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Ask yourself why the right is so taken with this issue and why they are pushing it so hard. Furries are a stand in for trans kids and litter boxes are the stand in for trans kids in bathrooms. It is a way to attack trans kids / students without mentioning the word trans. The attacks on trans kids have run out of steam and people are starting to fight back making the bigots lose. So just as they switched from gays to trans, they are switching to code words. That is why some of these bigots say the furries are trying to change their species, licking themselves meaning they are unclean, dirty, gross and are infecting your holy child. They talk about furries taking poops in a classroom full of other students, which is code for a trans kid being in the same class as your kid is like someone shitting in the classroom. It is stinky and unsanitary and gross is what they are saying. Think about it and how stupid what they are saying is. If you don’t know it is code for hating trans you would wonder at the idea that a student drops their pants in front of all the other kids and goes to the bathroom. That would be exposing themselves to the entire class. That is what they claim having a trans kid in a class is like, having their genitals exposed for your kid to look at. Get real and fight back against this bigotry. Hugs
“It’s really frustrating,” one superintendent said after the health department investigated a school in his district for litter boxes.
Joe Rogan just admitted that his claim last month that he knew of a student who forced a school to install a litter box so that she could defecate in it was false. The urban myth is still spreading like wildfire, and more and more schools are being forced to deny that they’re letting kids use litter boxes.
“My friend, his wife is a school teacher, and she works at a school that had to install a litter box in the girls’ room because there’s a girl who’s a furry, who identifies as an animal and her mother badgered the school until they agreed to put a litter box in one of the stalls,” Rogan told former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii on his podcast last month. “So this girl goes into the litter room or to the girl’s room and urinates or whatever — I don’t know if she poops in it, that’s pretty gross.”
And schools are being forced to respond to angry – and wildly misinformed – residents.
“It is utter nonsense,” said San Luis Coastal Unified School District superintendent Eric Prater in California.
“It is an unfounded allegation,” said superintendent Curt Dubost of the nearby Paso Robles Joint Unified School District. He told The San Luis Obispo Tribune that there have not been any students asking to use litter boxes in schools.
“We have had complaints about ‘Furrys’ in PRJUSD,” Paso Robles school board member Kenney Enney wrote on Facebook. “They are not a protected class, so therefore if there are ‘Furry’ issues in your child’s school, and staff is not addressing it, please notify your your [sic] School Board Trustee.”
The Alpena School District in Michigan is being forced to make a similar denial after residents took school officials to task at a board meeting about kids allegedly dressing up as animals by wearing ears and tails to school while making animal sounds during class.
“It’s really frustrating,” Alpena Public Schools superintendent David Rabbideau told The Alpena News. “People are lobbing these missiles at us and saying, ‘I know better what’s going on.’”
“It’s crazy that we’re talking about this,” Thunder Bay Junior High School Principal Katie Lee said. Her school is in Alpena Public Schools.
The health department was even forced to send a worker to inspect Alpena High School to look for litter boxes.
“For the record, they didn’t find any,” Rabbideau said. “Because there’s never been any. And there never will be.”
In New Hampshire earlier this week, the private high school Pinkerton Academy issued a statement saying that they don’t have litter boxes either after Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc accused the school.
“They’re putting litter boxes,” Bolduc said. “These are the same people that are concerned about spreading germs. Yet they let children lick themselves and then touch everything. And they’re starting to lick each other.”
This school said in a statement: “It has come to our attention that at a recent event in Claremont Don Bolduc named Pinkerton in false claims suggesting that unhygienic, disturbing practices are taking place in our classrooms and spaces on campus…. We want to assure our community that Mr. Bolduc’s statements are entirely untrue.” The school invited all candidates to visit “so they can inform themselves.”
Last month, the Republican party’s nominee for governor of Colorado claimed that 30 schools were accommodating furries, with students “identifying as cats.”
“Not many people know that we have furries in Colorado schools,” she said on a radio show. She went on to say that it happened in her kids’ school district so she moved to get away from the student-furries.
Two statewide educational organizations condemned her claims as “exhausting” and “incredibly frustrating,” saying they disrupt learning and stress out teachers who are already overworked.
“There are no litter boxes in our buildings and students are not allowed to come to school in costume. There are no furries or students identifying as such during the school day,” one of the accused school districts, Jefferson County Public Schools, said in a statement.
“This vicious rumor – it’s been debunked how many times already?” Bret Miles, the executive director of the Colorado Association of School Executives, told The Denver Post. “Now it’s out there again, in our governor’s race…. School districts are spending time chasing down storylines that were purely for political gain. They have nothing to do with what kids are experiencing at school, and it’s shock and awe. It’s just incredibly frustrating.”
“No, we don’t provide litter boxes; our children use bathrooms,” a spokesperson for the Durango School District in Colorado said earlier in the month after Rep. Boebert accused that Colorado school district of putting litter boxes out for kids “who identify as cats.”
The rumor has even gone international. The Refrew County Catholic District School Board in Canada issued a statement that said “misinformation is currently circulating in our school communities and online regarding the presence of litter boxes in our schools.”
The statement said that the district has “never had litter boxes in any of our elementary or secondary sites.” The district added that they “do not collect any data regarding animal identity and we do not recognize such identities.”
Please find attached a joint statement from the RCCDSB & @RCDSB clarifying the misinformation circulating about litter boxes in our schools. pic.twitter.com/K8IFiHwArD
“I think it was just a matter of time before that misinformation made its way here,” a board spokesperson told the Ottawa Citizen. The spokesperson said that the number of complaints they were getting was “getting a little out of control, so we decided to do a joint statement to reassure school communities that this is not happening.”
The Ottawa Citizen noted that the Eganville Leader published a letter to the editor from someone who claimed that seven students in the district identified as animals. The letter said that one student identifies as a frog and another is a cat who uses a litter box in school and claimed that their information came from “a confirmed report from a high-up school board official.”
I cannot make up my mind if DeathSantis is a true beleive or just pandering to the Christian right to get elected. More and more I think he is a true believer. I do know that when he was in the us House of Rep. he was thought of as being really stupid some said worse than Gohmert. Does this mean his attacks on the LGBTQ+ and the attempts to roll the US society / culture back to the 1950s is a true desire of his Christian faith? That makes him even more dangerous. Notice he claims he was sent by the Christian god to defend the downtrodden, so he does that by attacking the LGBTQ+ and promoting Christian ideas in laws and public schools? I have this in two different feeds so you may see this twice. Hugs
Ron DeSantis, a professional bully, thinks he’s a fighter (image via Shutterstock)
In a new campaign ad that, in a more rational world, would anger religious conservatives, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is deemed a “fighter” sent by the Christian God to defend the downtrodden.
The ad is based on a speech conservative radio broadcaster Paul Harvey delivered in 1978 called “So God Made a Farmer.” The gist is that God wants someone to do lots the work, impact local government, help his neighbor, go to church, and essentially be a real-life Norman Rockwell character… therefore, God made farmers. Not a bad way to suck up to the audience at a convention for the Future Farmers of America.
The DeSantis team took that script, changed “farmer” to “fighter,” modified the rest of the script accordingly, and painted the conservative culture warrior as if he were some kind of American savior.
And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a protector.” So God made a fighter. God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, kiss his family goodbye, travel thousands of miles for no other reason than to serve the people, to save their jobs, their livelihoods, their liberty, their happiness.” So God made a fighter.
God said, “I need someone to be strong, advocate truth in the midst of hysteria. Someone who challenges conventional wisdom and isn’t afraid to defend what he knows to be right and just.” So God made a fighter.
God said, “I need somebody who will take the arrows, stand firm in the wake of unrelenting attacks, look a mother in the eyes and tell her that her child will be in school. She can keep her job, go to church, eat dinner with friends, and hold the hand of an aging parent, taking their breath for the last time.” So God made a fighter.
God said, “I need a family man. A man who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his daughter says she wants to spend her life doing what dad does.”
So God made a fighter.
The script is bizarre for a number of reasons, the most obvious being that DeSantis paints himself as God’s gift to humanity. If Joe Biden released a similar ad, every white evangelical pastor and FOX anchor would be screaming about blasphemy.
It’s also a ridiculous ad because DeSantis isn’t a fighter. Any fighter worth admiring is someone who isn’t afraid to put his own body or reputation on the line when pushing back against those who are more powerful. DeSantis is a coward who goes after marginalized communities in order to receive praise from within his right-wing echo chamber.
He’s not a fighter. He’s a professional asshole who represents the epitome of white evangelical Christian and conservative Catholic rage. He’ll use their rhetoric to hurt as many people outside their bubble as possible, all while being hailed as a hero by the people who claim moral superiority over everyone else.
He’s not a fighter. He’s a walking advertisement for why decent humans should ditch the Republican Party and organized religion entirely.
DeSantis doesn’t know how to fight because he has no principles to fight for. All he has is the power of his office, and he’s using that to wage wars against everyone who’s critical of him. Whatever happens with his political career, he’ll never be remembered as a fighter, just a guy who got away with all kinds of dipshittery because the conservative religious zealots in his corner never had the courage to defend the least of these.
After a county library director in Tennessee was fired for refusing to take down a Gay Pride-themed book display, Columbia Tennessee resident Jessee Graham spoke at a Board Of Trustees meeting opposing the firing and laying out the hypocrisy of taking such action to supposedly prevent abuse. Graham told the meeting, “I’ve never been assaulted at a drag show but i have been at church…twice!”
Despite Sean Hannity claiming no Republican has ever supported cutting Social Security, recent video of GOP Senator Mike Lee shows otherwise. John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, Mark Thompson discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET.
Joe Manchin is looking to cut a deal with Republicans on funding social security, medicare and medicaid. John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, Mark Thompson discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live
“Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Thursday called for a broad bipartisan deal to protect the solvency of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, popular programs that face serious funding issues over the next few decades.
“You’re going to get your financial house in order. We cannot live with this crippling debt,” Manchin, whose pivotal vote both delayed and helped pass big pieces of President Biden’s agenda, told Fortune’s Alan Murray at a CEO conference.
“If we don’t look at the trust funds that are going bankrupt, whether they be Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, highway, all the ones — there are tremendous problems right now,” Manchin said when asked where he sees areas of potential compromise in Washington after the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
Republicans reveal what election deniers say behind the scenes about “the big lie.” Jayar Jackson, A.B. Burns-Tucker and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live
“Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) revealed what election deniers actually say behind closed doors as a slew of reality-defying candidates run as Republicans in next week’s 2022 midterms.
“It was always a lie. The whole thing was always a lie. And it was a lie meant to rile people up,” the Texas Republican said of the lie that Donald Trump was cheated by widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election during the latest episode of his “Hold These Truths” podcast.”
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