"It is more accurate to say that slavery, an institution as old as civilization, still existed in the West at the time of our (USA) founding. The principles articulated at our founding were directly at odds with slavery and led inexorably to it's ending."
Thomas Amidon
I'd add that not only is slavery an institution as old as civilization, but that it was practiced in what would become the Americas long before the arrival of European settlers and that it continues to this very day.
Remember when Kamala Harris said that the first priority of the Biden/Harris administration was to stop COVID?
Remember when Biden had an 11 point plan to stop COVID? (https://joebiden.com/covid-plan/)
Remember when Biden said that there was "no federal solution" to stopping COVID? (https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/12/28/covid-biden-no-federal-solution-states-control-pandemic/9034179002/)
Remember when Biden said that he didn't foresee a need for large numbers of COVID tests?
(https://nypost.com/2021/12/21/biden-says-dont-think-anybody-anticipated-omicron-surge/)
Remember when folx on the political left said that Trump was responsible for every COVID death when he was in office?
Are those folx saying that Biden is responsible for all the deaths since he's been in office?
For all of the people who still have their panties in a wad because Garland isn't a SCOTUS justice, maybe you should listen to what Claire McCaskill has to say.
Claire, an incredibly liberal long time politician, said that Garland could "Go down in history as one of the worst attorney generals".
Maybe it's a good thing that he's not a SCOTUS justice.
Remember when there was a ploy by right wing terrorists to kidnap the governor of MI? Remember all the folx on the left using this as an example of how right wing domestic terrorism was the biggest threat we faced in the US? Well, it looks like the FBI played a significant role in the whole thing and this might not be what all the lefties thought it was.
I've seen a meme floating around that points out that The Jetsons was set in something like 2046, and that it's likely that George was conceived in 2021. The point being that people thought/hoped we'd be living in a futuristic world much sooner than reality might indicate.
However, it seems that CNN and the Washington Post are all in on self driving, autonomous, sentient vehicles driving themselves around.
from CNN's official Twitter account. "Wakesha will hold a moment of silence today, marking one week since a car drove through a city Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring dozens of others."
"Five people were killed after a red SUV sped into Wakesha's Christmas parade Sunday afternoon."
From the Washington Post's Twitter account.
"Here's what we know so far on the sequence of events that let to the Wakesha tragedy caused by a SUV."
Why would we think that our media is less than honest in their reporting? Why would the leave out that the SUV was driven by an African American with a long list of prior crimes, released by a progressive DA for political reasons (https://winteryknight.com/2021/11/29/wisconsin-district-attorney-john-chisolm-and-his-teacher-union-wife-colleen/), with a history of racist (anti-white) social media posts? It's so much more credible to believe that this was a "tragedy" caused by an "SUV", rather than a crime (possibly motivated by racism) caused by someone who should have been in jail.
There's a narrative out there this insists that the only way that the GOP ever wins anything is because they've gerrymandered districts to ensue themselves wins. Conversely, the DFL does not and never has engaged in gerrymandering.
As an aside, from what I've seen most instances of gerrymandering are done in order to protect incumbents of both parties and to maintain at least some sort of rough balance of power.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/maryland-democrats-are-advancing-hideously-gerrymandered-congressional-map
Apparently, the Maryland DFL didn't get the memo that the DFL doesn't engage in partisan gerrymandering.
