Republican hate mongering & bigotry omnibus

If there's another appropriate thread I'm unaware of it, but with the booster rockets attached by Desantis, the Daughters of the Confederacy...oh wait, I mean "Moms for Liberty" these stories are coming fast and furious so they might as well all be in one place.

For example:

Teacher quits after school takes down his display of historic Black people - LGBTQ Nation

Michael James — a 61-year-old white special needs teacher at O.J. Semmes Elementary School in Escambia County, Florida — wrote a letter announcing his resignation to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) after James’ classroom posters of Black national heroes were taken down for being “age-inappropriate.”

While James didn’t blame DeSantis, the posters may have been removed in the belief that they violated the state’s April 2022 law (championed by DeSantis) which bans educators from teaching certain topics related to race.

Because James teaches at a predominantly Black school, he spent $58 and several hours to create a classroom bulletin board behind his desk which featured portraits of Martin Luther King Jr., Harriett Tubman, Colin Powell, and George Washington Carver, noting their historic achievements. He wanted his students to feel inspired by people who looked like them.


However, on Monday, a board-certified behavior analyst for the school district unexpectedly entered his classroom “to help him set up the room.” The analyst then began removing the pictures of the Black historical figures from his bulletin board.

When he asked what she was doing, “She said something along the lines of it wasn’t age-appropriate,” James told the publication. She also picked up the portrait he had of Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, on his desk and allegedly said, “You don’t need to put this up either. The kids are too young.”

He teaches kids in kindergarten through fifth grade.

Newly elected DA suggested prosecuting librarians for "inappropriate" books - LGBTQ Nation


Coty Wamp won the election to be the district attorney of Hamilton County, Tennessee last night as a video of her advocating prosecuting librarians for choosing to put books on library shelves that she feels are inappropriate, at a time when elected officials across the country are calling for bans on books that deal with LGBTQ themes and issues in racism. Now she’s denying that she ever called for prosecutions.

“It’s called contributing to the delinquency of a minor,” she said at a campaign event in May.

Wamp was asked by a voter if “there should be some kind of prosecution for these librarians” at the campaign event because librarians “are like, ‘we are the experts,’ and ‘we get to choose what goes in here.’”


She responded by proudly saying that she brought the anti-LGBTQ organization Moms for Liberty to the sheriff’s office to meet with the sheriff (she is currently counsel for the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office).

“We all need to rally around it and talk about what the next best steps are,” she said.

“I think there is going to come a time when some of these books where is crosses a criminal line,” Wamp said. “What is the difference between having inappropriate information on a brochure that you’re passing out to kids as they come into school – which obviously you can’t do – than just having it in their libraries?”

“The makeup of the books in our schools is gonna change drastically if we’ve got the right people on the school board,” she continued, holding up a book. “I mean, that’s the first step, because I can’t act like I can prosecute everybody if I can’t identify a criminal offense.”

“For me, as a lawyer and somebody who’s prosecuted these kinds of cases, you often have to determine who is responsible for putting these books in the school. Is it the librarian? Is it the school administrators? Is it the school board?”

“Obviously, if a teacher is handing a child something that I think is sexually explicit, I think we’ve got to look at the criminal statute and determine if the elements are there.”


Now she’s saying that she never advocated prosecuting librarians, even though her speech in the video showed that she had put a lot of thought into it.

“I won’t prosecute librarians or teachers for the books that are in our schools, and I do not say that I will in this video,” she told Jezebel. “The book that I was looking at in this video, which was in at least one of our county elementary schools, described sex positions using photos that could potentially amount to child pornography. I would assume most agree that elementary age children do not need to learn about sexual positions while they are at school. That’s absurd.”

It’s not clear from the video what book she was talking about, and she told Jezebel that she didn’t even know what book she was talking about, saying that she was handed that book at the event.

Considering far-right groups are calling for bans on innocuous books like Everywhere Babies and And Tango Makes Three because they show pictures of same-sex couples, it’s hard to take Wamp at her word that the book in question is something that most people – and not a minority of conservatives – would find inappropriate.


Over the past year, rightwing elected officials have parroted false and absurd rumors that involve sexualized content in schools. Nebraska Sen. Bruce Bostelman (R) said in March that children “dress up as animals, cats or dogs, during the school day. They meow and they bark,” and schools are accommodating this behavior because a school “didn’t provide the litter box so the student went ahead and defecated on the floor.”

He later acknowledged that he was spreading false information.

The problem has to effect cishet white moderates before they will do anything about it. It really has to effect them big time.

It is like the titanic. they are mostly all on their liferafts while other people are drowning all around them and they give sympathetic looks, but if you try to get in the boat they will have the crew beat you off the sides. They will even get mad at the crew for beating the poors in a public way but they are never going to do anything about it.

If you stand up and rock the boat they will gladly throw you overboard.

Thank you Biden Bros for making sure things don't change. I cannot just blame republicans when the dems do things like never codifying roe or protections for GLBT people. I cannot blame republicans when dems won't do shit to fix the supreme court problems and affirm crazy ass judge picks without complete meltdowns. It is not their rights that are being taken away by the court because they are rich moderate republicans even though many of them are democrats.

You can see how they can amazingly get the bills they actually want passed passed. You can get the corporate welfare passed. You can get the bloted military budget passed. You can give away billions in foreign aid to the saudis and isreal. You can subsidize the oil companies. You can protect your ability to trade stocks based on insider information even some of the rich get second hand from you.

If they had hung congress on jan 6th I would have been ready to fight the gravy seals for the country, but I wasn't running to the capitol to stand in their way. It would have been so horrible to see mike pence and pelosi dangling, but I was not going to protect them.

I can see this thread will provide ample jerkoff material to @Uncle Albert and @Federal Farmer, as more minorities are erased.

'Member back in the 70s, everyone laughing at Freud over "penis envy" and "castration fears"? Perhaps Siggy was onto something.

If commies turn all the kids transgender, how can they reproduce, and make more communists?
It's almost as if conspiracy theories are stupid or something.
Almost like the people who believe them all need to be put in padded rooms and spoon fed pureed mush.

Republican candidate for NY government calls for Garland to be executed. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carl-paladino-merrick-garland-executed_n_62fe499ae4b063894830e640

Alabama GOP county official "accidentally" posts racist material to the party's official page.

I could almost believe he was pranked, but.....fuck him, these shitheels don't deserve a benefit of the doubt anymore.

ok. I'm not Republican nor ... do I consider myself racist. But, it took me several minutes to figure out why that particular Republican elephant was racist where others are not.

Some people just go out of their way to hide/find stuff. But, I do know it happens. I was flabbergasted ( and I use that word intentionally), absolutely flabbergasted, when a guy in the military told me why he had white shoelaces on his black boots. Needless to say, I didn't socialize with him after that.

Hundreds of dictionaries that the Venice Rotary Club has donated to the Sarasota school system for years, have been held up so they can be properly screened under Desantis’ new law to ensure they don’t contain any "improper" material.

Sarasota County Schools denies donated Venice Rotary Club's dictionaries (heraldtribune.com)

Our Sec. of State posted about this on Twitter (which, it's pure TERF bigotry) so we know her position.



Note well, it doesn't actually enunciate even ONE "right" - it just describes the specifics of how they wish to exclude those whom they hate, often in terms right out of the segregationist's playbook

Where have we heard "They're coming for your children!" before?



Not shocking thing is that this dude basically just cites Twitter, particularly LoTT, to support his claim

...why the picture of lockers?
Is that a "here's where you're gonna get raped by a trans" thing?
If that's a thing, how come we haven't heard of a real case yet?
If it really happened, Repugs would be on it like stink on a monkey, and it'd be projected on the fucking moon with lasers.
Why, it's like they're a bunch of soul-dead liars.

Yeah, Republicans are actually passing laws that ban books [FUCKING DICTIONARIES FFS!!] and speech (see today’s slap down of Desantis’ Stop WOKE Act “Florida has become the Upside Down of First Amendment Rights” and the hopefully soon to be slapped down Don’t Say Gay Act) but according to @Lanzman @Rimjob Bob and @Federal Farmer the ‘woke left’ is just as much as a threat since they… *checks notes* say mean things on Twitter.

So...walk through this with me a second...
The whole f'n premise of the Christian religion is that people have a soul - something apart from a superior to the flesh - which is what God is interested in - what get's "saved" so to speak. The Catholic Church is certainly no exception to this notion, that who we REALLY are is reflected in the soul, not the flesh...
SO, here we have a representative of the National Catholic Bioethics Center claiming "There is no “inner self” that can be a distinct source of personal identity over and against bodily sex"
Has the hatred grown so profound that you have to literally deny the entire fucking premise of your religion in order to fuck over trans people?

Dysphoria and disorder: a tale of two disturbances (archive.org)

Landry has been overshadowed lately by the dueling asshole governors but he's every bit as much a piece of work


When you don’t have the popular will on your side, you resort to blackmail:
Louisiana’s attorney general just delayed a $39 million line of credit for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board – which the city needs for its flood response – because the city won't enforce the state’s abortion ban.
Louisiana Delays Critical Flood Response Funds to New Orleans Over Abortion Politics (jezebel.com)

Even when you know it's coming the precision will still take you by surprise
https://twitter.com/deonteleologist/status/1560076029930000384?s=20&t=6Pj9MPGlhtrVRJWGP9NJqQ

They would have been better off saying "God never lets a girl soul slip into a boy body, and vice versa, cuz God always gets everything right".
But to deny the soul flat out? Wow.
Where were these dimwits when Chris Hitchens was alive?
Or Carlin?
That would have been some fun shit.

If trans people do not have a soul then what the fuck is going to hell for being trans? Oh, and lucifer is going to be pissed when I show up without the soul I signed away to him because I wanted to be trans. Also, I am really good with not going to christian heaven to have to live with the worst of the worst religious fundamentalist child raping, sexist, racist, biblebashing shitheads for eternity listening to harp music. I am actually a bit disappointed as everything I love is a product of hell and I was actually looking forward to them being right.

Here's the thing. Woke cancel culture is just as bad as literal government censorship because those guys are fucking morons.

A Texas law now requires public schools to put up “In God We Trust” posters that are donated.

It’s not about patriotism. It’s about shoving Christianity in kids’ faces.

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1560981857101135874?s=21&t=Jm7F8bjGtVcRF_tO_J_Afw

But, but the pronouns! THE PRONOUNS! Both sides!! BOTH SIDES!!!1!

Grace Christian School in Valrico, FL has asked all LBGTQ students to leave immediately. This is probably not what Jesus would do.

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1561055465039069189?s=21&t=DJE1rT73-zXdM8LgPHdEuQ

BUT WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE PRONOUNS?!??

Those kids will probably be far happier elsewhere. The market works.

You don't like ideology being shoved in kids' faces? Imagine...

This really is a nothing burger, even less consequential than pronoun demands. We can have "In God We Trust" on every currency note, but putting it on a wall affects anything at all? You're reaching.

Also, please note that not all of us use Twitter, so please embed whatever content here. I can't login to the view the link.

Lol, arguing for treating people with respect and equality is far left wokeness, kicking students out for their sexuality and state endorsement and reinforcement of a particular religion is a nothingburger.

Yeah, lots of police departments (including ours) now have it on all vehicles, we got it in our GD state flag (which was the price required to get rid of the DBF) and I'm pretty sure it's been in classrooms for several years

No sign that god is doing any better by Mississippi than he ever has though

You're not seeing the big picture. The reactionary right is obsessed with destroying public education, once done private alternatives will be all that's left - and LGBT kids have three choices: the closet, the grave, or no education.

But I'm sure it will be fine as long as no one is "woke"

Bob won't see a problem but Noem's submitted history requirements in SD are basically straight Christian Nationalism including treating Jesus as a real historical figure and the constitution basically inspired by God himself

I encourage everyone to donate to Texas schools posters containing the words "In God We Trust" over a high def Goatse. Legally, the schools have to display it.