These anti-CRT, anti-mask weirdos went absolutely nuclear because they weren't allowed to speak twice during public comment at the Grand Ledge Public Schools board meeting.
"If you're going to follow Robert's rules, you have to follow all of Robert's rules!" He shouted from the audience without being recognized.
I've got so much of this on film. And there is so much more. This was just the first one I grabbed to tease Twitter with.
Don't get me wrong, the majority of the comments tonight were positive and defended teachers from accusations of them being the collective reincarnation of Joseph Stalin, but they were absolutely interrupted frequently by the typhoid brigade.
And we should be clear, the majority of the blowhards are out of town astroturfers. This guy lives almost a hundred miles away from the district.
He did the thing where he tried to be polite and racist at the same time. Welcome to Michigan.
It was a literal roller coaster with testimony from some of the best teachers you will ever get to listen to interlaced with some of the worst racist and anti-science advocacy you'll ever hear.
This journalism teacher deserves every single award ever.
This is my best friend Ben speaking and getting heckled and handling it like a demigod.
Guy shouts out that "we live in a republic!" and "stop telling our kids that we live in a democracy!".
Without a beat, Ben goes, "I'm not here about your children, sir."
I love him so much.
Apparently this guy was there recording it for his YouTube channel which has exactly zero views now. I might rip the video and share it here, but I'm not sending people to his channel with 354 followers.
Probably not though, his videos suck as bad as his attitude.
Here's Adam, the guy with no cool from the first video in this thread, harassing people just prior to the meeting.
He divides his self-awareness by a very racist zero at the end of this one, screaming at a Black man that he is powerless.
All of this is happening in a district with a serious & well-known history of some horrifying racism. This history was unpacked over 7 hours of public comment at a school board meeting in Grand Ledge last year.
Oh, what the hell, here's one more Chernobyl.
Highlights:
* Captain high fade calls every parent that disagrees with his racism a Marxist
* Adam gets in a "no, you shut up" spat with a fellow anti masker
* Fake redhead lady almost forgets Dr King's name while invoking him poorly
Hey look, it's the former sheriff of the county enticing people to show up to do racisms at the meeting on Facebook.
Found the lady that was ranting in the first video on Facebook. Both her accounts. She's definitely posting straight up Q Anon garbage, and more disturbingly, encouraging people to be viciously disruptive at school board meetings specifically.
Another one. This guy admits he's a fascism tourist, and he gets really mad at a train at the end, which is ironic to anyone who never believed that lie about Mussolini. Totally unhinged. He's from about 40 miles away.
Here is a trailer for the documentary I put together about the meeting to fire Grand Ledge's racist superintendent last summer. You can watch or download the entire 36 min movie for free at GrandLedgePublicSchools.com. It really puts the #FascismTourists invasion into perspective.
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A lot of really smart people didn't study poli-sci at a Catholic school in West Michigan and don't know many of the architects behind Project 2025 are the product of local Catholic pushback against liberation theology in Latin America in the 90s and 2000s
Not me. I interned with Jeff Smith in college. No activist in the country has tracked Acton Institute and the DeVos Family more thoroughly and consistently than Jeff.
Betsy DeVos saying she wants in with Trump again reaffirms the Project 2025 threat.
Every bill in this article is good actually, and Senator Nesbitt again confuses what is good for his wealthy donors and what is good for the Michigan economy and its workers.
When he has to choose between the two, he'll pick his donors every time.
"California raised a national alarm when it adopted a narrow definition of who qualifies as an independent contractor."
The national alarm this raised was at Uber headquarters because they were exploiting their drivers. California is one of the largest economies in the world.
"Bills in both chambers (SB 334, HB 4550) would set firm nurse-to-patient ratios for hospitals."
Nolan claims this would lead to bed closures because of a nursing shortage. But you fix a shortage with training and higher pay, not by literally killing people which high ratios do.
I'm at the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District Board meeting.
Guess what the Ottawa Impact whack jobs are upset about on this agenda...
#OAISD covers career and technical education through the Career Line Tech Center, Special Education through the Ottawa Area Center, and other non-traditional education paths for Ottawa County.
Multiple school districts in the area benefit from their services.
If you remember me speaking at the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners about my late friend who lived with autism, his teachers and a few of his caregivers were from #OAISD. His parents moved to Holland to access these services.
I'm at the Zeeland Public Schools Board of Education Meeting. Big budget meeting.
The room is overpacked, and my whack job alarm is going off very loud, but ZAAC is also here and they are pretty much heros. Rumor is there will be a book ban chat.
There is a second issue on the table that may be driving the majority of people to this meeting. The board is considering having 24 half days on the calendar next year, when most schools have 4-6. They were added as a way to accommodate tea her trainings tied to state funding.
The large amount of half days doesn't seem to have any real defenders. Most people seem to agree students don't learn as well on a half day.
We're drinking if anyone brings up watching a movie in class! #ZeelandSchools
1/7 2,000 days ago, a few thousand Michiganders started collecting signatures for a petition to end gerrymandering.
If they handed their petitions in today instead of December 2017, they still would have collected an average of more than 200+ per day or 8+ per hour. #MIPol
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2/7 In the very first election after maps were ungerrymandered, our entire legislature both reflected the electorate proportionally and also was controlled by Democrats for the first time in my life.
The new governing trifecta opened up new legislation.
3/7 For decades, Republicans had blocked meaningful policy change in Michigan despite mass shootings, catastrophic oil spills, the poisoning of a city's water supply, and access to health care and other critical services across the state.
Why did @wopanthers fire Ryan Lancaster as head wrestling coach? He's been regional coach of the year 2 years in a row, which means he was a contender for state coach of the year twice. He started the girls wrestling program.
The school's reasons are dumb and vague...
The athletic director insists that Ryan didn't win enough. Off the bat, you know they're full of it. I've lived here for decades. Other sports have horrible records without coaching changes. It's a clear cover-up for something politically motivated...
I heard a rumor, and take it with a grain of salt, that the secretary of Mac Bay is dating a guy who wants the job, and there were anonymous letters written to the athletic director saying Coach Lancaster didn't have the juice, despite him clearly delivering the goods...