The Absurd GOP

[The Valkyrie]

GOP's leading candidate

That, alone, should get the prick busted

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

GOP's leading candidate

That, alone, should get the prick busted

I’m fairly sure that threatening a prosecutor is a crime.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

At the same time, the same people are complaining about how too much money is going to Ukraine. What would they spend the money on?

Idaho Republicans Call Free Tampons In Schools Too ‘Woke’ — And Block Them

The one-page House Bill 313, introduced on March 13, would have required that public and public charter schools provide students with free tampons, sanitary napkins and other menstrual products.

Dissenting Republicans decried the bill as “woke” and overly generous.

“This bill is a very liberal policy, and it’s really turning Idaho into a bigger nanny state than ever,” said state Rep. Heather Scott, according to The Daily Beast. “It’s embarrassing not only because of the topic but because of the actual policy itself. So you don’t have to be a woman to understand the absurdity of this policy. And you don’t have to feel that you’re insensitive to not address this.”

The cost of the bill would have been $735,400 — $435,000 allocated toward product dispensers and the remainder for the actual menstrual products, according to the fiscal note.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-rep...902d3602b6

[Fake Messiah]

An Alabama elementary school debuts new $60k bulletproof safe room to help shield children during mass shootings

[The Grand Nudger]

It's a good idea, and man guns are one hell of a vertical business aren't they? Money to be made selling them and more money to be made hardening schools from them.

I often wonder what the political fallout would look like if what passes for the american left tried to pass a law mandating that all schools be retrofitted with ballistic plates in the walls.

[Fake Messiah]

[Fake Messiah]

GOP rep suggests replacing libraries with ‘church-owned’ alternatives

Consider this missive Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana published on Twitter:

“Over time, American communities will build beautiful, church owned public-access libraries. I’m going to help these churches get funding. We will change the whole public library paradigm. The libraries regular Americans recall are gone. They’ve become liberal grooming centers.”

Right off the bat, it’s worth emphasizing that despite the growing radicalism of Republican politics, it’s not common for members of Congress to adopt an anti-library agenda. For that matter, the idea that libraries pose some kind of ideological threat to the public is both outlandish and unusual.

The Louisiana congressman not only opposes existing public libraries, he apparently intends to “get funding” for faith-based libraries owned by churches, which will presumably stock shelves with books Higgins finds more ideologically satisfying.

None of this makes sense. Americans’ public libraries have not become “grooming centers,” and Congress funding “church-owned” alternatives is obviously at odds with the First Amendment.

But the fact that Higgins felt comfortable espousing such an idea publicly says a great deal about where some on the right find themselves when it comes to libraries, free speech, and church-state separation.

As for Democratic reactions, Rep. Ted Lieu of California, noting his GOP colleague’s tweet, added soon after, “What are MAGA Republicans focused on? Destroying our public libraries and replacing them with church libraries. Imagine how boring: No Lord of the Rings; no dinosaur stories; no books about Charles Darwin.”

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show...-rcna76498

[Pat Mustard]

An Alabama elementary school debuts new $60k bulletproof safe room to help shield children during mass shootings

You have to wonder at the efficacy of said solution when a) it is on wheels and b) so manoeuverable and light one person can do it easily. If a shooter can't simply shoot through those walls they can just push them back in to force the children out.

[The Architect Of Fate]

An Alabama elementary school debuts new $60k bulletproof safe room to help shield children during mass shootings

That doesn't look very sturdy ...

I also hope it's vacuum sealed to stop someone from simply lighting a fire near it to smoke the occupants out.

[The Grand Nudger]

One issue at a time. When we have school shooters handled (and in this way)...then and only then will we be empowered to tackle school sieges. That's what makes me giggle, at any rate. Our response to school shootings is basically the evolution of ballistics in the reverse. Moar blood for the bloodgod!

It's fucking ridiculous, we have to come up with space age solutions to the problem of bronze age militancy? Get the fuck outta here. Take the guns from the seditionists and it ends. Immediately.