US Politics Thread

[jim tolmies perm]

The sex must be angry

And she's shagging a democrat

"Annie get your gun" likes a bit of "shooting from the hip" with a rival
Figures..

 

[SWP's back]

 

[jim tolmies perm]

Utterly damning

 

[BayernMan]

Reading these excerpts is sobering. Reminds you how easy things can go south if you have the right mix of very bad people and just people who don’t give a damn.

 

[BayernMan]

 

[Vic]

Unfortunately for her, she still looks like trailer trash.

Or as Dolly Parton would say, it takes a lot of money to look this trashy.

 

[BayernMan]

[emoji897]

 

[BayernMan]

Just a confirmation that these are just bad people….

 

[mexico1970]

You want sick? Try the Bible:

(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.”


Nothing like a bit of slavery, Murder and rape to scare the kids eh.

Again I am not religious in any way you could point at many things couldn't you?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Of course it bloody is you cabbage.

You've read it then, or did you just listen to the carefully selected reading by Senator Kennedy?

 

[mexico1970]

You've read it then, or did you just listen to the carefully selected reading by Senator Kennedy?

You don't believe what he read is pornographic? It doesn't matter if the rest of the book is about picking daisies.

It's banned for a reason.

Banned Books 2024 - All Boys Aren't Blue

Banned Books 2024 - Marshall University Libraries - George M. Johnson's Lawn Boy. Page on books banned/challenged around the United States for various reasons over the past year. Ron Titus

www.marshall.edu

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

You don't believe what he read is pornographic? It doesn't matter if the rest of the book is about picking daisies.

It's banned for a reason.

Banned Books 2024 - All Boys Aren't Blue

Banned Books 2024 - Marshall University Libraries - George M. Johnson's Lawn Boy. Page on books banned/challenged around the United States for various reasons over the past year. Ron Titus

www.marshall.edu

Do you actually understand how those books make it onto the 'banned' list?

In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a noncommittal ruling. In Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico (1982), the Court deemed that “local school boards have broad discretion in the management of school affairs” and that discretion “must be exercised in a manner that comports with the transcendent imperatives of the First Amendment.” In essence, a single school board member, unqualified in the field of education can propose that a book be banned because they personally 'find it offensive'.

Given that all those school districts quoted on the Marshal Libraries list for that particular publication are deep red/ultra-conservative in terms of their politics (and largely religious, aka hypocrites) you don't think that might be why it is banned?

Edit: I'll just add that the Supreme Court at that time (1982) was a 10:2 Republican nominated majority.

 

[BayernMan]

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Faux News hitting the vinegar stroke over Hunter Biden's charge.

 

[super_city_si]

Faux News hitting the vinegar stroke over Hunter Biden's charge.

They need to make their minds up - is it only republicans that can buy guns with no license and no checks? I thought it was guns for all?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Isn't it a bit late for him to stand up to the loonies? The shit show has already begun.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Faux News hitting the vinegar stroke over Hunter Biden's charge.

 

[ROCKET80]

You don't believe what he read is pornographic? It doesn't matter if the rest of the book is about picking daisies.

It's banned for a reason.

Banned Books 2024 - All Boys Aren't Blue

Banned Books 2024 - Marshall University Libraries - George M. Johnson's Lawn Boy. Page on books banned/challenged around the United States for various reasons over the past year. Ron Titus

www.marshall.edu

No, as I'm aware of the context, it is a quote from a piece of literature, a memoir from a respected author/journalist, and not a quote from Debbie Does Dallas.

There is a difference between literature and pornography.

I'm going to make a presumption from our interactions on this topic, that you believe any description of a sexual act is pornographic and books that contain any reference to a sexual act should be banned from High Schools?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

No, as I'm aware of the context, it is a quote from a piece of literature, a memoir from a respected author/journalist, and not a quote from Debbie Does Dallas.

There is a difference between literature and pornography.

I'm going to make a presumption from our interactions on this topic, that you believe any description of a sexual act is pornographic and books that contain any reference to a sexual act should be banned from High Schools?

Presumably, this is also pornographic?

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

You don't believe what he read is pornographic? It doesn't matter if the rest of the book is about picking daisies.

Without wading into the fray very deeply having no familiarity with the book as a whole but having read this thread and taking everyone’s comments as truthful and at face value . . . I’d actually say it matters a lot.