Virginia Democrats are moving to require teachers to tell students that Jan. 6th was an “insurrection” and effectively bar them from referencing “peaceful protests” or election irregularities. The characterization of the riot as an insurrection is historically and legally false. However, any parents who want to send their children to Virginia public schools would have to accept this form of indoctrination as part of their children’s education.
In the last election, Democrats campaigned as moderates, including Abigail Spanberger. Once in control of the Governor’s mansion and the legislature, however, they have moved quickly to the far left in a flurry of measures. Democratic legislators just voted themselves almost a 300% increase in salaries. They will need it. They are moving to increase taxes on ride shares, concerts, counseling, leaf blowers, Amazon deliveries, DoorDash, Uber Eats, ammunition, and other areas.
However, HB 333, drafted by Del. Dan I. Helmer of Fairfax, raises serious concerns over academic freedom and free speech.
The summary of the bill mandates “a program of instruction on or relating to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol” and further:
“prohibits any such program of instruction, any accompanying curriculum or instructional materials, or any instruction provided by a teacher as a part of such program of instruction from (i) describing, portraying, or presenting as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating or involved in the January 6, 2021, insurrection as peaceful protest or (ii) stating, suggesting, or presenting as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election. The bill requires any such program of instruction, any accompanying curriculum or instructional materials, or any instruction provided by a teacher as a part of such program of instruction to describe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on U.S. democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
Soon after Jan. 6th, I condemned the riot but rejected the argument that this was an insurrection. However, it soon became part of an orthodoxy in politics and academia despite the fact that the public rejected it. As former House Speaker Pelosi declared, “It is essential that we preserve the narrative of January 6th.”
Yet, “insurrection” and “sedition” are legal terms. They have a meaning. The FBI investigated thousands after January 6th and charged hundreds. Not one was charged with insurrection or conspiracy to overthrow the country. The vast majority are charged with relatively minor offenses of trespass or unlawful entry or property damage- the type of charges that are common in protests and riots.
Indeed, the Supreme Court effectively reduced many of the charges to mere trespass in later litigation, rejecting obstruction claims.
Faced with a collapsing historical and legal narrative, Democrats are now moving to simply indoctrinate students that this was an “insurrection.”
Notably, Helmer is running again for Congress after Democrats, with the support of Gov. Spanberger, moved to reduce Republicans in the state (which is divided down the middle between the parties) to just one of eleven districts through gerrymandering.
Helmer is running in one of the most notorious new districts, called the “lobster” or the “scorpion,” because it runs from the Potomac River in Arlington southwestward, then splits into two “claws” toward the West Virginia line near Rawley Springs and Goochland and Powhatan.
In my book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, I discuss the radicalization of the American left. While many on the left advocate censoring “disinformation,” they are far less circumspect in promulgating their own disinformation.
Likewise, where Democrats have objected to the pressure put on universities for greater diversity of viewpoints as an attack on academic freedom, these Democrats see no problem in mandating the teaching of positions that are demonstrably false.
Here, Rep. Helmer and other Democrats are mandating the teaching of a false narrative to children rather than simply relying on public debate. The reason is that they are losing the debate over the characterization of this riot as an actual insurrection.
This, and other moves on the left, will only accelerate the exodus of families from public education. Notably, Fairfax County (which Helmer represents) has seen a sharp fall in enrollments in recent years.
Virginia Democrats Move to Require Teaching Jan. 6th as an “Entrapment Operation” Ran by Nancy Pelosi, The FBI and the Capitol Police to Illegally Impeach and Remove The Best President Ever Donald Trump From Office Because They Have No Policies The Electorate Will Support.
Virginia Democrats have become Reconstruction Era Radical Republicans.
RUSSIA AIDING IRAN
News reports this morning tell us Russia is providing Iran with satellite targeting of U.S. bases in the region. This after Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin and alienated all our European allies.
In retrospect, Trump should have stayed loyal to our allies while aiding Ukraine. Then, after Russia was defeated there, we could have gone after Iran. Too bad Trump can’t think ahead.
Trump is playing the long game against Russia and China, depriving them of allies and (in China’s case) oil imports. Trump “rolled out the red carpet for Putin” at a time when it looked like ending the Ukraine war was possible, and he was determined to do everything in his power to convince Putin to reach a settlement with Zelensky to end the bloodshed.
Trump FAILED, Old Man.
Trump has not successfully convinced Putin to end the war, so that much is correct. But the implication that his actions in doing what was in his power to convince Putin were ridiculous . . . that assertion is itself ridiculous.
Old Man, no one but Trump was stupid enough to ever trust Putin. For only a few billion, in aid to Ukraine, we could have brought Putin down by now. But Trump wanted to make some business deal, or something equally as dumb.
Ukraine war started under Biden- Biden trusted Putin DF ANON!! You look stupid now!!
The idea that we could have “brought Putin down” is not at all self-evident. Russia is a nuclear power, with four times the population as Ukraine and a far bigger army. Everyone said Putin would never actually invade Ukraine, but he did. For anyone who says NATO can go in militarily and smash Putin’s war machine and he would never consider using nukes: that is wishful thinking. Putin is all about Russia and Russia winning, and he has shown recklessness already. We might have been able to avoid this war by promising that Ukraine would never, ever be allowed into NATO, but we were unwilling to do that, so now . . . millions dead and much of a nation destroyed. None of that can be laid at Trump’s feet, it was the decision of multiple pre-Trump adminsitrations, both D and R. It was a policy that began with George H.W. Bush of not welcoming Russia into the west on friendly terms when Russia might have been made a long-lasting ally.* But as things stand now, I doubt Russia would ever be willing to vacate the Ukranian territory it now holds (including Crimea) without using nukes. We have to face that reality, just as nearly 200 years ago Mexico wisely faced the reality it would never get parts of the south US back and agreed to end the war.
*You don’t have to take my word for it. There are any number of interviews on Youtube with people like Jeffrey Sachs who witnesssed these post-Cold-War events first hand from behind the scenes.
“The idea that we could have “brought Putin down”
NTM the highly questionable wisdom of doing so, even if we could. I regularly read columns by several astute Russia watchers (Gilbert Doctorow and Andrew Korybko among them), and the consensus seems to be that there are a number of Russians with considerable power among Putin’s current supporters who would favor a great deal more aggression in pursuit of their perceived national interests, and who would not hesitate to depose Putin in favor of one of their number should he show that they believe to be excessive weakness, or seriously fail in the attempt to regain the Russian-speaking provinces of Ukraine. Some of those folks would seem to have little compunction about the use of nukes to advance their causes.
It wasn’t a planned insurrection. It was a lawyerly coup plotted over the course of 6 weeks to circumvent the control of state voters over their state’s Electoral votes — an attempt to go around the Constitution on one of our most fundament processes. A bold attempt to cheat to win.
Why aren’t the Dems willing to have this truthful narrative taught?
The games lawyers play behind the scenes?…boring….hard to figure out for most Americans. A violent insurrection…a much more compelling accusation! And who cases if it’s a wild exaggeration? Trump engages in them all the time.
In this context the terms “attempted coup”, “insurrection”, and “rebellion” are used interchangeably to mean efforts to prevent the lawful transfer of power. The word “coup” did not exist when our constitution was written.
AI Overview
The word coup originated around 1400 (or the 12th century in Old French) meaning “a blow” or “strike”. It derives from the French coup, via Medieval Latin colpus. The first usage in a political sense, coup d’état (or “stroke of state”), dates to 1646, referring to a sudden, decisive action or stroke of state.
Jan 6th saw the messy collapse of a 6-week coup plot done by lawyers and R activists. The violence at the Capitol was never part of the plot plan. That was how the plot fizzed out, after VP Pence did his Constitutional duty and presided over a ceremonial count of the EC.
The coup attempt failed.
The Dems, rather than focus on the lawyerly coup plot as grounds for Impeachment, manufactured from pure conjecture that the President planned for a violent insurrection to occur. In warping the facts this way, the Dems handed the Repubs an easy straw man to knock down.
Both parties are locked in their lies. The public be damned (or take sides, and then be double-damned for uptake of falsehoods and misdirections).
Well, well, well.
Apparently Trump’s buddy Vladimir has decided to insert himself into the war with Iran.
Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter.
When asked about this development, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the following:
“We are in dialogue with the Iranian side, with representatives of the Iranian leadership, and will certainly continue this dialogue,”
Pushed on whether Moscow has provided any military or intelligence assistance to Tehran since the Iran war’s start, he refrained from comment.
In other words, Putin is all in on helping Iran, their long time ally.
With “friends” like this, who needs enemies ???
This fiasco is going to end very, very badly for Trump, and unfortunately for us as well.
We will bear the cost of this stupidity by the demented, and mentally ill Trump and his band of sycophantic minions.
Oh you sly little dog, calling Putin “Trump’s buddy.” Man is that clever, and I can’t see how the Republican Party can ever recover from such a blow and win an election ever again at the federal, state, or local level after that little verbal sleight-of-hand!
It is also irrelevant that Trump has been playing the grand-strategy game of depriving Putin of allies all across the world, such as Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, with Syria thrown in for good measure (with a little help from Israel). So Putin’s axis of evil is shrinking by the day, and America’s global influence is expanding at Russia’s and China’s expense . . . but no matter, you referred to Putin as “Trump’s buddy” so none of that matters now, does it?
“Putin’s axis of evil ”
You seem to have bought into that description awfully easily. I don’t see him as having anything of the kind. I see him as a very pragmatic leader of a nation that historically has pretty much always been handed the short end of the stick in international relations, whether they deserved it (which they arguably did in the Soviet era) or not. He now has a country that has regained some of its wealth and economic power, but its ruin is still fixated upon by both global opportunists and those in this country who will never be able to let go of the idea that Russia = Marxist Socialism, no matter how much time passes (I suspect that some of them never had anything at all going for themselves beyond denouncing the USSR).
Putin has been assigned the challenge by the Russian powers behind his chair to regain Russian control of Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine and, even more importantly, to make damned certain that NATO (which they see as a sworn enemy, largely thanks to the rhetoric and conduct of NATO itself) stays off their borders. I think that both goals are reasonable from a Russian POV. We still have a gigantic, aggressive, erstwhile Marxist villain on the world stage in the form of Red China. IMO, the vitriol and hostility currently aimed at Russia would be far better utilized in an attempt to neutralize that country. Right now they seem to be doing a pretty good job of that on there own, but we cannot depend on a mediocrity like Xi retaining power forever, he could be deposed by someone very competent and even more ruthless.
I think that part of Trump’s scheme is to appear to instigate events in several foreign nations to work against China’s interests, and to appear to play Russia and China off against each other, while at the same time signaling Putin that it is aimed more at China than at Russia, and that he (Putin) will always be left some kind of “out” to minimize the actual damage. From Putin’s POV (flattering myself by assuming his evaluation of what is going on is similar to mine) it makes perfect sense to set himself up as an intermediary in the conflict with Iran, because if he succeeds he would be in a great bargaining position to extract additional concessions from Trump wrt Ukraine. Lots of games within games here; I am not much of a fan of politicians or of international intrigue, but that is how I see it.
Democrat Philosophy: If they can’t lie and cheat, why play?
As public schools continue down the path of becoming political indoctrination camps, left-wing activist training centers, and perveyors sexual confusion and deviancy for children, the demand for affordable school choice will continue to grow. How is it not obnoxious for states to mandate that school districts get to extract property taxes in a monopolistic fashion, without giving the tax-paying parents any realistic choice of where their kids go to school?
Oldmanfromkansas, It’s interesting you mention ‘monopolistic fashion’ while defending Texas Bluebonnet. Texas is literally using taxpayer property taxes to offer a financial bribe of $60 per student to any district that adopts their state-written, Bible-infused curriculum. So ‘choice’ in Texas means: ‘You’re free to choose whatever you want, but we’ll only pay you if you choose our specific version of Genesis.’ Truly the pinnacle of a free market.
Listen, clown. Approx. 77% of TEXAS is Christian. https://uscanadainfo.com/religion-in-texas/
No one is imposing anything on anybody, let alone in a “monopolistic fashion.” You’re free to find a different blog to try to create the impression that you are knowledgeable, educated, or in any way right about anything.
https://www.politico.com/dims4/default/f191a4b/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Ff7%2Fdb%2Fdece17cf4cf8a82b00817e846622%2Fnick-anderson-the-contrarian.jpg
Comparison: George Floyd riots versus Jan 6 protest. George Floyd, an illegal drug user and counterfeit money passer, is now officially a cannonized saint of the Democrat party.
George Floyd riots: dozens dead, thousands injured, 900 cops injured, including 277 defending federal courthouse in Portland, OR, and 60 USSS officers defending the White House. Scores of cities torched, billions in property damage including the destruction of hundreds of small businesses and damage to government buildings.
Jan 6: no private businesses damaged, a few broken windows in the Capitol Building, Capitol Police giving tours and fist-bumping the protesters, less than one five-hundredth of the damage of the George Floyd riots, and only one person killed – by a Capitol Police officer who has gotten away scot-free.
Free Derek Chauvin.
Helmer is a Loser. He has Sexaul Harrassment allegations in his recent past.
State compulsory public school is unconstitutional.
Public school denies Americans their constitutional right and freedom to direct the lives and educations of their minor children.
Public school must be privatized per the Constitution.
The Constitution provides rights and freedoms that may not be denied by states.
There is not a single line in the US Constitution that even implies that public schools are unconstitutional.
@Anonymous
And nobody intimated that. Go blow.
Americans enjoy primary, fundamental, and superior constitutional rights and freedoms to direct the educations of their children per the 9th and 14th Amendments.
Parents enjoy the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and shall not be discriminated against by being compelled to pay taxes for an education system they decline and do not use and by being compelled to pay twice for the education of their child when others are compelled to pay only once.
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AI Overview
Yesterday, March 2, 2026, the Supreme Court in Mirabelli v. Bonta ruled against California’s secrecy policies, the Court affirmed that parents are the “primary protectors” of their children and that the state cannot create a “parent-free zone.”
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AI Overview
The Ninth Amendment serves as a vital safeguard for unenumerated rights, ensuring that the Bill of Rights is not viewed as an exhaustive list of human liberties. Together with the Fourteenth Amendment, it provides the constitutional foundation for the fundamental right of citizens to direct the education and upbringing of their children. Under the Supremacy Clause of Article VI, these federal constitutional rights maintain absolute primacy and superiority over any and all state statutes. Consequently, any California law or policy—including those attempting to restrict parental notification or oversight—is secondary to the supreme authority of the Constitution.
This legal hierarchy was recently affirmed on March 2, 2026, when the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a 2024 California law (AB 1955) and related policies defended by Attorney General Rob Bonta that sought to prevent schools from notifying parents about changes to their child’s gender identity. In its 6-3 ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta, the Court held that such “secrecy policies” likely violate parents’ constitutional rights to oversee their children’s care and mental health, effectively overriding the state’s attempt to mandate non-disclosure.
Public school denies Americans their constitutional right and freedom to direct the lives and educations of their minor children and is, therefore, unconstitutional.
Read the 9th and the 14th.
The 9th certainly provides the right and freedom to direct the education of a person’s children.
Back to Topic: Virginia Democrats Move to Require Teaching Jan. 6th as an “Insurrection” — e.g., legally address the right to indoctrinate and execute indoctrination as a state value over that of individual rights to speech – or even thought.
How terrifyingly sad it is to face “doublethink” through self-deception – and the only thought processes allowed “human beings” are empowered by gagging and indoctrination.
Tyrannical (autocratic/oligarchical) regimes typically execute indoctrination far more than nurture growth of logic, ideas, and the ability to meaningfully civilly participate in learning discourse – to gain knowledge and address issues. The collegiate value of “HOW TO THINK”[logical processing and value discernment] has been replaced. This is one of those cases – the support of indoctrination through propaganda rises.
In this case, it appears the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has elected to support her power of tyranny.
“I’m only tolerant of intolerance” topic speech: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7yE5HjgyM-Y
“prohibits … presenting as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election”
Based on surveys, massive election fraud in the 2020 presidential election is essentially an indisputable fact. Double-digit percentages of people admitted to filling out a mail-in ballot for someone else. People who ordinarily couldn’t be bothered to vote even in a high-interest presidential election turned their signed mail-in ballots over to family members, acquaintances, and community organizers. Some attempt to justify this, saying that lazy voters only turned their signed ballots over to others they trusted would vote their interests, and that there is scant evidence of quid pro quo. But any way you look at it, the bottom line is that a double-digit percentage of the voters in the 2020 presidential election voted more than once, far more than the level of fraud required to change the election outcome.
Stop repeating MAGA lies–there was NO evidence of “massive election fraud”. You have cited NO source material whatsoever for what you claim are facts. What “surveys” are you talking about? WHY didn’t Giuliani or other Trump defenders present what you claim is evidence to the over 60 courts in which lawsuits were filed? WHY did Giuliani admit to these courts that he didn’t have evidence, but filed the lawsuits hoping to create some evidence–and THAT’s why all of these lawsuits were dismissed? Don’t you know that all of the lies you are claiming as truth were checked, and no proof was turned up, despite dozens of audits, recounts, etc? Don’t you know that virtually every state has procedures to prevent voters from voting more than once? Where is there proof that any substantial number of voters turned over signed ballots to others to vote for them? Did you forget that all of the polls predicted Trump would lose? Did you forget the rotten job Trump did pretending to be POTUS? Did you forget that schools, restaurants and businesses were shut down and that the US was setting new daily records for infections and deaths due to COVID?
Try harder Gigi, we can’t hear you.
Did you forget ballot harvesting because of mail in ballots, no ID? Right, honest 2020 election. 😂
Democrats waste money on promoting their commie culture and theories. This is one example, another is the “Joe Biden” state department wasting your taxpayer dollars on “making maps more gay” (yes, you read that right), whatever that means. Here’s another project your tax dollars were spent on under the “Joe Biden” administration: Non-binary and trans Francophones linguistic attitudes and ideologies towards inclusive French in Montreal, Canada.
https://x.com/HouseForeignGOP/status/2029713864212762872
Here is an interesting way to look at what happened on Jan 6.
Around 50,000 people attended the rally at the Ellipse. Another estimated 70,000 people were present at the National Mall without entering the Ellipse, so around 120,000 people.
The vast majority of those people simply went home peacefully after Trump finished speaking, and caused no trouble.
However, around 10,000 people walked 2.5 miles from the rally at the Ellipse and entered the Capitol grounds, and around 2,500 actually entered the building.
Of those people at the Capitol, 608 were convicted of crimes involving violence. That is, 6% of the people at the Capitol committed violent crimes.
That is a HUGE proportion of crowd that were supposedly “peaceful protestors”.
Of course, all those violent offenders were pardoned and released by Trump.
The really interesting fact is that 33 of those pardoned are now back in prison after being convicted of subsequent crimes of violence unrelated to Jan 6.
Convictions include assault, felony threats to murder, felony possession of firearms, burglary, and child sex abuse.
So don’t try to tell me that Jan 6 was a “peaceful protest”, when so many of the people at the Capitol are proven to be violent criminals.
Trumped up ridiculous charges in a lawfare campaign against Republicans . . . and you take that at face value as the people “committing violent crimes.” That’s all we need to know about your twisted view of reality. Pathetic.
So, you believe that the charges against the 608 people convicted of violent crimes on Jan 6 were “trumped up lawfare”.
How do you explain that 33 of those convicted on Jan 6 are back in prison after committing violent crimes after being pardoned, and completely unrelated to Jan 6.
The only rational conclusion is that those who left the Ellipse to go to the Capitol, rather than just going home, were the kind of people inclined to commit violent crimes.
January 6 was a peaceful protest.
Perhaps January 6 in any year other than 2020. But we have hours of video that shows 2020 was violent.
Yes! The epitome of violence on Jan 6 was the dastardly act of the craven Mikey Byrd (i.e. chicken), who, rather than subdue her, shot an unarmed, physically inferior, 5′ 3″, 115 lb. female in the neck instead of a less lethal area of her body.
@Kevin
Compared to summer 2020, and Minnesota 2025, it really was. The dems can pretty much go to the fiery place at this point. Honesty no longer exists on the modern left, it just doesn’t, at all, full stop. if they are talking, they are lying. Without exception.
I personally don’t think we trimmed the NGOs *enough*.
Compulsory Public Education Is Unconstitutional
Per the 9th Amendment, Americans enjoy the natural, God-given, and constitutional freedom of education, that is, to choose the provider of education for their children, which may not be denied by states.
Per the 14th Amendment, American persons may not be discriminated against by being compelled to pay for the education of the children of other persons through taxation.
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14th Amendment
“No State shall…deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
This is just more of the Democrats’ “get Trump” efforts which always fail. They are lame and laughable. Speaking of which, in other news (per the Bee) . . .
– Iranian regime calls White House to ask if they can have Biden back
– Congress pledges to work tirelessly to expose all sex criminals who aren’t in Congress
– Canadian hospital defends its decision to euthanize a child who had a ‘boo boo’
– Humiliated: five year old child not even an activist yet
– America graciously converts 20 Iranian warships into new submarines
– Sad: Iran’s ‘Assembly of Experts’ forgets to include expert on not getting blown up
– To save time, Iran apoints Supreme Leader who is already dead
– Biden asks why Trump didn’t just bomb Ayatollah in the leg
– Conservatives express concern over foreign wars and OOHH DANG OUR SUBMARINE JUST BLEW UP A BOAT HECK YEAH WE ARE SO BACK
– Pentacostal wins at Scrabble again by spelling all words in tongues
– New reusable water bottle makes you sign into Google
– US Air Force destroys $3,200 Iranian regime Toyota pickup truck with $30M smart bomb
– Professor says proper grammar is racist. This is why their wrong
– California bill prohibits stores from selling toys that don’t actively confuse children’s sexuality
As a bonus, here’s how different news outlets are reporting the Ayatolla’s death:
– Fox news: Trump strikes Iran in ‘perfectly executed’ military operation
– NY Times: Beloved statesman, grandfather, gone before his time
– NY Post: ‘Kha-Meh-Nee’ now ‘Kha-Meh-Gone!’
– Newsmax: All Earth bows before he who rescuse us from oppression, dear glorious Trump
– MS NOW: Death of Khamenei could spell disaster for Iran’s trans population
– CNN: Iranians mostly mourning Ayatollah’s death
– LinkedIn: Here are 10 things the Ayatollah’s death teaches us about increasing your ROAS on B2B marketing
– NPR: Innocent Ayatollah was the greatest civil rights icon since George Floyd. Please give us money
– Cosmopolitan: 10 steamy Khamenei fanfics guaranteed to turn you on
– Huffington Post: Death to America
– Christianity Today: The Gospel legacy of the Ayatolllah, and why Christians should grieve his death
– NotTheBee: Trump’s military straight-up SMOKED Iran and the libs are crying
– Al Jazeera: WAAAAAAAA
Senility encroaching the Turley blog ….
OT
“Iran has three friends: China, the Democrats, and the U.N.”
– Brigitte Gabriel, ACT For America
@oldmanfromkansas, I admire and read your comments daily – as I do my absolute favorite blog: Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks
In this case though “This is just more of the Democrats’ “get Trump” efforts which always fail.” CAUTION:
This logic has not been supported by results:
53% of all NYC voters who cast their votes for a Tyrannical Mayor and are basking in those results.
Or the 56% of Virginians who did same for the same type of Governor
Or the 54% who chose the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the Commonwealth who believes, as they must, the murder of children in front of their mothers will effectively quell their opponents.
Or the State of Texas where more of the minority registered voters (Democrat) cast than majority registrants (Republicans)
(and the current list goes on)
@HistoryRepeats
That means the sane among us only need about 5% to turn the tide. Let’s hope we do in November. And let’s do it again in 2028.
I appreciate it, History Repeats. Your comment brings up an important distinction: Trump himself on the one hand is able to weather all these attacks, whereas the sane people of the US may not do so well when the insane are in the majority, at least of the people who vote. If one things my sane-versus-insane description is over the top, just consider which party supports these things: sexual mutilation of children, hiding child sex transitions from parents, putting biological men in women’s competitive sports, locker rooms, and showers, defund the police, open borders, communism (see NYC).
“53% of all NYC voters who cast their votes for a Tyrannical Mayor and are basking in those results.”
I always thought one “basked” on a beach or in some other pleasant surroundings, not atop a huge pile of d0g$h1t…
“– To save time, Iran appoints Supreme Leader who is already dead”
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– US Air Force destroys $3,200 Iranian regime Toyota pickup truck with $30M smart bomb”
The Bee has pretty much covered the Iranian waterfront (I checked a map, they do too have one 🙂 between those two one-liners.
Clearly Del Helmer is entitled to his opinion but one should not legislate that certain opinions are facts. This then veers into the realm of religion or at least psychology with a veritable Rorschach test with only one correct answer. This calls to mind another, fortunately failed, attempt by a state legislature to declare certain “facts”. This was the 1897 Indiana Pi Bill. There was an attempt to incorrectly define the value of Pi, presumably, because irrational numbers are inconvenient and present certain complications particularly in the days preceding the computer and later the hand held calculator. The impact to Indiana engineering (commercial and academic) would have been profoundly negative. And in the case of the Jan 6th Washington DC riot, legalizing certain “facts” merely because a more fulsome description is complicated would also be unwise.
A.N. — That 1897 Indiana Bill was a joke. At the time everybody laughed.
@David
You’re a well known troll here, and after that: no, it wasn’t. Anyone under 40 here today was born in the most peaceful and prosperous time the West has ever known – you all manufacture crisis, because without your Great White Savior badges, you would not know why you exist, such is your inculcation, which is generational, now. Clear thinking and legitimately compassionate people will win. That is not you, stuck in your head and your dogma.
As an aside, see comments elsewhere about the hippies (boomers), of which you may be one, and accept that we won the civil rights war, you are not protesting Vietnam, you are not fighting Richard Nixon, JFK is rolling over in his grave at what has happened to his party, and you are kinda just old, out of touch, and stupid. If you haven’t paid attention since Clinton was POTUS, you can pay attention now. Turn off the TV and accept that you raised your children very, very badly.
James — You end your diatribe of untruths about my children: Two are practicing M.D.s and one is awell-known Ph.D. in Computer Science from Uinv. Washington.
James — All falsehoods. In particular two of my children are practicing M.D.s and one is a well-known PhD in Computer Science, degrees from the University of Washington.
” At the time everybody laughed.”
Meh. Someone introduced it and someone brought it to the floor, so “everybody” is an overstatement. Furthermore, it took testimony from a Prof. Waldo of Purdue U. about what *should* have been the self-evident lunacy of the bill before it was actually killed.
Does not matter what the truth is, people are going to believe what they want to believe. I may see the number 6 others may see the number 6. It’s all perception.
No. Facts matter. There is no equivalence between those who accept the facts as they are and those who chose to lie about them. What happened on J6 is not a political debate where both sides are reasonable. The facts of J6 are not in dispute by any non-MAGA person.
There is no equivalence between those who accept the facts as they are and those who chose to lie about them.
So the Dems are trying to lie about Jan 6, and you’re saying that’s not equivalent to people who want to tell the truth about it. I’d have to agree. The Dems’ efforts to lie about Jan 6 is a desperate attempt to legislate “truth” contrary to the facts. That is literally Orwellian. They might as well legislate that 2+2=5.
The historical record about J6 is well established and the Ds do not stray from the facts.
The Ds never stray from the made-up facts in their own heads, which get reported as gospel truth by the lamestream media and left-wing biased wikipedia.
😂 some may 6, others 9 ..
“some may 6, others 9 ”
And some may see only the inside of their own rectum…