The newly elected Colorado congresswoman, who campaigned on a conservative platform that included fierce opposition to gun control, was said to have ignored a new requirement to pass through a scanner inside the Capitol.
(I did watch one part of the inauguration in its totality and it left me with one pertinent question for America: Who TF keeps telling Jennifer Lopez she should sing things slowly?)
So, I had to go back and read the transcript of Biden’s inauguration speech to see what the hell Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was talking about when he made an appearance on Fox Snooze to complain all snowflake-ily about how Biden lowkey called all Republicans racists and liars. (Because why would a pro-unity president say such truthful things all truthfully, you know?)
First, let’s start with what Paul said of Biden’s speech.
“If you read his speech and listen to it carefully, much of it is thinly-veiled innuendo calling us white supremacists, calling us racists, calling us every name in the book, calling us people who don’t tell the truth,” he said all die-mad-idly.
Before we get into what horrid things Biden said to warrant Paul’s complaints, I’ve taken the liberty of translating the above quote for our readers who don’t dabble in whiney wypipo linguistics:
“If you read his speech and listen with your butt all hurt, much of it is thinly veiled innuendo calling us the thing we keep demonstrating that we absolutely are, calling us a shorter version of said thing, calling us every name in the book of white nationalism—our second bible after our first bible, the Urban Dictionary, which we consult to figure out the niggra language.” (It’s a pretty loose translation, but I’m sure it’s mostly accurate.)
Paul—who may or may not be Randall from Recess all grown-up—went on to complain all clutch-pearl-ingly about Biden saying that “we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.”
“That’s another way of saying, ‘all of my opponents manufacture and manipulate the truth and are liars,” Paul said. “He just said it in a nicer way but that really was the gist of what he was telling us.”
Well shit, Paul! How dare Biden (not really) say such things? It’s almost as if Republicans backed Trump in pushing “stop the steal” propaganda despite the rulings of judges in over 60 cases who joined the former head of election cybersecurity and the Department of Justice in finding no evidence of widespread voter fraud. It’s almost like conservatives have routinely claimed, without evidence, that any and everyone who has ever thrown a bottle at a cop car is a card-carrying member of Black Lives Matter and/or antifa.
Here’s the thing, though: After reading the entire transcript of Biden’s speech, I still don’t know what the fuck Paul is talking about.
The number of people on twitter who proport to be a leftist, liberal, progressive etc. and spend their days hollering about how the working class have been left behind, who are also now angry about this and saying things like “being single isn’t free! where’s my extra money??” and “if we’re going to give people money to have kids, we should make them get a license first” is truly incredible.
Like, I get it. I’m a childless and single woman. It sometimes gets annoying how we’re seen as not having additional burdens that need support-taking care of family members is a big one-and how our culture is very focused on women as pre-mother or mother. But children do cost money? They need extra stuff? Supporting their parents helps everyone and lifts more people out of poverty. And children are also vital to a well functioning and thriving society, even outside of economic and longevity terms- human beings pass down culture and beliefs and what makes us unique to the next generation.
Hating children is not a personality. Sorry. And if you’re only a leftist/progressive when it benefits you, there’s a word for that-Republicans.
Emboldened by President Joe Biden’s action to rescind former President Donald Trump’s presidential permit to the Keystone XL pipeline project, leaders of four Sioux tribes are requesting Biden take action on the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
Leaders of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Standing Rock Tribe sent a letter to Biden on Tuesday requesting he take quick and decisive action on the Dakota Access Pipeline within the first 10 days of his administration.
