Honestly, I wish there was some kind of travel program that was required for all children/adolescents somehow. Or at least a well-funded option.

Something where virtually everyone travels outside the country. We could start slow, and maybe just have people travel even within the country at first. If you live in the burbs or in a rural area, you are sent into some metro areas (ideally multiple states), put up in hotels and taken to various things to be seen. If you live in the cities, same thing - you visit some deep rural areas and learn something about that area.

I grew up with people that were proud of the fact that they never lived outside the county, and had not even left the state. Their whole lives. And didn’t really go into the cities within the state. They were just as provincial as you might imagine. They had all kinds of ideas about people in foreign lands, and within American cities, and within states (like California), but had never been there and didn’t even have any kind of interest in learning more via books or documentaries, etc., even if travel was too cost prohibitive.

10 years ago a fucking tan suit was ‘weird’ for a president…

Well, for a whole lot of idiots, low-info voters, and of course the reactionary centrists.

Maybe if a Qannon or a Groyper got him.

You can be sure that if such a thing were to happen, they would have a miraculous transmutation from radical right winger into “antifa” or BLM or whatever the most politically advantageous boogeyman is.

Is this black Republican just now figuring out that his party is full of Republicans?

What’s funny is those people likely view you as the one that is twisted, or tainted, etc, especially if you also went away to go to a university.

I grew up in a similar area though I was spoiled by having parents (and friends of my parents) that had a much broader view than most of my neighbors and other school children.

I would mostly keep my thoughts to myself unless I knew the other peer rather well, since all that high-falutin’ thinking and open mindedness was viewed as dangerously subversive by the local hicks.

But I remember going back to visit a few times during university and in the years shortly after completing university, and…it was always a trip to engage with some of these types again. They don’t seem to have any awareness of how benighted they really are. I still see a few of them on Facebook when I peek in on it. It’s so incredible how these people manage to remain so provincial even after the online world became a thing. I just don’t get it. I was one of the cyberoptimist types in the early 90s that thought the information superhighway would illuminate these types, even if only a little bit. I think the exact opposite happened.

Since he’s such a flaming narcissist, he’s probably just thinking of the “economic miracle” of his own grifting, and he’s grifted 1.4 billion, so that’s quite a miracle indeed. For a narcissist, that’s where economics start and end - his own financial situation.

ALL of which should be seized the minute he’s gone or the minute he leaves office, by the way…

100% this.

It feels like we have about an average of about 4 headlines per day in which the tankies and the reactionary centrists are exposed as the frauds or the useful idiots that they are…

Don’t forget that she also wouldn’t be doing stupid shit like destroying the East wing (literally), slapping her name on the arts center, talking about ballrooms and arches, grifting like a motherfucker (to the tune of 1.4 billion), kidnapping foreign leaders and stealing their assets, casually talking about invading/annexing other countries including allies…and all while the economy is imploding due to tariffs and while people are unemployed through direct actions done by the administration/party and while people having their health care and food security torn away.

The bOtHsIdeS dumbasses can pound sand.

He’s meaning “aroused” in the dictionary sense, aka “Brought to a state of great psychological tension.”

However, it’d be nice if the dude was at least aware enough to know that it sounds very much like he’s downplaying the situation for one, and secondly, even though some Americans might know the dictionary definition of “aroused” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s about someone that has a boner…many do not.

More DARVO and gaslighting from the DARVO and gaslighting movement - conservatives.

Is there a list? I know I saw at least one headline of one of these perps resigning.

When do they go to prison?

Yeah, as others have pointed out, if they were willing to part ways with Mormons, I could see them doing the same with the likes of Kegsbreath.

The scouts they are talking about is the org Scouting of America. Girl Scouts is a separate entity and I don’t think they get any kind of subsidies from the military?

I’d wager that reactionary centrism has given a huge assist here.

Because everything is on fire all at once, people are scared/exhausted/lack any actual leadership (Fuck you Schumer)

According to him, the people are “aroused”.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l9tTU1dgDwg

I guess the lame duck is done with trying to appeal to normal Americans at this point.

Prominent Republicans have been saying this kind of thing, in various ways, since at least the 1980s. If people want to delude themselves and call standard Republican stuff “trumpism” or even more incoherent and nebulous things like “maga”, I don’t know what to tell them. This is stock conservative/Republican stuff.

This is Paul Weyrich in 1980:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw

Thank you. I don’t think xtian segregation academies are discussed nearly enough in the typical discourse.

Honestly, churches should have always stayed the fuck out of politics or lose their tax exempt status. Of course, that rule does not apply to the weepy Republicans, because the rules never do. They cry about “religious freedom”, but want their cake and eat it, too, of course: the most radically right wing churches can say whatever the hell they want regarding telling their people how to vote and we all get to fund it, effectively.

Having the cake and eating it too is not an option for liberal churches, though.

The Boy Scouts made the decision in 2017 to start admitting girls and in 2018 started carrying that out. I think their split with Mormons really hurt membership and this was a way to increase membership.

As others have said - long before that, it was often the case that siblings and mothers (as leaders) were involved in troop activities anyway.

And yes, this story has nothing to do with Girl Scouts because as you say, they are an entirely different org.