this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
221 points (98.3% liked)

politics

19097 readers
3903 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 62 points 9 months ago (3 children)

which would require all teachers and students at Iowa schools to sing at least one verse of the national anthem every day

That’s weirder than requiring the whole thing.

Doubtful Trump could get through a whole verse correctly even with a prompter.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

"oh shay can you see..... see they're all against us, and we're going to show them. By the dawns...... I knew a woman named dawn... Great woman, gorgeous like Ivanka....... Uhh... Light. What do proudly..... We are a proud people and we won't stand for their tricks, their cheats. We hail.... you know Hitler was hailed as a great guy. Amazing person, did great things."

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Trump's favorite bit is the part about colonial soldiers taking the airports

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

George Santos was there. He said so.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He shouldn't have turned down those cue cards.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Probably the only reason he kept coming back to the right lyrics.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

lol omg wheeze

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One verse is all anyone actually knows.

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My dad had to take the citizenship test like 40 years ago and he still remembers the most weirdly-pointless shit no one should ever care about like “Ben Franky didn’t discover electricity but he was the first postmaster general”

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He didn't discover electricity, but if I recall correctly, he was the one to coin/define the positive(+)/negative(-) nomenclature, including what each of those actually means (i.e. the charge resulting from rubbing a certain type of fabric over a second material).

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh he’s the one to fucking blame?

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

I guess so. Asshole got it backwards.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Looking forward to the videos of the kids singing:

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,

That's from the third verse.