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SeminoleDVM on
Money laundering at its dumbest.
CaseyAnthonyIsHot on
I don’t want to hear anyone advocate the Bible who doesn’t know Greek, Hebrew, and some ancient history. If you’re going to have people stake their lives on a book, you had better have more than passing knowledge of it.
RealGianath on
So, over $3 million in taxpayer money funneled into a Trump bribe. Hope some Oklahomans see federal prison time for this.
tmdblya on
Jesus would make a whip from cord and beat the living daylights out of this grifter.
Doublebosco on
The rip off continues…
GregWilson23 on
Christo-fascist grifters, every last one of them.
Invisible_Mikey on
I wonder how many books teachers and librarians wanted they banned in favor of this.
klako8196 on
$3.3 million meant to fund education instead going to Trump. Absolutely disgusting.
otravez5150 on
Too bad the staff at the schools will not get that badly needed money. Oklahoma needs to pay their personnel better. WHAT A WASTE!
Hot-Control-7466 on
Do they actually specify that the pages must stick together? 🤣
JeepnHeel on
Time to deploy the $61 Harris/Walz Pocket Constitutions
I wonder how much “gratuity” the author of the requirements is gong to receive.
chucklefits on
Fiscal irresponsibility amongst other things. What happened to conservative values?
NeverSayNever2024 on
Don’t the parents of these kids have bibles at home? Why does the state have to buy them? Have the parents supply them.
MTDreams123 on
10th Commandment:
>You shall not covet your neighbor’s **wife, or his male or female slaves**, his ox or donkey, or anything that **belongs to your neighbor.**
Weird…
ZenCityzen on
How is this legal?
FrankBur1y on
It’s cool how this is legal and fine and unquestioned by the media.
carlwoz on
I see lawyers salivating.
English3thLanguage on
Buy 200,000,000 gold watches just to be safe
Crafty_Advisor_3832 on
Yeah…that’s not obvious whatsoever..
Baller-on_a-budget on
Quite the place. Pushy fuckers aren’t they?
MyEyezHurt on
Teachers: we would like to be able to afford to live and do what we love.
Repubs: lmao, no. Here’s some bibles.
Victoria-10 on
Absolutely insane!! 😡
ReleaseQuiet2428 on
This idiot must be fired
Keunster on
Sounds like an easy money laundering scheme huh
Darius2112 on
Such a brutally obvious grift. This is effectively a campaign donation directly to Trump. Or realistically, right into Trump’s bank account.
Orang_ina on
On Amazon you can buy one for $11
ontopic on
None of these people see anything wrong with Donald Trump selling a fucking $60 Bible?
notcaffeinefree on
If the Trump Bible is actually picked, hopefully someone immediately sues since it doesn’t actually fully meet the legally required specs (it doesn’t contain the *full* Constitution, in it’s entirety).
W_A_Brozart on
This means that OK can also spend money on Satanic Temple literature. Right guys? 😬
1amBATMAN on
Re branded 911 Bibles
cwk415 on
Everything about this is infuriating.
Why are *bibles* being sent to *public schools?*
2HDFloppyDisk on
Say it with me folks,
Illegal campaign contribution
garpar1365 on
I would so love to be a student there, to be able to throw that back at them and tell them and do better.
barrett1967 on
They should be buying Bibles Torres quran’s religion is religion and freedom of religion and freedom of religion. That needs student can have a private prayer session during lunch or recess.
bappypawedotter on
This is probably going to be considered the biggest win of his career. I bet the OK pubs are loving this idea.
citymousecountyhouse on
Don’t the Gideon’s give those out for free? Is there something wrong with those Bibles? Have they been recalled?
NotObviouslyARobot on
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma:
SECTION II-5 Public money or property – Use for sectarian purposes. **No public money or property shall ever be appropriated, applied, donated, or used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion**, or for the use, benefit, or support of any priest, preacher, minister, or other religious teacher or dignitary, or sectarian institution as such.
Ryan Walters is pissing on his own state’s Constitution
JC2535 on
Stealing from the taxpayers of Oklahoma
RainbowBullsOnParade on
I look forward to the ACLU taking Oklahoma to court where they’re forced to spend millions buying 55,000 of each religions holy book great job Oklahoma taxpayers you played yourself
Brilliant_Recipe_146 on
He’s doing this to get noticed by Trump. Prolly salivating at the thoughts of being Trump’s hypothetically secretary of education where he can then attempt to push his agenda on a national level
moutonbleu on
Is anyone taking these people to court?
FunctionBuilt on
Please, I’m dying to hear a MAGAs mental gymnastics around this one. Anyone.
BatemanHarrison on
So I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure this is against the Federal Acquisition Regulations, specifically FAR Part 11.105.
Agency requirements shall not be written so as to require a particular brand name, product, or a feature of a product, peculiar to one manufacturer, thereby precluding consideration of a product manufactured by another company, unless-
(a) (1) The particular brand name, product, or feature is essential to the Government’s requirements, and market research indicates other companies’ similar products, or products lacking the particular feature, do not meet, or cannot be modified to meet, the agency’s needs;
(2) (i) The authority to contract without providing for full and open competition is supported by the required justifications and approvals (see 6.302-1); or
(ii) The basis for not providing for maximum practicable competition is documented in the file (see 13.106-1(b)) or justified (see 13.501) when the acquisition is awarded using simplified acquisition procedures.
(3) The documentation or justification is posted for acquisitions over $25,000. (See 5.102(a)(6).)
(b) For multiple award schedule orders, see 8.405-6.
(c) For orders under indefinite-quantity contracts, see 16.505(a)(4).
Now the way I interpret that, because the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights are all separate from the Bible and available within a school, there is no reason the include them in bibles meant for a school. Certainly seems to me like the Oklahoma Department of Education has opened themselves up to be protested by vendors.
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Money laundering at its dumbest.
I don’t want to hear anyone advocate the Bible who doesn’t know Greek, Hebrew, and some ancient history. If you’re going to have people stake their lives on a book, you had better have more than passing knowledge of it.
So, over $3 million in taxpayer money funneled into a Trump bribe. Hope some Oklahomans see federal prison time for this.
Jesus would make a whip from cord and beat the living daylights out of this grifter.
The rip off continues…
Christo-fascist grifters, every last one of them.
I wonder how many books teachers and librarians wanted they banned in favor of this.
$3.3 million meant to fund education instead going to Trump. Absolutely disgusting.
Too bad the staff at the schools will not get that badly needed money. Oklahoma needs to pay their personnel better. WHAT A WASTE!
Do they actually specify that the pages must stick together? 🤣
Time to deploy the $61 Harris/Walz Pocket Constitutions
Meanwhile, you can get the exact same KJV that the Church uses [for $14.](https://churchsource.com/products/kjv-pew-bible-large-print-red-letter-edition-comfort-print-holy-bible-king-james-version)
Low IQ, flyover state
I wonder how much “gratuity” the author of the requirements is gong to receive.
Fiscal irresponsibility amongst other things. What happened to conservative values?
Don’t the parents of these kids have bibles at home? Why does the state have to buy them? Have the parents supply them.
10th Commandment:
>You shall not covet your neighbor’s **wife, or his male or female slaves**, his ox or donkey, or anything that **belongs to your neighbor.**
Weird…
How is this legal?
It’s cool how this is legal and fine and unquestioned by the media.
I see lawyers salivating.
Buy 200,000,000 gold watches just to be safe
Yeah…that’s not obvious whatsoever..
Quite the place. Pushy fuckers aren’t they?
Teachers: we would like to be able to afford to live and do what we love.
Repubs: lmao, no. Here’s some bibles.
Absolutely insane!! 😡
This idiot must be fired
Sounds like an easy money laundering scheme huh
Such a brutally obvious grift. This is effectively a campaign donation directly to Trump. Or realistically, right into Trump’s bank account.
On Amazon you can buy one for $11
None of these people see anything wrong with Donald Trump selling a fucking $60 Bible?
If the Trump Bible is actually picked, hopefully someone immediately sues since it doesn’t actually fully meet the legally required specs (it doesn’t contain the *full* Constitution, in it’s entirety).
This means that OK can also spend money on Satanic Temple literature. Right guys? 😬
Re branded 911 Bibles
Everything about this is infuriating.
Why are *bibles* being sent to *public schools?*
Say it with me folks,
Illegal campaign contribution
I would so love to be a student there, to be able to throw that back at them and tell them and do better.
They should be buying Bibles Torres quran’s religion is religion and freedom of religion and freedom of religion. That needs student can have a private prayer session during lunch or recess.
This is probably going to be considered the biggest win of his career. I bet the OK pubs are loving this idea.
Don’t the Gideon’s give those out for free? Is there something wrong with those Bibles? Have they been recalled?
Constitution of the State of Oklahoma:
SECTION II-5 Public money or property – Use for sectarian purposes. **No public money or property shall ever be appropriated, applied, donated, or used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion**, or for the use, benefit, or support of any priest, preacher, minister, or other religious teacher or dignitary, or sectarian institution as such.
Ryan Walters is pissing on his own state’s Constitution
Stealing from the taxpayers of Oklahoma
I look forward to the ACLU taking Oklahoma to court where they’re forced to spend millions buying 55,000 of each religions holy book great job Oklahoma taxpayers you played yourself
He’s doing this to get noticed by Trump. Prolly salivating at the thoughts of being Trump’s hypothetically secretary of education where he can then attempt to push his agenda on a national level
Is anyone taking these people to court?
Please, I’m dying to hear a MAGAs mental gymnastics around this one. Anyone.
So I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure this is against the Federal Acquisition Regulations, specifically FAR Part 11.105.
Agency requirements shall not be written so as to require a particular brand name, product, or a feature of a product, peculiar to one manufacturer, thereby precluding consideration of a product manufactured by another company, unless-
(a) (1) The particular brand name, product, or feature is essential to the Government’s requirements, and market research indicates other companies’ similar products, or products lacking the particular feature, do not meet, or cannot be modified to meet, the agency’s needs;
(2) (i) The authority to contract without providing for full and open competition is supported by the required justifications and approvals (see 6.302-1); or
(ii) The basis for not providing for maximum practicable competition is documented in the file (see 13.106-1(b)) or justified (see 13.501) when the acquisition is awarded using simplified acquisition procedures.
(3) The documentation or justification is posted for acquisitions over $25,000. (See 5.102(a)(6).)
(b) For multiple award schedule orders, see 8.405-6.
(c) For orders under indefinite-quantity contracts, see 16.505(a)(4).
Now the way I interpret that, because the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights are all separate from the Bible and available within a school, there is no reason the include them in bibles meant for a school. Certainly seems to me like the Oklahoma Department of Education has opened themselves up to be protested by vendors.