This Week in Stupid- Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a Harley
Wait..."religious liberty" means "transgender-free bathrooms??"
There were many reasons to laugh when the Devil went down to Georgia to indict The Former Guy last week. And, yes, many people were laughing over the indictments (the count’s up to 91 now). I’m not ashamed to admit I was among those overindulging in schadenfreude. It was well-deserved and long overdue, no?
Some folks, however, managed to get their panties all sorts of wadded up over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laughing over The Former Guy’s legal predicament.
Yeah, Kayleigh McEnany needs to lighten up, don’tchathink?
Look who’s got a whole stinky angry upper lip like she smelled somethin’ funny. It’s old Kayleigh “Milktoast” McEnany!
We guess she learned her lesson after that one time she ran afoul of her lord and savior Donald Trump by saying some poll numbers that were not as perfect as he might have liked. She has of course joined the chorus of Upset Ursulas who are defending Trump’s honor on the TV, after he so embarrassingly caught his 79th, 80th, 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th, 85th, 86th, 87th, 88th, 89th, 90th and 91st felony charges last night in Georgia….
Ms. McEnany is bein’ a real Kayleigh McGRRRARGHenany about Hillary Clinton’s appearance on the Maddow show last evening.
She is also being a major fucking liar, because she is major fucking liar. When she goes to hell, the devil will be like “Hey bud, those were some good dang lies, and I am the Father of Those, so you know it means something coming from me!”
I don’t know about you, but I have difficulty taking McEnany seriously on any subject. After all, she’s the one who, at her first briefing as White House Press Secretary, said, “I’ll never lie to you,” which was itself a lie, as was everything she vomited forth from then forward.
Yeah, she was the Mother of All Liars, so she doesn’t get to bitch about other people and how they react to The Former Guy’s legal dilemma, knowhutimean?
McEnany said, “It’s SO GROSS to see her laughing! Positively giddy!” McEnany claimed that after the third indictment, she turned on CNN and there was Hillary Clinton, “cackling!”….
It is true that Clinton has an uproarious laugh and makes for great screengrabs, but if you actually watched Clinton’s interview with Maddow, you saw that while they kind of laughed briefly about how they didn’t know they’d be talking about this when they set up the interview, the rest of it was quite somber and serious.
Not that Sec. Clinton couldn’t have laughed at The Former Guy’s legal predicament, and not that he doesn’t richly deserve the ridicule…but she didn’t do what McEnany accused her of.
The truth is that Kayleigh McEnany is bitching because she hates Sec. Clinton just that much. Yawn….
Virginia School Board Deploys Moms for Liberty-Associated Book Banning Tool:
If Moms for Liberty has its way, American schoolchildren will be reduced to learning that America is a White paradise that Christian heroes conquered for Jesus. Oh, and The Former Guy is Jesus’ personal representative on Earth.
Yeah, these people are f*****g nuts.
The school board in Hanover County, Virginia, changed its policies in June to give itself the power to remove any title from school libraries, and then used that power to pull 19 books from the shelves. Now the board is forcing librarians to use a book rating tool associated with the right-wing political group Moms for Liberty to review more than 100 additional books in high school and middle school libraries, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported Monday.
The paper reported that school district documents “state that educators are expected to use BookLooks, a tool associated with advocacy group Moms for Liberty, as the first authority when gauging a book’s suitability. BookLooks was first approved as a new ‘professional selection source’ at the School Board’s meeting only last Tuesday.”
While BookLooks claims not to be affiliated with Moms for Liberty, there’s plenty of documentation about close ties between the groups’ leaders, agenda, strategies, and criteria for challenging books. As Bookriot reported last year, “what appears to be an objective measure of a book’s content, mirrored after movie ratings, is anything but. It is a tool developed by Moms For Liberty being used to push their agendas even further under the guise of protecting children.”
Of course, it’s much easier to ensure books are safe for children when the standard is “What Would Jesus Read?”
And by “protecting children,” doesn’t that mean “making sure that children learn that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a Harley?
Cobb teacher fired after reading book about gender norms to fifth grade students
Silly me; I always thought teachers were supposed to teach hard truths. At least, that’s what I was able to do when I was a teacher. Now, though, it seems all you can do is teach children that America was made great by White Conservative Christian Americans and everyone else is just along for the ride.
Oh, and don’t forget that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a dinosaur. Or was it a Tesla? I can never remember.
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The Cobb County School Board voted to terminate a teacher after she read a book about gender norms to her fifth-grade class.
In a board meeting Thursday evening, the board voted 4-3 to fire Katie Rinderle.
Rinderle, a longtime educator in the Cobb County School District, read a book called “My Shadow is Purple,” a book about gender norms.
The termination comes a week after a tribunal proceeding was held to decide if she would keep, or lose, her job. The tribunal determined that she did violate part of Georgia’s new divisive concepts law, but they recommended that she be able to keep her job.
Rinderle told the three-person tribunal she believes the book is “appropriate” because it encourages children to be true to themselves.
According to a statement from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Rinderle was removed from her classroom in March after a parent complained about her reading the ‘My Shadow is Purple’ book to students.
Superintendent Chris Ragsdale recommended the termination of the teacher.
Ragsdale claimed the book “violated Georgia’s 2022 classroom censorship law banning so-called divisive concepts, mostly about race, even though legal advocates say the law is vague and contradicts the U.S. Constitution.”
So, teachers aren’t allowed to teach anything that might cause students discomfort or force them to think critically.
After all, the job of public schools is to create obedient soldiers for Jesus, no? Because when kids begin thinking for themselves, we all know what happens next. That’s right, y’all; they turn into LIBERALS!!
(GASP!!)
In a statement, Rinderle expressed her disappointment in the district and claims the district is sending “a harmful message.”
“I am disappointed in the district’s decision to terminate me for reading an inclusive and affirming book — one that is representative of diverse student identities,” Rinderle said. “The district is sending a harmful message that not all students are worthy of affirmation in being their unapologetic and authentic selves. This decision, based on intentionally vague policies, will result in more teachers self-censoring in fear of not knowing where the invisible line will be drawn. Censorship perpetuates harm and students deserve better.”
In the statement from SPLC, Attorney Craig Goodmark claimed there was no legitimate explanation for the termination.
Mike Tafelski, senior supervising attorney for children’s rights at the SPLC, said they are disappointed in the decision.
Channel 2′s Veronica Griffin spoke with Jeff Hubbard, president of Cobb County Association of Educators. He said the school board’s decision essentially puts all Georgia teachers on notice.
“If you do anything that angers well-connected parents. Whether it’s intentional or not an investigation can be rushed against you and you can lose your job,” he said.
Well, sure…the first thing any teacher should learn is not how to control a classroom, but NEVER PISS OFF WEALTHY, WELL-CONNECTED PARENTS… because that’s a guaranteed way to have a very short career in education.
Besides, when teachers begin teaching children that it’s OK to be their “authentic selves,” not only will many of them become Liberals, but they’ll also become homosexuals and maybe even soccer players.
Oh, the humanity….
We’ve become a nation that caters to easily offended Right-wing snowflakes…and it’s f*****g ridiculous. These are some of the most ignorant and reactionary people imaginable, and we’re allowing them to run roughshod over virtually all aspects of public life.
It’s time for people in positions of public power to grow a pair and tell these weenies to sit down, shut up, and suck on a pacifier.
Trump’s Fellow Indictees: Sidney Powell Edition
There are no words to adequately describe the ambulatory meat sack of stupid that is Sidney Powell. While she may at one point have been a passably mediocre lawyer, once the worms ate her brain, she became a drooling, knuckle-dragging sack o’ crazy.
How someone who’s made a career out of being an officer of the court could be so stupid as to sacrifice her career in the service of The Former Guy defies understanding. To say the worms ate her brain doesn’t explain why and how she’s done all she did to torpedo her career and reputation. In Georgia alone, she’s been charged with seven felonies:
Violation of the Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act.
Criminal attempt to commit filing false documents;
Conspiracy to commit election fraud;
Conspiracy to commit computer theft;
Conspiracy to commit computer trespass;
Conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy; and
Conspiracy to defraud the state.
Yeah, I can hardly wait to see her “release the Kraken” on those charges, eh?
This isn’t Powell’s first brush with accountability for her work to overturn the 2020 election. She was sanctioned by a federal judge for making deceptive claims and undermining faith in democracy. (Just this month, the Sixth Circuit Court denied her request to reconsider an earlier decision upholding most of the sanctions imposed on Powell and fellow attorney Lin Wood.) Powell has also been sued by Dominion Voting Systems.
Powell, a lawyer with a serious demeanor, often showed supreme confidence in her unprovable claims. “President Trump won this election in a landslide,” Powell said during an interview with Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs on Nov. 13, 2020. “It’s going to be irrefutable.”
During one press conference she claimed that Dominion Voting Systems machines had been created in Venezuela to manipulate elections in favor of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. In another press conference in Atlanta, she stood with Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander and Kyle Rittenhouse attorney Lin Wood and claimed, “We already traced a lot of the money that did this back to China. People in Iran, China, Hong Kong, and Serbia…having influence in our election system.” She filed an affidavit citing prominent QAnon figure Ron Watkins, who had no expertise with electronic voting systems.
"It's going to be irrefutable.”
Yeah, well, the only thing that will be “irrefutable” will be the need for her to be sized for an orange jumpsuit at a federal lockup or perhaps a Georgia state prison. She’ll probably have to find another line of work when/if she’s paroled because she’ll almost certainly have been disbarred.
Then again, maybe Hugo Chavez can reach out from beyond the grave to assist.
Trump-Appointed Judge Denies A "Right To Trans-Free Bathrooms"
One thing that fascinates me about the “controversy” over transgender youth and transgender people, in general, is the issue of bathroom usage. It seems FAR too many people are WAY too concerned about who’s using which bathroom.
Some folks seem bent on preventing transgender people from using any bathroom, which seems horribly impractical and unbelievably cruel. What do people want these folks to do, use the woods out back? Or hold it until they explode?
It’s a bathroom, y’all…most of us usually do one of two things while in there. But some folks have conjured up all sorts of sinister possible scenarios. Do you think maybe they have way too much time on their hands?
A federal judge appointed by former President Trump, Judge Michael J. Newman, dismissed a lawsuit by Muslim and Christian groups in Ohio seeking to prevent transgender teachers and students from using restrooms corresponding with their gender identity. Newman's ruling also denied the plaintiff's request to remove instructional materials promoting LGBTQ+ inclusivity. This decision is another in a series of legal victories for transgender individuals after a year in which more than 500 laws targeting this group were proposed.
The lawsuit was filed by Muslim and Christian plaintiffs against Bethel Local School District near Dayton, Ohio. The suit claimed the district consulted with attorneys who advised that, under state and federal civil rights laws, a transgender student that attends a school in the district must be permitted to use the restroom of her gender identity. The school acted based on this interpretation, and indeed, Title IX and the 14th Amendment have been interpreted by various courts to apply to transgender individuals. This includes a recent decision in neighboring Indiana.
Despite the school's adherence to this interpretation, the plaintiffs falsely argued that Title IX actually prohibits transgender students from using these restrooms. They also contended that permitting transgender students in restrooms of their gender identity and including LGBTQ+ educational materials infringes on their religious liberty to have "transgender free bathrooms," a phrase taken directly from the ruling. The judge disagreed and dismissed the lawsuit on both merits and standing.
Jesus Christ, people…can we stop worrying about who takes a crap where? If y’all don’t have better things to fret about, y’all have bigger problems than any layman could possibly hope to help you with.
Y’all need professional help. Now. Seriously.
There’s no use trying to be gentle or diplomatic about it- Nick Fuentes is scum. The man is a racist, misogynist, wannabe pedophile with serious issues. Cockroaches are more evolved life forms than Fuentes.
His latest beyond-offensive rant centers on Judge Tanya Chutkin, who…well, I’ll let Fuentes tell you:
Last week, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan warned former President Donald Trump about making inflammatory remarks regarding the case stemming from his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
This warning did not sit well with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who used his show Friday night to attack Chutkan for being a “Black immigrant” while declaring that she has no authority over Trump because he is “the king of America.”
“The king of America?” The man won’t even be the king of Cell Block D.
“You’re a fucking immigrant,” Fuentes fumed. “We have a Black immigrant and she’s appointed by Obama—another non-citizen, another non-naturalized non-citizen from Kenya—presiding over a case of a former president, and a job creator, and a billionaire, and an all-around titan and admired man, and this person is … going to talk to the king of America like this? Like they pulled him over for having tinted windows, ‘You’re a criminal like anybody else.’ No, bitch. He’s the king of America, you stupid bitch. Go back to Jamaica.”
“You’re not even from here, and you’re gonna try the guy that was voted the president by most of the voters?” he continued to rant. “We live here. We were born here. We’re citizens. We have voting rights. We voted Trump in office. You come over here from some island and say, ‘Well, I’m going to treat him like a common criminal’?”
“That’s the kind of stuff that makes me insane because that is such a joke,” Fuentes said. “We are such a joke as a country. Say whatever you want about China and Russia; they respect the leaders. They respect the people in charge. They don’t play around. Could you imagine a scenario where [Vladimir] Putin or Xi [Jinping] were being treated like that by some foreigner?”
So Judge Chutkin was born in Kingston, Jamaica; what of it? Fuentes was hatched under a rock somewhere in the US by an accident of birth. That hardly makes him superior in any sense to Judge Chutkin.
As for The Former Guy being “a job creator, and a billionaire, and an all-around titan and admired man,” welcome to today’s coffee-spew moment. I doubt that Fuentes set out to be unintentionally hilarious, but there you go. His sense of hero worship is as twisted and misplaced as his humanity.
The Former Guy isn’t “the king of America,” he wasn’t “voted the President by most of the voters.” He lost the 2020 election by what, eight million votes? No, Sparky, you didn’t vote The Former Guy into office.
And yes, he’s been indicted for behaving like a common criminal. No one is above the law- not even “the king of America.”
‘Holy crap’: Ted Cruz duped by fake image of shark on flooded LA highway
There was a time when I was naïve enough to assume that someone with a couple of Ivy League degrees was, by definition, seriously intelligent and NTBFW (not to be f****d with). As I’ve grown older and more experienced, I’ve learned that education often has little correlation to native intelligence, something that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is living, breathing proof of.
As they say in Texas, Sen. Cruz is all hat and no cattle. He makes a cinder block look like a valedictorian. The man thinks he’s the most intelligent person in any room he occupies, but that’s not even true if he’s the only person in the room. Case in point:
Yes, five minutes of fact-checking on da Interwebz would’ve revealed to Sen. Cruz that the photo was a hoax and had been floating around for years- at least 12, to be exact.
But he couldn’t be bothered to do something so plebeian as engage in a wee bit o’ fact-checking, and now he’s (deservedly) getting dragged for sharing an old meme that had nothing to do with the California hurricane.
The Texas US senator Ted Cruz, a former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, appeared on Monday to fall for one of the oldest internet hoaxes, sharing a supposed picture of a shark on a flooded highway in Los Angeles with the remark: “Holy crap.”
California does indeed face potentially catastrophic flooding thanks to Storm Hilary but users of X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, were swift to point out that the image Cruz reposted is in fact wholly crap….
“Since then the same image has been recirculated several times over, typically localised to some big city in the United States that has just experienced a hurricane or other weather event producing heavy rains and floods.”
Cruz shared a post from @BarstoolBigCat, AKA Dan Katz, a podcaster for Barstool Sports. It said: “Friend of mine out in LA just took this picture on the 405. And yes, all news and media outlets you have permission to use this. Wild.”
Katz later shared a tweet saying “got you” as well as another fake picture: of two sharks apparently swimming at the foot of two indoor escalators.
“Wait who said it was a joke?” Katz wrote. “It’s a shark on a highway. It’s real as real could be. Look I also have a shark in a mall.”
Sure, the shark’s real. The water’s real. The highway’s real. And I’ll bet the Photoshop’s VERY real. You can’t assume that anything you see on da Interwebz is real; Lord knows I’ve been burned a time or 36 before myself. You live and learn to check everything…unless you’re Ted Cruz, who gives Stupid a bad name.
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That does it for this week’s take on Stupid. Next week, co-hosts Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Marjorie Trailer Greene (R-GA) will lecture on the dangers of communism, pineapples on pizza, and improper condom usage.
Wasn't that pic from the Sharknado franchise?