TL;DR: piece-of-shit Evangelical anti-woke superintendent who was busted watching porn in his office on a conference call resigned last month.

New Superintendent: Yeah nah we’re not gonna do the bible thing.

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    It’s a good thing that people who are both evil and capable are so rare. The situation in the US would be so much worse if those fascist fundamentalists were more capable.

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      The evil and capable ones tend to be the wealthy behind the scenes guys who know better than to have their name and image associated publicly with the kind of heinous policies they want to implement. They pay for the evil incompetent guys to be the face and take the heat.

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      I think it’s because evil is stupid. Like, it’s a net negative policy. And often predicated on falsehoods (eg: belief that race works like old DND)

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      So many people at the protest today yelled at us that Jesus is their king. Okay… I didn’t say anything about Jesus.

      I think you’re confused. You can have him as your king. I just don’t want his laws to apply to the real world.

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    It’d be hilarious if some teachers had done some malicious compliance, like using the Babble as a centerpiece for poor thinking and logical fallacies. Also: teaching its inconsistencies, teaching how it was voted on as to what was “canon”, how it was used as justification for slavery, etc…I’m sure the prospect of some real education in relation to “the” Bible would have scared the fundies silly.

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    If the people trying to impose Bible or placing ten commandments in institutions would at least follow the teachings, we would be in a much better place.

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    Those Bibles. They have a lot of people doing bad things to one another and keeping slaves and pimping their sister and stuff.

    They should be banned. Or burned. Or both.

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        I read the whole thing around age 10 as an attempt to try to bring myself to believe it. Because I was questioning it around 6. Honestly, I believed in Santa longer than I believed in God. I read the whole bible front to back and was like… Yeah this is unrealistic. Spiderman was also unrealistic but it didn’t try to act like reality.

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    So did they already buy all those ‘trump’ bibles. And was that just a move to give him some cash and spin up the base for the last guy so he can get higher in politics? I mean fuck them kids am I right -edit typo

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    I thought the porn thing was a nothing burger of a streaming service displaying questionable content on a TV in one of the offices. Or am I confusing my porn scandals?

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      I mean - that may have been a spin they used but. The TV just happened to be naked hoochies boinking seems unlikely.

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        I looked up the story. Obviously, we can cast doubt on an Oklahoma prosecutor’s objectivity and the possibility that office is in on a cover-up, but lacking other evidence I would say this is really nothing.

        The most you can really make of it is that the old superintendent didn’t handle it well and apologize to the board for what they witnessed. That seems in line with him being a total asshole. But was he watching Jackie Chan porn in his office while on a video conference? Very unlikely.

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          Here’s the quote from Becky Carson, one board member who saw it:

          I was like, “What am I seeing?” I kind of was in shock, honestly. I started to question whether I was actually seeing what I was seeing. I was like, “Is that woman naked?” And then I was like, “No, she’s got a body suit on.” And it happened very quickly, I was like, “That is not a body suit.” And I hate to even use these terms, but I said, “Those are her nipples.” And then I was looking closer, and I got a full-body view, and I was like, “That is pubic hair.” Even right now, I couldn’t even tell you what I was watching.

          Pubic hair? She can’t determine a flash of buns from that?

          I’m just saying, they had to ask him to turn off his movie with full frontal nudity during the meeting. And he could have immediately said “it wad this movie, this scene” when it blew up. But this story about being a Jackie Chan movie was fabricated by like-minded cops who were ordered to investigate. Which took weeks. And two months later he’s gone. Absorbed into a right-wing boondoggle to harass teachers nationally.

          Nah.

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      Just read the Snopes article further down.

      Full frontal nudity, but no sex. In the next room behind him. They told him, he switched it off.

      But the thing I believe got him fired was how unapologetic he was about it, claiming he’s the victim of some leftist plot, he’s the best senator ever and nothing like that happened when it clearly did.