They really are determined to kill off all of their base aren’t they?
Got a pretty good chuckle outa that, but you forgot Candace Owens.
I’m… pretty sure that they’d find someone to replace Harris as VP.
Presumably Harris wouldn’t have to resign as VP until after she had been confirmed as a Justice, but there’s no point bringing logic into this in the first place.
No, and some people actually think the recent propensity to appoint only judges to the Supreme Court has made it a bit too myopic. In 2010, Patrick Leahy, chair of the Senator Judiciary Committee, called for Barack Obama to appoint someone from “outside the judicial monastery.” (Obama chose Elena Kagan, who was indeed not a judge, though I’m not sure the Solicitor General and former dean of Harvard Law School was really all that far from the judicial monastery.)
Who did Leahy suggest as a candidate? I’d pick Matt Murdock. No way that guy’s ever been a monk!
Let’s start a rumor that Biden is going to nominate Oprah. That should cause some assplosions.
Including confirming a new Vice President.
Not sure how to do the mental gymnastics, but I kinda want to see the Republicans counter-nominate a Good American like Captain Picard.
From cbr.com:
“Why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff, it is not wise or healthy… I am not denying it was horrible, brutal and cruel,” one board member said. “It’s like when you’re watching TV and a cuss word or nude scene comes on it would be the same movie without it. Well, this would be the same book without it… If I had a child in the eighth grade, this ain’t happening. If I had to move him out and homeschool him or put him somewhere else, this is not happening.”
I don’t even remember a nude scene from Maus. All the characters were animals wearing human clothes. Besides, genocide doesn’t inspire pretty language. The only things that really scared these people were inconvenient truths.
One scene was the only comic panel that made me cry. Spiegleman’s father Vladek came across some shoes and pants that would fit another concentration camp prisoner and gave them to him. The prisoner cried, hugged Vladek, and said “God answered my prayers through you.” How can anybody ban such a beautiful story like that, one of hope and joy in the middle of crippling, hellacious misery?
Just in time for Holocaust Memorial Day too.
“I’m not saying they shouldn’t learn about the Holocaust, I’m just saying that they shouldn’t be exposed to how bad it was.”
Way to make Oprah feel like chopped liver…
Chopped liver is better.
Oprah is a fucking idiot.
No, see, they’re just saying that we should have historical fiction about World War II without dwelling on all those silly little irrelevancies like the Holocaust. I mean, it’d be the same story without it, no need to make the Nazis look bad and all.
You’re not wrong.
I liked the quote from one guy, who wished them luck in their quest for “wholesome, family-friendly Holocaust content.”
It’s not that we object to schools teaching about the Holocaust, they need to teach both sides, that’s all
I wonder if this board member allows his child to play realistic, graphically violent video games? Or watch violent movies? (As long as there’s no cussing.)
Are those okay because they’re fiction, but the Holocaust really happened… or did it?
There’s always that Jerry Lewis movie.