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Oklahoma Schools Chief Rants About Latest Ranking Of US Presidents: Our Kids Will Learn That Trump Is Great

Oklahoma Schools Chief Rants About Latest Ranking Of US Presidents: Our Kids Will Learn That Trump Is Great

It is a cult, the party of tRump, the maga thugs.   This guy is a white supremacist Christian nationalist who wants to turn public schools into church right wing indoctrination camps, force everyone to live by his church doctrines, and teach racist stereotypes are real facts to children.  Slavery was good, blacks are violent, bringing them to the US to learn Jesus was a good thing for them, type shit.   The problem is the governor who got elected is the same and proclaimed the state a Christian state dedicated to Jesus, meaning anyone of a different faith or atheist don’t matter and can just leave or go to hell.   He sees nothing wrong with the idea of the governor pushing his god / church doctrine on everyone.   So this is who hired the trash above, and tried to give him two high level state jobs to push Christianity.  Hugs.  Scottie

February 21, 2024 Christianists, Trump cultists

 

“Guess who’s last? President Trump. This is a great example of the radical woke college professors and what they’re trying to teach our kids. They want to tell our kids that every conservative president was terrible and every left wing president was amazing. In Oklahoma, we’re going to make sure that our kids understand that presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office. And not based on what a leftist, woke college professor says makes a great president.” – Oklahoma education superintendent and avowed Christian nationalist Ryan Walters.

Walters recently hired Chaya Raichik of Libs Of TikTok infamy to help oversee Oklahoma’s public school libraries. He is widely expected to run for governor when Gov. Kevin Stitt is term-limited out of office.

 

clay 3 days ago edited

“In Oklahoma, we’re going to make sure that our kids understand that presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office.”

Because how well the country’s doing was a sign of God’s favor of our president? Dipshit believes there are no business cycles, no outside factors, so transition time or costs.

Ash  clay3 days ago

That doesn’t augur well for Bush, Hoover or Trump. Obama, FDR, and Biden are evaluated, in part, on how well they rescued the economy from the ditch

clay  Ash3 days ago

What, like historians are going to pay attention to when the store shelves were actually empty, when housing construction ground to a halt?

Gustav2  clay3 days ago edited

A comment on a conservative site:

“Don’t read any book on the early history of the United States first printed after 1920.”

(((GC))) – End the filibuster!  clay3 days ago
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(That said, presidents absolutely can make things better or worse!)

Paddycakes2001  clay3 days ago

The economy created fewer jobs in Trump’s first 3 years than in Obama’s final 3 years.

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Ross3 days ago

Hey, Ryan!

Even Republican historians put Trump at the bottom of the list.

another_steve 3 days ago

“In Oklahoma, we’re going to make sure that our kids understand that presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office.”

That’s funny. In his MAGAt circles, I thought that presidential greatness is based on how many pussies you grab ’cause you’re a star and they let ya.

liondon#traitortrash3 days ago

Trying to talk facts to a cultist…

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Porkie 3 days ago edited

In a more topical vein how about teaching OK students not to murder kids in the bathroom

Uncle Mark – fermented for ‘24 3 days ago

“What the hell do a bunch of elitist libtard historians know? I only read one book…the Bible, and it tells me all I need to know. We’ll have much better historians in the future, after we finish burning down all the libraries.” 🙄

Stuart  Uncle Mark – fermented for ‘243 days ago

First they came for sociology, but I did nothing because I am not a sociologist…

Halou 3 days ago edited

How many people died because he was too lazy to lift a finger to tackle a pandemic? Not like he even needed to do any work to that end since there is a whole bureaucracy of government to follow any directives given to them. Just say “do this” and it’ll be done, but even that is too much for him.

How many people died because he had already said “It’ll be gone by spring” and stuck his stupid-ass flag in it like a land claim? Wouldn’t want to admit he was wrong about something, thus you all have to die horribly.

How many people died because the areas first affected by the pandemic voted more for Hillary in 2016? Urban areas like New York, may as well have been independent countries given the absolute lack of aid provided by the federal government.
Likewise when Puerto Rico was struck by a hurricane and they were more or less left to fend for themselves. How many died there waiting for relief that was never even sent?

This is why Trump is the worst. An ugly bastard child of malice and incompetence. Where past presidents could be defined as one or the other, he alone is both.

VodkaAndPolitics 3 days ago

“presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office.”

Sir, We had a damn plague.

kaydenpat 3 days ago

Conservative historians also ranked Trump in the bottom five so go ahead and teach OK kids another lie. You’re already teaching them that the Tulsa massacre had nothing to do with race.

muttpupdad  kaydenpat2 days ago

And that the land never really belonged to the Native Americans.

TrollopeReader3 days ago

Great if you love Putin !!

JackFknTwist – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ  TrollopeReader3 days ago

Exactly, – this is Putin swill being fed to Republicans.

April Smith 3 days ago edited

BTW, Ryan Walters has the blood of that non binary 16 year old kid on his hands. The one that was killed a few weeks ago at the high school in the Tulsa suburb of Owasso. Apparently just for being Trans.

All that inflammatory anti Trans garbage that spews out of his mouth egged on all the hated of anyone different.

JCF  April Smith3 days ago

Nex Benedict.

Ash3 days ago

Anyone arguing that the economy performed well during the Trump years is seriously delusional about how they ended.

 

Texas governor building 2,300-bed military base at seized border park

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-gov-abbott-announces-military-base-border-eagle/story?id=107377646

 

The move may deepen the tension between the state and federal governments.

ByQuinn Owen and Armando Garcia
February 20, 2024, 5:46 PM
 
There is a video at the link above.
 

Texas is building a new military base for National Guard members deployed to the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas — where state and federal authorities have been in a tense conflict over dealing with immigration — Gov. Greg Abbott said.

At a news conference on Friday, Abbott announced the construction of what he said would a new “base camp” that could house up to 2,300 soldiers.

“As opposed to being scattered around many different places across this region, they will be operating out of one place. It will amass a large army in a very strategic area. It will increase the speed and flexibility of the Texas National Guard to be able to respond to crossings,” Abbott said.

Officials expect that by mid-April they’ll have a 300-bed capacity and will add another 300 each month until completion, Texas Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer, Abbott’s top military adviser, said at the Friday press conference. The camp will include several features like large dining halls, individual rooms for soldiers and medical care facilities.

The move may also deepen the tension between the state and federal governments as Abbott continues to implement his own strategies to deter migrants from crossing in between ports of entry at the southern border.

PHOTO: Members of Texas National Guard sit inside the fence at Shelby Park on February 3, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Members of Texas National Guard sit inside the fence at Shelby Park on February 3, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas.
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Against the city’s wishes, Texas seized full control of a Shelby Park on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande in January, enclosing a 2.5-mile area with barriers and concertina wire and staffing it with Texas National Guard troops.

It has been the epicenter of state and federal government showdown as Abbott continues to restrict Border Patrol’s access to the area, preventing them from apprehending migrants crossing in one of the region’s major hotspots.

The Biden administration has sued the state of Texas over a law that would give new authority to local police to crack down on those suspected of entering the country illegally.

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in the state-federal dispute and issued an order allowing federal authorities to cut down the razor wire installed by Texas in areas where it was otherwise difficult to help migrants in distress.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been critical of the Texas governor, calling Abbott’s unilateral actions on the border “unconscionable.”

PHOTO: Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, during a news conference at Shelby Park along the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, Feb. 8, 2024.
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“It is unconscionable for a public official, to deliberately refuse to communicate, coordinate, collaborate with other public officials in the service of our nation’s interests, and to refuse to do so with the hope of creating disorder for others,” Mayorkas said in a recent interview with the Associated Press.

At the Friday press conference, Texas Maj. Gen. Suelzer said that in the coming weeks the Texas National Guard will be expanding operations and installing new barriers north and south of Eagle Pass, an indication that the state continues to build barriers despite the Supreme Court ruling last month that Border Patrol agents are allowed to remove or destroy razor wire fencing to apprehend migrants attempting to enter the United States. Suelzer did not specify if the expansion of those efforts means they will also restrict access to federal agents in those areas.

Without providing any evidence, Abbott claimed his efforts at Shelby Park and in other parts of the border are responsible for the number of crossings in the area dropping in recent weeks and increasing in Arizona and other parts of the border. The state’s operations at Shelby Park cover roughly 1% of the entire southern border. But the governor did acknowledge that the number of migrant encounters in the region might once again climb in the coming months.

“As we all know, come springtime, there’s going to be additional caravans that are making their way through the southern and central part of Mexico deciding where they are going to be going,” Abbott said. “We want to make sure that when they come to the crossroad about, ‘Are they going to go to Texas? Are they going to go elsewhere?’ They will know the wrong place to go is the state of Texas.”

TX Gov Floats Anti-Woke Wall On Oklahoma Border

 

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad3 days ago

It will increase the speed and flexibility of the Texas National Guard to be able to respond to crossings,” Abbott said.I

The National Guard has zero legal jurisdiction over border enforcement, which is a federal jurisdiction.

JCF  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad3 days ago

Unfortunately, right now not even SCOTUS saying that is making it happen.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad  JCF 3 days ago

They are ITCHING for Biden to to something to stop them.

Todd20036 3 days ago

Translation: stop women/girls from crossing the border to get abortions in blue states

Stop LBGTs from escaping

Sounds really American

Even if trump dies, this democracy is in deep trouble

Rebecca Gardner 3 days ago

We are already in the 2nd Gilded Age and now we are entering the 2nd Dark Ages.

Halou 3 days ago edited

First thought from the headline:
The American Nazi Party is already testing the waters with interstate travel restrictions for women and LGBT+ people, going so far as to legislate the presumption of guilt on the part of those making travel arrangements… The Federalist Society Inquisition has so far been somewhere between ignoring it and nodding their approval. So it only makes sense they’d try and enforce a ban on interstate travel with physical barriers and goon squads.

However, per the text of the article:
Putting all his private army thugs in one place right next to where he wants to start a fight with the federal government… I can only say fucking go for it! The US air force will no doubt program the coordinates into their missiles in order to knock it all off the moment shots are fired.

kal61678 3 days ago

Texas is literally becoming North Korea. The red states have gone full communist now.

LeeGP  kal616783 days ago

Not exactly communist. More like Oligarchical Collectivist where a small group owns and controls everything and the rest have no say and get crumbs.

The Milkman 3 days ago

I grew up in Oklahoma. If he’s worried about liberal ideas (or reasonable ideas of any kind), he’s looking in the wrong place.

Rebecca Gardner  The Milkman3 days ago

Tells ya all ya need to know about TexASS.

Paula  Karl Dubhe IV3 days ago

Yeah. Our governor wants to fight against the feds. DeSantis is just crazy with some of the crap he comes up with

 

West Virginia GOP Passes Deranged Bill That Could Put Librarians in Jail

https://newrepublic.com/post/179132/west-virginia-republicans-house-bill-librarians-jail

 

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West Virginia GOP Passes Deranged Bill That Could Put Librarians in Jail

State Republicans are taking the war on books to the next level.

JOSHUA LOTT/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGES
 

The Republican-controlled West Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill that could see librarians facing jail time.

House Bill 4654 passed the chamber Friday by a vote of 85–12, along party lines. The bill would remove criminal exemptions for schools, public libraries, and museums that distribute or display “obscene matter” to a minor, even if the minor’s parent or guardian is present. Any employees of those institutions found guilty of giving minors obscene matter can face fines of up to $25,000, up to five years in prison, or both.

The incredibly short piece of legislation gives no indication of how the new rules would affect paintings or sculptures that feature nude figures, or books that include descriptions or definitions of sexual conduct. Obscenity laws are incredibly hard to enforce, because definitions of obscenity still largely come down to individual interpretation.

As a result, there will likely be more reports of obscenity, made by people who are either more conservative or just nervous about accidentally breaking the law. And since libraries and public schools often operate on very tight budgets, they are unlikely to have the budget to fight a surge in lawsuits.

“It is going to cost our counties and our librarians when these matters go to the court system,” House Minority Leader Sean Hornbuckle told The Parkersburg News and Sentinel. “Because this is still vague, I’m scared.”

“This is a very dangerous bill.”

House Minority Whip Shawn Fluharty warned that the legislation could inspire many lawsuits over books that staff members don’t even realize are problematic. “The librarians on staff might not know if a book has obscene matter in it or may or may not have shown it to someone, but because it was in the facility and it was sitting on a shelf, it could still be prosecuted,” he said.

The bill has now been sent to the state Senate, which the GOP also controls (along with the governor’s office).

Republicans across the country have increasingly sought to ban books, claiming they are protecting minors from seeing inappropriately sexual content. But most of the books being pulled from shelves tend to discuss race, gender, and sexuality.

Seemingly innocuous texts have also gotten caught up in the fray. School districts in Florida have pulled the dictionary from library shelves for including definitions of sexual conduct and have drawn over children’s picture books.

WV House Approves Bill That Could Jail Librarians

 

jugomono 3 days ago edited

JFC!!! The main reason I’m alive today is that I figured out I was gay and OK from library books! I was 14 so I guess I was a minor. 50 years ago!

Elagabalus  jugomono3 days ago edited

Me too. The book that saved me was entitled “Society and the healthy homosexual” by George Weinberg. That book was my lifeline to sanity.

Ninja0980  jugomono3 days ago

That’s why the bigots want those books outlawed.
They want LGBT kids to hate themselves.

Darreth  Ninja09803 days ago

Apparently, they’re not getting enough of that outward and inward hate in church.

Todd20036 3 days ago

Obscene = LBGTs exist

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kal61678  William3 days ago

“They tried to make me learn stuff!”

Makoto  William3 days ago

Death by a thousand papercuts and/or learning. Definitely something some worry about more than the proliferation of overpowered guns.

Tor 3 days ago

This is war. Librarians, traditionally, have been among the most trusted people in the US. It’s another move to undermine American institutions.

Elagabalus3 days ago edited

Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder and they all know that; they just can’t help themselves from pushing the envelope as far as possible.

Darreth3 days ago

As soon as a society erodes enough to jail librarians for books that have been on their shelves for decades that society will not last.

Swamp Yankee  Darreth3 days ago edited

Exactly, but since there has been precious little resistance, they’re gonna keep on doing what they do.

coram nobis 3 days ago

There’s also the inclusion of museums in there, and “obscene matter” could encompass, say, the entire Italian Renaissance in paintings and statuary — never mind Mapplethorpe. Even the religious stuff has full nudal frontity, and that includes the madonna-and-child school.

AyJayDee2 3 days ago

Good lord, what’s next, book burnings? Oh wait, they already had those too.

 

Haley seven days a week and twice on Sunday.

Tennessee Gov Signs Bill Allowing State Officials To Refuse To Perform Same-Sex Marriages Because Jesus

Tennessee Gov Signs Bill Allowing State Officials To Refuse To Perform Same-Sex Marriages Because Jesus
Read the full article. My first report on the bill is here.

The bill’s author, state Sen. Mark Pody, has appeared here many times for his attacks on same-sex marriage. In 2016, he sought to “nullify” the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling.

In 2017, he sponsored a bill calling for Tennessee to defy Obergefell entirely, and literally fled protesters at his press conference.

In 2019, he filed the “Tennessee Natural Marriage Bill” that would void same-sex marriages, something he says God told him to do.

In 2020, he filed a fourth attempt to make the bible the official book of Tennessee. In 2021, he filed a bill that would allow fathers to block abortions by their partners.

 

AIR CONMAN | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update

Let’s talk about West Virginia and books….

Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik Threatens to Sue Critics Blaming Her for Partial Role in Teen’s Death

A 16-year-old non-binary student in Oklahoma named Nex Benedict died following a physical altercation they had in a school bathroom with three students that bullied them since 2023. Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik is now being accused of sharing indirect responsibility for the hate crime for the fact that she helped cultivate a toxic climate of anti-LGBTQ+ hate at the school by targeting one of the school’s pro-LGBTQ+ teachers that lead to a “scandal” that rocked the small town. We’ll break down the details in this video.

Stephen Miller Is Excited

Stephen Miller Is Excited

Again Ten Grain at Mock Paper Scissors has written an important post every one should see and understand.   This is what these cult maga want, they are complete racist bigots.   Notice that they never talk about stopping immigration from Europe or Canada.  tRump once whined that we needed more people from Norway to move here, but I ask why the hell would they?  They openly praise the idea of concentration camps for the undesirables, which means anyone who is not white straight cis and Christian.  Hugs.  Scottie

Florida House Approves Chaplains For Public Schools, Bill’s “Tongues-Speaking Exorcist” Sponsor Celebrates

Florida House Approves Chaplains For Public Schools, Bill’s “Tongues-Speaking Exorcist” Sponsor Celebrates

Since the 1980s religious leaders in the Christian faith have tried hard to take over state governments, force their church dogma into public schools, and now enshrine religious doctrines in federal laws.   The religious right wants the words Christian to be a legal way to disregard any law or rule they don’t like, giving Christians special privileges they deny any other religion.  I don’t understand their absolute delusion that the US was to be a Christian theocracy?  I don’t understand how they think forcing their religion on everyone is better than democracy?  Hugs.  Scottie

February 22, 2024 Christianists, Education

 

Florida Politics reports:

Bipartisan legislation that could put religious figures in your child’s classroom passed the House by an 89-25 margin, after a spirited debate in which one of the sponsors called herself a “Holy Roller” and said she “casts out devils.”

HB 931, sponsored by Republican Rep. Stan McClain and Democratic Rep. Kim Daniels [photo], would “authorize volunteer school chaplains to provide support, services, and programs to students. Daniels also said the separation of church and state was “intended to keep the state out of the church.”

“I am the opponents of this bill’s worst nightmare,” Daniels continued. “I cast out devils, I pray in tongues, I’m a Holy Roller. But nobody on this floor can ever say I tried to convert you. Jesus is too good to push down anybody’s throats.”

Read the full article.

Rep. Kim Daniels, who claims to be an exorcist by trade, first appeared on JMG when she declared that children’s dolls are sometimes possessed by demons.

Prior to her election as a state rep, Daniels led the campaign to defeat Jacksonville’s LGBTQ rights ordinance.

Her bill to place “In God We Trust” signs in all Florida classrooms was approved in 2018.

In 2019, she authored an ultimately failed bill to force Florida schools to offer separate elective courses on the Old and New Testaments.

Daniels, who claims the title of “apostle,” earned national attention last year when an old video was surfaced in which she declared, “I thank God for slavery.”

In the Christian network video below, she explains that her primary role in life is as a “demon buster.”

 

Todd20036 16 hours ago

Demons never infected atheists

Canadian Observer  Todd2003615 hours ago

True as far as that goes, but I have encountered a few cats being raised by atheists that I have a few doubts about. 😉

San_Ban  Todd2003614 hours ago

I know! We’re immune to all sorts of ailments that afflict the religious.

666 and 999 16 hours ago

Are the kids going to be learning something like this from them???

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rednekokie 16 hours ago

I am so very grateful that I received my education before the absolute crazies took over.
I can only weep for those attempting to get an education in this day and time.

Wintercat  rednekokie16 hours ago edited

I grew up in the South Florida of the 80’s and early 90’s. I went to a very progressive elementary school that had open classrooms and self-directed learning and a media center that showed immersive media from all around the world to make kids worldly, kids from many nations and every race, teachers that were openly homosexual and it was known they had a same sex spouse and that was fine. We were taught about the Rosewood Massacre and the truth of the Seminole Wars, the latter even under the locally built chickee hut on the playground.

It is now a completely unrecognizable place to me, and I never want to return even for a visit.

Damned_at_Random  rednekokie16 hours ago

My granddaughter is in Pensacola. My daughter had to sing a release to give her access to the middle school library.

I really wish they would leave that asylum