Gonna need a 7 second delay on the broadcasts now because Republicans are shitty fucking people.
What powers does a House Chairman have? Judge Julius Hoffman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois had Bobby Seale bound and gagged in 1969; could Chairman Schiff order Jordan bound and gagged?
Has the House leadership hired deputies for the Sergeant-at-Arms? I think we’re at the point where it would be derelict not to.
Representatives might start exercising their right to bear gutta-percha canes.
11/13/19
Lindsay Graham single handedly blocks a Congressional resolution calling Turkey’s murders of Armenians “genocide”. Right after he and several other Republicans (no Democrats) were invited by Individual 1 to a private meeting with Erdogan.
To be fair, some of the people who deny genocide are very fine people.
And he was absolutely correct in doing so. It is unhelpful to muddy the terms used in debate, when Turkey didn’t commit atrocities based on or out of any sort of genetic or racial theory, which is what the word “genocide” expicitly implies. At the very worst, it was simply a case of ethno-cultural cleansing in response to practical problems caused by multiculturalism. I think we can all see the distorsion and misdirection critics on the Left are applying to this issue, and we all have a pretty clear notion of why.
(Yes, this is satire)
To be fair, the Armenian Genocide is one of those politically fraught issues where stating the obvious conflicts with realpolitik (see also the refusal to recognize Taiwan as independent from the People republic of China). The refusal to acknowledge it has been the US policy for decades, so its not clear that that long standing policy would have changed were it not for the Erdoğan meeting.
Of course, but then issues like that also function as a moral shibboleth that (IMO) are ultimately counterproductive even when you accept realpolitik as valid. If you’re not willing to describe reality, or condemn the black/white morally condemnable ; then why on Earth would I give a token shit about your moral condemnation of my actions ? Or, flipped around, if you yourself are convinced of the moral underpinning of your own actions, their principled roots and their ultimately leading to a greater good ; why do you feel you have to lie at any point ? Just argue that “yes, it’s genocide, but it’s OK because…”. That does make you look like a monster, but… yes.
As an obscure French punk says, “you cannot claim righteousness while advancing in meandering reptations and détours”.
Nov 13
The Ohio House has passed a bill and sent it to the Senate that would prevent schools from giving students failing grades if they turn in work that is based on their religious views instead of the information their teachers provided.
There is a little bit more to the bill than that. However, I don’t understand this part:
I’m pretty sure my kids (in Maryland) can engage in religious expression all they want at any time. Ohio needs a law to say this? Stupid Ohio, glad I moved out of that craphole.
Personally, I’m all for religious people engaging in religious expression to the exact same extent as lay or atheist people.
That will come in handy for math tests.
Perfect comic Steve.
Next up, “The Earth is Flat”
It’s a tough choice for the President - does he want to cozy up to Erdogan or stay friends with Kanye & Kim?
Well, there is that bit in the Bible about Pi being equal to exactly 3. When it comes to them taking the SAT test will Ohio students be similarly excused?
Tedra Cobb, Eiise Stefanik’s Democratic opponent, has gotten more than $100,000 in contributions since Stefanik’s antics at the impeachment hearings yesterday.
It’s just part of their damn “We are the persectued ones” line of bullshit.
A Colorado radio host was discussing Individual-ONE’s former [del]liar[/del]lawyer Roy Cohn when a canned newscast started stepping on his broadcast and the station manager stepped into the booth to let him know that his nose was inadequately Orange, and it was time for him to be looking for a job elsewhere.
(I mean, who deliberately chooses “KNUS” for call letters? How stupid can you get?)
November 18, 2019
Kanye West went on stage with evangelist Joel Osteen tonight, and snapped at his congregation to be quiet while he talked.