The most important thing now is to get something passed, start getting whatever we can into people’s lives in terms of improvement, and move forward working on GOTV (and protecting voting rights). The fact of the matter is that as long as we have to rely on Manchin and Sinema, we can count on nothing. And that ain’t on Biden and it ain’t on the Congress. It is all on us and who we elect, and those of us who still believe in democracy and left-of-center solutions to our collective problems MUST take responsibility for making sure it happens. That is the only way we are ever going to get more than we will end up with this time around.
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Lot of titles with “Roe v Wade” on the cover.
What are they afraid of?
Lot of snowflakes in Texas.
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Hopefully none of the students were their own children…
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I understand your dig, but here is me going into the weeds, again.
“A Case of Need” written by Michael Crichton, published in 1969 under his pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. So we can rule out Miller since Miller was born in 1985, and would he even know Crichton, his books, or the movies made from his books. And this particular title wasn’t made into a movie, as far as I know.
There are lots and lots of non-fiction books on this list, case in point:
“Abortion decisions of the Supreme Court, 1973 through 1989 : a comprehensive review with historical commentary” Drucker, Dan. Published by McFarland & Co., a publisher that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction. It seems that this title is OP.
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Reading seems to scare them.
My friend was stuck in line for early voting yesterday. She overheard people grumbling about the county only having one early voting location for this election. Apparently the belief is that one of the usual voting locations - the branch library - is for “liberals”. The voting location at the mall is where Real Americans vote.
The things you find out . . .
@lastroth I don’t get your point. We all read books written before we were born.
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When one lies as a matter of daily habit like trump …it gets really hard to remember what the holy f*ck one has said as “the truth”. To the Goobers truth is changeable to fit the needs of the moment. What was said 10 minutes ago may not apply anymore. In this case trump’s words spoken into cameras will be conveniently “forgotten” because “he never said anything like that”. We saw the very same bullshit from Sen Marsha Blackburn yesterday in her grilling of our new AG in which she blasted him about a memo he wrote. She claimed it contained stuff that in reality Mr Garland never wrote. People will believe her. Why is beyond me.
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I’m imaging something along the lines of “Daddy what did you do in the war” type of question.
I said this at the time, and here it is again-if they Republican members of Congress knew what was happening then why did they allow themselves to be hustled to safety? Regular members of Congress were only dealing with Capitol Police and not like Nancy and Pence who were being protected by Secret Service.
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This is an odd comment from someone who has been around here long enough to know how the executive and legislative branches work, and what power a president or the current democratic razor thin majority has over a senate filibuster (hint: zero). None of them have the Green Lantern ring.
Having said that, I’m guessing that Biden can live with whatever ill-thought out ideas you have about him.
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Ah yes you do. I worked in my HS library, my public library, Borders Books & Music, and in the latter with quite a few co-workers working on their MLS.
In the libraries there were “restricted shelves”, which meant if you were a kid in the 70s-80s you couldn’t check these titles out of the library w/o your parent’s knowledge.
As for selling these titles regular bookstores like Borders wouldn’t keep a whole bunch of these titles in their stores because they wouldn’t sell enough copies from year to year. And then there is the consideration that publishers like McFarland didn’t have advantageous return policies.
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So their lying is transactional, 
who ever taught them that?
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From what I’m reading there doesn’t seem to be a serious plan for this thing. Looks more like a pump and dump than a good-faith effort to set up a social-media platform. You have to consider the source here.
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CoViD caUses Pica!!1Q
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There is not a snowball’s chance I’d give it.
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Heh, What’s worse??.. covid causes trumpism
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Carlson: “you can see why the people who showed up in Washington on January 6th were mad.”
You mean the Antifas who were carrying out the false flag operation?
Tucker has thrown a bunch of contradictory narratives explaining J6 into the pot to make a hot bubbling conspiracy stew.
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Naw. Have to acknowledge that it’s all MAGA that have been hauled in, so they were there and mad.
But they were peaceful mad, see, and weren’t going to do anything except waive flags and protest, it was AntiFa agents in the crowd that started the fighting and breaking in, and the other folks just innocently got swept up in it.
Need all of the parts of the narrative to make it work.
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I sort of, kind of want to know about the people that stayed outside, not involved with the pushing, the shoving, the ones that weren’t wrecking havoc on the uniformed LEOs what they saw and how do they feel about it.
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Only slightly less well-known than “Never get into a land war in Asia”…
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“Trump and dump”?
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but the “oppressive government” in place on January 6 was the Trump government. It seems to me their real complaint is against the Constitution of the United States.
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