{"id":8206,"date":"2022-07-01T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T22:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2022-07-02T21:54:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T04:54:22","slug":"the-new-texas-elementary-school-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8206","title":{"rendered":"The New Texas Elementary School\/Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The radical right wing conservative christian Republicans are in full crazy mode and they are showing it all over the place. The heavily christian Supreme Court ruled <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"to take away abortion rights for women last week (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/24\/1102305878\/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn\" target=\"_blank\">to take away abortion rights for women last week<\/a>. This week they said <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"prayer in a public school is a-okay (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jun\/28\/kennedy-v-bremerton-supreme-court-prayer-public-schools-football-coach\" target=\"_blank\">prayer in a public school is a-okay<\/a> and the football coach at a public high school who led his team in a prayer on the field was wrongfully fired. We wonder if this christian nationalist zealots would feel the same way if the coach was Muslim or Hindu or Jewish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the state of Texas is leading the way in crazy.  Recently, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"not only did they support the Big Lie that Joe Biden didn't win the election but they also passed resolution in their state legislature that paves the way for Texas to secede from the United States (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/20\/1106229988\/texas-gops-new-platform-says-biden-didnt-really-win-it-also-calls-for-secession\" target=\"_blank\">not only did they support the Big Lie that Joe Biden didn&#8217;t win the election but they also passed resolution in their state legislature that paves the way for Texas to secede from the United States<\/a>. We mentioned before how <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"we would love to see that happen; a Texit if you will (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4180\" target=\"_blank\">we would love to see that happen; a Texit if you will<\/a>. We&#8217;d help them pack. Amongst <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the other crazy things they mentioned in the official Republican platform (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/progresstexas.org\/blog\/top-10-worst-sh-2022-texas-republican-party-platform\" target=\"_blank\">the other crazy things they mentioned in the official Republican platform<\/a> were: labeling homosexuality as an abnormal lifestyle;  make it easier to get a gun; restrict voting rights; ignore and accelerate climate change; ban all abortions from the moment of fertilization (super crazy); preserve confederate monuments and repealing hate crime laws because &#8230; you know &#8230; the Republican hate everything and everybody, which isn&#8217;t very christian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas&#8217; senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are also showing their true nature as assholes. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Cornyn recently sent a completely uncompassionate tweet about overturning Brown v. Board of Education which paved the way for desegregation (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/politics\/john-cornyn-tweet-plessy-v-ferguson-brown-v-board-of-education\/287-261b776b-65e5-4578-8f88-e49156cd2148\" target=\"_blank\">Cornyn recently sent a completely uncompassionate tweet about overturning Brown v. Board of Education which paved the way for desegregation<\/a>. <strong>And of course, Ted Cruz, the Senator everybody hates, said after the Uvalde school shooting<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" that what we really need is to have just one entrance and exit to a school (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/latest-school-shooting-ted-cruz-focuses-doors-rcna30630\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> that what we really need is to have just one entrance and exit to a school<\/strong><\/a><strong>. It&#8217;s not the guns &#8211; it&#8217;s the doors! Wow! What an idiot!!!<\/strong> Not only would that be a fire hazard, but it turns our educational system into a prison system. But we&#8217;re guessing the heartless GOP would be fine with that. Just send the little urchins to school but be sure to protect the things of real value; their precious guns. Oh and fetuses, too. Once the fetus is born, screw it. All we have to say to Texas is: <strong>Please secede! And take Oklahoma, Arkansas and the other ass backward southern states with you. We promise we won&#8217;t fight a war to keep you with us this time. Goodbye and good riddance, you stupid sanctimonious, holier-than-thou assholes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goptexascruzelementaryschool.jpg\" alt=\"The future inmates of Texas' educational system will be groomed with all kinds of fun alternative facts while also preserving the precious guns of Texans.\" class=\"wp-image-8205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goptexascruzelementaryschool.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goptexascruzelementaryschool-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>The future inmates of Texas&#8217; educational system will be groomed with all kinds of fun alternative facts while also preserving the precious guns of Texans.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\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 radical right wing conservative christian Republicans are in full crazy mode and they are showing it all over the place. The heavily christian Supreme Court ruled to take away abortion rights for women last week. This week they said prayer in a public school is a-okay and the football coach at a public high &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The New Texas Elementary School\/Prison&#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":[61,60,8,68,1687,85,3,2307,198],"tags":[579,404,1575,252,22,2369,783,914,915,1059,9,705,537,762,1887,1834,98,348,580,296,1131,426,188,982,19,798,1179,692,691,785,693,2370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206"}],"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=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8221,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions\/8221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}