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dcmfox

(545 posts)
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:47 PM Jul 26

Of course, Oklahoma

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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Of course, Oklahoma (Original Post) dcmfox Jul 26 OP
Recommended. H2O Man Jul 26 #1
Okie Hockie Hitler Hater Jul 26 #35
Here's the article johnnyplankton Jul 27 #52
he was just doing "research" on an important topic concerning children! lapfog_1 Jul 26 #2
The depth and breadth of hypocrisy... 3catwoman3 Jul 26 #3
Yup. Always! SheltieLover Jul 26 #5
Yes, but it's a very special kind of hypocrisy William Seger Jul 26 #49
Did they terminate him or give him an award? SheltieLover Jul 26 #4
Nothing will happen to him dalton99a Jul 26 #34
Normal repuke behavior SheltieLover Jul 26 #39
No Problem MissouriDem47 Jul 26 #40
Right SheltieLover Jul 26 #42
My husband does not believe this story "Just where is this nude woman and I want to see it!!!" chouchou Jul 26 #6
no nudes dcmfox Jul 26 #12
But it's Oklahoma and a Republican. Can't..can't we blame them anyway? chouchou Jul 26 #26
... orangecrush Jul 26 #29
29B chouchou Jul 26 #32
Is that the "Boys will be boys." commandment? Ping Tung Jul 26 #7
Is anyone really surprised? surfered Jul 26 #8
nope AllaN01Bear Jul 26 #10
hem. forcin their " beliefs and their beliefs alone and no one else ." shall we say ,,, busted ? AllaN01Bear Jul 26 #9
🎶O-o-o-o-o-o-k dobleremolque Jul 26 #11
People like him are just going for the easy manipulation tactic. SidneyR Jul 26 #13
Republican family values. republianmushroom Jul 26 #14
During a Board of Education meeting Picaro Jul 26 #15
Bring back The Stocks!!! BurnDoubt Jul 26 #16
Don't the Religious Right subscribe to the belief that there are "nekkid wimmin" in the Bible? FakeNoose Jul 26 #17
Of all the words popsdenver Jul 26 #18
Gentle reminder: Oklahoma is the Texas of Floridas. 634-5789 Jul 26 #19
Big brass balls....on your work computer JT45242 Jul 26 #20
maybe they just have "faith" in their employees Skittles Jul 26 #47
Why do certain states take turns being Sneederbunk Jul 26 #21
This guy has been a running joke.... BeneteauBum Jul 26 #22
His corn is as high Mblaze Jul 26 #23
I heard they weren't adult women but under age boys... littlemissmartypants Jul 26 #24
No problem.. Permanut Jul 26 #25
Remember this: Tarzanrock Jul 26 #27
Wow, I'm totally shocked 😲. Emile Jul 26 #28
Deja vu dalton99a Jul 26 #30
Thank you. I didn't really need lunch anyway. niyad Jul 26 #38
Stroker Cruz is a well-known as Texas Ipecac Celerity Jul 27 #58
Least surprising news of the day EnergizedLib Jul 26 #31
He looks like a weasel Joinfortmill Jul 26 #33
It would be funny if it weren't so disgusting. Martin68 Jul 26 #36
One friend has four family members who are teachers in OK. I just shared this niyad Jul 26 #37
Who was the guy fondling himself during a zoom meeting during covid? niyad Jul 26 #41
That was EuterpeThelo Jul 26 #51
Thank you. I had completely forgotten about that sleaze. niyad Jul 27 #62
And I'd course... Grins Jul 26 #43
re: the Wiki page for Walters to read about HIS agenda Skittles Jul 27 #56
So hes sitting there leading a meeting likely talking about Figarosmom Jul 26 #44
I'm just surprised that it was nude women on his... LudwigPastorius Jul 26 #45
He was simply studying... Godot51 Jul 26 #46
I retired from working for a State Agency in Oklahoma. Any material avebury Jul 26 #48
This message was self-deleted by its author damifino10 Jul 26 #50
sure, bro Skittles Jul 27 #57
A bit extreme and violent. How about just sacking him? Celerity Jul 27 #59
"Clean living for thee but not for me"! oasis Jul 27 #53
Not surprised.he is a freak Demovictory9 Jul 27 #54
news of Oklahoma's schools falling to 50th in the nation arrived within hours of reports of the State Superintendent air Demovictory9 Jul 27 #55
Which begs the correction: of course, Republicans DFW Jul 27 #60
I want to know what the IT department in that office is doing ... RandomNumbers Jul 27 #61
Talking the talk ironman_25 Jul 27 #63
If Walters has so little impulse control, the last place he should be is anywhere near children dlk Jul 27 #64
3rd Board member has spoken out. avebury Jul 27 #65
Maddow Blog-Oklahoma schools' chief faces investigation over adult content seen during board meeting LetMyPeopleVote Jul 29 #66
Porn, perverts and pedophiles...it's the Republican way! LetMyPeopleVote Jul 29 #67

Hitler Hater

(2 posts)
35. Okie Hockie
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 04:14 PM
Jul 26

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!

lapfog_1

(31,287 posts)
2. he was just doing "research" on an important topic concerning children!
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:52 PM
Jul 26

yeah that's the ticket...

3catwoman3

(27,787 posts)
3. The depth and breadth of hypocrisy...
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:56 PM
Jul 26

…is just mind blowing. And it’s always a rightwing religious creep.

William Seger

(11,835 posts)
49. Yes, but it's a very special kind of hypocrisy
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 09:26 PM
Jul 26

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.

dalton99a

(90,418 posts)
34. Nothing will happen to him
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 04:13 PM
Jul 26
https://nondoc.com/2025/07/25/board-members-tv-in-ryan-walters-office-displayed-nude-women-during-executive-session/

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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MissouriDem47

(291 posts)
40. No Problem
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 04:37 PM
Jul 26

In Oklahoma they are more concerned about how the Sooner's will do this season in football. Everything else doesn't matter.

chouchou

(2,393 posts)
6. My husband does not believe this story "Just where is this nude woman and I want to see it!!!"
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:03 PM
Jul 26

He'll be sleeping on his ass in the living room tonight..

chouchou

(2,393 posts)
26. But it's Oklahoma and a Republican. Can't..can't we blame them anyway?
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 03:35 PM
Jul 26

(I'm kidding..i'm kidding..)

AllaN01Bear

(27,488 posts)
9. hem. forcin their " beliefs and their beliefs alone and no one else ." shall we say ,,, busted ?
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:21 PM
Jul 26

SidneyR

(191 posts)
13. People like him are just going for the easy manipulation tactic.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:40 PM
Jul 26

Magas are totally open to ideological manipulation. All you have to do is push the right buttons and they're on board.

Picaro

(2,193 posts)
15. During a Board of Education meeting
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:44 PM
Jul 26

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. 🤦‍♂️😂

FakeNoose

(38,767 posts)
17. Don't the Religious Right subscribe to the belief that there are "nekkid wimmin" in the Bible?
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:51 PM
Jul 26

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

(533 posts)
18. Of all the words
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:52 PM
Jul 26

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......

JT45242

(3,639 posts)
20. Big brass balls....on your work computer
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 03:03 PM
Jul 26

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

BeneteauBum

(223 posts)
22. This guy has been a running joke....
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 03:17 PM
Jul 26

I think most bible thumpers hide some inner sexual conflicts.
Peace ☮️

Permanut

(7,574 posts)
25. No problem..
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 03:30 PM
Jul 26

Just a quick prayer and all is forgiven.


Kind of like a "get out of Hell free" card.

niyad

(127,534 posts)
37. One friend has four family members who are teachers in OK. I just shared this
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 04:15 PM
Jul 26

with her so she could share with them.

EuterpeThelo

(72 posts)
51. That was
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 10:47 PM
Jul 26

Jeffrey Toobin, and I can't believe his reputation wasn't ruined forever. CNN even hired him back as a commentator!

Grins

(8,901 posts)
43. And I'd course...
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 05:07 PM
Jul 26
“Some of these board members are blatantly dishonest and cannot hide THEIR POLITICAL AGENDA,” Walters said Friday night.

Much like yourself, eh, Mr. Walter’s?

Figarosmom

(8,759 posts)
44. So hes sitting there leading a meeting likely talking about
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 05:54 PM
Jul 26

Faith in schools or some such shit , WITH A HARD ON under that desk.

avebury

(11,159 posts)
48. I retired from working for a State Agency in Oklahoma. Any material
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 08:20 PM
Jul 26

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.

Response to dcmfox (Original post)

Demovictory9

(37,113 posts)
55. news of Oklahoma's schools falling to 50th in the nation arrived within hours of reports of the State Superintendent air
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 06:08 AM
Jul 27

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

(59,012 posts)
60. Which begs the correction: of course, Republicans
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 09:48 AM
Jul 27

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

(18,903 posts)
61. I want to know what the IT department in that office is doing ...
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 10:02 AM
Jul 27

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

(19 posts)
63. Talking the talk
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 10:09 AM
Jul 27

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

(12,968 posts)
64. If Walters has so little impulse control, the last place he should be is anywhere near children
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 10:45 AM
Jul 27

He is a threat to their safety.

avebury

(11,159 posts)
65. 3rd Board member has spoken out.
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:38 AM
Jul 27
https://kfor.com/news/third-board-member-speaks-out-after-allegations-of-naked-women-on-tv-in-supt-walters-office/

“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

(170,300 posts)
66. Maddow Blog-Oklahoma schools' chief faces investigation over adult content seen during board meeting
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 07:57 PM
Jul 29

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.

Oklahoma schools’ chief faces investigation over adult content seen during board meeting www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

@jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-07-29T20:03:27.083Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/oklahoma-schools-chief-faces-investigation-adult-content-seen-board-me-rcna221674

But now the radical activist is facing a different kind of problem. NBC News reported:

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.
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