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bartleby just before he proclaims that he would prefer not to
Time to pull up the morning news and read the list of things the republican party has destroyed today [pulls out a newspaper that keeps unspooling longer and longer like a comically oversized CVS receipt]
Oh hey, I remembered I made an account here.
David Holt does this is because he desperately wants to be elected to statewide office & he (vainly) hopes that if he criticizes Trump without mentioning Trump by name he might be able to win a future GOP primary for attorney general (GOP primary voters will never support a guy who opposed Trump).
It's too cute by half that Mayor Holt would make a presidential endorsement w/out actually saying the name of either candidate (though he's clearly indicating he views Trump as an incompetent bigot).
Remember how the legislature gerrymandered OKC so badly that parts of Tulsa & OKC are now in the same district? It's because the GOP is afraid of OKC's voters. They know how many of us are eager to support a democrat; so they gerrymandered OKC to deny us even the chance to elect one.
It's late October, I want brisk evening air to help me get into the Halloween season mood. Instead Oklahoma's weather has decided to give us a second summer.
Nathan Dahm is truly one of the dumbest people to ever get elected to office in the state of Oklahoma (and the bar is set very, very high!).
If he had any brains he might be bothered by his hypocrisy but luckily for him that's something he's never had to worry about.
High speed police chases endanger the community & are mostly unnecessary given tracking technologies. But cops keep recklessly undertaking high speed chases because they think it's fun & cool; as a result an innocent college cheerleader is dead & her mother has been hospitalized.
To conservatives freedom is when your child's school budget gets looted in order to give handouts to wealthy private schools.
Tyranny is when conservatives are forced to recognize that people of all races, religions, and sexual orientations deserve to be treated fairly.
In Oklahoma the governor gets to appoint a new judge in the event that the voters decide to not retain the current judge.
Do you want Kevin Stitt to be able to appoint even more far-right judges to Oklahoma's courts?
Instead of being charged with a war crime the Army gave LTC West an honorable discharge and a pension. And a few years later Allen West became a Republican politician who held office in Congress.
Learning about another terrible thing the late James Inhofe did during his long career in the Senate:
Inhofe praised a soldier who committed a war crime; when LTC West carried out a mock execution on a detainee Inhofe gave a speech calling for West to receive a commendation.
See also, places like Oklahoma City—a purple city in a red state—where democrats are entirely capable of winning county or municipal elections but candidates starve for funding because the national party writes off the entire state as hopeless and not worth fighting for.
Remarkable how many people found it easier to believe a healthy sixteen year old dropped dead in the family living room 24 hours after having their head slammed into a bathroom floor than to consider the possibility that cops lie www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
It's very telling that when left-leaning accounts want to confront people they dislike what they're saying is that they should be heckled in public. But when LibsokfTiktok thinks of confronting people she can only interpret that as "commit murder."
Pretty icy yet more than any national Republican will say about the mobs being given marching orders by Chaya, Trump, Elon, etc.
It’s important to understand that religious freedom is a very important value and the actual way it is understood by the conservative movement is “sectarian exemption from the law for right wing christianity” bsky.app/profile/josh...
The biggest part of this to remember is that the official investigation of this by Oklahoma schools will be led by a raging bigot who has loudly and proudly and repeatedly declared his disgust for trans people. Any report from Walters of what happened should be viewed with great skepticism.
In "The Dead Zone" Martin Sheen plays a president with messianic delusions who starts World War III by launching a nuclear strike on the USSR while attending a peace conference. Ryan Walters is the same sort of guy except he set his sights on trans students instead of Soviets.
Everyone keeps talking about a certain transphobic influencer but this kid died after a beating in a school managed by Ryan Walters, superintendent of Oklahoma schools and among the most hateful public officials in the country.
It’s obscene that these parents have to bury their child but it sounds like Nex knew they were loved in a way a lot of parents regret not communicating
Owasso is an affluent suburb of Tulsa, lots of oil money floating around
Ryan Walter's political career is built around spreading fear about minorities and therefore people like Chaya Raichick are extremely useful to him as she constantly stokes the flames of anger. It's why Walters rewarded her with an appointment to the State Dept. of Education.
Chaya Raichick's public profile is entirely built around constructing campaigns of harassment to intimidate and silence anyone who expresses a gender identity or political outlook which makes her uncomfortable.
Walters is trying to dismantle public schools. He and the governor who appointed him to his cabinet are pushing school vouchers because they're Christian Nationalists who hate that public schools are forbidden from performing religious indoctrination.
This horrifying murder puts blood on not just Raichik's hands but also Oklahoma schools superintendent Ryan Walters, who gave Raichik an official position despite her having no connection to OK or background in education. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Not content with having gotten a child killed, LibsofTikTok is now marshaling her army of hate which she keeps on a leash to unleash a torrent of bile and death threats on the local journalist who reported on this student who suffered a fatal head injury in the bathroom of their high school.
Ryan Walter desperately wants to climb the political ladder & decided his path to power would be paved by stoking hatred for trans students & teachers.
Walters & his friend LibsofTikTok have succeeded in cultivating so much hate that it got a kid killed in their bid to advance their careers.