A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
The Defense Department’s getting ready for a potential trucker blockade a la Canada in the coming days, with security plans to be set in motion on Saturday ahead of Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1.
Hopefully, the idiots get the message that, unlike 6 Jan, FAFO. These noodniks are not going to over-power the National Guard like they did the Capitol Police.
Lt. Col. (ret) Allen West has gotten behind many great causes in his career after the military. The Texas gubernatorial candidate is now putting his clout behind the American versions of the Freedom Convoy in Canada, and he’s not alone. Rocker Ted Nugent is going to participate as well.
I think some industrial strength spike strips deployed in the right places might deflate the ambitions of said nudniks, and put a serious hitch in their gitalong.
O’Connor made the extremely weird accusation that “it’s considered cool” to expose kids to “drawings of, say, homosexual sex in a diagram.” “And many parents, including me, disagree with that, whether it’s homosexual or heterosexual sex,” he told the Frontier on Monday.
I appreciate a curious mind. It’s obvious that he loves to read to gain more insight into the things that excite him.
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor (R) is combing through 51 books in school libraries to see if they’re breaking the state’s obscenity law, and naturally some of the books he’s targeting are about LGBTQ+ issues.
O’Connor made the extremely weird accusation that “it’s considered cool” to expose kids to “drawings of, say, homosexual sex in a diagram.”
There are also claims that in books for kids as young as 2nd grade the books contain how-to instructions on using various items of produce for self-pleasuring. I heard several rants on the subject of what’s in those library books.
Here’s a revealing stat in this Atlantic piece that puts the GOP’s war on school restrictions and learning material that could make white people sad in perspective: A majority of Republicans under 55 are parents, while a majority of Democrats in that age group aren’t.
I’m also guessing (just a guess, mind you) that a majority of Democrats pay more in taxes and receive less back in benefits than a majority of Republicans.
Ever since the Republicans went full-court-press on book banning and school culture wars, we’re not hearing anything from them about “cancel culture” anymore.
they’re both being targeted by the district attorney and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), who’s assisting in the criminal case and is also pursuing a civil investigation into the Tangerine Torquemada Organization, for political reasons.
If you’ve committed a crime, do someone else’s motivations change your guilt? I don’t recall that statute.