Thinking about that tweet by cruz and mtg’s letter demanding an investigation of non-existent mishandling of the pandemic by fauci be completed by June 31, the only conclude there’s an ongoing battle at the top of the QOP for the title of “Dumbest Elected Scumbag”.

…Add to that the stupidity of cruz’s comments about the New Green Deal …

Cruz gets owned and gets his slime right back.

https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2021/06/03/ted-cruz-tries-to-insult-kamala-harris-with-monty-python-clip-and-twitter-throws-it-right-back-at-him

If the repeated attacks by republicans on voting rights, vaccines and the need to get more serious dealing with covidand on women, and the environment, and democracy in general aren’t enough to get the public scared we’re really in trouble.

Add to that the stupidity of cruz’s comments about the New Green Deal and gaetz, schlapp, and convicted felon d’souza all fell for retweeting a picture of lee harvey oswald in honor of veteran’s day, and you gotta say that anyone who still backs those shitwads doesn’t have an ethical, moral, or intellectual gene in their body.

Added: paid conservative disinformation writer candace owens tried to claim the picture of Oswald was “a soldier with oswald’s face photoshopped into place”. it wasn’t: it was (a scan of) the picture found in oswald’s pocket the day he was arrested.

Indeed. Republicans have long been railing against public education, calling it left-wing indoctrination. Liz Cheney, who deserves credit for unwaveringly opposing Trump’s Big Lie, opposed Common Core because she though it didn’t sufficiently praise U.S. historical performance.

The Texas GOP platform in 2012 had a plank opposing the teaching of critical thinking skills. And their SBOE once included Don McLeroy. Wikipedia notes:

In an interview in October 2009, McLeroy explained his approach to public school history textbook evaluation: “… we are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles. The way I evaluate history textbooks is first I see how they cover Christianity and Israel. Then I see how they treat Ronald Reagan — he needs to get credit for saving the world from communism and for the good economy over the last twenty years because he lowered taxes.”

The attitude that well-rounded education should be reserved for an elite goes back a long way. In Left Back, Diane Ravitch quotes education reformer Louis W. Rapeer as follows:

“He recited what had become a mantra among professors of education: that the purpose of academic studies is to ‘accentuate class distinctions and fit an aristocracy for awing and ruling the masses’; that academic subjects were a waste of time; and that learning to solve the ordinary problems of life was far more valuable to young Americans than studying academic subjects.”

Media critic Douglas Rushkoff also writes about this elitist view of education.

Bad move caving to the right on anything, especially education, but very bad caving to the right based on “fear of upsetting them”.

We know that the republicans have been on a jihad against education for decades: it doesn’t seem to be stopping.

“Someone needs to invent the perfect word for a group of scoundrels”

Republican leadership? Libertarian? Both would work, but probably both only hit a subset of the target.

And there is another photo showing him cowering behind an armed security agent, pissing in his pants.

The video at the top of this story shows the shitstain clyde dodging a question about whether he stands by describing the attack on democracy as a visit from tourists. It’s the face of any person who defends trump or denies that the assault on January 6 was a trump endorsed and motivated assault on democracy.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/captiol-riot-andrew-clyde-chamber-b1848332.html