Also on NPR this morning, they realized that the book banners and burners might be a serious threat to literacy and free speech and thought in this country.
Have these folks been in a selective coma for the past decade? Three decades? More?
Category Archives: Politics
How neo-Nazi groups reacted to Trump’s false claims about Haitians in Springfield
Well, it is damn near October in an election year and NPR just figured out that the GOP is running a white supremacist for president (and pretty much all the way down the ballot). I mean, even the North Carolina gubernatorial candidate is a self-professed “black Nazi”.
You really wish public radio would get their shit together, but this is the outfit that sides with hecklers mocking kids shot at an elementary school.
Choose Change
You aren’t gonna catch me post a lot from The Lincoln Project or from most of those Republican-against-Trump groups. I don’t trust them. We don’t want the same things.
That said, they got Sam Elliott to say what a lot of us have been thinking, so that’s nice.
“You decide, are we really going back down that same fucking broken road? Or are we moving forward?”
Right-wing podcaster bought West Virginia skate park — then rebellion ensued
So white nationalist/Russia stooge Tim Pool decided he wanted to sponsor prizes for a local skate park competition. The kids there wanted nothing to do with him, said no, then banned him from the comp when he pushed it.
What does he then do? Buys the land the skate park sits on to get back at the kids.
And THAT is what conservatives do when given money by Russian spies to mess with our elections. They screw over kids with the profits.
NYT seems to think “The Final Solution” was a bold housing policy
Something seriously wrong and dangerous has happened to the New York Times. They’ve gone from coddling seditionists to advocating for concentration camps and deportations.
It’s fairly irresistible: Minnesota State Fair is a political proving ground
Did you know our state fair actually have some interesting political history? Give this a read.
In Praise of the Hardest Job in Arlington National Cemetery
I have no idea why any veteran supports Trump given his foul words about their service, and never mind this week’s photo op at Arlington.
Here’s a take from a former member of the Old Guard honoring those who serve there to do the hard job of honoring our fallen.
The One Sin White Evangelicals Couldn’t Forgive Barack Obama For
It was an instant classic when written and relevant since the Obamas took the big stage last night.
Racism, and the embrace of hatred, endorsed by nearly all Christian denominations in this country since the 1980s is why I don’t go to church anymore. Trump just doubled down on it and is successful in getting Christians to agree to the worst possible things.
The DNC roll call featured a musical salute to each state. Here’s what your state chose
Not bad, not bad at all.
They *did* wimp out on Iowa though.
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
I mean, I am not an education specialist or a journalist, but this headline – and assumption – are just ridiculous.
Pro-tip for modern American journalism. If a Republican says something is about saving money or freedom? It is about NEITHER.
At least for you. Vouchers are for sending public money to private institutions that can’t make it on their own. It is about tax breaks for folks who don’t need them. It is about denying children a proper education on the public end, and to shield children from properly learning about the real world on the private end.
It is about taking from the poor and kicking them while they are down some more for cheap jollies. That’s it.
If I were an employer, I’d hesitate to hire someone who hid from the world in homeschooling, or private/parochial schools without at least asking why it was done. You are getting an incomplete person, even with the finest instructors. Public schools *should* be better, I agree, but life lessons are learned from being challenged, not running away and saying, “screw you and your’s, I’ve got mine (on your dime)”.