Well, they consider “racist” to be an insult, so there is an upside, here.
Local Republican Northern California State Senator says we don’t need to worry about water regulations any more despite multiple years of drought, because it’s raining. “this lays bare their ‘permanent drought’ plan that will let them limit and control water use forever to meet their environmentalist agenda”
College Republicans at Central Michigan University had a Valentine’s Day party. Somebody at the party handed out a Valentine’s card with a picture of Hitler on it and the caption, “My love 4 U burns like 6000 Jews”.
In the midst of all that is truly awful about that idea, I note the one additional tiny speck of awfulness that is apparently not knowing the difference between six thousand and six million.
“Well, really, it’s more a bad case of like, not love.”
CMC fnord!
Maybe they mixed it up with the age of Earth. #republicanfacts
…except that would require them to admit the Holocaust actually happened.
The evidence indicates that they cannot comprehend what “racist” means. It baffles, befuddles and discombobulates them. For all they know, we are insulting them in French.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R - Calif) is havinga bit of difficulty with geography:
To his credit, he doesn’t think it’s an imaginary place like, say, Ubeki-beki-stan-stan-stan; he just thinks all those so-called Macedonians should just man up and join Kosovo or Bulgaria or wherever. Because it’s not like there’s ever been any local issues in the Balkans over ethnic and cultural identity or indeed over the name “Macedonia”.
Also to his credit, he was right that his idiocy made a lot of people mad at him.
Has anyone mentioned Trump’s 3am phone callyet?
In this case it was Trump making the call. Because he wanted to know whether a strong dollar or weak dollar was better for the economy, which I guess he couldn’t remember from his Wharton days and his acute business smartitude was too busy with other stuff to figure out.
So naturally - instead of Googling what is a basic Econ 101 question - he called an expert on his staff. But not an expert on economics. No, he called General Flynn, who apparently told him to fuck off and call an actual economist.
BIG HONKING CAVEAT: This is a HuffPo story, so there is a greater-than-average chance that the story diverges from reality to some degree. Take with as many grains of salt as you like. Also, I added the “fuck off” bit above for narrative color.
I can certainly imagine Mike Flynn saying “Fuck off!” (Maybe not to his boss, though.)
I’ll give him credit for realizing he didn’t know. That’s a step.
Time for mid-winter re-runs: the Texas lege is floating another religious freedom bill, which would enjoin state licensing agencies from punishing their professional subjects who withhold services based on religious beliefs.
So, doctors would not be required to look at homosexuals, fundamentalist teachers or police could countenance domestic violence, and so forth. Apparently, there is a high-profile public restroom bill that is affording nice cover to slip this thing in under the radar.
Yeah, supporters of the bathroom bill are already saying that Texas is too big to boycott, like businesses and sports leagues are doing with North Carolina, so they can boldly go ahead with their bathroom bill.
Representative Terri Lynn Weaver (R-Lancaster), state representative in Tennessee, has introduced a bill that would repeal Tennessee Annotated Code 68-3-306, that declared that a child born of artificial insemination is legitimate.
I’m still trying to wrap my mind around why they even bothered with originally declaring such children to be legitimate, much less why they’re now considering reversing that position to make the children illegitimate. I’m not sure, but I think the equivalent senate bill has either already been passed by the senate, or has been approved to be sent to the senate for a vote.
I mean, seriously, WTF?
Have you got your Trump Gaydar Device yet? Or is there an app for that?
What happens when someone refuses to serve someone because they are gay, and they deny it? Shouldn’t there be some kind of public declaration, to warn people not to go to a certain doctor’s office if they’ve got the gay? What about if a guy gets injured, and has an sudden attack of the gay in the ambulance, and Dr Norm Straight refuses to treat him?
I mean, if gayitude is a choice, if people decide to be gay as a response to the tempting array of privileges and status it confers, who’s to say it can’t happen suddenly? And back again, for that matter. “Love to, thanks, but I’m scheduled to be straight next Tuesday, how about a week from Saturday?”
WTF indeed?
F’rinstance, what does the term “legitimate” (to say nothing of its counterpart, “illegitimate”) mean in Tennessee law, when applied to children?
On a peripheral note, does the gentlewoman from Lancaster have any plans to resurrect the doctrine of “corruption of blood” in the state’s penal code?
(ETA: or possibly, introduce it; I have no knowledge of whether it was ever a thing in the Volunteer State.)
Eight years later and there’s one lie that Republicans just can’t help going back to;
That’s definitely a bastard of a law.
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According to Wikipedia, the US Constitution specifically prohibits “corruption of blood” as a punishment for treason, but I don’t expect it addresses the “legitimacy” of a child’s birth.