State’s bid cites requirements that $60 Trump-endorsed God Bless the USA Bible appears to be tailor-made to meet
Oklahoma’s top education official is seeking to buy 55,000 Bibles for public schools and specifying that each copy contain the Declaration of Independence and US constitution, which are not commonly found in Bibles but are included in one endorsed by former president Donald Trump.
The request is part of Republican state superintendent Ryan Walters’ ongoing efforts to require Bibles in every classroom, which has been met with resistance by some of Oklahoma’s largest school districts.
Walters is seeking to spend $3m in state funds for Bibles that fit a certain criteria, including that the pages are supplemented with US historical materials. The Bibles must also be “bound in leather or leather-like material for durability”, according to state bidding documents posted this week.
I called it once they announced the bible thing lmao:
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14286107
It’s such a transparent grift I just can’t.
Wait until you hear about the $100k concepts of a watch they’re selling worldwide for cash OR bitcoin. It’s basically tailor made to allow foreign agents to send money to trump anonymously.
I saw the ad but missed a piece about bitcoin. Probably because I was overwhelmed with their worse-than-parody looks and presentation.
The more you look into it the better it gets. It’s basically a drop ship scam run out of a random office in Wyoming (? IIRC) where the only other registered business sells honey to treat erectile dysfunction.
And from what I’ve read by people who really know watches, they’re pieces of shit too.
I mean, yeah, it’s a drop ship front designed to be a money laundering pipe for foreign agents to send money to a Trump business. The product doesn’t actually matter.
Oh yeah, I expected nothing else. I just think it’s funny that watch collectors and experts took one look at them and said, “yeah, that’s a piece of shit.” They didn’t even have to see the insides.
Say whaaaaaa
We are on the ride to hell, but goddamit they have amusing sights on the way.
Misappropriating funds to buy religious texts for a public school while insisting that the text includes the constitution that makes it misappropriation in the first place is some next level bullshit
I heard it has a copy of the constitution/bill of rights in it, missing amendments 11 - 17, because a lot of those prevent his coup, and allow for his prosecution.
Walters in June ordered public schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades five through 12. The bidding documents also specify that the Bibles include both the Old Testament and New Testament, the Pledge of Allegiance and the Bill of Rights.
Seems like it’s time to publish an annotated Bible that meets the criteria and costs much less than Trump’s bible.
55k would make one helluva beautiful bonfire
Still can after the fact too
What a waste of money.
Quick, someone run a Kickstarter for leatherette bound “Bibles” that meet the criteria and unfold into a doormat
This comes out to $55/book. Outrageous!
$60 for a Bible? $60? I mean I knew it was a scam but that’s like a triple scam.
All the weird shit aside this is exactly the problem with school funding in our country. It’s usually not this blatantly obvious and corrupt but this happens all the time. So many schools spend millions of dollars on teaching resources another nonsense that’s just direct handouts for political purposes. Every year teachers and Librarians are just inundated with garbage that the district spend obscene amounts of money on that nobody needs or wants. It’s all dirty politics.
I love the article, it involves the highest to the lowest levels and touches on religious hypocrisy, corruption, ass kissing. Basically every defining aspect of the republican way of life plays a role in such a tiny little story.
I’m so glad I don’t live in that shithole
I really would rather my taxes not go to dipshit Donald or geriatric Joe. There are roads that need fixing and libraries that need funding.
