We Lost the Battle for the Republican Party’s Soul Long Ago

[KUTradition]

And play the tape forward - while vouchers are deeply unpopular at the state and local level (see last week's results in Nebraska, Kentucky and Colorado), would anyone be surprised if our tax policy (at the federal level) achieves the same (public-school gutting) result by doing something like give tax deductions (or even worse, credits) for private school tuition?

Think about the result at the local level - what it means for lower-income families who can't afford to front tuition money, or (if the policy is implemented through deductions) families who do not make enough money to benefit from a deduction anyway.

And what it means for all of us if public schools simultaneously lose funding AND serve only lower-income families.

an exacerbation of haves vs. have-nots

not to mention a departure for many children from a quality, well-intentioned education

I know things like this are shooting-fish-in-a-barrel-while-screaming-into-a-void, but - if you are concerned about crime, this is a very bad outcome!

i had not even considered that ramification yet, but absolutely

[japhy]

This is probably nothing more than Putin's way of saying, trumpty dude, your wife is hot, I'd like to fuck her. I think that would make trumpty a cuck.

Russian TV “congratulated” US President-elect Donald Trump on the election by highlighting once and future First Lady modeling career photos, including nude images – likely with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval, in a possible bid to set the Kremlin’s power dynamic of the Putin-Trump and Moscow-Washington relationships.

Russian newscasters celebrated his electoral victory with jokes and jabs about the next first couple on prime-time TV last week. The husband and wife presenter team of Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva showed the collage of modeling photos on the nationally broadcast Russian show 60 Minutes, as reported by Newsweek. Melania modeled around the world in the 1990s and early 2000s before marrying Trump in 2005.

“Now that Melania Trump’s husband has finally won, she is getting ready to come back to the White House for a second time,” Popov said as Skabeyeva smirked in front of the display.

“Here is how Melania looked in the year 2000. This is the cover of the magazine GQ.” Many of the photos were from a 2000 GQ photoshoot and show Melania completely nude and in suggestive positions.

“The future first lady lies on top of furs in a negligee. Inside the magazine, Melania’s sexy photos near a private plane and aboard the plane. In one of the shots, the model is wearing only her underwear, lying on a blue carpet with the US seal, as though the editors of the men’s magazine knew something in advance about the future of their model,” the presenters said.

Appearing on a popular TV program sanctioned by the Kremlin, the photos almost certainly had to be approved by Putin for airing before they went live. The show aired after Trump reportedly spoke to Putin on Thursday and warned him not to “escalate” Ukraine.

Sharing Melania’s old photos in the popular show was meant to be an obvious slight to the president-elect that spells out the power dynamic of the US-Russia relationship – or at least how Putin would like it to be.

By publically shaming Trump’s wife, the Russian leader is demonstrating both that nothing is off-limits and who is in the dominant position. The Russian leader has used misogynistic attacks and rhetoric for decades to demean his enemies and bolster his supporters.

The stunt may also have been meant as a subtle threat that the Kremlin holds other embarrassing or politically damaging material that could threaten the 47th president.

Rumors have circulated for decades that Putin may have held onto some sort of incriminating leverage over Trump from the days he traveled to the Soviet Union and later Russia as a businessman.

Now Putin appears to be using Melania to make Trump understand that Russia has power in many forms, and is not afraid to personally attack the president-elect to achieve its aims. Putin is attempting to set the stage to welcome his ally back into the White House on Russian terms. The president-elect has yet to publicly respond to the “congratulatory” message.

Pulling support for Ukraine would be a response.

[BiggDick]

Why would you even post something like this?!


(without also including the pics)

[KUTradition]

The self-proclaimed enemy of “the radical left” and all things woke who heads Oklahoma’s public schools has provided fresh evidence of his ignorance by declaring that race was not a factor in the Tulsa Race Massacre.

As Oklahoma schools have been required by law to teach since 2002, the massacre was a 1921 paroxysm of racist violence in which white mobs killed as many as 300 Black residents and burned some 1,600 homes and businesses in what was known as Black Wall Street.

Those facts seem to have been lost on Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters.

“Let’s not tie it to the skin color and say the skin color determined that,” Walters told a public forum hosted by Cleveland County Republicans in the Oklahoma Room at the main library in Norman this week….

[KUTradition]

so fucking gross

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/20/mike-j ... -bathrooms

can anyone say “hostile work environment”?

[jfish26]

Don’t worry, with all of the savings just around the corner, they’ll probably create bathrooms just for the mentally ill.