Rebel Alliance Of Educators And School Districts Are The Resistance To The Trump Death Cult (Updated)

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Remember back when then-Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana in 2013 exhorted the Republican Party to “stop being the stupid party“?

Republicans didn’t listen. They fully embraced stupid, by becoming the party which fully embraced wild conspiracy theories and performance politics, abandoning responsible governance for a post-policy, post-truth alternate reality fueled by right-wing media disinformation which amplified Russian intelligence disinformentzia.

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They voted for a racist “Pied Piper” demagogue, Donald Trump in 2016, and elevated him to their “Dear Leader” of a quasi-religious political cult of white Christian nationalism and conspiracy theories.

They descended further down the rabbit hole with the rise of the QAnon conspiracy cult. And then came the Coronavirus pandemic, and Republicans embraced the fringe anti-vaxxer movement and expanded it into an anti-masker movement, and an anti-science and and anti-public health movement.

They resorted to violence in state capitols around the country to oppose public health lock downs to contain the novel coronavirus from spreading and killing Americans. This was a practice run for what was to come.

Then came January 6, 2021, when Republicans embraced Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him by fraud that he could not prove in over 60 courts, and the Republican Party became the Party of The Mob, resorting to violence and seditious insurrection in order to overturn the will of the people in a fair and free election. It was the first time in American history that a peaceful transition of power did not occur. American democracy barely escaped dying that day.

Now the Party of The Mob is once again turning to violence, using innocent school children as political pawns in their conspiracy-driven movement to oppose mask mandates and vaccine requirements in schools to contain the far deadlier Delta variant of the novel coronavirus from spreading and killing Americans. (The Coronavirus dashboard reports 619,000 confirmed deaths as of yesterday. But the actual number of “excess deaths” – some deaths due to COVID-19 may be assigned to other causes of deaths on death certificates – is much higher).

The anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-masker, anti-democracy, anti majoritarian, anti-American Party of The Mob, a quasi-religious personality cult of Donald Trump is a death cult, and represents the single greatest threat to public heath and safety and to our national security. They should be considered domestic terrorists.

This was again demonstrated in Tennessee this week (home to the Scopes “monkey trial” in 1925 over the teaching of evolution in schools; not much has changed), where “a group of anti-masker parents aggressively confronted doctors and nurses leaving a school board meeting in Tennessee after a school mask mandate just passed, surrounding their cars and threatening them.” ‘We will find you’: anti-mask parents threaten doctors and nurses at Tennessee school board meeting:

“You can leave freely, but we will find you, and we know who you are,” one man says, in video captured by journalist Matt Masters.

The dumbass making these threats did it on video. Law enforcement will identify who you are, they will find you and arrest you.

“You’ll never be allowed in public again,” another man says, as a crowd nearby chants, “Will not comply!” and “No more masks!”

Police had to restrain the crowd. [Why no arrests for making death treats to these doctors and nurses?]

“I was told by deputies to stay inside for my own safety because I was wearing a mask,” NewsChannel5 reporter Kelsey Gibbs wrote of the experience. “I covered stories where I feared for my safety but a school board meeting on mask mandates was a first.”

The outrage was in response to a Tuesday night meeting of the Williamson County School Board, which voted 7 to 3 to require masks for all students and teachers at the elementary school level in the district, which resumed classes last week and where most students aren’t old enough to get vaccinated. The county, one of the wealthiest in the country, previously had a mask mandate, which it dropped at the end of the previous school year as Covid cases declined.

Though many parents testified about how they desperately wanted a mask mandate, and school board chair Nancy Garrett said she got twice as many emails in support of a mandate than against it, similar hysterics drowned out their comments.

A man in blue scrubs, believed to be a nurse at a Nashville-area hospital, interrupted the proceedings and was escorted outside by deputies, where he falsely told Tennessee Holler, “There’s no pandemic,” and, “Masks don’t work.”

A woman inside the meeting threatened to sue the school board, and held up a sign that said, “I don’t care what you vote – my kids will be as masked as an Obama b-day,” a reference to the former president’s controversial recent birthday party on Martha’s Vineyard. [No doubt an Obama Birther conspiracy theorist as well.]

Since the school district resumed classes on Friday, 25 children have tested positive for Covid. State health officials recently warned that pediatric cases nearly doubled in July, mirroring national trends, where doctors in areas with low vaccination say they’re seeing increasing levels of young Covid patients during the Delta surge.

Nice job, Trump death cult.

Though a Kaiser Family Foundation poll on Wednesday found that 63 percent of parents of school age children support mask mandates for unvaccinated students, coronavirus has been deeply politicized in deep-red Tennessee, which overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

A tyranny of the minority.

Less than half the population has received even one shot of the vaccine, more than 10 per cent lower than the national average. The state’s governor has banned counties from extending mask mandates, while the Republican US Senator for Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn, cheered on the anti-mask protesters on her Twitter as “common sense,” even though the CDC recommends universal mask wearing in schools.

It is not just the violent mob of  ignorant Tennessee hillbillies in the Trump death cult. It is Republican governors in the Trump death cult.

The Associated Press reports, Republicans take to mask wars as virus surges in red states:

Top Republicans are battling school districts in their own states’ urban, heavily Democratic areas over whether students should be required to mask up as they head back to school — reigniting ideological divides over mandates even as the latest coronavirus surge ravages the reddest, most unvaccinated parts of the nation.

Republican Gov. Ron “DeathSantis” of Florida has issued an executive order threatening to cut funding from school districts that defy a statewide ban on classroom mask mandates. He’s now suggesting his office could direct officials to withhold pay from superintendents who impose such rules anyway.

[In] Florida, which has seen cases and hospitalizations rise sharply, some school districts are suing to oppose DeSantis’ order. Others, like Leon County, which includes the state capital of Tallahassee, plan to require students to wear masks regardless. Superintendent Rocky Hanna said in a letter to the governor that his district sought “the flexibility and the autonomy to make the decisions for our schools.”

[S]ome have noted the push for bans against mask mandates runs counter to the traditional Republican political ethos of limited government and “local control,” or leaving decision-making on things like community ordinances and schools up to officials in the area.

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said he opposes DeSantis’ orders against school mask mandates, saying on CNN Sunday, “The local official should have control here.”

[M]onmouth University polling released last week found that 73% of Republicans oppose bringing back masking and social distancing guidelines, while 85% of Democrats support doing so. Independents were more deeply divided, with 42% in support and 55% opposed.

“It’s expanded beyond the people you initially see at the Trump rallies,” Patrick Murray, Monmouth’s polling director, said of Republican mask opposition. But he also noted that so much of the party has now absorbed the former president’s message that “all of those people who were considered moderate Republicans in the past have become, on almost every issue now, nearly lockstep with whatever the Donald Trump position is.”

Texas Senator Ted “Cancún” Cruz (one of the leaders of the January 6 insurrection), along with North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer, introduced legislation on Monday to ban federal mask and vaccine mandates. Senators Cruz and Cramer introduce bills to ban mask and vaccine mandates. (The bill is DOA in the Democratic Congress).

Self-certified ophthalmologist and complete idiot Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has been suspended from YouTube for seven days over a video claiming that masks are ineffective in fighting Covid-19, according to a YouTube spokesperson. YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days.

QAnon Queen and insurrectionist Rep. Marjorie “Q” Green (R-GA) has been suspended from Twitter for a week over misleading comments on coronavirus vaccines.

Florida Gov. Ron “DeathSantis” and Texas Governor Greg Abbot get all of the national headlines, but Arizona actually led the nation in this Trump death cult. The national media largely ignores our “Wimpy Kid” Gov. “Do Nothing”  Doug Ducey, because he is largely irrelevant outside of Arizona.

Yesterday, Arizona’s three universities joined Ten Arizona school districts that have established mask mandates, ignoring a recently passed Arizona law banning them from doing so. ASU, NAU, UA will require masks in all classrooms in possible defiance of state law. “The universities’ updated policies may contradict the state’s prohibition on requiring masks for unvaccinated people to receive in-person classroom instruction. That ban was introduced in an executive order from Gov. Doug Ducey in June and later placed into law with the passage of the state budget.”

This rebel alliance of educators and school districts is a resistance movement against the anti-democratic imperialist Trump death cult. They are fighting back against Gov. “Do Nothing”  Doug Ducey and our MAGA/QAnon death cult GQP legislature, which advances the two tenants of Trumpism – a tyranny of the minority that is anti-democratic, anti-majoritarian and anti-American, and a death cult that is anti-science, anti-vaxxer and anti-masker.

A group of MAGA/QAnon death cult Republican lawmakers is asking Gov. “Do Nothing” Doug Ducey to take tough action against school districts that are requiring face coverings in defiance of a state ban on mask mandates: build a Death Star! GQP lawmakers call for strong action against school mask mandates:

Rep. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek [Last September it was widely reported that Turning Point Action (USA) Created Its own Russian Troll Farm in Phoenix to support Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign.The troll farm operator was Jake Hoffman, president and chief executive of the Phoenix-based digital marketing firm Rally Forge, which was ran the program for Turning Point], and 25 other legislators yahoos on Wednesday asked Ducey to withhold federal funding from school districts with mask mandates, authorize temporary school vouchers for all students in those districts and initiate legal action against the districts.

[T]he 26 legislators yahoos said they have been in discussions with Ducey privately and were now asking him publicly to take steps against the districts. In addition to authorizing temporary Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for all students, the lawmakers are asking the governor to notify families in the affected districts about the availability of the temporary vouchers and other school choice options.

See earlier, Anti-masker Snowflakes Want A School Voucher To Bypass Mask Mandates.

The laugh-out-loud statement from these MAGA/QAnon death cult members said “It borders on anarchy and destabilizes the very foundation of our society to have local governments effectively refusing to comply with the law.” The lawmakers’ statement says “It must not be allowed to stand.”

Your January 6 seditious insurrection against the government of the United States was “anarchy that destabilized the very foundation of our society,” and was organized by two Arizona Republican Congressmen and two Republican members of the Arizona House, and supported by every Republican member of the Arizona Senate with its GQP sham “fraudit.” This is what “must not be allowed to stand.”

That and your ignorant anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-masker death cult which is wiling to sacrifice the health – and the lives – of innocent children as political pawns upon the altar to your Trump death cult golden idol false god.

UPDATE: Just what we need, another MAGA/QAnon ignorant anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-masker death cult member running for governor. #KrazyKari.





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5 thoughts on “Rebel Alliance Of Educators And School Districts Are The Resistance To The Trump Death Cult (Updated)”

  1. Ryan Cooper writes at The Week, “The case against anti-vaxxer coddling”, https://theweek.com/politics/1003600/anti-vaxxers-coddling

    (excerpt)

    Vaccinated Americans are starting to seethe. In June and early July, it seemed like the U.S. nearly had this thing beaten. But now the stubborn entitlement of a reactionary minority is delaying the return of normal life indefinitely, and putting the lives of others — in particular, all the children under 12 and those with compromised immune systems who cannot get vaccinated — at risk. Surveys have repeatedly shown that vaccine refusal is largely a partisan phenomenon.

    Some have argued that attacking anti-vaxxers is ineffective, or worry that it will lead to dangerous conflict. But a furious reaction is healthy, natural, and frankly overdue. Liberals should embrace their anger, and stand up to those who are deliberately prolonging the pandemic.

    [N]ationally, about 70 percent of people above 18 have gotten at least one shot, but the 30 percent of vaccine refuseniks are concentrated in conservative states — though I should note that only about a third of Republicans (presumably the hard core of dedicated partisans) say they will not get the vaccine.

    [In] the process, [Republican leaders] have put the suppurating moral core of movement conservatism on display: the idea that conservatives should always get to do exactly what they want, and that everyone else should also have to do exactly what conservatives want. The need for responsible behavior starts with you and ends with me. In particular, they view the prospect of having to do anything whatsoever to protect others — even if they protect themselves in the process — as an intolerable imposition on their personal freedom.

    One often hears the argument that one should be indulgent of anti-vaccine lunatics — that instead of criticizing them or coercing them to get the vaccine by banning them from air travel, restaurants, and so on, one should be compassionate or calmly rational. In the first place, there is no evidence that this actually works. Epidemiologists have been trying every possible argument for months now and it’s made no difference, because conservative vaccine refuseniks are listening to Tucker Carlson, Alex Berenson, and Bret Weinstein (the ones who haven’t died, at least).

    More broadly, this attitude is reflective of a deeply baked-in defensive ideology among liberals that helplessly legitimizes conservative grievance … But appeasing conservative grievance all this time has only strengthened their bottomless sense of entitlement and victimhood.

    [W]hat’s more is that pushing hard on responsible COVID measures is good politics in the here and now. Polls show a large majority of Americans support both vaccine mandates and virus control measures to fight Delta and save lives. Standing up for that platform puts Democrats on the winning side of a culture war battle and drives a wedge deep into the Republican base (which is not at all uniformly against vaccination).

    Conservatism is a distinctly minority phenomenon, and is becoming more so with every passing year. I for one have had it up to here with the shrieking anti-vaccine maniacs who are doing their level best to put more children in intensive care. They should be exiled from society until they get their shots, and their efforts to intimidate people against controlling the pandemic should be met with massive resistance.

  3. The depth of QAnon insanity: “A Surf School Owner Allegedly Killed His Children After Being “Enlightened By QAnon,” Federal Officials Said”, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/coleman-charged-kids-qanon?ref=bfnsplash

    A California surf school owner allegedly killed his young children after being “enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories,” federal officials said Wednesday.

    Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, is facing charges of foreign murder in the killings of his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter. According to a law enforcement affidavit filed in court, Coleman confessed to killing his children with a spearfishing gun in Mexico, telling FBI agents “he believed his children were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them.”

    The Santa Barbara man told officials that he was “enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories” and believed his wife “possessed serpent DNA and had passed it onto his children.”

    “M. Coleman stated that he knew it was wrong, but it was the only course of action that would save the world.”

  4. The “Terminator” and the last Republican governor of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has a blunt message for people who shun masks in the name of freedom.

    “Screw your freedom,” he said. “Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities. You cannot just say, ‘I have the right to X, Y and Z.’ When you affect other people, that is when it gets serious.”

    “You cannot say, ‘No one is going to tell me that I’m gonna stop here, that I have to stop at this traffic light here, I’m gonna go right through it,’” he said. “Then you kill someone else, then it is your doing.”

    Schwarzenegger called on Americans to put aside politics, listen to the scientists and stop griping about the supposed freedom to not wear a mask.

    “You have the freedom to wear no mask,” he said. “But you know something? You’re a schmuck for not wearing a mask.”

    “‘You’re A Schmuck!’: Arnold Schwarzenegger Unloads On Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers”, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arnold-schwarzenegger-mask-mandates_n_6114b905e4b0454ed70a2456

  5. Susan Demas in an op-ed at the Arizona Mirror writes, “We’ve coddled ignorance for years. Now we’re all paying the price with COVID.”, https://www.azmirror.com/2021/08/10/weve-coddled-ignorance-for-years-now-were-all-paying-the-price-with-covid/

    Sane America has had enough.

    After almost two years of a horrific pandemic that’s killed almost 620,000 Americans — and deadly, faster-spreading variants emerging because selfish and ignorant people refuse to get vaccinated — those of us who have tried to do everything right have no more f–ks left to give.

    Anti-vaxxers, COVID conspiracy theorists and right-wing politicians have made the pandemic far more hellacious than it ever needed to be. We have been lectured endlessly by pundits and attention seekers on social media that we musn’t ever make them feel bad about their awful choices — no matter how many public, violent scenes they cause over health rules, heavily armed protests they organize to intimidate us and how much the death toll soars.

    Their feelings have been deemed more important than the health and well-being of our families, because somehow if we kowtow to the worst people in our society, a few will supposedly be nice enough to get vaccinated or wear masks.

    Nope.

    If you refuse to get vaccinated — and this goes double if you are someone with enough of a platform to influence others — you are to blame for the fourth wave. You are the reason why more children are being hospitalized, so spare me your family values bloviation. You are why good people who have done their part and gotten their shots are getting breakthrough cases.

    I am tired of sugarcoating it. I am tired of the perennial hectoring to “both sides” the pandemic like we mindlessly do with political coverage.

    The 40% who can’t be bothered to get jabbed because they know more than doctors or they understand freedom better than the rest of us or just know that the magnetic 5G is gonna be injected in their veins are why people continue to needlessly die. And they are why life continues to be hell for the rest of us.

    Yes, there is a political divide in vaccination rates — and Republicans are on the wrong side of it. Let’s stop denying the obvious or making excuses for a party whose pandemic response has been a mix of crass pandering to their base and sociopathic stupidity.

    [T]he dream of post-COVID normalcy is fading fast as Delta and other variants have ripped through our country, even infecting some of the vaccinated.

    That’s also threatening our economic recovery, which is why you’re seeing corporate America step up with major companies like Walmart and Google finally issuing vaccine mandates.

    And like clockwork, grandstanding dimwits in the Michigan Legislature are debating GOP legislation outlawing vaccine passports on the heels of trying to snatch away Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency powers. They have plenty of company, with GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott banning schools from issuing mask mandates, while GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been busy tying local governments’ abilities to fight COVID, too.

    (Editor’s Note: In Arizona, Gov. Doug Ducey agreed to demands from anti-mask Republican lawmakers that the state budget include a law barring school districts from requiring masks, securing the votes he needed for a spending plan that includes massive tax cuts for wealthy Arizonans. Several school districts have still enacted mask mandates for students, teachers, staff and visitors, arguing that the law doesn’t go into effect until late September.)

    [K]nuckle-draggers do not deserve veto power over our safety. The only way we will make COVID an occasional nuisance instead of a mortal threat to everyone’s health is with vaccine mandates for everything from school to concerts to travel.

    How did we get to a point where the proudly ignorant wield this much power, anyway?

    Well, in my more than 20-year career in journalism, there has been one constant: You are never, ever to make people who are loudly anti-intellectual, knowingly spew lies and publicly pat themselves on the back for it, feel dumb. That is the sin of elitism and there is nothing worse, you see. Even casting the argument in positive terms, like lauding the value of higher education, is considered looking down on nice folks who insist that the earth is flat and their theories should command the same respect as those of Galileo.

    We’re told there’s nothing worse than living in liberal bubbles (even though those in the media and on the left are obsessed with trying to understand red state America). But you know what? Living in a blue enclave is a pretty great way to survive a plague. Nobody yells at you for wearing a mask at the gas station. Schools actually care about our kids’ safety. Officials aren’t trying to score political points off of our misery.

    [A]fter this much unneeded agony, I’m done coddling the craven and crazy. And I know I’m not alone.

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