GOPer Writes Kids’ Book About Cancel Culture And You’ve Never Seen Anything This Cursed

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 14: Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, is seen after the freshman class photo on the East Front of the Capitol on November 13, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is seen after the freshman class photo on the East Front of the Capitol on November 14, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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Big Yikes

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) wrote a childrens’ book about cancel culture titled “Fame, Blame, and the Raft of Shame,” and now I wish I never learned how to read.

  • The book’s description on the publication site includes this dire warning: “While today’s culture presents canceling others’ opinions as the solution to their problems, they don’t realize that a culture of canceling eventually cancels culture entirely.”

Here’s the summary:

Deep in the ocean, Starlotte City blooms beneath a dome made of glowing seaweed. The city’s beauty and strength are mirrored by its vibrant culture, and Eva wants nothing more than to take her place on Starlotte City’s stage. But, when one star performer suggests that they ought to cancel some animals for insensitive comments, the true strength of the seaweed city and its citizens is put to the test. Will Eva have the courage to stand up to the crowds, or will she allow fear to silence herself and others?

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Texas Cuts LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Hotline Under Political Pressure

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services took down its web page that provided a suicide hotline and other resources for LGBTQ+ youth after Don Huffines, one of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) primary challengers, stirred up outrage over it on Twitter in August.

  • Huffines accused the agency (and Abbott??) of “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth.” That apparently had agency staffers scrambling to reassure the public that no, the Texas government does not look out for young transgender people.
  • Records obtained by the Houston Chronicle show that the agency’s media relations director emailed the agency’s communications director less than 15 minutes after Huffines posted the tweet, warning him that the video “is starting to blow up on Twitter.”
    • The communications director then emailed the agency’s web and creative services director telling him that “we may need to take that page down, or somehow revise content.”
    • Lo and behold, the agency’s entire Texas Youth Connection website (not just the page for LGBTQ+ youth) got taken down.
  • Huffines gleefully took credit for the website’s removal. “I promised Texans I would get rid of that website and I kept that promise,” he said.

Kentucky’s Only Democrat In Congress Announces Retirement

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), who chairs the House Budget Committee, announced yesterday that he won’t be running for reelection.

US Will Open Its Land Borders To The Fully Vaccinated

The Biden administration is slated to announce that fully vaccinated non-U.S. citizens will be allowed to cross by land into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico.

  • Travel through the border via rail, ferry and vehicle is currently limited to “essential travel.” The U.S. announced last month that restrictions would be loosened in November to allow air travel for fully vaccinated foreigners.
  • The new Canada/Mexico border protocols will be implemented in November, according to the Associated Press.

Florida City Sued For Painting Black Firefighter As White In Mural

Latosha Clemons, the first Black female firefighter in her town of Boynton Beach, Florida, is suing the city after after its commissioned mural depicted her as a white woman.

  • Clemons wasn’t the only Black person who got literally whitewashed in the mural. The artwork also depicted a Black male former fire chief as white.
  • Clemons called the mural “humiliating, painful and demoralizing.” “As the first and only Black woman in the department, I deserved the respect I earned on a daily basis serving the citizens of Boynton Beach and deserved to be recognized for who I am: a Black woman,” she said.

Birx In The Hot Seat

Ex-White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx (been a while since you’ve heard that name, eh?) took questions from investigators on the House COVID-19 select committee yesterday, according to Politico.

  • The interview was part of the committee’s investigation into Trump’s botched response to the pandemic.
  • Birx, who quit after Biden’s inauguration, said shortly after her resignation that she had been “censored” by the White House.

Michigan GOPers Quietly Installing Pro-Trump Election Truthers On Election Boards

Several GOP Michigan county chapters have been nominating a slate of people to county canvassing boards who either traffic in or have ties to Trump’s Big Lie crusade.

  • One nominee, Nancy Tiseo, tweeted in November that Trump ought to suspend the Electoral College and direct “military tribunals” to investigate voter fraud.
    • The district GOP committee chair who nominated Tiseo argued that the nominee could “very easily be removed” if “things get out of hand.”

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  1. Crenshaw shouldn’t be allowed within 100 yards of a child, much less propagandizing them.

  2. Something tells me that the real author of Crenshaw’s book is Steven Miller…

  3. a culture of canceling eventually cancels culture entirely.

    Canceling culture completely cancels culture for kids in cabals.

    Oh, and cabbage.

  4. Watch him sell millions.

    We are up against a machine, we are up against a racism so deep it would name a US military base after a traitor, then spent all the years since drawing money from the people to build the machine.

    We are up against the monster of wealth that squats at the heart of our society, for whom politics is theater. Who still has the money the slaves made, now invested in prisons where blacks work for pennies.

    We are up against a practically guaranteed Trump second term, Biden leaving the premises before fraud is discovered, in another attempt to thole what amounts to a blind and voracious monster with God on its side.

    This man will have an audience. That audience will have paid Federal employees integrating this into the curriculum for millions of American children.

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