Posted on 07/28/2020 1:32:11 PM PDT by edwinland
Without a doubt the best and most hilarious answer to a question in the 231 year history of the United States Congress.
I watched the video. I don’t even know how you can get into a decent four-year university without having learned proper grammar. But beyond that, how is the person supposed to thrive in the rest of the world if they are disincentivized to try harder?
Do you want a lawyer representing you in court who can’t read or write or speak in English? Do you expect someone who can’t read or write medical research papers to become a successful physician? If linear rational thought and long held scientific principles are tossed aside to make people feel better, well... have you seen Idiocracy?
Not everyone can be a pop star or social media influencer.
Here’s another very aware and courageous Black man who realizes what has been - and is BEING - done to him. (I especially appreciate his discussion on the fact that Civics, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights - our History itself! - are no longer being taught in public schools):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPd1p_IZE38
As this hearing progressed, I began to drift back to my long ago childhood and the story of Gulliver’s travels. The Lilliputians tried with all their might to strike down the giant but were unable to do so. He calmly walked away leaving them looking smaller than ever. The best part of the day was at the very end when Queen Shelia Jackson Lee came up to him obviously asking for a favor.
I still have no idea where in the video is the Q & A?
Anybody capable of posting just that?
LOL!
You know all of us have a device in our pocket that allows us to watch educational videos or podcasts on any subject. Watching all these statues coming down seems like a wasted opportunity. Imagine a world where you can go to any monument of any kind, scan a QR code or a web link, and view a list of videos and podcasts from scores of different people and viewpoints on the subject matter, history, controversy, construction, design/art, and anything else someone wants to discuss. Sort of the way museums rent out headphones so you can do a self-guided tour.
Eradicating history and historic monuments because they offend a small but vocal faction feels, well, sort of ‘Talibanish’ to me. It’s an opportunity lost. And probably lost forever. And that’s why some want them torn down, they don’t want other viewpoints to be expressed.
Two people can definitely view the same object in diametrically opposed ways. I saw them threaten to tear down the statue of Lincoln because it depicts a freed slave on his knees. I can empathize with someone who might see that freed slave bowed under Lincoln’s hand as some kind of negative symbolism. But that would never have occurred to me if someone didn’t mention it. I saw it as a symbol of gratitude and hope. I didn’t see a man bending down, rather, saw him as being able to lift himself up! Nothing inherently wrong with either view; though clearly the artists and the freed slaves who paid to commission that statue saw it their own way, and differently from the way the people who want to tear it down now see it.
At 2:17 all I saw was the Nadler beginning his opening bladerdash.
2 hours 17 minutes
I rechecked and all I saw/heard was Nadler blathering. Someone else said 5:18 and I saw/heard the AG respond “was that before or after the fire was put out.” in response to a critter from unfree maryland. I’m guessing that was the ‘drop mike’ moment.
The video used to be about four hours long. I see it is seven hours long now.
Go to 5:16:50 for the start of congress critter Raskin’s “questioning”. The suppose mic drop happens within a minute of that.
replace the 8227 in the URL with 92064
At 2 hrs 17 minutes it is the tail end of Nadler’s comments then goes into a long statement by Jim Jordan. A good statement capped with a good compilation of news clips but after 10 minutes not a word yet from Barr.
My mistake - Replace 8227 with 19064. Fat fingered my calculator.
The video used to be about four hours long. I see it is seven hours long now.
Thank you. No offense to the poster, but it was a piss poor job of letting us know what happened.
I will give that a try...much thanks!
Marcia Cole (one of the largely unsung, independent-minded heroines of the recent mess):
https://twitter.com/i/status/1275175178092322821
Witness just how much respect these ignorant white kids have, for a courageous Black Woman who reveres history, remembrance, and knowledge:
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1276667101000994816?lang=en
https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-lincoln-park-emancipation-memorial-freed-black-americans-paid
“I have made it my mission to protect that statue. We need light and not hate.” - Marcia Cole, of Female Re-enactors of Distinction (FREED)
http://lestweforget.hamptonu.edu/page.cfm?uuid=9FEC4C76-09E9-21B1-2B7107279906A72B
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