as sex education. The dems of course just call it a name that you cant dispute. Kind of like anti-fascist (antifa). Are you a fascist if you dont support antifa? Absurd haha. Both far right and far left are out of touch and wrong frankly. In different ways of course. The voters will decide in November. If its one thing they hate its when they take parenting out of the control or parents
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[b]Both far right and far left are out of touch and wrong frankly. [/b]
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MTG: Romney, Murkowski, and Collins are “Pro-Pedophile”
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) used her congressional account [link=https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1511150070367985664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1511150070367985664%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fmarjorie-taylor-greene-republicans-vile-tweet_n_624bf8e4e4b0d8266ab091dd]to tweet the baseless accusation[/link] that Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) are pro-pedophile because they said will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile.
They just voted for #KBJ.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 5, 2022
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They should take her to court for libel. I guess that would be libel for a tweet.
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Nah. Im sure they take it as a badge of honor to be criticized by her. They would much rather have her as an enemy than somebody from the left telling them they are the same as her because they share the same political party.
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[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/05/lauren-boebert-jd-vance-disney-mickey-mouse-wokeness/]https://www.washingtonpos…mickey-mouse-wokeness/[/link]
The real reason Lauren Boebert wants to cancel Mickey Mouse[/h1] Why do Republicans want to cancel Mickey Mouse?
When the culture warriors call for the nixing of copyright protections and other punitive responses, what they mean is that a company that poisons the minds of the young with wokeness should not reap wealth created by government privileges such as copyright protections that is, from rents.
In their view, these government privileges [i]themselves[/i] enable corporate wokeness. As Hammond points out, the deeper claim here is that, precisely because Disney profits extensively from rents such as long copyright protections or the [link=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-desantis-disney-reedy-creek-20220401-el6vob7y6jhjjfkbhvpnnmmycy-story.html]government creation of a special district[/link] all its own they are insulated from real-world market pressures and can be woke with impunity.
…And so, these right-wingers see ending such privileges as key to exposing Disney to the harsh realities of actual public opinion about its wokeness. As Hammond put it, this is really an effort to weaken Disneys economic shield in the culture war, making them more vulnerable to customer backlash.
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Amd while Republicans are busy labelling Disney, and KBJ supporters as pro-pedophile ..
Tennessee GOP proposes bill eliminating age requirements for marriage
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Ugh … Protest at Disney makes my brain hurt
[link=https://twitter.com/i/status/1514659323292504064]https://twitter.com/i/status/1514659323292504064[/link]
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[h1][b]Anti-Woke Republican Senate Candidate was Condemning Structural Bigotry in 2020[/b][/h1]
Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick (R) has pledged to fight the woke mob, but not long ago he once called for solidarity by denouncing and eradicating structural bigotry, [link=https://www.vice.com/en/article/93b74z/pennsylvania-david-mccormick-woke-mob]Vice News[/link] reports.
Wrote McCormick [link=https://go.skimresources.com/?id=100767X1643288&isjs=1&jv=15.2.4-stackpath&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fen%2Farticle%2F93b74z%2Fpennsylvania-david-mccormick-woke-mob&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fheartbreaking-time-our-country-david-mccormick%2F%3Ftrk%3Dpublic_profile_article_view&xs=1&xtz=240&xuuid=2be251f8f7d1a6dd9c5a120330048cb2&xjsf=other_click__contextmenu%20%5B2%5D]on LinkedIn[/link] shortly after George Floyds murder in May 2020: Racism and discrimination more broadly thrive not just in overt actions but also in omissions and willful ignorance. Benefiting from a system that quietly discriminateswithout acknowledging it and helping to repair itonly propagates that system.____
Like JD Vance in Ohio, it’s all just performative outrage for the Trump masses (and Trump)
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Who would you trust more? Someone who was “condemning structural bigotry” in 2020 because it was the right thing to do and then tries to play to the anti-woke crew during a hotly contested primary, or a Le Pen type who is now trying to look more inclusive and less like a right wing bigot xenophobe?
I find it interesting when one side criticizes another because they have proof they believe the same things they do even though they think they are saying something else all together.
Politics is extremely hard to follow these days. What’s live and what’s Memorex?
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Who would you trust more? Someone who was “condemning structural bigotry” in 2020 because it was the right thing to do and then tries to play to the anti-woke crew during a hotly contested primary, or a Le Pen type who is now trying to look more inclusive and less like a right wing bigot xenophobe?
I’ll take the performative right winger over the dyed in the wool nationalist any day.
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reminds me of “The Election of 1800” in Hamilton choosing between Jefferson and Burr.
[link]https://youtu.be/wdhAUHMm5-0[/link]
Jefferson: Ask him a question, it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances
And they say I’m a Francophile, at least they know I know where France is
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If you had to choose
If you had to choose (Jefferson or Burr?)
If you had to choose, choose (Jefferson or Burr?)
Yo (oh!)Hamilton: The people are asking to hear my voice (oh!)
For the country is facing a difficult choice (oh!)
And if you were to ask me who I’d promote (oh!)
Jefferson has my vote (oh!)
I have never agreed with Jefferson once (oh!)
We have fought on like seventy-five different fronts (oh!)
But when all is said and all is done
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[b]Florida Senate Passes Bill Targeting Disney[/b][/h1] [link=https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-senate-passes-bill-to-eliminate-disneys-special-tax-district-11650473902?mod=djemalertNEWS]Wall Street Journal[/link]
The Republican-led Florida Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would eliminate a special tax district that allows Walt Disney Co. to govern the land where its theme parks sit, as lawmakers target the company for opposing legislation restricting classroom instruction on gender and sexuality
The GOP-led House will likely vote to approve the measure Thursday. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who called for lawmakers to consider such a bill in a special session he convened this week, has made clear he would sign it.-
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[b]Florida Senate Passes Bill Targeting Disney[/b] [link=https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-senate-passes-bill-to-eliminate-disneys-special-tax-district-11650473902?mod=djemalertNEWS]Wall Street Journal[/link]
The Republican-led Florida Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would eliminate a special tax district that allows Walt Disney Co. to govern the land where its theme parks sit, as lawmakers target the company for opposing legislation restricting classroom instruction on gender and sexuality
The GOP-led House will likely vote to approve the measure Thursday. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who called for lawmakers to consider such a bill in a special session he convened this week, has made clear he would sign it.but muh free speech and all that jazz. I hope Disney crushes them. Probably a great idea to attack one of the top if not the top employer, in one of the top 5 most populated counties in Florida.
Sound like a woke mob going right for the cancel culture.
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[h2][link=https://politicalwire.com/2022/04/21/democrats-need-to-start-fighting-the-culture-wars/]Democrats Need to Start Fighting the Culture Wars[/link][/h2]
Teagan Goddard:Republicans wage culture wars because it allows them to portray Democrats as overly accepting of an odd set of values that they say threaten our local communities and families. It allows Republicans to link Democrats to [link=https://www.vox.com/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days]what James Carville calls[/link] the faculty lounge bullshit from fancy colleges where people use a different language than ordinary people. But what if Democrats just pointed out that its Republicans who are actually threatening our most cherished values?
The vast majority of Americans support abortion rights and LGBTQ rights, which is why for a long time, many mainstream Republicans stopped making their own stances on those issues which sometimes differed from societys prevailing views central to their campaigns, as [link=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/04/21/the-democrats-are-going-to-take-care-of-the-son-of-a-bitch-for-us-00026822]Politico[/link] reports. In red state after red state, Republicans are enacting laws restricting abortion and banning transgender children from school sports. Theyre even taking on Disney, an American institution known for supporting traditional values. Its increasingly clear that Republicans are on the wrong side of these issues and Democrats should be pointing that out.
…Many Democrats think the party should avoid partisan culture issues and focus its energy on pocketbook issues. But if Republicans continue to embrace unpopular policies, why shouldnt Democrats be pointing that out?[/QUOTE]
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And [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/20/mallory-mcmorrow-james-carville-wokeness-democrats/]Greg Sargent[/link] cites how Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) gave Democrats a master course in how to talk about the culture wars.
(this video: [link=https://twitter.com/MalloryMcMorrow/status/1516453738403143681)]https://twitter.com/Mallo…s/1516453738403143681)[/link]
“McMorrow didnt sound defensive or offer mealy-mouthed, hairsplitting fact-checks. She didnt capitulate to the Republican framing of these matters for a second.
Instead, McMorrow laid bare her deepest convictions and explained how they lead her to her positions on gay and trans rights, and why basic human decency demands them. Importantly, she made this about what Republicans are doing.”
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I really enjoyed those last two posts dergon. Thanks.
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The truth FTW
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[link=https://www.wsj.com/articles/revolt-in-disneys-florida-kingdom-ron-desantis-bob-chapek-11650578648?mod=e2tw]https://www.wsj.com/artic…k-11650578648?mod=e2tw[/link]
WSJ editorial board being the WSJ editorial board –Blaming Disney for DeSantis’ retaliation-
The Walt Disney Co. needs Florida more than Florida needs Walt Disney. Thats the latest chapter in this tale of a CEO who followed his woke staff like a lemming off the cliff of cultural politics. Disney employees demanded that Mickey Mouse oppose Floridas misdescribed dont say gay bill. Now state lawmakers are reacting by putting down a few glue traps.
Polls show rising GOP hostility to big business, and that is likely to be reflected when Republicans take power.
The Disney lesson for CEOs is to stay out of these divisive cultural fights. The lesson for political partisans in the workplace is that their bosses run the office, but they dont run the country. [/QUOTE]
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I think NYT posted something like Disney generates $5 billion in local and state taxes in just there tourism. Guess they don’t need that.
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On a side note I dont think businesses like Disney should be able to have special jurisdiction or govern themselves.
Disney does some shady stuff. Like grandpa dies on space mountain they keep that thing chugging after they pull the body off.
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off the rails indeed …
[link=https://ktla.com/news/local-news/orange-county-man-arrested-for-allegedly-making-threats-toward-merriam-webster-over-gender-definitions/]https://ktla.com/news/loc…er-gender-definitions/[/link]
Orange County man arrested for allegedly making threats toward Merriam-Webster over gender definitions[/h1]-
I don’t weigh in on this stuff much…
but my son goes to a ‘fancy’ montessori school – and they are telling the kids that they can choose their pronouns. My son is 3. He knows he is a boy but is now starting to ask ‘can i be a girl if i want?’ — it’s too much for me.
If he ends up being trans later in life, no problem….I will love my kids no matter what. But just the indoctrination of children in this age with this stuff is extreme. I personally know people who have kids on hormone therapy to transition, who have not hit puberty yet. It’s nuts.-
At the end of the day – both parties, democrat and republican, and both ‘mindsets’ – liberal and conservative, are off the rails. Most americans are somewhere in the middle.
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Now you know why people favor the FL Bill
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I don’t weigh in on this stuff much…
but my son goes to a ‘fancy’ montessori school – and they are telling the kids that they can choose their pronouns. My son is 3. He knows he is a boy but is now starting to ask ‘can i be a girl if i want?’ — it’s too much for me.
I have to say that does sound a bit excessive. But I cannot see the harm. I might be missing some context?
My 3y/o grandson has met a lot of different people already, straight, gay, transsexuals, races, & he seems to take it all in stride as thats just the world & the people in it. The question has not come up in his mind that Ive seen. & if it did my wife & I & my son & daughter-in-law would answer his questions honestly without fear.
Once being just gay had the same ramifications & generated the same uproars. My grandmother told me when I was a kid, under 10 but I dont specifically recall how old, that my father was attractive to some men that only resulted in me scratching my head in wonder as an oddity. No injury to me. I understood later when I met gay people at school and work. Like race hatred I thought. Why cant the world allow their difference? At one hospital a patient called Daisy would be admitted occasionally for being brutalized. And I do mean brutalized. Daisy was a large man who dressed as a woman. Why did anyone have to care how Daisy dressed and acted? He hurt & threatened no one.
Now the reality is that there are many more Daisys than we all realized.
So what. Like everyone else, they are mostly being very nice people who work hard & just want to live their lives as they want.
So now the problem is also what some people want to be referred as? Some 35y/o butthole just got arrested for threatening Miriam-Webster for defining sexes! Or sexual identities.
As if sex was the most serious and threatening thing in the world.
I would not worry so much about your son asking about boys/girls. He will know himself. I mean, its not as if children can be conditioned or deprogrammed about who they like or how they feel by outside influence. Havent we moved beyond children being recruited yet, as if that was a reality?
We should be more concerned with real pedophiles like priests or coaches who prey on children or who protect the predators, especially ones who become Congressmen, than with teachers openly talking about the subject of sex to children. My grandmother did not traumatize me by telling me that my father was attractive to some men.
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And while on the subject, lets explain the phenomenon of male seahorses bearing baby seahorses.
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Much hysteria ado about nothing by an hysterical minority? Most people it seems aren’t coming apart at the seams about an imagined manufactured issue against their children.
Follow the money. It’s invested in pumping fear and continuing culture wars going on now on the credulous Right for 5+ decades. Hysterical dupes.
Useful idiots.
[link=https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1094782769/parent-poll-school-culture-wars]https://www.npr.org/2022/…ll-school-culture-wars[/link][link=https://www.npr.org/2022/04/18/1093277449/florida-mathematics-textbooks]Math textbooks axed[/link] for their treatment of race; a [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/19/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media/]viral Twitter account[/link] directing ire at LGBTQ teachers; a state law [link=https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089462508/teachers-fear-the-chilling-effect-of-floridas-so-called-dont-say-gay-law]forbidding classroom discussion[/link] of sexual identity in younger grades; a board book for babies [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2022/04/22/banned-books-everywhere-babies/]targeted as “pornographic.”[/link] Lately it seems there’s a new controversy erupting every day over how race, gender or history are tackled in public school classrooms.
But for most parents, these concerns seem to be far from top of mind. That’s according to [link=https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/NPR-Ipsos-Parent-Child-Education-04282022]a new national poll by NPR and Ipsos[/link]. By wide margins and regardless of their political affiliation parents express satisfaction with their children’s schools and what is being taught in them.
[b]As a pollster, Newall at Ipsos says big partisan divides are “all I see on every topic right now.” She was struck by the relative lack of them in this poll. [/b]
Christine is the type of discontented parent who’s most often reflected in the headlines: a cultural conservative. Yet in our poll, the minority of parents who were unhappy with how their school tackled racism and U.S. history were just as likely to identify as Democrats as Republicans. In other words: [b]For every parent who thinks their child’s school is too “woke,” there may be one who thinks it isn’t woke enough. [/b]
Jim Ondelacy is a Native American and a Democrat living in North Richland Hills, Texas, outside Fort Worth. He wishes his son’s high school went more in depth and taught more about the nation’s history of racism and oppression.“It’s more of a water-down effect … [the teachers] kind of whitewash the way that history is taught to their kids,” he says.
Republican governors like Ron DeSantis in Florida and Glenn Youngkin in Virginia have helped make [link=https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073180200/youngkin-sears-inauguration-republicans-gop-virginia]parents’ rights[/link] into a [link=https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089462508/teachers-fear-the-chilling-effect-of-floridas-so-called-dont-say-gay-law]major political talking point[/link], and Republican-aligned groups like No Left Turn In Education and Parents Defending Education have continuously [link=https://www.npr.org/2022/03/21/1087000890/book-bans-and-the-threat-of-censorship-rev-up-political-activism-in-the-suburbs]pushed these issues into the spotlight.[/link]
[link=https://www.corporategenomeproject.org/people]Ralph Wilson[/link], a researcher who studies how partisan donors back the culture war, says these groups imply that they represent a silent majority of conservative-leaning parents. But that’s not necessarily the case, he says.
[u][b]”It’s definitely an incredibly small minority that’s being amplified with this large, well-funded infrastructure to appear larger and to appear to have more well-founded concerns than they do.”[/b][/u]
She and her neighbors tend toward the conservative, and the local school board does as well, so she feels like everyone’s on the same page. “I have no issues with any of her teachers … I’m fairly comfortable with all of that.”
Besides, she says, her top priority isn’t the culture wars; it’s making sure her daughter stays engaged with her studies and is prepared for college.
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Just like I said Frumius. You are getting worked up by the reporting about a bunch of crazy people. My experience is the same as the NPR reporting.
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Elon Musk is the turning point. Finally, we are seeing the wokelash. People are fed up with the absurdity of the radical left that have hijacked the Democratic Party. The backlash will be shown at the polls in November which will be interesting to watch.
Anti puberty meds for kids? This will literally be seen as child abuse when the history books are written about this timeperiod. And the fact that they are doing this without the data to back it up is frankly experimentation, pure and simple. Period.
So next if kids feel like they are cats, then we can get them tail implants? Where does it stop?
Little data to support puberty blockers:
[link]https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56601386[/link]
Ar123 hits the nail on the head. A teacher is asking a 3 year old what pronouns they would like to use? Absurd. Florida is banning this which seems perfectly reasonable. Just like they shouldnt be teaching 3 year olds about condoms and sex in general. They are playing with fire and about to lose a huge voter group- parents. They can put all the propanda spin on it they want. They call call it whatever they want, but people are finally waking up. The radical left has just as many whackjobs as the far right whackjobs.
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Thread Killer exemplifies the RINO – republican in name only. Serious cracks me up. I get from him apologist vibes consistently and vibes of a strong desire to be buddies with Frumious. Its quite interesting to watch because Frumious doesnt seem to be having it. Im not really sure why, because you seem to usually agree with everything he says. Sometimes I wonder if youre the same person and perhaps his alter ego or something. What is it that you believe the Republican party should represent? All I hear you do is apologize for the behavior of republicans. What would the Republican party need to do in your opinion for them to be worthy of defending? Because you seem to be with Democrats on all issues. What do you like about Republicans? Anything? Just fiscal? Then why not a libertarian?
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I think its more that people are fed up with ego driven billionaire arseholes. Elon musk being a prime member of that group.
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So should they sell their tesla or not buy one, in protest?
Bezos doesnt have an ego? He owns Washpo? Is that also terrible?
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So should they sell their tesla or not buy one, in protest?
Bezos doesnt have an ego? He owns Washpo? Is that also terrible?
I see where you are going and it’s not too far off base. There probably are “liberal Dems” that will be conflicted about what they are “supposed to do” regarding Musk and Twitter.
I love my two Teslas. As long as they keep making a great product I will keep buying.
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Thread Killer exemplifies the RINO – republican in name only. Serious cracks me up. I get from him apologist vibes consistently and vibes of a strong desire to be buddies with Frumious. Its quite interesting to watch because Frumious doesnt seem to be having it. Im not really sure why, because you seem to usually agree with everything he says. Sometimes I wonder if youre the same person and perhaps his alter ego or something. What is it that you believe the Republican party should represent? All I hear you do is apologize for the behavior of republicans. What would the Republican party need to do in your opinion for them to be worthy of defending? Because you seem to be with Democrats on all issues. What do you like about Republicans? Anything? Just fiscal? Then why not a libertarian?
Hahaha. Frumi hates me and probably has me blocked. I think they are a sadly suffering individual that identifies too closely with a concept of politics.
I like a lot about Republicans and Democrats and Independents and Libertarians. I like a lot about people in general. I see every day that we are in a much better place than any party hack will admit.
I don’t apologize for the behavior of anyone. I will point out when I see that it is wrong, mean spirited or downright delusional. Feeling tribal and partisan causes this all of the time. It’s refreshing to observe as a non partisan.
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GOP Lawmakers Want Fines for Imaginary Drag Shows[/h1]
Joined by Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon, a group of House Republicans on Thursday announced a new bill that would empower parents to sue public schools that expose their children to drag shows, [link=https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-republicans-want-penalties-school-drag-shows-cant-cite-example]Bridge Michigan[/link] reports.
The six legislators were unable to name an example of that happening in a Michigan public school, but they proposed allowing parents to sue districts for up to $10,000 if it ever does. -
Interesting read …
[link=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/15/capital-city-ruy-teixeira-american-enterprise-institute-00045819]https://www.politico.com/…ise-institute-00045819[/link]
[h2]A real chilling effect: A Lefty Scholar is Dumping CAP For AEI[/h2] [b]Ruy Teixeira predicted Obamas rise. Now hes scorning DCs liberal think tanks for caring more about diversity than class.[/b]
Ruy Teixeira is one of Washingtons most prominent left-leaning think-tank scholars, a fixture at the Center for American Progress since the liberal organizations founding in 2003. But as of August 1, hell have a new professional home: The American Enterprise Institute, the longtime conservative redoubt that over the years has employed the likes of Newt Gingrich, Dinesh DSouza, and Robert Bork.
…Teixeiras bill of complaints will be a familiar one for many who have followed the internal battles of the left over the past half-decade, or spent an afternoon on left-wing Twitter. Politically, as a strategist, he thinks the Democrats need to win culturally moderate voters if theyre going to ever create the kind of coalition that can get their policies enacted. And personally, as an employee, hes none too fond of the institutional dynamics that he says are driven by younger staff but embraced by higher-ups afraid of a public blow-up.
…Like a lot of older and whiter veterans of liberal think-tanks and foundations, he also says hes exhausted by the internal agita. Its just cloud cuckoo land, he says. The fact that nobody is willing to call b*llshit, it just freaks me out.
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