- An all-expenses-paid trip to see Salisbury Cathedral and a free lunch voucher for Itsu, Piccadilly.
It isn’t exactly a stupid Republican idea, more like stupid conservative media idea, but I couldn’t be bothered to start a new thread. Back in 2017, the right wing got all wound up when Antifa threatened a small group of Civil War reenactors in Virginia. The reenactment group received letters saying Antifa opposed them for celebrating slavery. At one point, a crude pipe bomb was found during a reenactment. Conservative media took all this as evidence that the left was anti-history and middle aged men couldn’t get their jollies running around in wool overcoats and shooting off muskets anymore.
Only…probably not. The FBI now believes the letters and pipe bomb were the creation of a former member of the reenactment group who was pissed off at having been pushed out. They were all apparently an elaborate revenge plot. Antifa, shockingly, has little interest in how a dozen or so cosplayers spend their weekends.
I knew a woman who was a CW reenactor, being a horsewoman, some Virginia cavalry regiment. When Glory premiered the group attended enmasse. They debated whether they should show up in costume or not, and decided it was a bad idea.
Republicans in Tennessee are worried that women will abuse the privilege of buying pads and tampons tax-free during the upcoming tax holiday.
Jim Bakker is selling something on his broadcasts called Silver Solution, which he claims will cure coronavirus.
An invitation to tea in London.
- Trump coming up behind him.
“Why, I hear some women have got themselves two or three extra vaginas just so they could take advantage of the cheaper products!”
I’d feel bad about this but the suckers who fall for this are the same suckers who support Trump.
Assuming it’s colloidal silver, the fact it turns your skin blue is overlooked. At least it’s not black.
If my conscience ever let me sell snake oil, the first thing I’d get is a mailing list of Trump campaign donors.
Because of course Republicans love taxes, as long as they only fall on women.
And poor people.
Damn straight! ParTAY! We’re going to dip tampons in glitter and spin them around by the strings like a stripper whipping her bra off at a bachelor party.
Oh, wait, that was a secret??
From the above link,
You can call a thing “Silver Solution”, but that is just a name, like a “Bronze Plan” health insurance policy, which has no actual bronze in it. Or it could be one of those homeopathic-like “treatments”, where the water once came briefly in contact with some silver.
Silver Solution is the perfect name for that trash he’s selling. It’s his solution to get your silver.
Forty pieces of because, inflation.
CMC fnord!
I always thought the Smurfs were evil. I hope this shit catches on so then we can see the bastards coming.
Stupid Republican asshole Nicholas Meriwether is a professor at a public university. Because he is a evangelical Christian and that fact (for reasons I still cannot fathom) requires him to be a complete asshole to people he thinks are sinners, he refused to treat a transgendered woman in his class with common respect. While using the requested form of gender identity (Mr., Mrs. or Ms.) for all his students, he singled out the transgendered one and just called her by her last name.
After numerous back and forth between the “I have a religious right to be an asshole” teacher and school administration (which had a specific Nondiscrimination policy), he was issued a written warning for creating a hostile work environment for the student. He appealed to the school, lost, and then, of course, sued in federal court. He claimed he has a right to be a dick, both for free speech and for religious reasons. He lost, appealed again, and just a few days ago, lost again. I hope, but do not necessarily expect, this is the end of it. And, putting aside the legal issues, a hearty fuck you to a guy who refuses to treat all people with respect and hides his assholishness behind religion. And a fuck you to all the people and corporations that think their religious beliefs requires them to be dicks to others. I like to think Jesus would be very, very sad at them.
How come their religion requires them to be assholes? Jesus specifically said not to be an asshole, but these guys always seem to dabble in Jesus’ works as a cover for really devoting themselves to sphincterhood.
Unless she was changing money in the classroom, in which case feel free to kick her desk over.
An afterthought occurs - what if a religious person considers certain words/phrases to be taboo, i.e. has an aversion to saying “yahweh” out loud, and has a student from a country where neither English nor Hebrew is spoken and happens to have a name that, when transliterated, sounds like “yahweh” but has no connection to the religious concept in the student’s language? Could the professor mumble the name? Refer to that student (possibly only that student) by an alternate name? Does the student have grounds to object? The professor’s beliefs aren’t being challenged - he’s free to believe whatever he wants about the meaning of the student’s name - but if he’s referring to all his students by their names and makes an exception for this student, is that unreasonable?
I’d say “yes”, myself - leave that stuff at home, Prof. Do your job. If a student comes along later and insists their name is something deliberately offensive, i.e. “My name is John Franklin Jesus-Sucked, please respect the hyphen”, I think reasonable people can judge who is being the aggressor.