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The DeSantis gambit

I also suspect some of his other laws are going to be overturned in court because of first amendment issues.
 
KDLarsen said:
Sadly that's par for the course in most political systems these days, with candidates and parties effectively gaslighting the voters as to what they actually intend to do.

Best summed up by the (possibly apocryphal) story of someone in the UK claiming the UK conservatives were doing a better job than Labour, because under the Tories there were more foodbanks around.
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Been that way since Ancient Greece. It is one of thos problems you never will get rid of:lying politicians. Only thing is hope you have voters smart enough to see through the crap.
 
KDLarsen said:
Sadly that's par for the course in most political systems these days, with candidates and parties effectively gaslighting the voters as to what they actually intend to do.

Best summed up by the (possibly apocryphal) story of someone in the UK claiming the UK conservatives were doing a better job than Labour, because under the Tories there were more foodbanks around.
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Or by another thread here, in which it's pointed out that Russia's kidnapping of Ukrainian kids is for their own good because they're war orphans.
 
Norman Alexander said:
That won't matter, because he "looked and acted tough" in public for his base. That's all they want - a new fist holding their leash.
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Yeah but he is going to really turn off everybody outside his base.
Florida is already a laughing stock because of the Micheangelo statue; it will just get worse.
IMHO the mover and shakes in the GOP are going to be looking for another Stop Trump canidate as a backup.
 
The problem is, the Democrats have to respond to these attacks, even if they get shot down in the courts. Then, the Republicans turn around and say "look at how the Democrats are all worried about identity politics and teaching your kids about transgenders and CRT instead of dealing with real kitchen table issues! How is this going to deal with inflation!"
 
Yeah that's what happens when you manage to split your base equally between hardcore psychopaths who actually believe in the hate they are spewing AND edgy little nihilstic trolls who don't really care about it one way or another but love watching things burns.

If we lose we lose, if we win we still lose.
 
It's still very early and a lot can change over the next year. However, I have been saying for a while now I got big Scott Walker type energy from Meatball Ron.
 
In related news, the continued Republican censorship programme was attacked James Patterson. JP is not happy.
https://eu.tcpalm.com/story/news/20...sex-racial-content-martin-county/70009140007/
Unsurprisingly one resident, Julie Marshall, has filed most of the challenges to the Martin County School District's book titles; she indicated on her form that she has not "read or viewed" the "Maximum Ride" series.

Ah, the land of freedom....

:rolleyes:
 
catsmate said:
In related news, the continued Republican censorship programme was attacked James Patterson. JP is not happy.
https://eu.tcpalm.com/story/news/20...sex-racial-content-martin-county/70009140007/
Unsurprisingly one resident, Julie Marshall, has filed most of the challenges to the Martin County School District's book titles; she indicated on her form that she has not "read or viewed" the "Maximum Ride" series.

Ah, the land of freedom....

:rolleyes:
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Once again the "party of personal responsibility" takes away responsibility from parents to decide what their children can read in school libraries and assumes that responsibility themselves.

Small government strikes again. :rolleyes:
 
Re: the Maximum Ride story, is it just me or does it reads as if she based her challenge on the opinion that a Young Adult series doesn't belong in an elementary school library?
 
The Don said:
Once again the "party of personal responsibility" takes away responsibility from parents to decide what their children can read in school libraries and assumes that responsibility themselves.

Small government strikes again. :rolleyes:
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Sort of, but worse. They have delegated the choice for all to the least qualified persons, abrogating their own responsibility. They give the choice to people like Julie Marshall, who is proud of her ignorance, and call it freedom.

Conservatives are good at this, raging utilitarian statists when they have the power, ready to accept the hardship of minorities, the death of mothers, the slaughter of school children, and the ignorance of all in favor of their leaders' faith, and down-home egalitarian libertarians when democracy rears its ugly head.

The ideal Conservative Bible has the pages of Song of Solomon glued together, but the acts of Pontius Pilate are printed in red.
 
Extremists are gonna extreme. The more they take, the more they want to take. It's just in their nature. They're the scorpion in the scorpion and frog parable.
 
catsmate said:
In related news, the continued Republican censorship programme was attacked James Patterson. JP is not happy.
https://eu.tcpalm.com/story/news/20...sex-racial-content-martin-county/70009140007/
Unsurprisingly one resident, Julie Marshall, has filed most of the challenges to the Martin County School District's book titles; she indicated on her form that she has not "read or viewed" the "Maximum Ride" series.

Ah, the land of freedom....

:rolleyes:
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The list of removed books in that article makes a very convenient list of suggested reading for parents whose minds are not filled with conservative wing-nut feces.

It may even be working toward that end. I looked up Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses (the first book in a six book series which received the condemnation of the Martin County censors) in both of the libraries I subscribed to. One had twenty four copies of the ebook, all of which were being used. The other, something of a consortium of NC libraries pooling their ebooks, had twenty eight copies. All of which were also currently being used.

One thing I have found to be true to a great extent is that kids who are too young to read a particular book are also generally too young to be interested in reading it. I see no good reason to penalize those students who are progressing in maturity beyond their classmates, and every reason to encourage them.

And there is very little if anything which is going to lead them astray in any of those books. Most of them do the opposite, and tend to be morality tales of a sort. Especially the works of fiction.
 
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