Of course it is racist to ignore Juneteenth and end free access on MLK Day.
Please tell me how this is different from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un or say the dictator of Turkmenistan?
These are hallmarks of corrupt, poorly educated and dictatorial leaders the world over.
Aside from everything else, less infantile politicians would at least get how bad it looks, even if they are secretly grandiose-which to some extent people who run for office, vy for attention etc presumably have to be.
A pox on these creeps who like attention and adulation. They are destroying reality. A reality show star is the last person to handle actual reality. Absurd..Idiocracy is a documentary.
This stupid story reminded me of the time this guy wanted his horrible book to be a part of the school curriculum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov
In his time, he was one of the world's most repressive and autocratic dictators.[5][6][7]He promoted a cult of personality around himself and imposed his personal eccentricities upon the country, such as renaming Turkmen months and days of the week to references of his autobiography the Ruhnama.[8] He made it mandatory to read the Ruhnama in schools, universities and governmental organizations; new governmental employees were tested on the book at job interviews and an exam on its teachings was a part of the driving test in Turkmenistan. In 2005, he closed down all rural libraries and hospitals outside of the capital city Ashgabat, in a country where at the time more than half the population lived in rural areas,[9] once stating that, "If people are ill, they can come to Ashgabat."[10]
Niyazov simultaneously cut funding to and partially disassembled the education system in the name of "reform", while injecting ideological indoctrination into it by requiring all schools to use his own book, the Ruhnama, as their primary text. He also made it mandatory to read the Ruhnama in schools, universities and governmental organizations, new governmental employees were tested on the book at job interviews and an exam on its teachings was a part of the driving test in Turkmenistan. Turkmen State University even had a "Department of the Holy Ruhnama of Türkmenbaşy the Great", and Ruhnama Studies were pursued as a major research agenda in the country, often at the cost of academic disciplines.[70] Niyazov claimed those who read it thrice were destined for heaven.[71][72][73] Like Kim Il Sung and Muammar Gaddafi, there is even a creation myth surrounding him.[74][75]
At some point I presume his stupid “Art of the deal” will be required reading replacing all the “woke” and “communist” textbooks like Halliday and Resnick, Grey’s Anatomy, Guyton and Hall etc.
Nope. Just “Art of the deal” for you!
Lame and pathetic…
Chauncey DeVega had an excellent piece earlier this year about how life in a dictatorship is largely dull. But it is a steady erosion of reality as you knew it.
I can’t find the precise piece at the moment, but DeVega is always worth reading. I try to never miss his columns:
https://www.salon.com/writer/chauncey_de_vega
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