Lula said his predecessor lived "fake news morning, afternoon and night."
POTUS jokes: "sounds familiar." pic.twitter.com/g7C3ZF67Vr
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) February 10, 2023
"I believe that we have to continue to stand up for democracy and our democratic values that form the core of our strength," Biden told Lula in the Oval Office. "Our strong ties between our people put us on the same page, particularly … on the climate crisis." #Brazil #potus pic.twitter.com/iXnLTXDmso
— Anthony Boadle (@AnthonyBoadle) February 10, 2023
Worth the three minutes to watch, IMO:
What do these two leaders have in common? https://t.co/71szOYAFFE
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 10, 2023
Biden addresses debt-limit standoff with governors: “I believe we can be fiscally responsible without threatening our country” pic.twitter.com/UeQliEb9kk
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) February 10, 2023
NEW: President Biden will travel to Poland Feb. 20-22 to mark the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, @PressSec announces
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) February 10, 2023
"The Feb. 20-22 visit comes as signs point to waning support for maintaining tens of billions of dollars worth of assistance for Ukraine. Russia, meanwhile, is believed to be planning a renewed offensive in conjunction with the anniversary."https://t.co/DwS6rHP6tb
— darlene superville (@dsupervilleap) February 10, 2023
Two more years of bad punditry, because something has to fill those column inches, {sigh}…
He's not facing a challenger because he's very popular among the party and he's had a productive first term. I know trying to explain this to pundits is like trying to explain Mozart to a penguin but most Democrats like Biden and think he's doing a good job. https://t.co/ABqNqg4liq
— Franklin Stove Expropriator (@agraybee) February 10, 2023
Baud
Biden humor is awesome.
Baud
I’m not giving Perry Bacon, Jr. a click, even though I’m curious what a clear way to choose an alternate would look like. I guess it’s easier to replace a leader in a parliamentary system, but people don’t vote directly for the leader in those systems.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
rikyrah
We like 46!
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
eclare
I am so glad it looks like Biden will cruise to renomination. A contested primary would be disastrous. Hopefully we can watch TFG and Rhonda Sandtits destroy each other.
NotMax
On TCM at 10 p.m. Eastern tonight, Sergeant Rutledge. Woody Strode in top acting form.
Another Scott
OT – Thanks AL for all that you, and the rest of the front pagers, do for us here on B-J. I’m too often a cynical critic of things in the news and know that that comes off as criticizing the work of bringing it to us for discussion. That’s not my intention, but I know that it can be annoying and aggravating all the same. Sorry when that happens!
Have a good weekend!
Cheers,
Scott.
p.a.
I do occasionally consider re-upping to twitter for the chance to call the Chaits of the world fuckwads.
Do miss Charles (LGF) Johnson’s comments. Don’t see him linked here much; has he bailed from twitter?
CCL
@Another Scott: for what’s worth, I always find your comments researched, reasoned, helpful and refreshingly kind.
Tdjr
@eclare: Rhonda Sandtits! I love it!!
eclare
@Tdjr: Someone here used it yesterday, I can’t remember who. And I instantly stole it!
Baud
I apologize for nothing!
H.E.Wolf
Misogyny is so much a part of the world’s cultures that we don’t always notice it. Take nicknames, for instance.
Ron DeSantis is a horrible person. I get twitchy when we indicate “horrible” by making it female.
OzarkHillbilly
The truth about Andrew Tate: ‘His home is less Hollywood hideaway, more rundown meat factory’
A longish but interesting read about a truly loathsome individual. Fair warning, don’t read if you want to avoid the somewhat graphic descriptions of misogynistic behavior and abuse.
Princess
Everyone has forgotten that the GOP basically cancelled all their primaries in 2020 because they were so scared someone would run against Trump. The Dems are holding primaries, only no one credible will run because we like Joe and he’s doing a bad job. But we’re not keeping the media entertained enough with Dems in disarray stories.
Baud
@Princess:
I assume there’s a missing “not”.
Ken
@Baud: Or a missing “ass”.
Baud
@Ken:
I’ve never really noticed Joe’s ass. He does ride bikes though, so I assume that pays dividends.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: One of my old caving buddies (rip Walter) regularly rode a bike for years. He had an ass that could crack walnuts.
Jeffro
@Princess: wait…you’re saying Marianne Williamson isn’t credible?
LOL
Princess
@Baud: ack! It was supposed to be “good”! He’s doing a good job. A great job! Best president in my lifetime!!
Gvg
The media must be being paid to write this nonsense about a chance Biden will not be the nominee. A contested primary for an incumbent President just does not happen very often and when it does, it ends badly for the challenger. I mean yes it does weaken the incumbent but it does not result in a different nominee. If Biden’s health gets bad, he will step aside, and Harris will run. That has been the obvious truth since he picked her her for VP. Too obvious, the writers would not get paid much if they reported it then moved on to….working to informing us about something we don’t know but might want or need to know.
Nobody good is going to run against Biden because they care about their career and don’t want to throw it away. Also they don’t want to be hated by the majority of potential loyal democratic voters who know we need to stick together right now more than most times in history. Not only is the democratic government elected caucus very United right now compared to history, they reflect their voters to a large degree who are also unusually aware that this is no time for purity politics and internal fights. Remember how careful most of the candidates were in the last primaries to not attack each other in ways that could be used against the party in the general? The serious candidates were careful. The freaks got 1 to 3 % of the votes partly because they were clueless on the rules. This is not some decades in the past, it is now and we know where we are. So Biden is going to run and we are going to support him and these news articles are written by stupid people.
WV Blondie
I think WaPo got so beaten up about their RW hacks (Thiessen, Olson, a couple others that I assiduously avoid), they decided they needed a LW hack to help counterbalance. I read that column by Perry Bacon Jr. and remembered again why I never bother.
Jeffro
We should probably remember that this is the same snooze media that at various times has tried to tell us all sorts of nonsense in the hopes of generating clicks or whatever.
Think “Bloomberg 2020”.
Baud
@Jeffro:
Bloomberg was never too old for the media.
Steeplejack
@H.E.Wolf:
Darth Santis.
Jeffro
Henry Olsen alllllllmost gets it: Republicans Must Stop Biden From Stealing Their Populist Thunder
(I don’t know that they have “thunder”, Henry…more like a thin veneer of populism over their usual plutocrat bullshit
Um what? That’s exactly what President Biden and the Democrats are offering, thanks! >(
Olsen’s just mad that by doing this, the Rs are going to be left with nary a fig leaf to be found and revealed for the bottomless haters that they are.
Jeffro
@Baud: truth
(even though they’re the exact same age!)
I wonder if Fox hosts are hyping The Return of Hillary yet (as part of their endless ‘Joe’s too old/who will replace him?’). It feels like they are overdue.
ETA: my bad, it’s The Hill that is already throwing it out there for ’24. I wonder if they understand how name recognition works in politics?
Ken
Indirectly, at least, since they make a lot more in advertising revenue from a multi-candidate primary season.
Mind you, I’m not ruling out direct payments…
Ken
My party trick is reciting W. S. Gilbert’s “The Yarn of the Nancy Bell”.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: My party trick is to stand against a wall and not say a damned thing.
eclare
@Jeffro: Ronald “I’m from the government and I’m here to help are the scariest words” Reagan made a case for affirmative government intervention?
I want whatever he’s smoking.
Kay
That’s the trajectory of every single panic, ever. It was always going to end up here. Oh, well, Maybe they can write another stupid, self-aggrandizing pompous “letter” to address the speech supression they created. That’s about all they’re good for – they’ll be no help at all in actually stopping DeSantis.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: So I googled “The Yarn of the Nancy Bell”. It’s a fun bit.
Kay
Nice leader the antiwokesters got there. Tell me again how these people are “liberals”. We should definitetly take their advice on electioneering and cower before the mighty Ron DeSantis.
Jeffro
@Kay: Gov Youngkin and his allies in the VA House are going this route, as well, demanding to know just how much money state universities are spending on DEI.
If I had my way, the universities would respond with, “All of it. Every penny of our budget, when you think about it, goes to DEI. Right? Your move, Gov!”
(I say this with the luxury – for now and knock on wood – of having a Democratic majority in the State Senate, which is keeping all. kinds. of. nonsense. from passing)
gene108
@Jeffro:
Olsen doesn’t get what would make Republican rule permanent. A socially conservative candidate, who supports strong social safety net programs.
In 2016, Trump showed Republican voters don’t really care about traditional Republican economic policies. Trump talked about cheap affordable healthcare, taxing Wall Street, and strengthening Social Security and Medicare and Republican voters happily embraced it.
Jeffro
@eclare: revisionist history is awesome, isn’t it? =)
Wanderer
@Another Scott: You are always sincere, kind and respectful and I always learn something from your posts. I agree that we have a great group of front pagers.
OzarkHillbilly
It was not until the last paragraph that somebody mentions the first thing I thought of:
Yeah.
eclare
@Kay: When I went to get one of my covid shots at Walgreens, all the pharmacy people were wearing “Walgreens supports DEI” t-shirts. Walgreens. Big Corp. Big pharma. People can shout all they want, that train has left the station.
Cameron
@Kay: I guess they never heard about reaping the whirlwind.
Kay
@Jeffro:
That’s okay. Someone else wil clean up the mess these frightened ninnies made with their dumb “woke” panic- they should go look for another imaginary existential threat to start a panic over.
They’ll have no part or role in the resistance to the state actor speech supression they actively promoted and cheered on – useless. Ordinary people will clean it up, as usual.
Jeffro
@gene108: yeah I don’t know about ‘socially conservative’ or not…the majority of Americans are fairly socially liberal.
But you’re right about supporting a strong social safety net: that is something that BIG majorities of Americans (even majorities of Rs) want. It’s just that the Rs don’t want it for those people, and the crazy-ass R leadership & donors don’t want it for anyone.
Kay
@eclare:
Boy, DO NOT make fancy people sit thru a corporate training session! They DO NOT like that!
It’s like we herded these big fucking coddled babies into work camps. They’ve been punishing us for 4 years because they were forced to undergo 4 hours of diversity awareness training.
The “forced” is my favorite part of the whne. In their world apparently no one “forces” them to do anything at work. “Forced training” – my God! That’s…inhumane. You mean they make you TRAIN at work?
OzarkHillbilly
Dark Brandon strikes again:
I await Republican cries of Biden’s smuggling illegal immigrants into the US.
gene108
@Kay:
I wonder what’s going to happen to precious white conservative children, when they enter an ever more diverse workforce and, since they never had any DEI or SEL training, say something racist or sexist that gets them fired?
Or is the current conservative plan to make sure only the children of rich and powerful conservatives get good K-12 and college educations?
They really want to take us back to a 19th century stratified society, and basically do away with the social and economic gains of the 20th century.
Ken
Well, you’d been primed by reading “The Yarn of the Nancy Bell”.
Or had read of the earlier archaeological discoveries of human bones with butcher marks, suggesting that our ancestors were not ones to let protein go to waste.
eclare
@Kay: I have taken numerous sexual harassment/diversity and insider trading/collusion classes at work. Yes some examples of what not to do seem ridiculous, but I guess someone has done them or legal would not have included them.
You just click through the screens to get credit recorded somewhere. No biggie to me, but I’m a peon.
Cameron
@gene108: I think that’s the plan in Florida. First turn New College into Christian Nationalist School of Chiropractic, then repeat with all the other state schools. The governor himself,of course,went to Harvard and Yale.
Baud
Can they get rid of cyber security training too?
cmorenc
Um, this is pundit-speak for “Biden is too popular within the party to tempt any potential primary challengers ).
eclare
@Cameron: And his kids go to private school.
Jeffro
Btw since this is an open thread: NFL Films Presents The Kelce Brothers!
I did not know that’s why Travis wears #87!
It’s going to be a fun game – nothing better that watching your #1 and #2 teams square off!! =)
UncleEbeneezer
@gene108: Their goal is probably to try to end employers’ ability to reprimand or fire anyone for racism, misogyny etc. They are deeply resentful of the fact that anyone, anywhere should ever suffer consequences for bigoted behavior. These are the same people who will literally equate “I can’t even say (epithet/slur) anymore” with Slavery.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Journeyman upgrades! They definitely need to be banned. Who needs a safer, more efficient workforce?
Geminid
@Jeffro: Governor Youngkin seems to base his political program on a calculation of what will win Republican Presidential primaries, not what will win General Assembly races this fall.
I hope he does. This year the House of Delegates map will be fairly neutral, after the six elections since 2011 held on a Republican drawn map. I think Democrats will have a lot of opportunities there.
The Senate map is very different from the last one, and Democrats will need to work especially hard in the purple districts. I think the battlegrounds will be in suburbs and exurbs. When the fight is over, hopefully Senator Lucas will be able to add another course to her Brick Wall.
Jeffro
@Kay:
this is exactly what set off Christopher Rufo – one not-great diversity training and we’re off to the races, all across the country, with no end in sight
I wonder if anyone in the media ever interviewed other folks who attended that same training?
“Well, it was a little boring and the facilitator was a little wound up at times, but it’s nothing we didn’t already know. Now Chris…he kept having to excuse himself for some reason or another…”
Matt McIrvin
It’s nuanced, right? If you ask them, most Democrats like Biden, think he’s doing a good job, think he’s too old and don’t want him to run again.
But they won’t necessarily tell you who they want instead (I know some IRL who say Buttigieg; I know many others online who hate Buttigieg with a burning hate that I don’t get 100%; there’s a similar split going on with Kamala Harris, some Dems saying Biden should step aside for her, others saying she’s obviously not the one). And they’ll often dismiss questions of what the hell happens if it’s not Biden.
Kay
There’s a huge Republican corruption case at trial right now in Ohio and I’m just shocked at how bad the defense is- they’ve settled on “this is business as usual- we’re all corrupt!” as a defense – which doesn’t address any of the charges. It’s Trumpian in its laziness and irrelevance to the charges.
Ohioans might have gotten a break- we may be able to convict and remove corrupt Republicans because they have terrible lawyers.
Baud
@UncleEbeneezer:
Finally, I can be honest about my feelings towards Jesus!
Tony Jay
So I was lying in bed last night when my Lefty WhatsApp group started going bonkers with this shit taking place not far from me.
In short, a Far-Right astroturf White Power group called Patriotic Alternative arranged an evening of protest and vilification outside a nearby hotel that is being used to house (as in, intern) asylum seekers. Revved up by the usual copy/paste stories of teenage white girls being accosted by dirty brown perverts (and the Police won’t do nothing in case they get called racist! Honest) and filthy darkies living in luxury while white veterans freeze on the streets, they got a mob going that turned into a minor riot and made the national news.
I can’t even begin to describe how angry and disgusted this makes me, but I’m not even a little bit surprised. My home town of Liverpool is a proud but poor place, heavily Labour and Lefty after decades of being on the Tory shitlist and bombarded with hateful contempt by the wider national culture. When the Far Right turn up on our streets they get driven off right fucking quick.
However, that connection between that ‘Were Scouse, Not English’ mentality and Labour dominance is getting seriously tested by open corruption within the ‘ever so moderate’ Labour-run City Council and the national (New) Labour Party’s cynical campaign to oust any MP, Councillor or Member they deem ‘too Lefty’ (that’s a LARGE majority of the actual Party) by basically shitting all over the Party rule book and suspending anyone who complains.
As always happens when the main institutional mouthpiece of ‘The Left’ stops even trying to lay the blame for poverty and inequality where it belongs, the Right doesn’t just let out a sigh of relief and move on. The Right funds groups like Patriotic Alternative to slither into the gaping vacuum they’ve left behind and lie their arses off about White Replacement Theory and how the depredations of the Tories are just part of the Woke Agenda that can only be resisted by firebombing powerless brown people.
I guess spending nearly a decade shitting all over the ‘hole and change’ message that attracted millions of young people to Labour may turn out to have been a major strategic error on behalf of Nu-Lab and the ‘Liberal Media’. if only someone would have told them so at the time (snark).
So now Liverpool will get shit on even more by the national Press, and in the end it will have to be the actual Left in the city that takes on and beats these racist goons, because there ain’t no one coming to save us but us.
(Seething)
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Safety equipment is woke!
oldgold
@Gvg: “If Biden’s health gets bad, he will step aside, and Harris will run. That has been the obvious truth since he picked her her for VP. ”
Do you think she runs virtually unopposed? If not, what are her chances of securing the nomination? What are her chances in a Harris/Trump contest?
Geminid
This week Vice President Harris will be flying to Europe also, to attend the annual Munich Security Conference from Friday the 17th to Sunday the 19th of February. She will give a speech to the Conference, and hold a number of bilateral discussions on the side.
These are usually part photo-op, mostly substantive. Her bilateral meetings last year were very interesting, I thought
UncleEbeneezer
@Baud: Exception/carve-out, obviously, for saying anything bad about White People, Men, Christians etc. which will be a criminal offense in the Free Speech For All Act of 2024.
delphinium
@eclare: Yeah, I have to take this training along with IT/Security and HIPAA violation avoidance yearly. Not a big deal-much better than all those ridiculous team building exercises and events that used to be pretty popular.
Kay
@Jeffro:
The centrists and liberals and Leftists who went along and promoted this panic are ninnies- they are bad at identifying real threats and should have no role at all in real-world political strategy or tactics.
You watch- now that there is real state action threat to speech they’ll be fucking useless. Someone else will have to clean up after them. They’re all such snobs too. The real victims of the “woke” panic the ninnies started and promoted are not working in higher ed- the real victims are public school teachers. They’re the people taking the brunt of this, but the antiwoke warriors are too snobby and full of themselves to consider them part of “education”.
Frankensteinbeck
@gene108:
Because it was all in the context that only white people would benefit. He fed his followers hate, and everything else was a detail.
@gene108:
is to make racist and sexist behavior not only permitted, but normal. That’s the entire point of the anti-woke mob.
eclare
@delphinium: Those classes were much better and shorter than our annual picnics.
I just sat and sweated through those since they were in June and featured softball and volleyball. Literally nothing for a non-athletic person such as myself to do. And yes, it was not specifically stated, but attendance was for all intents and purposes mandatory.
delphinium
@Frankensteinbeck:
This. They are invested in hate first and foremost.
UncleEbeneezer
@Frankensteinbeck:
“is to make racist and sexist behavior not only permitted, but normal. That’s the entire point of the anti-woke mob.”
Bingo. This is what they mean by “Great Again.” Sure they want to ban abortion, strip voting rights etc., and do all those bigger, worse things, but honestly I think they would have been willing to trade most of those for simply being able to “say it” (and I think you know what I mean) again, without repercussions and social stigma. Nothing Trump (or DeSantis) promotes get them as excited as restoring open bigotry to our cultural norms.
lowtechcyclist
@eclare:
Because of course they do.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: Great movie, won’t want to miss. Also the previous one, A Soldier’s Story with young Denzel Washington, at 8/7Central.
Possible new title music for Meet the Press?
stinger
@Princess: Still, I’m glad for your mistyping, as it generated a hilarious set of responses!
eclare
@Jeffro: That was a good film, touching.
Gvg
@Jeffro: yeah well, if corporations don’t fire bigots, a bunch of their customers will shop elsewhere and their profits will get hurt. Dummies.
People don’t like you because you aren’t likable. Acting worse doesn’t fix the problem. You think we are being MADE to act mean to you. Actually we are being prevented from hauling off and beating you up because that would be descending to your level. Look in a mirror. You are wrong, that is why people are not being nice to you anymore.
lowtechcyclist
@UncleEbeneezer:
I believe it, but that’s gonna be a heavy lift.
As is, employers can fire their workers for just about any reason, or no reason at all – except as discriminatory conduct on the basis of things like sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual oriention, etc. But there’s only a handful of these categories.
I could see them trying to strip the existing anti-discriminatory language out of the laws and make firing at-will across the board, but there really wouldn’t be a good way to make racist, misogynist, etc. into protected classes.
They’d have to find a way to put those categories into the law in a way that’s legally enforceable. And I’m thinking good luck with that – the answer to the question, “did you fire soandso for racist/sexist/etc/ remarks?” would be, “no, I fired him because he was an asshole. He was an asshole in those ways, but his assholism was hardly confined to them. So I got rid of him, because teams don’t work well together when there are assholes on them.”
Gvg
@oldgold: it depends on the timing. If there is a primary, no, it will be a real one and again the serious contestants will be careful not to a attack in ways that give the GOP weapons in the general. She will have Biden’s support in ways that leave him able to support someone else if the voters pick someone else. It’s going to be Dems against the evil clowns.
If he has to step down after winning again or during a term and she is the incumbent then I think the primary will be in name only, unless she is so damaged by something like Johnson was by Vietnam that she chooses not to run. Like I said…dems against the evil clowns.
gene108
@Jeffro:
I think people who identify as social conservatives are a broader group than just conservative evangelicals.
I think people who are truly socially liberal is a small group.
I think a lot of folks think it’s bad for police to murder unarmed people, but the protests should be peaceful, and police reforms shouldn’t interfere with keeping me safe.
Most people are okay with things that don’t directly impact them, like gay marriage, but they aren’t so invested in preserving minority rights that they’d do anything if those rights disappeared.
I think there’s a sweet spot where a politician could demand a reduction in university DEI administrators, while plowing the savings into campus improvements.
At some level what I’m thinking is an updated version of the New Deal coalition that wedded some social conservatives and economic liberals together, with little active pursuit of civil rights issues.
Gvg
@gene108: he didn’t do it though so you can’t say for sure that they really embraced that part over the racism which he did do and gained more loyal support over that. I always thought that was bull and I suspect many of his voters ignored it.
He did not have establishment support at first because of things like that and couldn’t get much done luckily. He said a lot of things. What he did was racist hate.
Omnes Omnibus
Reasonably likely.
Good.
Great.
The Moar You Know
@gene108: I can tell you because this happened last year in my workplace; they fuck up, get ordered to take training, whine, threaten to sue, we drop the demand that they get trained and pray they quit. Nobody wants to go through a lawsuit. I myself have been through one. Never again.
Citizen Alan
@Jeffro: We would have had scandinavian style socialism for the past 50 years if only they could figurgrout how legally limited to white people.
eclare
@Citizen Alan: QFT.
Baud
@gene108:
Truly is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
piratedan
@p.a.: for the most part, yes, he’s moved the largest part of his presence over to The Derm…. (Mastodon) in addition to his own site.
zhena gogolia
@eclare: I think it’s Danb’s coinage.
zhena gogolia
@H.E.Wolf: I think it’s a reference to drag.
Omnes Omnibus
@eclare:
A couple of years ago, my company did bowling as a team building happyfuntime. Bowling. The last time I had bowled was a fraternity pledge bowling thing* in January of 1986, and that was far more an exercise in public depravity than actual bowling.
*On the day that we got our new pledges, we would pick them up from their dorm rooms, bring them to the fraternity house, and do the pledging ceremony. After that, we had a fancy lunch and everyone changed into “bowling clothes” and we piled onto a bus to go a bowling alley (a new one every year for some unknown reason). Then the drinking began… After we we were asked to leave the bowling alley, we would come back and dress up again for a nice dinner. After dinner, the sororities would visit each fraternity house, so everyone could see who joined what. Then more depravity (mostly in the form of singing and drinking, mostly). Then, at some point, it was Sunday morning and one’s head hurt.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Yeppers. Last time I checked, at least half of people identifying as Democrats considered themselves liberal.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Omnes Omnibus: The best team training Mr DAW did at John Deere was working together on a Habitat for Humanity house. They did that several times
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: Heh. There was no depravity in my sorority pledge ceremony.
Omnes Omnibus
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That is good Idea. Even if people aren’t having mandatory fun doing it, some good is being done.
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That’s a great idea! Even a non-athletic person such as myself could carry tools and water bottles to others and wheel a small wheelbarrow.
Omnes Omnibus
@eclare: The ceremony itself was serious and so was the lunch. The rest…
matt
I don’t really understand why people engage with Chait. He’s a shitbird who says stuff to help the Republicans. He should be kicked in the teeth.
Kay
@gene108:
Just interesting to me what triggered this passionate interest in “bloat”. They’re all managers now? In addition to being (low quality) public intellectuals they also want to run the university budget? “Bloat” was fine until someone told them they had to sit thru a training where they were told they might have unconscious bias.
How DARE you. They are IMMUNE from bias. No matter that we have reams of studies that show AA children are punished more harshly than white children for the same offenses in school, not put into gifted programs when they should be, and given less challenging work at school.
No one has any bias, they’re all “colorblind”,but weirdly these unfair things that show bias keep happening.
delphinium
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That is the type of team building I could get behind. Sadly, none of the companies I worked for ever did that.
Sure Lurkalot
@Cameron:
Like how his entourage wanted to ban guns at his election party and blame someone else because guns everywhere is the ultimate in safety everywhere…except near me and my loved ones.
https://wapo.st/3xdS1p1
The guy is the hyp in hypocrite.
J R in WV
@gene108:
I think you are wrong, and I’ll tell you why. Watching TV news the commercials today have families with two guys/women as parents of a loving group of kids. We see two guys, young and in love, kiss in ads.
There is nothing as competitive as advertising. Nothing…
If the ad people didn’t know those ads were going to sell their product, those ads would not be created and paid to be run on major networks. The culture war is over, we won. That simple.
Things could change if the Christo-Fascists take over, of course. Not likely, those people are despicable, and obviously so.
Kay
@gene108:
They thought once they defeated the wokesters Chris Rufo would consult with these “liberals” and they would all discuss academic freedom and speech and come up with a code that is “color blind”
What actually happened is Rufo said ” we’re in charge now” (real quote) and told them all to get fucked.
Hopefully when they purge all the liberals from Florida public schools and universities the ninnies who jumped on the antiwoke bandwagon are the first to get canned. They deserve to have to live with the consequences of their stupid, ginned up panic.
mrmoshpotato
A penguin would understand Mozart better!
H.E.Wolf
I initially mis-read your comment as “Death Santis” and nodded sagely about your insightfulness… however, your actual comment is much better than my misreading!
rikyrah
@UncleEbeneezer:
They have always had free speech.
What they want is FREEDOM FROM CONSEQUENCES OF SAID SPEECH!
They want to party like it’s 1922.
Soprano2
@Kay: On the internet portion of Maher’s show last week Bari Weiss claimed that most of the liberals she knows are “identifying” as gay now because among liberals it’s not “cool” to be straight. She provided no proof, and there was no pushback at all. That’s why it’s important to know what kind of bullshit they’re pushing. I’m sure it’s a lie, but lots of people will think it’s true! 🙄🙄🙄
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@Citizen Alan: Yep, totally.