If lab-grown meat ever goes on the market, you might think it’s your call whether to eat it. Not in Ron DeSantis’ Florida. But DeStalinist keeps insisting his state does not ban books. Though he’s happy to ban diversity programs. One Florida district has banned dictionaries because they include definitions of sex.
How about other schools? Texas has a law that protects the freedom of black students to wear black hairstyles but the state is now working to gut that. Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld pretends teaching about racism is teaching children of color to kill whites so best get rid of that too.
At least DeSantis and his anti-vax surgeon general are happy to give kids the freedom to get measles. They are, of course, whining that their critics are politicizing measles. In South Carolina, a bill in the Senate would ban employer vaccine mandates, and ban health departments from distributing vaccines if they were emergency-approved instead of the regular, years-long FDA process.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters doesn’t think men should eat ice cream without being mocked. Okay, I’m sure he doesn’t think that but since Biden eats ice cream in public, Watters has suddenly discovered his opposition.
Trump, however, has assured us he’ll give the police freedom to declare open season on immigrants. Just as Republicans’ support for religious people’s right to discriminate doesn’t extend to a First Amendment right to help illegal immigrants.
Republicans are fine with Putin taking over the Ukraine. I’m sure they’ll be fine if he takes more of Europe too — and then they’ll turn around and whine if Europe doesn’t support us when we need it. Wilhoit’s Law goes international.
They’re also fine with the idea someone vandalizing an LGBTQ-themed crosswalk constitutes free speech. I suspect given the opportunity they’ll justify worse offenses. Much the same way right-wing bullshit artist Jack Posobiec thinks destroying democracy is part of freedom. After all, if they can’t win the vote democracy’s in the way of their freedom to control us, right?
They’re also fine with spreading anti-vax lies as a constitutional right.
Christian nationalists are firm believers that the rest of us do not deserve the freedom to participate in running the country. No matter how much sexual harassment goes on in their churches, they’ll keep insisting secular people are the evil ones and a social liability.
On the plus side it turns out Kentucky clerk of court Kim Davis does not have the freedom to decide whose marriage licenses she signs. And Iran’s theocracy can’t completely crush the spirit of freedom. And a proposal for a Satanic school derailed Idaho Republican plans to channel tax dollars to religious schools.
