The Controversy Over DEI
I can’t swear the story at left actually happened, but it certainly rings true–especially the end.
People who don’t want a more inclusive and fair society truly are “unpleasant.”
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Associated Press Under Pressure
As shown below, it seems that the Associated Press, which has been serving to inform the world’s people since 1846, is having a bit of trouble doing its job. In particular, it was banned from a U.S. White House press briefing for its unwillingness to accept Trump’s changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Insofar as journalism is the only profession specifically named in the Constitution, we may safely conclude that the Framers took the freedom of the press quite seriously.
Of course, they were also pretty darned insistent they didn’t have a king.
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Now More than Ever, Federal Judges Are Hard at Work
As we step even deeper into the constitutional crisis which is being structured at the hands of President Musk, those federal judges sure are busy little beavers.
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“A Day in the Life of Sue Republican”
I’ve always liked this:Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her daily medication. Her medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of her medications are paid for by her employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance – now Sue gets it too.
She prepares her morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Sue’s bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the shower, Sue reaches for her shampoo. Her bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for her right to know what she was putting on her body and how much it contained.
Sue dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
She walks to the subway station for her government-subsidized ride to work. It saves her considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Sue begins her workday. She has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Sue’s employer pays these standards because Sue’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union.
If Sue is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn’t think she should lose her home because of her temporary misfortune.
It’s noon and Sue needs to make a bank deposit so she can pay some bills. Sue’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Sue’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
Sue has to pay her Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and her below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Sue and the government would be better off if she was educated and earned more money over her lifetime.
Sue is home from work. She plans to visit her father this evening at his farm home in the country. She gets in her car for the drive. Her car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.
She arrives at her childhood home. Her generation was the third to live in the house financed by Farmers’ Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification.
She is happy to see her father, who is now retired. Her father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Sue wouldn’t have to.
Sue gets back in her car for the ride home and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn’t mention that Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Sue enjoys throughout her day.
Sue agrees: “We don’t need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I’m self-made and believe everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have.”
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Tesla Boycott
It looks like there has been a transition from:
Tesla owners affixing bumper stickers that read: “I bought this car before I realized that Elon Musk is a terrible person.”
to:
An international boycott against Tesla.
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Mark Hamill Speaks for a Great Number of Us
Many of us agree with Hamill and see it as our duty to oppose the criminal sociopath in the White House.
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Trump’s Appeal
This from a reader who comments: “Crude, but true.”
We need to add “mean people” to this. Trump has a significant following of people who are intelligent, rich, and completely heartless.
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Fair Elections
When I came across the meme at left, I thought, “Hmmm. I’ll have to ponder this for a while. Well, I suppose I don’t support election fraud, so maybe I do support clean and fair elections.”
Seriously. Someone from “Judicial Watch,” a self-described “conservative activist group” actually wrote this, as if even the tiniest fraction of Americans oppose clean and fair elections.
What most Americans actually do oppose are things like gerrymandering, illegal purging of voters from the rolls, and other dirty tricks that minimize the input from minorities and the poor people who are relatively unlikely to vote Republican.
Black Lives
Why do we need DEI? Well, spend a few seconds with quiz at left.
Black lives didn’t matter at all until recently, and there are still systemic conditions in American society that perpetuate racial inequality.
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Woke/DEI Programs
Let’s hope that opposition to wokeism and DEI is just a passing fad. Yes, pushback against diversity is an effective tool used by Trump and his top people to keep the MAGA crowd stirred up. But let’s look forward to a day in the near future when the United States generally agrees that we’re a better country if we can give everyone an equal chance to succeed.
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