He drools over the authority and how no one can question the Chinese leader no matter what he says or does. tRump wants that so badly for himself. On a personal note if my energy holds and I don’t fall asleep when I get home I should be good to go for replies to comments. Yesterday started out good for me and I will explain that later. But the afternoon turned bad for me with the pain in my right leg so I ended up in bed at 3 PM. Hugs.
Two White House / administration expel said that fact that US public were still buying and had such high credit care=d debt showed how wonderful the economy was. The president keeps saying the economy is great because the stock market is doing great and him and his buddies are making money hand over fist right now. While the people suffer. Typical disc actor strongman view of the economy. Remember tRump says that he doesn’t think about the financial situation of the American people. Hugs.
OK the fact that hypocrisy and facts cause no shame for these republicans when they flat out deny medical science and reality. Do they think normal none cult meme bears really believe them. Hugs
I am at the allergist getting my shots. I will read Joe My god posts I have not found time to read during my days at home. When I get home I will reply to the comments on my video post and explain things. I have more energy today but Ron said he wants to see if it continues. Hugs
Trump Calls New York Times Reporter ‘Treasonous’ For Questioning Success Of Iran War
The U.S. military could destroy Iran’s infrastructure “within two days” if it wanted, the president said in a two-minute rant aboard Air Force One.
I am two days late on sending this because I was stuck in a depression and it ate all of my extra energy. I started and stopped several drawings because I’m not sure if I didn’t like them or if I just didn’t like me very much. My dr recommended sun and exercise and other things that sound very easy when you are not depressed and it reminded me of a poem my mom read to me so often I’d almost memorized it. (All of A.A. Milne’s poems are the songs of my childhood.) If you hate poetry, skip this part.
The poem always made me feel both cozy and sad at the same time, which was a confusing thing for a small child but also a combination that my brain would grow to specialize in.
It reminded me that recently I’d read that tiny harvest mice have been found asleep in flower beds and so I decided to draw that:
“Sometimes harvest mice will crawl into flowers to feast on the pollen and stamens and will fall asleep inside.”
The drawing is simple and plain and fairly unimpressive, but it made me feel warm inside my heart and that is a very special sort of magic.
This is all a very long way of saying that whimsy and comfort and coziness and nostalgia and joy are all worth more than we give them credit for…whether in drawing mice or reading poems from childhood or eating nectar and drunkenly falling asleep inside flowers.
This is in regard to Kevin Hart’s roast show on Netflix. Over the past couple of years, I’ve read comments that Kevin Hart can be, um, problematic, by being, let’s say, careless how he speaks, or doesn’t call out others’s speech. I don’t go looking to see more about why, though, because it has read as celeb clickbait. I ran across this, and thought I’d share; it’s not celeb clickbait.So, if someone has watched or will watch Kevin Hart’s show, please let us know a counterpoint, or confirm!
If you haven’t pressed play on Kevin Hart’s Netflix roast yet, consider yourself warned. As more people check out Kevin Hart’s celebrity “G.O.A.T. Roast” that recently aired on Netflix, they are failing to find the humor due to the overwhelming amount of racist jokes that were lobbed across the stage from a myriad of white comics. And now, Pastor Jamal Bryant is calling Hart onto the carpet for letting it happen in the first place.
As we previously told you, the event was home to a plethora of shocking racial and stereotypical jokes targeted towards Hart and other Black comedians who were present. The “punchlines” were wide-ranging, from calling Hart a monkey, a slave, a crack baby, and burnt, to likening comedian Sheryl Underwood to a donkey and more. There was even an egregious George Floyd “joke” that was spoken, which soon prompted multiple members of his family to speak out in protest of it.
And all the while, Hart stood by laughing through it all, never once attempting to say when the jokes had gone too far.
Since then, fellow comedians like Michael Che and Lil Rel Howery have shared their two cents of disappointment with what took place. And now, Bryant is also airing out Hart and the other white comics for behaving the way they did.
Writing in a post to Threads, Bryant said of the event: “The Kevin Hart roast wasn’t comedy it was disrespect dressed as jokes. In this climate for it to go unchecked is to give consent.”
In the comment section, many couldn’t help but side with the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church leader and activist.
“I’ve watched Roasts before but this was outside of a roast, it went way over the line in racism period,” said one user.
“Yeah I missed the joke!!! To mock George Floyd was beyond racist! It was disgusting and when we laugh we allow them’ to think it’s ok!!!,” said another.
One other user agreed, adding: “We need to make it known that its unacceptable. I’m tired of Black ppl’s pain being the butt of jokes. I remember hugging my father so tightly after watching George Floyd’s unaliving. To know that the country we live in is ok with treating Black Men in such a manner will never sit right with me.”
Noted another person, “I think they went way too far! For the love of money !!”
An April 2 Washington County School Board meeting in Tennessee took an uncomfortable turn after high school student Hannah Campbell finished delivering her remarks. Seated with the board and directly next to the superintendent, Campbell confidently participated in a discussion with members after presenting research she had conducted on other schools.
The comment is not a baseless allegation. The interaction was caught on video. A few people in the room laughed, Campbell herself quickly brushed off the comment, and the meeting continued as scheduled. Any viewer watching the meeting in person or on YouTube could clearly see what happened.
To many, it was clear that a line had been crossed, and the mood in the room was tense afterward.
The board chair, Annette Buchanan, called an emergency meeting the following week, where members voted to censure Ervin—a public rebuke meant to show that they did not support his comments. But otherwise, as an elected official, Ervin would keep his position on the board.
For his part, Ervin issued a statement apologizing for the incident but insisting that he had not meant any harm.
“I understand why people are reacting the way they are. But that’s not the full conversation, not even close,” he wrote. “When I mentioned she was hot, I meant she was on a roll. It was nothing to do with her appearance.”
The board’s response was not good enough for Campbell, who was also unconvinced by the apology statement.
Student boldly appears at another board meeting to speak up for herself
Campbell refused to shrink or hide. Instead, she returned to a school board meeting on May 7 and confronted not just Ervin, but the entire board, in a courageous four-minute speech.
“I do not forgive you,” she said to Ervin, adding, “The failure to act on the board’s behalf was and is equivalent to his actions, and it has hurt me just as much. To watch the chairperson be so quick to bang her gavel, to control the public, yet not use it once to control her own peer was disgusting … I believe that you are all cowards.”
She sarcastically thanked the board at the end of her speech for showing her that she would do well not to trust adults and authority figures to stand up for her—that she would have to do it herself.
The student’s brave stand earned the support of the community
Campbell was wrong about one thing: There were others in the community who were willing to stand up for her.
One irate father vowed to raise enough money to oust every single board member should they fail to act. “Would you want your kid around that guy without a camera around? I wouldn’t,” he said.
Meanwhile, an online petition calling for Ervin’s removal from the board, along with Superintendent Jerry Boyd’s, has collected nearly 7,000 signatures.
Even more enraging to parents, students, and community members is the fact that Ervin has been accused of inappropriate conduct before. According to WCYB-TV, records show that in 2009, Ervin made a “lewd, juvenile gesture of a sexual nature” in front of students and teachers at a school. He was censured then and barred from school property unless accompanied.
Campbell’s willingness to use her voice may be the difference between a censure and something that makes a real difference for all the students who come before the board after her.
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