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Tulsi Gabbard… Almost Conservative
Well, at least more conservative than David French, Bill Kristol, Spencer Cox, or Mitt Romney. Granted, she’s pro-abortion, pro-gun control, and believes in the dogma of Climate Change. But Mitt Romney embraced all those things as the “severely conservative” governor of Massachusetts. Bill Kristol embraces all of those things now through his emphatic embrace of Joe Biden, Terry McAuliffe, and the Democrat Party. Romney and Kristol also support Biden’s radical leftist, CRT-embracing, child pornographer accommodating Supreme Court Justice pick.
David French finds it off-putting that conservatives are hanging Democrats for the latter’s embrace of sexualizing young children. Utah Governor Spencer Cox is all-in on supporting the LGBT political agenda. Gabbard, on the other hand, is in adamant disagreement.
When I first heard about Florida’s Parental Rights bill, I was shocked it only protects children K-3. Third grade? How about 12th grade—or not at all. Meanwhile, schools are failing: 1 in 4 graduates is functionally illiterate. Parents should raise their kids, not the government.
Wow. I can think of few if any elected Republicans with the guts (or principles) to put it like that. Well done. She’s also hanging out the Biden/Obama/Harris admin for their reckless border policy. (A policy Republicans will fundraise on, but refused to support the alternative when Trump was president.)
Biden/Harris open-border policy has been a disaster. Rescinding Title 42 will make the massive flood of immigrants even worse. Main beneficiaries are gangs, cartels & human traffickers. Trump policy of having people wait on other side of the border worked & needs to be reinstated.
And some people say, “Hey, you can’t trust her, she’s still a lib.” Yeah, probably so. But it’s worth noting that a lib is staking out conservative positions while allegedly “principled conservative” Republicans are consistently backstabbing us.
By the way, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema is still a “no” on Biden’s latest ‘Build Back Better’ scheme. Sinema and Joe Manchin have done more to stop Bidenism than any Republican senator (with the possible exception of Tom Cotton) and certainly more than any Conservatism, Inc pundit. So, I offer this K-POP song in tribute.
Yeee, I have one of those shirts.
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But don’t we think the Department of Education should be abolished?
Agreed. I don’t agree with Tulsi even close to 100%, but I do think she’s honest.
Plus Betsy DeVos was a great Secretary of Education, and could be again.
Okay. Thank you.
So, no one is going to comment on the great KPop song Kyrsten Sinema should use as her entrance music?
KPop? Is that a breakfast cereal?
And the the satanic abuse hysteria seems to have set the stage for wokeness hysteria today. Someone quipped recently that America was not founded in 1649 but when the first Salem witch trials started. We have that strain in us. As for French, I have not kept up with him. But when I did, I took him to be a libertarian and a lawyer and some kind of Protestant. I imagine that for him Trump is just another big spending Washington type, with a bit of immoral character thrown in. And I can see why he would prefer local school boards rather than State reps to decide school matters. I disagree, given where we are, but I can see it.
James Kirchuck ironically agrees about Greenwald. He has never opposed Putin. In the March Spectator Kirchuck’s article “The Right’s Favorite Leftist” ends by asserting that Greenwald, contra the left, has NOT changed, that is anti-Ukraine, pro Putin position is consistent with who he has always been: “a sincere enemy of liberal democracy, and a genuine lickspittle for tyrants.”
But Kirchuck would actually think Greenwald is not think intellectually honest when he compares the U.S. to the Nazis: “all you have to do is look at a map or history of how Russia was almost twice destroyed in the twentieth century to see the crucial importance of Ukraine for Russia.” As Kirchuck points out, the U.S. is not threatening any country in the Western hemisphere with invasion, let alone annexation. And the comparison of NATO with Nazi German implied in that remark is not intellectually honest–unless your really do believe the U.S. is an evil empire.
I’m thisclose.
But of course, I think the country upon which we visit our evils is our own.
I would love to see the United States acting as evil as it’s constantly being accused of and see the world power and quake in fear at the true might of the United States of America unleashed in the sort of imperialism.
That would serve the rest of the world that seems to hate us no matter what we do right. Give them what they want which is for the United States to be the ultimate evil in the world.
I remember West German students complaining that the United States had missiles on their territory defending them against the Soviet Union. Here the United States was willing to put its very existence on the line to stop the Soviet Union from invading West Germany and these students weren’t happy about it. Those are the same people in power now. Maybe what we should have done is told the Soviet Union we’re gonna pull all of our troops out just give us a chance and then you can just take Germany because they don’t seem to like us anyway and I don’t wanna soldier up to you.
Here you go:
And same with South Korea, of course. If their “students” think they don’t need protection, let them prove it.
You forgot “challenge accepted!” :-)
I could also point out how we’re treating political prisoners. The deliberate destruction of our economy. Our twisted legal system. The increasingly horrific situation on our southern border. . .
National Review in the last few days:
Baseball Crank: There Are Legitimate Questions about Jackson’s Views on Sex Offenders
Editors: No on Ketanji Brown Jackson
Kevin Williamson: Against Judge Jackson
Thomas Jipping: “Jackson’s sentences in all three categories of child-pornography crimes were significantly more lenient than other federal judges. In fact, in more than half of her child-pornography-distribution cases, Jackson did not add a single day to the mandatory-minimum sentence already imposed by Congress.
“The other thing we know is that her record regarding child pornography is larger than her sentences in these cases. . . . When it comes to child-pornography crimes, Jackson’s record includes downplaying their seriousness followed by a consistent pattern of lenient sentences. . . . Such a blindspot is especially disturbing since all categories of child-pornography crimes inflict ongoing, often life-long, harm on children.”
So long as it exists, someone has to run it.
I am unfamiliar with James Kirchuck and I have no idea what Greenwald’s views on Russia/Ukraine are so I have no frame of reference to understand the meaning of your comment.
Fair enough, change National Review to McCarthy.
Not that kind of evil Drew. I want to see the bombing anyone that looks at this cockeyed type of evil.
French objects to the use of the term “groomers” to describe progressives who want children to know about trans people, gay people, etc. He appears to think that there’s a fundamental difference between those who want to teach children these things and those who intend sexual predation. “Groomer” ought to apply only to the latter, and it’s insulting and divisive to apply that term to others.
This misses the point that such subjects are not fit material for the very young.
If progressives want to die on that hill….
It also misses the point that introducing kindergarten children to sex, the intimate details thereof, destroying their notions of gender and rebuilding those ideas in a way to normalize sexual deviancy — and keep it a secret from their parents — is pretty much the definition of grooming.
Her leniency, indeed her solicitude, applied both to specific cases, and across the board with respect to this category of offence. Senators Hawley and Cruz gave us and all the other senators the receipts on camera. This started during her time in law school, according to Senator Cruz.
Maybe it was actually a smart move to get her off a court where she’s actually determining sentencing and such?
I’m not disagreeing, but just out of curiosity, does kindergarten education include pictures? If not, how do we know that the education stops at the teachers’ words alone?
Bryan seems to be looking at the external projection of evil empire.
While the US is engaged in some soft version of imperialism (through importation of nations), the evil that the US is engaged in seems to be directed at its own native population.