Stupid, foolish, shortsighted, giving in to style over substance. And on top of everything else, they can't give a rotten damn about the kids who are going to have to put up with this crap. It makes me wonder how much blowback teachers and faculty will wind up getting when the kids draw from non-Texas sources and call their instructors on the bullshit they are being fed.
I HOPE that happens. Whether it does or not remains TBD.
Texas is exceptional. Most of the civilized world is trying to reduce maternal mortality, except Texas. Most of the world understands that measles is bad, except Texas. Most of the world would rather be dragged over burning coals rather than vote for Ted Cruz, except for Texas.
Texas was "a push" for me, while I worked in the semiconductor industry. MOSTEK wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, and I'm pretty sure they got glommed up by some other larger firm. Texas Instruments in Dallas, on the other hand, were a bunch of pretty knowledgeable people, and more than a couple decent techs, many of whom I trained. Unfortunately, there was also TI in Austin, who thought they knew it all and shot themselves in the foot more than once ... or TWICE.
What made up for a LOT of the bad was the food, especially Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. Crawfish etouffee ... OOOOG!
David Barton is a LIAR. Frankly, that should say it all. His reputation among those of us who value unsullied history is, at its best, notorious, and at worst, despicable and utterly unacceptable, in an educational environment or anywhere else. The fact that his ridiculous book on Thomas Jefferson was pulled from publication for its blatant inaccuracies and outright lies should be reason enough NOT to have him involved in Texas education at any level.
And yet there he is, welcomed apparently with open arms (and an open checkbook, I would guess). DISGUSTING.
That's what he gets from it. What they get from it is the distorted view of history that tells them exactly what they want to hear: that only people who think exactly like them are real Americans, and the Founding Fathers intended the Christian theocracy they so desperately want.
According to Corey Robin, American political theorist, journalist and professor, the underlying motive of conservatives is to preserve existing inequalities in wealth and power. This principle, he contends, is more fundamental to conservative thought than concerns about liberty or limited government.
Barton’s ahistorical opinions align with conservative goal of presenting an American history that supports the preservation of wealth and power and justify the alienation of the lower social classes from power in order to keep them subordinate to their former masters.
I'm generally not in favor of voucher programs, but Texas is working hard to make "doesn't have to follow the state curriculum (or post 10C posters)" a real selling point.
...Which is likely one of their goals; not just to control the historical narrative, but at the same time limit good education to private schools, destroying public education, making upward social mobility harder.
They keep weakening child labor laws, almost as if they want completely uneducated children to replace all the brown people they are deporting. Or maybe a repeal of the 13th amendment, so they can bring back slavery. Or both.
I go with bringing back serfdom. Serfs that are not educated can be easier to control and manipulate. The elite members of the Christian nationalist movement wants obedient, non questioning workers/soldiers to work/fight and die to the sole benefit of the rich elite members of the Christian nationalists movement. Although the elite members will make sure their kids are properly educated so they can take their place as ruling nobility (that’s the attitude the rich elite have). Court intrigue is thick in the Christian Nationalist Party to become President (or king).
Vouchers wouldn't help Texas, but then, I don't think that vouchers help ANYTHING in ANY state. All they do is siphon off monies from public education to mostly go to religious indoctrination sites.
If someone has a study which actually demonstrates a positive outcome from the use of vouchers, I don't know about it.
Yeah, vouchers will only bolster that movement. The private schools will still pull all the stunts to keep the schools segregated and free from low class and disabled students. It will only make things worse.
This actually gets to the overriding truth about christianity - it is so preposterous that the faithful have to continuously rehearse it or risk losing the faith. Barton tells them comforting lies about their faith and christian nationalism and helps them to maintain their faith and all at the cost of believing in an American history which no actual historian agrees with. But they can even spin that - Barton is a persecuted voice in the wilderness trying his best to save souls... in other words, horse shit.
It's not as though Texas is poor in quality universities, either. Rice University is highly ranked, and though it's been a while, it was among the places I was considering as an engineering school.
This business of putting ideology over factual education isn't going to hammer just the Lone Star State. It will damage this country and its reputation in the world for years to come.
Rice is private, and was funded (at least for the first few decades) by a massive endowment - zero to do with the State of Texas' spending or priorities on education. Though that's a quibble. UT Austin and A&M are both good schools that are funded by the state.
I don't think the issue is with whether Texas is willing to provide good University education for the upper class Texas kids who do well in HS. They are. This issue is how much Texas is willing to educate the lower and middle classes so that they have a better chance of *getting into* places like Rice, UTA, or A&M. The answer seems to be "not very."
It was touched on in the article, but as Texas education goes, so does the entire country. Texas is so large, and has so many schools that what Texas sets as standards for textbooks, the publishers generally print for all of the USA. It is too costly to print separate textbooks for each state, despite the standards being decided at the state level, so publishers provide what the largest purchasers request. That would be Texas. California and New York might be able to get away with their own, being large themselves, but states like Wisconsin or Montana with very small populations have to make do with what the publishers provide. It is really an illusion that state legislatures set standards for schools, it is really mostly Texas. This is why the Daughters of the Confederacy were so successful spreading their propaganda as fact. Asking Barton to set standards is just a continuation of the propaganda machine.
“ He’s nothing more than a self-marketer who convinced gullible Republicans that he was an expert in American history despite having no expertise, no formal credentials, and lying his ass off. It’s only because he’s been doing it for a while, through his WallBuilders ministry, and convinced white evangelical pastors to platform him, that he’s become popular among Republicans.”
We should fix this.
He’s nothing LESS than a self-marketer who convinced gullible AND IGGERUNT Republicans that WANT TO BE CONVINCED THAT he was an expert in American history, despite having no expertise, no formal credentials, and lying his ass off. It’s only because he’s been doing it for a while, through his WallBuilders ministry, and convinced white evangelical pastors to platform him, that he’s become popular among Republicans WHO DON’T GIVE A CRAP ABOUT TRUTH, RACISM, HOMOPHOBIA, ACCURACY OR ANYTHING BUT JEEBUS,POWER. MONEY, AND RELIGIOUS DOMINION.
“He argued that it was a “false premise” to say racial and ethnic minorities helped “expand political rights in America,” and that kids should be taught it was white men who did that. What about women’s suffrage? That was also because of men.”
I guess that’s true in a way. If it weren’t for white men, minorities and women wouldn’t have had to fight for a level playing field. And if it weren’t for white men being all magnanimous and generous, we still wouldn’t have the rights that white men are now taking from us.
It’s not a flex to claim white men are responsible for ending the atrocities committed against minorities and women when white men are the atrocities committed against minorities and women.
Barton is all, “I took your head out of the toilet, aren’t I a nice guy. You should be my best friend now. Take me to the airport and help me move.”
"The Rapture Has Been Rescheduled For Next Tuesday
South African preacher Joshua Mhlakela has set a new date for the “Rapture,” which he claims will happen “days from now.” The pastor made international headlines earlier this month after he shared his prophecy that the Biblical event would take place on 23 or 24 September.
He has now suggested that the event follows the Julian calendar, and not the Gregorian calendar."
Cripe. He thinks he can take a page from Harold Camping's failed playbook and make it work. He needs to have his nose rubbed in it when the rapture fails to happen "days from now" or whenever.
These charlatans need to be confronted with their bullshit until they can't face it anymore.
"the exceptionalism of Texas" - I know this is serious, but that made me laugh.
Exceptionally stupid?
All hat, no cattle.
Stupid, foolish, shortsighted, giving in to style over substance. And on top of everything else, they can't give a rotten damn about the kids who are going to have to put up with this crap. It makes me wonder how much blowback teachers and faculty will wind up getting when the kids draw from non-Texas sources and call their instructors on the bullshit they are being fed.
I HOPE that happens. Whether it does or not remains TBD.
All of their AI generated reports will get a failing grade for not matching the Texass standards.
Although, now that I've said that, I wonder if you could ask AI to write a report in the style of David Barton? Hmmm...
You might ... but then I've never heard of an AI vomiting in response to a query or request, either! 🤢🤮
The AI will write it, and they'll tell you how brilliant you are to know your history.
Texas is exceptional. Most of the civilized world is trying to reduce maternal mortality, except Texas. Most of the world understands that measles is bad, except Texas. Most of the world would rather be dragged over burning coals rather than vote for Ted Cruz, except for Texas.
My time in Texass was filled with nothing but superlatives....
hottest, driest, boringest, ugliest, smelliest.
Texas beipng filled with superlaxatives does explain Ted Cruz.
Texas was "a push" for me, while I worked in the semiconductor industry. MOSTEK wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, and I'm pretty sure they got glommed up by some other larger firm. Texas Instruments in Dallas, on the other hand, were a bunch of pretty knowledgeable people, and more than a couple decent techs, many of whom I trained. Unfortunately, there was also TI in Austin, who thought they knew it all and shot themselves in the foot more than once ... or TWICE.
What made up for a LOT of the bad was the food, especially Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. Crawfish etouffee ... OOOOG!
There was a tex mex place in East Austin that specialized in cabrito. Late 80s. My go to place.
Never had cabrito. Would love to try it, though!
Well, it is unique in being the only slave-holding part of Mexico to join the U.S. in order to keep its pro-slavery laws intact. Does that count?
I wonder if that gets mentioned in those Texas history classes.
Nah. texass will be the glorious state created by valiant British men, even before the 13 colonies in the East.
The star on their flag is a review.
From Google:
𝑇𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙 "𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒" 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑡 32𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙.
As a Texas I am disappointed with being 32nd, and will not rest until we climb the ranks and are resting comfortably at number 50.
Because 50 is higher ... (double checks) ... than 32.
David Barton is a LIAR. Frankly, that should say it all. His reputation among those of us who value unsullied history is, at its best, notorious, and at worst, despicable and utterly unacceptable, in an educational environment or anywhere else. The fact that his ridiculous book on Thomas Jefferson was pulled from publication for its blatant inaccuracies and outright lies should be reason enough NOT to have him involved in Texas education at any level.
And yet there he is, welcomed apparently with open arms (and an open checkbook, I would guess). DISGUSTING.
𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠: 𝐻𝑒’𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑒, ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑢𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟.
That's what he gets from it. What they get from it is the distorted view of history that tells them exactly what they want to hear: that only people who think exactly like them are real Americans, and the Founding Fathers intended the Christian theocracy they so desperately want.
There’s a reason he and his son are the only “historians,” quoted by all those hypocrites…
𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛’𝑠 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 “𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛.” 𝐻𝑒’𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒.
Barton is a historian just as much as I am an astronaut.
Send me a postcard from Saturn, please.
Rollerblading on the rings. That image might be in a Texas science book.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVE-3N2WV8
"Water, air, life."
Sorry for the wife beater song.
According to Corey Robin, American political theorist, journalist and professor, the underlying motive of conservatives is to preserve existing inequalities in wealth and power. This principle, he contends, is more fundamental to conservative thought than concerns about liberty or limited government.
Barton’s ahistorical opinions align with conservative goal of presenting an American history that supports the preservation of wealth and power and justify the alienation of the lower social classes from power in order to keep them subordinate to their former masters.
I'm generally not in favor of voucher programs, but Texas is working hard to make "doesn't have to follow the state curriculum (or post 10C posters)" a real selling point.
...Which is likely one of their goals; not just to control the historical narrative, but at the same time limit good education to private schools, destroying public education, making upward social mobility harder.
They keep weakening child labor laws, almost as if they want completely uneducated children to replace all the brown people they are deporting. Or maybe a repeal of the 13th amendment, so they can bring back slavery. Or both.
I go with bringing back serfdom. Serfs that are not educated can be easier to control and manipulate. The elite members of the Christian nationalist movement wants obedient, non questioning workers/soldiers to work/fight and die to the sole benefit of the rich elite members of the Christian nationalists movement. Although the elite members will make sure their kids are properly educated so they can take their place as ruling nobility (that’s the attitude the rich elite have). Court intrigue is thick in the Christian Nationalist Party to become President (or king).
"I go with bringing back serfdom."
I have thought for a while that the US is trying to implement neo-feudalism, with the tech bros playing the part of the robber barons.
Vouchers wouldn't help Texas, but then, I don't think that vouchers help ANYTHING in ANY state. All they do is siphon off monies from public education to mostly go to religious indoctrination sites.
If someone has a study which actually demonstrates a positive outcome from the use of vouchers, I don't know about it.
Yeah, vouchers will only bolster that movement. The private schools will still pull all the stunts to keep the schools segregated and free from low class and disabled students. It will only make things worse.
"Board Member Brandon Hall ended his post with a nod to Donald Trump: “THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”"
Is Brandon Hall's name in the Epstein Files too? Just like Pedodent tRump? It would be irresponsible not to ask.
This actually gets to the overriding truth about christianity - it is so preposterous that the faithful have to continuously rehearse it or risk losing the faith. Barton tells them comforting lies about their faith and christian nationalism and helps them to maintain their faith and all at the cost of believing in an American history which no actual historian agrees with. But they can even spin that - Barton is a persecuted voice in the wilderness trying his best to save souls... in other words, horse shit.
It's not good not only for texass students but also for their colleges. Lowering the quality of education will bite them badly in the ass in 2 ways :
- Good students will look for colleges in other states
- Texass students who want to enroll out of states will meet standards they are not prepared for
And social studies are just the beginning. Wait for the antivaxx stupidity and humorism in biology textbooks :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism
It's not as though Texas is poor in quality universities, either. Rice University is highly ranked, and though it's been a while, it was among the places I was considering as an engineering school.
This business of putting ideology over factual education isn't going to hammer just the Lone Star State. It will damage this country and its reputation in the world for years to come.
It will also ruin it's economy. Less educated people, less middle class, less taxpayers. Economy 101.
Even agriculture require a degree and knowledge in soil chemistry and composition*
* Mandatory for the most basic landscaping degree here. For the bac pro, you need to learn everything about irrigation and sprinklers and more.
"Manganese - a lot people don't even know what that is."
Aren’t they the people who live in Manga? One of the shithole countries.
Allons, tu peux fer mieux que ça.
You can't do better than a Carl Spackler quote.
That doesn't tin a bell.
You can't eat sizzle. You CAN eat steak (even vegetarian steak, if such a thing exists! 😁).
I am sorry to tell you this but cows being vegetarians, there is no carnivorous steak 😁
MOO, baby! 🐮
You asked for it.
https://youtu.be/FQMbXvn2RNI
Rice is private, and was funded (at least for the first few decades) by a massive endowment - zero to do with the State of Texas' spending or priorities on education. Though that's a quibble. UT Austin and A&M are both good schools that are funded by the state.
I don't think the issue is with whether Texas is willing to provide good University education for the upper class Texas kids who do well in HS. They are. This issue is how much Texas is willing to educate the lower and middle classes so that they have a better chance of *getting into* places like Rice, UTA, or A&M. The answer seems to be "not very."
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It was touched on in the article, but as Texas education goes, so does the entire country. Texas is so large, and has so many schools that what Texas sets as standards for textbooks, the publishers generally print for all of the USA. It is too costly to print separate textbooks for each state, despite the standards being decided at the state level, so publishers provide what the largest purchasers request. That would be Texas. California and New York might be able to get away with their own, being large themselves, but states like Wisconsin or Montana with very small populations have to make do with what the publishers provide. It is really an illusion that state legislatures set standards for schools, it is really mostly Texas. This is why the Daughters of the Confederacy were so successful spreading their propaganda as fact. Asking Barton to set standards is just a continuation of the propaganda machine.
“ He’s nothing more than a self-marketer who convinced gullible Republicans that he was an expert in American history despite having no expertise, no formal credentials, and lying his ass off. It’s only because he’s been doing it for a while, through his WallBuilders ministry, and convinced white evangelical pastors to platform him, that he’s become popular among Republicans.”
We should fix this.
He’s nothing LESS than a self-marketer who convinced gullible AND IGGERUNT Republicans that WANT TO BE CONVINCED THAT he was an expert in American history, despite having no expertise, no formal credentials, and lying his ass off. It’s only because he’s been doing it for a while, through his WallBuilders ministry, and convinced white evangelical pastors to platform him, that he’s become popular among Republicans WHO DON’T GIVE A CRAP ABOUT TRUTH, RACISM, HOMOPHOBIA, ACCURACY OR ANYTHING BUT JEEBUS,POWER. MONEY, AND RELIGIOUS DOMINION.
I think you've given them too much credit, they don't care about Jesus, not even Republican Jesus, he's just a convenient tool for Money and Power.
I refuse to believe that superduper Christians don’t care about Jesus. Of course they do. Just listen to them
Jesus wants you to get us money.
Jesus wants you to vote for us.
See they care about Jesus!
Question 1:
Who did Jesus fight at the Alamo?
A. An army of illegal Mexicans marching to take American jobs.
B. A mob of woke radicalized trans lairs and man-hating feminist bent on destroying the American family.
C. Satan and his so call scientist minion spreading the lies of evolution?
Question 2:
What proves that this country was founded on as a Christian nation?
A. Early generate forms that used the standard dating method of the time which included the phrase "in the year of our Lord."
B. Washington's name contains a lower case 't', which looks like a cross.
C. A historical letter between John Adams and his dentist that I bought and have stored in my private collection, which nobody but myself can see.
Question 3:
Is Donald J. Trump the
A. Greatest president ever.
B. The fulfillment of God's promise.
C. The smartest, handsomest most well endowed manly man every to man on earth
The answer is D all of the above
1. Reality
2. Treaty of Tripoli
3. When did the definition of well endowed change to tiny mushroom?
Mike Johnson is so good at finding Trump's mushroom that Johnson could get work as a truffle-hunting pig.
“He argued that it was a “false premise” to say racial and ethnic minorities helped “expand political rights in America,” and that kids should be taught it was white men who did that. What about women’s suffrage? That was also because of men.”
I guess that’s true in a way. If it weren’t for white men, minorities and women wouldn’t have had to fight for a level playing field. And if it weren’t for white men being all magnanimous and generous, we still wouldn’t have the rights that white men are now taking from us.
It’s not a flex to claim white men are responsible for ending the atrocities committed against minorities and women when white men are the atrocities committed against minorities and women.
Barton is all, “I took your head out of the toilet, aren’t I a nice guy. You should be my best friend now. Take me to the airport and help me move.”
OT:
Those pesky christians will soon be gone (again):
"The Rapture Has Been Rescheduled For Next Tuesday
South African preacher Joshua Mhlakela has set a new date for the “Rapture,” which he claims will happen “days from now.” The pastor made international headlines earlier this month after he shared his prophecy that the Biblical event would take place on 23 or 24 September.
He has now suggested that the event follows the Julian calendar, and not the Gregorian calendar."
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/the-rapture-has-been-rescheduled-for-next-tuesday/
I'm busy next Tuesday, how about next Wednesday?
I think ol' Josh is using a colander rather than a calendar, because his bullshit has at least as many holes as what I use to strain my rigatoni!
HASTA LA PASTA!!!
Wait! I thought it didn’t happen because of the Epstein files and no one could be raptured until they’re released unredacted.
But then I’m not actually reading the excuses for the rapture or why it failed.
Cripe. He thinks he can take a page from Harold Camping's failed playbook and make it work. He needs to have his nose rubbed in it when the rapture fails to happen "days from now" or whenever.
These charlatans need to be confronted with their bullshit until they can't face it anymore.
OT : it seems it's finally over. Welcome back tofu, veggies and mushrooms 🤤
In the freezer junk food !
David Barton is an idiot.
Barton is one of the earliest entries in the Encyclopedia of American Loons, dating all the way back to May of 2010
americanloons.blogspot.com/2010/05/14-david-barton.html