Polls: Society & Politics

If someone was asking people about you, do you think they'd all say your intelligent, in their opinion, is what I'm asking for clarification

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-lawmakers-religion-ten-commandments-classroom_n_644999e3e4b04997b57599c4
Texas Lawmakers Want Religious Indoctrination In Schools — May God Help Us All

In a disturbing yet not exactly surprising move, Republicans in the Texas statehouse have taken the first steps toward passing three bills that inject religion into public schools. One requires public schools to display “in a conspicuous place” the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Another measure will allow schools to require prayer and Bible reading time each school day for students and employees who give their consent to participate.
A third bill would ensure school employees the right to “engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty.”

It’s not the first effort by Texas Republicans to inject religion into public schools. In 2021, the state passed a law requiring schools to display donated “In God we trust” signs.

And if you think these bills don’t have a shot at passing muster in the U. S. Supreme Court (should they be appealed on constitutional grounds), guess again.

Texas lawmakers noted that the Supreme Court paved the way for these bills after it sided with Joe Kennedy, the high school football coach in Washington state who was fired for praying at football games. The court ruled that Kennedy was praying as a private citizen, not as an employee of the district.

Know who represented that coach? The First Liberty Institute, the organization that brought us Matthew Kacsmaryk, the federal judge in Texas who lit the legal fuse to ban the abortion medication mifepristone from the marketplace.
How delightfully incestuous.
Texas state Sen. Phil King, author of Senate Bill 1515, said the Ten Commandments are part of American heritage and it’s time to bring them back into the classroom.

Try to leave feelings aside and think about your own personal life. Have things gotten better or worse for you?

Overall things have gotten much more difficult in my own life. Ever since Biden took over I’ve had the following happen:

• Inflation has devastated my real earnings. I have only gotten two tiny 2% raises at my company in the last 3 years. However like everybody my own expenses have skyrocketed. I am not wealthy but I am trying to be upper middle class. The Biden administrations policies have now knocked me down a peg or two where everything is much more of a struggle. I have much less savings
• I work in the tech sector and there has been a ton of paranoia and stress. The direct company I work for is actually outperforming expectations. However the conglomerate who acquired us is suffering and pushing undeserved suffering on us as a result (no raises, less benefits, etc.). This is the hardest I’ve worked in 7 years with zero appreciation.
• Although I work 100% remote I was forced to vaccinate two years ago. I was on the fence about this initially however as a condition of employment I was left no choice. This was direct Biden mandate and was authoritarian. The fact I had no choice really pissed me off.
• Homeless and crime has skyrocketed in my home state (which has gone far left in the last few years). Fortunately I live in a nice and overall safe neighborhood. However the crap is starting to make out to where I live. I see more and more sketchy people at the grocery stores and there has been in increasing reports of crime. Now I know that’s local not federal politics. But still the “woke” attitude has infiltrated my state and the Biden administration propagated this crap.
• I was recently forced to take a DEI course at my job online. This was mandated company wide. For the most part I don’t care. But they got deep in the “non binary/trans” section. The “lesson” made up a definition that “gender is socially created” which I believe is complete bullshit.

Surprised this endorsement came so quickly when the Primaries have just barely started and 51% of Democrat's believe Biden should not run for reelection.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-endorses-biden-president-1234723658/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russian-state-tv-appears-to-offer-tucker-carlson-a-job_n_64482e27e4b039ec4e81855f
Russian State TV Appears To Offer Tucker Carlson A Job

Tucker Carlson may be out of a job at Fox News, but Russian state media seems to have an eye on him.
Fox said Monday the company was parting ways with its star prime-time host after 14 years, an announcement that came as a shock to media observers who had watched Carlson rack up ratings by delivering frequently bigoted monologues to a conservative audience. The cable news network, embroiled in several very pricey lawsuits, did not give a reason for its decision.

The Russian state media network RT tried to grab Carlson’s attention over Twitter, writing: “Hey @TuckerCarlson, you can always question more with @RT_com.” An earlier tweet from RT had framed the departure as Carlson’s decision.

(Notably, Twitter does not label RT as a “state-affiliated media” organization, despite it being one. Twitter CEO Elon Musk sparked outrage earlier this month when he labeled the U. S. news outlet NPR as “state-affiliated media,” even though NPR receives less than 1% of its funding from the federal government.)

Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov, an influential state propagandist, also reportedly signaled keen interest.

According to Politico, Solovyov expressed sympathy for Carlson in a message on Telegram, telling him “the United States mainstream media has lost its last remaining voice of reason.”

Like anybody there are plenty of people I’ve encountered or know as public figures (celebrities, politicians, etc.) that I don’t like.

However I can compartmentalize my brain to look at them objectively. While I have my obvious reasons for disliking them but that doesn’t mean I can’t acknowledge or even respect certain qualities about them. Like-ability is not the same thing as respect.

For example I highly disliked former president Obama. I believe he was a Trojan horse for all the radical politics and division going on in our culture today.

However I can acknowledge that he has the gift of gab. Very eloquent. Smooth talker. I can understand how that made him so popular among voters. But again that doesn’t mean I like him. But I can acknowledge and respect that quality.

It’s just in my experience women have a much harder time separating like-ability and respect. Once they decide they don’t like someone then they refuse to acknowledge any of their qualities. They seem to be more all or nothing when it comes to this.

Be it abortion bans or anti-transgender bills, they always say: Any medical professional who does this will be prosecuted. If a medical pro tells me to do something, I’ll listen to them more than old white conservative a**holes.

Any one who says Repubs are the party of family is deluding themselves. Anything billionaires want, they get. (This is why billionaires shouldn’t exist)

Why give an update otherwise?