When I visited DC with my wife and kids we went there!
To think he had to walk through Lafayette square to get there…
I keep on thinking about making a thread about how openly racist large portions of the right have become, and feel that it fits here.
For those not familiar with the players, Charlie Kirk is the founder of Turning Point USA, one of the larger conservative organizations. Ginni Thomas was on the initial advisory board for it, Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle spoke at their most recent national convention. Kirk also did a podcast on MLK Jr. day about how awful MLK Jr. was, and has recently labelled the civil rights act as a modern day Treaty of Versailles for white people. Matt Walsh is one of the most prominent transphobes in the country, and Bill Ackman, who retweeted this crap, is a billionaire fighting against DEI and woke-ism in US universities.
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Then we also have other media personalities saying stuff like:
“I’m so sick of Republicans trying to shy away from the whole narrative that we’re white Christian nationalists,” she continued. “No, that’s what the Republican Party should be. We should try to go back to our traditional roots.”
Moody went on to declare that “America is a white Christian nation, and it’s okay that we want to maintain that nation.”
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hoooh, my sinuses are cleared
Some lessons on the civil rights movement, white supremacy, the women’s suffrage movement and Martin Luther King Jr. may soon be cut from Texas’ public education requirements, according to legislation being considered in the state – one of several bills targeting critical race theory around the country.
The Texas Senate has passed Senate Bill 3 in a continued effort to proscribe education on racial inequality in K-12 education. It removes several Texas Education Code lesson requirements that were proposed by Democrats in prior education legislation to be implemented in the upcoming school year. It also stipulates that lessons cannot teach that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex” or make students “feel discomfort, guilt, [or] anguish” about privilege or systemic racism.
Ok, usual anti-CRT stuff. But what are the details?
The state currently requires teaching “the history of white supremacy,” “the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong; the Chicano movement; women’s suffrage and equal rights; the civil rights movement” and more.
However, SB3 would cut those requirements – a move that some teachers say signals a growing effort to remove specific lessons from classrooms.
Yeah, those are kinda key topics that all Americans should learn in school.
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Boy that would make american history a lot easier.
Let’s just get rid of these…14 chapters… plenty of time to teach the rest.
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Ironic that the GOP gleefully calls the Democratic Party racist because of the early 1900s, but they are trying to erase any evidence of slavery or the Civil Rights Movement.
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On the bright side, we’d make it to WW2 and the cold war!
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Swift encouraged young people to vote. That’s it, right? No suggestions at all on who to support? Nothing even remotely taking sides?
Maga has made them all lose their minds.
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Senator Lankford dared try to find a bi-partisan solution to something and was censured by the OK GOP. Note that the proposed immigration compromise hasn’t even been voted on – the fact that he tried to do his job got him censured by his state party.
Sticking this here because of general anti-democracy leaning. In many definitions of a functioning democracy, having elections with accurate vote counts is necessary but not sufficient. In particular, having a free press that can criticize the government is typically included as being necessary for a democracy, and the Supreme Court has consistently ruled as such, e.g., NYT vs United States.
The 5th circuit, where freedoms go to die, has other opinions.
In a blow to First Amendment advocates, a majority of the judges on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Tuesday not just to throw out a lawsuit by the Laredo citizen journalist and provocateur Priscilla Villarreal, who goes by the name La Gordiloca, but to endorse an expansive view of government power that permits police to arrest reporters for seeking basic information through backchannels.
The majority opinion, authored by Judge Edith Jones, appointed by former President Ronald Regan, finds that local officials were reasonable when they used an obscure Texas law to arrest Gordiloca and thereby criminalize a wide range of what has been considered basic accountability journalism. The ruling applies in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Even many of the conservative justices on the 5th circuit feel that this is a step too far.
The sharply divided Fifth Circuit and impassioned dissenting opinions—three Trump appointees from Texas and one George W. Bush appointee broke with the conservative majority—increases the likelihood the U.S. Supreme Court would take the case up on appeal. On Wednesday, Villarreal said that was her next step.
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There’s also the fact that Kelce is a tool of big pharma promoting vaccination.
And then you have MAGA people reacting to all of that asking “why does everything need to be political”? “I just want to be able to watch an NFL playoff game without having vaccines and Taylor Swift’s liberal agenda being thrown into my face constantly.” Dude, you get triggered any time you see a Bud Light, maybe take a step back and think about why these pretty ordinary things are making you so upset.
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It was both sad but also hilarious how apoplectic they got over people kneeling during the anthem. Like, it made national news for a LONG while.
That’s how I learned they play the entire duration of the national anthem on televised games. Personally that’d be when I walk away to get a snack or something, but a few seconds of somebody quietly not hurting anyone really pissed people off.
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“Freedom for me, not for thee.” In this case, it is “the freedom for me to tell you that you are not free to do things that bother me.”
Yes, the same people who did not want politics shoved in their face during an NFL game chose to have it shoved in their face repeatedly for years through their consumption of Fox News.
Which brings up the whole “but I don’t watch Fox News” defense…right, but all those social media posts you see are all derivatives of that source story.
The irony wasn’t lost on me that it was largely a group of white men telling primarily Black men that they aren’t allowed to protest the remaining effects of white men’s ancestors owning the Black men’s ancestors.
Cause, uh… we don’t do that kinda thing anymore. Now shut up and play for my amusement.
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And the free press is the very first thing that Trump attacked and the MAGA crowd fully embraced those attacks.
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i was watching at a bar. friends took their hats off and asked me about mine. so, since we were seated AND now talking through the anthem, i told them it is part of the experience i take for granted - despite all the uproar, people who can clearly hear the song and even the instructions about standing (or whatever) - we can do whatever the heck we want. seated. yelling. grabbing more booze. yelling about the people not showing enough respect (while showing none ourselves). really was wonderfully freeing!