Peter Smagorinsky recently retired as Distinguished Research Professor in Language and Literacy Education at The University of Georgia.. His plans in retirement are ambitious, to say the least. I hope they include writing more essays like this one. I almost burst my stitches laughing out loud. As a citizen of Georgia, he is deeply knowledgeable about Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s thinking about the needs of education.
He begins:
Marjorie Taylor Greene now represents my home state of Georgia in the U.S. Congress. Unfortunately, radical far-left transgender communists in the Deep State have revoked her appointment on the Education and Labor Committee. To make up for this regrettable decision, I have developed in her honor The Greene New Deal for Education. It will finally help answer the question originally posed by George W. Bush: “Is our children learning?” Or more to the point, “What is our children learning?”
The Greene New Deal will emphasize the teaching of science. The sheeple have had their minds warped by fake “science experts” who say that “global warming” is increasing fires. That’s ridiculous. It snowed in Minnesota last January. As the real winner of the stolen election, President Donald J. Trump, has told us, dead leaves are the primary cause of forest fires.
This points to a simple plan of action: rake the forest floors down to the dirt. The Greene New Deal includes prison education. Rather than funding Operation Clean Sweep with some socialist taxation hoax, this plan issues inmates rakes at their own expense, and has them do “experiential learning.”
But that’s only the earth-bound part of the problem. George Soros’s space lasers still leave our forests vulnerable to giant fire-beams ignited by a massive space menorah. In the Greene New Deal Science Curriculum, students will work on ways to extinguish these lasers with gigantic space-based hoses, which will double as crucial weapons in the Space Force.
Gender studies are a major emphasis of the curriculum. In contrast to the propaganda spread by the Antifa-inspired Me Too movement, students will memorize Mrs. Greene’s finding that white men are the most oppressed group in the U.S. Our children and youth will learn about the challenges that white men face in society, and how to help them finally have equal opportunities for success…

The radical right wing is so strangely Kafkaesque, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This post is great satire on what too many people in this country believe and support.
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Gather round kids and let me tell why history is so important to learn: we must repeat it over and over again. But the worst is the “lies your teachers tell you.” They never tell you about the hidden laser beams, or the blood-drinking pedophiles who could be waiting for you with their 5G phones to kill you. Yes, the truth is finally here. White folks have been made to be the villains; the second amendment guarantees you all the right to have semi-automatic machine guns that they want you to believe were only made for war, but that’s not true! We must always remember to hang our flags all night long when they are not lighted; wear ’em like clothing and if the flag hits the ground, never burn it, but just hang it right back up. That’s patriotism. Ya’ll need to learn that and after we burn all those stupid history books containing the lies, yoots all gonna be learned reel good. And if you get good at what you do, the Fiskars’ University is waiting!
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The most patriotic act is when you try to overthrow your government carrying the flag of a group of slave drivers who previously tried to overthrow your government. It’s just like how the most loyal supporter of Abe Lincoln was John Wilkes Booth. It’s just like how the biggest supporter of civil
rights in education is Arne Duncan. Follow the logic.
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You guys still think there’s a difference between the parties. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/nyregion/trump-jean-carroll-lawsuit.html
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dienne77
If that’s whats upsetting you today . I’ll take a nap.
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It’s good to have a president who upholds the law. Justice is supposed to be blind. Vendettas have no place.
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Since Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t qualify to be labeled human, whatever she thinks should be noted down for future court cases when she is tried for treason and as evidence of her inhumanity when she’s tried as a war criminal.
What children learn and remember is not as important as what teachers teach them. If the teachers taught the students the names of states, their capitals, about the Founding Fathers, slavery, the presidents, et al, how can the teacher be held accountable when those children do not remember all of those facts after they are adults.
“The wonder is that aberrations of a gross sort are relatively rare, and that, for the most part, our memories are relatively solid and reliable. Sacks concludes: We, as human beings, are landed with memory systems that have fallibilities, frailties, and imperfections — but also great flexibility and creativity.” — Oliver Sacks
Since teachers can’t remember for their students, that cannot be held against them.
I think it is a safe bet that if Marjorie Taylor Greene goes to the movies, she cheered for and supported Hannibal Lector, Norman Bates, Darth Vader, and the Wicked Witch of the West.
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene is not human, than any person who kills her can not, by definition, be guilty of homicide. Is that why you men to suggest?
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Bill Gates and Marjorie Greene- curriculum gurus.
Poor Bill- Vanity Fair and Daily Mail had a few things to report about him this week. And, by association, Bill’s longtime money manager is taking heat. Allegedly, the money manager made racist and sexually offensive remarks. Under the microscope, it’s interesting to speculate about the attitudes of the people that Bill surrounds himself with.
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Great retirement plans! I plan to emulate them one day. One day, I will climb to the bottom of the deepest ocean. One day, I will swim to the moon.
The Greene New Deal has it all wrong on guns, though. Guns don’t protect students from shooters. Anyone who studies education knows guns protect students from grizzlies. Come on.
And I never get enough of Bushisms. I needed a laugh. Thanks.
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TRUMP: But mine was the best administration. People would call me up and say, “Sir. I can’t believe the job you’re doing.” Stopped the China virus with that travel ban. Best economy ever. And the blacks. The blacks, they love Trump. Where’s my black? There. Great guy.
BUSH: Sorry to break it to you, but the Bush administration? Two words: Mission Accomplished. Mine was the best because I didn’t just sit on the sidelines. I was the decider. We never stopped thinking of new ways to harm our country.
TRUMP: And tariffs on China. Billions they paid us. Billions and billions.
BUSH: Look. We’re the ones who made the pie higher, because we knew how hard it is to put food on your family.
TRUMP: I got more votes than any sitting president ever, OK? They don’t want you to know that. They tried to steal the election, but we caught them. Caught them red handed.
BUSH (whistles a little “Stormy Weather”): I’d say you got caught red handed. There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s one in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me–you can’t get fooled again.
TRUMP: I am the Republican Party. A lot of people right now, they oppose me, they’re gonna be sorry. Just saying. Some people don’t know this. But Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. I had the best administration—maybe Lincoln, maybe he was almost as good—because, you know. It’s like women. And race horses. Only the best. I’m a genius—my uncle was a big deal at MIT—Dr. Trump. Really smart guy. Good genes.
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That was good too.
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awesome
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Things as they are
become quite bizarre
when they are seen
on the Greene screen.
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A wonderful piece.
Great to know that someone is standing between us and the nefarious Socialist plots of Robert DeNiro and Malia Obama! LOL!!!
So funny, Dr. Smagorinsky! Now, if you will excuse me, I’m going out side the scan the sky for Jewish space lasers.
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Yikes! outside to scan the sky
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And now, a speshul ofer for foks on the Diane Ravitch blog.
Are you a senior citizen or plan to be one some day?
Then have I got a deal for you.
Burial plots on Mars are the latest in EOL prep for forwurd thinkin Americans. Releeve yore fambly of this burden n hep claim the red planit for the good ole US of A! Act now. Peeple r dyin to get in.
This message brung to you by Bob n Darlene’s Real Good Ohio n Flor-uh-duh Feunrhul Homes and Gardens whar the dead go to live on in the sacred memries of there beloveds.
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Yep. You read that right. We at Bob n Darlene’s is branching out from the voucher school educashun and pawn shop businesses, but dont chew worry none. You can still stop by the pawn shop or are school to get chore guns 7 days a week!
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n go Greene!
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But not on Sundays, of course.
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As a long time resident outside the south, you have obviously failed to understand the spelling of southern words. I offer a few corrections:
Incorrect Don’t Chew: correct doanchu
Incorrect get chore: correct gechor
If yonta learn to spell rite, my services can be bought fer mitenear nuthin.
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Supper’s ready, Roy. Cheat yet?
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It is hard to respond to this person seriously. Greene is an embarrassment. But more, her election calls to mind some of the mistrust of democracy scattered throughout the United States history, now on its third century of this great experiment.
We have now reached a place in history where the Republican Party will not consent to govern by consensus. Part of this decision is the result of Bill Clinton’s claiming of republican ideas in order to reverse the unpopularity of his failed attempt to reform health care. They decided to protect themselves in the Obama years by not giving approval to any idea passed by the democrats, even the ideas they liked. The result has been the ongoing march to the extreme right. Green is just the latest example of what can happen if political leaders do not serve in good faith. If there can be no bipartisan consensus to remove or censor the loony fringe of congress, then it will ultimately fail to govern. We will be reduced to tyranny.
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Mo Brooks and Marjorie Greene have a lot in common, anti-abortion, pro-Trump… But, Brooks beats Marjorie in terms of hypocrisy. Brooks didn’t want to be held accountable, follow the rule of law so, he dodged being served with legal papers (Stalwell was forced to hire a private investigator to make it happen). Brooks’ wife, returning to their home after church, was finally served, putting the family in the news this week.
An interesting portrait of Mo is provided at the site of the Birmingham Christian Family (6-27-2017). “Jesus Christ is the single greatest influence on his Christian growth”. Four years ago when the article was written, Brooks ironically warned against the undermining of our republic. He said the single greatest issue that led him to pursue politics was the U.S. deficit and debt.
No doubt- Mo Brooks thinks of himself as Christ’s voice in D.C., not unlike Leo Leonard and William Barr.
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Regretfully many will fail to see this as satire. As John Cleese has said, too many Americans lack any sense of irony.
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Or, rather, Greene has made such outlandish statements that parodying her by coming up with something MORE outlandish is challenging. Back in the 1940s, the poet and literary critic Randall Jarrell wrote that ours would come to be known as the time when parody became impossible because so much of our culture parodied itself. Well, here we are, among the likes of Greene, Brooks, Trump, Cruz, Gaetz, Graham, McConnell, Hawley, at a time when 74 million people voted to send back to the White House a man who thought that stealth airplanes were actually invisible, that we should send astronauts to the sun, and that doctors should look into having people inject distinfectants.
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