Monday Stuff

Leeja Miller tells us all about the conservative attack on public schools and how the emphasis went from using them as a way to make those who'd recently arrived as immigrants familiar with this country to becoming a means to build a career ...a lot of important history and many good points, including how “school choice” is a “two-fer” – one, it attacks funding for teachers unions which traditionally vote Democratic as Miller says, and two, it’s an effort to eliminate public schools, in line with what Milton Friedman and the “Chicago boys” want for public education, which is to kill it altogether (and school vouchers are a tool to help accomplish that also) – didn’t know about that Grover Norquist quote, but it sure fits...and yeah the quote from Mike Pompeo is as stoo-pid and inflammatory as you can expect...and just as a reminder, the whole “litter boxes in schools” thing started because teachers set them up for students who might be stuck in lockdowns BECAUSE OF AN ACTIVE FREAKING SHOOTER, WHICH TIES BACK TO THE FACT THAT THIS COUNTRY PRETTY MUCH REFUSES TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT OUR EPIDEMIC OF GUN VIOLENCE (more on that a bit later), and teachers quite rightly realized that some students might need to relieve themselves when stuck in a classroom for an extended period of time...this video also gives charter schools the treatment they deserve (NSFW/H)...



...and Thom Hartmann discusses some unanswered questions about January 6th, such as who planted the pipe bombs in D.C., who removed the panic buttons in the office of Dem U.S. House rep Ayanna Pressley, etc. (the 1/6 Commission with Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger was a good start, but so much more needs to be done on that front)...GREAT questions asked by Thom Hartmann about what we STILL don’t know about the 1/6 insurrection, including wondering if Tuberville is deliberately holding open military promotions in case, God forbid, Our Tiny-Handed Treasonous Orange Pustule gets back into An Oval Office and then he’d be able to appoint his favorites to those posts...and I also didn’t know about the bus being locked that contained the riot gear for the DC cops – ugh...and more on the recent “second bullet” revelation from retired Secret Service agent Paul Landis, written about recently by Will Bunch of inquirer.com, is here...



...also, Francesca, Cenk and Mark Thompson discuss the recent revelations about South Dakota guv Kristi (Unsafe At Any Speed) Noem and Corey Lewandowski (womp, womp)...and man, it’s hard to keep track of Lewandowski’s antics even with a scorecard...and GREAT point by Francesca that, somehow, we know every damn thing in the world about Hunter freaking Biden, who wasn’t elected to a damn thing, but garbage like this with Noem and Lewandowski manages to seep through and go largely untouched; as I’ve probably said before (and will say again in a minute or two), what people do in their personal lives isn’t an issue with me as long as they’re adults and everything is consensual, but the hypocrisy of these folks doing all this while they screech about how other people should live is the point...



...and I have to admit that I’m a little amused by this next item; it turns out that Repug party donors may be fleeing Tim Scott because they think he’s gay (mildly NSFW/H)...my problem with Scott has nothing to do with his personal life, which isn’t anyone’s damn business – it’s the fact that he gives you about two minutes of word salad when you ask him about abortions along with the fact that he’s from a party that is COMPLETELY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY THE DONOR CLASS...and yeah, that’s true of way too many Dems also, but definitely not all...



Update 9/19/23: Again, I don't care about the personal stuff with Scott, but I VERY MUCH care about nonsense like this (auto workers are NOT federal workers, you assclown).

...and Rayy Vana and Nina Turner of The Damage Report bring us the news that Dem New Mexico guv Michelle Lujan Grisham has temporarily suspended “open and concealed carry” in her state, with some exceptions, because of a recent spate of shootings, leading to wingnuts’ heads exploding of course...and I’m sure Rayy Vana means “gun control advocates” (an update is here, telling us that a federal judge, David Herrera Urias, has at least temporarily blocked the governor’s order, because Heaven forbid that we do ANYTHING to interfere with the almighty Second Amendment, or at least the wingnut misinterpretation of it...and by the way, as much as I wish we could, we can’t blame Combover Caligula on this one; the judge is a Biden appointee)...



...and happy belated 70th birthday to jazzman Earl Klugh.