JFC

Who the hell do they think they are to tell us what we teachers hold as important?! Who can speak for us?! He can fuck off. Feel free to give him that message from a retired Nebraska teacher.

I wouldn't be so proud, of I were you.

Wrong on at least one level. MAGA repubs don’t want anyone or any organization that contradicts their ridiculous assertions. So, introduce a law that restricts criticism. Simple.

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Because MO ranking currently is 38 out of 50. He wants the state to be ranked dead last?

they conspire to ruin government agencies then point and say look how it failed

1/3 The way education grants work now, they come with “strings attached” to ensure that all students have equal access to education. What Trump wants is to give money to states with no requirements that leaves the door open for states to do as they wish. Without any strings attached, whatever

2/3 funding is sent to the states can easily be turned into private school vouchers. Students with disabilities, and students from rural areas or low-income families will pay the price. Trump wants to funnel money to religious schools and hurt support for those he deems unworthy. NEA is a strong

3/3 defender for equity, inclusion and diversity. The NEA's mission is to advocate for education professionals and unite members to fulfill the promise of public education. Yup- Trump sure doesn’t want that!

Union busting by any other name is still union busting.

Makes you wonder how much money he’s getting from lobbyists

My father, God rest his soul, would be absolutely pissed at this! He was a member and wouldn’t recognize the 💩 state Missouri has become. It’s a race to the bottom of a bottomless barrel.

Hands off!!!!

Misery is a full on facist state.

Why is it so hard to do the RIGHT thing? Think how much better our country would be !

SW Missouri State graduate. This is what Burlison says about town halls, “only political nut jobs show up. “. He was one of onlytwo representative who voted against the “Take it Down Act”, which prohibited nonconsensual porn postings and fake porn.

Anyone defending revenge-porn might as well register as a sex offender. That is the broadcasted equivalent.

I loathe every last one of these republicans

We have embarrassing GOP representation in Missouri.

Fuck him

Lemme guess... he's white and Christian and a nationalist.

It's a MO politician. Goes without saying.

Disgusting!

Ughhh

These people are completely idiotic, but Missouri voted him in...

i live in columbia. sometimes i feel guilty for the “protection” from the cray cray happening 8 miles out. sometimes take it for granted, but am always grateful. it’s incredibly gratifying when a republican runs for anything and they’re just sent home with their tail between their legs. #bluedot

He'll never get re-elected in this deep red state.

The NEA is the National Endowment for the Arts not the Dept of Education folks

National Education Association. Teachers Union?

Is that it? I didn’t think that a teachers union was federally funded but funded by its members, no?

I was refering to HR 1319 that if a bill passes the House and Senate, it could devestate Unions, including the Teachers Union.

Corporate America & its political henchmen have long known that ignorance makes for better consumers of goods & stupid ideas. After being in a high school classroom for 10 years, many in History & Government classes I can tell you horror stories. Ignorance is the monster.

Always blanket statements full of lies with NEVER a receipt. NEVER any examples of whatever the hell they are making up.

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So glad that I’m a lifelong Democrat

He’s such a slime ball.

Union busters ia a republican tradition! They have tried to bust unions anyway they can!

My rage grows everyday.

Home schooling didn’t do anything for him.🙄

The citizens of Missouri were misled into electing you as their representative.

The elite send their kids to private schools. Public schools just make rural and low income kids uppity and too good to work in the fields or slaughterhouses or other crappy low-paying jobs the immigrants we just kicked out of the country were doing. /s

I have often thought that elected public officials should be REQUIRED, as part of their public position, to send their own children to PUBLIC schools. Schools might have better conditions and funding then.

It seems like every day is just more naked "taxation without representation" moments. With the people we elected and pay proudly and openly stating "fuck the people I serve!".

Dolt!

Disgusting fascist propaganda

Keep America ignorant! Smh

That's "Missouri strong" as in the courage and personal character of Sen. Josh "Hauling Ass" Hawley but applied to the intellect, the mind, education, and so on. "We think education is radical propaganda!" In case anyone isn't getting it, "Missouri strong" means "weak" in plain English.

Future quiz question. If we have two people, one educated in Missouri, and one educated in Oklahoma, how many educated people would we have? Correct answer: Zero. It's a trick question relaying on equivocation on meaning of "educated."

Teaches course on Tobacco chewing and spitting......spit ding

The dumbing down of America

From Google: "AI Overview: Missouri's overall education ranking varies depending on the source and specific metrics considered. It ranges from 30th to 39th among the states in terms of overall education."

If he stood on the Missouri/Kansas border, you could look in his ear from Missouri & see Kansas.

What's gonna happen when the convicted rapist and felon finds out he moonlights on SouthPark???

The air is too dry in here. It bothers my Aaasthma!

Just once again stating that I hate it *looks around at the US*… here.

The dawn of the 13th Century beckons brightly.

The payback for these maga dipshits is going to be amazing!

Conservative Christians want your kids to be as stupid as their kids. That way they can pull them into whatever Christ cult one of the local churches spew.

Change the E to an R and I'm on board.

Radical…. As the nation drifts more right what just a few years ago was considered center and reasonable is now framed as radical.

🤔

Keeping the base stupid has been the winning strategy for over 50 years, why change now?

I don't know if these numbers are accurate, but it's chilling if they are.

If these numbers are accurate, they explain everything.

I didn’t have time to indoctrinate considering there were 150+ standards to teach in a school year.

My question for the congressman is: what , exactly, is the “radical propaganda” you feel they have pushed, and how did you come to that conclusion? Chances are, gasp, you are attempting to spew radical propaganda using your soapbox as a politician to amplify that opinion.

The color blue long ago stopped being about our sky and our sea. I'm proud to sponsor a bill to strip it from the UV spectrum. /s You know what, congressman? A lot of people hate you as much as you hate America.

He’s fucking useless.

Got it! I mean how else will you get well meaning people to vote for their own death and destruction while cheering?

What a douchebag. On the other hand, if anyone's in a position to recognize "a political machine pushing radical propaganda," Mr. Republican there is obviously an expert

Propaganda? Like “American Exceptionalism”? 😝

We all need to talk loudly about how this war on our educational system is at its core meant to subjugate women.

Being a filthy goddamn liar is just part and parcel of being in the GOP, also it helps if you want to kill people with legislation

The people can get back democracy. We must do our part and vote these politicians out.

Dude looks like he spent most of high school stuffed in a locker.

The republican congress long ago stopped being about democracy and the well being of the American people. It's now a political machine pushing radical propaganda. I'm proud to work to strip as many republican congress-members of their federal position.

It is the result of American voters electing one political party in all three branches of government which eliminates Checks and Balances and centralizes the power to the Executive Branch.

Evidence?

And by strip their charter he means eliminate public education

How can anyone want that? We need better, more accessible, diverse education. Ignorance is not bliss.

It's been the goal since Bush's "no child left behind" to wreck public education. Oligarchs don't want our kids competitive with their mediocre brats.

The perfect thread to see as I sit and write some pages in my dissertation on the same topic

What is your dissertation on?

Killing public education goes back further than Bush. Dixiecrats and Republicans lost their minds over desegregation of schools. They’ve been trying to kill the department of education ever since.

Don't forget the Moms of Boston who, in 1972...18 years after Brown, threw rocks at bus loads of children

I’ll never forget folks in my parents’ church using that as a reason to blame yankees for desegregation. Try to figure that logic without your brain exploding!

What does the baseball team have to do with desegregation?

These rock throwers would be the descendants of the “no Irish need apply” immigrants? Or the colonial era Baptists who were hanged or beheaded for adhering to the wrong version Protestantism? Or the Italians who came to escape starvation? How long till we can just accept each different other?

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He works for this man Project 2025 boss Office of Policy Writer of every Executive Order Russell Vought

Who looks like he just got a big whiff of Drumpt’s diaper.

He will put up with that whiff because he needs Trump to gather public anger away from him.

He and Stephen Miller are running this government. Shitler is a puppet.

Miller has his place, but he is too reckless with his words, he is a 'deputy dawg', another blowhard Russell Vought, The Boss Pam Bondi , The Law Karoline Leavitt, The Mouthpiece

They get to bust a union AND demonize teachers. A fascist win/win!

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More MAGA projection.

Did you say "radical"? OMG...I'm triggered. Burn it to the ground, ask questions later.

Idiot

And they wonder why these people vote again their own well being. Wait til the BBB starts, they will be blaming democrats

He just wants to keep paying teachers nothing.

So many lies!

He should more effort working to make Missouri less crappy

Well for sure a whole lot of people have not been educated. Especially this Missouri guy.

I used to love going to St Louis. I pretty much boycott the state now. I feel bad when I am driving through and have to get gas.

Give Burlison credit. He has accomplished something I never thought possible. Making me miss Billy Long.

Burlison seems like a total f*cking idiot, yes?

But Isn't it pitiful just how imbecilic and "uneducated" Education Sec'y A1 McMahon shows herself to be?

Does he know Hawley? Can he run, too?

Wait until the finds out, after they take over all the Locals, that Federation is the throw down teachers' union, and Association is the go along to get along teachers' union.

Replace "radical with "socially responsible". They think any service that benefits citizens other than themselves as radical.

because people who are capable of and willing to think simply don't vote for republicans.

Shitler also loved the poorly educated. Stupid people don’t ask smart questions.

He needs to go back to whatever hole he crawled out of. Proud NEA Parkway member.

They want to drag you back to the dark ages. They will be burning scientists as witches soon.

My ex is maga/q and truly believes that "modern medicine is witchcraft." They really, actually believe that Satan is involved. These people are INSANE.

Who are the " they "? It cannot be lost in the fact that the Congressman was elected by a popular vote and he is representative of the majority of Missourian voters in his district.

He is a jerk.

Their hate/fear of unions is exactly why there needs to be more unions.

Nazi reincarnated.

😡😢

These fragile male figures need to go home to mom and STFU!

This party moves beyond anti-union! They want nothing at all collective! They are no bargain.

Fucking asshole

So there will be more morons like Burlison? No thank you!

Fascist pig.

Wow, Missouri. What the hell happened to you? First Josh Hawley, now this fuckin guy? Eugh.

Once AGAIN, Missouri never ceases to disappoint me.

Who are these people?

😡😡😡 The Congressman drank the kool-aid!

What a jackass.

Intelligence is a radical agenda to those who see education as a hindrance to their political tenure.

How's that working out for your State?

JFC

CongressParasite, not man. CongressTrash CongressNazi? The possibilities are endless.

The party of the universal ‘no’.

Wonderful :( “Make America Stupid”

The majority of NEA members are women. That's what this is about. Silencing women.

Yuuuup

He needs to read the first amendment, especially the part about free association. We don't need anyone's permission to form unions. This propaganda against the organizations that ended child labor, brought us overtime, 40 hour work weeks, weekends, etc. just needs to stop.

Brought to you by Democrats and socialism. Democrats have done amazing things for this country and Republicans have not

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Missouri used to require all HS students to pass an exam on both the US Constitution and the MO Constitution. Why doesn't this guy KNOW abt Freedom of Association? Speech?

Say that they succeed at completely eliminating the entire department of education. A $200-300 billion saved. How much of that does MAGA think that they would receive back in their taxes? I am gonna guess ZERO ... The rich might get some, the military will get some, ... After that ... Nothing left

Surefire way to get more teachers to leave the profession. This will help them make Americans even more ignorant and lacking critical thinking skills if it wasn’t bad enough already.

Critical thinking is their enemy… “All these Universities are indoctrinating people…” 🙄

Yeah, Make America Great Again, bring back racism and ignorance.

They want to be able to indoctrinate all children in their white Christian nationalism

Radical propaganda...like American slavery was real.

The NEA and other teacher unions and school PTAs are the only ones prioritizing students over corporate money

The state is cooked.

He’s destroying the entire country now.

I woulda guessed AR15kansas.

This type of agreessive messaging on their part is just getting so tiring. It's exhausting.

Wait. This is a bad thing! Crap. What us wrong with Missouri??? They really need you Jess.

Thank you for this!! About time!!

Sadly, it is more of a reflection of Missourians than just one elected representative in Congress. 😢

He’s worthless. All of this should be enraging teachers in this country.

Eric is one brick shy of a load as are the Missourians who elected him. I'm from Missouri

Radical stuff like wanting a living wage

What idiocy.

@piperformissouri.bsky.social There's a bigger plan. And it's all tied together. Abortion, vouchers removing immigrants cause in their eyes they won't be needed. Knocking up 8th graders. Indoctrinating children that labor is the fruit of "God". (Free labor) Child Slavery under the name of "God".

Tabitha from TT was able to retrieve some phone transcripts with McConnell and McCarthy. The video is pinned on my page.

Here I brought it over.🤓 youtube.com/shorts/Q2lNu...

Any Democrat posting these idiots intend to indoctrinate Christian nationalism?

As a 2 time national NEA-RA delegate from WA state, I call BS!!! We are in this for the kids: All kids.

Asshat was the sponsor of the resolution denouncing Rev Budde's sermon that had an appeal to President Trump to show mercy to segments of the marginalized and oppressed in our society.

No Jesus in him, I guess. Seems to be a slew of Christless Christians these days, and they best wise up soon.

It is a union, it was never about education, but rather the members. At this point the NEA is not effective. Has anyone considered their educational boogeymen man was not as problematic as men in suits getting rich at the expense of education. Teachers don’t teach content but testing methods.

"Teachers don’t teach content but testing methods." That is due to Congress meddling. Bush's NCLB did that against the advice of the NEA. Republicans break things and then blame others. Always. And people like you fall for it.

Yes, poison the well and then scream “the well is poisoned!” After ‘rump W Bush remains the most disastrous of presidents. After that stands Ronnie Raygun.

The irony is as much praise in pour upon those, not one single admirer ever acknowledges the reality of the destruction. That destructive nature continues through Republicanism. As much as they rebrand I believe they should maybe examine their toxic platform

These problem date back to Bush, the problems here are the political issues continue to destroy the ability for kids to get an education. Yet here we are politicians continue to bemoan those on the class room

Yeah, that post is a mess. Have a nice day.

Disagree entirely, but if you want to bust any union the police guild should go. It's not about public safety but covering up for police misconduct. I know a number of teachers and the only way they can stand up for their students is by being organized so they can speak with one voice.

The police union side again is the same case. I disagree with the FOP more than I agree, with that said god forbid an officer have to use force especially deadly force, then I am entitle to due process. The exoneration of bad COPs is more along the line of bad managers and policies not the unions.

My point is and was, as a society stop the damn blame game. The stupidity of blaming union for the state of education, especially considering the NEA told them reform policy would yield the same results.

He’s right, but not in the way he believes. School was where I was indoctrinated to believe capitalism and democracy can coexist.

Must have educated himself like this asshat!

After 25 years in the labor movement, I can tell you [yawn]: We've been listening to them say this for 60 - no, wait - something like 100 years?

The entire schtick has a sinister, yet clear, purpose: union busting. Teachers have some of the strongest unions and Republicans are dead set on eliminating *any* power labor has. Going after the NEA is just the next iteration on their war against working people, unionized labor, and education

An example of what’s wrong with the Missouri Legislature

Ah, no it’s not. Education should be apolitical and non biased.

Translation, we are going to strip public school funding so that we can fund vouchers for wealthy folks to send their darlings to private school on our dime and they get a cut in tuition costs.

Didn’t these pricks go to school?

I’m a proud and longtime NEA member. Republicans are scared shitless of unions, especially “woke” ones!

Wonder why they are so afraid of an educated person? Is it because they will see through the lies that they have built the party on

Political machine pushing radical propaganda is the perfect definition of Project 2025, MAGA and this Missouri Congressman

Keep em barefoot and pregnant. Keep them on meth.

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I’m betting that his children do not attend their local public school.

What an asshole.

It's nearly always been a political machine pushing White Nationalist propaganda, but sure, Burilson 🙄

Proud NEA member here. This dude is in over his head with this one.

Show-Me folks: you know what you need to do at the polls.

What a tool! Let's see to it that 2026 is a proper celebration of 250 years of freedom #GoodTrouble #TurnBlue #Vote2026

I’m a lifetime member of the NEA & a retired speech language pathologist. Working to improve speech & language for kids with disabilities is part of a radical propaganda machine? Show me a lazy politician who’s got no idea what happens in public schools & just repeats anti union propaganda.

Bullshit you bible banging reactionary.