Pompeo; This is what he really meant when he attacked the head of the teachers union.

[fightforfreedom]

I and the Republican Party want to change our education system. We want to teach all children our version of American history. We want to teach all children only the good things about our history, none of the bad. We want to control the minds of our children. We do not want them to think out of the box. We do not want them to think for themselves.

We want to teach them this is a christian nation, period. We want to teach them this nation was created by white people only.

We want to teach all the children Columbus discovered America. We do not want to teach them about the greed and genocide.

We want to teach all the children Custer was a hero at Gettysburg. We want to teach all the children Custer and his men died heroes at the Little Bighorn.

We don't want to teach our children about the massacre at Sand Creek. We don't want to teach our children Custer was arrogant, he had zero respect for Native Americans and he paid for it. When you see teepee's that stretch to the horizon, never yell charge.

This is what Pompeo said.

[malaise]

1. or anything about slavery

snd the way women were assumed to be second class citizens

[Walleye]

3. It's funny because you can see all of this history on reruns of 50s TV

[fightforfreedom]

6. Exactly.

[FoxNewsSucks]

22. They'll try to ban that next.

Along with "Mad Men", "The Help" and any other historically-accurate portrayals.

[Walleye]

2. Pompeo also said there would be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration

Are we going to teach January 6 in history classes? Pompeo is a lying sack of shit

[gab13by13]

4. Excellent summary.

[Oppaloopa]

24. I really think this is a hint about banning unions next

[SouthernDem4ever]

34. +1

yes he is

[LastDemocratInSC]

5. I think the underlying message he sent the MAGAs

is that he has contempt for the same people they do.

[Freethinker65]

7. GOP would be just fine with no public education and a return to child labor

That is just fine for everyone else's kids. An undereducated subservient non-critical thinking electorate is needed for the GOP to remain in power to be able to rob public resources through fear.

Private schools for those with means will continue to educate so their offspring have even more advantages. GOP proposes curriculum bans in public schools because of "liberal indoctrination" (you know, things like teaching science and history, and having free thought provoking discussions), while leaving their elite private schools untouched.

[BonnieJW]

32. And when they end social security and Medicare

they'll supply the elderly with begging bowls

[sop]

8. How else will Republicans get kids to vote for them as adults unless they indoctrinate them now?

[Me.]

9. How Typical Of Him & His Fellows

That they always pick a woman to make the bogey 'man' of their ambitions...Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and now Randi Weingarten...the Salem witches of our day.

[sop]

11. It never fails.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. He meant a lot more than that. He was tying together schools, unions and the current cultural

fearmongering around LGBTQ people. He's broadening the culture war.

[Sancho]

12. Don't forget the Bowling Green Massacre!!

[Ford_Prefect]

13. "When you see teepee's that stretch to the horizon, never yell charge." That is what Pompeo DID.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. That sums it up.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

15. Does he plan to BAN all the books that tell the TRUTH about history?

Ban people like Ken Burns, Michael Beschloss, John Meachem, and other historians?

The 1st Amendment be damned.

What a crazy world we live in.

[peppertree]

16. And that you, too, would have a Newport, RI, mansion - if only there were no taxes

I heard that one from more than one constipated Repug history teacher.

[Rebl2]

17. He needs

to go to prison along with tfg and many of their maga criminal friends.

[modrepub]

18. He Assumes No One Has BS Detectors

most people recognize hypocrisy when they see it. Try and teach a "sanitized" version and there will be folks who reject it. Why does he or anyone think folks have brought up all of these "bad" things about our history in the first place?!? They looked at the imagery of a "perfect" union and called bullish-t.

[Icanthinkformyself]

19. Ravings

from a second rate lunatic. He and his ilk are dangers to society. This is what happens when the asylum doors have been left unlocked.

[A HERETIC I AM]

20. In saw an interview with a college professor...

And she was asked why is it that so many college graduates tend to be liberals, in spite of their upbringing.

Her response was interesting;

“Because when they come to a university, for many it is the first time in their lives that they have been told the truth.”

As Stephen Colbert famously said, “The truth has a distinctly liberal bias. “

The conservative powers that be know they are fighting a losing battle, as more people tend to align themselves with liberal political ideology.

And they just can’t have that, now can they?

[Wild blueberry]

21. "We want serfs"

Pompous has deep Koch ties. They want ignorant,unquestioning serfs to do the work for little pay.

[slightlv]

28. I hate to say this,

being a native born Kansan... but NEVER trust a republican Kansas politico. They are all Koch corrupted.

[vanlassie]

29. Wait until those old MAGAs need elder care.

While there are many great and smart carers, at the most expensive assisted living home in my town my MAGA dad’s care was abysmal. They allowed COVID in and openly complained about masking, etc. Too stupid to take care of themselves, much less elderly in need.

[vlyons]

23. and especially that women should not be the head of anything

They should not even have a seat at the table. Get back in the kitchen and make sure your husband's meal is ready to put on the table, when he gets home from work.

[iluvtennis]

25. Seriously. "We want to teach all children our version of American history"

Our version of American history.

What about teaching "the true" American history - the good, the bad, the ugly - that's the way a nation learns to try to avoid repeating the bad parts.

Gosh, we gotta get rid of these fascists with their propaganda.

[gibraltar72]

26. The ventriloquist is Larry Arnn President of Christian Nationalist Hillsdale College.

Pompeo and the rest are the dummies.

[lonely bird]

27. Ah, so what Republicans want

Is for teachers to be groomers, to indoctrinate nice, little, compliant drones that also can hate anyone who doesn’t buy into the theomythology.

Btw, why is it this site accepts ad money from Hillsdale College’s publishing arm? I assume Hillsdale is paying for ads unless I am wrong.

[Traildogbob]

31. Talk about grooming children

[keithbvadu2]

30. 1+

[Samrob]

33. White "wokeness." That is all.

[Demanchor]

35. Pompeo is a member of Opus Die

None of this should be surprising.

[Hotler]

36. Another Christian dominionist trying to force their beliefs down our throats.

America's Taliban IMO.

[Hassler]

37. America: where green lights never turn red.