Barack Obama has been called a lot of things in his lifetime: a Marxist, anti-American, a non-citizen, an enemy of humanity, a bigger threat than al Qaeda, Obummer, Golfer-in-Chief and Obonehead.
This woman decided to call him a gay prostitute. Mary Lou Bruner, 69, is a retired Texas schoolteacher, along with once being called a “frontrunner” for a seat on the Texas State Board of Education. According to TIME, Texas has the second-largest school system in the country.
Then, her conspiracy theory Facebook posts about Obama surfaced on the internet. No matter how long it’s been, the internet NEVER forgets.
In the posts, Bruner decided to write “Obama has a soft spot for homosexuals because of the years he spent as a male prostitute in his twenties. That is how he paid for his drugs.” Wow, we never knew that little bit of history!
Clearly, her prospective voters didn’t either. According to NBC News, Bruner’s lead over fellow Republican Keven Ellis, a local school board president, shrunk as more people took note of her conspiracy theories. She eventually lost on Tuesday by about 18 percent in the primary for the Board of Education.
Bruner has since deleted her Facebook posts, but a left-leaning Texas group called Total Freedom Network was sure to publish them all online. Besides calling Obama as gay prostitute, she also compared Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to a terrorist (because of his beard), defended the heritage of the Confederate flag, and blamed the Planned Parenthood shooting last fall on the legality of abortion (instead of blaming the shooter?). Oh, and this:
In her campaign, Bruner promised to restore “traditional” education values in Texas public schools. The Dallas Morning News reported that she also vowed to keep gay “subliminal” messages out of textbooks—because textbooks are obviously how children become gay, right?
After Bruner’s loss, Texas Freedom Network wrote, “Texas escaped an education train wreck tonight.”
Remember: this woman was almost voted to be in-charge of over 5 million Texas students’ education. As in, children could have been running around calling King Cobra snakes lesbian terrorists. We’re just happy that Texas avoided that mess.