Every conservative argument is the same: they create an outcome that will NEVER happen, they try to hoodwink as many haters as possible for their identity politics, then when none of their predictions come true, they never apologized or seek forgiveness.
See: gay marriage, LGBT rights, inclusion.
It’s bad faith, homophobia, and hate masquerading as a political party.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
This cartoon lies while making a claim the other news agencies lied. The right thinks that just because there is a laptop that means all their wild claims were correct. Spoiler alert the report they cite states there was nothing incriminating found on the laptop. Nothing! It is like the Durham report where they claimed that it showed Hillary was spying on tRump. No the report did not say that. They claim the report showed that Hillary was working with the Russians, no it did not. In the case of Hunter’s laptop Rudy kept claiming that he had it in his bedroom, but I guess that was another lie? These people see no wrong in anything a Republican does and believe tRump is pure greatness, yet the find issue with Biden for even the smallest misstep.
While this cartoon is correct stating the US has invaded with made up pretexts it doesn’t mean that the US shouldn’t help the Ukrainians and stand up to Putin. We did wrong, and we should be held accountable. Putin / Russia is doing wrong, needs to be stopped and punished. This must not be allowed by any country.
It seems that the guy who had Hunter’s laptop” never tried to return it to its owner, was and avowed Trump admirer and had the ability to create those e-mails he <i.“(supposedly)” found and make it look like they had been there originally.
Nope, nothing suspicious there… Exactly. And of course, took it nowhere near anyone official, either; but to an iffy kind of newspaper “reporter. The laptops exist but the authenticity of the contents of the only one with a relatively intact hard drive has not been determined.
Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that Russia’s military bombed an art school sheltering some 400 people in the port city of Mariupol, where heavy street fighting is underway weeks into a devastating Russian siege.
The strike on the art school was the second time in less than a week that local officials reported an attack on a public building where Mariupol residents had taken shelter. A bomb hit a theater where more than 1,000 people were believed to be sheltering on Wednesday.
City officials and aid groups have described dire conditions in Mariupol, where food, water and electricity have run low and the fighting has prevented humanitarian convoys from reaching the city.
UNRELENTING SIEGE: Zelenskyy slams Russian ‘terror’ after an art school sheltering hundreds of people was bombed and destroyed in Mariupol, Ukraine. https://t.co/vhEU7vrYMopic.twitter.com/4TOrdDmQD3
Russia bombs an art school sheltering 400 people in Mariupol, city council says. Moscow claims it launched hypersonic and cruise missiles on targets.https://t.co/dLTz4lHGpR
The Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would ban the teaching of “divisive concepts” in K-12 history after a debate in which Democrats accused Republicans of trying to erase history.
The bill, HB 312, passed 65 to 32, on a mostly party-line vote. Four Republicans joined the chamber’s Democrats in voting against the bill.
The bill, one of many being pushed by Republicans around the country to restrict the teaching of race and history, would forbid teachers from teaching students to “adopt or believe” a list of “divisive concepts.”
After the bill passed, the Democratic representatives stood together to denounce the bill and the Republican majority’s procedural move to cut off the debate and pass the legislation, which was part of the House GOP agenda for this year, dubbed “Standing Tall for Alabama.”
The bill, by Rep. Ed Oliver, R-Dadeville, has been one of the most controversial this year. Oliver was asked if there was any indication that is happening in Alabama, Oliver said there is but did not provide any specifics. He said the bill was intended to be preventive.
“This is ridiculous if this is a priority for us with all the other issues that we have going on. We’re looking at a lot of folks that are in poverty, folks that need health care and opportunity.” @AnthonyDanielshttps://t.co/Jp7MNtnPgr
The bill passed after an often scathing debate in which Black Democrats called the bill racist and shared their own experiences of segregation and prejudice. https://t.co/jC4VGQFNFG#alpolitics
An Eastvale mother is furious after discovering a video showing her daughter’s preschool teacher leading a political chant in which the 4 and 5-year-old students were calling for President Joe Biden to leave office.
“I was just in shock,” said Christina McFadden, who told Eyewitness News the video was posted on a school messaging app that is used to communicate with parents. The incident allegedly happened on Feb. 18 at Turning Point Christian School in the city of Norco.
“I had to watch it multiple times to realize, is this really happening?” McFadden said.
The video lasts only about eight seconds. You can hear a teacher asking the students, “Who’s our President.” The students then respond in unison, “Biden!” The teacher then asks the students “What do we want to do with him?” and the students respond twice, “We want him out!”
McFadden said when she picked up her daughter from school that afternoon, one of the first things she referenced was the chant.
“The first thing she said to me when I picked her up was ‘We want him out,'” said McFadden. “That was the great message she learned that day. Her first history lesson.”
McFadden said the video was removed from the messaging app about three hours after it was first posted. In its place, a school administrator left a message for the families to whom the video was sent:
“We use Brightwheel as a parent communication app to share about your child’s day and activities. Earlier today a video was posted that has since been deleted as it did not share our school and church philosophy of honoring and respecting authority including those in government positions,” the message said.
The message continued, “We are sorry for any misunderstanding this could of (sic) created. With courtesy towards the families of our campus and the children in the classroom I am asking you to please not share with others or post the video on any social media platform.”
Eyewitness News reached out to Turning Point Christian School by phone and email and did not immediately receive a response. It’s unclear what, if any, disciplinary action was taken against the teacher.
Dr. Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at UCLA, said he doesn’t feel what was shown in the video is appropriate behavior by the teacher.
“I’ve always believed the role of teachers is not to indoctrinate students about what to think,” said Howard. “It’s to help develop critical thinking skills so students can make their own decisions.”
“I know private schools operate under a different set of guidelines and procedures,” Howard continued. “But I don’t know even in a private domain that those leadership officials would want teachers telling their students what to think about a particular political figure.”
McFadden said the school did not tell her whether the teacher was disciplined, only saying she had been “repentant” and had learned from her mistake. She only posted the video online, after blurring everyone’s faces, when she didn’t feel the school’s response was adequate.
“It doesn’t matter, at this point, which side of the fence you’re on. This can happen in your child’s classroom, and it is happening,” said McFadden.
An Eastvale mother is furious after discovering a video showing her daughter's preschool teacher leading a political chant in which the 4 and 5-year-old students were calling for President Joe Biden to leave office. https://t.co/oDkaI6UfyD
“An Eastvale mother is furious after discovering a video showing her daughter’s preschool teacher [Turning Point Christian School- Norco] leading a political chant in which 4 & 5 y/o students were calling for President Joe Biden to leave office.”
The right is desperate to have their Covid boogieman back. They built up such a hatred for a public servant whose job was only to advise to the best of his ability. Now that the need for that advice has diminished Dr Fauci is less in the news and the right can not use him to distract, misinform, and rile up their base.
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I do get tired of going over the same things. Her chemistry levels are with in specs for a woman. She was getting beat by other women but that doesn’t get much press. She has put in the time and effort to get good at her craft, which is swimming. Some people just excel at their sport, and others do not. Women have been under the accusation of being too manly since women’s sports started. I posted that this morning as I was getting up. What about the woman runner that was so good she was breaking records, there were claims she was really a man and other crap. She was born a woman and because she was really good she was accused of being a man? What does that say about how women’s sports and the women in them are really seen?
Lia Thomas came in 5th in a race yesterday. Seems average to me. This is something that the right likes to hide and only stress the wins so it seems the trans people are sweeping every event in women’s sports. But that is a lie.
The number of people that get sexual reassignment surgery is extremely small as a percentage of the population. The number that participate in sports is even smaller. It’s certainly nt a problem that needs to be addressed in Congress or in the state legislatures. Let the governing bodies of the various sports address it.
Nebulous
A) If you’re not good enough to be competitive on the men’s team, you’re sure not going to be making records on the women’s team. There’s not THAT much difference in most sports.
B) Would anybody actually believe that a jock would want to become a woman and draw the ire of conservative homophobes and transphobes merely because he’s not the top man on the team?
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So show me this line of young men eager for surgery or chemical castration so they can compete in women’s sports!
And you can’t. You can’t because it doesn’t exist. A tiny handful of people on hormones or who’ve had surgery want to compete and that’s a national issue because Tucker and his buddies say it is. Why?
Their usual whine is “gender assigned at birth”. Yet the briefest possible glance at Caspar Semenya’s Wikipedia page clearly says HER gender assigned at birth was female, and she’s never taken hormone therapy of any kind. But SHE has issues being allowed to compete.
I’m sure she’s grateful to all you Qubs. /s
And, just to get the rest of the story:
THIS is what Qublicans usually cite about cisgender sport:
ally includes suppressing testosterone levels and boosting estrogen.
The research was carried out by Dr. Timothy Roberts, a pediatrician and associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and his colleagues. They found that trans women who underwent hormone therapy for one year continued to outperform non-transgender women, also known as cisgender women, though the gap largely closed after two years. But even then, trans women still ran 12% faster.
HOWEVER they leave off this part (usual Qub partial quotes) :
Roberts, however, suggested the difference in running times needs additional perspective. “It was a 12% advantage after two years in run times. But to be in the top 10% of female runners, you have to be 29% faster than the average woman. And to be an elite runner, you’ve got to be 59% faster than the average cis woman,” he told DW.
I posted the audio of an oil executive saying the wouldn’t increase production because right now the profits are too great. They are price gouging and they are proud of it. It doesn’t matter any more who gets hurt in the pursuit of the almighty profit.
These are civilian targets and civilian lives the Russian military if targeting. The only reason to do this is terror. To terrorize the people into giving up. To terrorize the people into leaving so the Russians can move in. Notice the Russians are not hitting big business and infrastructure. They need that to make money to pay back the war effort. They need the Ukrainian economy to fix the broken Russian one.
He reads the part of the bill that says that the reason for the bill is that LGBTQ+ is offensive to Christians and so must be outlawed. When did that become the standard for making law?
I am seeing this sort of cartoon all over the web.
This was drawn by a right wing cartoonist with no acknowledgement that the right denying masks and getting vaccinated would cut down on the chance of another surge in the Covid virus variants.
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It’s NOT because of gas prices. It’s because they don’t want to pay taxes to support anyone but themselves. Trade lower gas prices for lower education, restrictive healthcare, lax safety regulations, more government in your private parts, etc.
Reading the comments on this cartoon was enlightening. Every tenth comment explained that the report did not say that. Every tenth comment explained what the report said, and how it differed from the right wing narrative. Then after the comment that explained things there was a rash of right wing misinformation posted as the real true story and then the insults. That is what the right wing is today.
And it is spreading. Once Republicans get away with curtailing people’s rights they try to do it everywhere. Like anti-abortion bills they spread everywhere the Republicans are in charge. The anti-voter legislation also. Now it is the don’t say gay bills. Notice that each one goes a step further than the last, as they do with the anti-abortion bills and the anti-voter bills. This one includes the 12th grade because 18 year olds are too young to know gays exist. Shades of Russia. These bills just make it harder for young people to get the information they need and see role models that are like themselves. This is mass produced attempt to roll back the clock on the progress of the LGBTQ+ rights. Hey we can get married, we are just not allowed to tell people we are married, especially if kids are around. Will same sex couples be able to put pictures of their families up along with the straight couples. See the thing these bills forget to mention is kids from birth on are surrounded and immersed in heterosexuality. Straight couples everywhere, pictures, on TV, in magazines. It is like racism, kids see it all around them and just learn that is the way things are. Why not the same with same sex families? Why separate them out to hide? It has nothing to do with protecting kids and everything to do with trying to prevent kids from understanding it is normal. These religious groups lost the culture wars so far, but they won the elections so the can make the LGBTQ+ disappear as much as possible. This won’t stop kids from being LGBTQ+ as that happens in the womb. It won’t stop kids from feeling what they feel. LGBTQ+ is not a fad, it is not rebelling against the parents. And it seems bigotry and hate won’t ever stop. I have been fighting this same shit from religious driven people all my life from my teens on. Notice the lawmaker kept saying her Pastor pushed her to do this. Her religious leader is putting his hates and church doctrine into secular laws.
Week after ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill gains passage in Florida, similar law proposed in Louisiana
By: Jeremy Krail
Just over a week after Florida legislators passed a controversial bill regulating the discussion of sexual orientation in classrooms, a Louisiana lawmaker has submitted a similar proposal.
The bill, submitted by Representative Dodie Horton, would “prohibit discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” in K-8 classes and keep instructors from discussing their own sexual orientation or gender identity with students in grades K-12.
“I wasn’t aware of the need [for this legislation] until I looked at some things on Twitter and Facebook,” Horton told WBRZ Thursday. “It just solidified for us to protect our Louisiana children, as well.”
The proposal echoes recent legislation passed in Florida—coined the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by its opponents—that stirred up controversy nationwide and was harshly criticized by pro-LGBTQ groups.
Horton, a Bossier Parish Republican, said the Florida law spurred her bill.
“I started to pray about how we could protect our children here from inappropriate conversations until they are able to dissect it and old enough to understand it,” Horton explained. “I talked to my pastor and he challenged me and said, ‘we definitely need to do this.'”
Governor John Bel Edwards’ office released the following statement in response to the bill, reiterating comments made by the governor during Monday’s State of the State address.
“Some of the bills being brought up this session do nothing to make lives better. Nothing to continue moving us forward. They only serve to divide us. And frankly, some are reminiscent of a dark past that we should learn from, not relive.”
About a week after lawmakers passed Florida's controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill, a Louisiana legislator has proposed a similar law regulating the discussion of sexual orientation in classrooms. https://t.co/qsRnoSURuO
URGENT: HB 837, a #DontSayGay bill authored by Rep. Dodie Horton, is meant to stigmatize #LGBTQ people, isolate LGBTQ kids, and make teachers fearful of providing safe, #inclusive classrooms. Call her office and ask her to withdraw House Bill 837. 318-949-2463 pic.twitter.com/4AysUej0Gq
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It seems that the guy who had Hunter’s laptop” never tried to return it to its owner, was and avowed Trump admirer and had the ability to create those e-mails he <i.“(supposedly)” found and make it look like they had been there originally.
Nope, nothing suspicious there… Exactly. And of course, took it nowhere near anyone official, either; but to an iffy kind of newspaper “reporter. The laptops exist but the authenticity of the contents of the only one with a relatively intact hard drive has not been determined.