Far Rt 'Christian' Company Took Over 4 Texas School Boards & Hate Is at the Top of Their Agenda

[appalachiablue]

- Daily Kos, Sept. 5, 2022.

NBC News has a long read about the successful efforts of a far-far-right "Christian" cellphone provider (and yes that is a thing) to take over Texas school boards and rewrite what teachers are and aren't allowed to do in classrooms.

There's a lot to go through, but it's an effective look at the American fascist movement and their efforts to, mainly, hurt anyone who isn't them.

"Patriot Mobile" is a minor-tier wireless provider that promises a political bent: You pays them your moneys, and they use part of your moneys to screw over your neighbors—sorry, to promote "conservative" and "Christian" values, the first a hell of a lot more than the second, and it got its big break because Steve Bannon, an outright fascist, has been hyping them to his audience of greasy militia freaks as the sort of thing fascists need to be doing more of.

At this point you might be thinking that I'm throwing around the fascist label pretty freely, but read the piece. It's instructive. The company is "Christian" only in the way that most far-right "Christian" groups are, meaning they don't care if you're a child-raping serial liar so long as you let good Christians rub assault rifles against their naughty parts: "Initially, Patriot Mobile’s founders said their goal was to support groups & politicians who promised to oppose abortion, defend religious freedom, protect gun rights & support the military."

And then Trump came along and they loved the hell outta that grifting con artist, which led to the "Christian" phone company advertising their services using. NBC includes the picture, a picture of Donald Trump in a Rambo get-up "holding a machine gun." It's that kind of Christian. It's also this kind of "Christian": "This spring, the PAC blanketed the communities of Southlake, Keller, Grapevine & Mansfield with thousands of political mailers warning that sitting school board members were endangering students with critical race theory & other 'woke' ideologies. Patriot Mobile presented its candidates as patriots who would 'keep political agendas out of the classroom.'"...

More, https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/5/2118798/-A-far-right-company-took-over-four-Texas-school-boards-and-hate-is-at-the-top-of-their-agenda
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- Also:
Conservative Texas phone company fueling extremist takeover of schools, The Guardian
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217123115

[StrkSrviver]

1. Now is

The time to see if they can take shit as well as they can put it out,. Now that they are answerable to the public they have to sit in their chairs and be responsible adults and not be insulted no matter how many times they are they are called pedo's,, or nazi's, or traitors, or any other insults that they came up with. Good for the goose,good for the gander as the oid saying goes.

[Timeflyer]

2. They may go the FL route and allow corporate charter schools

to open around the counties, sucking off the public tax dollars that should support public schools. Teacher pay and qualifications may decrease, corporate boards make school decisions, and curriculum can be manipulated. There's way too much money to be made off school children's backs--conservatives want to privatize the schools and buy obedient state politicians with the tax payers own money.

[appalachiablue]

3. Agree, that's very likely the plan unfortunately. Thanks for commenting.