{"id":4180,"date":"2015-07-20T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T03:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2016-03-02T22:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T05:20:02","slug":"please-texas-secede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4180","title":{"rendered":"Please Texas&#8230;Secede!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-4185\" title=\"texaseducationsucks\">The Texas school board recently stated that <a title=\"Texas officials: Schools should teach that slavery was \u2018side issue\u2019 to Civil War\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war\/2015\/07\/05\/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Texas students will begin using new textbooks which teach that slavery was just a side issue to the civil war and never mention Jim Crow laws or the Ku Klux Klan<\/a>. So basically <a title=\"How Texas is whitewashing Civil War history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article\/How-Texas-is-whitewashing-Civil-War-history-6376442.php\" target=\"_blank\">it whitewashes racism and the whole Civil War<\/a>. Then there&#8217;s that whole <a title=\"No, Jade Helm 15 Is Not A Government Attempt To Create Martial Law In The U.S.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/05\/11\/jade-helm-15_n_7259012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jade Helm 15 crap<\/a>. Of course, this shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise. Texas is a red state filled with conservative christians, who also believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and that man co-existed with the dinosaurs. This is pretty dangerous stuff folks. Texas is purposely teaching their children false dogmas and history that just isn&#8217;t true. We think that Texas should make good on its repeated threats during Obama&#8217;s presidency and just secede from the United States. <strong>Actually we beg of you Texas; please take the Bushes, Rick Perry and Ted Cruz and form your own country!<\/strong> You&#8217;ll be happier without us and we&#8217;ll definitely be happier without you and your Texas size egos!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4185\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=4185\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4185\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4185\" title=\"texaseducationsucks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/texaseducationsucks.jpg\" alt=\"A Texas school teacher proudly teaches his class that slavery was fun and Negroes enjoyed the hell out of it and a conservative christian reminds the kids that the earth is only 6000 years old.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/texaseducationsucks.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/texaseducationsucks-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas now teaches its children that the whole slavery thing was just one big festival and Jesus probably rode a brontosaurus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas school board recently stated that Texas students will begin using new textbooks which teach that slavery was just a side issue to the civil war and never mention Jim Crow laws or the Ku Klux Klan. So basically it whitewashes racism and the whole Civil War. Then there&#8217;s that whole Jade Helm 15 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please Texas&#8230;Secede!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,68,3,35],"tags":[50,252,69,22,99,783,1153,9,1155,1129,1282,21,71,98,596,188,19,798,692,691,1154,693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}