Half the school board thinks Keith deserves a third chance (that's right, not his first time making inappropriate comments to a child).

They say only he can decide if he wants to step down. They did vote in favor of censuring him. The rest of the school board members that laughed during the comment and touching of a child faced no repercussion. Some even pretended to be offended during the emergency hearing.

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[–] 150 points 7 months ago (14 children)

Good ole boys gonna good ole boy

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Maybe I'm being unfair to someone out there, but I kinda like the term "rednecks."

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Good ole boys are the political in group in small towns. Generally they have good jobs and are seen by locals as community leaders of some sort. Rednecks are basically anyone who enjoys things typically associated with rural living. Anyone can be a redneck and there are plenty of rednecks in jail for way less serious things than child abuse.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    TBH, there's an intentional slander element I'm going for.

    The idea being that such 'community leaders' are little more than rednecks to me, at the end of the day. And I'm not sure I agree about the 'rural living' definition. Nothing wrong with rural life IMO, but rednecks are moreso representative to me of toxic actors amongst such folks.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    "Redneck" implies working class (because it's traditionally caused by getting sunburned from working out in a field) in a way that "good ol' boy" does not.

    The idea of a redneck community leader is an oxymoron.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I'd say the term has undergone what happens with many other definitions over the years, i.e. it's shifted somewhat in meaning. More than just being about an outdoor worker, I think it implies a certain type of conduct and attitude.

    And I absolutely meant it as a slander to those 'community leaders,' as explained earlier.

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  • [–] 80 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The bar is so low, yet the US keeps effortlessly limboing under it

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  • [–] 54 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    "The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept." --Lt. Gen. David Morrison, former head of Australian Army.

    Amusingly he was talking about a situation where male soldiers were sexually assaulting female soldiers, while a larger group of servicemembers knew this was happening but did nothing to stop or report or prevent it.

    He's 100% right though. The standard this school board walks past, and thus the standard they accept, is one of their own sexually harassing a teenage girl.

    Every one of them that laughed or snickered or whatever should be removed.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    We've been "walking past" this since at least 1961. Americans excell at ignoring our check engine lights.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    We've been walking past an awful lot for very long. We got comfortable. We got lazy. The Framers set up a pretty good system for us and after WWII and Vietnam and the civil rights movement, we basically all decided that we had fixed our society and government and we could sit back and crack open a cold one.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    After WWII a cabal of rich elites started plotting to undo everything FDRs New Deal had done.

    The citizenry aren't blameless but it's important to understand why we're in this spot.

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  • [–] 52 points 7 months ago

    No it's okay everyone, because that one school board guy is going to pray about it, and that'll fix everything! /s

    What a fucking joke. This is the third time the guy has done this. He, and the entire board, should be fired.

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  • [–] 188 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    Yeah, but... think about it. We haven't seen the girl. What if she was, like, REALLY hot? A complete fucking smoke show. 10/10. One of the ones you might sneak into a dressing room at beauty pageant to see. Or maybe even hop on a private plane to meet on some luxurious island. Or even carry across state lines. I don't think we should pass judgement on this man until we determine if he was a pedophile, a pedophile, or a pedophile.

    Edit: Also, if reading the first few lines of this post made your stomach twist a little, then you are one of the good ones. Keep it up. The world needs more of you and less of this douche nozzle.

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  • [–] 49 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The first few lines did have me thinking ' I don't know where you're going with this one bro...'

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You act like you’ve never stared at a teenager’s ass. I used to spend hours doing it. Hell, I think some of them even liked when I looked at them. Mind you, this was way back when I was a teenager. I couldn’t help but double up the joke, but worse.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    What do you mean way back, aren't you F/15/Cali?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    No, that was me. Send me pictures of your penis with your driver's license, bank account info, and birth certificate properly framed and in focus. This is my kink and will make me do a good sex fr fr no cap lit fam.

    6 7,
    TheFartographer: a sexy person of your desired age and gender

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Side note.. I did watch the vid. She was pretty and all. But she was dressed far more conservatively than most high school girls. Certainly not dressed to look hot. So if he can't keep his mind off the underage girl dressed conservatively, what would happen if he saw a bare midriff...

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I’m a dentist and we get summaries of the disciplinary actions taken by our board. A few years ago, there was a male dentist who finally lost his licence for grabbing patients’ and staff’s breasts. The summary read that he had been disciplined for this five times already and they were only just waking up to the fact that he should no longer be licensed to practice.

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  • [+] -7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    Personally, I'd let my dentist grope me if he had a high enough success rate. I did some research a while ago, and a dentist whose work consistently fails will probably never lose his license. The patient won't be able to successfully sue them and there probably won't be an investigation. It's a "buyer beware" scenario.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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    Aside from the hole in my tooth, I'm fine. I'm speaking as someone who is currently making the transition from a negligent dentist. Since losing a tooth is a cosmetic issue, failing to identify a problem that can be clearly seen on an x-ray for over a year doesn't meet the standard of harm necessary for consequences. The selective failure of recent filling might have happened regardless.

    ...at this point, I'd have been less upset if this dude groped me. I'd let Satan work on me if he was a competent dentist.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I'm sorry you're going through that, and can only imagine how much anger you would have towards someone you paid for care, who provided care below the standard you expected, and you have no recourse. Physical pain blows, too. Weird take to welcome sexual assault, but it's clear how frustrated you are.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Dude's electronics should have been seized and searched immediately.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago

    Think about what it's said and done when cameras are off.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago

    They started the meeting with a prayer about "keeping their minds on the children", followed by the most robotic sounding pledge of allegiance I've ever heard, and then they proceeded to pardon the predator, mostly using religious "grace" as a justification. America!

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  • [–] 49 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    why would he be removed? he goes to church on Sunday.

    also, bring back punching people in the face in public

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I seriously wonder how far away the US is from stoning women and girls to death for not being virgins..

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I think stoning is too closely associated with Islam/Arabic nations, whipping or nailing to a cross would be more appropriate for the US

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    No, the Old Testament definitely advocates for stoning. That was what the whole “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” thing in the New Testament is referring to. Jesus was stopping a stoning. But many conservative Christians conveniently forget that the New Testament is a thing, and refer almost exclusively to the Old Testament for their teachings.

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  • [–] 70 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Why are you Libtards up in Arms about THIS? Being a Pedophile is as American as Apple Pie!

    -Republicans who show up ARMED to Children's Hospitals to PROTECT THE CHILDREN TM!

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Sadly, as much as it's a joke in this commentary, it is.

    We went from Lawrence King and his ring in the 80's and early 90's to Epstein in the 90's and 00's, and both were publicly and evidently connected to the highest levels of the US government. King's ring also had mysterious deaths, including the lead investigator and his son being killed in a plane crash.

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  • [–] 68 points 7 months ago (38 children)

    Willing to put a month's wages down on which party he's affiliated with.

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  • [+] -69 points 7 months ago (37 children)

    Really either one honestly. The dems are just better at hiding it.

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Nah son as willing as I am to bash Dems at every available opportunity, only Republicans are consistently pedophilic

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  • [+] -15 points 7 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health issues

    Hahah wow these sources you linked to are so trustworthy! /s

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (17 children)

    lmao

    literal pedo president started a war to distract from his pedo files and your response is both sides same

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (11 children)

    We're just gonna pretend the Clintons weren't part of the pedo files?

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    tell you what, Trump can release the full unredacted Epstein files and we can find out together

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  • [–] -5 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Agreed! However, Biden also could've released the files.

    Any current senator, or from the past 5 years, could release the full unredacted files but are actively choosing not to.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

    sure and if Biden was currently president I’d be on board caring about it right now

    hell if we can prove he knew and hid it I’m even fine exploring if charges are possible after but I’m sure as fuck not wasting any effort caring about that this very moment

    single biggest issue is getting Trump to stop fucking this country up further, worrying about anything else is like trying to diagnose cancer while the patient is bleeding out from a gut wound

    even if the Epstein files were not a thing that would still be true, there are so many other ways he has destroyed this country for the foreseeable future

    he should hang for the highest top secret leaks alone, literal traitor for profit during war time

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    hell if we can prove he knew and hid it I’m even fine exploring if charges

    We can though. They've all had the full unredacted files since 2019 and have had plenty of partial evidence since 2008.

    I’m sure as fuck not wasting any effort caring about that this very moment

    You should because until you do everything will continue to get worse.

    single biggest issue is getting Trump to stop fucking this country up further,

    The tail doesn't wag the dog, Trump is a symptom not the root cause. The issue with your metaphor is that the cancer and bleeding out are unrelated.

    he should hang for the highest top secret leaks alone

    That and so much more! It's never going to happen though without severe political upheaval because almost anyone who would order that execution has hands which are similarly bloody.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    no because it is literal whataboutism and hopefully even the slowest in the class by this point can identify concern trolling

    asking anyone to care about Biden in the face of Trump 2026 is lol

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    asking anyone to care about Biden in the face of Trump 2026 is lol

    Which is why we're all doomed to repeat the same fucking cycle over and over again.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    we’re doomed because there are Americans so fucking stupid they think the Trump terms are normal and comparable to anything in the last 50ish years

    we have not been this bad off since Nixon

    get ready to ride your ‘bothsidessame’ into stagflation

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The job of the Biden administration was to normalize/cool off the fresh hell that was Trump 2016.

    We are currently in the fresh hell that is Trump 2026. 2028 will most likely bring a democrat administration which will simply normalize the current shitshow and slow down enough to allow some social annealing.

    we have not been this bad off since Nixon

    Are you insane!? By what metric!?

    Are you unaware of the pure evil that was Reagan? Clinton's "third way" which paved the way for modern corporatism? Bush and the patriot act and Iraq wars? Obama selling the country out to corporate interests? Trump 2016?

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    why are we wasting time talking about the biden admin

    lmao fucking idiot, who’s party is running everything

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Because the full phrase is "those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it"

    who’s party is running everything

    51% republican, 49% democrat, >1% independent depending on how specifically you count.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    While your statement is popular, my response was to a bet that the subject of this post was a republican because he is inappropriate with minors.
    My response to trump in general would probably get me banned.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    saying dems are the same as repubs just better at hiding it is some silly shit in 2026

    individual examples exist but anyone with eyes can tell the difference in trend

    do you remember Al Fraken? dude didn't even do anything wrong

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Democrats and Republicans are really the same underneath. The mental illness that drives both to seek power and influence is the core of why they choose that profession. That same mental illness is what drives the type of pedophilia they commonly have. Democrats have learned to be more discreet because it will affect their success more. Republicans have learned the opposite. It probably even helps Republicans success in some cases.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    trump got elected twice

    eric swawell

    the obsession some people have with trying to justify their bad choices is lol

    anyone that can’t tell the difference is a fucking moron

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Shill or troll? Because you can't possibly be this fucking dumb

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'd like to downvote and say no that's wrong.

    But I don't know that's wrong, I'd really like to think it and belive it because the VAST majority of history has put them on the right. But that could just be confirmation bias.

    The right certain has their share of horrible people.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Sadly, it isn't wrong. I'm pretty solidly anti-politician. We need better people making important decisions. https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There are links to Britebart and fucking Newsmax in there and you're posting that stupid link everywhere.

    Stop being a moron.

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  • You can fact check the relevant parts and skip the rest. Or you can pretend that just because some of the information in their is clearly biased, and the intent of the poster is clearly biased, that all of the information is wrong. Kinda sounds like the average fox news viewer claiming fake news at anything coming from a left leaning source.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    And... Its in front of a camera? For the whole world to see...?

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