Forget teacher surveillance laws. Simply put the entire curriculum and all collateral materials (including those provided for teacher training and development) on-line, and in searchable format, for parents to view 24/7. Do it 90 days before the start of each academic year. Done.
I have so many things to say - actually just to vent, but the first is that we have no real evidence that Russia is going to invade Ukraine. They White house is asserting it, but when asked for actual evidence, the White house maintained that their statement is the evidence. This is from the people who told us about WMDs in Iraq etc. so I don't believe a word of it. I do believe the Prime Minister of Ukraine who has asked many times for the US to butt out and stop stirring the pot. Matt Taibbi has a good article on that.
As to what's happening in Canada, it is horrifying for anyone who cares about free speech. Trudeau simply declared that the protesters are terrorists and is freezing bank accounts for people who donated small amounts to them. Note that this is a retroactive ruling that has no due process at all. If a grandmother donated money to help her trucker grandchild weeks ago then she will now have all of her accounts frozen to include mortgages, retirement, banking etc. This cannot stand if Canada is to remain a western democracy. Anyone who doesn't see that the fact that the Canadian government can simply declare a dissenter=a terrorist (sound familiar DHS?) is EXTREMELY dangerous isn't paying attention.
As to "journalists", I don't include you in this, I already knew that they were corrupt beyond measure. The fact that several have taken it upon themselves to call people individually who were illegally doxxed and harass them under the auspices of "journalism" you can go f*** yourselves. One had the temerity to complain on twitter that the responses he got were "hostile". You want to see hostile? Keep it up. You will reap what you sow.
Thanks for covering the SF School Board recall election, Bari! I've been wondering when Asian Americans would start ramping up their local engagement to oppose the recent slate of faux woke education reforms. In particular, I'm interested in the extent to which public school "gifted and talented" programs have been dismantled around the country and whether there has been a backlash from Asian American parents. In my midwestern college town they shuttered the elementary school's gifted program last year saying it perpetuated segregation. These decisions impact a much larger swath of children than debates over selective high school entrance exams or requiring anti-racist training. Please consider shifting some time away from CRT coverage to the campaign that's underway to dismantle gifted programs. I've yet to find anything that provides a comprehensive analysis on the extent to which this is happening and I think it's an important story. My hunch is that it will increase economic segregation by motivating even more parents to pull their kids out of public and into private school. Thanks!
Why don't you try to find solid, common sense, conservative candidates for local office who believe in law enforcement? It may take a year or two to get them into office but the effort will pay off mightily in the long run. Sort of like a law and order protest similar to the school board recall.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page has not gone full woke yet but it has had its judgment clouded by its deep dislike of Donald Trump. Rather than doing any sort of investigation into the vote fraud millions witnessed in at least 2 states in real time (PA and GA), and the weird circumstance of vote counting shutting down simultaneously in 5 states and then restarting three hours later, the WSJ has repeatedly dismissed charges of vote fraud. Too bad they didn't watch the run down of vote fraud out of Wisconsin this past week. It was carried on OAN or Newsmax where I saw it. The margin in Wisconsin was 20,000 and well over 45,000 fraudulent votes were documented.
I have been very disappointed in the WSJ. I had a subscription with them for many decades but canceled it last year. I can't support dishonesty.
I don't think it's a "1950's idea" to ban certain contents in the classroom. For example, I don't want my 3rd grade grandson learning how to build bombs or pimp his male or female classmates for money, much less learning exactly how to sexually exploit them. Anything outside of reading, writing, and arithmetic are open for civil discussion, in my humble opinion. Nice work Nellie. :)
Nellie I’m so glad I’ve discovered you through Bari. Love the balanced perspectives in your TGIF column. You are hitting so many nails on the head you should consider a career in carpentry. 🤣
But seriously, thank you for bringing some sanity to and pointing out the craziness in journalism and politics today. It gives me hope.
Appreciated the "Common Sense" re schools. Anyone who says parents should not play a role in their kids' education should be made to teach in an inner city school in Baltimore or DC - no parents bitching about the curriculum there! And the "conservative" reaction is just as bad. We really shouldn't be talking about Left- vs Right-wing, but statists vs libertarians. While most of the writers here are left of center and I'm right of center, I sense we share a common libertarian core.
No wonder we need a diversionary war, bread and circuses doesn't seem to be working. And how are people finding out about all of these bad things? Geeeez.
So much red pill..... Asians start getting the "shut up white man" treatment and surprise surprise they don't like it? No Way!! More obvious lies and double standards from the media? BLM activist attempts a political assassination nobody cares, declaring martial to deal with some truckers totally fine. I'm old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi called federal law enforcement officers "Storm Troopers" because they were stopping rioters in Portland Oregon from burning down a federal courthouse. The siege of the courthouse lasted months, local politicians in Portland actively aided the siege by repeatedly suing to have protective fencing around the courthouse removed. Trump also had to cross-deputize every local cop as a fed agent since local prosecutors wouldn't do anything about violent behavior. What happened when Biden got into office? Oh he had Merrick Garland drop all the federal charges that came of that. All of this was very okay, suspending the rule of law for violent Democrats was just fine, this happened nationally. City-wide riots totally fine, but we'll charge Rittenhouse for murder. All of that totally okay but declaring martial law to stop an actual peaceful protest? Not a problem!
The media and Democrats think we're all too stupid to notice this. The old saying is true “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Democrats lean 100% on painting Republicans as racist, bigoted, authoritarians. Well, Democrat bigotry and authoritarianism are well established. What happens when they finally alienate minority groups and push them to the right? Democrats claim to care about minority groups but that generally only means black people.
Stop Asian hated ceased to matter to the mainstream media when it became clear black men were the aggressors. The same is true with antisemitic violence. Do Democrats care that the drug cartels have a multi-billion dollar industry in human trafficking getting migrants to our wide-open southern border? Nope. Do they care about the problems the cartels having that huge source of cash causes the Mexican government? Nope. Will anybody talk about how black people which are 13% of the population commit 50% of the murders based on FBI crime statistics? Nope. This slanted preferential treatment of one racial group is obvious to everyone and will rapidly make the Republican party less white. Then what smear can Democrats use?
As Mental Health Counselor I was talking to another therapist colleague of mine recently about the behavior of a client and she astutely pointed out "People will go where they find love".
Enjoy your weekly red pill. What it means to be Republican has changed. C'mon on in Asians, Jews, and Latinos we'll actually care about what happens to you. As a former cop, I didn't switch parties and become a Republican until 2020. My colleague is smart, people do go where they find love.
"Writing, they imply, should represent the world as it ought to be, not as it is.” Comports perfectly with the giant leftist blind spot on human nature - they're unable to deal with people as they are - only as they wish them to be...i.e.; Lia Thomas is a woman.
"As for surveillance: if reporters and politicians are still lying about the basics of what’s going on in schools politically, it shouldn’t surprise anyone when parents think of dark ways to find out."
Kind of a summary of politicians worldwide about everything. They subjected Trump and his Normals to a two year, $40M colossal anal exam and found nothing... Everyone else? Yeah... There is a reason Project Veritas is a thing. A very big thing.
Where is the outrage regarding Trudeau's actions in Canada? I'm watching in horror as we witness Canadians lose their legitimate right to peacefully assemble and protest. It's clearly a preview of what's in store for the US, but no one finds it alarming? It's as if everyone's just sleep walking to the gates of hell like zombies from The Walking Dead. It's pretty predictable that the planned US trucker convoy will surely get squashed by our new regime. The worst part is that Trudeau added insult to injury by stating he's OK with BLM protests, but not trucker protests. So the only protests allowed are the ones pre-approved by Dear Leader? Not to mention, it's outrageous for any public official to endorse BLM at this point in time when they're under scrutiny for financial fraud. Which leads me to the Clinton/DNC connection to BLM via Marc Elias. If only we had an honest media that wasn't busy running cover for them, and bothered to look under the hood.
Which leads me to Durham's filing and the levels of Clinton corruption that it may threaten to expose (hopefully). Which leads me to Jake Sullivan, who was central in the HRC campaign, and is now busy drumming up another war we don't need. All of these networks are connected. That's how this country became so polarized. Look at what they've put this country through for the last 6 years or so! All in the name of regaining absolute control. The extent of the corruption and cronyism, paired with the non-stop gaslighting from the Dems, feels like a daily assault. It's exhausting, and it's intentionally demoralizing.
That TDS is even a thing is proof that propaganda works. The fact that people flaunt their TDS as a badge of honor just shows how easily manipulated they are. The propagandists, (like ad execs) know exactly how to target people's feelings to imbue the masses with the presumption of righteousness that makes people malleable. Everyone wants to feel that they're on the "right" team, and the Dems and their media sycophants programmed people exactly that way. I find it so ironic that the TDS crowd who were proclaiming that "Trump is a dictator", and "Trump is shredding the constitution" (though no one could ever articulate precisely how, when pressed) are the same people who are cheerleading the ACTUAL dismantlement of civil liberties under the current regime. These people seemingly have no self-awareness as to the extent of how they've been played. Worse, they don't seem to care (talk about useful idiots).
From those of us who DO care, please wake up, shake off your TDS, and start paying attention to what the real fascists are doing right now. It may be too late though.
Clinton$ and BLM: America’s preeminent White grifters team up with America’s preeminent Black grifters to “manage” money.
Pass the popcorn.
Forget teacher surveillance laws. Simply put the entire curriculum and all collateral materials (including those provided for teacher training and development) on-line, and in searchable format, for parents to view 24/7. Do it 90 days before the start of each academic year. Done.
I have so many things to say - actually just to vent, but the first is that we have no real evidence that Russia is going to invade Ukraine. They White house is asserting it, but when asked for actual evidence, the White house maintained that their statement is the evidence. This is from the people who told us about WMDs in Iraq etc. so I don't believe a word of it. I do believe the Prime Minister of Ukraine who has asked many times for the US to butt out and stop stirring the pot. Matt Taibbi has a good article on that.
As to what's happening in Canada, it is horrifying for anyone who cares about free speech. Trudeau simply declared that the protesters are terrorists and is freezing bank accounts for people who donated small amounts to them. Note that this is a retroactive ruling that has no due process at all. If a grandmother donated money to help her trucker grandchild weeks ago then she will now have all of her accounts frozen to include mortgages, retirement, banking etc. This cannot stand if Canada is to remain a western democracy. Anyone who doesn't see that the fact that the Canadian government can simply declare a dissenter=a terrorist (sound familiar DHS?) is EXTREMELY dangerous isn't paying attention.
As to "journalists", I don't include you in this, I already knew that they were corrupt beyond measure. The fact that several have taken it upon themselves to call people individually who were illegally doxxed and harass them under the auspices of "journalism" you can go f*** yourselves. One had the temerity to complain on twitter that the responses he got were "hostile". You want to see hostile? Keep it up. You will reap what you sow.
Thanks for covering the SF School Board recall election, Bari! I've been wondering when Asian Americans would start ramping up their local engagement to oppose the recent slate of faux woke education reforms. In particular, I'm interested in the extent to which public school "gifted and talented" programs have been dismantled around the country and whether there has been a backlash from Asian American parents. In my midwestern college town they shuttered the elementary school's gifted program last year saying it perpetuated segregation. These decisions impact a much larger swath of children than debates over selective high school entrance exams or requiring anti-racist training. Please consider shifting some time away from CRT coverage to the campaign that's underway to dismantle gifted programs. I've yet to find anything that provides a comprehensive analysis on the extent to which this is happening and I think it's an important story. My hunch is that it will increase economic segregation by motivating even more parents to pull their kids out of public and into private school. Thanks!
Nellie writes "But over the past few months we have gotten a taste of what a sweeping American withdrawal from the world really looks like."
Or maybe it just shows what happens when America looses its mind and elects a senile imbecile to the fill the post of leader of the free world.
Why don't you try to find solid, common sense, conservative candidates for local office who believe in law enforcement? It may take a year or two to get them into office but the effort will pay off mightily in the long run. Sort of like a law and order protest similar to the school board recall.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page has not gone full woke yet but it has had its judgment clouded by its deep dislike of Donald Trump. Rather than doing any sort of investigation into the vote fraud millions witnessed in at least 2 states in real time (PA and GA), and the weird circumstance of vote counting shutting down simultaneously in 5 states and then restarting three hours later, the WSJ has repeatedly dismissed charges of vote fraud. Too bad they didn't watch the run down of vote fraud out of Wisconsin this past week. It was carried on OAN or Newsmax where I saw it. The margin in Wisconsin was 20,000 and well over 45,000 fraudulent votes were documented.
I have been very disappointed in the WSJ. I had a subscription with them for many decades but canceled it last year. I can't support dishonesty.
So the high gas prices are the Saudi's fault? Got it.
I don't think it's a "1950's idea" to ban certain contents in the classroom. For example, I don't want my 3rd grade grandson learning how to build bombs or pimp his male or female classmates for money, much less learning exactly how to sexually exploit them. Anything outside of reading, writing, and arithmetic are open for civil discussion, in my humble opinion. Nice work Nellie. :)
Nellie I’m so glad I’ve discovered you through Bari. Love the balanced perspectives in your TGIF column. You are hitting so many nails on the head you should consider a career in carpentry. 🤣
But seriously, thank you for bringing some sanity to and pointing out the craziness in journalism and politics today. It gives me hope.
Appreciated the "Common Sense" re schools. Anyone who says parents should not play a role in their kids' education should be made to teach in an inner city school in Baltimore or DC - no parents bitching about the curriculum there! And the "conservative" reaction is just as bad. We really shouldn't be talking about Left- vs Right-wing, but statists vs libertarians. While most of the writers here are left of center and I'm right of center, I sense we share a common libertarian core.
The response to egregious arrogant extreme woke school boards cannot be nuanced. How did we ever drift so far out in the Sea of Chaos?!
No wonder we need a diversionary war, bread and circuses doesn't seem to be working. And how are people finding out about all of these bad things? Geeeez.
So much red pill..... Asians start getting the "shut up white man" treatment and surprise surprise they don't like it? No Way!! More obvious lies and double standards from the media? BLM activist attempts a political assassination nobody cares, declaring martial to deal with some truckers totally fine. I'm old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi called federal law enforcement officers "Storm Troopers" because they were stopping rioters in Portland Oregon from burning down a federal courthouse. The siege of the courthouse lasted months, local politicians in Portland actively aided the siege by repeatedly suing to have protective fencing around the courthouse removed. Trump also had to cross-deputize every local cop as a fed agent since local prosecutors wouldn't do anything about violent behavior. What happened when Biden got into office? Oh he had Merrick Garland drop all the federal charges that came of that. All of this was very okay, suspending the rule of law for violent Democrats was just fine, this happened nationally. City-wide riots totally fine, but we'll charge Rittenhouse for murder. All of that totally okay but declaring martial law to stop an actual peaceful protest? Not a problem!
The media and Democrats think we're all too stupid to notice this. The old saying is true “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Democrats lean 100% on painting Republicans as racist, bigoted, authoritarians. Well, Democrat bigotry and authoritarianism are well established. What happens when they finally alienate minority groups and push them to the right? Democrats claim to care about minority groups but that generally only means black people.
Stop Asian hated ceased to matter to the mainstream media when it became clear black men were the aggressors. The same is true with antisemitic violence. Do Democrats care that the drug cartels have a multi-billion dollar industry in human trafficking getting migrants to our wide-open southern border? Nope. Do they care about the problems the cartels having that huge source of cash causes the Mexican government? Nope. Will anybody talk about how black people which are 13% of the population commit 50% of the murders based on FBI crime statistics? Nope. This slanted preferential treatment of one racial group is obvious to everyone and will rapidly make the Republican party less white. Then what smear can Democrats use?
As Mental Health Counselor I was talking to another therapist colleague of mine recently about the behavior of a client and she astutely pointed out "People will go where they find love".
Enjoy your weekly red pill. What it means to be Republican has changed. C'mon on in Asians, Jews, and Latinos we'll actually care about what happens to you. As a former cop, I didn't switch parties and become a Republican until 2020. My colleague is smart, people do go where they find love.
"Writing, they imply, should represent the world as it ought to be, not as it is.” Comports perfectly with the giant leftist blind spot on human nature - they're unable to deal with people as they are - only as they wish them to be...i.e.; Lia Thomas is a woman.
Ha! Another great post Nellie!
If Quintez was not a BLM supporter... hmmm.
"As for surveillance: if reporters and politicians are still lying about the basics of what’s going on in schools politically, it shouldn’t surprise anyone when parents think of dark ways to find out."
Kind of a summary of politicians worldwide about everything. They subjected Trump and his Normals to a two year, $40M colossal anal exam and found nothing... Everyone else? Yeah... There is a reason Project Veritas is a thing. A very big thing.
Where is the outrage regarding Trudeau's actions in Canada? I'm watching in horror as we witness Canadians lose their legitimate right to peacefully assemble and protest. It's clearly a preview of what's in store for the US, but no one finds it alarming? It's as if everyone's just sleep walking to the gates of hell like zombies from The Walking Dead. It's pretty predictable that the planned US trucker convoy will surely get squashed by our new regime. The worst part is that Trudeau added insult to injury by stating he's OK with BLM protests, but not trucker protests. So the only protests allowed are the ones pre-approved by Dear Leader? Not to mention, it's outrageous for any public official to endorse BLM at this point in time when they're under scrutiny for financial fraud. Which leads me to the Clinton/DNC connection to BLM via Marc Elias. If only we had an honest media that wasn't busy running cover for them, and bothered to look under the hood.
Which leads me to Durham's filing and the levels of Clinton corruption that it may threaten to expose (hopefully). Which leads me to Jake Sullivan, who was central in the HRC campaign, and is now busy drumming up another war we don't need. All of these networks are connected. That's how this country became so polarized. Look at what they've put this country through for the last 6 years or so! All in the name of regaining absolute control. The extent of the corruption and cronyism, paired with the non-stop gaslighting from the Dems, feels like a daily assault. It's exhausting, and it's intentionally demoralizing.
That TDS is even a thing is proof that propaganda works. The fact that people flaunt their TDS as a badge of honor just shows how easily manipulated they are. The propagandists, (like ad execs) know exactly how to target people's feelings to imbue the masses with the presumption of righteousness that makes people malleable. Everyone wants to feel that they're on the "right" team, and the Dems and their media sycophants programmed people exactly that way. I find it so ironic that the TDS crowd who were proclaiming that "Trump is a dictator", and "Trump is shredding the constitution" (though no one could ever articulate precisely how, when pressed) are the same people who are cheerleading the ACTUAL dismantlement of civil liberties under the current regime. These people seemingly have no self-awareness as to the extent of how they've been played. Worse, they don't seem to care (talk about useful idiots).
From those of us who DO care, please wake up, shake off your TDS, and start paying attention to what the real fascists are doing right now. It may be too late though.