On Wednesday, during an Indiana state Senate committee hearing about a proposed bill that would ban “divisive concepts” in school classrooms, Republican Sen. Scott Baldwin said teachers’ lessons about fascism and Nazism should be impartial.
“Marxism, Nazism, fascism … I have no problem with the education system providing instruction on the existence of those ‘isms,’ ” said Baldwin, who co-wrote the bill. “I believe that we’ve gone too far when we take a position. … We need to be impartial.”
As is standard practice these days, right after spewing this ridiculous piece of shit, the senator attempted to suck the words back into his mouth (cf. Ted Cruz):
Baldwin backtracked those comments Thursday following criticism. In an email to the Indianapolis Star, Baldwin said he was focused on the “big picture” of preventing teachers from telling students “what to think about politics.”
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This is the “gift” link, so the article should not be paywalled.
Mehmet Oz posted a video of him campaigning as a carpetbagger in Pennsylvania. The video shows “Doctor” Oz giving a guy a blood pressure test. Neither of them wore a mask. He used a manual bp cuff without a stethoscope. He took the pressure over the guy’s heavy flannel shirt. They were both talking during the test. The guy didn’t have his feet flat on the floor, and he was leaning forward. The cuff was upside down.
I checked out the video, it looked to me like an automatic cuff, had one of those boxes with the LCD display attached to it, but yes it was over the shirt and upside down.
Mine does, but I have high BP, so he takes a specific interest in the measurement.
Even the most generous reading that takes Baldwin’s “retraction” at face value illustrates how broken Republican/conservative “philosophy” is.
You can’t focus on the “big picture” of preventing teachers from telling students “what to think about politics” and yet fail to come up with a way to articulate that that doesn’t allow for someone to say “Nazis were and are probably, on the whole, bad people.”
His “mis-speaking” shows (again in the most generous interpretation), a complete failure to understand the simplest and most direct consequences of the things he is advocating.
I also have to wonder: How is it he’s only finding out about this now?
The world-wide death rate has been elevated since the pandemic began, and elevated by numbers that can’t be solely attributed to COVID deaths. We’ve known about this for well over a year now. How is it that a federal-level politician is so poorly informed that this came as a surprise to him, at this late date?
Hell, the increase in other deaths is one of the big reasons we needed to take COVID seriously. We knew that the pressure it would put on all other aspects of our society would cause other secondary problems, and increased mortality from other causes was one of those things.
People aren’t voting for him to understand what’s happening with COVID. It’s literally not his job. The majority of the people of Indiana expressly wanted someone who is incapable of understanding issues like this.
Ted Cruz says they’re going to impeach Biden if they take over the House, and MqQarthy says he will strip Ilhan Omar, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of committee assignments
I also think it’s possible that Baldwin genuinely believes that kids should NOT be told that ‘herding people into gas chambers and murdering them by the millions’ is A Bad Thing. Because, you know, kids need to be aware that doing something like that might be what God and/or the Dear Leader requires of us.
That’s a riot! From those who felt that Trump should not be impeached, I’m sure they have good reasons why Biden should be. Seriously, I’m sure they have those. They must. Right?