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Has he ever talked more than 20 seconds without mentioning the Bible?
He's trying to appear moderate & balanced when in an interview setting, it's his past that keeps being dredged up to show him as a wacko thumper.
This Mike Johnson is quite the odd fella ain't he.
Odd is not a description I'd use!
That ended yesterday when the mad witch had her proposed reprimand tabled with 23 Republican's voting with the Democrats!
It;s gotta be your setup because I can see the tweets, they just sometimes take a while to load
What can you change in the setup though? I'm using Google and I was able to read tweets on this page prior to the many changes at Twitter/X.
Takes anywhere from five seconds to well over a minute for tweets to load for me, I view the forum via Firefox.
I usually just click the 'date' hyperlink to open in a separate window to view the actual tweet.
No idea, I'm using Chrome and it's fine on my machine, I didn't change anything, maybe the version or maybe your WIndows version? I'm Win 11 Chrome Version 119.0.6045.105 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Dude reminds me of a more polished Ralph Reed...
I suppose checking out Stormy Daniels is classed as research!
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Simultaneously shocking and not the least bit surprising. The US is doomed as a functioning modern democracy.
I suspect the UK would probably get similar results as well, this stuff wasn't taught in schools when I was a kid and I'll bet it hasn't changed a whole lot since those far off days
Not taught at all? That's shocking.
At primary school we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the school opening in 1874 by doing a project about the American Civil War, and in secondary school history was mostly about the Industrial Revolution
Can't speak for the present, but I cannot recall ever having lessons at school in relation to either WWI or WWII, in that time period a lot of us had Grandparents that were involved in WWII but would refuse to talk about it
That was certainly my experience, maybe that had some bearing on what was taught because it would have been a common thing, although I will never know now for sure I am reasonably certain that one of my Grandfather's was present at Bergen-Belsen, he was a an ambulance driver/medic and I can't possibly imagine what he must have seen and endured
That's very different from history in the Norwegian system. There's a little bit of history for the lower secondary equivalent, but then over two years in upper secondary the history course it basically goes from hunter-gatherers to the modern day (though we usually don't get too far into anything beyond the cold war). It's by necessity a more general approach than for example the IB system which I also teach in, and which I'm sure is modelled on ye olde British way of doing things, but you don't get students missing massive stretches of European and Norwegian history.
The exception is the vocational students, who miss all of it since they don't have history.
My 10 year old daughter has just finished 6 weeks of WWII and absolutely knows about the Holocaust. I know my 17 year old studied it because he used WWII as his subject for his History GCSE assignment. My 26 year old went to the same schools as his brother and sister and said he was taught the same too.
To be fair, we have WWII monuments everywhere here as the Normandy beach landings were practiced here in Brixham, Dartmouth and Start Bay. Also the whole of Start Bay was used by the Americans and many local kids sent to the country while their houses were taken over by the Americans. Eisenhower's base was also in Kingswear literally on the same road as my dad's pub for 16 years. There's also wrecks of disused landing craft on the river Dart and at one point about a dozen or so of the original Dunkirk vessels on the river too. I used to skipper a couple for about 5 years when I was in my 20's.
Maybe that's why it's hard to avoid teaching the subject in school in this area? But I wouldn't have expected it to be not on the curriculum at all in other places. Maybe we have some teachers who can shed some light on things with their knowledge of the curriculum?
There are school districts that are trying to teach good alternative Nazis & the Holocaust denialism so there is a balance given & no students feel upset or uncomfortable.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...19/texas-holocaust-curriculum-schools-hb-3979
How long ago was this? I was definitely taught it in school during the 90s and early noughties, as have all my similarly aged friends.
I can't recall now days, attended grade school in Texas from the early 80s into mid 90s. I don't recall much of anything about WWI but do recall some about WWII but little if any memory of the Holocaust beyond maybe a brief mention or topic. I do recall feckton of US history from the Pilgrims, the Colonies, the many wars fought, frontier stuff, and way too much Texas history especially the fecking Alamo. The Alamo was shoved down our collective throats so much you'd have thought it was the most important battle in world history, not just a Texas thing.
I left school in 1978 so well before your time, it does seem like things have changed on the UK at least
I think it must have changed now based on what some of the other posters have said, you may have a point about the area though, I went to school in the Manchester area where obviously the Industrial Revolution was a very big deal
Was it the John Wayne version or the true story
Was it the John Wayne version or the true story
Highly embellished.
Yeah I guessed it would be, same with most of history TBH, YouTube has loads of videos that show you the reality of a lot of stuff you think is fact but isn't
It's always exciting to vote in the US these days to see if my picks for Savannah mayor & my alderman at large comport with Hugo Chavez's wishes.