For adults afraid of their own shadows
Do these alleged adults check under their beds at night and inside their closets for monsters before hiding beneath their sheets? One wonders.
Yes, former N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper is running for U.S. Senate to fill the seat vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. And yes, Cooper raised $3.4 million in the first 24 hours of his campaign. And yes, former U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel quickly bowed out and endorsed Cooper who is a good bet to pick up the seat in November 2026.
In the meantime, North Carolina Republicans who hold a one-seat supermajority margin set about overriding 14 vetoes of sitting Gov. Josh Stein, Cooper’s replacement. They overrode eight on Tuesday with help from a couple of Democrats, “including stricter immigration crackdowns, looser gun rules, major changes to state energy policy and a formal definition of gender to exclude transgender people.” But no new bathroom bill. Lucky us.
Several anti- DEI efforts did not get an override vote on Tuesday, plus a bill that would allow anyone 18 and older to carry a concealed gun without a permit. But those override attempts will, like the saying about the Old South, rise again.
WRAL summarizes two pending anti-DEI override attempts:
Senate Bill 227 and Senate Bill 558 target any course curriculum, readings, homework or classroom discussion on DEI-related topics in public K-12 schools, community colleges and universities, as well as banning their employees from being given any DEI-related training courses.
MAGA derangement syndrome is alive and well here among the manly men and women of the NC GOP. This quote summarizes it nicely. It’s why I bother my national readers with this state-level legislatin’ (emphasis mine):
Sen. Terrence Everitt, D-Wake, said Tuesday that Republicans have a worldview he simply doesn’t understand, appearing to think 18-year-olds are mature enough to carry concealed handguns in public but that they’re too emotionally delicate to learn about history. As a white man, he said, he welcomes schools and colleges being allowed to accurately teach history even if white men aren’t always the heroes.
“How little we think of our young people, that we believe that they’ll be indoctrinated or somehow broken by simple exposure to ‘divisive ideas,'” Everrit said. “We honestly think that they are that weak. I don’t need this bill. My kids don’t need this bill. I want my kids in a diverse learning environment, especially when they go to college. I want them to hear voices that are different from their own, grapple with history from every angle, and to engage movement with challenging and divisive ideas, because that’s what prepares them. It makes them more resilient.”
Via NC Newsline:
Diversity, equity, inclusion. The horror!
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