That unknown singer was given a forum to spread her ignorance of history. That’s the problem.
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Ironically, without the screechfest on Fox and the posts that I correctly figured would show up in this very thread, I probably wouldn’t have known.
But maybe some right wing provocateur can weigh in, and Crissy Teigen can clap-back, etc.
And I wish an eternity of anal fissures and lemon juice baths for the blood-fart who came up with the term ‘clap-back’
It was worth it.
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The new wave of leadership.
Colorado mayor suspends Pledge of Allegiance at meeting, attendees recite it anyway
Shane Fuhrman, the mayor of Silverton, Colorado, announced at a trustee meeting last week that the Pledge of Allegiance will be suspended due to “direct and indirect threats,” which prompted at least one trustee to challenge his ruling before attendees recited the pledge anyway.
Indirect threats from whom? The Chinese? The Iranians? the woke police?
KDVR reported that Fuhrman said he made the decision based on inappropriate comments “in and out of public meetings and general divisiveness and issues created in our community.”
What general divisiveness and issues in the community ? riots? looting? Got to be really bad, Mayor. How about listing some examples?
A CBS Denver aired a video of the meeting that showed attendees stand up and recite the pledge, which prompted Fuhrman to say they were out of order.
HA, what are you going to now? Out of order for saying the Pledge? You are one piece of slime.
“To tell members of the public they are not allowed to say the Pledge of Allegiance during public comment and threaten to have them removed that it was one strike in you’re out policy violates every single one of their first amendment rights,” Molly Barela, the trustee who confronted
Fuhrman, told KDVR.
Good job , Molly.
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People bitch about the 24/7 news cycle but really we have a 24/7 outrage cycle as well. Well probably shorter because we move on to the next thing. Person says something outlandish (often a who gives a fuck person with no power) and then everyone reacts and gets up in arms as if that thing is moments away from happening and only my tweet, tik tok, Facebook post, etc can stop it.
When I was a kid we had a crazy dude live about 15 minutes away. He always had all sorts of 9/11 and god knows what else stuff posted on signs outside. People just ignored him and maybe told their kids to stay away from his house. Today if he had social media everyone would “react” to his comments and statements as he said Jews caused 9/11 and the government made sure they did or whatever.
I think a difference does exist when it comes to politicians. These are elected officials who do have some level of power. But random dude, random celebrity or whatever? I say don’t give it more exposure. We used to not know everyone’s opinion all the time and we were better for it. Not to mention how often are some of these things fake just to give that person publicity. We’re contributing to it when we react on social media, share it, etc.
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These things really go hand in hand, frankly.
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I’d also point out people do lots of things other than bitch about the 24/7 news cycle or w/e … we’re a complex creature with varied behaviors and reactions to events to the point it’s futile to say “we do this or that” … well, yes and no, really…
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That is the most creative way of saying “I want to pass the cost of increasing minimum wages to the consumer without increasing prices” I’ve ever seen.
EDIT:
Actually, at it’s root, it’s basically a service charge. They should just abolish tipping in this case.
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They should just raise their prices 15% and if anyone asks, just blame it on covid. And if anyone complains they probably couldn’t afford to eat there in the first place.
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This was undoubtedly the easiest solution. That said, I am a fan of transparency when it comes to charges so I don’t mind what they did. We live in a country with tipping culture, so frankly I mean… whatever.
I think their motivation was some sort of virtue signalling or political statement. I think true transparency would have been, “we’ve raised our prices a little bit in order to raise the wages we pay.” I think most sane people would be OK with paying a little more if the money is going to the workers. I hear people say things about McDonald’s raising prices in order to pay more. They’ll ask how much will people pay (or should pay, which makes no sense) for a Big Mac. I believe the people who eat Big Macs and fast food in general would pay more because the alternative is to cook for themselves. People don’t eat fast food because it’s cheaper than cooking at home, because it isn’t.
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There could be an issue if fast food becomes as expensive as lower end sit down, which it is getting there. A value meal is now approaching $10 in many cases.
Fast food is crack for fat and/or poor people. They’ll buy a Big Mac today even if it means they can’t pay their rent tomorrow.
Of course lower sit down will raise prices too.
Easily couched in higher labor, commodity, and operation expenses. Likely all true.
Still looking for that good ole free ride…
You’re probably right on that, I just don’t really have a strong opinion one way or the other on what the restaurant did. Good post though.
The perils of chilbirth as a black woman. The perils.
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She’s black? Anyway, this sounds like it was an ad to sell her book.
She makes an effort to tell us how educated she is yet she is afraid she will die giving birth. The main reason black women are more at risk is because of preexisting conditions like diabetes, heart issues, obesity.
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Mao would be so proud:
Warning: Do not go here. You children will be damaged beyond repair.
The National Archives’ task force on racism claimed in a little-noticed report to the U.S.’s top librarian that the Archives’ own Rotunda – which houses the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights – is an example of “structural racism” and that the Founding Fathers and other White, historically impactful Americans are portrayed too positively.
The report was completed in April and released this month but has so far flown under the media radar. The task force claims that structural racism “unequivocally impacts” how National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) employees interact with each other, customers and the historical records themselves.
Some examples of “structural racism” were provided in the summary of the report, including “legacy descriptions that use racial slurs and harmful language to describe BIPOC communities,” which includes actual racial slurs alongside terms such as “elderly,” “handicapped” and “illegal alien.”
Additionally, the report categorized the National Archives’ Rotunda as another example of “structural racism” as it “lauds wealthy White men in the nation’s founding while marginalizing BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and other People of Color], women, and other communities.”
The task force suggests ways to “reimagine the Rotunda,” including staging “dance or performance art in the space that invites dialogue about the ways that the United States has mythologized the founding era.”
The report also called for “trigger warnings” to be put in place with historical content to “forewarn audiences of content that may cause intense physiological and psychological symptoms.”
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KFC is better
Particularly wicked wings.