My Grandfather was a WWII Naval hero and boxer, strong as an ox with the punch like the Hammer of Thor. He was also a school board member in Missouri, and behaved with dignity and class while serving with distinction. And if this Bruce Willis movie audition reject has tried on him what he is suggesting here, Covid would have been the least of his problems. Grandpa would have handed him, quite frankly, his ass.
All Pennsylvanian GOP candidate Steve Lynch wants is a few strong men to help him remove school board members in his county. Mr Lynch - who is running for Northampton County executive - said as much during a rally on Sunday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He claimed that the school boards - who he and his supporters were frustrated with for enforcing mask mandates - were "done," and expressed his desire to "make men, men again”..
"When we walk into those school boards, we’re gonna have everything we need to do to go in there with those 9-0 school boards that voted to put these masks back on children with no scientific — it’s done! Giving them the research and the data," he said. "Do you understand that? Forget going into these school boards with frigging data." Mr Lynch then suggested he would take groups of men to a school board to intimidate them into leaving their positions.
"You go into school boards to remove ’em! That’s what you do! They don’t follow the law! You go in and you remove ’em," he said. "I’m going in there with 20 strong men, I’m going to speak to the school board and I’m going to give them an option. They can leave or they can be removed."
Another wannabe tough guy who thinks might makes right.
Not only is Steve Lynch a demagogue, he is absolutely ignorant as to how elected boards work. If he walked in there to forcibly remove elected members of government, he would be facing multiple felonies. The board members themselves would be able to sue him into poverty, and on top of all that, once the board members were escorted back into their seats by law enforcement, he would find that they had not ceded one ounce of authority.
What this man is advocating is to create a government by coup, where voting is secondary, where interaction with elected officials is eliminated, and “manly men” rule by force. Make men men again?
There is no such thing as hormonal supremacy. I wear my hair styled, I dress respectfully, I shave, I listen to Enya, I enjoy Broadway, I cook, do hair, basically any number of things that interest me at that time, I might participate in.
I also used to throw a baseball 93 m.p.h. worked on cars with my Grandpa, and bench pressed more than my weight.
And I like Beer. Wouldn’t put it on my resume to become a Supreme Court Justice though.
Those are all unique preference components of my adulthood.
Focusing on manliness, machismo, bravado, or the size of my jean bulge is a sign that someone has not progressed out of childhood.
Like this man. A giant, aggrieved, angry white middle-aged bearded baby.
-ROC
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