It’s been a fun couple of days in the Everyone Hates Ryan Walters news cycle!
Earlier this week, CNN shared a sneak peek of some of the questions from the Little Fascist Prager U Pseudo Reality Culture War Quiz that Ryan plans to give to the large, totally non-existent swaths of California and New York teachers who are flocking to Oklahoma so they can get paid less, be demonized by psychopathic politicians, and – naturally – indoctrinate our students into wokeness because they hate America.
Overall, I have to say I was a little bit disappointed by the ease of the questions in the quiz.
I was really expecting Ryan to come out guns a-blazing like his favorite Confederate general, asking hard-hitting questions about communism, the gold standard, and whether dinosaurs rode Noah’s Ark.
You know, challenging questions that would stop the woke liberal indoctrinators in their tracks and expose them for who they really are. But instead, we got easy-peasy questions that even the dumbest charter school ghost student could answer! Sad!
CNN was given exclusive access to parts of the multiple-choice assessment, which is around 50 questions.
One proposed question deals with gender – asking teachers to select from a series of multiple-choice answers which chromosome pairs determine biological sex. Marissa Streit, CEO of PragerU, told CNN there are several questions on the test related to “undoing the damage of gender ideology that is forced and taught through some of these other tests like the PRISM test,” referring to a training for teachers in California that aims to “provide resources to bolster support for LGBTQ+ youth in California.”
Another question asks why freedom of religion is important to America’s identity. Other questions include asking for the first three words of the Constitution, naming the two chambers of the US Congress, and identifying the number of US Senators. Streit said the Oklahoma superintendent had asked for a test “that is more wholesome and in line with the Oklahoma parent body.”
Really, that’s it?
I know I’m not a student of history like Ryan Walters, but I don’t think you need to be some woke Benedict Arnold to easily pass that test, score a teaching job in Oklahoma, and then begin secretly placing subliminal messages around the classroom to convert God-fearing conservative white students into BLM, CRT, trans-sports-playing liberals.
Seriously, outside of generating outrage, headlines and cheap attention, what’s Ryan trying to accomplish here? Is he trying to convert the teachers to Christian Nationalism conservatism, identify them as liberals, or simply make them regret moving to Oklahoma? Perhaps it’s all three?
While the national media was doing their “Meanwhile, in Oklahoma…” thing, Linda McMahon – the professional wrestling mogul who made a fortune exploiting dumb people with cheap, over-the-top theatrics, and as a result, has been put in charge of our country’s educational system – stopped by the state yesterday to visit Dove Charter School.
It’s one of the big local charter schools in the OKC metro area that specializes in STEM, College Prep and building “character:”
Yikes. I guess the “S” in STEM doesn’t stand for spellcheck!
Just like every other time a big fancy US cabinet secretary from the Trump admin visits Oklahoma, local politicians, conservatives and other notable nutjobs rushed and clamored to be seen and photographed with Ms. McMahon.
Well, that is except for one!
Even though he’s a devout Trump fanatic, school choice grifter, and the freakin’ Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Education, McMahon noticeably ditched, avoided, and steered clear of Ryan Walters.
Instead, she cozied up with Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt – Ryan’s bro turned foe who, as we all know, conspired with teachers unions, liberals, and Samsung to flash a nude scene onto Ryan’s office TV during a board of education meeting.
To pour additional salt in the wound, McMahon was also joined by former Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall – one of the rich white conservative men who will likely face Ryan in the 2026 gubernatorial election.
That’s great!
Ryan loves Trump and attention, so I bet getting ditched by Ms. McMahon hurt him more than seeing a Harbor Mountain Coffee Shop cup on his kitchen counter! He was probably so sad he ran into the girls’ bathroom and cried into a box of kitty litter. Serves him right, huh?
Anyway, I guess the main question is why did McMahon avoid Ryan. The Oklahoman’s Murray Evans asked Ryan’s office this question and…
Republican state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters was noticeably absent from the events. Walters often touts his support of Trump’s education policies and says the Oklahoma State Department of Education, which he leads, is working closely with the federal agency run by McMahon.
Asked if she planned to meet with Walters while in Oklahoma, McMahon said, "I don't believe that's on my schedule today."
The Oklahoman asked two spokespeople for Walters about his absence. Spokesman Quinton Hitchcock said in an email received at 7 p.m., hours after this story published with McMahon's comment, that Walters was "out of the state today on previously scheduled travel."
Yeah, that’s it. He didn’t meet with the US Secretary of Education – or share a social media message welcoming her to Oklahoma – because he was out of the state on previously scheduled travel… in August… at the beginning of a new school year. That makes total sense. Nothing else to see here. Move along.
In other news, you don’t need to be a liberal spy from California who just passed an indoctrination loyalty quiz to know that's a bunch of BS!
Although Ryan loves to travel on the taxpayer’s dime, he’s an ultra-pandering right-wing MAGA machine who would pause any travel trip – or 1980s action movie nude scene – to be seen with a high-ranking member of Team Trump.
The fact that they don’t want to be seen with him is telling — and slobberknocking awesome.
It makes you wonder – has Ryan’s unique ability to cross and burn bridges with virtually all Republicans – including the rich and powerful Evangelical ones who helped create him – finally caught up with him?
Does Team Trump view Ryan like the rest of us do – as a weird, desperate, mockable heel whose only real purpose is to get tossed from the ring and through a folding table?
For the sake of Oklahoma’s education system and the mental well-being of every Oklahoman who can still read above a third-grade level and pass a woke identifier test, I sure hope so.
Stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
