Kinda bizarre the reaction one gets when you point out that Mount Vernon and Monticello were forced labor camps ala Stalin’s Russia. It was just done by private citizens and not as an act of governance.
I’d like to report a murder.
It would have helped if his joke was actually funny and not just the same old ‘gotcha’ we’ve seen a hundred times.
Republicans can’t do humor. They only know how to punch down.
Well…yeah. If you punch up, you might get punched back and most Republican’s I know are terrified little children at heart. Selfish fucking cowards, the lot of them.
Bolsonaro. Technically not a Republican, as such, but, close enough. “We have to cut on our rainforest 4 times as fast, butt if you want to save the world, everyone needs to make defecation an every-other-day kind of thing.”
I mean, how much more GOP can he get? Does he have to say it in Inglés?
Given how hard they are, the rage they cause and the way they tend to break with sharp edges, I think the subway may have been worried about the oystershells themselves.
Given that this was in January, they might’ve better worried about the wife’s reaction!
59% of Republicans say colleges and universities have a negative effect on the US.
LOL, ooooohhhhhh, burn!!! I’m going to giggle over this all night!!
A couple of twitter pundits I follow have been predicting the Republican War on Knowledge and Education for a while now. The ramifications of this are pretty big and not just a little funny/sad.
Now I understand how the Dark Ages happened. Willful ignorance promoted by authority.
Holy Cow! These people are so fuckin’ pathetic…
The author Robert Heinlein (as his character Lazarus Long) said something along these lines:
He also called this time “The Crazy Years” in his future history–which ends up with a Fundamentalist ruler of America…
Maybe Ol’Robert knew something…
Heinlein was the Dollar Store of science fiction. If he so much as touched Ursula le Guinn’s typewriter, she’d burn it.
What if he touched Ursula K. Le Guin’s typewriter?
I wonder if that is reflective of a CHANGE in Republican attitudes towards higher education from 2012 to present, or if it is actually more indicative that the more intelligent Republicans who value higher education have simply left the party in the last 7 years.
In other words, the defection of intelligent Republicans has just made the party tilt more towards the idiotic.
Isn’t college the place Trump learned all the best words?
That poll result came up in another thread and the defense for it was along the lines that they didn’t ask for why you thought higher education was negative, and that it could be due to student loan debt or the whole free speech thing and not that the think people being educated is bad for America. Not that I bought that defense. But get ready to hear it again.
Given that there is a sharp dip in the approval of education over the entire population, it would seem to be a shift in attitudes rather than a shift in party identification.