This. He didn't even need to provide a justification, just "I'm going to take those days off, everone else gets them too."
Obviously he has done so many worse things to push the Christian Nazionalist agenda. He just can't help himself, he ๐ต๐ฎ๐ to infuse his religion into ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ official he does.
But I think they know everyone is not like them and want to rub their noses in their apostasy. It is more Dominionist Wak-a-Mole and it is getting to the point that it would overwhelm the courts to put it down. This is all part of the plan. Gilead here we come.
I am aware that I am coming from an angle, which might be quite unusual to an American audience. Here, Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays. Theyโve probably been public holidays before the concept was even developed. All in all we have about 10 public holidays a year. (The most recent one is St Andrewโs Day - not available in England!)
Some/most are based in the christian tradition, such as Christmas Day or Good Friday - but I cannot imagine that a prime minister, first minister - or in your case a governor - would put out a message, which was so overtly religious!
The last monarch, QE2, was immensely personally religious but in all her messages she emphasised the importance of her religion to her but that this led to her respecting people of other faiths (and none). Tolerance really mattered to her.
It seems quite weird, that we as a country have got a lot of traditions, which are based in/on religion, but as a country we are not that religious. And this is reflected in how our leaders communicate.
"...signed into law a bill allowing โconcealed pistols in bars and on public college campuses...โ
If they were TRYING to get as many Americans killed as possible, could Republicans and Evangelicals possibly do more? As we've seen this week, they've opened the US up to terrorist attacks, INVITED digital invasion by the president's foreign handlers, are actively undermining the economy, are destroying all peaceful methods for social or political change, and are doing all they can to make sure as many guns as possible are in the hands of the drunk, the insane, and other key MAGA demographics...
They're very insecure in their sexuality, and they can't stand being questioned. But it isn't just women: they're also undermining medical treatments for everyone by putting a POS vax denier and other anti-science demagogue's in charge.
Removing and undermining government resources is a type of class warfare. The rich will continue to get vaccinated, good health care, good education for their kids even if the public availability of these things disappear, because they can afford it on their own. They want to make it disappear because (a) they don't want to pay for someone else getting it, and (b) that 'pulls the ladder up,' reducing social mobility and thus the risk of being supplanted by some poor person earning a job/school spot based on competency. Keep them worrying about their next meal, sister's unwanted pregnancy and grandma's measles, ensure a lack of textbooks, and you don' have to worry about them taking your kid's place at Harvard or being selected ahead of your kid for that law firm internship.
They are patriarchs. I am coming around to the belief that Patriarchy, Judgmental Personalities, and intolerance of change may be genetic personality traits. I doubt we can ever be knitted back together into One Nation after they have gotten a taste of power.
Oh, the county is toast, as Maria Antoinette was famously quoted as saying which I donโt even know if she ever said it if they canโt have bread, let them eat cake. We canโt even afford cake or bread. I wonder how many baby boomers have destroyed this country
It's probably anti royalty and or xenophobia propaganda.
There a similar story with Louis XVI, on the day the Bastille was seized (July 14th 1789), he wrote "Rien" (nothing) in his diary. Revolutionary propagandists made it sounds later as if he mocked their coup. Actually, he wrote about a prior hunting party where he didn't catch anything.
"as many Americans killed" Not only in the United States but all 36 American countries in North and South America so that all the can be one country called "America." Starting with the Gulf of America. So many have no clue making it easy for the MAGA cult. God bless America?
Let me see. Allowing guns in bars means drunken bar fights will now have high body counts. Allowing guns on college campuses will lead to police shooting any protester that the governor doesn't like with the "they might have been armed" excuse. Prohibiting trans people from bathrooms that match their gender? How will he enforce that without a MASSIVE increase in police to inspect genitals. That shit can be shut down by sending a muscle-bound bearded trans man into the ladies room.
Can I volunteer for the reverse action? Iโll go into the Gents. I am not afraid to go pee/poo there. Iโll probably be safer there than at some college parties attended by Mr Kavanaugh.
(PS it would not be the first time - Curlers in Byres Road was notorious !)
Presumption and hubris. Those two factors seem to be driving what Governor Rhoden is about with his proclamation about the Easter weekend. Were he confronted with his actions, I would wonder if his response would be something to the effect of: "The vast majority of the population of South Dakota is Christian, and I am speaking to them." My response? "What about the OTHER South Dakotans? The Jews, the Muslims, the indigenous Americans, who were here LONG before we were and cared nothing about your Jesus. Don't THEY deserve consideration?
Larry Rhoden lives in a bubble, I suspect ... and it needs to be POPPED.
His response to your question would be the standard evangelical condescending grin while he says nothing and turns his back. Watch out for the state police who will try to find a prfetext to arrest you for asking a forbidden question.
My suspicion is that his response might also be something like what Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Michael Waltz have been giving to Senate investigators into the Signalgate incident ... which is to say, nothing definitive or coherent!
"My suspicion is that his response might also be something like what Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Michael Waltz have been giving to Senate investigators..."
You forgot outright, bold-faced, "see-what-I-can-do-and-you-can't" lies.
Here is something Tailor made for the DOGE doggies to sniff , like real governmental waste coming out ofโ well, you know what Waste comes out of.
Two days of taxpayer dollars given for not working at all. And all so that this guy can have his performative act of public piety and get praise for it.
Ah but there's a big difference. The federal civil workforce has a higher-than-private-sector representation of women, handicapped, and people of color. The SD state employees, however can be assumed to be highly competent and efficient because, uh, shutupyou.
Looks like I'm going to be making this or similar comments frequently. Please forgive me if it gets tedious, but it's going to be increasingly important to understand what we're dealing with:
There's a famous quotation attributed to Napoleon and later repackaged as "Hanlon's Razor":
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
That used to be good general advice, but in the case of the Republican Party the edge is off the razor. Both their levels of genuine, black-hearted malice and idiotic, clownish incompetence are so high that they spill over into each other, making a toxic brew. Trying to separate those two motives to explain their behavior has become a futile and pointless waste of time. They're irretrievably mixed in strong doses.
One little bit of sociology can account for both bits: tribalism. Tribalism has now been elevated to a religion, a mindset, a worldview. My tribe is good, your tribe is bad. Whatever I do to you is justified by that fact and that fact only. Except that it's not a fact, it is an opinion and a belief, which means it is "not of this world", but of its own world.
In the tribal world, the values are not competence or intelligence or love. The value is loyalty to the tribe. No other value is necessary. The malice is simply the malice inherent in tribalism. The incompetence is there because loyalty is valued over intelligence.
Fools like this always seem to operate under the delusion what ever they do is okay if they claim it was done in the name of Jesus. I would challenge this governor to demonstrate conclusively Jesus ever even existed, and that the Jesus story is actually true. As there is no independent corroboration for any part of the Jesus story, he has his work cut out for him.
The incompetence of the Trump regime was on full display this week as top U.S. defense and intelligence officials shared planned military airstrike plans on a messaging app with a journalist from The Atlantic. This is a threat to national security and endangers the entire country.
But if we didn't laugh from time to time, we'd cry.
He mentions the appreciation of the staff for their hard work during the transition, and it being spring, both are reason enough to give Friday 4/18 and Monday 4/20 off. No need to mention it being Good Friday and the day after Easter. The folks who celebrate these events will and those that donโt , donโt need to be told to. But thatโs the point of giving the time off, to tell the folks that donโt celebrate these Holy days that they better start.
Concealed weapons are not appropriate in any situation, but at bars is one of the worst places for armed people.
If you are really really wondering how to drink your drink without arms - can I invite you to a pub crawl in Rose Street? Or if you like it a bit more โauthenticโ thereโs Sauchiehall Street on a Friday night?
The school holidays back home were as follows: A long break in the summer (6 weeks), 1 week in the autumn (originally scheduled so that children could help with the harvest), 2 weeks at Christmas (from the day before Christmas Eve to the Day after Epiphany, and 3 weeks at Easter.
What a thoroughly forgettable character he is. How does he expect to wow the Republican base if all he's willing to give them is ho-hum routine Christian piss-marking? He's gotta step up his game. His career is on the line here! No mundane atrocity will do. His predecessor was Governor Puppy Murder; if he wants to be noticed following ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต act, he's gonna have to be ๐ธ๐ข๐บ more creative in his performative awfulness!
My local authority, as is usual in the UK, gave Good Friday and "Easter Monday" as days off for staff. What they never seemed to realise, despite having been told annually, was that a large proportion of employees had to work on the Saturday thus making the long weekend virtually useless as a holiday. I am sure that the regulation was written by people who did not work on Saturdays.
That almost happened to us at the St. Pete Main Library. The Parks Dept decided to give the employees either a Friday or a Monday off so they could have a three day weekend. The problem for us was that we were the only division of Parks that worked on Saturdays.
๐ผ๐ ๐ โ๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐.
This. He didn't even need to provide a justification, just "I'm going to take those days off, everone else gets them too."
Obviously he has done so many worse things to push the Christian Nazionalist agenda. He just can't help himself, he ๐ต๐ฎ๐ to infuse his religion into ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ official he does.
That's the problem with god-glasses. They tend to make the wearer think that EVERYONE is like him or her. Of course, they're not.
What floors me is what it takes to get people like Rhoden to recognize that.
Not just every is like you, but they are supposed to be like you.
But I think they know everyone is not like them and want to rub their noses in their apostasy. It is more Dominionist Wak-a-Mole and it is getting to the point that it would overwhelm the courts to put it down. This is all part of the plan. Gilead here we come.
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"god-glasses" that's a good one. I usually call them "Bible Believers"
I got "god-glasses" from Seth Andrews of The Thinking Atheist years ago, probably from one of his first public talks.
I am aware that I am coming from an angle, which might be quite unusual to an American audience. Here, Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays. Theyโve probably been public holidays before the concept was even developed. All in all we have about 10 public holidays a year. (The most recent one is St Andrewโs Day - not available in England!)
Some/most are based in the christian tradition, such as Christmas Day or Good Friday - but I cannot imagine that a prime minister, first minister - or in your case a governor - would put out a message, which was so overtly religious!
The last monarch, QE2, was immensely personally religious but in all her messages she emphasised the importance of her religion to her but that this led to her respecting people of other faiths (and none). Tolerance really mattered to her.
It seems quite weird, that we as a country have got a lot of traditions, which are based in/on religion, but as a country we are not that religious. And this is reflected in how our leaders communicate.
"...signed into law a bill allowing โconcealed pistols in bars and on public college campuses...โ
If they were TRYING to get as many Americans killed as possible, could Republicans and Evangelicals possibly do more? As we've seen this week, they've opened the US up to terrorist attacks, INVITED digital invasion by the president's foreign handlers, are actively undermining the economy, are destroying all peaceful methods for social or political change, and are doing all they can to make sure as many guns as possible are in the hands of the drunk, the insane, and other key MAGA demographics...
And making it easier for pregnant women to die by banning medically necessary abortions. Why do they want to punish women?
"Why do they want to punish women?"
They're very insecure in their sexuality, and they can't stand being questioned. But it isn't just women: they're also undermining medical treatments for everyone by putting a POS vax denier and other anti-science demagogue's in charge.
Not everyone; poor people.
Removing and undermining government resources is a type of class warfare. The rich will continue to get vaccinated, good health care, good education for their kids even if the public availability of these things disappear, because they can afford it on their own. They want to make it disappear because (a) they don't want to pay for someone else getting it, and (b) that 'pulls the ladder up,' reducing social mobility and thus the risk of being supplanted by some poor person earning a job/school spot based on competency. Keep them worrying about their next meal, sister's unwanted pregnancy and grandma's measles, ensure a lack of textbooks, and you don' have to worry about them taking your kid's place at Harvard or being selected ahead of your kid for that law firm internship.
They are patriarchs. I am coming around to the belief that Patriarchy, Judgmental Personalities, and intolerance of change may be genetic personality traits. I doubt we can ever be knitted back together into One Nation after they have gotten a taste of power.
Oh, the county is toast, as Maria Antoinette was famously quoted as saying which I donโt even know if she ever said it if they canโt have bread, let them eat cake. We canโt even afford cake or bread. I wonder how many baby boomers have destroyed this country
It's probably anti royalty and or xenophobia propaganda.
There a similar story with Louis XVI, on the day the Bastille was seized (July 14th 1789), he wrote "Rien" (nothing) in his diary. Revolutionary propagandists made it sounds later as if he mocked their coup. Actually, he wrote about a prior hunting party where he didn't catch anything.
Those are the hallmarks of the conservative brain.
Don't forget making the measles great again!
My personal theory is that they are trying to start the civil war but don't want to be the ones who fire the first shot.
Very possibly. Create the initial conditions for an outbreak of violence in an environment which can be volatile to begin with, and wait.
It's not quite a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it's damned close!
I think they believe (want it to be) the โend timesโ and they want to speed things up (by being horrible people) to get to the rapture
We had our last mass/school shooting in 1996.
It shook us so much, that we put in MAJOR gun control measures after that!
We value our children/people.
"as many Americans killed" Not only in the United States but all 36 American countries in North and South America so that all the can be one country called "America." Starting with the Gulf of America. So many have no clue making it easy for the MAGA cult. God bless America?
Let me see. Allowing guns in bars means drunken bar fights will now have high body counts. Allowing guns on college campuses will lead to police shooting any protester that the governor doesn't like with the "they might have been armed" excuse. Prohibiting trans people from bathrooms that match their gender? How will he enforce that without a MASSIVE increase in police to inspect genitals. That shit can be shut down by sending a muscle-bound bearded trans man into the ladies room.
Survival of the fittest. It hones your shooting skills for the coming war.
They'll enforce trans bathroom rule with the concealed guns in bars rule...
Wasn't Wild Bill Hickok killed by a deranged guman in a bar in South Dakota while holding aces and eights?
Yup. Shot in the back at Saloon #10 in Deadwood by Jack McCall, August 1876.
Indeed
The rapists on college campuses will now be armed with guns. Imagine the firefights between rival fraternities/sororities.
https://youtu.be/SYU6z0d_erY
Can I volunteer for the reverse action? Iโll go into the Gents. I am not afraid to go pee/poo there. Iโll probably be safer there than at some college parties attended by Mr Kavanaugh.
(PS it would not be the first time - Curlers in Byres Road was notorious !)
When the wait was too long, it was exactly what DM did. She went, did what she had to do, and had never watched a man's junk.
Is that what she told you? ;)
Did you think she was alone ?
Presumption and hubris. Those two factors seem to be driving what Governor Rhoden is about with his proclamation about the Easter weekend. Were he confronted with his actions, I would wonder if his response would be something to the effect of: "The vast majority of the population of South Dakota is Christian, and I am speaking to them." My response? "What about the OTHER South Dakotans? The Jews, the Muslims, the indigenous Americans, who were here LONG before we were and cared nothing about your Jesus. Don't THEY deserve consideration?
Larry Rhoden lives in a bubble, I suspect ... and it needs to be POPPED.
His response to your question would be the standard evangelical condescending grin while he says nothing and turns his back. Watch out for the state police who will try to find a prfetext to arrest you for asking a forbidden question.
My suspicion is that his response might also be something like what Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Michael Waltz have been giving to Senate investigators into the Signalgate incident ... which is to say, nothing definitive or coherent!
"My suspicion is that his response might also be something like what Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Michael Waltz have been giving to Senate investigators..."
You forgot outright, bold-faced, "see-what-I-can-do-and-you-can't" lies.
More simply: โyou are not just the governor for the (majority) christians, you are the governor for ALL South Dakotans!
Behave appropriately!
Here is something Tailor made for the DOGE doggies to sniff , like real governmental waste coming out ofโ well, you know what Waste comes out of.
Two days of taxpayer dollars given for not working at all. And all so that this guy can have his performative act of public piety and get praise for it.
And the essential service people that do have to work should get double time.
Triple time. Double for working on a holiday plus the holiday pay they would have received if they didn't work.
Ah but there's a big difference. The federal civil workforce has a higher-than-private-sector representation of women, handicapped, and people of color. The SD state employees, however can be assumed to be highly competent and efficient because, uh, shutupyou.
Think I'd celebrate the original, pagan Easter named for Eostre, the Goddess of Spring (rebirth) and fertility (namely: sex sex sex).
I did last Thursday when the spring solar equinox happened.
Hear-hear! I'll drink to that! ๐บ
You didn't celebrate Ninkasi too that day ? Shame on you ๐คฃ
I am not at all ashamed. It is just wonderful to have days that are not so dark anymore.
Good one, had to look her up. There's even a brewing company with that name. Very cool.
Looks like I'm going to be making this or similar comments frequently. Please forgive me if it gets tedious, but it's going to be increasingly important to understand what we're dealing with:
There's a famous quotation attributed to Napoleon and later repackaged as "Hanlon's Razor":
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
That used to be good general advice, but in the case of the Republican Party the edge is off the razor. Both their levels of genuine, black-hearted malice and idiotic, clownish incompetence are so high that they spill over into each other, making a toxic brew. Trying to separate those two motives to explain their behavior has become a futile and pointless waste of time. They're irretrievably mixed in strong doses.
How many times have we said it? "The cruelty IS the point!"
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That explained a lot for me.
One little bit of sociology can account for both bits: tribalism. Tribalism has now been elevated to a religion, a mindset, a worldview. My tribe is good, your tribe is bad. Whatever I do to you is justified by that fact and that fact only. Except that it's not a fact, it is an opinion and a belief, which means it is "not of this world", but of its own world.
In the tribal world, the values are not competence or intelligence or love. The value is loyalty to the tribe. No other value is necessary. The malice is simply the malice inherent in tribalism. The incompetence is there because loyalty is valued over intelligence.
I prefer to call it pack animalism.
Fools like this always seem to operate under the delusion what ever they do is okay if they claim it was done in the name of Jesus. I would challenge this governor to demonstrate conclusively Jesus ever even existed, and that the Jesus story is actually true. As there is no independent corroboration for any part of the Jesus story, he has his work cut out for him.
He'll consider the New Testament corroboration.
He wouldn't be the first Christer to engage in the circular reasoning of using the Bible to supposedly prove the Bible.
Sadly they are that stupid and/or evil, and so are the not longer so Supreme Court.
Robert Reich
The incompetence of the Trump regime was on full display this week as top U.S. defense and intelligence officials shared planned military airstrike plans on a messaging app with a journalist from The Atlantic. This is a threat to national security and endangers the entire country.
But if we didn't laugh from time to time, we'd cry.
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Oh, dear-dear-dear! ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
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He mentions the appreciation of the staff for their hard work during the transition, and it being spring, both are reason enough to give Friday 4/18 and Monday 4/20 off. No need to mention it being Good Friday and the day after Easter. The folks who celebrate these events will and those that donโt , donโt need to be told to. But thatโs the point of giving the time off, to tell the folks that donโt celebrate these Holy days that they better start.
Concealed weapons are not appropriate in any situation, but at bars is one of the worst places for armed people.
How are you going to drink your drink if you don't have arms? And the dart board would be useless.
Use a straw?
No thank you. I prefer to not being used.
Straws are for stirring.
Nope, Straw is for record keeping.
Sort of. When I was in my gin and tonic phase, I would keep the straws to know how many drinks I had.
Record keeping is what this Straw is doing at work. I don't drink anything with a straw. I just don't like the straws. (sugerรธr in Norwegian).
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaken,_not_stirred
All thanks can go to DM.
I'm a martini.
https://www.raygunsite.com/products/martinis
Tant que ce n'est pas un martinet.
I will let you Google this one ๐คฃ
Huyuck huyuck.
If you are really really wondering how to drink your drink without arms - can I invite you to a pub crawl in Rose Street? Or if you like it a bit more โauthenticโ thereโs Sauchiehall Street on a Friday night?
Everyone welcome!
Easter Monday?
How about Easter Tuesday and Easter Wednesday?
Good Friday Eve?
I remember when we used to get the whole week off of school.
Lightweight.
Easter school holidays were three weeks!
UK?
No, back home.
Same query. The UK is the only place I'm aware of that takes 3 weeks off between terms. Of course, my knowledge is very limited.
Schools here are very different. They run much longer, but they lack school shootings. So, I guess it's a tradeoff.
The school holidays back home were as follows: A long break in the summer (6 weeks), 1 week in the autumn (originally scheduled so that children could help with the harvest), 2 weeks at Christmas (from the day before Christmas Eve to the Day after Epiphany, and 3 weeks at Easter.
Which is were?
Germany.
4 day weekend? Jesus only got a 3 day weekend and it was more like a day and a half.
Not even that. Luke says Jesus went to heaven the moment he died. He even took a plus-one along with him.
What does "Luke" know?
The Force?
How to hide. He's almost as good at it as YHWH.
What'd Bo have to say about it?
They should duke it out.
And a lot of it he just spent hanging with a couple of his buddies.
Nailed it.
If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning.....
And for that he got screwed.
I went to celebrate Jesus, but apparently he got deported.
What a thoroughly forgettable character he is. How does he expect to wow the Republican base if all he's willing to give them is ho-hum routine Christian piss-marking? He's gotta step up his game. His career is on the line here! No mundane atrocity will do. His predecessor was Governor Puppy Murder; if he wants to be noticed following ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต act, he's gonna have to be ๐ธ๐ข๐บ more creative in his performative awfulness!
My local authority, as is usual in the UK, gave Good Friday and "Easter Monday" as days off for staff. What they never seemed to realise, despite having been told annually, was that a large proportion of employees had to work on the Saturday thus making the long weekend virtually useless as a holiday. I am sure that the regulation was written by people who did not work on Saturdays.
That almost happened to us at the St. Pete Main Library. The Parks Dept decided to give the employees either a Friday or a Monday off so they could have a three day weekend. The problem for us was that we were the only division of Parks that worked on Saturdays.
I don't remember the holiday.
Meanwhile, South Dakota ranks a dismal 43rd in Health Care.
Nice to see Gov. Rodent has his priorities in order.