It just adds to the reasons I’m glad I didn’t apply for the actuarial job that FEMA had posted last fall. Had the election gone differently…it looked like a really cool job, given some of my non-actuarial interests.
I don’t get why FEMA staff would be confused. I’d have expected that.
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Not an actual Trump quote but his repost. From MSNBC:
On Saturday night, Trump used his social media platform to amplify an item that claimed that Biden was secretly “executed in 2020,” at which point the public saw “clones,” “doubles” and “robotic engineered soulless mindless entities” that appeared to be the Delaware Democrat.
To be sure, the Republican didn’t personally write this message, but he nevertheless thought it’d be a good idea to amplify the missive, bringing it to the attention of his millions of online followers.
As for why in the world Trump did this, The New York Times reported, “The White House did not respond to requests for comment on the post about Mr. Biden”
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I really hate that weaselly distinction of “didn’t personally write this message” and “not an actual Trump quote”. Someone else may have said it first, but you’ve now said it, too.
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Why did Trump do this? To pull sympathy away from Biden. I hear the same thing out of “christian” and conservative radio. Sympathy, empathy, or acceptance of anything they oppose undermines the hate-based stranglehold they have on their followers. If Biden dies no need to mourn the death of an evil robot/clone.
It’s easy to point to a single individual as being the bad guy. It’s relatively easy to paint that bad guy as still being relevant even when they’re not. But when the bad guy dies, how do you keep your cult focused?
Apparently, you say the bad guy died years ago and point at what “they” did to cling to power.
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This isn’t a darndest thing being said by a Republican; it’s a thing being done in response to a darndest thing said by a Republican.
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Yes, his cognitive state is a major concern. OTOH, describing a founder of the Lincoln project as “A prominent Republican strategist” seems misleading to me.
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They are following all of his plans, so…
(Caution: NSFW for content)
While I’m putting it here because I think entering slang references for fellatio and genitalia into the legislative record are a darnedest thing, the debate itself is interesting. (Debate is over school library book bans.)
My wife is a middle-school librarian. She won’t put certain books on shelves (“age-appropriate”), but she doesn’t let anyone else tell her what she can put on her shelves. She tells them to go to the city library if they want something. I mean, they are essentially asking her to buy something to put in her (the school’s) library. For example, she bought “Maus,” a animated holocaust story published in 1991, won a Pulitzer. She read it, I read it. She told her principal that she wanted to add it to the library. Bad mistake. He notified the Director of Middle Schools, who then passed it on to the Superintendent. My wife told the Superintendent that she was going to put it in her library regardless. And it is there today.
I wonder if this legislator thinks that her speech, a public one at that, should be made available in the public schools?
Talked to my wife about the first two books notes, “l8r, g8r” and “Me, Earl…”. They were donated to her school and she passed them on to the high school
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I think Maus is great. We shouldn’t be overly squeamish about children learning about historical events, imo. The nazis certainly didn’t hold back.
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MTG confirms my earlier post that many Republicans don’t know what is in the bills they support.
It helps to be able to read.
Or to have staff who know how to read.
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That’s the problem with big omnibus bills (and why they are forbidden in some states): While they provide a way to keep things moving and get political…er, “consensus”… there’s a great risk of all sorts of miscellaneous crap being hidden inside.
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If we just don’t look at it we can all agree!
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That is a major difference between Canadian and US legislation: we do not have these giant omnibus bills but rather primarily single subject bills.
I have some (but not much) sympathy for US legislators who miss some of the finer points in bills they are reviewing. But the AI state provisions were pretty significant.