Dog knows Republican hypocrisy is nothing new, but the noisy wingnut school board shouters sure contain an above-average share of depraved and violent individuals. The latest example comes from Bucks County, Pennsylvania: (Source: PhillyBurbs.com)
A former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor candidate and outspoken voice in the conservative “parental rights” school movement has been charged with punching a teenager while hosting an underage drinking party at her Bucks County home in September.
Clarice Schillinger, 36, is facing criminal charges of assault, harassment and furnishing minors with alcohol during her daughter’s birthday party, according to the case filed in late October. Her attorney has denied all charges and said she will fight them in court…
In the recent criminal case, Schillinger is accused of punching a partygoer several times in the face during a series of alleged outbursts by drunken adults at her home on Liz Circle in Doylestown, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
The documents state that during the event — which started Sept. 29 and went past midnight — Schillinger’s then-boyfriend allegedly grabbed a 16-year-old by the neck for intervening in a fight between the couple and hit a 15-year-old in the face during an argument over football. According to the allegations in court papers, her intoxicated mother* also punched the older teen in the eye and chased him around the kitchen island. Police said they had cellphone recordings of some of these reported events.
The report notes it wasn’t the first time the cops had been called to Schillinger’s house to bust up melees that involved underage drinking. According to the article, Schillinger poured shots for the teens and played beer pong with them before the fisticuffs broke out.
Like the scandal-plagued Moms for Liberty, Schillinger’s group appears to be an AstroTurf outfit run by Republican operatives that started locally and then expanded. While folks who care about children agonized over the human toll of the COVID crisis and its effects on students and public schools, these pricks, along with elected officials like Youngkin and DeSantis, sensed a political opportunity.
“Back To School USA is really going to be focused on putting candidates in place that will put our children and their education first,” Schillinger said. “Right now, we are not doing that. We are more focused on these woke and gender ideas.”
Well, I’ve heard enough from these panic-mongering hypocrites. Maybe we liberals who are rightly concerned about depraved Republicans assaulting our schools and corrupting our kids should think about forming groups of our own to chase the destructive bullies out of districts and see that lawbreakers like Schillinger are brought to justice.
We could think of catchy names for our groups to attract media attention. The Ziegler and Schillinger types have already co-opted motherhood. Maybe “Americans United Nationally To Indict & Expel Fascist Assholes” or “AUNTIE FA” for short?
Open thread!
*I feel so sorry for the birthday girl. Not only did her embarrassing and inebriated mom and the mom’s abusive boyfriend attack schoolmates — her drunk grandma did too! My advice would be to apply to West Coast colleges.
Lyrebird
Sign me up! AUNTIE FA here!
I wish this story surprised me more. Sometimes I even wish I were up for brawling like the elder Schillingers. People like them used to say nasty things about my mom for quietly and fairly graciously filing for a no-fault divorce with joint custody: “broken family” “so selfish”… @$$holes.
FastEdD
Ah, the well of stupid never runs dry. It is a renewable resource.
Victor Matheson
I am a parent of a college first-year student and a high school senior.
There are many hard things about being a parent of teenage girls. Refraining from punching any of their friends in the face after serving them all shots at a birthday party is not one of them. I mean, not assaulting my kids’ friends is, like, the easiest part of the job, by far.
Raoul Paste
An argument over football… Sigh. I suppose we are lucky that there were no loaded guns lying around.
Alison Rose
As a nice counter, here’s a Republican actually doing something kinda decent!
Of course, the Republicans might override the veto, because while conservatives love to scream about NOT COPARENTING WITH THE GOVERNMENT!!!! they sure like to turn the government into the parent when it suits their bigotry.
sdhays
@Victor Matheson: It’s easy when you’re not getting drunk with your teenagers and aren’t a MAGA lunatic who feeds off rage.
mrmoshpotato
Bravo!
Gets better.
Kay
There was supposed to be a big rebellion where all parents started hating public schools after covid- Barry Weiss and the other elite anti woke ninnies predicted it- but it never happened.
Our local superintendent gave an “update” on covid learning loss – he says the kids are making up ground they lost quickly and his initial dire analysis might have been overly pessimistic- which shouldn’t really surprise anyone. Kids are pretty flexible. Unlike the adult ninnies, they roll with the punches.
JaneE
I know it depends on the state, but giving drinks to underage children who are not your own children is not really legal anywhere.
I know the parental rights crowd thinks it is ok for them to exercise rights over everyone’s child, but they are still breaking the law.
Jharp
The wonders of alcohol.
The older I get the less I want to be around any of it and I’ve drank plenty.
The folks that ban alcohol in their homes have a very strong case.
Kay
May I just say that this drunken melee involving adults is only a suprise to people who don’t work in juvenile courts in Trump country? They’re really good at scolding and opining on parenting- not so good at actually doing it. Stories like this are a weekly thing in our court. We’re probably lucky it didn’t also involve the boyfriend going after the high school girls sexually.
Do people not know you can be charged for serving minors? It’s been true for at least 30 years.
mrmoshpotato
Fuck ’em, Jake. It’s Trumptrashtown.
Kay
@JaneE:
Here they would both be prosecuted- the kids for drinking and the adults for serving and also assaulting This is absolutely ordinary and shouldn’t surprise the Mom for Liberty. They also shouldn’t be surprised that the teenage guests recorded the whole thing. Of course they did. They record even when it implicates them.
Kay
Telling parents they always know what’s right for their kids and always do what’s right for their kids was a mistake. It simply isn’t true. I know the former governor of VA was villified for saying it isn’t true, but he was right. Anyone who gives it even a moment of thought knows it isn’t true.
Parents Rights is predicated on a smarmy lie intended not to benefit children but instead make shitty parents feel better about themselves so I figured it would end badly. It had to.
Jinchi
I suppose it’s my bias of assuming grandmothers are little old ladies in rocking chairs, but if 36 year old Clarice Schillinger has a 17 year old daughter, odds are good that the grandmother is in her mid 50s.
So now I’m picturing someone like Marjorie Taylor Green.
rikyrah
She called the palm colored out for whining about the lack of “third spaces”👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8QHve1Q/
Kay
I hear parents “who would know better what MY CHILD need at school than me?” Always the MY CHILD because part of this is about ownership – they hold title to this child! Don’t forget who owns the child!
Who would know better? I don’t know- maybe a teacher? I think it’s entirely possible a teacher knows more about what your child needs at school than you. Maybe not! But maybe does. This seems obvious to me. I didn’t always know best what was good for my children. No one does.
columbusqueen
@Kay: Exactly. A lot of the pro parental rights crowd want maximum control over their children to hide what garbage parents they actually are.
Baud
@Jinchi:
Isn’t that Boebert or Palin? Very young grandmother.
@Kay:
I don’t even know what’s good for me.
mrmoshpotato
@Kay:
Some adults even record themselves trying to overthrow the federal government!
Central Planning
Doesn’t that conflict with their idea of putting kids to work?
mrmoshpotato
@Kay:
So was saying the customer is always right.
Snarki, child of Loki
So you want a catchy organization name?
How about “Moms For Library” ?
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
Nominated.
New Deal democrat
An important social media update: BlueSky has now enabled lurkers, at least for big and/or media accounts like Popehat and Greg Sargent.
Thedeadcanary
Oh no, not grandma too!!!!
Villago Delenda Est
In other news, the Maine Secretary of State came out said that TFG can fuck the fuck off the ballot in Maine for being an insurrectionist under Article 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Central Planning
We let our kids have drinks if they want them, but that started probably when they were 17 or 18.
We also made sure that when they had friends over nobody could drink. Besides the fact it would be illegal for their friends to drink at our house, the legal liability is too great to risk even giving those kids a taste. And at least one of those kids would do anything to annoy her parents, and I know that included drinking.
Scout211
New this morning from Ohio.
Will this veto survive, Ohio jackals?
ETA: Oopsie, Alison Rose scooped me! Good news second helping.
(I need better reading skills).
Villago Delenda Est
@mrmoshpotato: It’s a Palin family gathering!
schrodingers_cat
@Villago Delenda Est: Vichy Times called the 14th amendment, an obscure amendment.
Jinchi
I will be surprised if Boebert isn’t getting drunk at her grandchild’s birthday parties, although hopefully she won’t be assaulting the boy’s fellow toddlers.
Alison Rose
@Scout211: I posted this above. GOP has a supermajority in Ohio, so I imagine they will override it.
Percysowner
@Kay:
To be fair, the Parents Right’s people only believe that parents always do what’s right for their kids is only if the parents make the decision that the PR parent would make. See: Transgender affirming care bans for a start.
Villago Delenda Est
@schrodingers_cat: It’s just the basis for all civil rights laws in this country.
If you want obscure, try the Third Amendment. When was the last time the government attempted to quarter a soldier in your home?
Miss Bianca
@Villago Delenda Est: And in other other news…le sigh…Trump is back *on* the ballot in CO pending the results of an appeal by the Colorado Republican Party.
You’d think, considering the complete shellacking the Republicans have been getting at the state level, they’d be looking for *any* excuse to get *rid* of the bastard, to even up their chances of actually winning, but no…they’re bending over backwards (or would that be forwards?) to make sure there’s not even any other names on the primary ballot!
Watching the descent of the CO GOP into total raving, gibbering madness has been quite…um…interesting.
Geminid
@Kay: My take is that Terry McAuliffe was right at that debate when he said what he said about parents and schools. He should have said it better though. Tim Kaine would have, but Kaine is a better and more experienced retail politician than McAulliffe.
As it was, McAuliffe’s statement was applauded by many in the audience. But Youngkin’s campaign managers nodded to each other and started planning ads featuring McAuliffe saying this. They put one out on the Internet that night, and they had the TV ad running the next day.
Scout211
@Alison Rose: I just posted my mea culpa for not seeing your original post. Sorry!
Chris
@Kay:
Have none of these people ever BEEN children? Children, especially teenagers, hide a preposterous amount of shit from their parents. The number of things parents don’t even know about their kids is not small, so the number of things on which they don’t know best…
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
Boebert.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/lauren-boebert-grandmother-conservatives-the-week-in-patriarchy
Caribou Barbie first popped out future-teen-mom Bristol at the age of 26.
Jinchi
That’s been true for years now. Republicans have had numerous opportunities to end Trump’s career and they’ve passed on every single one of them.
Matt McIrvin
@Villago Delenda Est: I love that there actually was a relatively modern high-ish-profile 3rd Amendment case.
One.
(Engblom v. Carey, 1982. The state of New York used the National Guard as strikebreakers during a prison-guard strike, and housed them in the workers’ housing on the prison grounds. The courts rule that this was, in fact, illegal quartering of troops, and that the Third Amendment was incorporated to the states. It was the only such case I’ve heard of.)
Chris
@mrmoshpotato:
I hate that phrase. Mostly because it doesn’t mean what its users think it means.
“The customer is always right” is about business strategy. It means “if you’re making action movies, but all anyone wants to watch is romantic comedies, you need to switch to making romantic comedies, or you’re going to go out of business. It doesn’t matter how good your action movies are or how awful the romantic comedies are. They get to decide how to spend their money, so if you want some of their money, you have to give them something they want to spend it on.”
It does not mean “cashiers are required by the Invisible Hand to nod and agree politely as the shithead in the MAGA hat heaps abuse on them because he thinks she’s being rude to him by not wanting to fuck him.”
The fact that a lesson for business executives has been turned into a lesson for cashiers and receptionists is pretty much Everything Wrong With The Modern Economy in a nutshell.
Kathleen
@Villago Delenda Est: That’s why NYT thinks it’s “obscure”. ETA “Or if it’s not it should be”.
Frankensteinbeck
@Chris:
Which is why conservatives, with the charge led by evangelicals, have been conducting a largely successful campaign since the 80s to convince American society that it is bad parenting to allow your children to have secrets. Secrets give children room to not be exactly what their parents want, which has led to vast swathes of evangelical children leaving the fold in horror over their parents’ cruel bigotry.
Chris
@Kathleen:
Yeah, they do have a way of trying to manifest things they want to happen, don’t they.
TF79
@Chris: That’s a nice summary of how a banal (but important!) lesson about firms being responsive “to what customers want” morphed into “you have to do what I say because I pay for your paycheck” thinking from customers. There’s probably a good book, or at least a long article/essay, to be written on that topic (if it hasn’t been already)
Captain C
@Kay:
I wonder if it would have gone better if he’d pointed out that a) of course parents get a say over their kids’ education, that’s what school boards are for, b) no one gets to decide what other parents’ kids read, and c) howling @$$holes from out-of-district (and especially out of state) definitely do not get a say in what other people’s kids read.
Kelly
@schrodingers_cat: The Constitution is 4,543 words. Fits in a small pocket sized pamphlet. Not a lot of room for any part to be obscure.
Kay
I went out to NY to help my daughter – 8 and 1/2 months pregnant with a 3 year old and a job – and right when I got there she tested positive for Covid, then her husband, then the baby. So I went home. Nine hour drive.
Now I’m getting them a cleaning service to come in as soon as they test clear for this month and the next two. I should have just done that from the beginning :)
Daoud bin Daoud
@Kay: “Parents Rights” is fundamentally based on the idea that your children are your property, to be treated in any way you see fit, however cruel and crippling it is to the child. “Parents Rights” = legalized child abuse.
Kay
I haven’t gotten covid yet but after hanging out with those three for a day – baby on my lap, etc. – and fiding out they were all positive we’ll see. If I get thru that with no infection I’m immune :)
Ohio Mom
@New Deal democrat: That’s what I have been waiting and hoping for. Do I just google Blue Sky Pope Hat yo give it a whirl?
ETA: yes! I see it. Looks just like Twitter, I will be comfortable there. Which one has the black background, Mastodon? Tried that, couldn’t deal. But now I can be ready for the end of Twitter.
thanks!
Kay
@Daoud bin Daoud:
There’s a lawyer I work with quite a bit who says the same thing and has for 20 years. He says “they treat kids like a truck – they hold title”. He goes further- says there are two kinds of people. People who think their children are separate individuals withtheir own minds and motivations and aspirations and people who think their children are property and “we don’t understand them and they don’t understand us”.
Daoud bin Daoud
@Miss Bianca: Root for injuries and bring lots of popcorn!
BlueGuitarist
Bucks County PA will be among the most important counties in 2024 – with a flippable US house seat (PA-01) held by fake moderate R Brian Fitzpatrick and 3 flippable state house seats (18, Democrats have a 1 seat majority in the pa state house), and PA is a toss up for Electoral College and lean or tilt D for US senate.
good that local Republicans are in the news showing that they are terrible people.
Soprano2
@Kay: I figured most of the kids would make it up within a couple of years. The kids who already struggled in school will be the most affected by the Covid losses, just like with everything else.
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
I’ve been reading a lot of Mary Shelley. She was a deeply damaged woman, but one thing that made me love her was an offhand comment in a book that you measure your success as a parent by how happy your children are as adults.
Another Scott
DOJ – Alcohol and Crime (46 page .pdf from 1998):
Sounds like a big problem! Maybe we should do something about it!!
:-/
If we’re going to have alcohol everywhere, and push it like mad as a social lubricant and essential ingredient to “have fun”, then we need to do much more about teaching people how to drink responsibly (much more than tiny print at the bottom of TV commercials and print ads). Teach them what it does to one’s body and about the dangers. And increase the social stigma about being drunk – it’s not “funny” any more than [other dangerous, disgusting thing] is funny. And increase the availability of treatment for those who become addicted.
Yes, I’d like a pony too. But it’s not going to happen unless we agitate to make it happen (the way MADD did).
Cheers,
Scott.
Ruckus
@Raoul Paste:
How do you know there weren’t?
Maybe they were too drunk to find them….
Or think to search for them….
Daoud bin Daoud
@Kay: The slave owner mentality lives strong in the Land of Evangelicals, where the Shadows lie …
trollhattan
Can I get an Anthony Hopkins Clarissssse up in heah?
“Dude, you’re lucky, you’ve got the fun mom.”
Kent
I have 3 daughters ages 17, 20, and 25 and we absolutely DO NOT party with our kids.
At best I might let them try a glass of wine during Thanksgiving dinner or some such. Maybe a sip of champaign during New Years Eve. But that is about it. Outside of special occasions like that they don’t drink alcohol with our permission.
Am I naive to think they aren’t ever going to drink at college (or even HS) parties? Of course not. But I preach safety to them not abstinence and teach them to have a plan any time they are in a social situation with alcohol (buddy system etc.). And my wife who is a doctor makes sure the are all on birth control before they leave the house.
This is not hard.
Soprano2
@schrodingers_cat: WOW……
Baud
@Another Scott:
Let’s prohibit it!
Daoud bin Daoud
@Kelly: but the reading skills required to make sense of the Constitution are a different matter.
trollhattan
Meanwhile.
Just HAD to have that Whopper, didn’t you, dude.
Ohio Mom
@Kent: I was just thinking yesterday I hadn’t seen you around these parts for a while. Good to see you back.
Kay
@Soprano2:
Right and if districts are smart they’ll put the covid money they got toward those students, who should have always had more funding anyway.
Some parents are ridiculous, I’m sorry. Ohio had this group of parents of “gifted” kids who were mad that kids with issues got extra funding and help so they lobbied (successfully) for more funding for “gifted” which often means “privileged” in my district. My youngest was identified for the new group of “gifted” students and I thought the whole thing was a scam and designed to flatter well-off parents (like me). He was doing just fine without this designation. Teachers recognize they’re all at different levels and accomodate them. The expanded defintion of “gifted” was another Right wing cause. They were terrified needy kids were getting something so they demanded all their kids be designated gifted. Gross.
Kent
Exactly. McAuliffe gave a completely dumbass response because he was incapable of reading the room. Your response is the correct one.
He should have had a canned response ready to the effect of:
“Of course we want parents involved in their children’s education. That is one of the keys to a successful school. However that doesn’t mean we provide certain parents with veto power over what all other children get to learn. ”
Or something to that effect.
Baud
@Daoud bin Daoud:
Apparently, the most inscrutable words are “a well regulated militia”.
Kay
Now I’m coughing but I’m very suggestible so I might just have convinced myself I have covid. I have free Biden tests so I COULD find out…
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Kay: Thanks, Biden!
…and thank you Kay, for all of your fantastic comments this morning!
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
Trumptrashtown
There have been parents this bad and worse since time began. There have been kids that did far worse. Some with good parents. I went to school with one of them. The main difference today is that we see the results far easier. We can discuss this with people we’ve never met and likely never will. I’m having a hard time believing that all this knowledge will change anything, given humans and their wide ranging beliefs and actual day to day actions that often are very different than those supposed beliefs.
Betty Cracker
@Jinchi: Well, the report suggests she’s spry enough to chase a teen around a kitchen island…
@Snarki, child of Loki: Love it!
Barbara
I suspect many of these parental rights activists are motivated by fear that their own children will actually agree with their “woke” peers and naively believe that building a wall around them will prevent generational conflict and self-exile. There’s a lot of grief in MAGA land over generational migration and loss.
Alison Rose
@Betty Cracker: Coincidentally, this is the intro line on her Tinder profile.
UncleEbeneezer
Welp, after three freaking years it finally caught us. We both just tested + for Covid. We are both vaxed and boosted to the hilt, and our symptoms are pretty mild (sore throat, headache, fatigue) but now we gotta figure out if either of us needs to get on Paxlovid.
Ruckus
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yes the tide seems to be turning. It’s slow but relentless. I predict more tides will start to turn faster.
SFB is circling the drain.
Such a shame….
Another Scott
@Baud: ;-)
We laugh, but IIRC, the “Temperance Movement” was in response to real problems with too many American men getting drunk all the time, beating up their wives and kids, and all the rest.
:-(
Jefferson wanted Americans to drink wine rather than other stuff:
No, I don’t think we should ban it, and I’m not really a fan of “state liquor stores” that encourage kids to buy gallons of cheap beer and rotgut wine because they can’t get anything different. But the culture around drinking can be really toxic – we can do better, and there are good reasons to do so.
Cheers,
Scott.
Snarki, child of Loki
Want your kids not to be drinking alcohol?
Starting at age 10, on their birthday each year, FORCE them to drink a half-cup of very hoppy IPA beer. They’ll HATE it, and drinking will always be associated with “nasty tasting stuff that means they are a KID” (tell them the tradition has to stop at 18).
matt
Good outcome.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Yikes — I hope they’re all okay and in the clear soon!
Somehow my husband and I have also dodged COVID despite living in “masks are the mark of the beast” country and being exposed repeatedly. Maybe we’re immune. [knocks wood]
Central Planning
@UncleEbeneezer:
My wife tested positive 6 days ago. Two of my kids and I tested positive yesterday. She and I are fully boosted. She has it worse than I do – cough and fever. I was achy the day before I tested positive, and now I have a runny nose, slight cough, no fever and no aches.
The kids say they feel fine except for stuffy noses, and they didn’t get the most recent booster :/
Betty Cracker
@Alison Rose: 😂
Geminid
@Kent: Terry McAuliffe is not that experienced a retail politician, and I think it showed in that debate. McAulliffe was a businessman and a big fundraiser befpre he won the nomination and the race for Governor in 2013; a horizontal transfer, so to speak. By contrast, Tim Kaine was a Richmond City Councilor and then Mayor before running for Governor and he learned a lot on his way up.
Matk Warner’s path was similar to McAuliffe’s, but Warner worked hard at his retail politicking skills, and he got good at talking to normal people because he liked it. By contrast, I think McAulliffe was very comfortable talking to other Democrats but never got good at talking to voters as people, and that’s how he ended up with that clunky debate answer.
Ruckus
@Kay:
Both parents don’t always believe the same thing. One of mine had the idea that they knew exactly what each child was supposed to be and do, and the other one wanted their kids to be whatever pleased them. Thankfully the second one won in the end. I wonder how often that actually happens. And that the resultant lives are better off. We were.
Ohio Mom
@UncleEbeneezer: It will depend on your doctor. Mine was, “Yup, you meet the criteria, I’m calling the prescription in to your pharmacy.”
Ohio Dad’s was, “I’m not so sure. I’ve seen too many cases of rebound that made patients sick for a longer period of time. If your symptoms get worse (examples of concerning symptoms), call me back and I’ll write you a prescription.”
So Ohio Dad, who didn’t have more than the equivalent of a bad cold, soldiered through, while I who was flat on my back, lost all her worst symptoms after just the first two doses of Covid. Felt fine for a couple of days, then got hit with rebound.
There’s really no predicting with this virus.
Good luck, keep yourselves hydrated.
NutmegAgain
@Victor Matheson: It’s more than a decade since I had a teen around the house, but honestly, I never felt moved to punch any friends! The parents of the other kids, now that’s a different story. But like a grown-up, I didn’t.
wjca
Of course not. Because, after all, work is educational — see their comments about how much blacks learned thanks to slavery.
UncleEbeneezer
@Barbara: Absolutely. And this was one of the justifications for the earlier versions of these school board fights in the 1950’s. Fear of race-mixing was the most prominent one cited but worries about Communist indoctrination were also mentioned pretty regularly. UNESCO did an educational video for schools called “Brotherhood of Man” that basically boiled down to a message of treating racial/ethnic minorities with respect and advocated tolerance, so Conservatives naturally lost their shit over it and used it to rile up their base and as a justification for Segregation.
wjca
See also anti-vaxxers. (With bonus points for those who got the full spectrum of childhood vaccinations themselves.)
FastEdD
I was so fortunate in the parent department. Mine told us if we wanted to drink they’d let us try anything we wanted, but we couldn’t leave the house. I tried it a couple times, and decided I wasn’t interested. They liked to drink but they knew not being a hypocrite was more important, and not getting busted was more important. My best friend Murf had Irish parents who absolutely forbade him from ever drinking, so of course he went out and got sloshed every chance he got. Murf was hauled off to jail for passing out on a street corner and when he got there he woke up and tore the police station to pieces. A lesson I put to good use as a teacher-the more you tell a kid not to do something, the more they want to do it.
brantl
@Jinchi:
I will be surprised if Boebert isn’t getting drunk at her grandchild’s birthday parties, although hopefully she won’t be assaulting the boy’s fellow toddlers.
With the dating troubles she’s had lately, she might be hitting ON them.
Jackie
@Snarki, child of Loki: I hope that was snark; otherwise that’s child abuse.
Victor Matheson
@brantl: Hitting ON the kid’s friends… Now you’ve made me throw up in my mouth a little.
brantl
@trollhattan: You can’t get a Whopper at McDonald’s.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
They’re ok. My very pregnant daughter had mild symptoms and her husband just had one rough day – the baby has a runny nose and that’s it. The plan was I would take the 3 year old out and about (it’s freakishly warm) so mom could rest but that all fell apart. I felt like I would just be adding a sick person if I stayed and got it.
I did get to take the red haired 3 year old out for lunch before she tested positive though. Our hipster waiter said to her “hey red, how’s it going?” which she LOVED. She was so taken aback to be addressed like a fellow hipster she was struck dumb, but PLEASED :)
leeleeFL
@mrmoshpotato: Yes, they do! People who believe they are righteously outraged think they have every right to break the common law and overturn the status-quo they are pissed off about. The step to recording their fury for themselves and their posterity is easier than falling off a ladder
It’s delightful that their BS can, and is, used against them in Court! Just sayin’!
Kent
I’ve been around but I’m teaching full-time this year as opposed to part-time subbing so my time to scroll through political blogs during the weekdays is much more limited. Plus this blog operates on eastern time and by the time I’m off work in the afternoons here on the west coast, all the good threads are pretty much stale
But we are on Christmas break right now so I have more time.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Awwww! Kids, even really little ones, do seem to relish being treated like regular people. I try to make a point of asking them questions, and they’re usually taken aback but pleased as punch! 😊
Soprano2
Here’s a gift link to a WaPo article about how we didn’t have a recession and why. The short story is that all the pandemic relief plus mortgage rates staying low until 2023 plus the supply chain finally getting fixed plus a huge growth in wealth in the U.S. and Biden’s good management of all these things combined to give us a soft landing, much better than the rest of the world so far.
Steeplejack
@Kay:
Love this story.
JaneE
@schrodingers_cat: Everything but the 2nd is obscure to some folks, or maybe you can add the 1st and 5th as well. I suspect the hard core right thinks everything from the 13th on should really be unconstitutional as well.
StringOnAStick
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I have an utterly uneducated, trashy half sister who at age 69 has 10 great grandkids. She first got pregnant at age 15, several of her daughters at age 14 and I don’t know anymore because I completely walked away after their full frontal attacks on me to become a fellow Pentecostal and give them money, not necessarily in that order. I know from other relatives that she loves tRump and believes all the sexual assault allegations are liberal lies.
The single thing that will be good thing when our dad passes is I can truly say I will never, ever have to have any contact with her ever again.
artem1s
@Alison Rose:
DeWine is still an asshole. He’s vetoing because he knows the extremist legislature will override it. He’s term limiting out and wants to cosplay as the reasonable GOP elder statesman for the rest of his life. Probably angling for a President’s seat at some private small college – Ohio Dominion maybe – that won’t be interested in him if he goes full MAGAt. He’ll straddle the fence, wash his hands, and pass the buck until he dies.
artem1s
@Villago Delenda Est:
I’m waiting for one of these states to kick a Senate or House candidate off the ballot for insurrection and obstruction of a federal investigation. These probably won’t stick but you never know, we might actually get some bare minimum qualifications codified into federal law – like being able to pass the same background check any teacher has to pass or release all tax returns before your name can go on a ballot for a federal level office.
CliosFanboy
@brantl:
that’s what she said!
Sorry, just had to.
Snarki, child of Loki
@Jackie: “@Snarki, child of Loki: I hope that was snark; otherwise that’s child abuse.”
I would NEVER snark about anything…
oh, never mind.
Jackie
@Snarki, child of Loki:
Ok, gotcha. I didn’t see the “mandatory required //,” but your nym gave me pause and hope! 😁
mrmoshpotato
@leeleeFL:
I would say I was righteously outraged back in November 2016. I (or any other Democratic voters) didn’t storm the Capitol building in January 2017 however.
The Lodger
@Kent: Remember, it’s not officially Champaign if it wasn’t bottled in central Illinois.
mrmoshpotato
@The Lodger: What about Champaign County, Ohio?
JustRuss
Oh please, oh please, oh please….
seaboogie
“AUNTIE FA”…Betty, you are a National Treasure.
Mike G
Like the scandal-plagued Moms for Liberty, Schillinger’s group appears to be an AstroTurf outfit run by Republican operatives that started locally and then expanded.
When your organization is basically a con, of course you’re going to pick a pliable con artist to front it.
Admin skills not essential, and ethics are an obstacle.
Chris T.
@Villago Delenda Est:
To be fair(ish), to most Americans (USAliens), the entire constitution and all the amendments are obscure. Except, of course, for the 2nd Amendment, which says that you must build your life around the Worship of the Gun. All praise to The Gun!
(once again, do I need the /s?)