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Hypocrisy is a core conservative value; without double standards, they wouldn't have standards at all
— Dcmfox (@dcmfox.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T17:18:38.354Z
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H2O Man
(79,252 posts)Hitler Hater
(2 posts)Whether it's Oklahoma or some other deep red state, they're filled to the brim with hypocrites. Where do all these Trump-loving cultish televangelists originate? Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee.... plus a few other Confederate states. It's in their blood to lie and call it "godly". Chances are -- if someone is for televangelists, they're for Trump. They go hand-in-hand. They love lies and fairy tales, they love myths about a 6,000 year-old planet, and the whole 9 yards. They love their guns. They feel righteous in hating immigrants, Blacks, Asians, non-whites and non-evangelicals. They get pleasure watching cruelty leveled on refugees and the homeless. They are the opposites of Christ, yet claim total devotion to Him. But Trump is actually their current Savior, their Messiah chosen by God for this period. No wonder we're in perilous times!
johnnyplankton
(658 posts)
lapfog_1
(31,980 posts)yeah that's the ticket...
3catwoman3
(29,805 posts)…is just mind blowing. And it’s always a rightwing religious creep.
SheltieLover
(81,719 posts)
William Seger
(12,531 posts)The "conservative" Christian mindset is that we are ALL sinful, which is why the fear of God and authoritarian father-figures is necessary to keep us in line. BUT, if you're a Christian, you're entitled to pray away the sin and God will forgive you, so of course other Christians should too. It's only if you're not a Christian that sin condemns you to hell.
SheltieLover
(81,719 posts)Guessing the latter. 
dalton99a
(95,291 posts)Board members: TV in Ryan Walters’ office displayed nude women during executive session
By Tres Savage and Sasha Ndisabiye | Friday, July 25, 2025
Two members of the Oklahoma State Board of Education were “shocked and mad” when they saw a video featuring “naked women” on the television screen in Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters’ office during the executive session portion of Thursday’s meeting.
While neither Becky Carson nor Ryan Deatherage could tell what video was displaying nude women on Walters’ office TV, each told NonDoc they were the only people seated in a position to see the screen. Deatherage said he noticed the video first while a parent was speaking about her appeal of a district transfer denial. As Deatherage weighed his options about how to bring the video to the room’s attention, Carson noticed the nudity.
“I was like, ‘What am I seeing?’ I kind of was in shock, honestly. I started to question whether I was actually seeing what I was seeing,” Carson said. “I was like, ‘Is that woman naked?’ And then I was like, ‘No, she’s got a body suit on.’ And it happened very quickly, I was like, ‘That is not a body suit.’ And I hate to even use these terms, but I said, ‘Those are her nipples.’ And then I was looking closer, and I got a full-body view, and I was like, ‘That is pubic hair.’ Even right now, I couldn’t even tell you what I was watching.”
As Carson processed what she was seeing, she said “the mama bear and teacher in me came out” and she “stopped the meeting cold” by confronting Walters.
“I was so disturbed by it, that I was like — very loudly and boastfully, like I was a parent or a teacher — I said, ‘What is on your TV? What am I watching?’ He was like, ‘What? What are you talking about?’ He stood up and saw it. He made acknowledgment that he saw it,” Carson recalled. “And I said, ‘Turn it off. Now.’ And he was like, ‘What is this? What is this?’ So he acknowledged it was inappropriate just by those words. And he was like, ‘I can’t get it to turn off. I can’t figure out how to turn it off.’ And I said, ‘Get it turned off.’ So he finally got it turned off, and that was the end of it. He didn’t address it. He didn’t apologize. Nothing was said.”
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SheltieLover
(81,719 posts) 
MissouriDem47
(442 posts)In Oklahoma they are more concerned about how the Sooner's will do this season in football. Everything else doesn't matter.
SheltieLover
(81,719 posts) 
chouchou
(3,309 posts)He'll be sleeping on his ass in the living room tonight.. 
chouchou
(3,309 posts)(I'm kidding..i'm kidding..)
Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)
surfered
(14,289 posts)
AllaN01Bear
(29,803 posts)AllaN01Bear
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dobleremolque
(1,133 posts)lahoma! Where the sin comes sweepin' down the plain....🎵
SidneyR
(234 posts)Magas are totally open to ideological manipulation. All you have to do is push the right buttons and they're on board.
republianmushroom
(22,707 posts)Most uncut tom cats have more family values than republicans.
Picaro
(2,440 posts)Wow.
We’re going to have to invent some new words. Orwellian and Kafkaesque aren’t really capturing the essence of what’s going on anymore.
Who watches porn during any kind of business meeting.
Well, this guy does. 🤦♂️😂
BurnDoubt
(1,908 posts)
FakeNoose
(42,419 posts)My work computer (unlike Ryan Walters' version) would never have allowed anyone to visit porn sites.
It's just not done on work computers, especially not during public meetings.
popsdenver
(2,628 posts)to describe Republicans, one is at the top of the list
Hypocrite.................(pure and simple, do as I say, not as I do).........no better word......
634-5789
(4,705 posts)JT45242
(4,132 posts)First of all...how was that site not blocked on his work computer?
2. Open during a meeting?
3. Where other people can see out screen in real life?
Seriously....you have to be an arrogant dumb ass degenerate to do that
Skittles
(172,881 posts)
Sneederbunk
(17,640 posts)jokes of the Union?
BeneteauBum
(778 posts)I think most bible thumpers hide some inner sexual conflicts.
Peace ☮️
Mblaze
(1,104 posts)As an elephant's eye
littlemissmartypants
(34,377 posts)
Permanut
(8,572 posts)Just a quick prayer and all is forgiven.
Kind of like a "get out of Hell free" card.
Tarzanrock
(1,250 posts)
Emile
(43,270 posts)dalton99a
(95,291 posts)
niyad
(134,035 posts)
Celerity
(54,884 posts) EnergizedLib
(3,153 posts)
Joinfortmill
(21,668 posts)
Martin68
(28,072 posts)niyad
(134,035 posts)with her so she could share with them.
niyad
(134,035 posts)
EuterpeThelo
(437 posts)Jeffrey Toobin, and I can't believe his reputation wasn't ruined forever. CNN even hired him back as a commentator!
niyad
(134,035 posts)
Grins
(9,523 posts)Much like yourself, eh, Mr. Walter’s?
Skittles
(172,881 posts) 
Figarosmom
(13,390 posts)Faith in schools or some such shit , WITH A HARD ON under that desk.
LudwigPastorius
(15,006 posts)computer and not nude farm animals.
Godot51
(833 posts)... so he'd know what not to do.
avebury
(11,201 posts)like that would have popped up a notice on inappropriate content. IT would not have allowed the website to show. However, if the computer was a personal computer and he accessed an open wifi link it could pop up.
I will note that Walters is bat sh*t crazy and actually makes Stitt not look as bad as Stitt is. That is really sad.
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Skittles
(172,881 posts) Celerity
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oasis
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Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)Oklahoma Democratic Party Chair John Waldron. "It’s not a surprising coincidence that news of Oklahoma’s schools falling to 50th in the nation arrived within hours of reports of the State Superintendent airing porn in his office,"
DFW
(60,436 posts)There are sensible people in Oklahoma, minority though they are. Most of them are known as Democrats.
There are people like this sleazebag in Oklahoma. If they are in a position of responsibility or power, they proudly call themselves Republicans. How would we know? There are no people with responsibility and power in Oklahoma who are not Republicans.
RandomNumbers
(19,263 posts)to validate the claim. I don't work in that part of IT (programmer here) but I'm pretty sure that at a minimum, the site should show up in router logs.
Was it really his work computer? (I skimmed the article and it said it was on his office TV). If it was, there would likely be other traces.
OF COURSE, it is most likely that anything useful has been scrubbed. "overwritten accidentally" or some shit.
If I understand correctly, 2 Dem board members made the claim. Regardless what we all here think, we should expect hard evidence to be presented if possible. I believe it should be possible - most of us have tracking crap on our work computers even if we don't know it.
ironman_25
(22 posts)Oklahoma is a religious hotbed which could be a good thing. The problem is while they are in their church buildings, they talk how we should all live our lives and be moral. When they walk out the door to go to their cars the discussed ideals are left in the building and the biased hate filled Republican backers on the prowl.
dlk
(13,342 posts)He is a threat to their safety.
avebury
(11,201 posts)“My first reaction was, I thought maybe somehow, you know, the Jerry Springer Show got on there and something was blurred out,” said Chris Van Dehende, Oklahoma State Department of Education board member.
Van Dehende says based on Walter’s reaction it was clear this was not the case.
“All I can say is having been in the room, not seeing what was on the TV, but seeing the reactions to Becky Carson primarily, and Ryan Walters reaction to what he saw when he spun around and saw the TV,” said Van Dehende. “Something clearly was on that TV that shouldn’t have been on that TV. Why It was on, I don’t know.”
https://kfor.com/news/local/investigation-inquiry-underway-after-bombshell-reports-say-board-members-saw-naked-women-on-ryan-walters-office-tv-during-meeting/?ipid=promo-link-block1
On Friday, Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton (R-Tuttle) and Senate Education Chair Adam Pugh (R-Edmond) announced the state’s Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) has opened an investigation inquiry looking into the allegations.
In a statement, Paxton told News 4:
“This is a bizarre and troubling situation that raises serious questions about the events and what took place during yesterday’s executive session at the Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting. The accounts made public by board members paint a strange, unsettling scene that demands clarity and transparency. Senator Pugh and I appreciate the quick action by OMES to help coordinate through this situation to get details on exactly what happened. More transparency is essential before strong conclusions can be drawn.”
In another statement, Pugh told News 4:
“The reports coming out of Thursday’s Board of Education meeting raise a number of questions. This is a situation that warrants further explanation and transparency. Additionally, Superintendent Walters and those making the allegations deserve to be heard and give their side of the story. I appreciate the efforts by everyone who are taking these allegations seriously. We’ll be watching closely as more information comes to light.”
This story is not going away. Hopefully it will drive a dagger into any future political hopes that Walters has.
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,061 posts)Ryan Walters was already controversial, but alleged images of naked women on his office television during a board meeting have made matters vastly worse.
Another religious fraud demanded bibles be placed in all classrooms in Oklahoma … while he watched porn during an online meeting.
— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-07-29T20:03:27.083Z
Oklahoma schools’ chief faces investigation over adult content seen during board meeting www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/oklahoma-schools-chief-faces-investigation-adult-content-seen-board-me-rcna221674
A sheriff’s office in Oklahoma is investigating an incident during a state Board of Education meeting last week that reportedly involved images of naked women on the state school superintendent’s office television. The images were seen during the board’s executive session, held in Superintendent Ryan Walters’ office, The Oklahoman newspaper of Oklahoma City reported, citing members Ryan Deatherage and Becky Carson, who attended the meeting.
....Indeed, Walters isn’t exactly benefiting from an outpouring of support from his fellow GOP officials. Two leading Republicans in the Legislature, including Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton, issued a statement late last week on a separate investigation into the matter.
“This is a bizarre and troubling situation that raises serious questions about the events and what took place during yesterday’s executive session at the Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting,” Paxton said. Board members’ accounts, he added, “paint a strange, unsettling scene that demands clarity and transparency.”
State House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, who’s also a Republican, called the allegations “serious” and said that “an expeditious third-party review is warranted.”.....
Waters has called an Oklahoma teachers' union a “terrorist organization.” He’s partnered with a far-right propaganda outlet, bringing its materials into classrooms. He pushed a social studies curriculum guidance that directed educators to push pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
At one point last fall, as my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones noted, Waters even wanted to require schools to show children a video of him praying for Donald Trump — though the state attorney general’s office said that couldn’t happen.
It’s against this backdrop that the radical official is suddenly facing a new and unusual kind of mess. Watch this space.
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,061 posts)
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