This is possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard other than the 47 other dumbest things I've ever heard from that podium in the last three months. - ThreadSky

rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social • 1 day ago

This is possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard other than the 47 other dumbest things I've ever heard from that podium in the last three months.

Reposted from Acyn

Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?

Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.

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dankeevy.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think there's Jamaican announcers who've called decades of 100m sprints, multiple Olympic Games, and yet the race to determine what's the stupidest thing she's said is impossibly tight.

evanwelch.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Put books in the library for children”. All right, I gotta sit down because that was horrendously stupid holy shit.

sardarji.bsky.social•1 day ago

Isn't it like a requirement that every book published in the US has to be sent to the LoC?

kuriva.im•1 day ago

not just books

musical compositions, sound recordings, motion pictures, etc all have deposit requirements

gaudymouse.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh dear

sardarji.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dune series fan!

dwolf4.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.loc.gov

brianwolfman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well put Raffi.
Are there a lot of little kids running around unsupervised in the Library of Congress?

adambabinat.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s like she is trying to outdo herself each day.

dmoorewv.bsky.social•1 day ago

Apparently has no clue what the Library of Congress is.

davidmouritsen.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a tough call. So much material...

gregmlink.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Library of Congress is not “a library for children” you feckless idiot and #traitor to the country

clarbar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ah yes, the times I went to the LoC and submitted the request in the reading room for them to bring me And Tango Makes Three. I read it at the table, took the necessary notes, and returned it to the librarian.

cjones47.bsky.social•1 day ago

I really thought he couldn't top Sanders, but by gum he's done it!

notmylinkedin.bsky.social•1 day ago

In Leavitt's defense, she hasn't actually been in a library since she was a child, so she probably assumes that it's not a thing adults use.

thoughtcriminal.bsky.social•1 day ago

She makes me miss Sarah Hucklebee

notpodium.bsky.social•1 day ago

from that *lectern #DunniganPayneLectern

notrite132.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fairhope's library is fighting back.

professorperino.bsky.social•1 day ago

She put inappropriate books in the Library of Congress? Inappropriate for children?

jdotj.bsky.social•1 day ago

I do hope they start a Drag Queen Story Hour at the LoC

resistasista76.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s Klan Speak. This is the KKK speaking from the people’s podium.

notpodium.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's a lectern.

resistasista76.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤣 tyvm

notpodium.bsky.social•1 day ago

ub! 😀

hrlatinam.bsky.social•1 day ago

She clearly has never been to the LOC.

anthrodiva.bsky.social•1 day ago

Putting inappropriate books for children in the library. I know...I know...they are both liars and stupidy-dumbos, but EVERY BOOK goes into the OCLC. Chuck Tingle is in there!

lizthelawless.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dammit. Now where'd I put my Library of Congress card ...

brigidalverson.bsky.social•1 day ago

This would have been a great opportunity for an alert reporter to ask a follow-up question, such as "where is the children's room in the Library of Congress?"

davallone.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ll repeat myself from last week: a follow-up question? In this economy?

brigidalverson.bsky.social•1 day ago

I dunno, I was just a lowly reporter for a local paper back in the day, but if I had let that go, my editor would have fired me.

davallone.bsky.social•1 day ago

Your editor likely had much higher standards than anyone in that room.

brigidalverson.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was a great little paper, and we did good work and won a ton of regional awards. Then Gannett bought it and now it's just a generic website full of spammy ads.

dingokayfabe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seems like a sadly common story, sorry to hear

davallone.bsky.social•1 day ago

My condolences. That’s how democracy dies, as a Senator once said…

yoshjosh.bsky.social•1 day ago

Title VII applies to the federal government, no? “She was stocking the shelves with inappropriate children’s’ books” seems like the worst legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason I could possible imagine to fire the Librarian of Congress. And the other “reason” explicitly involves race.

anseljh.com•1 day ago

Definitely not because she’s a Black woman, got it 👀

sorrykb.bsky.social•1 day ago

These lying shits deserve to rot in hell.

markabuchanan.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the national library of our Congress?

rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm pretty confident the numbers of children heading to the LoC to pick up inappropriate books is precisely 0.

adams-hurta.bsky.social•1 day ago

look i would have LOVED to go to the Library of Congress to find inappropriate books, but I did not live near the District.

finespokesoflight.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think you have to be 16 years old to even use the reading room.

conroy.org•1 day ago

Who is going to tell them it’s not a library? This people are so fucking stupid.

sarekofvulcan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, I don't know, I'll bet there are enough geek kids in the area who'd at least _try_... :)

dickius.bsky.social•1 day ago

I stayed at a Marriott with my family and there was a book in the bedside table about a guy who fucked his daughter in law because he mistook her for a prostitute.
In a supposedly “family friendly” hotel!

kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's honestly a bit refreshing that Northern satire on Judah somehow made it into the final version of the Torah, ngl

mseraphimsl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does she think you check books out of the Library of Congress? Does she think they have stacks you can go browse?

nationalsecuritylaw.org•1 day ago

OMG the steps I had to go through to go through to actually read a book at the LoC. 2 hours in a reading room IS NOT SUFFICIENT TIME

justinlawguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes but an inappropriate book includes any history book.

rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just the idea you would listen to this and not start laughing at her is so hard to imagine.

solanace.bsky.social•1 day ago

Kids need a book from the Library of Congress like the late great Hannibal Lector needs political asylum.

moderately-grouchy.bsky.social•1 day ago

I laughed, but I currently have bronchitis, so then I coughed for several minutes.

asharpie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Destroying America with stupidity.

1dgrn.bsky.social•1 day ago

she is such a ridiculous POS

oswaldtheaipoet.bsky.social•1 day ago

Every day, she has to top herself, depending on what new bag of crazy gets hurled her way.

theaurorac.bsky.social•1 day ago

To be fair, she has no idea what the Library of Congress is.

resistasista76.bsky.social•1 day ago

True. She has demonstrated that her knowledge goes as far as her pretend nose and no further.
#TreasonMouthpiece

zebrajen.bsky.social•1 day ago

She hasn't one clue what they do.

tathompsonks.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm not sure the number of kids heading to the LoC to pick up *any* books is much higher than that

stanzanarotti.bsky.social•1 day ago

As high schoolers in Northern Virginia, we talked about going to the LoC to watch "Deep Throat', figuring they had a copy and would have to let us check it out. Never followed through with it.

rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social•1 day ago

I also grew up in Nova, and this sounds like a Thomas Jefferson level jape.

stanzanarotti.bsky.social•1 day ago

This was in the 70's, so before TJ became a magnet school. The scheme was hatched in Science Club, so close enough.

smithinhell.bsky.social•1 day ago

Kids are checking out books at the Library of Congress?

drdsthompson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well not kids but GOP politicians. Similar reading age.

tantetiffa.bsky.social•1 day ago

Didn’t realize the LOC had story hour. Huh.

bedigger.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is she saying congressional researchers need to be protected from inappropriate books? Makes sense, the current Congress is mostly children.

peter-speeder1.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s a fire hose of nonsense from both her and Trump. And it is so hard to cut through all of it.

juliasplace.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fucking book banning! These people are RUINING our country! Everything we have built over 250 years is being destroyed in broad daylight while most of us sit at home and watch. 🤬

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