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  Good for her. Will it change anything? Doubtful. I guess ‘freedom’ doesn’t extend to our public libraries.
context: Libraries are supposed to be magical places for kids to discover, imagine and help them decide their place in the world as they learn more about it. Librarians help with that journey. 
  This angers me to no end. I loved my small-town library growing up and one of the reasons I have the level of empathy that I do was because of the books I read, with no “banning”, no pulling controversial books and the ability to ask questions without judgement. >
  
  Libraries are one of the few true "third places" in most communities, where there is no expectation of spending money. It's vital that we keep these special places alive and thriving. >
  
  That's why they want them gone. >
  
  That's why capitalists want them gone
  Why do religious folks want them gone?
  For the latter I'd say the reason is the same as why they want public education gone. To them more secular education means less religious education and more religious education means less secular education. They view the world as a zero sum game, and they want to win >
  
  Whenever somebody wants to ban something or at least make it too difficult or expensive for normal people to own or use, I always ask who has the most to gain from it. Just saying. >
  
  Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." >
  
  Yea that quote worked before "free speech" became the cloak fascism uses to spread. >
  
  Leaving aside the horrific way people treat these libraries and the people who work and volunteer there...
  ​>The tax in question is about $24 on houses with a market value of over $250,000.
  People who squeal about paying $24 a year to give their community the literal world at their fingertips can fuck right off. >
  
  Starting in 2010 they did the same thing with school teachers. We were shunned from churches (treated poorly) because my wife was a teacher. >
  
  How very Christian of them! >
  
  "Love thy neighbor unless they disagree with your political beliefs."
  -Jesus apparently >
  
  The Bible does condone genocide >
  
  And they’re jumping all over that part >
  
  I'm a librarian and based on the other librarians I know - we're not backing down from this shit.  
  We have a duty to the public to make sure our collections represent everyone in the community and offer perspectives on every lifestyle.  If you don't want to read a book, then don't read it.
  I'm lucky that the town I work in hasn't had to suffer too much of this nonsense, but there's a small part of me that wishes I could get a chance to confront these assholes. >
  
  Librarian here. No one in my system is backing down. We’ve been lucky. Just a few people “How dare you promote this book about being gay! It’s a sin! Wait til the church hears about this!” Well, contrary to your beliefs, we are not a Theocracy. “You don’t carry any conservative authors!” They say as they return yet another Jordan Peterson word-vomit sandwich he calls a book. You can’t make these clowns happy. So I won’t and I don’t. The day these kind of bastards show up to something and make a scene… I hope I have a modicum of the bravery this individual had. No more letting bullies do whatever they want. >
  
  
  “You don’t carry any conservative authors!”
  
  Can't you just point them to thinks like "Art of the Deal", or any number of autobiographies from any number of famous conservatives?
  Maybe point out that authors are often creative types, and creative types who get political, tend to make more liberal social commentary in their books, so it's not so much an attempt at trying to mitigate conservative authors, but that statistically, conservative authors are just fewer in number.  Then point them to the math books so they can learn their numbers. >
  
  Oh logic doesn’t work. They want to be mad. I’m lucky to be in a rather liberal area of my state so we don’t have a ton of issues but the few we do have just want to direct their rage at someone. Same shit with masks. Anything they don’t like, they will get butthurt about. It’s the conservative evangelical way. >
  
  
  Anything they don’t like, they will get butthurt about. It’s the conservative evangelical way.
  
  This comes directly from the pulpit.  Fifty-two times a year Pastor/Father/Reverend So-and-So has to come up with forty-five minutes of something, and very frequently it's us-vs.-them horseshit to bond everyone listening more closely together. >
  
  addicted to grievance >
  
  I love her and hate she has to experience this hatred for nothing. She's stomping on fascism. We need more like her. >
  
  There are many more like her. And they are coming to their breaking points also. Positive change is coming but just like birth it's messy and painful. >
  
  I’m just not gonna put up with their attitudes anymore. Speak up!!! Fight back! When these people get a spotlight pointed at them they run back to their cockroach crevices like the cowards they are >
  
  The problem is sometimes you fight and you win and sometimes you fight and the career you thought you had vanishes and then no one in your area hires you because you're a "problem".
  I'm a teacher. I see plenty I can fight back on but I also know that speaking up puts a target on my back and unless someone is willing to come out and foot my bills if I lose my job, then I have to be real careful when and where I put my neck out. >
  
  Funny enough this is the actual point of tenure, so that teachers wouldn’t feel threatened by policy that they don’t agree with >
  
  Long-time teacher here. Tenure (and union membership) does protect you to a considerable extent, but if a principal or supervisor at board level want you gone, there are ways of doing it-most often the unannounced informal observation with request for lesson plan. While most teachers with any sort of time in the classroom are going to be on top of their lesson delivery game, unless you work in a district where it’s a requirement that you produce a lesson plan ahead of time, most veteran teachers don’t bother with writing them. This a technicality that many administrators will exploit, seizing upon it as “proof” that the teacher was not adhering to standard practice. If it’s a loophole that can be successfully argued against by a good union rep at a hearing, then administrators make unannounced walkthroughs in the hopes of capturing disciplinary lapses in classroom management  procedures. One child with his/her/their head down out of 30? Teacher’s not supervising the learning process appropriately because everyone’s not engaged. If the union rep successfully counters this, then job assignments change. You’ll still teach in your subject area, but instead of the advanced placement/college prep classes you’ve taught for the past 10-12 years, you’ll be given remedial classes, and they’ll group known behavioral issues in there. Used to running a club during the after school,academy to make extra money? That’ll go to someone else. There are a hundred ways to create a work environment hostile enough to make the teacher want to resign, if you can’t force them out. None of this has happened to me, but in 27+ years of teaching I’ve seen it happen to more than one colleague for being outspoken. >
  
  This happened to me. You are spot on and it's a disgusting practice. Long story short I reported a colleague's sexual comment and gesture towards me (because another supervisor recommended I do that) and the principal turned on me immediately. Total Good Ol' Boys club shit but I was new and had no way of knowing the hornets nest I was stepping into. Put me in situations that were difficult on purpose, hoping I'd fuck up. Misconstrued student behavior issues to make me sound crazy or like I wasn't handling kids correctly. Tried to make me physically intervene with kids that weren't special Ed (my license area) while he stood there and watched. He harassed and degraded me for a full school year, forced me to resign from my own job, and he retired that year. I was destroyed. 
  Thankfully I'm at a good school with a good principal now...but it was a long journey out of the darkness. >
  
  I’m both sorry that happened to you, and relieved to hear that you’re teaching in a much more welcoming environment. No one should have to go through that, especially one who performs a crucial function for the school in an underappreciated, undersupported position >
  
  Thank you. What's shocking is that even if these admin want you gone, it's not just enough to get rid of you. They have to do soul crushing shit because it's a power trip. I don't think they consider or even care that they destroy lives with this shit. I was deeply depressed for a year and a half while this was going on, and had to take anxiety and anti depressant meds just to be able to walk in the building. I had to go to therapy. They make you think you're a bad teacher, when you very well may not be. >
  
  Where are all the free speach absolutist conservatives in these situations? Seem to me they're very much in favor of curbing the first amendment as long as it aligns with their dogma.
  I'm sick and tired of the "protect the children" arguments. I have children and I PARENT them. It's not the library's responsibility to gatekeep what my children read. It's not the network's responsibility to gatekeep what my children watch. It's not a game companies responsibility to control what kind of games my kids play. IT'S MINE.
  None of this has anything to do with protecting children. It's 100% just a smoke screen to promote and normalize their bigotry. >
  
  
  Where are all the free speach absolutist conservatives in these situations?
  
  They were never 'free speech absolutists.'  They just used the machinery of 'free speech absolutism' to enable them to spout their insane, usually racist, often authoritarian, always extremely anti–free speech ideologies. >
  
  Not to mention anti-lgbt sentiment.
  You can look at the lists of books that they want banned and if it's because of sexual content then it's 100% chance it is LGBT content.
  They want to ban genderqueer, this book is gay, the color magenta, boy blue, etc.
  But I've never seen anyone up in arms about into Looking for Alaska which also has graphic sex scenes.  They don't seem to mind when their people tall about sex either.  No age requirements if a kid wants to buy Ben Shapiro's book that talks about pegging.  Want to buy bill O'Reilly novel about a pimp?  Sure.  The Bible has passages detailing a woman's preference for horse sized cocks or attempted mob rape of angels
  And these idiots pick on libraries rather than Amazon or Google because they always pick on the people least able to fight back. >
  
  It makes sense that they want to restrict access to books and learning because books and learning might actually challenge their worldviews and leave them without an appropriate response >
  
  That’s how they kept me indoctrinated for 25 years. Christian schools my whole life, villainizing the public school down the road - those “sinners”. Everything is dangerous, Harry Potter is evil (my parents didn’t restrict me much at all thankfully, most of my indoctrination happened at school and church). In biology class we learned creationism, in bible class we learned like five weak-ass points to argue against evolution. It was so fucking pathetic. And I just passively believed it all. Thank god I moved away when I did and met different kinds of people, even different kinds of Christians. >
  
  Damn, I got lucky, the Christian schooling I received was secular af. In our Bible classes we were taught it was all a metaphor or an allegory. Like my schools literally had the view of science is true and that it doesn't disprove God. They had the stance for example, God created the big bang and that evolution was a sign of God's intelligent design. I eventually had my own problems with them because of their snobby attitudes but they are least believed in science >
  
  Was the school Jesuit by any chance? My impression of Jesuit schools is that they’re more fact based than most evangelical schools. >
  
  The schools in my area were all founded by the Sisters of Mercy in cooperation with the Benedictine sisters, so if anything you can call it Benedictine since that is the more well known of the two. Its more so that Catholics are more secular than other denominations. >
  
  Gee, these "conservatives" sure love them some fascism, don't they? >
  
  Conservatives genuinely think that they can tell people what to do, and take serious offense when they find out they aren’t special.
  Literal children. >
  
  It's like the whole snowflake meme was ALSO projection. >
  
  Gaslight Obstruct Project >
  
  So conservatives wanted the library closed and when it finally happened they didn't know why it was closed? Typical. >
  
  No, they decided they knew why it was closed. They wanted it to be because the library was pulling a melodramatic stunt, so they decided it was. 
  That's how these people's brains work. You or I might think it would be grotesque and embarrassing for a governmental entity to pull a childish stunt, but tell that to a DeSantis supporter. >
  
  
  “50% Millage INCREASE to GROOM our kids? Vote NO on Library!” one sign that was directly across the street from the library said, using the regional term “millage” to refer to the property tax. In November, residents again voted to defund the library.
  Last week, the library closed early, citing “staff safety.”
  At this past Monday’s board meeting, people discussed the early closure. One person suggested that the library board was “fear-mongering” and lying about threats against the library. Another woman suggested that the library was closed early as “a strategy intended to manipulate public opinion about a particular issue by arousing fear or alarm.”
  
  
  Prime /r/LeopardsAteMyFace material. They're mad that the library is closing early AFTER they voted to defund it. And are mad that their hateful signs are working. What the fuck did they think was gonna happen? >
  
  I think it is patently false assuming these people are capable of independent thought.  They are Orwell's "2 minutes of hate", but instead of 2 minutes, it is every waking hour.  And they get their daily outrage from fox and infowars. >
  
  conservatives are enemies of the American people. >
  
  "Conservatives" nowadays are nothing more than regressivists. >
  
  Yep, but let them besmirch conservatism too. It's never served any use to society either. If conservatives had their way from the very start the monarchy would still exist. >
  
  There was a time that this speech would have shamed the offenders, but they now live in the age of "double down."
  It's also why DC is failing right now.  The founding fathers had a Victorian sense of honor where scandals would cause self-resignations.  No longer.
  We now need laws rather than trusting the honor of conservatives.  They have none. >
  
  
  but they now live in the age of "double down."
  
  Isn't this the truth!  They know no shame whatsoever. >
  
  Their masks are off and they can’t hide anymore being horrible people. >
  
  Totally.  And the damnedest thing is they have a lot of votes, still, to continue.  I would like to say they are fucked and on the way out, but I don't think for a moment they are. >
  
  I'm really hoping Millennials and Gen Z fucking save us - and the world in many respects - because they may be our last hope at this rate. >
  
  For sure.  Too many of my people (Gen X) are Boomer-lite. >
  
  MAGAS have ruined everything. Every day it’s another fight. Another death threat. Another attack. Another doxing. Anything they don’t like is “woke”. They want to suppress speech. Make everyone around them miserable. They vote for leaders not based on what work they’re going to do, but based on how they will own the libs. Their thinking is in the minority but through temper tantrums, fear, and unethical means they attempt to force their will on everyone else. And they don’t even know what their going to be mad about next week...it’s whatever Tucker (and others) decides to tell them they’re mad at. Grown-ass people acting like bratty violent 5 year olds who have earned no respect from anyone around the world. >
  
  They’re cowards. >
  
  Using the same standard there are probably thousands of books in any given library to the “groom” heterosexuals. We need to ask the question “why” are so ok with it? >
  
  Most books contain some amount of speech which refers to other genders. So it is probably a pretty astounding percent of books will have romance, exploring feelings/emotions, breakups, divorce, or marriage in them.
  Conservatives just hate gay people and love defunding things. >
  
  First off how does someone calculate a 50% millage at only $24 per year?  
  Second fuck these people.  
  Lastly this lady is gold.  Good for her. >
  
  Hi, not a librarian, but I work in Circulation at a library and often handle patron complaints. It's a shit show right now. We get so many people harassing staff about our choice to wear masks that most staff stopped wearing them just to avoid abuse. Our call center is the worst; I regularly get called names or are shouted at just for trying to provide services to the best of my ability. I feel lucky I don't usually hear from the censorship assholes, but it's still not a fun time to be a library staff person. 
  I should point out that my library is one of the lucky ones; others in our area have it so much worse. >
  
  $24 per household worth over 250,000. That is all this library needed for baseline funding, it may not have even been adequate. This was voted down because people are full of hated and bile. Very soon there won’t be a library and your children and seniors who are used to going there will need to visit another town’s. 
  Of course it’s up to that town council to let you obtain library cards and usage of their facilities and just like you they will exercise their rights to vote. Great job in destroying your town’s literacy and reputation. >
  
  Without a doubt that's what these losers want. >
  
  
  “Pray that we can make changes and make the Patmos Library a safe and neutral place for our children,”
  
  Neutral , of course, means capitulating entirely to a singular world view at the expense of further alienating lgbtq kids or anyone interested in reading stories featuring them. Merely existing is treated as a political stance. >
  
  Non-conservatives are being pushed to the edge with all this bull shit. I snapped at my old man the other day when I normally just bite my tongue on political matters.
  He was stunned by my anger and aggression at the American political landscape. I also drove home the point that none of this stuff republicans want you to be mad about effect him in any way at all. All of this shit is just punching down on other people and the rhetoric does real harm.
  People need to start speaking up. Conservatives truly believe they are some silent majority of people being persecuted because of the nonsense pumped into their brains from tv, radio, internet, idiots like Jim Jordan practicing theater on committees or the congressional floor.
  Enough is enough. Stop biting your tongue and shout down nonsense. If that’s the only way to get a word in. >
  
  I agree. People need to stop being the better person, or being afraid of the conflicts it will certainly cause and speak up against the bs that is being pushed by extremist Christians >
  
  Yeah but it feeds into their victim complex. There's no winning. >
  
  “I don’t like bullies…I don’t care where they’re from”.
  Every bully sees themselves as the victim instead of the one they’re bullying; “You made me do this” they scream as they punch down.
  That doesn’t mean you let them continue if you have the courage to stop them. >
  
  That's what these bullshit "grooming" allegations really are, a tactic to undermine needed public services like public schools and libraries. Conservatives don't like the educated. They don't want thinkers that will challenge them, they want workers that will serve them. >
  
  Christian nationalists are terrorists >
  
  Sick, addle-brained degenerates being learned by an elderly librarian; in one deranged ear and out the other. 
  It’s so deeply unfortunate their idiotic notion of hell doesn’t exist. >
  
  It is, because reading Matthew it is quite clear they are directly the ones Jesus says will go there, shocked because they went through the mechanical motions of being "Christians" while alive while not getting Jesus' effing point. "Workers of lawlessness." >
  
  Jesus will say “I never knew you” to all of them >
  
  What kind of self centered easily manipulated hateful jackass that not only has the intelligence of a simpleton but also has the entitlement of a toddler defunds a library because they believe if someone even sees a book that has the idea of gay that it sets the grooming in motion…..geez-us
  I would be willing to bet if the CDC said covid had a gene marker that could turn you gay all of them would have worn a mask.
  (sorry for the run on sentence) >
  
  Repeat after me: I WILL NOT FUCK WITH LIBRAIRIANS. They know where everything is. >
  
  I doubt most of the people wanting to ban books have ever stepped foot in a library >
  
  Yeah most people just complain and when we send them the process for reconsideration of materials they never contact us again. It requires you to read the ALA bill of rights, the entire book, sign a sworn affidavit that you've done these things, and detail what exactly you find objectionable, and cite where these passages are, and why they are objectionable.
  Then the collection management coordinator will respond to the request. My system has never removed an item due to a challenge thankfully. But we also don't get many serious challenges
  Source: am librarian >
  
  As a librarian, I'm with her. The most thankless job on earth is being compounded by idiots and ideologues telling us how to run our institutions and calling us monsters and pedophiles for all our efforts. Since college, I've always said that the library is a good way to tell how functional a democracy is. We're fucked as a society if this trend continues. >
  
  I worked as a librarian and library manager for years until I resigned at the start of Trump’s presidency. In one of my last weeks I was training a new librarian on desk when an old man started ranting about Obama. When I informed him I wasn’t there to talk politics with him, but to serve him, he literally hissed at me. I was like nine months pregnant and this man hissed at me for not applauding and agreeing with his MAGA politics. I can’t even imagine how bad it is now. >
  
  To paraphrase Rage Against the Machine: 
  
  They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em -
  While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells -
  Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells >
  
  I find it amusing that the same people who say no one cares about libraries s anymore (always around budget season) are also protesting and saying they are so dangerous. >
  
  Christians don't like any books less the bible.  They don't like any values less those in the bible.  They religiously profess these values every Sunday.  And reserve Monday-Saturday for the commission of sins they know they can be absolved of by simply saying sorry.  Theirs is not a world of sanity.  It is a world of unsubstantiated belief in a mystical God and the words of their bible that were written by men wishing to control them. >
  
  Tell them what the Bible means and says, and they don’t like the Bible either. Seriously, use it against them and they will absolutely freak. >
  
  Yeah, I was just gonna say, I dont know any Christian's that have actually read the bible, if they did, their belief systems would probably be different. >
  
  i’ve known plenty of them that claim to have read it, but it’s like me reading a high level medical text for brain surgeons - reading the words doesn’t mean shit if you don’t know what they mean. >
  
  Librarians are my heroes. They are some of the most subversive folks in America! >
  
  Burning books are first; people are next...
  Fuck all religion.
  Christians are no different than the Taliban. >
  
  Hail Satan! >
  
  Hail Gein! >
  
  Good for the librarian for standing up to such nonsense. >
  
  It's time for librarians and everyone else who is being slandered by these MAGA nazis to sue the shit out of them and bankrupt their asses like Alex Jones.  Anyone who gets falsely called a groomer or pedo should sue immediately.  It's time to crush this fascist movement. >
  
  Why do conservative Christians care so much about what’s in libraries?  It’s not like any of them can read. >
  
  They want to shove their opinions on you. >
  
  While snatching everyone else's opinions off the shelves and burning them. >
  
  $24 dollars for homes over 250,000...$24.
  This is all over $24. >
  
  I just read that and my jaw dropped open. That’s it?! Just $24?! Christ these people need help. >
  
  It’s like explaining algebra to a fucking cat… >
  
  That particular area of Michigan is full of a bunch of backwards ass Christians. They want the library closed because education almost always leads to questioning their faith, and they just can't have that. To them, education is dangerous to their lifestyle. And they're right, it is. >
  
  This is pretty interesting. Our library, in a different state, just got 50% of their funding removed for very similar reasons. It got put on the 2022 ballot and the community voted to do this. The library had multiple branches in smaller towns (it's a county library) and they've already had to close some. The survival of the library in general is at risk, which is a shame for obvious reasons but also because there are many testimonials from people who were homeless or otherwise down on their luck and they used the library services to find jobs and improve their lives. What will replace this institution when it's gone? I don't see the people who voted to defund stepping up to provide these services. Such a disturbing trend. >
  
  They claim that kids are being groomed... but are perfectly fine with the absolute sexualization of young girls in "beauty pageants."  These people are not Christians. They are hypocrits. >
  
  Like many who have posted in here, I am also a librarian. The support you can offer your local library is to stop on by and say hello. From a statistics point of view you boost our materials circulation and door count to show we are an institution being used. One of the common arguments against libraries is,“ who even uses libraries anymore?” It is hard to use this argument when we have statistics showing we have X amount of people come through our door and also Y circulation of material. Plus this lets us know what cool shit to buy for the collection. If we see Christian fiction is circulating that’s what we buy. If my community has a sudden demand for lgbtq+ materials, that is what I have to buy. The benefit for you is libraries offer a lot of cool stuff and have awesome free programs for you and your family. Did you buy grandma a neat new gadget and don’t have time to teach her? Check us out. We offer free educational classes, story times, and event paranormal lectures. Want free audiobooks and graphic novels? Check out Libby and tell your library to get Comics Plus in your local AppStore. Want your kid to have a cool group of friends? Check out Teen Advisory Board programs for volunteer hours and letters of recommendation for college. From a selfish librarian standpoint, we want all the awesome people in the building. We are a center of our community. Don’t worry about over working us. We know what we signed up. Turn up for the humans in your community no matter where they work or who you are. Your support is contagious. 
  (This has been a psa from your friendly neighborhood librarian. Your experience and mileage of your local institutions may vary.) edit: spelling corrections. >
  
  Christians should be embarrassed with themselves but I know they won’t be cause they’re all hypocrites >
  
  Librarians, and teachers, were saviors and mentors to a little girl (me) who didn’t have a family, who was abused in foster care etc. Was left at the library multiple times when I was too young and the librarians gave me a safe space to read in quiet. My school librarians in middle school gave me somewhere to eat during lunch and breakfast, helping check out books, because they knew I was sitting alone in the cafeteria with a book in my hand anyway. 
  I just want to give this librarian a huge huge hug. >
  
  If someone can’t afford an extra $25 dollars a year on their property taxes they should probably reassess their priorities instead of whatever it is they think they’re doing. >
  
  We need to stop calling them conservative, they are Nazis and have always been. >
  
  Christian Conservatives are the scariest uninformed group of sheeps >
  
  Hate and violence in the name of your religion is hypocrisy that my toddlers could point out. Why is it that no grown ass adults can ever see this? >
  
  Good for her, she’s a modern hero…but…you can’t appeal to reason with people who have none. >
  
  Librarians are the best. 💕 >
  
  If you don't want to read offensive books don't check them out. My library carries Mein Kampf and normal people don't care because it's a book not a weapon. >
  
  She's not the only one fed up with these lying hypocritical self righteous assholes. >
  
  These morons. They need a library. They need to read books. >
  
  Tell your local libraries in this position that you support them.  Show up. Check out books (whatever kind you like) to help their circulation rates.  Put pro-library signs in your yard or in your car. Write to the newspaper.  They came for my library this year and it survived the city and borough councils’ votes, and then a ballot measure, but barely, and it’s only because people spoke out, went on the radio, protested FOR the library, showed up to council meetings, etc. It’s left a huge emotional wound on literally the kindest people I know. Tell them you appreciate them. >
  
  People don’t realize the amount of effort radical conservatives are putting into the lower levels of our community governments. They’re running for seats on school boards and town councils and implementing outdated, close minded, backwards ass policies. They’re oppressing free speech in the name of free speech >
  
  Good for her for standing up for herself. These people attacking her are the scum of the earth. >
  
  Conservatives hate libraries. They're afraid a poor kid might learn something and be able to compete with their kids >
  
  Fuck the Russians Nazi fucks for fermenting these vile enemies within our country. 
  Honestly, the more we hurt the russians, the less we have of this fucking shitshow.
  1000x M1A1 FOR UKRAINE! >
  
  All of this for less than a fraction of the tens of thousands of books available for the community. All that just because people are afraid and cannot parent their children. >
  
  I want to give her a hug. She’s a hero for standing up to these bullies. >
  
  Friend in a nearby school district said his entire building was on Secure (no one in or out) an entire day, multiple times going to lockdown, because MAGA dipshit parents were outside protesting and trying to break in. We have a problem with law and order in this country, and the problem has long been selective enforcement. >
  
  I wish Democrat politicians had half the balls in DC, when dealing with Republicans, that this random small town librarian shows at a library board meeting. >
  
  Did you hear about the NYC councilmen Who got attacked over a drag show. >
  
  Can we take a moment to appreciate that the title of this article didn't include the word 'slams'?