James Varney: The Department of Education <i>Doubled</i> the Number of "Racial Bias" Investigations Against Schools to Pound Them Into Adopting DEI Policies

James Varney: The Department of Education Doubled the Number of "Racial Bias" Investigations Against Schools to Pound Them Into Adopting DEI Policies

How close this country came to being extinguished.

Probes handled by the department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against public schools, colleges and universities roughly doubled during the Biden administration, topping 20,000 last year. Investigations by hundreds of OCR lawyers and staff members -- and responses to them by untold numbers of school officials and administrators -- touched on everything from allegations of sexual violence and disability accommodations to website compatibility.
Defenders of the office say it has been an invaluable protector of civil rights for America's nearly 70 million students. They say eliminating or even downsizing the office, which has already begun, would kneecap thousands of ongoing investigations while abolishing a prime instrument of justice.
"This reckless action strips students of vital resources and tears down statutorily mandated functions that are essential to addressing racial and economic inequality in education," the ACLU declared last month. Trump, it said, has put "millions of students' education and civil rights at risk."
Advocates for handicapped students, who until recent years accounted for half of all complaints, are concerned they might get short shrift in the Trump administration and have gone to court to block cuts. "We have many members who file complaints, and it has left many of them in limbo, or distraught, thinking there will be no accountability," said Selene A. Almazan, legal director of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, plaintiffs in a suit filed March 14.
But backers of Trump's effort to eliminate the Department of Education counter that the Office for Civil Rights is a symbol of how the federal government has expanded its reach into what they describe as chiefly local matters. They say its investigative arm has been designed to make it as easy as possible for the department to maximize its influence and oversight through investigations.

A complainant does not need a personal connection to a school. Indeed, petitioners don't even have to live in the same state, and legal standing is not a factor. They do not even need to identify themselves. They are not required to try to resolve their problems at the local level before notifying the feds -- though many do. Consequently, the office's operations sometimes function as a nationwide anonymous sounding board rather than a source of last resort, a place where anyone can make a federal case out of any slight, real or perceived.
Although OCR probes include many serious allegations, the system's structure means the number of cases can be inflated through duplication, serial filers and ambitious bureaucrats.
"The numbers aren't really what they first appear," said Teresa R. Manning, policy director at the National Association of Scholars, a conservative counterweight in higher education to the liberal American Association of University Professors. "A lot of this was by design. If they didn't have complaints, they wouldn't have jobs, so a lot of federal bureaucrats and campus officers want any grievance to become a federal case."

Trump has largely shut the office down:

The numbers themselves are unclear. Neither the Department of Education nor its Office for Civil Rights responded to multiple requests for comment, and a listed phone number is no longer manned daily; voice messages left there were not returned. But it appears the administration has laid off some 240 people in the OCR, shuttering at least six of its 12 regional offices. Currently, eight of 22 "key staff" positions there are vacant, according to its website.
When Trump and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon first announced layoffs in February, reports mentioned 12,000 active investigations listed on the OCR database, which was last updated on Jan. 14. Last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his own report on the office, claiming 6,800 cases would be shortchanged by the layoffs.
But no matter which total is used, the claim that U.S. schools are teeming with incidents of overt racism or sexism, or bias against handicapped students, is misleading, according to experts familiar with the OCR and its work.

In theory, every complaint is reviewed to determine if it constitutes discrimination on the basis of race ("Title VI"), sex ("Title IX"), or disability. If so, the Office for Civil Rights can open an investigation, or its attorneys can allege that there are "systemic" violations and trigger much broader investigations.
Such initiatives were highlighted in a glossy report the office released on Jan. 16, four days before Trump's inauguration. The office appears to have published six such "special reports" since 2016, with half of those during Biden's term. Two of them -- the first and another in 2021 -- dealt with alleged "racial disparities" or "equity" in school discipline.
This looks like a more proactive OCR following the age-old practice of boosting the cases on its books and then insisting it needs more funding, said Jim Blew, a co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute and a former assistant secretary of education in Trump's first term.
"Skepticism is legitimate, because by declaring something is 'systemic,' then rather than resolve that one issue they can turn it into a federal case," Blew said. "And if you're going to interpret the discrimination on much different and broader levels than ever before, that's going to increase the number of complaints, too."

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1 Not SPONGE !

Posted by: Heirloominati at April 21, 2025 05:40 PM (euPbd)

2 2nd?

Posted by: Crusader at April 21, 2025 05:40 PM (TN0g+)

3 Whoa

Posted by: Heirloominati at April 21, 2025 05:41 PM (euPbd)

4 Commissar Democracy.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 05:41 PM (gKWVE)

5 Sending your kid to public school should be considered child abuse.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 05:41 PM (/U5Yz)

6 Back to read the content

Posted by: Heirloominati at April 21, 2025 05:42 PM (euPbd)

7 "Indeed, petitioners don't even have to live in the same state, and legal standing is not a factor. They do not even need to identify themselves."

All of this was in violation of federal laws and nobody said a word until Trump got reelected.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 21, 2025 05:42 PM (e5NfL)

8 Another twist: Nor do you have to be a US citizen. All children are entitled to a public school education.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 21, 2025 05:43 PM (NFX2v)

9 Top 10!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 21, 2025 05:44 PM (Wnv9h)

10 Just.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 21, 2025 05:45 PM (Wnv9h)

11 Homeschooled students typically score 15 to 25 percentile points higher than public school students on

SAT Scores: On average, homeschooled students score 1190 on the SAT, compared to 1060 for public school students.

College Graduation Rates: About 67% of homeschooled students graduate from college, compared to 59% of public school graduates.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 05:45 PM (/U5Yz)

12 New hot chick dick pill advert. I thought she was one of the teachers being used to pound DEI into students.

If so, I shall identify henceforth as a 16 year old boy.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:46 PM (dGCAG)

13 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 21, 2025 05:47 PM (Wnv9h)

14 Why it's almost as if the DOEd was a complete waste of $$$$$ for these past 50 years or so.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 05:47 PM (vKNmo)

15 College Graduation Rates: About 67% of homeschooled students graduate from college, compared to 59% of public school graduates.

Hatefacts! Racist!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:47 PM (2VST1)

16 And that's just the tip-O-de-iceberg.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 21, 2025 05:48 PM (VJc7E)

17 > How close this country came to being extinguished.
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Horseshit. It already has. There's no recovery to what would be considered "normalcy." It's going to be a back and forth struggle ending in bloodshed.

Likely sooner rather than later.

And the right will be blamed for it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 21, 2025 05:48 PM (Q4IgG)

18 If so, I shall identify henceforth as a 16 year old boy.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:46 PM

Horde sense of humor is at least 3 years younger than that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 21, 2025 05:49 PM (Wnv9h)

19 Thanks RMBS.
Had pity challenges accessing previous thread.

Posted by: Heirloominati at April 21, 2025 05:49 PM (euPbd)

20 How close this country came to being extinguished?

I think the issue is still in doubt.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 05:49 PM (quqPW)

21 pixy

Posted by: Heirloominati at April 21, 2025 05:49 PM (euPbd)

22 I feel so dumb. I knew we had too much bureaucracy but I missed that it is this deep.

Fire them all.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2025 05:50 PM (yp8Vj)

23 It already has. There's no recovery to what would be considered "normalcy." It's going to be a back and forth struggle ending in bloodshed.

I fear this may be true. Thankfully I am probably too old to see any of it happen

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:50 PM (2VST1)

24 >>> 8 Another twist: Nor do you have to be a US citizen. All children are entitled to a public school education.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 21, 2025 05:43 PM (NFX2v)

Yes, thanks to SCOTUS in Tyler (Texas) vs Some Bright Spark, iirc in the 80s or 90s.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 05:51 PM (Vqx30)

25 All of this shit is illegal as hell, and faggotry on steroids. I hope the perpetrators die in a fire. It’s better than they deserve.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 21, 2025 05:51 PM (sEgd8)

26 Thanks RMBS.
Had pity challenges accessing previous thread.
Posted by: Heirloominati at April 21, 2025 05:49 PM

I'm a giver, me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 21, 2025 05:52 PM (Wnv9h)

27 OT: Hearing AG Pam Bondi is rumored to be getting ready to charge Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(@AOC) for instructing illegal aliens how to avoid ICE

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 05:54 PM (/U5Yz)

28 Lets get down to this ... how many "Departments" do we need ?

Its no small thing. I come from the trailer park in Kentucky. Yet, my Dad was a Union Man. And so, we needed things like The Department of Education to have "standards", according to his intellectual insight.

I don't know what fucking standard he was scared of - us being from the trailer park in Kentucky. But he was awful concerned
Mississippi wasn't educating their kids.

My point ? Rest assured, there is someone from Maine worried as Hell that Kentucky isn't doing it right either. In between setting coon traps.

My bigger point ? Let Maine teach coon trapping while Kentucky teaches the finer points of Trailer Park Planning while Mississippi does whatever it does because nobody cares about Mississippi anyway.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:54 PM (si91G)

29 And the right will be blamed for it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Oddly enough, I'm up for it.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 05:54 PM (vKNmo)

30 8 Another twist: Nor do you have to be a US citizen. All children are entitled to a public school education.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 21, 2025 05:43 PM (NFX2v)

Yes, thanks to SCOTUS in Tyler (Texas) vs Some Bright Spark, iirc in the 80s or 90s.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 05:51 PM (Vqx30)

That ruling should be rescinded as it constitutes child abuse, as the public education system is currently administered.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 05:55 PM (quqPW)

31 And the right will be blamed for it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Every time I bring up logic, the 200 lbs I can't lose blames me for it.

I don't worry as much about it as I used to.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:56 PM (si91G)

32

School Library Journal, Researchers Find Correlation Between Racial Bias, Higher School Disciplinary Action, by SLJ Staff
Apr 02, 2019

In part, "Using a statistical model, the researchers estimated the racial bias recorded by 1.6 million respondents who visited the Project Implicit website on a county-level basis, matching those responses with the Department of Education data. The researchers used data from 2015 to 2016, analyzing a little over 3,100 counties; there are currently around 3,200 counties in the United States.

The researchers investigated racial bias with regard to five common disciplinary actions: in-school school arrests, expulsions, law enforcement referrals, and in-school and out-of-school suspensions.

For each disciplinary action, black students were subjected to higher rates than whites. This was especially high with suspensions; 13.46 percent of black students received out-of-school suspensions compared to 3.5 percent of white students. This is nearly four times higher for blacks than whites.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 21, 2025 05:56 PM (NFX2v)

33 Horseshit. It already has. There's no recovery to what would be considered "normalcy." It's going to be a back and forth struggle ending in bloodshed.

Likely sooner rather than later.

And the right will be blamed for it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 21, 2025 05:48 PM (Q4IgG)
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Things won't be like they were, they will be better.

Once the arrests started, the Tesla terrorism ceased. Even now the network is being rolled up.

The paid mobs are despondent and demoralized.

Meanwhile the US military is being aggressively purged of weirdos and enlistments are soaring. Those who don't get gigged are going to flunk the new, ruthless fitness requirements.

Yeah, I'm bullish.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 21, 2025 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)

34 The School to Prison Pipeline must be defeated, Comrade.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 05:57 PM (F30Ty)

35
"Ernest Saves Christmas" was James Varney's best movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 21, 2025 05:57 PM (iJfKG)

36 Newest yard sign for the upcoming election.. I support public schools and I vote!

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2025 05:57 PM (yp8Vj)

37 Many, many years ago after advocating to a neighbor that homeschooling was the way to go, he got incensed, that they wouldn’t become “socialized”. At least two of his daughters became heavily involved in illegal drugs, and one of them married a 75 year old when she was 25, they were reasonably intelligent people from good solid middle class homes. This wasn’t a trailer park in Georgia, it was the weirdest thing. Or maybe not so weird if your parents are shit.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 21, 2025 05:57 PM (sEgd8)

38 Funny how they would rather have their local schools run buy the Trump Administration than local officials

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 21, 2025 05:57 PM (wBaIH)

39 BIG BABY.

This kid is 33 inches and 35.5lbs at nine months of age. He's in the 95% for height and well over 99% for weight.

http://tiny.cc/v28h001

Posted by: bonhomme at April 21, 2025 05:57 PM (lIio7)

40 Good evening, good citizens.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 21, 2025 05:57 PM (hKoQL)

41 Everything, and I mean everything is corrupt and incompetent.
So they find "racism" and then what do they do? They probably make the school district hire someone like that D'Angelo race hustler woman and do training and then the school district probably has to hire a consultant to implement a bunch of stupid policies that don't teach one child a damn thing. It only makes a bunch of busy work for a bunch of useless bureaucrats. It's why there are so many administrative employees in schools. They have to follow all the stupid rules.
It's like a full employment program for useless relatives of the party apparatchiks.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 21, 2025 05:58 PM (GMfeY)

42 Bureaucratic bloat, as always.

Posted by: toby928 at April 21, 2025 05:59 PM (jc0TO)

43 CaliGirl, spot on.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2025 05:59 PM (yp8Vj)

44 If so, I shall identify henceforth as a 16 year old boy.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:46 PM

Horde sense of humor is at least 3 years younger than that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 21, 2025 05:49 PM (Wnv9h)

Perhaps so, but if I'm going to bang the hot teacher, I don't want it to be weird for her.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:59 PM (dGCAG)

45 How close this country came to being extinguished.
____

Helloooooo!!!!

Posted by: Democrats 2028 at April 21, 2025 06:00 PM (qUkBO)

46 Hmm, apparently linking to TikTok that way doesn't work.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 21, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)

47 How Loudoun County became the subject of Civil Rights violations in public education (and subsequent state oversight) in Virginia: "Pastor" Michelle Thomas, multi-term president of the local NAACP, and social justice Democrat grifter.

First, she agitated for the formation of the Minority Student Achievement Committee, to address "disproportionate" results for minority students, and oversaw who got seats.

They "advised" the school system on how to "center" the black experience (a la 1619) in transforming education, which included working to make ALL lessons a dismantling of "systemic racism".

This included a recommended and vetted by the committee exercise in phys ed for Black History month, in which they decided on an obstacle course game, so students could appreciate the challenges faced by escaping slaves in their bid for freedom.

(cont)

Posted by: barbarausa at April 21, 2025 06:00 PM (enw9G)

48 Many, many years ago after advocating to a neighbor that homeschooling was the way to go, he got incensed, that they wouldn’t become “socialized”
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A couple of weeks ago a few of you recommended Ayn Rand's "The Comprachicos". Its available for free in a PDF version doing a simple google search. She does a ruthless take-down of public schooling, excerpted here:

A three-year-old delivered into the power of a pack of other three-year-olds is worse off than a fox delivered to a pack of hounds: the fox, at least, is free to run; the three-year-old is expected to court the hounds and seek their love while they tear him to pieces.

After a while, he adjusts. He gets the nature of the game—wordlessly, by repetition, imitation and emotional osmosis, long before he can form the concepts to identify it. He learns not to question the supremacy of the pack. He discovers that such questions are taboo in some frightening, supernatural way; the answer is an incantation vibrating with the overtones of a damning indictment, suggesting that he is guilty of some innate, incorrigible evil: “Don’t be selfish.” Thus he acquires self-doubt, before he is fully aware of a self.

Posted by: Crusader at April 21, 2025 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

49 Yeah, Make America Great Again is a terrific slogan and we all know what it means: going back to the days when America was proud, when you could leave the doors unlocked, when you weren't afraid where your kids were playing in the neighborhod, where you didn't wonder what your kids were being taught in school or who was trying to groom them. When you went to the movies surprised if they weren't good. When you listened to music and every week another amazing song came out. We all know what it means.

But that's never coming back.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:01 PM (2VST1)

50 This wasn’t a trailer park in Georgia, it was the weirdest thing. Or maybe not so weird if your parents are shit.

I've learned a lot of shit in that 25 year span between being a kid and raising a couple.

Biggest thing ? I was a judgemental little fuck for sneering at every parent for every whining kid. And people are not judgemental enough when a household pushes out two or more of the same ferals.

One offs happen. Kids, it turns out, are like dogs. They have a personality - you can do your best to shape them. Good kids can happen to bad parents. Bad kids can happen to good parents.

Two are not a coincidence.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:01 PM (si91G)

51 22And whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed; for the Lord will not suffer that the blood of his saints, which shall be shed by them, shall always cry unto him from the ground for vengeance upon them and yet he avenge them not. (Ether

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 21, 2025 06:01 PM (VJc7E)

52 You can be sure a bunch of fucking lawyers were sucking on this big fat government teet.

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at April 21, 2025 06:02 PM (2Nfh9)

53 I recall how my small town public school was bankrupted by an asshole parent who demanded all three floors of the school be handicap accessible, instead of just the one her precious had her classes in.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 21, 2025 06:02 PM (wBaIH)

54 . . . and one of them married a 75 year old when she was 25 . . .
Posted by: Common Tater

So you're saying I have a chance?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 06:02 PM (vKNmo)

55 CaliGirl, spot on.

You forgot lawyers.
Layer upon layer of lawyers

Posted by: Heirloominati at April 21, 2025 06:03 PM (euPbd)

56 The Others have been summoned.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Quick! Get the garlic and crucifixes!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 06:03 PM (L/fGl)

57 >>You can be sure a bunch of fucking lawyers were sucking on this big fat government teet.

If there wasn't money in it. Nobody would be in it.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 06:04 PM (F30Ty)

58 So you're saying I have a chance?

If you're rich enough there's always an Anna Nicole Smith out there for you, no matter how old you are

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:04 PM (2VST1)

59 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Bandwagon-3
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
SPACE AFFAIRS
Launch Date: April 21, 2025 (EDT)
Launch Time: 8:48 p.m. EDT - April 22, 0048 UTC, 02:48 CEST

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Posted by: Ciampino - missed one at April 21, 2025 06:04 PM (sPQoU)

60 I wonder how many school administrators, once they had a family member set up in the consulting business, dropped a dime on themselves . . .

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 21, 2025 06:04 PM (WfeZa)

61 55 CaliGirl, spot on.

You forgot lawyers.
Layer upon layer of lawyers
Posted by: Heirloominati at April 21, 2025 06:03 PM (euPbd)

They're on my list too. Everything is so complicated you have to hire a lawyer to accomplish what should be simple tasks.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 21, 2025 06:05 PM (GMfeY)

62 (cont)
The obstacle course was run in PE, and lo and behold, some of the "pastor's" cronies showed up to complain louid and long that their children had been traumatized by it, and "forced to act as slaves".

This got press coverage, and then it also got coverage when the Black Panthers showed up and forced their way into the school to protect those traumatized children.

No arrests were made, because of course not.

But then, "pastor" Michelle called Va AG Herring (D, of Loudoun) and cried through her bullhorn about the children being "made to" act as slaves in the exercise she advocated for, promoted, and approved, and lo and behold, Loudoun was under oversight for civil rights violations.

Easy for the FBI to step in when the trans rape happened, eh?

Posted by: barbarausa at April 21, 2025 06:05 PM (enw9G)

63 Mississippi must be doing something right. Their schools are now better than the ones in California.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 21, 2025 06:05 PM (cvWHI)

64 Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:54 PM (si91G)

You seem to have a lot of baggage about your background, "Fast Eddie." You've mentioned the trailer park numerous times. Obviously you turned out to be a productive and intelligent man, so maybe it's time to forgive some people in your life. God could help you with that, except apparently from your previous posts, God has to appear on demand and put on a big show with special effects before you'' believe.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2025 06:06 PM (42Vb+)

65 Mississippi must be doing something right. Their schools are now better than the ones in California.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 21, 2025 06:05 PM

Watch out, Alabama!

Posted by: Mississippi at April 21, 2025 06:06 PM (jc0TO)

66 A setup during the 1st administration that didn't go into place until the 2nd.

Then hire, hire, hire & pay for programs:

Chan Zuckerberg initiative: Panorama raises 60M to enhance EdTech Tools, Sept 2021

Founded in 2012, Panorama Education’s mission is to radically improve education for every student. Educators use Panorama Education’s technology platform to understand their students’ academic and social-emotional strengths and to identify students in need of additional support. With Panorama, educators can select appropriate interventions and track students’ progress. Panorama Education offers a full suite of tools to help districts support the whole child, including research-backed school climate and social-emotional learning surveys, tiered intervention planning, and professional development.

Concerns Over Conflict of Interest With AG Garland's ...
Oct 8, 2021 — A possible conflict of interest between AG Garland, whose son-in-law reportedly runs an educational organization that sells critical race theory to schools.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 21, 2025 06:06 PM (NFX2v)

67 >>@JD_Cashless

>>Along w/ all the news about Ryan Routh, I mentioned that the most recent would-be assassin, Nikita Casap, was a member of the Misanthropic Division Telegram channel.
Misanthropic Division is a Ukrainian accelerationist group which brands itself as an Azov Battalion support group.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2025 06:06 PM (viF8m)

68 Mississippi must be doing something right. Their schools are now better than the ones in California.

Or California is doing even worse. Oregon's schools are at the bottom of nearly every academic standard. Absolutely abysmal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:07 PM (2VST1)

69 >>Misanthropic Division is a Ukrainian accelerationist group which brands itself as an Azov Battalion support group.

Mostly Peaceful Windmill Motifs

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 06:07 PM (F30Ty)

70 Speaking of:

Rhode Island Israel Supporters Alarmed At Proposed Legislation Mandating “Ethnic Studies” Statewide
Well-funded far left activist groups are hiding behind purported student groups to push Ethnic Studies, which has been lambasted in California as anti-Israel and anti-American. A key hearing is scheduled April 23.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 06:07 PM (mlg/3)

71 ACLU... Anti Conservative Legal Union.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 06:08 PM (QAkQ3)

72 Mississippi must be doing something right. Their schools are now better than the ones in California.

Necessity really is the mother of invention.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:08 PM (si91G)

73 This is bizarre. Two adult twins were interviewed by local Aussie TV after a carjacking, and they're answers were weirdly in sync.

https://tinyurl.com/4hr4h7xp

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 21, 2025 06:08 PM (paSBy)

74 I don't know if it's just my old age but I increasingly have nostalgic thoughts/memories of growing up in the '60's. I know the hippies were already starting to poison things but they hadn't taken root yet (and I was still in grammar school and was only moderately aware of what they were doing).

The wife and I have taken a real liking to watching The Walton's re-runs. Even though the era it portrays was before our time the wholesomeness is welcome and is in such sharp contrast to most of the trash on TV today.

I really hate seeing what's been done to my country. I don't have the ability to maneuver anymore (as in fire and maneuver) but I know I have a last stand left in me. I hope It doesn't come to that but the rot is so deep that I have a hard time seeing our way out of this.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 06:09 PM (quqPW)

75 Or California is doing even worse. Oregon's schools are at the bottom of nearly every academic standard. Absolutely abysmal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:07 PM (2VST1)

I blame the abandonment of the 3Rs. Leave indoctrination to the parents. Teach the basics.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:09 PM (si91G)

76 the three Rs are still there.

They just changed in the 90s, to "Reduce, Reuse. Recycle".

Posted by: barbarausa at April 21, 2025 06:11 PM (enw9G)

77 Dutch article: De Poopst ass dout

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 21, 2025 06:11 PM (lEahz)

78 Soooo... uh... where was teh ACLU during Covid?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 06:11 PM (QAkQ3)

79 Although OCR probes include many serious allegations, the system's structure means the number of cases can be inflated through duplication, serial filers and ambitious bureaucrats.

"A lot of this was by design. If they didn't have complaints, they wouldn't have jobs, so a lot of federal bureaucrats and campus officers want any grievance to become a federal case."

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It has nothing to do with rights and everything to do with jobs for the elites and their useless children. Long ago real promoters of justice worked for free, now they want the taxpayer to keep them in snazzy and well-paid jobs.

Posted by: Decaf at April 21, 2025 06:12 PM (unUNN)

80 The wife and I have taken a real liking to watching The Walton's re-runs. Even though the era it portrays was before our time the wholesomeness is welcome and is in such sharp contrast to most of the trash on TV today.

That's the point. Its a great show. And you NEVER lived in it.

Norman Rockwell painted great stuff. Never contemporary, because that's not how shit worked in his era.

Yet some insist we did. Not you, but others.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:12 PM (si91G)

81 where was teh ACLU during Covid?

Suing churches that refused to close, probably

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:12 PM (2VST1)

82 Mississippi must be doing something right. Their schools are now better than the ones in California.

They finally figured out that generational humping of your sister leads to low IQ?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 06:12 PM (/U5Yz)

83 >>where was teh ACLU during Covid?

Why has no State been able to have them found to be Vexatious Litigants?

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 06:12 PM (F30Ty)

84 >>Mostly Peaceful Windmill Motifs

I doubt leftists will suffer any cognitive dissonance when the reconcile calling all of us Nazis while they support actual Nazis.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)

85 I don't know if it's just my old age but I increasingly have nostalgic thoughts/memories of growing up in the '60's. I know the hippies were already starting to poison things but they hadn't taken root yet (and I was still in grammar school and was only moderately aware of what they were doing).

You don't even have to go that far back to better days in America. I mean its 30 years or so by now, but still not that far back. Look at how much has changed culturally since 1983. Look at how much has gone wrong, and sick, and bizarre, and twisted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:13 PM (2VST1)

86 They finally figured out that generational humping of your sister leads to low IQ?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 06:12 PM (/U5Yz)

In all fairness, they were humping either slaves or a cousin. And before you get smug ? Look up the history of Old New England ... as in Maine, New Hampshire, you get the picture.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:14 PM (si91G)

87 They finally figured out that generational humping of your sister leads to low IQ?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 06:12 PM (/U5Yz)
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What they've achieved is pretty amazing, dumbass.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 21, 2025 06:14 PM (paSBy)

88 https://x.com/alexthechick/status/1914293986669273486

What is that Sowell quote?

Paraphrase: It is an indictment on the courts, that honest men tremble as they walk through the doors, while criminals swagger.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 21, 2025 06:14 PM (lEahz)

89 24 >>> 8 Another twist: Nor do you have to be a US citizen. All children are entitled to a public school education.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 21, 2025 05:43 PM (NFX2v)

Yes, thanks to SCOTUS in Tyler (Texas) vs Some Bright Spark, iirc in the 80s or 90s.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 05:51 PM (Vqx30)
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Remember when 20? odd years ago we found out that Mexican kids near the southern border crossed every day to go to free school in the USA?

Posted by: Ciampino - I remember well at April 21, 2025 06:15 PM (sPQoU)

90 I don't know if it's just my old age but I increasingly have nostalgic thoughts/memories of growing up in the '60's. I know the hippies were already starting to poison things but they hadn't taken root yet (and I was still in grammar school and was only moderately aware of what they were doing).

I really hate seeing what's been done to my country. I don't have the ability to maneuver anymore (as in fire and maneuver) but I know I have a last stand left in me. I hope It doesn't come to that but the rot is so deep that I have a hard time seeing our way out of this.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 06:09 PM

I don't know what happened in our schools but you are correct it started in the late 60s and 70s. I can remember sitting in the High school cafeteria with every other kid in my class taking the military ASVAB test. That happened three years of the four I was in high school and every single kid had to take the test and not a single person complained about it. I can't imagine what would happen today if the military tried to do that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 21, 2025 06:16 PM (e5NfL)

91 It's a great racket. Legions of gummint layabout lawyers creating work for other layabout lawyers and extracting taxpayer money all around. Like a vile, filthy, demented self-licking ice cream cone.

Posted by: Sue The Bastard! at April 21, 2025 06:17 PM (G5+As)

92 You don't even have to go that far back to better days in America. I mean its 30 years or so by now, but still not that far back. Look at how much has changed culturally since 1983. Look at how much has gone wrong, and sick, and bizarre, and twisted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:13 PM (2VST1)

You're right Christopher. In the mid-80's I was patrolling the East German border staring at the communists on the other side. And I KNEW my country had my back. Now the commies are here, in my own government. And they did it without firing a shot.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 06:17 PM (quqPW)

93 I saw Misanthropic Division open for Ministry at the Palladium in 1988

Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 06:17 PM (gKWVE)

94 44 If so, I shall identify henceforth as a 16 year old boy.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:46 PM

Horde sense of humor is at least 3 years younger than that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 21, 2025 05:49 PM (Wnv9h)

Perhaps so, but if I'm going to bang the hot teacher, I don't want it to be weird for her.
Posted by: BurtTC

Sixth grade is fine with me!

Posted by: Mary Kay Letourneau at April 21, 2025 06:18 PM (CEWFB)

95 Remember when 20? odd years ago we found out that Mexican kids near the southern border crossed every day to go to free school in the USA?

I remember when California voted in 1994 to only let citizens draw benefits. Passed in a public vote.

A Federal Judge said no. And that was that.

People, just now, are noticing that the Judiciary should be told to fuck off ?

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:18 PM (si91G)

96 it all went to shit when Obama got into office

Posted by: DanMan at April 21, 2025 06:19 PM (8uzBS)

97 They're on my list too. Everything is so complicated you have to hire a lawyer to accomplish what should be simple tasks.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 21, 2025 06:05 PM (GMfeY)

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I had an idea for a future dystopian novel about a society where half the members were lawyers because every other individual needed their own personal attorney with them side-by-side in every daily activity to navigate the legalese which I become part and parcel of every activity and to avoid traps leading to civil liability, criminal imprisonment, or worse.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 21, 2025 06:19 PM (TZd1U)

98 Department of Education has been Cultural Marxism for yeats

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2025 06:19 PM (ypFCm)

99 *which HAD become part of ...

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 21, 2025 06:19 PM (TZd1U)

100 The wife and I have taken a real liking to watching The Walton's re-runs. Even though the era it portrays was before our time the wholesomeness is welcome and is in such sharp contrast to most of the trash on TV today.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 06:09 PM (quqPW)

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My TV has been set to Encore Westerns, INSP, and/or Grit for the past two or three years.

You're not alone in not wanting to watch the modern stuff.

Since I was born in the 70s, most of these old western TV shows I'd never seen before.

I especially like The Virginian, Tales of Wales Fargo, Cheyenne, and Maverick.

At least you know there's some kind of moral code involved and who the good guys and bad guys are at the end.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 21, 2025 06:20 PM (6ydKt)

101 it all went to shit when Obama got into office

Flinks you on the nose.

Affirmative Action wasn't an invention of Obama.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:20 PM (si91G)

102 Is it okay to pray that DC slides into the Atlantic some day?

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 06:21 PM (PCK5/)

103 Khruschev said communists would defeat America.

Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2025 06:21 PM (LHPAg)

104 I don't know what happened in our schools but you are correct it started in the late 60s and 70s.
Posted by: Mister Scott
___________

My little public high school, graduating classes of less than 100, had Latin and French clubs in the 60s. Long gone by the time I got there in the late 70s.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 21, 2025 06:22 PM (UBKzV)

105 103 Khruschev said communists would defeat America.
Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2025 06:21 PM (LHPAg)

They are getting a lot of help from other actors…

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 06:22 PM (PCK5/)

106 At least you know there's some kind of moral code involved and who the good guys and bad guys are at the end.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

It's a very rare thing when I watch any movie made after 1950.

Posted by: Old Fossil at April 21, 2025 06:23 PM (G5+As)

107 I remember when California voted in 1994 to only let citizens draw benefits. Passed in a public vote.

A Federal Judge said no. And that was that.

People, just now, are noticing that the Judiciary should be told to fuck off ?

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:18 PM (si91G)

Exactly! It was Prop 74 (or something like that). So much for the will of the people. And another judge did the same in CA when the people voted that marriage was between a man and a woman. Again, one fucking judge. And, as I recall, he was gay. Not that I give a shit about his gayness but it seems to my non-legally educated mind that that might have been grounds for recusal. As is he had a personal dog in the fight.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 06:23 PM (quqPW)

108
Stephen Miller
@StephenM

If you were an American falsely accused of wrongdoing on January 6th it wasn’t merely difficult to get “due process,” it was impossible. The entire system was rigged against you. All of it.

Those persecuted Americans could only dream of the “due process” afforded illegal aliens.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 21, 2025 06:23 PM (rY/ZL)

109 Khruschev said communists would defeat America.
Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2025 06:21 PM (LHPAg)

They are getting a lot of help from other actors…
Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 06:22 PM (PCK5/)

That ignores the history of academia. Which loves them some communism.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:23 PM (si91G)

110 >>Affirmative Action wasn't an invention of Obama.

he masterfully used that as his sword AND shield though

Posted by: DanMan at April 21, 2025 06:24 PM (8uzBS)

111 This might get good:

Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) says she will not leave El Salvador until Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the United States.

https://tinyurl.com/3xsszpv8

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 21, 2025 06:24 PM (paSBy)

112 My theory is that much of the decay in the country was all about sex.. and it started in the 1950’s…

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 06:24 PM (PCK5/)

113 42 Bureaucratic bloat, as always.

Posted by: toby928 at April 21, 2025 05:59 PM (jc0TO)
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Use those DOGE magic 6 words:
"What is it you do here?"

Then add
"List 5 things you've done this week."

Posted by: Ciampino - I remember well ... M Chevalier at April 21, 2025 06:24 PM (sPQoU)

114 I had an idea for a future dystopian novel about a society where half the members were lawyers because every other individual needed their own personal attorney with them side-by-side in every daily activity to navigate the legalese which I become part and parcel of every activity and to avoid traps leading to civil liability, criminal imprisonment, or worse.

I had an idea of a dystopian future vigilante story where the left had taken over. The opening scene is a hero arriving too late to save a girl who commits suicide, pan down to a reporter talking about "choosing self destiny" and an abortion clinic next to a shop that buys fetal tissue. The big plotline was a group firebombing churches for being hateful and bigoted. I imagined all this in the 90s, trying to project what could happen if the crazy left at the time got full control.

Its even worse now than I envisioned it. I didn't envision the mind control, the Wuhan Flu reaction, the corporation cave in to the woke agenda to the cost of profits, etc. But the lawyer thing, absolutely that would have to be part of such a world.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:25 PM (2VST1)

115 I especially like The Virginian, Tales of Wales Fargo, Cheyenne, and Maverick.

At least you know there's some kind of moral code involved and who the good guys and bad guys are at the end.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 21, 2025 06:20 PM (6ydKt)

The Rebel... and Have Gun, will Travel.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 06:25 PM (QAkQ3)

116 The turning point was the Clinton impeachment. He had been caught lying, violated core feminist rules and therefore should have been forced to resign or be removed from office.

"The Simpsons" even had a bit where Al Gore was measuring the Oval Office curtains. When the truth came out, everyone thought he was done.

But the Dems decided that power trumped principle. All of the rules of feminism were cast aside by the need for power. The ends justified the means. That came back to haunt them over Trump, but if you want a moment when our society shifted, that was it. Up to that point honor, truth meant something. Our entire system was built on unspoken rules. But at that moment, it was all about legalisms. Republicans might be shamed into leaving, but Dems from that point on had to be dragged out kicking and screaming.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 21, 2025 06:25 PM (ZOv7s)

117 "How close this country came to being extinguished."

tbh, I'm not sure that that tide is anywhere close to turning yet.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 21, 2025 06:26 PM (/Ghsb)

118 Since day 1 of Trump II I wish the whole Education department was closed down. It doesn't teach a kid anything good

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2025 06:26 PM (ypFCm)

119 115 I especially like The Virginian, Tales of Wales Fargo, Cheyenne, and Maverick.

At least you know there's some kind of moral code involved and who the good guys and bad guys are at the end.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 21, 2025 06:20 PM (6ydKt)

The Rebel... and Have Gun, will Travel.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 06:25 PM (QAkQ3)

I wonder when the preminence of the antihero began??

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 06:26 PM (PCK5/)

120 My theory is that much of the decay in the country was all about sex.. and it started in the 1950’s…

My theory runs deeper ... starting in the late 40s, not long after WW-II, we started with the Cold War.

And what little remained of the Republic and a Free People that was left after the Civil War was steamrolled, made to conform, to defeat the Red Menace.

Nobody won the Cold War. We just lost last.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:27 PM (si91G)

121 I don't think I can convey an adequate sense of the offense behind "was there anyone working FOR Americans?"

"Weaponization of the whole of government" is too small of a description to express the horror of what they were building--and had built--against US.

And, currently, the machinery they manufactured can spring right back to life, grinding up anyone and everyone who goes against them, within a single election.
We remain on the knife's edge of slipping into a long, dark night of totalitarian tyranny.

"But muh 401k is down 3%!!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2025 06:27 PM (5Hv8M)

122 111 This might get good:

Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) says she will not leave El Salvador until Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the United States.

https://tinyurl.com/3xsszpv8
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 21, 2025 06:24 PM (paSBy)

Can you say... Logan Act? This is almost as good as the Congress Critter who went to Ukraine, and helped shoot Artillery at the Russians...

Can you say... Act of War? Nice try... I knew you could..

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 06:27 PM (QAkQ3)

123 Bondi could run and win in 2028 if she actually jails AOC.

I pledge to put $20 on AOC's books if she's jailed.

Posted by: torabora at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (f7iwu)

124 As always, I appreciate the post and hope Ace readers enjoyed the piece!

Posted by: James Varney at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (BFhXu)

125 123 Bondi could run and win in 2028 if she actually jails AOC.

I pledge to put $20 on AOC's books if she's jailed.
Posted by: torabora at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (f7iwu)

Lots of Ramen from the prison commissary…

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (PCK5/)

126 I wonder when the preminence of the antihero began??
Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 06:26 PM (PCK5/)

Robin Hood?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (QAkQ3)

127 >>Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) says she will not leave El Salvador until Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the United States.

Pretty sure she would need an exemption from the Speaker to partake in any Votes, if she were to do so.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (F30Ty)

128 Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) says she will not leave El Salvador until Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the United States.

As an Oregonian I'm all in on her staying out of the state.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:29 PM (2VST1)

129 Nobody won the Cold War. We just lost last.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:27 PM (si91G)
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Have you considered a career as a motivational speaker?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 21, 2025 06:29 PM (ZOv7s)

130 Sixth grade is fine with me!
Posted by: Mary Kay Letourneau at April 21, 2025 06:18 PM (CEWFB)

Hey, I'm no necrophiliac!

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 06:29 PM (dGCAG)

131 >>As always, I appreciate the post and hope Ace readers enjoyed the piece!
Posted by: James Varney at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (BFhXu)

Still. I'm not putting on pants.

Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 06:29 PM (F30Ty)

132 >>My theory is that much of the decay in the country was all about sex.. and it started in the 1950’s…

This stuff has been going on since the dawn of the time. Human nature didn't change, the ability to blast us with it 7 x 24 did.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 21, 2025 06:30 PM (viF8m)

133 I wonder when the preminence of the antihero began??

It was a major theme of the 1970s, they were all against the strong heroes of the past because they fought for and stood for what they hated: the past, the American ideal, the dream.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:30 PM (2VST1)

134 Shut it down more

Posted by: jsg at April 21, 2025 06:30 PM (UJ+K5)

135 111 This might get good:

Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) says she will not leave El Salvador until Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the United States.

https://tinyurl.com/3xsszpv8
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 21, 2025 06:24 PM (paSBy)

Hahahahaha!

Sorry you missed your plane, bitch. Oh, and we cut off your credit card and deactivated your cellphone.

Posted by: Mary Kay Letourneau at April 21, 2025 06:30 PM (1gqzP)

136
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

🚨 #BREAKING: House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer has referred Andrew Cuomo to the DOJ for CRIMINAL prosecution

“Cuomo is a man with a history of corruption and deceit, now caught red-handed lying to Congress during investigation into the COVID-19 nursing home tragedy in New York,” Comer said

LOCK HIM UP

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 21, 2025 06:30 PM (Au/50)

137 Just learned that the cause of the Pope's death was a stroke.

Vance.....what did you say to him?? (you KNOW the media will implicate him. Somehow)

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 21, 2025 06:30 PM (5xuJ/)

138 >>I wonder when the preminence of the antihero began??

Before me.

Posted by: Zarathustra at April 21, 2025 06:30 PM (F30Ty)

139 Off pedo sock!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 21, 2025 06:31 PM (1gqzP)

140 Pretty sure she would need an exemption from the Speaker to partake in any Votes, if she were to do so.
Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (F30Ty)
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The agreement permits "pairing" but political stunts like this would not count. So giving the GOP another effective vote is fine with me.

Get 20 more Dems down there and we can outflank the GOPe.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 21, 2025 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

141 The turning point was the Clinton impeachment. He had been caught lying, violated core feminist rules and therefore should have been forced to resign or be removed from office.

Nope. I see it as the point where Contemporary Conservatism spit the bit. The case started because Bill Clinton used power to squash Paula Jones complaint.

Ken Starr turned it into Bill Clinton fucking a willing Monica Lewinski. Because Ken Starr was a typical Baptist. He screwed that case up into a staff position at Baylor.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:31 PM (si91G)

142 QAkQ3)

I wonder when the preminence of the antihero began??
Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 06:26 PM (PCK5/)
Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Mash, etc.

Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2025 06:31 PM (LHPAg)

143 Human nature didn't change, the ability to blast us with it 7 x 24 did.

Yeah I tried to explore that idea in Life Unworthy, evil has always been with us, technology just expands its reach. You can kill a man with a rock. You can kill a troop with a sword. You can kill a platoon with a machine gun. You can kill a battalion with a bomb. You can kill a city with a nuke. The evil and the hate and the ability to harm has only changed in scope, but its always been with us.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:32 PM (2VST1)

144
34 The School to Prison Pipeline must be defeated, Comrade.
Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 05:57 PM (F30Ty)

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Strangely, the existing Obama-era 'solution' to the pipeline phenomenon, namely cancelling school discipline and the lawful prosecution of the 'oppressed minority,' trains the beneficiaries to hold the belief that they can get away with anything. The result is not only a greatly increased post-school flow rate in the prison pipeline, but an increase in fatal encounters, e.g. Travon Martin.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 21, 2025 06:32 PM (xPNeT)

145 It was a major theme of the 1970s, they were all against the strong heroes of the past because they fought for and stood for what they hated: the past, the American ideal, the dream.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:30 PM (2VST1)
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Film noir. It was a thing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 21, 2025 06:33 PM (ZOv7s)

146 Have you considered a career as a motivational speaker?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 21, 2025 06:29 PM (ZOv7s)

Admit it ... it is a good line. It explains a lot.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:33 PM (si91G)

147 Nood. Tank.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 21, 2025 06:34 PM (a8bgy)

148 Film noir. It was a thing.

It was, but to me Film Noir was not so much about the anti hero as the regular guy thrust into awful circumstances and the darkness within us all.

Its not that the Anti Hero was never around before the 70s, but it became the main theme, the goal of film making by default rather than a fresh and unusual take.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 06:34 PM (2VST1)

149 The next big experiment in destroying the kids is called the

XQ initiative.

Funded by Laureen Jobs and promoted by Roslyn Ali (Obama dept Ed.) and Randi Weingarten.

Kids are failing because the curriculum doesn't comport with the modern world as it is today.

New and improved, the kids will decide how and what they want to learn and the teachers are really mentors, to guide them in their self selections.

Think the Evergreen State college in Olympia.

They've target three states this year, Idaho, Kentucky and Illinois.

Our school district is sending teachers to learn this new curriculum to help the failing math scores. 1% are proficient at grade level. It's called math badging. *shrugs*

I'm sure this will solve the problem. /s

.

Posted by: Derak at April 21, 2025 06:34 PM (/84wj)

150 I wonder when the preminence of the antihero began??

Many of those that you would have agreed with, decades ago, hated Death Wish. Wanted it banned from theaters.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 06:34 PM (si91G)

151 My brother and I were raised in accord with those moral and ethical values now derided by the left. We, and the other members of our clan live by these morals and values as do our offspring, with absolutely no guilt nor apology.

Should this offend ANYONE, then deal with it. We do this because it's part of our heritage, that continues the struggle of our predecessors to ensure our Republic endures.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 21, 2025 06:35 PM (hKoQL)

152 Hope Maxine is looking for a permanent residence in El Salvador

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2025 06:35 PM (ypFCm)

153 Pretty sure she would need an exemption from the Speaker to partake in any Votes, if she were to do so.
Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (F30Ty)

Not if she's pregnant.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 06:35 PM (dGCAG)

154 "racial disparities"

I have a crazy conjecture -

Pick some random demographic group readily identifiable by some readily observable highly visable physical characteristic.
Treat them as some sub-human pavement apes incapable of controlling their animal instincts.
Don't even try to influence them to have any resemblance of self-control.
Excuse every objectively bad action as if they are incapble of not doing it.
Make excuses for them. That everything is the 'others' fault.
Get some of their 'own' to point this out, champion their own inferiority.

Let's see how that works out for them.

Yup, talking about the gingers.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 21, 2025 06:35 PM (/lPRQ)

155 Cool hand Luke

anti hero

no applause in the theater at the beginning of the show

Posted by: yoeman at April 21, 2025 06:36 PM (j1QfB)

156 "How close this country came to being extinguished."

tbh, I'm not sure that that tide is anywhere close to turning yet.

--

Not to be a parade-rainer-on'r, but this is my worry too. Even if the actual citizenry were on one page, the deep state is SO entrenched, SO entwined, tentacles wrapped around our entire gov't structure, all it takes is one election and whatever Trump will be able to do (and it's a bit dubious at this point, thanks to the judiciary), will unravel. As a matter of fact, as soon as the D's can win the next presidential election, by hook or crook, they will go wild. As we can all clearly see, things are pretty bad right now, despite what wins Trump has been able to eek out. YMMV

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 21, 2025 06:38 PM (qBdHI)

157 And what little remained of the Republic and a Free People that was left after the Civil War was steamrolled, made to conform, to defeat the Red Menace.

Nobody won the Cold War. We just lost last.
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Starting in WWII, we were told--by both parties-- that we, and we alone, must sacrifice our freedoms, our economy, our livelihood, our money, and our future to save the world.
Over and over again.
And endless stream of crisis, war, and threats.
Most manufactured, inflated or illusions.

We are watching 80 years of constant indoctrination of "America last" dying violently.
Lashing out.
Massive wealth and power was accumulated.
Stolen from us.

You, keeping an extra $5 from your paycheck is a dire threat.
You, having a say in how the thousands they extort from you every year is spent, is a mortal threat.
You, voting for a politician who represents you is an unforgivable sin.
You are an the enemy.
You always were.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2025 06:38 PM (5Hv8M)

158 i think we are out of other people's money

we bought votes with it

Posted by: yoeman at April 21, 2025 06:41 PM (j1QfB)

159 Was Maxine Dexter Miss Oregon at some point? I believe she's about as good as it gets in the Pacific Northwest.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 21, 2025 06:41 PM (wBaIH)

160 Sounds like Scoggie found a new nic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 21, 2025 06:44 PM (MM+LG)

161 The Waltons was cloying, and something was off about it. Good programming maybe, but Will Geer was a kiddie fucker communist in real life. I never did like him.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 21, 2025 06:46 PM (Vp7E/)

162 153 Pretty sure she would need an exemption from the Speaker to partake in any Votes, if she were to do so.
Posted by: garrett at April 21, 2025 06:28 PM (F30Ty)

Not if she's pregnant.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 06:35 PM (dGCAG)
That’s right, can’t discriminate against a pregnant woman,

Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2025 06:47 PM (LHPAg)

163 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2025 06:38 PM (5Hv8M)
At 157!!!
Well said, my friend.

Posted by: Eromero at April 21, 2025 06:50 PM (LHPAg)

164 Confiscate cell phones at the school door.

They will have to segregate by sex. Boys and Girls are different. Co-ed instruction has too many distractions. And then ability groups.

Expelling students who cannot or will not behave. It isn’t complicated, but it is not easy in the political minefield they have sown.

Fuck ‘em. Get federal dollars out of education. More money just means more of what we already got. Get rid of the useless union drones, the sex deviants and incompetent ass clowns.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 21, 2025 06:53 PM (MPpTK)

165 Or African decent, can't fo anything against them

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2025 06:55 PM (ypFCm)

166 "As always, I appreciate the post and hope Ace readers enjoyed the piece!" Posted by: James Varney

Wish I'd been more political back in the Bandi's volleyball days ... was "between causes.

But it seems like lately you have gone harder into the MAGA range of articles. Seemed like before you were more "safe and methodical". But good to see your hard hitting commentary pieces of late (as I perceive them).

Posted by: illiniwek at April 21, 2025 07:03 PM (Cus5s)

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