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Monday, January 24, 2022 9:15 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Fuck the NSBA for deleting evidence.

And Fuck AP for trying to cover for them.

And Fuck YOU for being a dumbass Leftist muppet tool.

Liars.
Wisconsin has an answer to that:


No, no, no. Don't change the subject.

I want you on record right here saying that the NSBA deleted evidence, that the AP "fact checkers" lied and tried to cover it up, and that you were parroting those lies that the AP and other Legacy Media outlets were feeding you on the issue.

Until you do all of that, you've revoked your own right to even discuss this issue any further.

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Monday, January 24, 2022 10:04 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Fuck the NSBA for deleting evidence.

And Fuck AP for trying to cover for them.

And Fuck YOU for being a dumbass Leftist muppet tool.

Liars.
Wisconsin has an answer to that:


No, no, no. Don't change the subject.

I want you on record right here saying that the NSBA deleted evidence, that the AP "fact checkers" lied and tried to cover it up, and that you were parroting those lies that the AP and other Legacy Media outlets were feeding you on the issue.

Until you do all of that, you've revoked your own right to even discuss this issue any further.
Let me refresh your memory of the story you did NOT bother to read because EVERYTHING is too long; didn't read for you:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Fuck the NSBA for deleting evidence.

And Fuck AP for trying to cover for them.

And Fuck YOU for being a dumbass Leftist muppet tool.

Liars.
Wisconsin has an answer to that: Republicans vote to allow 18-year-olds and their parents to carry concealed weapons on school property

No reasonable person would say parents are terrorizing teachers when it becomes legal to bring a concealed gun to a parent/teacher meeting.

MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Republicans in the state Assembly passed a series of bills to expand gun laws in the badger state, including a proposal to allow some high school students and parents to have firearms on school property.

During the Assembly's return to the floor since the new year, Republicans passed legislation that would lower the concealed carry age from 21 to 18, allow legal gun owners to have their weapon in their vehicle when dropping off or picking up their child from school, and allow anyone with a concealed carry license from any state to be armed in Wisconsin.

With gun violence on the rise in Wisconsin and across the nation, Republicans believe more residents should be able to carry a gun legally to protect themselves.

State Rep. Shae Sortwell (R-Two Rivers), author of the bill to lower the concealed carry age, contends if 18-year-olds can vote, they should be allowed to arm themselves.

"They are mature enough, they are adult enough to make these decisions and yet we are going to deny them the basic human right of self-defense?" Sortwell said.

Democrats argue the measure would backfire and result in inexperienced gun owners.

When applying for a concealed carry permit, state law doesn't require someone to actually fire a weapon.

"Guns in these situations do not make people feel safer," said Rep. Lisa Subeck (D-Madison). "In this state, you can get a concealed carry permit and never once get any hands-on firing a gun and that's terrifying."

State Rep. Deb Andraca (D-Whitefish Bay) called the GOP bills ridiculous because it would allow high school seniors with concealed carry permits to have a loaded gun in their car and at school events.

"This makes absolutely no sense, and quite frankly is scary to every parent with children," Andraca said.

Sortwell admitted his bill would lead to more guns on school property, but believes it's a "common sense" measure to avoid people breaking the law.

Currently, schools are specifically excluded from the state's concealed carry law, and individuals can face a felony if they possess a firearm on school property.

Republicans are looking to please their base this election year by introducing proposals like these, that are likely doomed for Governor Tony Evers' veto pen.

When asked, Evers said the GOP efforts to expand guns rights are "pretty bizarre," during a press event at the Capitol.

Evers and Democrats have long advocated for more gun control measures, such as universal background checks and red flag laws to allow judges to temporarily take away guns from people who pose a threat to themselves or others.

Both measures have been rejected by Republican leaders.

https://www.cbs58.com/news/republicans-vote-to-allow-18-year-olds-to-c
arry-concealed-weapons-on-school-property

6ix, I know you won't read the whole story and I know you couldn't understand if you did, for once in your life, try to understand what you don't want to.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, January 24, 2022 10:50 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Fuck the NSBA for deleting evidence.

And Fuck AP for trying to cover for them.

And Fuck YOU for being a dumbass Leftist muppet tool.

Liars.
Wisconsin has an answer to that:


No, no, no. Don't change the subject.

I want you on record right here saying that the NSBA deleted evidence, that the AP "fact checkers" lied and tried to cover it up, and that you were parroting those lies that the AP and other Legacy Media outlets were feeding you on the issue.

Until you do all of that, you've revoked your own right to even discuss this issue any further.


I didn't stutter.

Fuck your story.

Tell everyone that you were duped.

I was man enough to admit it when Memeology got things wrong twice.

Tell us that you recognize that the AP "factcheckers" lied to you and that you were a part of perpetuating that lie.


And after you've done that, don't forget that this is a thing that they do.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:20 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Lindy Li @lindyli

(Fox News Host) Tucker Carlson is upset that an M&M got new shoes

(GOP Senator) Ted Cruz was upset Big Bird encouraged kids to get vaxxed

(Bush Advisor) Matt Schlapp was upset there’s now an Asian American Sesame St muppet

They were upset about Mr Potato Head & Dr Seuss

But a terrorist attack on our Capitol? No big deal

9:53 PM · Jan 21, 2022 from Philadelphia, PA·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1484736061964173313

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:25 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Lindy Li @lindyli

(Fox News Host) Tucker Carlson is upset that an M&M got new shoes

(GOP Senator) Ted Cruz was upset Big Bird encouraged kids to get vaxxed

(Bush Advisor) Matt Schlapp was upset there’s now an Asian American Sesame St muppet

They were upset about Mr Potato Head & Dr Seuss

But a terrorist attack on our Capitol? No big deal

9:53 PM · Jan 21, 2022 from Philadelphia, PA·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1484736061964173313

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



Good on you for changing the subject since you got your ass handed to you again.

Shame on you for still dragging January 6th around like there was anything that happened on that day.

You're so pathetic.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:39 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Fuck the NSBA for deleting evidence.

And Fuck AP for trying to cover for them.

And Fuck YOU for being a dumbass Leftist muppet tool.

Liars.
Wisconsin has an answer to that:


No, no, no. Don't change the subject.

I want you on record right here saying that the NSBA deleted evidence, that the AP "fact checkers" lied and tried to cover it up, and that you were parroting those lies that the AP and other Legacy Media outlets were feeding you on the issue.

Until you do all of that, you've revoked your own right to even discuss this issue any further.


I didn't stutter.

Fuck your story.

Tell everyone that you were duped.

I was man enough to admit it when Memeology got things wrong twice.

Tell us that you recognize that the AP "factcheckers" lied to you and that you were a part of perpetuating that lie.


And after you've done that, don't forget that this is a thing that they do.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
Here is another you won't read, but I read it and it didn't take 13 minutes. Only two. Got two minutes?

National School Boards Association stumbles into politics and is blasted apart
Laura Meckler
13-17 minutes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/13/school-board-assoc
iation-domestic-terrorism/

Now, the association is at risk of total collapse.

In between, conservative think tanks, media, intellectuals, lawmakers, researchers and activists turned what might have been a forgotten mistake into a potentially fatal blow to a group that has for eight decades been a national advocate for public education.

It is a perfect illustration of how polarized education has become in the past year — a case study in how activists can shape not just big public policy debates, but also obscure interest groups that most Americans had never given a moment’s consideration.

Nineteen mostly GOP-led states have withdrawn from the association or promised to when this year’s membership expires, and six members of what was a 19-person board have left. Several states are discussing forming an alternative association for school boards. A new executive director of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is working to save the organization, lobbying individual states to reconsider, but so far he has not persuaded any of them to change their minds.

“I hope they’ll give us a chance,” John Heim, the newly installed executive director, said in an interview. His goal, he said, is to “rebuild trust” in the association, which critics believe took sides in a partisan debate.

In October, the association apologized and promised to conduct a “formal review” of its procedures and said it would announce “specific improvements” to ensure better coordination and consultation with its members, but nothing has been announced and a spokesperson would not say where the group is in this process.

If the school board association’s goal was to tamp down conservative parent protests, it had the exact opposite effect, galvanizing a movement that coalesced last fall around the idea of parental rights. The letter shifted the focus away from some frightening threats and decidedly aggressive behavior to a defiant defense of free speech and local control.

Even some supporters of the NSBA said the letter went too far and put them in an uncomfortable position.

“There has been some damage done,” said Jim Green, executive director of the Oregon School Boards Association. Oregon did not terminate its membership but also distanced itself from the letter. “Do we support NSBA’s take as labeling parents as domestic terrorists? We do not.”

Parents and other conservative activists, urged on by national figures and associations, have directed anger against public schools and school boards on two big issues: complaints over coronavirus mask mandates and other pandemic-related restrictions, and concerns about how schools were teaching and talking about race.

Many made their arguments peacefully. But in communities across the country, others yelled and disrupted school board meetings, prompting some boards to adjourn early, which only further angered the protesters.

At an Illinois school board meeting, a man was arrested after allegedly striking an education official. A school board member in Loudoun County, Va., fielded abusive, profane and threatening emails, Facebook messages and phone calls for months. In Florida, protesters camped out in front of a school board member’s house and burned an “FU” into her lawn with weed killer. They called her a Nazi and a pedophile. Someone falsely reported her as abusing her child to the Florida Department of Children and Families. “Be careful, your mommy hurts little kids!” an activist yelled at her daughter.

In September, the NSBA told the White House it was concerned about violence and threats to school board members, Chip Slaven, who was the interim executive director at the time, said in an interview. He said he was already planning to send the letter when White House officials asked for examples.

Slaven said that because this was a sensitive issue, he circulated the letter to the board’s four officers, who all signed off on it. He said he would not normally have done this, but he worried it would be seen as a slap at the Biden administration for not enforcing federal law so wanted them to see it first. One of the officers, Charlie Wilson, a school board member from Worthington, Ohio, confirmed this account.

On Sept. 29, the NSBA sent Biden its six-page letter requesting intervention by federal law enforcement agencies “to deal with the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation.” It pointed to a raft of incidents in recent months, though not all of them were violent.

“As these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes,” said the letter, which was signed by Slaven and association president Viola M. Garcia, a member of a school board in Texas.

Email correspondence from the time suggested that the NSBA might have been acting at request of the White House, according to documents released through open records requests filed by a conservative group called Parents Defending Education. Slaven and the White House said that isn’t true.

In one email, an NSBA board member wrote that Slaven had said the letter had been requested by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona for use by the White House. In another, Slaven wrote that the letter included “additional information on some of the specific threats,” as requested by the White House. Cardona’s spokeswoman said he did not solicit the letter.

Five days after the NSBA letter, Attorney General Merrick Garland responded. He directed the FBI to work with U.S. attorneys across the country to convene meetings within 30 days with federal, state and local leaders to discuss strategies for addressing threats to school personnel.

Slaven circulated a copy of the letter to the NSBA board on the evening of Sept. 29, after sending it to the White House. He told members it would be distributed to the press the next day.

The reaction was swift and fiery, with board members and state affiliates criticizing both the tone and the fact that they hadn’t been offered a chance to vet it before it was sent. “Did anyone consider the impact this might have on members in this highly polarized climate?” Sally Smith, executive director of the Alabama Association of School Boards, wrote in an email.

A board member from Florida, Beverly Slough, emailed a colleague her prediction that this would activate a conservative parent group. “I am so upset. Moms for Liberty will have a field day with this!”

And Bill Ferguson, a school board member in Ohio, wrote the letter “totally undermines” work to convince lawmakers and executive branch officials that school board members have a diversity of political persuasions. “NSBA does not need to become embroiled in such divisive politics at any level,” he wrote. He added in a follow-up note: “NSBA’s future now appears to be at stake.”

To be sure, some in the organization appreciated what the NSBA had tried to do. Steven Chapman, a board member from the group’s Pacific Region, replied to note that a school board in Arizona had been forced to leave the boardroom because of security issues and, after they left, the audience decided to stage their own meeting, elect their own “members” and hold votes. In another case, he said, someone filmed himself on the way to a school with a pair of zip-tie handcuffs, prepared to arrest a principal.

“These are not acts of concerned parents, nor should they be dismissed as just one off situations,” he wrote.

The combination of the letter and the Justice Department directive prompted an explosive reaction among conservative lawmakers and media outlets, feeding preexisting complaints that Democrats, school boards and their allies wanted to silence voices of parents who objected to their policies.

A week later, John Halkias, a school board member from Plain Local Schools in Ohio, wrote colleagues that the letter had been used in legislative debate over a school voucher bill. At a Senate hearing on Oct. 5, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) aggressively questioned Lisa Monaco, deputy attorney general, about the directive.

“If this isn’t a deliberate attempt to chill parents from showing up at school board meetings … I don’t know what is,” Hawley said. “You are attempting to intimidate them. You are attempting to silence them. You are attempting to interfere with their rights as parents.”

Two days after that, 63 House Republicans signed a letter complaining about the Garland memo. A drumbeat of coverage on Fox News, conservative blogs and outlets pressed the case for weeks that the NSBA and the Biden administration considered parents to be “domestic terrorists.”

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said a parent’s use of Nazi salute is “nonviolent” while he questioned Attorney General Merrick Garland on Oct. 27. (Senate Judiciary Committee)

Advocates took action, too. Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, organized a letter to the NSBA signed by 23 groups, calling out the terrorism allegation. Most of the signers were local parent activist groups.

“I wanted it to be a local effort,” Neily said. “I wanted it to be these are parents pushing back.”

They urged supporters to send letters to the Justice Department, and Neily said more than 7,500 used their portal to do so. In mid-October, the organization asked state affiliates for their views, pressuring the group’s members to take a stand on whether the letter was justified. They also sent public records requests to all of the NSBA board members, which unearthed the emails showing the association’s board had been blindsided by the letter.

Conservative activist groups including Moms for America and Moms for Liberty pressed the issue with their members. “We did a lot of social media posting to explain what was going on and [to] encourage people not be part of an association playing against parents in that matter,” said Tina Descovich, co-founder of Moms for Liberty.

For weeks, the NSBA said little to nothing in response, and barred Slaven from defending the letter, Slaven said.

“We should have been clarifying what happened.” He noted that the word “parents” is not even mentioned in the letter and argued the letter had nothing to do with parents expressing their views.

On Oct. 22, the NSBA apologized for the letter, saying “there was no justification for some of the language included.” But it was too late. By mid-October, state associations began to announce they were leaving the NSBA. By year’s end, 19 states said they were pulling out.

“There’s been a lot of pressure on a lot of state associations by Republican legislators in their states to take some action to distance themselves in some way from NSBA. That’s clearly what’s going on,” said Tom Gentzel, who was the NSBA executive director from 2012 to 2020. “If Republican leaders are calling you up and saying, ‘What are you doing [as] part of this national group and you have key legislation pending in the state,’ you have to pick your battles.”

Some cited preexisting concerns about the association. States complained that the NSBA was competing with state school board associations in selling consultant services and other products to local school boards. In August, the group tried to answer that by clarifying the NSBA’s members are the state school board associations, not individual members.

For now, states that have withdrawn are discussing a new association to take its place, and the effort has grown serious. The new group is set to be called the Consortium of State School Boards Associations. Preliminary plans call for it to provide opportunities for collaboration, training and legislative and legal advocacy on federal issues.

On Nov. 23, Slaven said, he was fired and offered a severance package that barred him from discussing anything about the letter with future employers or the media. He said he declined to accept it. A NSBA spokesperson declined to comment on Slaven’s status.

His allies say the NSBA and its affiliates allowed conservative activists who oppose public schools to misconstrue the letter as an attack on parents in an effort to silence a strong national voice.

“This letter was totally distorted and cherry-picked by Fox [News] and other media,” said Wilson, who was forced to leave the NSBA board when Ohio withdrew from the association. “What Ohio did and a number of other states did was read the media response to the letter rather than the letter.”

Meanwhile, Heim, the new NSBA executive director, is reaching out to associations that have left. As longtime executive director of the Kansas association, he has many relationships with his counterparts that he is now drawing on to rebuild the national group.

In December, he called Rick Lewis, chief executive of the Ohio School Boards Association, to solicit input on the way ahead, Lewis said. He said they had an amiable conversation. “He shared the steps they are taking to try and improve as an organization,” he said. “John did not make a pitch for a return. I suspect that will come some day.”

Other states argue it is critical that the NSBA survive. Green, from Oregon, suspects that the groups attacking the organization have a larger, anti-public school agenda. Many of the group’s opponents are also outspoken supporters of school choice programs that direct tax dollars to parochial, private and charter schools.

“If you’re a person who doesn’t support public schools and want to see public schools go away, what better thing could happen than get rid of an organization like NSBA, one of the leading voices for public education,” he said.

Still, he said, leaving the NSBA remains an option for Oregon. He said the board has asked him to assess whether the NSBA, which was already struggling financially, can be a viable organization going forward and what alternatives are available. “My board isn’t ready to pull out yet, but it is a consideration we’re looking at,” he said.


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022 11:14 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Fuck the NSBA for deleting evidence.

And Fuck AP for trying to cover for them.

And Fuck YOU for being a dumbass Leftist muppet tool.

Liars.
Wisconsin has an answer to that:


No, no, no. Don't change the subject.

I want you on record right here saying that the NSBA deleted evidence, that the AP "fact checkers" lied and tried to cover it up, and that you were parroting those lies that the AP and other Legacy Media outlets were feeding you on the issue.

Until you do all of that, you've revoked your own right to even discuss this issue any further.


I didn't stutter.

Fuck your story.

Tell everyone that you were duped.

I was man enough to admit it when Memeology got things wrong twice.

Tell us that you recognize that the AP "factcheckers" lied to you and that you were a part of perpetuating that lie.


And after you've done that, don't forget that this is a thing that they do.

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Here is another you won't read, but I read it and it didn't take 13 minutes. Only two. Got two minutes?


Nope. Not for any of the bullshit you want people to read.

NSBA tried and failed to delete evidence.

AP and other Legacy Media tried and failed to cover it up.

Idiots like you tried and failed to spread that false narrative.

Fuck the NSBA. Fuck the AP. Fuck the Legacy Media. Fuck you.

There are four lights.

Have a nice day.



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Wednesday, January 26, 2022 7:15 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Groundbreaking work on slave economy finally back on UK shelves

Americans note that the British Empire abolished slavery WITHOUT a Civil War.

Slavery was abolished in much of the British empire in 1833 because doing so at that time was in Britain’s economic self-interest – not because the British suddenly discovered a conscience.

The capitalists had first encouraged West Indian slavery and then helped to destroy it. In the early 19th century, slave-owning sugar planters in the Caribbean British colonies enjoyed a monopoly on the supply of sugar to Britain, because of an imperial tax policy of protectionism. Williams argues: “When British capitalism depended on sugar and cotton plantations in the West Indies, they [the capitalists] ignored slavery or defended it. When British capitalism found the West Indian monopoly on sugar a nuisance, they destroyed West Indian slavery as the first step in the destruction of West Indian monopoly.”

In great detail, he lays out the scale of the wealth and industry that was created in Britain, not just from the slave plantations and in the sugar refineries and cotton mills, but by building and insuring slave ships, manufacturing goods transported to the colonies – including guns, manacles, chains and padlocks – and then banking and reinvesting the profits.

It was all this wealth created by slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries that powered the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, Williams argued. And it was this economic change that meant the preferential sugar duties – which artificially pushed up the price of sugar in the UK, a deliberate policy that had once so suited the many wealthy British families involved in the slave trade – came to be seen by 19th-century industrialists as an “unpopular” barrier to free trade, low factory wages and global domination.

The book, to be published by Penguin Modern Classics on 24 February, also traces the emergence of the slave trade in the 16th century when the demand for labour exceeded the number of white convicts and poor, white, indentured servants willing to work the land cheaply. “A racial twist has been given to what is basically an economic phenomenon. Slavery was not born of racism: rather, racism was the consequence of slavery,” he writes.

More at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/23/eighty-years-late-ground
breaking-work-on-slave-economy-is-finally-published-in-uk

Download the book by Eric Williams Capitalism and Slavery for free from mirrors at https://libgen.unblockit.how/search.php?req=Capitalism+and+Slavery

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022 9:06 AM

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Nope. Not for any of the bullshit you want people to read.

NSBA tried and failed to delete evidence.

AP and other Legacy Media tried and failed to cover it up.

Idiots like you tried and failed to spread that false narrative.

Fuck the NSBA. Fuck the AP. Fuck the Legacy Media. Fuck you.

There are four lights.
(6ix is referring to the four lights mime.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=there%20are%20four%20l
ights
https://www.google.com/search?q=there+are+four+lights+meme )
Triggering the angry snowflake children of the right lacking emotional resilience

As Ted Cruz found not long ago when he dared to call the 6 January Capitol attack an act of “terrorism”, anyone who strokes this shark’s skin the wrong way will immediately have their flesh stripped to the bone. On the surface, the network’s atavistic fury at those who do wrong looks like righteous anger – but look a little harder and it really resembles nothing so much as the petulance of a bullying child, a playground tyrant who cannot keep their temper when the rest of the world behaves in ways they can’t control.

The problem, of course, is that violent nine-year-olds don’t have millions of viewers, and generally aren’t hellbent on convincing their friends that white people are being “replaced”, that rigorously tested Covid-19 vaccines are less safe than horse dewormer, or that the government staged a violent attack on itself in order to round up “half the country”.

What they do share with the likes of Carlson and his coterie is an extremely loose relationship with accountability. There isn’t much daylight between “I didn’t kick him, he ran into my foot” and “I didn’t tell people to take hydroxychloroquine, they just misinterpreted my enthusiastic promotion of it as an endorsement”.

Likewise, for all its umbrage at the words Biden carelessly muttered about Doocy, Fox News will never, ever accept any responsibility for what it and the wider right have wrought – the degradation of civil discourse, the radicalization of millions of “conservative” Americans, the increasingly successful assault on truth itself.

The monster that Fox News has become is not just some out-of-control genetic experiment gone awry. It’s the product of years, even decades, of deliberate work. Certainly, some of its more grounded hosts may have washed their hands of it in recent years, but the other leading names now have the benefit of an terrifyingly loyal base, one whose members are angrier and more zealous than ever.

What’s missing, though, is the integrity that would lend the right some true emotional resilience. Fuming away in the inner sanctum is an extraordinarily vulnerable id, one that cannot but lash out at anyone who holds up a mirror to its angry, childish face. That it’s been this easily triggered by a president it portrays as a weak, senile fool says it all.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220126134605/https://www.independent.co.
uk/voices/fox-news-biden-peter-doocy-sob-b2000782.html

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Harris County Commissioners Court should stay the course on the historic misdemeanor bail reforms it agreed to two years ago last July. Those changes have all but eliminated the use of cash bail in keeping defendants in nonviolent misdemeanor cases out of the crowded county jail while they await trial.

The new system, adopted after years of costly litigation over a lawsuit brought on behalf of indigent inmates in 2016, is both fairer and a more efficient management of the county’s criminal justice resources. People charged with minor crimes, who pose no threat of flight or harm to the community, simply should not be required to sit in jail for weeks, months or even years before they receive a trial simply because they cannot afford to post even small bonds. Nor should such defendants be pressured into early guilty pleas in order to return to their jobs or families.

And yet that’s exactly what was happening in Harris County prior to the commissioners' historic 3-2 vote on July 31, 2019, agreeing to the bail reforms. Similar concerns have been raised across the country, including in Dallas County, where a nearly identical federal case took a surprise turn recently.

That Dallas case, decided in favor of bail reform, had already been affirmed by a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals when justices on that circuit decided to rehear it en banc, a rare step that means all 17 justices of the circuit sit together to hear a case anew. Their decision, released Jan. 7, overturned the Dallas decision and voided key procedural elements of the Houston case, too. Sixteen of the judges participated in the case, and nine agreed to its major holding.

That new ruling has led some longtime opponents of Harris County’s bail to press the county to withdraw from the consent decree that settled the Harris County litigation in December 2019. That’s when Chief U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal accepted the compromise fashioned between the plaintiffs and defendants, which included Harris County district judges and Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. At the time, some members of the law enforcement community opposed the deal, as did Commissioner Jack Cagle, a former Harris County civil court judge.

But in issuing her ruling — known as a consent decree — Rosenthal acknowledged that critics had raised legitimate points. “The court does not question the amici and objectors’ good faith,” she wrote. “The public safety and public resource concerns they raise are important. … The proposed consent decree and settlement agreement are approved because these concerns are fully recognized and addressed.”

The recent ruling by the 5th Circuit declared that the district judges who had been such a key part of the plaintiff’s lawsuit were immune from the lawsuit all along. Their decisions on bail, the appellate court ruled, constitute action taken on behalf of the state, not the county, and as such are immune from suit, even under Sec. 1983 civil rights litigation.

That means, had the case not been settled, the judges who had initially fought the litigation would have prevailed. Cagle has asked Commissioners Court to seize on that new ruling and petition Rosenthal for permission to dissolve the consent decree. He also wants the county to stop spending the tens of millions of dollars it is expected to spend over the next several years to adopt the reforms.

His fellow commissioners should say no on both counts. For one thing, the case was settled not because the county had to settle — its appeals had not been exhausted — but because its elected officials decided it was the right thing to do.

Voters in November 2018 tossed out every Republican judge on the district bench, civil and criminal, and elected a Democratic majority on the Commissioners Court. These new officials had campaigned in support of bail reform, and once elected made haste in reaching a settlement.

Voters should be proud that they made that change, and the officials they put in office did the right thing in addressing Harris County’s overreliance on cash bail. Whether or not Rosenthal was correct in letting the case proceed, she was on solid ground in declaring the underlying system of poverty jailing unconstitutional.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-
Harris-County-shouldn-t-toss-16804391.php

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Nope. Not for any of the bullshit you want people to read.

NSBA tried and failed to delete evidence.

AP and other Legacy Media tried and failed to cover it up.

Idiots like you tried and failed to spread that false narrative.

Fuck the NSBA. Fuck the AP. Fuck the Legacy Media. Fuck you.

There are four lights.
(6ix is referring to the four lights mime.


That's the Four Lights Meme.

The Left can't Meme.

Too bad they can't mime either. Nobody wants to hear from them anymore.



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The Supreme Court’s new death penalty order should make your skin crawl

The Court’s new death penalty order is almost too cruel to be believed.

The Supreme Court held in Atkins v. Virginia (2002) that “death is not a suitable punishment” for someone with an intellectual disability. Nevertheless, in its 2021 decision in Dunn v. Reeves, the Supreme Court voted along party lines to effectively prevent Reeves from avoiding execution. An expert employed by the state gave Reeves an IQ test and determined that “Reeves’ IQ was well within the range for intellectual disability.”

In Hamm v. Reeves, a death penalty order that the Supreme Court handed down Thursday night, Reeves was executed using lethal injection, a method that may have caused him excruciating pain, most likely because that man’s disability prevented him from understanding how to opt in to a less painful method of execution. As Justice Elena Kagan describes Alabama law in her dissenting opinion in Hamm v. Reeves, “a recently enacted state law gave those inmates one month to select execution by nitrogen hypoxia” — where the inmate is placed in a gas chamber filled with nitrogen gas and asphyxiated — “rather than lethal injection.”

Many experts believe that nitrogen hypoxia is much less painful than lethal injection, especially if the state does not have access to reliable anesthetics.

The specific legal issue in Hamm v. Reeves concerns the paper form that the state gave inmates, which allowed them to choose nitrogen hypoxia over lethal injection. As Kagan notes, “the form was written in legalese, and according to unrebutted evidence, an inmate needed at least an 11th-grade reading level to understand it.” But Reeves had “cognitive limitations.” He had “the same reading ability as an elementary-school child,” and “one expert testified that Reeves’s ‘reading comprehension was at the 1st grade level.’”

But five justices, in a two-sentence order that offers no explanation whatsoever of why they reached this decision, permitted Alabama to move forward with the execution — and to do so using lethal injection.

Several justices have indicated that they have a personal reason for denying relief to death row inmates. The justices appear quite bothered by the fact that they need to decide these last-minute appeals, which may arrive at the Court on a night when a justice has other plans. As Justice Brett Kavanaugh complained to the inmate’s lawyer, “if we rule in your favor in this case, this will be a heavy part of our docket for years to come.”

More at https://www.vox.com/22906309/supreme-court-death-penalty-alabama-intel
lectually-disabled-hamm-reeves

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That actually is scary, because most Leftist's IQ falls within the range for intellectual disability.

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That actually is scary, because most Leftist's IQ falls within the range for intellectual disability.
A Professor of Sociology writes a long article that Trump voters don't believe their own words are true so don't worry about what they are saying. The Professor is mistaken in my opinion. Oh, they do believe, but their words are a symptom of delusions of grandeur. What Are Delusions of Grandeur? According to Web MD:

Delusional disorder is a serious mental illness where you can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not. Delusions, or false beliefs, comes in several types. Delusions of grandeur are one of the more common ones. It’s when you believe that you have more power, wealth, smarts, or other grand traits than is true.

Symptoms may include:

Change in your mood. You may be irritable, angry, or feel low.

Hallucinations. You see, hear, or feel things connected to your delusion that aren’t really there. For example, if you believe that you have a special relationship with God, you may hear God’s voice.

More at Web MD https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/delusions-grandeur

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No, America is not on the brink of a civil war

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/27/no-america-is-no
t-on-the-cusp-of-a-civil-war

According to a number of polls and surveys, significant majorities of Republican-aligned voters seem to believe the big lie that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 US presidential election and, consequently, the Biden administration is illegitimate.

Taking these data at face value, a growing chorus insists that we’re living in a “post-truth” era, where members of one political party, the Republican party, can no longer tell facts from falsehood. As a result of the Republican party becoming unmoored from reality, the narratives typically continue, America is drifting headlong into a fascist takeover or a civil war.

Fortunately for all of us, these dire predictions are almost certainly overblown. We are not living in a “post-truth” world. We are not on the brink of a civil war. The perception that we are is almost purely an artifact of people taking poll and survey data at face value despite overwhelming evidence that we probably shouldn’t.

For instance, in the wake of the 2016 election, Trump claimed to have had higher turnout at his inauguration than Barack Obama did. Subsequent polls and surveys presented people with pictures of Obama and Trump’s inauguration crowds and asked which was bigger. Republicans consistently identified the visibly smaller (Trump) crowd as being larger than the other. A narrative quickly emerged that Trump supporters literally couldn’t identify the correct answer; they were so brainwashed that they actually believed that the obviously smaller crowd was, in fact, larger.

Of course, a far more obvious and empirically plausible explanation is that respondents knew perfectly well what the correct answer was. However, they also had a sense of how that answer would be used in the media (“Even Trump’s supporters don’t believe his nonsense!”), so they simply declined to give pollsters the response they seemed to be looking for.

As a matter of fact, respondents regularly troll researchers in polling and surveys – especially when they are asked whether or not they subscribe to absurd or fringe beliefs, such as birtherism (a conspiracy that held that Barack Obama was born outside of the US and was legally ineligible to serve as president of the United States).

However, many academics and pundits do not seem to be in on the joke. Instead, post-2016, a consensus quickly emerged from credulous readings of polls and surveys that America is facing an epidemic of “fake news”, which was leading people to believe things that were obviously false, and to vote for unsavory political candidates. Some of the initial studies on this topic were blatantly prejudicial in their design; other widely shared studies were ultimately retracted.

As more reliable data began to emerge, it turned out that, contrary to the initial hysteria, “fake news” stories were viewed by a relatively small number of voters, and infrequently at that. Most of those served pro-Trump or anti-Clinton “fake news” by social media sites already seemed firmly committed to voting for Trump, or intractably resolved against voting for Clinton (which is why the algorithms served them this niche content to begin with). That is, “fake news” is unlikely to have changed many, if any, votes. It is not a plausible explanation for the 2016 electoral outcome nor Trump’s support more broadly.

Even people who share “fake news” stories typically never read (or even click on) them. That is, people are not sharing the content because they read the stories, grew convinced of their factual accuracy, and are genuinely trying to inform others. Instead, people typically share these stories based on their headlines, for a whole host of social reasons, while recognizing them to be of questionable accuracy (see here, here, here, here and here for more on this).

It should not be surprising, then, that correcting misinformation seems to have virtually no effect on political preferences or voting behavior; misperceptions are generally not driving political alignments to begin with – nor are they driving political polarization.

Contrary to narratives that have grown especially ubiquitous in recent years, Americans are actually not very far apart in terms of most empirical facts. We do not live in separate realities. Instead, people begin to polarize on their public positions on factual matters only after those issues have become politicized. And even then, polarized answers on polls and surveys often fail to reflect participants’ genuine views. Indeed, when respondents are provided with incentives to answer questions accurately (instead of engaging in partisan cheerleading), the difference between Democrats and Republicans on factual matters often collapses.

In other cases, apparent disagreements about factual matters often turn out to be, at bottom, debates about how various facts are framed and interpreted, or disputes about the policies that are held to flow from the facts. That is, even in cases of genuine disagreement, there is typically less dispute about the facts themselves than about what the facts mean – morally or practically speaking.

All said, measuring misperceptions is a fraught enterprise – even when it comes to banal and politically uncontested facts. Attempting to draw inferences about “incorrect” views on matters tied political, moral and/or identity struggles is a far more complicated endeavor. These are not data that lend themselves to being taken at face value.

Similar realities hold for the data that purportedly show we’re on the brink of a new civil war.

There is strong evidence that many of the surveys and polls indicating support for, or openness towards, political violence hugely overstate actual levels of support in the American public. Likewise, data that purport to show high levels of partisan vitriol may be misleading.

In general, behaviors are often a stronger indicator than attitudinal data for understanding how sincere or committed people are to a cause or idea. The number of people who are willing to rhetorically endorse some extraordinary belief tends to be much, much higher than the subset who meaningfully behave as if that claim is true. The number of people who profess commitment to some cause tends to be much, much higher than the share who are willing to make sacrifices or life adjustments in order to advance that cause.

The big lie is no exception. Both the low levels of turnout and the relatively low levels of violence are extraordinary if we take the polls and surveys at face value.

Event organizers were expecting, “hundreds of thousands, if not millions” to take part in the January 6 uprising. This would be reasonable to expect in a world where tens of millions of Americans literally believed that an apparently high-stakes election was stolen out from under them. Even if just 1% of those who purportedly believe in the big lie had bothered to show up, the demonstrations would have been hundreds of thousands strong. Instead, they only mustered 2,500 participants (according to US government estimates).

The lack of casualties was also striking, even when one considers injuries and indirect fatalities. After all, the former president also enjoyed strong support among people who are armed and formally trained in combat, such as active duty and veteran military and law enforcement. A large number of other Trump supporters participate in militias, or are private gun owners.

Yet most January 6 participants did not bring firearms, and those who were armed did not discharge their weapons – not even in the heat of the violence that broke out. The only person shot in the entire uprising, Ashli Babbitt, was killed by a law enforcement officer. In fact, Babbitt was actually the only homicide to occur on that day.

Two other rioters died from heart problems, another from a drug overdose. Police officer Brian Sicknick died from strokes on 7 January; the medical examiner ultimately concluded that this was unrelated to any injuries sustained during January 6. In the months that followed, four other police officers would perish by suicide. All said, then, a total of nine deaths have been associated with the events of January 6 (directly or indirectly). Not one person, however, was actually killed by the rioters. Nor is a single bullet alleged to have been fired by the rioters, despite many participants allegedly possessing guns.

In a world where 74 million voted for Trump, and more than two-thirds of these (ie more than 50 million people, roughly one out of every five adults in the US) actually believed that the other party had illegally seized power and now plan to use that power to harm people like themselves, the events of January 6 would likely have played out much, much differently.

Indeed, had even the 2,500 people who assembled on the Capitol arrived armed to the hilt, with a plan to seize power by force, committed to violence as “needed” to achieve their goals – things would have gone much, much differently.

Instead, most participants showed up expecting Trump would provide them with definitive evidence for his claims of electoral malfeasance, and then unveil some master plan to take the country back. This didn’t happen. Those gathered seemed to have no idea what to do after that. Most of what followed was spontaneous, not planned. Even when they breached the Capitol, most had no information about the layout of the building, little knowledge about the proceedings they were ostensibly striving to disrupt, and no clear agenda of what to do once they got inside.

There was a small number, dozens perhaps, who showed up to the Capitol with a clear intent to forcibly overturn the election – who equipped themselves for violence, researched the congressional proceedings and the layout of the building, developed and executed a plan, etc. These are behaviors consistent with a sincere belief in the big lie, and a strong commitment to doing something “about” it.

Yet, critically, even these actors were operating independently of Trump, motivated in part by frustration with the former president’s apparent inaction. In their telling, Trump himself wasn’t acting like he believed his own rhetoric. There was no urgency. There was no “fire”. There was no focus. There was no plan. The Oath Keepers hoped to engage in a radical act that would push the president to actually behave as if the election was stolen and the republic was on the line. As their leader (currently arrested on sedition charges) put it:

“All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no intent by him to do anything. So the patriots are taking it into their own hands. They’ve had enough. We’re going to defend the president, the duly elected president, and we call on him to do what needs to be done to save our country.”

Of course, even tiny numbers of genuine extremists like these can be extremely destabilizing under the right circumstances. Had Oath Keepers breached the Capitol instead of being repelled (even as Q-Shaman, Confederate Flag Guy et al wandered the building aimlessly) … January 6 could have played out much differently.

Nonetheless, there is a huge difference in talking about identifying and disrupting small numbers of highly committed individuals willing to engage in revolutionary political violence v tens of millions of Americans genuinely believing the election was fraudulent and being open to violence as a means of rectifying the situation. Those are very different problems. Orders of magnitude different.

The good news is that the second problem, the tens-of-millions-of-Americans problem, is not real. It is an artifact of politicized polling design and survey responses, followed by overly credulous interpretations of those results by academics and pundits who are committed to a narrative that half the electorate is evil, ignorant, stupid, deranged and otherwise dangerous.

In fact, rather than January 6 serving as a prelude to a civil war, the US saw lower levels of death from political violence in 2021 than in any other year since the turn of the century. Even as violent crime approached record highs across much of the country, fatalities from political violence dropped. This is not an outcome that seems consistent with large and growing shares of the population supposedly leaning towards settling the culture wars with bullets instead of ballots. This turn of events does not seem consistent with the notion that tens of millions of Americans – including large numbers of military, law enforcement and militia members – literally believe the presidency was stolen, elections can no longer be trusted, and the fate of the country is on the line.

Indeed, far from giving up on elections, Republican voters are reveling in the prospect of taking back one or both chambers of Congress at the end of this year; they are eagerly awaiting the midterms (likely for good reason).

In truth, most Republican voters likely don’t believe in the big lie. But many would nonetheless profess to believe it in polls and surveys – just as they’d support politicians who make similar professions (according to one estimate, Republican candidates who embrace the big lie enjoy a 6 percentage point electoral boost as compared to Republicans who publicly affirm the 2020 electoral results).

Within contemporary rightwing circles, a rhetorical embrace of the big lie is perceived as an act of defiance against prevailing elites. It is recognized as a surefire means to “trigger” people on the other team. A demonstrated willingness to endure blowback (from Democrats, media, academics, social media companies et al) for publicly striking this “defiant” position is interpreted as evidence of solidarity with, and commitment to, “the people” instead of special interests; it’s taken as a sign that one is not beholden to “the Establishment” and its rules. That is, the big lie seems to be more about social posturing than making sincere truth claims.

For many reasons, this situation is also far from ideal. But it’s a very different (and much smaller) problem than partisans actually inhabiting different epistemic worlds and lurching towards a civil war. Glass half full.

Musa al-Gharbi is a Paul F Lazarsfeld fellow in sociology at Columbia University

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Other than the delusion, someone with this condition doesn’t usually seem or act odd. But sometimes, the delusions can get serious enough to cause problems in their daily life. -- What Are Delusions of Grandeur?
https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/delusions-grandeur

This is usually the point where a Trump defender says it is the Democrats with Delusions of Grandeur, not themselves who have problems in their daily life, but that is only a childish riposte: “I’m rubber, you’re glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.”


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I have a newspaper clipping I saved. Not much has changed in the 18 years since this was written:

Sounding Board: Fair, balanced conservative manifesto
James Howard Gibbons
April 12, 2004

SOME readers have complained that the Chronicle's opinion pages do not adequately express the conservative view. They overlook William Safire, George Will, Charles Krauthammer and the other conservative commentators whose work frequently appears.

However, in the interest of fairness and balance, I have cobbled together the following conservative manifesto that I hope will provide a useful summary of the agenda on the right:

• In time of peace or during war, the first priority is to lower taxes. Government takes more and more from Americans' paychecks, letting them keep less and less. Tax cuts made across the board cannot help but go disproportionately to those who pay the highest taxes.

If the tax cuts contribute to federal deficits running above $400 billion per year, so be it. Eventually, the deficits will force Congress to reduce spending. For every dollar Congress borrows and spends today, it will have $2 less to squander when today's children grow up and have children.

• The Internal Revenue Service should be torn up by its roots. The complicated and inefficient income tax should be replaced with some kind of consumption tax, with rebates to the poorest citizens.

• Money is not the root of all evil. In our time, the root of most evil is the Clinton administration. Before that, it was the breakdown of traditional values in the 1960s and '70s.

• Illegal immigrants should be stopped at the border. Those who make it into this country's work force take jobs away from Americans and should be rounded up and deported to the extent possible. Those who remain and their foreign-born children should be barred from receiving any tax-paid schooling, health care or welfare benefits.

• Our Founders attended church, and the United States is a predominantly Christian nation. Those who object to prayer and religious tablets posted in schools and public places should either get over it or move to a country more to their liking. If encouraging children to recite the Pledge of Allegiance with the words "under God" is deemed unconstitutional, the Constitution should be amended.

• Marriage is a sacrament involving a man and a woman. Allowing same-sex couples to marry would threaten the sanctity of opposite-sex marriages and undermine the stability of the traditional American family.

• When the president sends U.S. troops into battle, it is unpatriotic and possibly treasonous to question his motives, judgment, strategy or tactics. Those who do give aid and comfort to the enemy and erode the popular support our troops on the front lines need and deserve.

Furthermore, the fine companies that make our weapons and feed and house our troops also should be above suspicion.

• Freedom of speech has its limits. The government should be able to punish anyone who burns an American flag or desecrates a beloved national symbol.

• Parents who wish to send their children to private school should be eligible for a government check made out for the sum that the public schools spend per child. The lost revenues just might stir the public schools to do a better job.

• A woman has no constitutional right to choose to have an abortion. The Supreme Court was wrong to extend that right in Roe v. Wade and should reverse itself.

• The government has no right to tell industries how to run their business or regulate the liquids, gases and particulate they emit. Industry produces needed jobs. Any increased incidence of cancer and respiratory disease from emissions — as yet unproved — is a necessary trade-off for a prosperous economy.

• Since most people prefer to travel in their own car or truck, spending money on mass transit is a waste. Those dollars should be invested in more highway lanes and street repairs.

• As Americans should be free to buy whatever vehicle they please, we're going to need more oil. A few more wells on isolated government lands won't hurt.

Of course, conservatism is not monolithic. Not all conservatives will agree with all of these positions. Due to limited space, I have left out important planks.

Some conservatives will argue that the preceding does not represent true conservatism, but that is an argument they will have to take up with their fellow conservatives.

https://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/Sounding-Board-Fair-b
alanced-conservative-1512224.php

Now the liberal ‘manifesto’...

In the April 12 Sounding Board column, “Fair, balanced conservative manifesto,” James Howard Gibbons was kind enough to present his view of the conservative manifesto.

In the interest of fairness, I have cobbled up my own liberal manifesto that I hope will provide a summary of the agenda of the left.

• Higher taxes are always better. The government knows how to spend your money better than you do.

• The IRS is your friend, and the more of your taxes it gets, the better. (See No. 1.)

• Money is the root of all evil, and the more of yours that the government gets, the better. (See No. 1.)

• Illegal immigrants should be welcomed with open arms at our borders and immediately given anything they need. It may take some of the your money to do that, but it’s better than you spending it. (See No. 1.)

• Our Founding Fathers were a bunch of Christian fools who frequently invoked the creator, but it would be much better for us to have a totally godless society.

• Marriage is nothing sacred, and any two living creatures should be able to get married to whomever they wish.

• When America goes to war, everyone in society should criticize and second-guess the president, even if it is a moral and just war and even if it is in response to attacks from others. All war is always bad.

• We should be able to say anything we want and do anything we want and there should never be a price to pay.

• A woman should be able to abort a child by any means.

• The government should be able to create rules that would put any business or industry out of business if it appears they are making too much profit.

• Mass transit is always better than individual transportation. No one should have the right to use precious fuel just to drive themselves where they want to go, and we shouldn’t spend another penny on roads and highways for public use.

• Oil wells are always bad, and because of this, you should either drive a micro-car or use mass transit wherever you go.

Some liberals will argue that this doesn’t represent their agenda, but they will have to sort this out among themselves.

Joe G. Brannen, Huffman

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How's those book burning sessions going?

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Frank Luntz footnote: His recent Guardian profile . . .

. . . Having once worked for rightwing Republicans such as Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani, he no longer hesitates to condemn Donald Trump’s pernicious influence. . . .

. . . “Be thankful that you don’t have our poison [he told his British audience] … I’m very afraid of the American system being hopelessly damaged.”

. . . Luntz, who does not think he will be in the polling business much longer, hopes politicians will consider the lessons of his “Great Rethink” presentation and rethink their own ways before democracy seizes up for good. “I want to hit them over the head with this,” he says. “I want to be able to say to them: cut it out. Just stop. Nothing is worth destroying the country – and you are this close to destroying the country.”

. . . is worth reading in full.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/27/frank-luntz-interview-
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David Brooks Looks At 'Terrifying Future' Of U.S. Right At Conservative Conference


Writer David Brooks discusses his latest piece 'The Terrifying Future of the American Right,' which details the trends he observed at the National Conservatism Conference in Florida.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-america
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Donald Trump destroyed the Reagan Republican paradigm in 2016, but he didn’t exactly elucidate a new set of ideas, policies, and alliances. Trump’s devastation of the old order produced a grand struggle on the right to build a new one on Trumpian populist lines.

The NatCons are wrong to think there is a unified thing called “the left” that hates America. This is just the apocalyptic menace many of them had to invent in order to justify their decision to vote for Donald Trump.

NatCons are also probably right that conservatism is going to get a lot more statist. At the conference, Ted Cruz tried to combine culture-war conservatism with free-market economic policies—free trade and low taxes. Marco Rubio countered by, in effect, arguing that you can’t rally cultural populists if you are not also going to do something for them economically. Cultural populism leads to economic populism. Rubio’s position at least has the virtue of being coherent.

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lol

Delusional.

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Are We Winning Yet?

Between 2018-20, U.S. military forces were fighting terrorism in 89 countries.

In 79 of those countries, they were training indigenous forces in how to fight terrorists. In 41, they conducted military exercises either alone or with local armies. In seven, they launched air or drone strikes. In 12 of the countries, U.S. troops engaged in combat operations.

Troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan, leaving 11 countries where they’re engaged in combat operations or are authorized and set up to do so—Iraq, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Cameroon, Libya, Niger, and Tunisia.

The big, often unaddressed question is how effective these operations are—not so much in terms of killing their targets (they’re usually very effective in that department) but in terms of stopping terrorism or destroying terrorist organizations.

The answer, it turns out, is that they’re not very effective.

It is unclear (and often unexamined) whether even “decapitation strikes”—operations where the military kills the leader of a terrorist organization—have a durable impact. In general, these groups name another leader and move on. These strikes are not without some utility, but game changers, they are not.

The war on terror never ended, and isn’t going to any time soon.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/the-real-lesson-of-joe-bid
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Friday, February 4, 2022 9:27 AM

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Yeah...

We don't agree on much, but I think that you and I can agree that what we do with our military is pretty gross.


I think it's important to invest in and maintain our military if we want to keep our status as a top dog superpower, but maybe dial back the imperialism and fucking around a tad.


It also makes me uncomfortable how many decisions are made not only without any of our input, but without our knowledge at all. It doesn't matter how much you've read up on it, you couldn't possibly ever know more than a fraction of what has been done since WWII in the shadows.

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It’s even worse than most of us think.
And ignoring the problem doesn’t solve it — it only makes it worse.


02:42 January 6, a turning point for politics in the US
06:14 Domestic terrorism is biggest threat, says Pentagon
08:38 US Americans are not interested in politics, but politics is interested in them
10:53 Midterm elections in 2022 – Will Trump run again?
16:01 How likely is a Donald Trump win in the 2024 election?
19:39 Would someone within the GOP fight Trump?
21:21 What can the world expect from the US?
22:56 “God protects drunks and Americans”

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With the Civil War in full stride, Frederick Douglass was advocating for the equal treatment of Black Union soldiers. In March, he had issued his famous “MEN OF COLOR to ARMS! broadside calling for Black men to enlist in the Union army. Two of his sons had joined the 54th Massachusetts Black regiment.

Douglass was concerned about the unequal pay of Black soldiers, who received $3 dollars less per month than white privates. He was also incensed by the Union government’s response to the Confederate treatment of Black prisoners of war, who were being tortured, killed and sometimes sold into slavery. He focused his anger at President Abraham Lincoln. “The slaughter of Blacks taken as captives,” wrote Douglass in his Douglass’ Monthly, “seems to affect him [Lincoln] as little as the slaughter of beeves [cows] for the use of his army.”

On August 10, Douglass took his concerns directly to the White House—where, uninvited, he later wrote, he “elbowed” his way up the stairs “past all the angry white office seekers” waiting in line. The President, listening intently, explained that the conditions Black soldiers faced were a “necessary concession” for men of color to serve. While that was not the answer he sought, Douglass later told Major George L. Stearns, a leading recruiter of Black troops, that he admired Lincoln’s “decency and forthrightness” and that he left their meeting confident that “slavery would not survive the war and that the country would survive both slavery and the war.”

Even with no official job in government, Douglass wielded considerable influence on the national conversation around slavery, Black troop equality and Black emancipation. He did so by traveling the lecture circuit, writing editorials in his Douglass’ Monthly, giving speeches or writing letters to intimates and government officials. In all those outlets, Douglass vented about the president. He had grown impatient with Lincoln’s political foot dragging on emancipation, since the president felt he first had to overcome widespread prejudice and “prepare the public mind” for its enactment, according to Blight. And Douglass was infuriated over Lincoln’s support for colonizing African Americans outside the United States after emancipation. In Douglass’ Monthly, he castigated the proposal as a reflection of the president’s “inconsistencies, his pride of race and blood, his contempt for Negroes and his canting hypocrisy.”

After siding with the Radical Republican’s dump-Lincoln movement for the 1864 Presidential election and roundly criticizing the president in public for his leniency on the Reconstruction plan and Black suffrage, Douglass was summoned to the White House by Lincoln for a private meeting. No longer a walk-in, he now had a personal invitation from a President facing criticism from every side during a bloody war, and worried about his reelection.

At their second meeting on August 19, 1864, Lincoln pleaded for support and guidance from one of his most vocal critics. “Lincoln’s main purpose in initiating this meeting was to seek Douglass’s advice on how to increase the number of Blacks who, in the event that he lost the election, could not be returned to bondage,” wrote Columbia University historian Eric Foner in his 2010 book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.

In his third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, the orator wrote that Lincoln asked him “to undertake the organizing of a band of scouts, composed of colored men, whose business should be…to go into the rebel states, beyond the lines of our armies, and carry the news of emancipation, and urge the slaves to come within our boundaries.”

Despite his best efforts and support from several other Black leaders, Douglass never got a chance to complete the assignment. “It is remarkable that Lincoln suggested such a scheme to Douglass,” wrote Blight in his book, Frederick Douglass’ Civil War. “It would have forged an unprecedented alliance between leadership and federal power for the purpose of emancipation.”

More at https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-frederick-douglass-relati
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Most Americans on minimum wage earn less than a Dickensian allegory for destitution.

Americans make Scrooge seem like a generous paying boss.

According to A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit makes 15 shillings a week. Adjusted for inflation, that's $530.27/wk. or $27,574/yr. or $13.50/hr.

Politifact has quibbles about this comparison of Americans to Scrooge because comparing the worth of a salary in 1840s England to today is an imperfect science and because working conditions today are better with the advent of the 40-hour work week.

More at https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/03/facebook-posts/chris
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Monday, February 7, 2022 7:58 AM

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Yeah. $7.25 an hour isn't even worth working anymore. Period.

That's $15,080 gross, assuming anyone making minimum was ever able to get a 40 hour workweek. I'm sure that almost never happens though, so it's part time without any benefits.

In my state, you've still got to pay an average of 4.5% income tax on anything over $1,000, and when you did your taxes this year you'd be paying the FED 10% on anything over $12,550. And you're also paying 7.65 off of every dollar for Social Security/Medicare.

So in the hypothetical situation where you're a full time employee living in Indiana and making the national minimum wage, you've paid $1,153.62 in Social Security/Medicare. You've paid roughly $663.60 in state and local taxes and $253 in Federal taxes.

So that $15,080 is now only $13,009.78.


Granted, you're going to be seeing some form of EIC or another depending on your married status and how many kids you have. I can't even give a figure on that now since they've made crazy changes to the EIC over the last two years. So we'll just say that it's enough on the federal level to get back the FED tax you paid, but not close to enough to get your Social Security/Medicare back unless you've got a few kids and alone or with a spouse who also makes nothing. State EIC isn't worth counting since it's so little it's hardly worth filling out the extra form.

Own a house? (Not Likely) You're paying another $1,000 to $2,500 in property taxes around here, bringing you even closer to $10,000 a year to live on. Don't own a house? Rent isn't cheap around here either, even though we're not paying insane California or New York prices. Just expect that the vast majority of your labor all year is going to rent that crappy apartment.

You still won't have any health insurance from your job though, but you've come dangerously close to the $1,482 per month monthly income cap for state sponsored insurance. A figure which never seems to go up from year to year to match inflation. I guess you'd better start thinking about asking your employer to start cutting your hours soon and certainly turn down any raises or any non-life-changing promotions, or else you're too rich to have health insurance since there's no way you're going to afford Obamacare on your own with what you make.

And forget about vacation time. But that's okay, you didn't have any money to go anywhere anyhow.



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Minimum Wage – In Your State
https://minimumwage.com/in-your-state/

I know why the minimum wage is low -- most voters want it that way and their legislatures follow. Oh, the voters might say they want the minimum raised to $15, but words are cheap. The voters see a monetary advantage for themselves by keeping a low minimum wage. Their legislator sees what they see or else the legislator eventually doesn't get reelected. I really don't know why minimum wage activists hope there is legislative solution when the majority of voters don't want a solution.
https://minimumwage.com/news/

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It'll be moot soon.

Nobody is going to work for $7.25 an hour when it doesn't buy them anything.

There is a very large correction coming soon.

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It'll be moot soon.

Nobody is going to work for $7.25 an hour when it doesn't buy them anything.

There is a very large correction coming soon.
It will NOT happen. If all the 1,100,000 earning $7.25 or less stopped working, it would be unnoticed. Since the median wage is $67,521 in 2020 and since half the country is earning above $67,521, they aren't going to care what happens unless those who quit work decide to burn down the houses of those earning more than $67,521. Do you think that will happen? I don't.

Unless somebody breaks at least a few windows, metaphorically speaking, nothing changes in America. I know how violently anxious Trump voters are against having their windows broken. Trump voters will start shooting poor people to stop them from getting raises. Less violently, Trump voters strongly approve of poor people being homeless just so long as the homeless stay out of Trump voters' neighborhood. Trump voters hate the idea of the poor going directly after the people who won't pay the poor decently. The idea of paying really makes Trump voters mad. Not paying is what Trump voters do. That's why they have no concerns about Trump not paying his real estate and income taxes or his contractors.

Among those paid by the hour, 247,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 865,000 workers had wages below the federal minimum. Together, these 1.1 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 1.5 percent of all hourly paid workers.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm

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lol... Those damn Trump voters.

Maybe Nancy should donate her illegal insider trading gains to the minimum wage earners.

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SCOTUS Just Blew Up the Voting Rights Act’s Ban on Racial Gerrymandering

On Monday afternoon, the Supreme Court crushed a key component of the Voting Rights Act by halting a lower court order that required Alabama to redraw its racial gerrymander. The court’s intervention in Merrill v. Milligan was so radically unjustified that Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, alongside the three liberals.

Read the whole decision here https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a375_d18f.pdf

But the key paragraph from the dissenting judges is as follows:

Today’s decision is one more in a disconcertingly long line of cases in which this Court uses its shadow docket to signal or make changes in the law, without anything approaching full briefing and argument. Here, the District Court applied established legal principles to an extensive evidentiary record. Its reasoning was careful—indeed, exhaustive—and justified in every respect. To reverse that decision requires upsetting the way Section 2 plaintiffs have for decades—and in line with our caselaw—proved vote-dilution claims. That is a serious matter, which cannot properly occur without thorough consideration. Yet today the Court skips that step, staying the District Court’s order based on the untested and unexplained view that the law needs to change. That decision does a disservice to our own appellate processes, which serve both to constrain and to legitimate the Court’s authority. It does a disservice to the District Court, which meticulously applied this Court’s longstanding voting-rights precedent. And most of all, it does a disservice to Black Alabamians who under that precedent have had their electoral power diminished—in violation of a law this Court once knew to buttress all of American democracy.

You can read the 225 page long District Court decision that was ignored by a 5 to 4 vote in the Supreme Court here: https://redistricting.lls.edu/wp-content/uploads/AL-milligan-20220124-
opinion-and-order-granting-PI.pdf

It is pretty obvious that 5 Republican Supreme Court justices decided that 225 pages was too long; didn't read for them because the 5 wanted to go to an early lunch.

The history of the case in the District Court is here: https://redistricting.lls.edu/case/milligan-v-merrill/

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And I'm sure it wasn't racial at all.

But whenever Democrats don't get their way and can't cheat, they claim "muh racism".


It would really be a shame if you were right this time though. Maybe it would teach you to stop crying wolf.

Because we're done hearing you talk.



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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
And I'm sure it wasn't racial at all.

But whenever Democrats don't get their way and can't cheat, they claim "muh racism".


It would really be a shame if you were right this time though. Maybe it would teach you to stop crying wolf.

Because we're done hearing you talk.
Yes, obviously the real racists are the Black plantiffs. From the Alabama Court ruling: "Both sets of plaintiffs also suggest, and we agree, that as a practical reality, the evidence of racially polarized voting adduced during the preliminary injunction proceedings suggests that any remedial plan will need to include two districts in which Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it. Milligan Doc. 103 583; Caster Doc. 97 497." -- Page 213 from https://redistricting.lls.edu/wp-content/uploads/AL-milligan-20220124-
opinion-and-order-granting-PI.pdf

It is completely racist that two Alabama Congressional districts should have enough Blacks within to elect a Black Representative. The White people of those districts are being racially discriminated against. Oh, Dear God.

In a 5 to 4 decision the Supreme Court ruled that it is very sad and racist for those White people not being represented by White Representatives.

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The 8-hour day was not won by the kindness of employers deciding to give the 8-hour day or by the initiative of government. Not at all.

The 8-hour day was won by workers in the 19th century and 20th century going out on strike, facing the National Guard and the army, and struggling and changing the conditions of their lives.

https://www.google.com/search?q=8-hour+day+history

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The 8-hour day was not won by the kindness of employers deciding to give the 8-hour day or by the initiative of government. Not at all.

The 8-hour day was won by workers in the 19th century and 20th century going out on strike, facing the National Guard and the army, and struggling and changing the conditions of their lives.

https://www.google.com/search?q=8-hour+day+history

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Oh. You mean what the Freedom Convy is doing in Ottawa right now?

No. Of course you don't mean that. You've been brainwashed to think otherwise.

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Oh. You mean what the Freedom Convy is doing in Ottawa right now?

No. Of course you don't mean that. You've been brainwashed to think otherwise.
Truckers blocking bridges to US
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/canadian-trucker-protesters-bridge

Who owns those bridges? The government. This is more like taking Fort Sumter. The Confederates wanted to exercise their "Civil Rights" to own slaves and the best way to do that, besides killing slaves that escape or at least beating slaves, was to steal government property -- Fort Sumter.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/fort-sumter

The Truckers are the Confederates. The US/Canadian bridges are Fort Sumter. Spreading a fatal disease wherever the Truckers go is the same as killing slaves that act uppity or at least sending slaves to the hospital after a thorough beating with a whip. Truckers who send people to the hospital with Covid are just like the Confederates who harm slaves with whips.

By the way, the Confederates denied doing what they actually did with whips so it is unsurprising that Truckers would deny that people die from Covid. It wasn't that many slaves that were whipped to death or hanged, if you believe the Confederates, and it isn't that many dying from Covid, if you believe the stories Truckers tell.

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Elon Musk Reveals Jaw-Dropping Ignorance About Social Security and the National Debt

True national debt, including unfunded entitlements, is at least $60 trillion – roughly three times the size of the entire US economy. Something has got to give.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 6:25 PM · Feb 10, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1491931362064015360

Musk didn’t say where he got $60 trillion, but you can be pretty sure that it originated from the government’s 2021 report on the status of Social Security, which stated that the program’s “unfunded obligation through the infinite horizon” in present-day dollars is $59.8 trillion.

The same government report that provides the $60 trillion number also gives us, on the same page, the cumulative projected gross domestic product for the U.S. through the infinite horizon. It’s $4,237 trillion. This means, as the report says, that $60 trillion is 1.4 percent of the U.S. GDP during the relevant time frame. https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2021/VI_F_infinite.html

Musk’s blathering illustrates how the people at the top of U.S. society just repeat what are essentially billionaire urban legends.

More about the accounting term "infinite horizon" at https://web.archive.org/web/20220211184043/https://theintercept.com/20
22/02/11/elon-musk-social-security/

or at https://theintercept.com/2022/02/11/elon-musk-social-security/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:15 AM

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Oh. You mean what the Freedom Convy is doing in Ottawa right now?

No. Of course you don't mean that. You've been brainwashed to think otherwise.
Truckers blocking bridges to US
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/canadian-trucker-protesters-bridge

Who owns those bridges? The government. This is more like taking Fort Sumter. The Confederates wanted to exercise their "Civil Rights" to own slaves and the best way to do that, besides killing slaves that escape or at least beating slaves, was to steal government property -- Fort Sumter.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/fort-sumter

The Truckers are the Confederates. The US/Canadian bridges are Fort Sumter. Spreading a fatal disease wherever the Truckers go is the same as killing slaves that act uppity or at least sending slaves to the hospital after a thorough beating with a whip. Truckers who send people to the hospital with Covid are just like the Confederates who harm slaves with whips.

By the way, the Confederates denied doing what they actually did with whips so it is unsurprising that Truckers would deny that people die from Covid. It wasn't that many slaves that were whipped to death or hanged, if you believe the Confederates, and it isn't that many dying from Covid, if you believe the stories Truckers tell.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



Spare me your bullshit.

We know what's really going on and we're not listening to your lies anymore.


The Freedom Convoy is winning.




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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:17 AM

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Jimmy Dore thinks you're a piece of shit and a fake Progressive.



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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:22 AM

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Alberta starts lifting COVID-19 restrictions, vaccine passport program

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/alberta-starts-lifting-covid-19-
restrictions-vaccine-passport-program/ar-AATCkeO

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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:24 AM

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Saskatchewan to become first province in Canada to end COVID passport, mask requirements

Premier Scott Moe says providing proof of vaccination to enter businesses has created 'two classes of citizens'

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cp-newsalert-saskatchewan-ending-
covid-19-passport-lifting-mask-requirement

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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:25 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Spare me your bullshit.

We know what's really going on and we're not listening to your lies anymore.

The Freedom Convoy is winning.
The Truckers are saying that Covid-19 vaccinations are dangerous and eventually will harm their health, even kill them. The Confederates said that White Men cannot work out in the sun because field work in the heat would harm them, even kill them, which is why the White Men had to exercise their Civil Right to own slaves. It was a matter of public health of White Men to refuse to work in the fields. The story Confederates told to justify a Civil War was very simple: Slaves can tolerate the heat while White Men collapse from heatstroke.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:27 AM

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COVID updates, Feb. 8: Quebec lifting most measures by March 14, will review mask mandate, vaccine passport

Legault unveils detailed reopening timeline for home gatherings, restaurants, bars, sports, working from home.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/covid-19-updates-montreal-
quebec-new-cases-vaccine-vaccination-bar-joel-lightbound-trucker-convoy-protest-ottawa-february-8

Not good enough, Quebec. Do better.

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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:30 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Spare me your bullshit.

We know what's really going on and we're not listening to your lies anymore.

The Freedom Convoy is winning.
The Truckers are saying that Covid-19 vaccinations are dangerous and eventually will harm their health, even kill them.


No. They aren't, actually. A majority of them are vaccinated.

Believing dumb shit like this is what happens when you only get your "news" from one source or the internet shill outfits that just repeat what that one source said.



And honestly, I don't give a single shit if I ever change your mind. You don't matter at all in this equation.


The Freedom Convoy is seeing almost immediate results from their government, as illustrated in my posts above.

This will send reverberations throughout the world, as it already has in America with Democrats all over the country backing down on tyranny.

Democrats are fucking done. People aren't going to forgive them.

Far too little too late.

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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:36 AM

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The Freedom Convoy is seeing almost immediate results from their government, as illustrated in my posts above.

This will send reverberations throughout the world, as it already has in America with Democrats all over the country backing down on tyranny.




Reverberations...

Lions Gate Hospital doctor and restaurant association president want B.C. to scrap vaccine passport

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/lions-gate-hospital-er-doctor-and-restaurant-ass
ociation-president-want-b-c-to-scrap-vaccine-passport-1.5775531

Quote:
With the vaccine passport now gone in Alberta and on its way out next week in Saskatchewan, an internist at North Vancouver’s Lions Gate Hospital who treats COVID-19 patients says B.C. should follow suit, arguing its vaccine card program is no longer serving its purpose

Dr. Kevin McLeod posted on social media: “Vaccine mandates initially made sense. I supported them. At this stage of the pandemic, they do not make sense. It shouldn’t be political. It’s time they are removed.”

In a follow-up tweet, McLeod explained his stance, arguing: “With Omicron, the vaccinated and unvaccinated spread it around equally. You aren’t safer in a room with the vaccinated, unvaccinated or in between.”

The president of the B.C. Restaurant and Foodservices Association, Ian Tostenson, agrees vaccine passports should be phased out.

“I don’t think we should just end it, because (for) the public there is a little bit of reliance on this in terms of assurance of when you go into places. We need to ease out of that,’ said Tostenson.




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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:50 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

No. They aren't, actually. A majority of them are vaccinated.

Believing dumb shit like this is what happens when you only get your "news" from one source or the internet shill outfits that just repeat what that one source said.



And honestly, I don't give a single shit if I ever change your mind. You don't matter at all in this equation.


The Freedom Convoy is seeing almost immediate results from their government, as illustrated in my posts above.

This will send reverberations throughout the world, as it already has in America with Democrats all over the country backing down on tyranny.

Democrats are fucking done. People aren't going to forgive them.

Far too little too late.
The Truckers are refusing to be vaccinated and to drive home the point that Truckers control the roads and won't be vaccinated, they shutdown the bridges. The way 6ix describes what the Truckers do is dishonest and misleading, but it does make the Truckers look like Nobel Peace Prize winning humanitarians who have nothing to personally gain by helping out other people who refuse to be vaccinated.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:58 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

No. They aren't, actually. A majority of them are vaccinated.

Believing dumb shit like this is what happens when you only get your "news" from one source or the internet shill outfits that just repeat what that one source said.



And honestly, I don't give a single shit if I ever change your mind. You don't matter at all in this equation.


The Freedom Convoy is seeing almost immediate results from their government, as illustrated in my posts above.

This will send reverberations throughout the world, as it already has in America with Democrats all over the country backing down on tyranny.

Democrats are fucking done. People aren't going to forgive them.

Far too little too late.
The Truckers are refusing to be vaccinated and to drive home the point that Truckers control the roads and won't be vaccinated, they shutdown the bridges. The way 6ix describes what the Truckers do is dishonest and misleading, but it does make the Truckers look like Nobel Peace Prize winning humanitarians who have nothing to personally gain by helping out other people who refuse to be vaccinated.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



Spoken like a Tyrant.

That's cool man.

We're watching the narrative fall apart.

You're on the losing side. You always were.


It's funny when there's finally a worker protest that means something, a so-called Progressive like you doesn't back it.

You are such a piece of shit.



Meanwhile, enjoy watching mandates all over the world disappear.

You'd better wear a dozen masks when you leave your house from now on.

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