Upcoming Texas Youth Summit

[Macanudo 12922]

This is taking place in September at a church in The Woodlands.   The all-star cast of GQPers includes Ted Cuz, Kayleigh McEnany, Candace Owens, MTG, Gaetz, Boebert, Ken Paxton, Troy Nehls and Steve Toth.  

How the fuck are churches allowed to host this shit without losing their tax exemption status?

 

[Guest]

Meh.  The left owns their indoctrination in the schools and universities.

Tis but a BB-gun vs a tank in the grand scheme of things, but let's wring our hands...

[aggie08 21380]

Somebody's drinking tonight.

[Guest]

LOLz.  I get negged and I'm among the biggest proponents of public schools on here.

Can't call a spade a spade, i guess.  Too threatening... 

Pile on you fucking pussies.

Edited August 27, 2022 by slorch

[Zepol87 9163]

The left owns indoctrination? Yea you are an idiot

[Js1 85056]

Let me know when universities themselves (not staff) drop millions into political races before you start extolling the virtue of churches. Both are tax exempt but only one uses that to push religious and political agendas on voters.

Hey free speech warrior, would you allow a Satanist or anti-religious person to come into your church and talk about how everything in the Bible is fake and none of those people existed?  I mean, I know how important it is to expose college students to different view points. Why not your precious flock of church sheep?

[Willfully Horn 7913]

28 minutes ago, slorch said:

Meh.  The left owns their indoctrination in the schools and universities.

Tis but a BB-gun vs a tank in the grand scheme of things, but let's wring our hands...

Right. Learning is leftist indoctrination.

 

[tx 3 putt 76159]

1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

This is taking place in September at a church in The Woodlands.   The all-star cast of GQPers includes Ted Cuz, Kayleigh McEnany, Candace Owens, MTG, Gaetz, Boebert, Ken Paxton, Troy Nehls and Steve Toth.  

How the fuck are churches allowed to host this shit without losing their tax exemption status?

 

“Empowering youth to be catalysts to win the Culture War.”

 

Why attend Texas Youth Summit?

The Left controls the education system, TV networks, Hollywood, and social media and they are influencing youth. It’s so important youth learn the Conservative Principles that have always made and will continue to make America exceptional.

 

Edited August 27, 2022 by tx 3 putt

[tx 3 putt 76159]

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19074]

2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

It’s always sad to see a reminder that Mattress Mack is MAGA.  This church should be reported to the IRS.

[Underdog 28437]

Candy girl is still a thing? 

[Underdog 28437]

And I’ll repeat myself, lock and barricade all exits/entrances and gas them. 

[hpslugga 4039]

5 hours ago, slorch said:

LOLz.  I get negged and I'm among the biggest proponents of public schools on here.

Can't call a spade a spade, i guess.  Too threatening... 

Pile on you fucking pussies.

Except you didn’t call a spade a spade. You lied; the exact opposite of calling a spade a spade.

The “left” has about as much control over education as the Nazi party has control over San Francisco swinger groups.

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

Except you didn’t call a spade a spade. You lied; the exact opposite of calling a spade a spade.

The “left” has about as much control over education as the Nazi party has control over San Francisco swinger groups.

and you live in fantasy land if that's what you think.

[TwiceHorn 31184]

Education is duty bound to expose students to ideas, right and left, good and bad.

My FIL was crabbing about "Marxist professors."  I said you haven't really received an education unless you've had a Marxist professor.

Current conservative ideology has no theoretical underpinnings or justifications, that I can see.  At least "liberal" ideas have that.

My God, look at those people, they know nothing, they can teach nothing.  THAT is truly indoctrination.

And, as someone who broadly supports churches and maintaining a tax exemption, I find that extremely offensive.

[hpslugga 4039]

1 minute ago, slorch said:

and you live in fantasy land if that's what you think.

I live in reality. You’d be able to recognize that were you to try it once in a while. Might wanna start with learning what “the left” even is.

Edited August 27, 2022 by hpslugga

[Guest]

Just now, hpslugga said:

I live in reality. You’d be able to recognize that were you to try it once in a while.

My favorite tactic by those who espouse such ideals are those who tell us those ideals/ relationships/ tactics don't exist or are completely misunderstood; as if we don't live on the same fucking planet.  

[Sawbonz 27375]

6 hours ago, slorch said:

Meh.  The left owns their indoctrination in the schools and universities.

Tis but a BB-gun vs a tank in the grand scheme of things, but let's wring our hands...

Like this?

 

[Shaddie 1634]

Yeah slorch  it’s the “left” trying to ban books, talk of race, and genders in school. 
 

Face it, if you christo nationalist have your way we would be just like Afghanistan and you could be “legally” killed if someone doesn’t like your way of thinking. 

[Captainant 27311]

8 minutes ago, slorch said:

My favorite tactic by those who espouse such ideals are those who tell us those ideals/ relationships/ tactics don't exist or are completely misunderstood; as if we don't live on the same fucking planet.  

Honestly wether you're consuming fox, or swimming in it's wake via boomer social media or people uncritically repeating the same talking point... We don't live on the same planet. You're happy to take whatever UNGA BUNGA LEFT BAD and run with it because your brain runs off of fear and can be controlled like cattle by pushing the right fear propaganda. 

I'd love for you to give some real examples of what your assert, but you'll simply retort "it's so OBVIOUS! Many people are saying!". At least it's what you did last time. 

Edited August 27, 2022 by Captainant

[DigglerontheHoof 21022]

Nat-Cs

Would be another fantastic place for a meteor to hit.

[hpslugga 4039]

20 minutes ago, slorch said:

My favorite tactic by those who espouse such ideals are those who tell us those ideals/ relationships/ tactics don't exist or are completely misunderstood; as if we don't live on the same fucking planet.  

That’s exactly what you just did. You falsely asserted that “the left” controls education and when called on your bullshit dishonesty, you projected about such people living in a fantasy land. That’s just more assert-the-opposite. You can’t even get off the starting block of “first, define what the political left even is.”

The reality I live in recognizes that the state of Texas in particular does teach or is proposing to teach whacked out nonsense like:

-Moses should be taught as part of US history

-Africans were not brought to the US as slaves; they came here as part of an involuntary relocation program 

-The civil war was fought over states’ rights.

-We also have quite a few states that teach abstinence only education, which happens to be in the states far in the lead in teen pregnancies, repeat teen pregnancies and teenage abortions (and if I’m not mistaken, teenage STI’s), which incidentally is the failure the teachings of the religious right have always been known to be.

In addition, just within the lifetime of a lot of people who post here, we’ve had to go to court over:

-Whether “intelligent design” can/should be taught as a science

-Whether compulsory prayer should be permitted in public schools 

-Whether black children should be able to attend public schools with white children

Yeah, owned by “the left” my ass. There isn’t a single shred of evidence you could demonstrate to reflect that. If you could, you’d have done that already instead of that pitiful tactic known as leaning into your own feelings and emotions.

[Sawbonz 27375]

4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Honestly wether you're consuming fox, or swimming in it's wake via boomer social media or people uncritically repeating the same talking point... We don't live on the same planet. You're happy to take whatever UNGA BUNGA LEFT BAD and run with it because your brain runs off of fear and can be controlled like cattle by pushing the right fear propaganda. 

I'd love for you to give some real examples of what your assert, but you'll simply retort "it's so OBVIOUS! Many people are saying!". At least it's what you did last time. 

Well there are about 5 trans female HS athletes in the entire country dominating against biologically female athletes, and those schools are doing nothing about it. And (some) teachers are trying to honor their students’ wishes re how they would like to be addressed, provide a safe and nurturing learning environment, and protect them from bullying:

Some teachers are even pushing the crazy idea that slavery was bad for black people, and that white people were the enslavers, and even that the south seceded because they wanted to keep slavery, and that post civil war policies continued to affect black people adversely.
 

Hell many school districts are providing meals for students (and get this — some even provide a meal for family members of students!!) during holiday and summer breaks. Pretty much communism IMO

Maybe slorch is on to something

[Dr. Teeth 5813]

Why are these all in Texas. And did North Dallas do something to piss these guys off? I thought that was the unofficial headquarters of all things crazy. 

[hpslugga 4039]

10 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Well there are about 5 trans female HS athletes in the entire country dominating against biologically female athletes, and those schools are doing nothing about it. And (some) teachers are trying to honor their students’ wishes re how they would like to be addressed, provide a safe and nurturing learning environment, and protect them from bullying:

Some teachers are even pushing the crazy idea that slavery was bad for black people, and that white people were the enslavers, and even that the south seceded because they wanted to keep slavery, and that post civil war policies continued to affect black people adversely.
 

Hell many school districts are providing meals for students (and get this — some even provide a meal for family members of students!!) during holiday and summer breaks. Pretty much communism IMO

Maybe slorch is on to something

Must explain why textbooks also offer apologetics for McCarthyism.

[GhostOfTomJoad 9302]

46 minutes ago, slorch said:

and you live in fantasy land if that's what you think.

Excellent support of your original statement that "the left" is indoctrinating children in schools and universities. Great use of peer reviewed articles and research.

Oh wait, you just "know" indoctrination is happening because you can just see it happening everywhere.

 

[aggie08 21380]

I mean, slorch is right, of course: students, especially in higher education, lean heavily towards what America considers "the left." But it always amuses me that that's where people like slorch's intellectual curiousity ends, they make no desire to answer why that may be, and choose to conclude that it must be indoctrination.

[atomheartbevo 89362]

1 hour ago, hpslugga said:

The reality I live in recognizes that the state of Texas in particular does teach or is proposing to teach whacked out nonsense like:

Don’t forget, many Republicans believe that teaching this document that was created and signed by the leaders of Texas in 1861 is promoting CRT

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html

The government of the United States, by certain joint resolutions, bearing date the 1st day of March, in the year A.D. 1845, proposed to the Republic of Texas, then a free, sovereign and independent nation, the annexation of the latter to the former as one of the co-equal States thereof,

The people of Texas, by deputies in convention assembled, on the fourth day of July of the same year, assented to and accepted said proposals and formed a constitution for the proposed State, upon which on the 29th day of December in the same year, said State was formally admitted into the Confederated Union.

Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility [sic] and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?

The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretences and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slave-holding States.

[Js1 85056]

6 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

7 elected officials

11 purely no name grifters 

Nothing but a big fucking con 

[Macanudo 12922]

1 hour ago, slorch said:

My favorite tactic by those who espouse such ideals are those who tell us those ideals/ relationships/ tactics don't exist or are completely misunderstood; as if we don't live on the same fucking planet.  

Jesus was a leftist

 

[Mole 4318]

Slorch’d: my wild speculation based on working in higher Ed.

If you were to poll everyone in higher ed, you’d likely find that they tend to lean left — although it’s more conservative than you’d think. You do have professors willing to discuss politics and come from wildly different angles, which seems like a plus in education.

I suspect that K-12 educators are pretty much representative of the population with one exception. As a whole, they are likely more concerned with the issues their students are facing and will face. You’re probably more likely to be concerned about LGBTQ issues if you know that students you personally care about are suffering. You’re more likely to be concerned about hungry students when they’re your hungry students. If that makes teachers “the left,” it seems more like an indictment of the right.

The institutions themselves, particularly K-12, seem quite conservative to me.

[CooterBrown 17875]

Oh wait, you just "know" indoctrination is happening because you can just see it happening everywhere.
 

I guess it’s just unfortunate that reality has a liberal bias.

[atomheartbevo 89362]

20 minutes ago, Mole said:

You’re more likely to be concerned about hungry students when they’re your hungry students.

Sounds mighty Christian-like.

[YGIFS 19449]

4 hours ago, Underdog said:

And I’ll repeat myself, lock and barricade all exits/entrances and gas them. 

Wait, I got 50 neg points yesterday for making the same crappy joke.  I guess you're more charismatic   

Also, there's a guy named DC Draino?  Seriously?  I get it means to drain the swamp in Washington...but given that Trump literally endorsed bleach consumption to defeat Covid, it's a little too on the nose.  

[Shaddie 1634]

5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Sounds mighty Christian-like.

Something todays USA religious right knows nothing about. 

[956 Worldwide 34314]

Cutting funding and making schools and universities worse is something that across cultures and countries gets punished by voters. For good reason, it’s an area where almost everyone has or will be a consumer of government services in a way that directly impacts their whole lives. 
 

The only way the GOP gets away with it is by convincing their voters that teachers and college professors are their enemies and the rubes eat that shit up. This has been the whole game from when you first started hearing the “school teachers get paid too much” bullshit. It’s all part of a scam to degrade your own kids’ futures and you fall for it. 

A side consequence is that by degrading the profession and making it unattractive, you really do end up with more liberal do-good types represented. A lot of women who in an earlier generation might have been teachers AND church ladies, like my grandma, are realtors and MLM scammers instead. What’s hilarious is they really think they’re more useful to society because they are “private sector” even though these are rent-seeking professions.
 

Edited August 27, 2022 by 956 Worldwide

[A-Tex Devil 2444]

2 hours ago, hpslugga said:

That’s exactly what you just did. You falsely asserted that “the left” controls education and when called on your bullshit dishonesty, you projected about such people living in a fantasy land. That’s just more assert-the-opposite. You can’t even get off the starting block of “first, define what the political left even is.”

The reality I live in recognizes that the state of Texas in particular does teach or is proposing to teach whacked out nonsense like:

-Moses should be taught as part of US history

-Africans were not brought to the US as slaves; they came here as part of an involuntary relocation program 

-The civil war was fought over states’ rights.

-We also have quite a few states that teach abstinence only education, which happens to be in the states far in the lead in teen pregnancies, repeat teen pregnancies and teenage abortions (and if I’m not mistaken, teenage STI’s), which incidentally is the failure the teachings of the religious right have always been known to be.

In addition, just within the lifetime of a lot of people who post here, we’ve had to go to court over:

-Whether “intelligent design” can/should be taught as a science

-Whether compulsory prayer should be permitted in public schools 

-Whether black children should be able to attend public schools with white children

Yeah, owned by “the left” my ass. There isn’t a single shred of evidence you could demonstrate to reflect that. If you could, you’d have done that already instead of that pitiful tactic known as leaning into your own feelings and emotions.

Forget it.  He’s (t)rolling.   
 

This conference is so on brand for The Woodlands.  

[South Austin 52037]

9 hours ago, slorch said:

Meh.  The left owns their indoctrination in the schools and universities.

Tis but a BB-gun vs a tank in the grand scheme of things, but let's wring our hands...

I like you, slorch. But take the loss on this one.

[Biff Tannen 45477]

1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

 

I guess it’s just unfortunate that reality has a liberal bias.

 

This is a more true statement than most realize. 

[Js1 85056]

1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

 

I guess it’s just unfortunate that reality has a liberal bias.

 

Reality, facts, science. All things they hate and reject 

[aggie08 21380]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

I like you, slorch. But take the loss on this one.

You expect slorch to admit that he's talking out of his ass on the back of stereotypes and propaganda? And you claim to like him? Are you sure that you've ever talked to him?

 

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2655]

The right-wing culture warrior shit has gotten so ridiculous that the basic tenets they teach little kids when they go to school -- "Be kind, respect others who are different, don't discriminate" -- is now woke and therefore the godly way is to be hateful to those who are different. The right is a disease. 

[Neonmoon 38127]

I definitely would go if I lived closer. I would wear a Star of David t-shirt or MLK t-shirt. Actually an even funnier time would be to wear a priest outfit and try to hand out Christian pamphlets and ask people attending to accept Jesus Christ and repent for your sins because hate is a sin

[Dutchrudder 11103]

I think he's misunderstanding what's actually happening at university. Kids who have been under strict rules and religious indoctrination are finally free to learn anything, without helicopter parents filtering the thoughts in their head. They can finally explore any subjects they want, discuss it with peers, and get completely different perspectives on things they never considered. They will experience some real world responsibility in taking care of themselves, homework, living in a dorm, etc. The whole world changes for them, and allows them to grow a lot of different ways. 

also this;

 

[Beau Vine 53965]

12 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Right. Learning is leftist indoctrination.

 

Well, it kind of is now.

 

[Beau Vine 53965]

6 hours ago, slorch said:

My favorite tactic by those who espouse such ideals are those who tell us those ideals/ relationships/ tactics don't exist or are completely misunderstood; as if we don't live on the same fucking planet.  

Like this?

6 hours ago, slorch said:

and you live in fantasy land if that's what you think.

 

[Willfully Horn 7913]

12 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Well, it kind of is now.

 

That’s what I said. The reality has a liberal bias observation in longcat.

Edit: Fact, itself, has become the province of the left by being the only ideology still with boots on the ground..

Edited August 27, 2022 by Willfully Horn

[tx 3 putt 76159]

8 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

It’s always sad to see a reminder that Mattress Mack is MAGA.  This church should be reported to the IRS.

It’s pure indoctrination 

[tx 3 putt 76159]

Hopefully boebert’s husband doesn’t flash anyone ?

[Guest]

41 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

I think he's misunderstanding what's actually happening at university. Kids who have been under strict rules and religious indoctrination are finally free to learn anything, without helicopter parents filtering the thoughts in their head. They can finally explore any subjects they want, discuss it with peers, and get completely different perspectives on things they never considered. They will experience some real world responsibility in taking care of themselves, homework, living in a dorm, etc. The whole world changes for them, and allows them to grow a lot of different ways. 

also this; 45.49 kB · 0 downloads

 

At UT, I had two professors -- out of dozens -- that pushed hard left rhetoric in the classroom. One was a history teacher, one was the blow-off sex ed course. 

The history teacher was a cool guy. I liked him. The sex-ed teacher was a complete jackass.