After 40 days of denial and disinformation (try reading a newspaper for 25 years), Trump is getting a brute lesson in power politics:
"How the GOP tried to topple a pillar of Democracy" by Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti New York Times, December 12, 2020
With a capital D even!
The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump’s desperate bid for a second term not only shredded his effort to overturn the will of voters: It also was a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders in Congress and the states that were willing to damage American democracy by embracing a partisan power grab over a free and fair election.
The exact opposite is the truth in the bait-and-switch pre$$.
The court’s decision on Friday night, an inflection point after weeks of legal flailing by Trump and ahead of the Electoral College vote for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, leaves the president’s party in an extraordinary position. Through their explicit endorsements or complicity of silence, much of the GOP leadership now shares responsibility for the quixotic attempt to ignore the nation’s founding principles and engineer a different verdict from the one voters cast in November.
Many regular Republicans supported this effort, too — a sign that Trump has not just bent the party to his will, but pressed a mainstay of American politics for nearly two centuries into the service of overturning an election outcome and assaulting public faith in the electoral system. The GOP sought to undo the vote by such spurious means that the Supreme Court quickly rejected the argument.
Even some Republican leaders delivered a withering assessment of the 126 GOP House members and 18 attorneys general who chose to side with Trump over the democratic process, by backing a lawsuit that asked the Supreme Court to throw out some 20 million votes in four key states that cemented the president’s loss.
“The act itself by the 126 members of the United States House of Representatives, is an affront to the country,” said Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee. “It’s an offense to the Constitution and it leaves an indelible stain that will be hard for these 126 members to wipe off their political skin for a long time to come.”
That is something coming from a corrupt piece of e$tabli$hment $hit, and why is he dragging skin color into it?
Speaking on CNN on Friday, Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, a Republican, said, “What happened with the Supreme Court, that’s kind of it, where they’ve kind of exhausted all the legal challenges; we’ve got to move on.” It was time, he said, for Congress to “actually do something for the American people, surrounding the vaccines, surrounding COVID.”
I will say one thing for the Biden regime theft: it has delineated those who are part of the, forgive the term, Deep $tate, and those who are nationalists in league with the NSA and Netanyahu.
With direct buy-in from senior officials like Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, the president’s effort required the party to promote false theory upon unsubstantiated claim upon outright lie about unproved, widespread fraud — in an election that Republican and Democratic election officials agreed was notably smooth given the challenges of the pandemic, and it meant that Republican leaders now stand for a new notion: that the final decisions of voters can be challenged without a basis in fact if the results are not to the liking of the losing side, running counter to decades of work by the United States to convince developing nations that peaceful transfers of power are key to any freely elected government’s credibility.
Where does one begin with all that rubbish?
I'm having a deja vu moment regarding the squeaky clean election after four years of Russian interference that was never proved, and the latest is the laugher that U.S. agencies neglected the rest of the grid in their obsession with foreign interference in the election while completely downplaying Chines influence and ignoring the Jewi$h vice grip on American politics as always.
As for false theories, unsubstantiated claims, and outright lies, all I have to say is Iraqi WMD. That's something the New York Times is never going to live down, period.
Of course, it is now "widespread" fraud -- a subtle admission that there was fraud and not the smooth steal that is the oft-repeated narrative.
“From a global perspective this certainly looks like many of the cases we’ve seen around the world where an incumbent tries to hold onto power," said Michael Abramowitz, president of Freedom House, a Washington-based group that promotes democracy abroad with support from both parties.
Though the decisions by the Supreme Court and other courts meant that in the end, American “institutions have held strong," he added, “there’s no question that people around the world are now looking to America and it’s really important for Americans of all parties to stand up for the rule of law and for democracy.”
Let's leave the last name alone for a minute as you examine who i$ behind Freedom House (the usual $u$pects, of cour$e).
Republicans who have resisted Trump’s campaign agreed, predicting that the party was risking its own destruction.“I keep comparing it somewhat to Jonestown,” said former governor Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, referring to the cult that ended in a tragic mass suicide. “They’ve all drunk the Kool Aid. It just hasn’t killed them yet.”
Oh, look, a 9/11 criminal surfaced and my pre$$ piece buried her in that toxic stew she declared safe as she compares the reaction to election theft to that CIA mind control cult!
Also see: Obama Destroyed the Democratic Party
Makes you wonder how in the hell Biden won the last election, doesn't it?
Related: Pelosi narrowly reelected speaker
She faces a difficult two years and "to win, Pelosi had to overcome some Democratic grumbling about her longevity, a slim 222-211 edge over Republicans after November’s elections and a handful of absences because of the coronavirus, and whatever happens Democrats will have the smallest House majority in two decades" and yet somehow there was no widespread fraud in the election and Trump miraculously lost.
Following the court decision, one of the 126 House Republicans who backed the lawsuit, Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas, said that the court’s decision meant the end of Trump’s efforts and “closed the books on challenges to the 2020 election results.”
That was almost a month ago.
Democrats took heart in the court’s decision in the case filed by the Republican attorney general of Texas, one of several dozen that judges have soundly rejected on legal or factual bases, even if more lawsuits are certain to come ahead of Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
“Our democracy has withstood Donald Trump for four years,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota and the ranking member of the Senate Rules Committee, which oversees election law. “It can withstand these baseless lawsuits for four more weeks,” but civil rights attorneys saw the potential for long-lasting damage outside of the legal realm where the Republican efforts — and the lie that Biden’s win was the result of widespread fraud — have so definitively failed.
Republican state legislators across the country are already contemplating new laws to make voting harder, as they continue to falsely portray the expansion and ease of mail-in voting during the pandemic as nefarious. Many of them view this year’s expanded voting ranks as bad for their party, despite Republican successes further down the ballot. Their consideration of new voting restrictions amounts to an ongoing attack on the integrity of the voting system, involving still more false and debunked claims.
It's no surprise then that the Globe says mail-in voting delivered and needs to be made a permanent fixture for future elections, but won't look into the Dimension voting machines and the contradictions within the paragraphs themselves are sickening.
The exact opposite of what the pre$$ reports is the truth!
“There is an anti-democratic virus that has spread in mainstream Republicanism, among mainstream Republican elected officials,” said Dale Ho, director of the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU, “and that loss of faith in the machinery of democracy is a much bigger problem than any individual lawsuit.”
GOOD LORD, now they are saying being a Republican and questioning the results is a VIRUS, and we ALL KNOW WHAT YOU DO TO VIRUSES!
ERADICATE THEM!
Meanwhile, the ACLJoo isn't fighting the tyrannical lockdowns in any form, proving they are nothing but a divisive, agenda-pushing organization interesting only in promoting chosen interests.
Indeed, after the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Texas Republican Party effectively called for secession by red states whose attorneys general joined in the Texas suit.
“Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the Constitution,” a statement from its chairman, Allen West, read. It followed an observation Rush Limbaugh made earlier in the week, when he said, “I actually think that we’re trending toward secession.”
The talk of secession came during a week in which election officials across the country, from both political parties, said they had become the subjects of menacing threats of violence, including to family members, for standing by Biden’s victory.
It's really the only solution that avoids massive bloodshed, and is the correct one. I've argued it for a few years now. I think the wisest man of our era, Jerry Springer, encapsulated it once in his final thought when he said sometimes you have to just accept that the relationship will not work out and just go your separate ways.
There is one inescapable reality that is driving many party leaders to embrace the president’s position, as antithetical as it is to democracy. “Donald Trump is still the 800-pound gorilla in the Republican room — he’s the biggest gravitational force that’s probably ever existed in the party,” said Christopher Ruddy, CEO of the conservative network Newsmax. Trump’s popular vote tally of 74 million would have been the largest in American history had Biden not outdone him by 7 million votes, and, Ruddy noted, “Republican voters are up in arms, they feel this election was not fairly accounted for.”
Ruddy’s network has something to do with that; it has gained on the behemoth of conservative television, Fox News, by heavily promoting Trump’s voter-fraud allegations. In doing so Newsmax has helped set off a competition with Fox News’ more strident hosts, as well as those of the smaller conservative channel One America News, to give Trump and his voters what they want: A counter to the reality that Trump soon will be leaving office.
Fox seems to have backtracked a little since election night, but damage done and they still support the overall narrative.
Whatever their primary sources of information, Republicans overwhelmingly view the election as fatally flawed; a Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday found that only 23% of registered Republican voters — and slightly less than half of all white men who are registered to vote — said they believed Biden’s victory was legitimate. Those doubters do not represent a majority of Americans; 60% of registered voters overall said they accepted the results, but they form the core of the Republican base, and the party’s leaders have proved continually unwilling to go against them — especially with a critical runoff looming in Georgia that will determine partisan control of the Senate.....
Look, when even Lendman says it was stolen.... SIGH!
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The state GOP has its own cult (short for culture?) as well:
"State GOP party leader asks federal criminal authorities to investigate possible misuse of more than $1 million in party funds; Jim Lyons questions spending by Governor Baker’s fund-raiser" by Andrea Estes Globe Staff, December 12, 2020
State Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons has asked the US attorney and the FBI along with three other agencies to investigate whether former employees and fund-raisers for the GOP — including Governor Charlie Baker’s former finance director — misused more than $1 million in party funds.
Lyons, who took over leadership of the party in 2019, has been reviewing the party’s finances for more than a year. In letters requesting the investigation, he alleged that John Cook, Baker’s former finance director, has since 2013 directed the party to pay more than $1 million to businesses he owned or controlled even though he was not an employee of the party or working under a contract.
“Cook used the MassGOP to pay for his staff, his travel, his meals, and his supplies, as part of his ongoing fundraising enterprise. Despite spending millions of dollars, there were only 164 invoices produced to support these expenses,” alleged Lyons, suggesting there should have been vastly more documentation.
Lyons told authorities that he would soon send 250 pages of detailed records to back up his concerns. He sent the letter to the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, US Attorney Andrew Lelling, the Federal Election Commission, and the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance.
Lyons declined to comment, and Cook did not return e-mails seeking comment. Jim Conroy, Baker campaign adviser, declined to comment; however, Brent J. Andersen, who was state party treasurer from 2003 to 2020, rejected Lyons’s claims, saying in a statement that they “are motivated solely” by his “personal political interest,” apparently referring to conflicts between Lyons, a Donald Trump supporter, and Baker.
“They are false and not credible. By making them, he is doing great damage to the Mass. Republican Party,” Anderson said, adding that all the transactions Lyons is concerned about “were disclosed in real time to the FEC and Massachusetts OCPF, and for the past several years have been posted online for anyone to review. I call on Massachusetts Republicans to reject Jim Lyons’s personal vendettas, and refocus the Mass. Republican Party on its mission of supporting Republican candidates and winning elections.”
That's the point, they haven't been winning any elections and all I am going to say is Lyons better be careful and watch his back because no one challenges King Charles in this state. The Globe has been cowed by him after some testy exchanges and it makes you now wonder about the sudden passing of Gants.
Baker and his team have been estranged from the party since the conservative Lyons was elected chairman of the party, succeeding Kirsten Hughes, a staunch Baker ally who didn’t seek another term. Lyons, a former state representative from Andover, is up for reelection in January.
It's not his party anymore, and I know which side of the divide I am on.
Hughes, who was nominated by Baker to be a clerk magistrate in Stoughton District Court, has sharply criticized Lyons for scrutinizing the party’s finances during her time as party chairman. She did not return a call seeking comment.
In an October 2019 e-mail to party members, she criticized Lyons’s investigation as “an unfortunate effort to distract attention from the Party’s current and most important challenge — raising the resources to support our candidates and run a statewide field program to match our opponents,” according to the Statehouse News Service.
Yes, how dare he look into corruption within the $tate Repuglican(sic) Party?
Hughes said in the 2019 e-mail that the party was spending money faster than it could raise it. The party had a balance of just over $347,000 in both its state and federal accounts on Oct. 1, and had raised about $600,000 in 2019 after Lyons inherited a balance of $303,000 at the start of the year.”
“This massive operating deficit has made it unsustainable to pay the rent at Boston HQ, and will make it impossible to provide any meaningful financial support to candidates next year,” Hughes wrote.
Lyons has moved the party headquarters from downtown Boston to Woburn.
Among Lyons’s allegations is that Cook used the party’s proprietary database of GOP donors without permission to raise money after Lyons took over party leadership.
Lyons alleges that, after he was named chairman, Cook “concocted and put into motion” a plan to retain access to the database, kept by software giant Salesforce.com. For some time, the party was locked out of its own database, the Globe has reported.
In his letter to authorities, Lyons said that the party paid associates of Cook hundreds of thousands of dollars, without contracts or backup documentation. Between 2017 and 2018, the letter says, a party employee was paid $303,586, for reasons that were unclear.
Lyons alleged that another former party fund-raiser received a $108,000 salary from the party and that a company he created collected $427,809 from one of the party’s fund-raising accounts, Mass Victory Fund. That fund, which is now depleted, was part of a joint fund-raising committee with the National Republican Party. It allowed Baker to solicit donations well above state contribution limits.
Cook also paid a compliance firm, Red Curve Solutions, more than $248,000 over a two-year period, without any contract, Lyons alleged, “end-running the financial accountability mandated by federal and state campaign finance laws.”
Lyons said after discovering the “excessive disbursements,” MassGOP lawyers requested interviews with former chairman Hughes, the former GOP employees, as well as MassGOP treasurer Andersen.
Hughes and the former employees received two written requests from the MassGOP, Lyons wrote. All three refused to meet. Andersen agreed to an interview, Lyons wrote, but said he didn’t know how the money was spent.
Andersen said he “would always know payments going out of our state and federal accounts. If that is in his report, that is another lie from Jim Lyons.”
When types like Anderson holler liar you know the charges are true.
How odd that the Republican e$tabli$hment in this state acts like Trump as they condemn him.
It just goes to show that hypocrisy isn't necessarily followed with a (D) to the name.
Frustrated, Lyons sent letters to the five federal and state agencies on Nov. 30 requesting an investigation.
He is still waiting to here back.
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"Lyons reelected as state GOP leader; The former House member has frequently sparred with Governor Baker" by Gal Tziperman Lotan and Matt Stout Globe Staff, January 3, 2021
LITTLETON — Jim Lyons, a strong Trump supporter who has clashed repeatedly with Governor Charlie Baker, was narrowly reelected Sunday as the state Republican Party’s chairman, earning a two-year term that will coincide with the 2022 gubernatorial election.
Oh, he is part of the cult and is infected with a virus!
Lyons, a former state representative from Andover, overcame a challenge from state Representative Shawn Dooley, capturing a second term by a 39-36 margin after a vote by 75 members of the party’s 80-seat state committee.
A Lyons victory could complicate a potential reelection bid by Baker, who has all but cut himself off from the Trump-aligned party apparatus with which he and allies had once constructed a lucrative fund-raising operation. While Dooley said he also voted for President Trump, he argued he could bridge the gap between hard-line supporters of the president and more moderate Massachusetts Republicans.
Frikkin' guy belongs in a jail cell, not running for reelection.
Because of the coronavirus, the election was held in a parking lot outside an auto parts distribution center in an industrial park in Littleton. The business was cofounded by Rick Green, a onetime GOP congressional candidate who unsuccessfully ran for party chairman in 2013.
State committee members tuned their car radios to 105.1 FM to hear the candidates make their cases. They were then called out of their cars, five people at a time, to deposit their ballots. When Lyons won, supporters honked their horns in lieu of applause as he promised to “make the Massachusetts Republican Party great again.”
“I should continue to bring conservative and pro-life voices into our party, to give conservatives a seat at the table for which too often in Massachusetts Republican politics [they] have been excluded in the past,” Lyons said in a speech before the vote. His opponents, he said, may be having a hard time accepting “new ways of doing things, of facing new reforms that upset the old apple cart, of respecting the new voices of conservatives, who have frequently been muffled or silenced.”
Good.
After the vote, Lyons pledged in a brief acceptance speech to try his best to bring Republicans together. “We need to come together as a party,” he said.
I don't $ee how given Baker's wing.
The vote comes on the heels of an election cycle — Lyons’s first as chairman — in which a deeply divided state GOP struggled to maintain its weak hold on elected offices.
It lost five seats in the Legislature, where Republicans will begin the legislative session Wednesday with just three seats in the 40-member Senate. Republicans also failed to mount a serious challenge to the state’s all-Democratic congressional delegation in the November election.
Democrats hold a super-majority in both legislative branches and hold every statewide office, except for of governor and lieutenant governor; Baker and lieutenant governor Karyn Polito are in the middle of their second terms and have not said whether they will seek a third.
They won't be getting any votes out here, let me tell you.
Despite the losses, Lyons has said he’s sought to build the party by supporting “true fiscally conservative candidates” who back law enforcement and focus on keeping “middle-class families . . . prosperous and safe,” according to a video Lyons supporters have circulated.
“Jim is amazingly optimistic and positive about our potential for success,” said Amanda Orlando, a state committeewoman from Gloucester who supported Lyons. “It’s hard to run as a republican in Massachusetts, and you need to feel that the party is behind you, and Jim does that.”
Why they little r?
Orlando, a member of the Massachusetts Republican Party’s state committee since 2017, pointed out that local Republican candidates who lost in November’s election managed to outperform President Trump at the top of the ticket. Going forward, she said, she hoped the party could focus on supporting small businesses and law enforcement, and sway some independent voters who feel unmoored and in need of new leadership coming out of the coronavirus pandemic.
In winning in both 2014 and 2018, Baker’s political operations were closely entwined with the party apparatus, then led by Kirsten Hughes, a Baker ally whom he later tapped for a lifetime post as a court clerk magistrate, but since 2019, Baker has been estranged from the MassGOP and was regularly at loggerheads with Lyons, an Andover Republican and staunch ally of Trump. The governor and party leadership have fought over a donor database, and Lyons in the spring criticized Baker’s handling of reopening of the state’s economy amid the pandemic.
Baker did not attend Sunday’s vote; however, Jim Conroy, a Baker political adviser, said the governor congratulates Lyons on his reelection.
”The governor’s focus has been on managing the Commonwealth through the pandemic, and remains there,” Conroy said. “The governor and lieutenant governor will continue to do anything they can to continue electing Republicans to the Legislature.”
PFFFFFT!
The party has also been roiled by suggestions of impropriety.
Corruption?
In Baker's party?
Surely the Globe would have dug all that up by now!
Lyons allowed the party’s lucrative fund-raising operation built under Baker to collapse, and in November, he asked the US attorney and the FBI, among other agencies, to investigate whether former employees and fund-raisers for the GOP — including Baker’s former finance director — misused more than $1 million in party funds.
It’s unclear whether the authorities have launched any such probes; meanwhile, the party’s federal fund-raising account was on pace for its worst cycle since 2008, according to data covering through mid-November, and its share of the electorate had dwindled to just 9.9 percent of registered voters ahead of the November election. (Nearly 57 percent of the state’s 4.8 million voters aren’t enrolled with any party, but Democrats outnumber Republicans roughly 3 to 1.)
Baker, a moderate Republican and Trump critic, has not said whether he’ll try in 2022 to win a third consecutive four-year term, something no Massachusetts incumbent governor has ever done.
Dooley, of Norfolk, modeled himself as a chairman who could bring together a warring state party, saying it needed a “rebranding” and a scaling back of its attacks on the more moderate Baker.
Dooley, who is also a state committee member, has been critical at times of Baker, including in decrying the governor’s broad use of his emergency powers during the pandemic, but his campaign to oust Lyons aligned with frustrations within the state committee and among other Republicans, who felt the party had handicapped its ability to expand after aligning itself closely with Trump in tone and substance, sometimes at the expense of Baker.
Trump, for example, attacked Baker in the fall as a “RINO” (Republican in name only) after the governor bucked the president’s monthslong criticism of mail-in balloting. The Massachusetts GOP later issued a statement backing Trump’s concerns, by citing local criticisms of a newly launched ballot application portal.
“It’s quite clear that the MassGOP needs a resurrection,” Susan Smiley, a state committee member and Lancaster Republican who unsuccessfully ran for an open House seat this year, told the Globe in November.
Maybe we should just leave them be and form a new party.
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Sadly, politics is the only $port left in Ma$$achu$etts:
"Reading High School athletes rally to save winter sports" by Nick Stoico Globe Correspondent, January 3, 2021
READING — Seven years ago, Colin Mulvey was a fifth-grader sitting with his family next to the student section at TD Garden as the Reading Memorial High School boys’ varsity hockey team battled Braintree for the Division I state title.
Mulvey and dozens of other members of the boys’ and girls’ hockey and basketball teams and their families held an hour-long rally on the town green Sunday calling on the school district to allow winter sports to go on.
Students held up signs, some fashioned out of poster board and old hockey sticks. Drivers passing by beeped their horns in support as the students, clad in Reading jerseys, waved and chanted, “Why not us?”
That was the common question among the 100 or so students and their parents participating in the rally. As schools from surrounding communities try to begin their seasons, why is Reading sitting out?
Superintendent John Doherty released a statement Sunday where he said the school has seen the number of COVID-19 cases rise among athletes. After its first day of tryouts, the basketball team had one positive case. The gymnastics team had six positive cases after its first practice, Doherty wrote.
“Over the last few days, we have seen additional cases with students who participate in boys’ and girls’ hockey. If we were practicing, we would have most likely had to postpone those practices because students would have been in close contact,” he said.
So?
The IFR for their group is 0.003 percent, and schools are allegedly not a vector of transmission.
Doherty did not rule out a return to winter sports, but he said the school district must take “every precaution” to ensure safety.
“There is [a] concern in the medical community that some athletes may have residual health issues such as myocarditis following infection with COVID-19 even if only mildly symptomatic,” he said.
They would have that anyway it was never a concern!
This isn't about the mythical and legendary COVID anymore, and tin-pot tyrants like him need to go!
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association has already canceled state tournaments this winter because of the pandemic, leaving it to the regional leagues across the state to decide how to end their season.
A 20-year run of incredible enjoyment will sadly coming to an end for me because “we’re not going to be allowed to leave [the county]” in March!
So who gave them the heads up on the script?
Duxbury athletic director Thom Holdgate, a co-chair of the MIAA’s COVID-19 Task Force, said the MIAA “is not going to want to use a broad brush to hit the whole state.”
“We set the parameters for what [the schools] can do, and it’s up to them if they choose to run it or not,” he said. “We’re trying to keep our schools open, and depending on how the testing is going and the pulse of the town, you can see league to league that things are being done differently. That’s what this year is.”
Winter sports are on at Duxbury with teams strictly playing against other schools in the Patriot League. Meets for swimming and gymnastics are done virtually, but Holdgate said he understands why some districts are backing off of sports altogether this season.
“Those of us that are playing have had either multiple kids or entire teams that have had to quarantine,” he said. “You can understand the two sides of the argument when some teams are playing stop-go, stop-go, and other communities are not playing at all.”
In Reading, some parents said they understand the need for caution, but to cut the season completely is a disservice to the kids.
“Reading is truly failing our students during these difficult times,” said Julie Joyce, who has a sophomore daughter on the girls’ hockey team. “There has to be a better solution.”
Like calling out the COVID fraud and allowing life to resume as normal!
At the rally, students and their families wore masks, some with the Reading Rockets logo printed on them, and tried to maintain six feet of distance between each other.
Though they’re disappointed to not be on the ice or the court, several students said they’re trying to be optimistic and are hoping for at least a partial season.
“It’s just heartbreaking,” said Morgan Fichera, a senior captain for the girls’ hockey team. “We’ve seen three senior classes have senior night and get to play all their games, go to the playoffs, have that big crowd of people cheering you on.”
Especially when you turn on the TV and see the pro and college guys playing with no masks or anything.
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My position is LET THEM PLAY!
Related:
Keep them out because when they arrive, deaths rise fast -- according to the New York Times, at least.
Also see:
"The Santa Speedo Run reached drinking age this year and with the pandemic splitting participants into small groups, the hilarity and embarrassment were greater than ever as the event kicked off Saturday. The annual fund-raiser, which unsurprisingly was developed by a group of men sitting in a bar, has involved large throngs of alcohol-fueled runners wearing tiny bathing suits and Santa hats while rambling through Boston for two decades....."
That sounds like something college kids would do, and chug down that insulting insult in these grave and dark times.
That's the Globe pissing in your face!
It's a good thing that Massachusetts’ public schools are highly segregated because of the language barrier caused by its sanctuary state status.
UPDATE:
That's the "choice" they must make with kids at home.
