The GOP Started a Panic Over Kitty Litter in Classrooms. The Real Story Is A Lot Sadder

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Last week, Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Col.) warned a Republican women’s luncheon that schools “are putting litter boxes in schools for people who identify as cats,” according to the Colorado Times Recorder.

Now, if you’re not super insanely plugged into the world of GOP conspiracy theories and thinly veiled attacks on trans kids, you may have missed this latest one. But, according to NBC News, at least 20 conservative candidates and elected officials made false claims that K-12 schools were putting litter boxes in classrooms for children who identify as cats.

A little more digging by local news reporters revealed that some schools had been stockpiling kitty litter, but it had absolutely nothing to do with kids’ identities.

As of 2017, the Jefferson County, Colorado School District, where the Columbine shooting occurred, has been stockpiling small amounts of cat litter, according to a local NBC affiliate. But, according to local news reports, the district began collecting the litter to prepare emergency go buckets for lockdowns in the case of a school shooting or other emergency.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gop-started-panic-over-kitty-173124492.html

Conservatives: Doing anything to ignore the terrorism of mass shooters in America.

[Martin Eden]

1. The LEGITIMATE PANIC is a consequence of America's INSANE GUN CULTURE

Which the Republican Party stokes for fundraising and votes. Children and teachers PANIC when they are hunted down and killed in their schools by deranged shooters who acquire deadly weapons all too easily.

GOP obstructionism against effective laws to reduce the senseless slaughter of innocent victims is the REAL SCANDAL here.

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2. A lot of republicans who heard this story believed it.

Their leadership knows how stupid they are.
Our education system is turning out people who have NO critical thinking skill. Republicans are desperate to make our education system worse.

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3. They're insane

When I was a kid in school, too many years ago I lost count, they were using kitty litter. If a kid had a mistake and could not make the bathroom in time, out came the kitty litter to absorb the mess. If a kid got sick to their stomach, out came the kitty litter to adsorb the mess.

Their conspiracy theories get weirder all the time.

[GoCubsGo]

4. I remember that, too.

It didn't come packaged as kitty litter, and it was usually green. It was made specifically for cleaning up accidents kids had at school. But, it was really just kitty litter with deodorizers, since they mostly used it on vomit.

The sad thing about their conspiracies is that so many idiots buy into them. No critical thinking skills, whatsoever...

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5. Mass mental illness.

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6. K&R