Tennessee state Sen. Kerry Roberts (R) said on Monday evening that he wasn’t being serious when he bashed higher education as a “liberal breeding ground” that should be abolished.
“Damn you, Phil Fulmer.”
Just like you were joking about you and your buddies taking care of ‘those people’ with a rope.
I guess your little university taught you how to be a true Christian.
Lipscomb University is a private Christian liberal arts university in Nashville, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the Churches of Christ.
Tennessee, racing Alabama and Mississippi to the bottom…
The lawmaker complained that the “stupid stuff” young people are being taught “is absolutely ridiculous.”
Yeah, but you keep claiming it’s your First Amendment right when we try and shut you up!
““My listeners clearly understood the humor and hyperbole of it.””
They understood neither. First, because there was zero humor to understand…and second, because if you used the word hyperbole in front of them, they’d scream at your for not speaking our nashunal languich called Engrish.
You ain’t foolin’ no one but yourself with your pathetic victim-routine, Ker-babs. You gaslit your idea up the flagpole in Trumpian fashion to see if it could generate some buzz, and when you got called out on it for the bullshit that it is, you fell back on your predictably Trumpian I was joking excuse and slithered back into your hole. We’ve seen it a million times now, and you’re not even good at it.
The lawmaker complained that the “stupid stuff” young people are being taught “is absolutely ridiculous.”
“And here we are as legislators paying for this garbage to be taught to our children,” Roberts said. “And we’re not doing anything about it in all these red states across America. We let it exist and it’s absolutely unbelievable.”
This is not true. There do exist institutions of lower learning in various Red States where religion is taught over and above anything resembling intellectual discourse. The females are taught that they are subservient to their men and both sexes are taught that the White race is in danger of being - “replaced.” They have done something about it. What is he complaining about?
Classic: more and more outrageous, amoral, and illegal claims, until there’s pushback, and then it’s all “I was just JOKING. Can’t you take a JOKE?!?”
“Whenever I hear the word ‘culture’, I reach for my Browning.”
– one of Hermann Göring’s favorite quotes
Apparently, book-learnin’ is fine… as long as there’s only one book on the curriculum.
No, no he wasn’t, he meant all of that seriously, and he speaks for a lot of conservatives (especially evangelicals) who don’t want people to know how to distinguish facts from fiction, as the ability to do that makes you less likely to fall for their nonsensical beliefs and outfight lies. Republicans today depend on people falling for the propaganda, and not recognizing facts when they are presented, and it’s really their only chance to retain power going forward. A world where people are inclusive and respectful, where science is used as the basis of policy, is anathema to the political structure Republicans have put in place over the past 40 years.
Haha you make a joke? I like jokes too! Here’s my newest joke: I fucked your mother. Haha do you like my joke? If you don’t you obviously have no sense of humor.
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“And here we are as legislators paying for this garbage to be taught to our children,” Roberts said. “And we’re not doing anything about it in all these red states across America. We let it exist and it’s absolutely unbelievable.”
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Actually, Mr. Roberts, state legislators, particularly those in red states, have been doing something: you’ve been cutting budgets for higher education for decades.
“He who pays the piper picks the tune” is a terrible approach to education, but you’re not even paying the piper.
He meant.
He thinks educated people won’t vote for him.
Except he wasn’t kidding.
Things are looking up for Oklahoma.
God these people are so boring with their reruns from the 50s and 60s. These are Republicans they truly are regressives.
Saying that he was joking and the other side just can’t take a joke is the same tactic the Fat Junkie uses.
To him it’s the Dopes Monkey trial.
Or Inherit the dim.