I realize your were asking a rhetorical question, but I just couldn't resist posting this anyway:
Posted on 10/22/2024 10:01:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
By now, the story has made the rounds. Back in June, Oklahoma’s superintendent for public instruction, Ryan Walters, ordered every classroom in the state to teach the Bible between fifth grade and high school. Three months later, when he released the guidelines for companies bidding to supply the Bibles, they included some unusually specific terms.
The Bibles had to contain not just the King James Version of the Old and New Testaments, but founding documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as well as the Pledge of Allegiance. And they had to be bound in leather, or some reasonable facsimile.
The only Bibles that fit these parameters happen to be endorsed by Donald Trump or his son. The $59.99 “God Bless the USA” Bibles (which are, incidentally, printed in China) cost 20 times more than a mass market paperback version of the King James Bible. It’s not clear how much Mr. Trump earns per sale — The Times has reported that he receives royalties for use of his name — but his cut is likely significant. Mr. Walters’s spokesman has confirmed that the $3 million in the state budget earmarked for Bibles came directly from “payroll savings”; that could pay salaries for 75 entry-level teachers in Oklahoma.
Maybe a rogue ideologue handing a chunk of Oklahoma’s education budget to the former president strikes you as egregious. It should also strike you as familiar. Mr. Trump’s entire term in office was marked by profit-taking schemes and uses of public funds for personal benefit. If we know anything about what life would be like if he wins again, we know this bottomless...
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Boy the NY Slime’s is really reaching to throw whatever negative headline they can against Trump and how it influences a couple of voters.
Dear NYC liberals, it is not going to work.
I realize your were asking a rhetorical question, but I just couldn't resist posting this anyway:
The writer never heard of the Biden crime family.
9 members of crooks and traitors.
Oh, yeah. Him!
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