As I stated in the last episode of TWATs, there was more to come. These stories are a bit more involved than normal so they were relegated to if I have time department.
The Satanic Temple is at it again and I mean that in a good way. https://triad-city-beat.com/satanic-temple-after-schools/
The move to host the After School Satan Club at Joyner Elementary comes as a direct response to the Good News Club, an evangelical after-school organization which applied to use three Guilford County schools last month.
But according to source,
On Tuesday afternoon (26th), Nora Shoptaw with Guilford County Schools told TCB that the requests for renting GCS facilities by both the Good News Club and the After School Satan Club were under review. Neither is authorized to use GCS facilities at this time.
“GCS is currently reviewing with its legal counsel how fliers for non-school sponsored clubs and events are distributed, as well as the district’s obligation to grant organizations equitable access to our public facilities,” Shoptaw’s statement reads.
It seems the Guilford County school district did not take the case from 2001, Good News Club v. Milford Central School, seriously. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/533/98/ GNC v Milford held that when a government operates a "limited public forum," it may not discriminate against speech that takes place within that forum on the basis of the viewpoint it expressed. In this case, religious speech.
And yes, The Satanic Temple targets school districts that allow evangelical or conservative Christian clubs in their schools to offer an alternative after-school program. Knowing this it is important to note,
In response to the school district’s possible change in policy, Bobby E. Fowler, the state director of the Child Evangelism Fellowship of North Carolina, Inc., sent school board members and the superintendent a letter advocating to let the Satanic Temple to use school facilities.
“Although
CEF strongly disagrees with what Satan Clubs teach, we do agree that
the Supreme Court Ruling applies to them as well,” Fowler wrote.
A continuation of a story touched upon in the previous TWATs episode. https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/04/gop-lawmakers-spreading-false-furries-claim-school-kids-are-pretending-to-be-animals-and-demanding-litter-boxes-again/ It seems the furry debacle is or has become quite widespread. What started in Nebraska, has now hit Minnesota. Has gone from the pulpit to state legislatures (Steve Drazkowski, Eric Lucero, and Tim Miller all Republicans).
According PolitiFact, “School districts in Iowa, Michigan and Nebraska have debunked claims that they are providing litter boxes in bathrooms.” Also, other Furry claims have occurred in Wisconsin and Texas.
As NCRM notes, “These are grown adults, elected officials, standing in the Minnesota people’s house and spreading ridiculous falsehoods.”
I may have missed this little factoid concerning Roger Stone. Not only is he a wack-job but now a religious one at that. IOWs he saw the gift https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/roger-stone-claims-there-is-a-satanic-portal-over-the-white-house/
Stone—who was convicted by a jury on seven counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction in relation to special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election—claims to have become a dedicated Christian because God used Trump to pardon him for his crimes. In this capacity, Stone claims to have developed a new appreciation for the importance of waging “spiritual warfare” through prayer.
Gotta hand it to Roger. He knows how to play the grift and he plays it well. The merging of politics and spirituality, a dangerous mix.
Here is a perfect example of Trump's claimed voter fraud. https://www.rawstory.com/tracy-kay-mckee/ The issue, McKee is a Republican.
According to the New York Daily News, a 64-year-old woman now living in California was given probation instead of jail time as prosecutors wanted after she confessed she used her dead mother's ballot to vote twice in the 2020 presidential election in Arizona.
The report notes that a tearful Tracy Kay McKee admitted that she cast the fraudulent vote for her deceased mother in Maricopa County -- the same county that conducted the months-long and expensive investigation into election fraud at the behest of former president Donald Trump. that did not go his way.
The report states that McKee was handed two years of probation, hit with a fine and ordered to perform community service in lieu of the 30 days in jail prosecutors asked for.
Note::
An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in
the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump
has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no
difference in the 2020 presidential election.
https://apnews.com/article/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-7fcb6f134e528fee8237c7601db3328f
"I support military aid to Ukraine but I want to say that we would not even be in Ukraine if President Biden did not shut down the Keystone Pipeline on the first day [of his presidency]," Watkins replied.
"'Because now that that's shut down, we have to get our oil and we're getting it from Russia and we're getting all these problems through the Ukraine that would not have happened if Biden did not shut down the Keystone pipeline," he added.
An incorrect statement by Ron Watkins, https://www.rawstory.com/ron-watkins-corrected-video/ a GQP candidate running for Arizona's 2nd Congressional District. He was corrected, on stage, by Walt Blackman,
"That is not why [Russia] went into Ukraine. They went into Ukraine because Ukraine [wanted] to be a part of NATO. Listen, you're trying to work on a national stage and you don't even know why the war started in Ukraine, it had nothing to do with the Keystone pipeline."
It's about damn time Republicans put a stop to the idiocy coming from their party.
And
FYI the US gets 3-6% of oil from Russia (now banned), less than 2%
from Ukraine. It is important to note as well that the US would not
benefit from the pipeline as TC Energy claimed. TC Energy is a
Canadian company and even with its expected production, the effects
on the market would be negligible.
Just when I think we have hit rock-bottom when it comes to stupidity, along comes another bright and shining star. Elijah Schaffer https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2925874847708794 from TheBlaze is a prime example. There is so much wrong with this statement, I don't know where to begin.
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