They re Talking About Critical Race Theory Again....
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As their obsession with pushing trans people out of public life makes super obviouslyclear, Republicans are simply addicted to having horrible priorities. So it should come as no surprise that instead of doing anything meaningful to address the impending climate-related housing crisis, the intellectual property laws preventing life-saving covid vaccines from reaching billions of people worldwide, or that fucking 100-foot rocket booster that’s about to make an uncontrolled reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere and possibly squash me, specifically, over three-dozen GOP lawmakers spent their Friday morning getting a bunch of screechy blows in on their “critical race theory” dog whistle.
Print this article Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 22, 2020.
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From
Politico this morning comes a lovely little example of the way media bias works in practice. Almost invariably, the press assumes that what the Democrats are doing is
normal and that what Republicans are doing is not even when it is the Democrats who are proposing big changes. Thus it is that when the Democratic party seeks to use the power of the federal government to serve a radical and discredited theory to every child in America, the story is that the . . . Republicans don’t like it:
Biden speech takeaways: Government is good, and so are jobs
ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press
April 28, 2021
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1of9President Joe Biden arrives to speak to a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)Melina Mara/APShow MoreShow Less
2of9President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP)Chip Somodevilla/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of9President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)Caroline Brehman/APShow MoreShow Less
Biden uttered the word “jobs” a whopping 43 times, according to his prepared text. It’s perhaps no surprise for an administration that has made beating backing the pandemic and getting Americans back to work the central guideposts in the early going of the administration. Biden noted that the economy has gained some 1.3 million new jobs in the first few months of his administration more than any in the first 100 days of any presidency. But he quickly pivoted to the need to pass his American Jobs Plan if the country is going to sustain momentum and get back to the historic low levels of unemployment prior to the pandemic.