I normally don't really care if rando white people on Twitter believe what comes out of my own kids' mouths. I always think "maybe they don't have children" or "maybe their kids are dumber than mine." But this breed of troll seems particularly angry at me right now.
I didn't get it for about 20 minutes. But now I think I understand. Why *MOST OF US* real parents have children who have grown accustomed to masks, for better or worse, there's a certain breed of dumbass which relies on the notion that masks are the worst thing ever.
So my kid, innocently and earnestly emphasizing that he had no problem wearing his mask, like, breaks their small minded world view in ways that make them lash out. So they need to believe my kid is lying (Or I'm lying about my kid. Or whatever black-man-bad thing think).
Anyway... if I was going to lie about my kids and masks, I wouldn't have wasted it on Biden, I'd have used it against Eric Adams. But unlike these dumbass trolls OR NINE YEAR OLDS, I understand civics and who really has the power to change mask requirements. :)
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In any event, the kind of racism Tucker is throwing at KBJ happens to Black people *all the time* in the legal profession. We're constantly asked to *re*prove that we're "qualified" by white people who are never satisfied no way.
And all of us develop different strats to deal...
Over the course of my life, I've run the full spectrum. Started at "I will prove to whites that I belong" all the way to "how bout y'all kiss my black ass." I've gone from trying to gain white approval, to actively rejecting it, to not caring about it at all...
I've learned there's no way to "win." There's no way to do whatever it is white's want you to do to make them leave you the hell alone.
Every black person has to choose how much white nonsense they're willing to put up with, because there will always be more nonsense on offer...
Gov Kim Reynolds (Republican) says that Biden is sending us back in time to the 80s... WHICH IF I RECALL WAS WHEN RONALD REAGAN WAS PRESIDENT.
Is Kim Reynolds against the Reagan Era?
Kim Reynolds is worried about [checks notes] SHOPLIFTERS "roaming free."
Wha...what does she think happens to shoplifters? Does she think they get the death penalty?
Kim Reynolds: "So many children will never catch up"
Umm... WHY??? WHY CAN'T WE INVEST IN CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN NEGATIVELY AFFECTED BY COVID RESTRICTIONS AND MAKE SURE THEY "CATCH UP" BY THE TIME THEY'RE IN HIGH SCHOOL?
About my book, not the global geopolitical situation. Tho... having done after events with Nance before... let's just say where our convos start aren't always where they end up.
Friends, read this. @emarvelous interviewed Judge Jackson's college roommates, who *all* applied to @Harvard_Law together, got in, and remained life long friends. This is a fantastic story:
Here's a really nice quote to tease the rest: “Ketanji was the first to say, ‘I’m not just grateful to be here, I deserve to be here, and I’m going to take up space in this ivory tower,’” Simmons said.
Sorry, I'm reading this story and thinking "My college boys better have my back like this or I swear I'll kill them"
This judge done cried? She cried? Where at the "GIVING WHITE WOMEN A SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR MURDER MAKES ME CRY" stage of the proceedings? I just... wow. WOW. This judge cried. Cried y'all. Cried.
I can't... I can't believe this. I'm functionally speechless.
Imagine hating black people so much that you ask black parents to have sympathy with the white person who murdered their son while sentencing her to significantly less time than the guidelines suggest.