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Saturday, March 18, 2023

Ron DeSantis' dystopian vision for Florida public schools includes pretending LGBTQ+ people don't exist, white people have never done anything wrong, and if you don't cower to the bully some organizations afraid of losing contracts have been busy creating ridiculous historic fantasies.

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Yes, The New York Times reports that Studies Weekly, whose curriculum is used in 45,000 schools throughout the country, made a disturbing update to its lesson about Parks's historic Montgomery bus boycott. In the lesson that's currently used, segregation is clearly defined with text that reads: "The law said African Americans had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down." But in an updated (Florida required by law, and coming to a school near you) version, it's as though race doesn't exist at all. "She was told to move to a different seat," it simply reads.

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The Lord of All Those Who Shall Not Wake, God of the UnWOKE, Dominus DeSantis hath so declared: Race Shall Have Nothing to do with the Rosa Parks story. As you wish, sayeth the publishers.

#1 | Posted by YAV at 2023-03-16 09:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

How Orwellian can he get?

#2 | Posted by horstngraben at 2023-03-16 09:54 PM | Reply

Erasing history fixes everything.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-16 09:58 PM | Reply

Op-ed: Ron DeSantis Wants to Erase Black History. Why? (January 2023)
www.nytimes.com

...An unrelenting assault on truth and freedom of expression in the form of laws that censor and suppress the viewpoints, histories and experiences of historically marginalized groups, especially Black and L.G.B.T.Q. communities, is underway throughout the country, most clearly in Florida. The state's Department of Education recently rejected a pilot Advanced Placement African American studies course from being offered in Florida's public high schools.

Under Gov. Ron DeSantis's "Stop WOKE" law " which would limit students and teachers from learning and talking about issues related to race and gender " Florida is at the forefront of a nationwide campaign to silence Black voices and erase the full and accurate history and contemporary experiences of Black people. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., the American Civil Liberties Union, the A.C.L.U. of Florida and Ballard Spahr filed a lawsuit on behalf of university professors and a college student opposing the "Stop WOKE" law and, along with a second lawsuit, won a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Board of Governors from enforcing its unconstitutional and racially discriminatory provisions at public universities.

Florida's rejection of the A.P. course and Mr. DeSantis's demand to excise specific subject areas from the curriculum stand in stark opposition to the state-issued mandate that all students be taught "the history of African Americans, including the history of African peoples before the political conflicts that led to the development of slavery, the passage to America, the enslavement experience, abolition and the contributions of African Americans to society."

While litigation continues, the various provisions of "Stop WOKE" and now the rejection of A.P. African American history could have devastating and far-reaching effects on the quality of education for Florida's 2.8 million students in its public K-12 schools. The same reasons that the "Stop WOKE" law is blocked from enforcement in university settings hold for elementary and secondary schools. As a federal judge ruled in November, the law strikes "at the heart of open-mindedness and critical inquiry,'" such that "the State of Florida has taken over the marketplace of ideas' to suppress disfavored viewpoints."

Mr. DeSantis's "Stop WOKE" law relegates the study of the experiences of Black people to a prohibited category....



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-16 10:03 PM | Reply

@#4 ... Mr. DeSantis's "Stop WOKE" law relegates the study of the experiences of Black people to a prohibited category. ...

My questions is simple...

Why?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-16 10:05 PM | Reply

The media really wants this guy to run for president.

#6 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-16 10:06 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

He's Trump 2.0

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-16 10:06 PM | Reply

@#6 ... The media really wants this guy to run for president. ...

Oh please. I know your alias is capable of better thought processes. Why not use 'em instead of letting politics drag 'em down?

Blaming anything on the media is, in my view, a way of saying, yeah, that is correct, but I need a quick out.

If Gov DeSantis is not looking at running for President, why in the world did he abandon his home state of Florida for a visit to the political elite in Iowa?

To promote his new book?

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-16 10:24 PM | Reply

8

? No clue what you're saying.

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-16 10:32 PM | Reply

@#9

OK, lemme try again. :)

Your #6 stated that it was the media who wanted Gov DeSantis to run for President.

My #8 comment suggested that it was not the media, but Gov DeSantis' actions that are showing he may be running for President.

Why else would Gov DeSantis be in Iowa?

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-16 10:57 PM | Reply

@#7 ... He's Trump 2.0 ...

In some respects, the seems to be a correct view.

Gov DeSanti does not seem to have the baggage of multiple, possibly illegal, dealings that fmr Pres Trump seems to be carrying with him.

In that respect, Gov DeSantis may be more dangerous than fmr Pres Trump in the Oval Office come 2025.

Maybe that is why so many are hoping for Pres Trump to get the Republican nomination....


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-16 11:02 PM | Reply

-My #8 comment suggested that it was not the media, but Gov DeSantis' actions that are showing he may be running for President.

DeSantis doesn't make every major news outlet write 50 articles a day about Florida.

DeSantis is certainly indicating his intentions.

But I'm saying the media wants him to run.

They're helping him.

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-16 11:08 PM | Reply

In that respect, Gov DeSantis may be more dangerous than fmr Pres Trump in the Oval Office come 2025.

He's more dangerous than Trump because he's less of a criminal?

#13 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-16 11:10 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#12 ... DeSantis doesn't make every major news outlet write 50 articles a day about Florida. ...

In a way, he did, with his crazy political-based policies. News outlets react to crazy.

As I have mentioned about fmr Pres Trump, ~if you want the media to stop reporting about the crazy things you say, just stop saying crazy things.~ But did fmr Pres Trump listen to me? Nooooo.... :)

Why do you seem to want to blame the media for the craziness of what Gov DeSantis is doing? It is Gov DeSantis that is doing the crazy things. The media is just informing you of what he is doing.

Maybe you pr of what is really occurringefer, as your comments seem to show, the lies of Mr Carlson on FoxNews, just telling you what you want to hear, instead of the facts?

The media is not the enemy here. They are merely reporting the craziness of a politician.

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-16 11:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

@#14

Maybe you pr of what is really occurringefer, as your comments seem to show, the lies of Mr Carlson on FoxNews, just telling you what you want to hear, instead of the facts?

- should be -

Maybe you prefer, as your comments seem to show, instead of the facts, the lies of Mr Carlson on FoxNews, just telling you what you want to hear?

(aside: I'm startng to really dislike the keyboard on this Lenovo laptop. The old lenovo ThinkPad keyboards were similar to the desktop gaming keyboards in their feel. This one, not so muuh. The shift key seems to be, let's just say, off.....)

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-16 11:29 PM | Reply

Florida is such a craphole.

#16 | Posted by censored at 2023-03-16 11:37 PM | Reply

-if you want the media to stop reporting about the crazy things you say, just stop saying crazy things.

I don't care. I'm just making an observation.

#17 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-16 11:46 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Well, if you contend slavery played no role in the Civil War, it's not a big leap to say that race has no place in Rosa Parks' story.

#18 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2023-03-16 11:46 PM | Reply

-Why do you seem to want to blame the media for the craziness of what Gov DeSantis is doing?

I don't blame the media for anything.

Nor does it seem that way.

Why do your comments draw such conclusions?

#19 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-16 11:48 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

-Maybe you pr of what is really occurringefer, as your comments seem to show, the lies of Mr Carlson on FoxNews, just telling you what you want to hear, instead of the facts?

No. I don't watch Mr Carlson, as you clearly do.

#20 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-16 11:49 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#17 ... I don't care. I'm just making an observation. ...

But your observation seems to be critical of the media for reporting the craziness of a political person.

So... what is the real problem?

The reporting, or what is being reported?


#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-17 12:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#20 ... No. I don't watch Mr Carlson, as you clearly do ...

I do watch Mr Carlson on occasion.

But, more importantly, I also read what Mr Carlson says under oath in a court of law.

It is the latter that has opened my eyes regarding FoxNews and how FoxNews seems to want to intentionally mislead people for profits.

#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-17 12:09 AM | Reply

@#22

Tangentially related...

Murdoch questioned if Fox News hosts "went too far" with voter fraud claims (March 8, 2023)
www.axios.com

...Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch told Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott that hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham maybe "went too far" in pushing former President Trump's election fraud claims on the network, according to court documents made public Tuesday.

The big picture: The redacted documents submitted in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox News chronicle a string of texts, emails and depositions, portraying a network that embraced election conspiracy theories amid declining viewership -- despite slamming them privately. ...


Lotsa links in that article...

#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-17 12:23 AM | Reply

It would be nice if Vanity Fair provided more than not even full sentence quotes.

This is the claim: "going so far as to delete any reference to race in a widely known story about Rosa Parks." Okay. The proof is half of one sentence where race isn't mentioned. How about a link to the full text from the textbook that tells the story of Rosa Parks? I'd be willing to bet her race is made very clear.

#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-17 01:49 AM | Reply

" The proof is half of one sentence where race isn't mentioned."

But a lie replaces it. You get that, right? What replaces the wording is AN OUT-AND-OUT LIE.

She wasn't asked.

I'd call that the salient part.

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2023-03-17 01:57 AM | Reply

@#24 ... It would be nice if Vanity Fair provided more than not even full sentence quotes. ...

What Vanity Fair link is your current alias referring to?

thx.

#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-17 02:07 AM | Reply

#26 Scroll up to the top of the page and click this: DeSantis' Florida: Race has no place in Rosa Parks story

#25 - That's fair. Surely you understand my request for full context though, right?

#27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-17 02:25 AM | Reply

" Surely you understand my request for full context though"

Surely the change doesn't give the full context.

Again, she was not "asked". The fact she didn't have to be asked, and shouldn't have had to have been asked, according to the law, IS THE CONTEXT.

#28 | Posted by Danforth at 2023-03-17 03:12 AM | Reply

"Again, she was not "asked".

Agreed - no, she wasn't. But if you scroll up, the allegation is that her race has been scrubbed altogether. Further, how is it written following her being "asked" depicted?

Do you really think I'm being unreasonable in asking for easy access to the actual text so I can evaluate it in full context?

#29 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-17 03:28 AM | Reply

"Do you really think I'm being unreasonable in asking for easy access to the actual text "

Seeing how THE CRUX was dealt with tells me enough.

SHE WASN'T ASKED.

" the allegation is that her race has been scrubbed altogether."

If the fact THE LAW SAID SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE ASKED was scrubbed, your distinction has no difference.

#30 | Posted by Danforth at 2023-03-17 03:41 AM | Reply

You do realize Vanity Fair is fixated on the one sentence that doesn't mention her race, right?

Let me phrase it differently - I am in no way saying you are wrong. But you are basing your opinion on a single sentence. So, once again - am I wrong for asking to see the full text so I can evaluate how this seminal event is depicted in full context?

#31 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-17 03:48 AM | Reply

Let me expound a bit - Whether she was "asked" or "commanded" doesn't change the fact that she was arrested for noncompliance.

#32 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-17 03:50 AM | Reply

Jesus H, Jeff

They scrubbed race out of it, which was the entire reason for the incident in the first place. No one would have asked her to move if she'd been white.

FROM THE ARTICLE:

In the lesson that's currently used, segregation is clearly defined with text that reads: "The law said African Americans had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down." But in an updated version, it's as though race doesn't exist at all. "She was told to move to a different seat," it simply reads.

#33 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2023-03-17 04:01 AM | Reply

Are you joking?

If someone summarized November 11, 1963 as "JFK was asked to relinquish the presidency" would you need to see the rest of the analysis before rendering a verdict on the author?!?

#34 | Posted by Danforth at 2023-03-17 04:02 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

But as the company pointed out, one of Florida's laws is the Stop WOKE Act, which DeSantis proudly signed last year and which bans instruction that would make anyone feel "discomfort, guilt, or anguish" about what people of the same race did in the past. And given DeSantis's previous comments"like that it's "inappropriate" and "not true" to teach that America was built on stolen land"it's not hard to see why the company believed it needed to tread lightly.

#35 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2023-03-17 04:04 AM | Reply

DeathSantis is a racist snowflake

#36 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2023-03-17 04:05 AM | Reply

I am not going to base my interpretation of it based on how Vanity Fair depicts how it's been framed. Give me access to the full text. Period. It's very possible that the full context is exactly as Vanity Fair is depicting it. It's ALSO very possible that this is a cherry-picked hit piece.

Would you guys blindly accept a Breitbart depiction of a partial sentence and just run off with all sorts of conclusions?

#37 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-17 04:07 AM | Reply

" Would you guys blindly accept a Breitbart depiction of a partial sentence and just run off with all sorts of conclusions?"

Depends.

Did Bill Buckner catch that ground ball in their version?

If he did, I don't really need to hear the rest of their analysis.

#38 | Posted by Danforth at 2023-03-17 04:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

So, I am completely out of line for wanting to see the full text....just jump on less than a full sentence quote and rush to judgement based solely on that?

Do you realize how ridiculous that is?

#39 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-17 04:15 AM | Reply

A few months ago Biden and the Obama's attended some Dem gala. Obama was the rock star and there was a very long awkward moment where Obama was yukking it up with esteemed guests and Kamala Harris was right there with him and Biden was looking feeble as he was trying to interject himself while seemingly being ignored. It looked really bad and Fox News was very careful as to when they cut the camera feed. However, full context revealed a very different picture - yes, the period of time that Biden was apparently snubbed was awkwardly long, but full video showed that just after Fox cut the feed Obama turned around, greeted Biden and he was welcomed into the fold.

That was a couple of minutes of video feed that was cut oof at the precise moment to create a narrative. It was rightly derided.

Yet, here you all are expecting me to accept a narrative of a half of a sentence selected by an outlet that has always had a heavy bias without question that it's fully representative of the overall lesson.

#40 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-17 04:23 AM | Reply

"seems to be"

I wouldn't criticize you for that if got something right once in a while.

"So... what is the real problem?"

That the media wants HIM.

He's good for biz. Just like trump.

It's not about his qualifications ... ... .it's that he is good for biz.

#41 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 07:50 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Yet, here you all are expecting me to accept a narrative of a half of a sentence selected by an outlet that has always had a heavy bias without question that it's fully representative of the overall lesson."

"But ... ..Bill Buckner"

LOL

#42 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 08:14 AM | Reply

The publisher edited their textbooks and the Florida Board of Education wants the references to race put back in.

The Florida Board of Education isn't concerned about the "woke" act, apparently.

#43 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 08:49 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

The Florida Department of Education suggested that Studies Weekly had overreached. Any publisher that "avoids the topic of race when teaching the Civil Rights movement, slavery, segregation, etc. would not be adhering to Florida law," the department said in a statement.

But Studies Weekly said it was trying to follow Florida's standards, including the Stop W.O.K.E. Act.

"All publishers are expected to design a curriculum that aligns with" those requirements, John McCurdy, the company's chief executive, said in an email.

It's just like abortion, right? The doctors are too scared to provide life saving and affirming medical care to women that are miscarrying or having health issues because the state may lock them up for 99 years, but it's not really against the law, so what's the issue with those damn doctors?

DeSantis' war on "WOKE" (actually a crusade for COMA) just can't possibly be responsible for all these publishers white-washing our history, could it?

From the linked NY Times piece:

"The Florida Citizens Alliance, a conservative group, has urged the state to reject 28 of the 38 textbooks that its volunteers reviewed, including more than a dozen by McGraw Hill, a major national publisher.

The alliance, whose co-founders served on Mr. DeSantis's education advisory team during his transition to governor, has helped lead a sweeping effort to remove school library books deemed as inappropriate, including many with L.G.B.T.Q. characters. It trained dozens of volunteers to review social studies textbooks.

In a summary of its findings submitted to the state last month, the group complained that a McGraw Hill fifth-grade textbook, for example, mentioned slavery 189 times within a few chapters alone...

The Florida Citizens Alliance is pushing the state to add curriculum from Hillsdale College, a small Christian school in Michigan that is active in conservative politics."

This isn't nearly over. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt isn't even bothering with submitting anything for review. They say it has nothing to do with all their math textbooks being rejected, and having to make edits to them, but I'm not sure I believe that.

#44 | Posted by YAV at 2023-03-17 09:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"A few months ago Biden and the Obama's attended some Dem gala."

LOL

#45 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-03-17 10:23 AM | Reply

"It's just like abortion, right? The doctors are too scared to provide life saving and affirming medical care to women that are miscarrying or having health issues because the state may lock them up for 99 years, but it's not really against the law, so what's the issue with those damn doctors?"

except this is a book, not life and death abortion procedures.

Folks like you just can't stand the reality of how sausage is made.

You live in a make-believe version of "The Jetsons" where you just press a button and POOF!, the food is put on your plate.

There are thousands and thousands of instances where book publishers and individual state education departments have had to go back and forth and back and forth....to get the proper text placed into a textbook per that State's guidelines.

You understand we are 50 states....with 50 different education departments.

If they're anything like insurance departments then it's a complicated matter all the time.

#46 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 12:37 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You'd have noting to point at and act condescending towards me if you actually thought things through and spoke with me. This is why I tell you to GFY.

You're an annoying fly and just about as smart.

#47 | Posted by YAV at 2023-03-17 01:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

-This is why I tell you to GFY.

You tell everyone to GFY. I'm not special.

I just speed things up so we can just skip to that point.

It never takes more than 4 or 5 posts for your feelings to get hurt, then out it flies....."GFY!!"

I just took you to that point immmediately.

#48 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 01:32 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"You understand we are 50 states....with 50 different education departments."

You understand this is why education in this country is so inadequate and inefficient...

Or maybe you don't. Maybe you celebrate that there's no Federal standards for minimum baseline of primary education that's right for all Americans. Because if you believed in that you'd support Common Core.

#49 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-03-17 01:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

DeSantis's new version of the Rosa Parks story:

"A person got on a motorized vehicle with other people. The person was supposed to sit in a section of the motorized vehicle reserved for people, but decided not to and sat with the people. When the person decided not to move for another person, the people on the motorized vehicle were shocked by the actions of the person and so the person was arrested. People were upset people arrested the person and decided to boycott the motorized vehicle."

It's a tale to tell the kids.

#50 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-17 01:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Don't feel bad, Yav.

You're not the only one here who hasn't a clue on how the world works. It probably happens in every state every year multiple times. Where a textbook publisher edits content per an individual state requirement, a new one especially, and gets it wrong and has to change it again.

What makes you especially dumb is where you equate it to getting an abortion.

Textook wording = abortion laws.

#51 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 01:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"You understand we are 50 states....with 50 different education departments."

You understand we're one country right?

You republicans have been poisoned by Russian propaganda.

How desperately you desire to rip America apart and destroy it.

#52 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-17 01:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

here are thousands and thousands of instances where book publishers and individual state education departments have had to go back and forth and back and forth....to get the proper text placed into a textbook per that State's guidelines.
You understand we are 50 states....with 50 different education departments.

#46 | POSTED BY EBERLY

No, we aren't when it comes to textbooks. We are about 5 states. The remainder aren't big enough to have much of an effect so they end up going with what the bigger states decide. It's why Texas has so much clout in the textbook market.

#53 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-03-17 01:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Don't feel bad, Yav.
#51 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Yea. Don't feel bad Yav.

Eberly is fkkking retarded and everything he posts is trolling nonsense.

#54 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-17 01:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

No, we aren't when it comes to textbooks. We are about 5 states. The remainder aren't big enough to have much of an effect so they end up going with what the bigger states decide. It's why Texas has so much clout in the textbook market.
#53 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT

Eberly is wrong, as usual.

Is anyone surprised?

Show of hands.

Anyone?

#55 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-17 01:44 PM | Reply

-You understand we're one country right?

See? Clown doesn't get it either.

He should just shut up and not offer up his own ignorance.

I didn't make the decision to allow 50 states to have this much power and not being beholden to Federal Standards more than they currently are.

Take it up with the framers.

I understand the impact. It's one of the many reasons why none of my kids ever saw the inside of a public school classroom.

#56 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 01:44 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

You understand we're one country right?

See? Clown doesn't get it either.
#56 | POSTED BY EBERLY

So we're not a country.

You heard it here first folks.

Eberly doesn't believe America is a country.

Putin would be proud.

#57 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-17 01:46 PM | Reply

-No, we aren't when it comes to textbooks. We are about 5 states

really? Have you even considered the LOCAL decisions that are allowed in some states?

meaning texbook publishers have to deal with 50 states and some local school districts who can make their own independent preferences?

#58 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 01:48 PM | Reply

www.ecs.org

look like 5 states to you?

#59 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 01:49 PM | Reply

-So we're not a country.

Of course we are.

Even when we have to tolerate anti-american POS losers who do nothing but complain about this country.

#60 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 01:50 PM | Reply

My only point is that the back and forth on individual state compliance is a typical and normal part of the bureaucracy of dealing with state government.

It's not a defense for DeSantis nor the State of Florida for putting the book publisher in a position to consider a change that wasn't necessary.

#61 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 01:56 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

and that it's not the same thing as a change in abortion laws.

#62 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 01:56 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

"I didn't make the decision to allow 50 states to have this much power and not being beholden to Federal Standards more than they currently are."

Your party did.

#63 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-03-17 02:00 PM | Reply

Even when we have to tolerate anti-american POS losers who do nothing but complain about this country.
#60 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Yea, Republicans are the worst.

#64 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-17 02:25 PM | Reply

Eberly, you look like an idiot. I love that you give yourself so much power and think so highly of yourself, and then crash and burn.

"You understand we are 50 states....with 50 different education departments."

That was hilariously stupid.

Please, though, lecture me more on how I don't know how things works.

#65 | Posted by YAV at 2023-03-17 03:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

65

I don't want you to get too upset but you are aware we have 50 states, correct?

50 state capitols
50 governors
50 different state governors

you follow?

#66 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 03:21 PM | Reply

Eberly.

Are we one country?

I know it's difficult.

But take a swing at it.

#67 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-17 03:23 PM | Reply

-Are we one country?

Oh...I'll play along.

sure....yes, we are 1 country. and I'll help you out.....with a FEDERAL department of education.

yer up....

#68 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 03:25 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Thank god one of you Republicans still believe America is a country.

#69 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-03-17 03:27 PM | Reply

"The media really wants this guy to run for president."

No, Beverley.

It's your people.

It's your people, the ones you identify with, the ones you vote for, the ones you hang out with.

They're the ones who want DeSantis.

#70 | Posted by Angrydad at 2023-03-17 06:03 PM | Reply

70

Republicans want him to run. Yes.

But so does the media. All of it. Everyone.

You're one dumb--- if that's not obvious.

How many stories a day on this guy?

I know ... .you're dumb enough to believe the bad stories hurt him

You're one dumb --- if you do.

#71 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 06:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

I didn't say they wanted him to win.

But running is great for biz.

#72 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 06:09 PM | Reply

But running is great for biz.

POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2023-03-17 06:09 PM | REPLY

Your North star.

#73 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2023-03-17 06:52 PM | Reply

The federal DOE should be abolished. Teachers have to deal with way too much bureaucratic BS. That mostly comes from the very top.

#74 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-18 09:58 AM | Reply

I hope that was supposed to be funny.

#75 | Posted by YAV at 2023-03-18 10:00 AM | Reply

I'm serious.

#76 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-03-18 10:04 AM | Reply

The federal DOE should be abolished. Teachers have to deal with way too much bureaucratic BS. That mostly comes from the very top.

POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2023-03-18 09:58 AM | REPLY

Nonsense. There should be an universal benchmarks schools across the country reach. The Department of Education is a necessary cabinet position.

#77 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2023-03-18 10:04 AM | Reply

Ignorance rooted in poor education and nonexistent critical thinking skills are crucial to the development of the Republican electorate.

#78 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2023-03-18 10:26 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Ignorance rooted in poor education and nonexistent critical thinking skills are crucial to the development of the Republican electorate.

#78 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Ignorance rooted in poor education and nonexistent critical thinking skills are crucial to the development of the Democrat electorate.
We can teach the little wokesters that a man can change into a woman and the prime directive of the constitution was to perpetuate slavery. Yay Dems

#79 | Posted by rhymegunfighter at 2023-03-18 03:45 PM | Reply

"the prime directive of the constitution was to perpetuate slavery."

Come on now.

Slavery was only 3/5 of the Prime Directive.

No Slavery? No Constitution.
FACT!

#80 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-03-18 03:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#79 - Wow. How creative.. /snark

#81 | Posted by YAV at 2023-03-18 07:38 PM | Reply

Living with whites.

#82 | Posted by fresno500 at 2023-03-19 12:59 PM | Reply

Most repugs are sad that Rosa Parks wasn't lynched for being uppity.

#83 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2023-03-19 01:02 PM | Reply

The media really wants this guy to run for president.

#6 | Posted by eberly

So does the party you're always defending.

How come that party wants a president who removes RACE from the rosa parks story?

#84 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2023-03-19 01:51 PM | Reply

#79

Considering your laser-like focus on the subject... perhaps you should go ahead and have the operation.

I mean, it's like you've turned a Freudian Slip into a ski slope. Just say'n.

#85 | Posted by Corky at 2023-03-19 04:39 PM | Reply

I think he is pushing the bill so he can have Donald Trump arrested for having undocumented workers working at his resorts.

#86 | Posted by danS at 2023-03-19 10:55 PM | Reply

Head White Nationalist Floridian with aspirations to be
'Chief Fascist in Charge', attempts to White-Wash History,
and sweep minorities under the rug.

Film at Eleven...

Wake up America, the Fascists are at the door already!

#87 | Posted by earthmuse at 2023-03-20 06:50 AM | Reply

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