Joanne O’Brien, a far-left Maine MSAD 11 School Board member overseeing public education in Gardiner, has garnered nationwide attention in recent days for her unhinged social media posts, including one calling for President Donald Trump-supporting parents to be “forcibly shut down.”
“During PRIDE MONTH it is EXPECTED that we show ourselves to be allies to the LGBTQ community by sharing rainbow flags. MAGA’s loud obnoxious parents, who support Trump and his policies of destruction, death, and division, should have been FORCEFULLY SHUT DOWN,” said O’Brien on Facebook.
That statement came in 2023 in response to the Gardiner school’s decision to allow only American flags to be flown. That decision came in response to a controversy surrounding a student who covered a pride flag with a Trump flag.
“What’s next?-proudly facing confederate and NAZI flags,” said O’Brien in the Facebook post.
O’Brien has a long history of expressing radical political positions and slinging insults and accusations at the majority of voters who supported President Trump, continuing after his victory.
The parental rights advocacy group Courage is a Habit released a screenshot of what appeared to be public posts from O’Brien suggesting that high school girls uncomfortable with biological males in their locker rooms and bathrooms should stop “spying” and “bullying.”
“So basically, girls need to be told spying on classmates in the bathroom is bullying. Their body is none of your business,” said O’Brien.
“To a girl who feels threatened, I would say, that I was sorry that her grown-ups made her feel afraid of people who are different,” she added.
O’Brien accused two other parental rights groups, namely Parents’ Rights in Education and Moms for Liberty, of “stochastic terrorism,” which she defines as the use of “dehumanizing language” that, while not actually calling for violence, makes it more likely.
While sitting on the Gardiner school board, overseeing a school district that also educates the children of Trump supporters, she has repeatedly compared Trump, his voters, and a slew of other Republican officials to Nazis and fascists.
“We KNEW he [Trump] would be acting like Hitler, we knew ICE would be deployed like the Gestapo. The MAGAs love it because they admire him, want his attention, and they believe in “White Christian Supremacy” just like him,” she said in one late January post.
“I thought Congress set the budget and decided where the money goes, not this petty Nazi minion,” she said in a post about Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
She leveled similar accusations at Vice President J.D. Vance, reposting an article accusing him of parroting the language used by Hitler to justify the Holocaust.
O’Brien’s crusade of Facebook memes has also targeted Elon Musk, accusing him, predictably, of fascism, Nazism, and white supremacy in a variety of posts.
One post, reposting another account and adding her own comment, suggested that an X post from Musk that included 14 American flag emojis was a coded message to white supremacists who allegedly use the number 14 as code for “14 Words,” a slogan.
The slogan, allegedly “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” is, apparently, a common enough white supremacist phrase that the number 14 has become a coded message for white nationalists.
Her hatred of Musk inspired her to repost a statement suggesting that Americans should be more concerned that he, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), could have access to personal records than that the Chinese Communist Party could have compromised their data.
“Hey Maga, I’m still waiting for y’all to explain why you’re concerned about a Chinese app having access to our info, but when Elon seizes our SSN’s and bank data it’s no problem,” said the post.
The school board member also reposted an account that claimed Hitler got the idea for the Holocaust from America, and that the U.S. has always been a fascist nation.
“To ignore the reality that Hitler got all his ideas by following the US’s blueprint on indigenous and black oppression [sic]. Trump is copying Hitler, who was copying Andrew Jackson and Jim Crow laws. It’s all extremely US American and always has been,” said the post.
On Tuesday morning, O’Brien expressed her disgust that Trump is trying to secure a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
“Trump is letting Elon run amuck through the Treasury while on vacation. Now, he’s going to negotiate the Ukraine away to Russia. I wonder if Russia invaded Alaska, would he do anything,” said O’Brien.
O’Brien’s radically far-left opinions have made their way into her school board position, where she has pushed for a school-based medical clinic in Gardiner that would allow teenagers to receive prescription drugs without parental knowledge or consent.
[RELATED: Gardiner’s Proposed School-Based Clinic Operator Earned $11.7 Million Prescribing Drugs in 2023…]
Those prescriptions could include controversial medications such as antidepressants, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers.
The clinic would be operated by a taxpayer-funded nonprofit, thus providing school officials with plausible deniability about anything that occurs there that could concern parents.
O’Brien’s current term on the school board extends until November 2026, when she is up for re-election and/or a challenge by outraged parents.
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While reading this I suddenly thought I was in an episode of The Twilight Zone .
Red Flag laws anyone ? This lunatic sounds dangerous . To think she is evolved with children is disturbing to say the least . This is scary stuff . This woman is nuts .
Its her right to be a moron and I will always defend that right. As for now the best thing is just to let her wallow in her own hate and use her as an example to educate your children on the power of hive thought and brainwashing. Sad, I hope she gets the help she needs.
She’s obviously mentally ill. Funny how these people have no hesitation to shut out others that disagree but supports a government that places abortion protesters in prison.
So O’Brien is displaying the very hate she claims she is against. You can only be right if you agree with her. Well lady, you are a nut and should not be within 250 feet of any child in an educational manner.
This woman needs to be fired. She sounds like an unhinged lunatic. No one like this should be working with children.
What about her test scores
Dr. Peter McCullough before the Idaho State Senate: “There’s a global recognition that the COVID-19 vaccines were a MISTAKE.”
McCullough’s statement came in support of Senate Bill 1036 (S1036), which seeks to establish a moratorium on the use of mRNA-based vaccines.
The proposed legislation, known as the “Doug Cameron Act,” is named after an Idaho rancher who reportedly experienced severe side effects from an mRNA vaccine and is currently under review by the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. If passed, the legislation could set a precedent for more states to start banning mRNA jabs.
Dr. McCullough warned, “Last year, our CDC recorded 823 more deaths due to the vaccines. People took them, and they didn’t know. So it’s of public health importance for this group to understand that safety comes first.”
He added, “What we’ve learned is that the messenger RNA gene technology transfer platform used for Moderna and Pfizer unfortunately is not safe, and it’s been linked to many, many problems after COVID-19 vaccination.”
“They [mRNA jabs] should be halted from clinical use, and then anybody who takes any one of these messenger RNA products or any animal that is going to take one of these products should be done in a research protocol. They’re not ready for public use,” Dr. McCullough concluded.
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I agree with @Russell Montgomery. Real (unbiased) scientists were deplatformed, censored,and oftentimes driven out of their jobs during the pandemic for expressing concerns about the MRna technology, INCLUDING Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the tech. SCIENCE was IGNORED, RULES were CHANGED, DEFINITIONS were changed, a major PSY-OP was run worldwide, and a few ppl became EXTREMELY WEALTHY with the direct collusion of federal and state governments.
Conservative estimates of injuries and death from the FORCED vax are in the millions, but you won’t read that in mainstream media. I personally know five people who were injured, including my 30yo son whose heart stopped shortly after one Pfizer shot. The removal of our rights blew my mind, but I was more shocked at how easily ppl caved into the government dictats. Land of the Free and Home of the Brave?
COURAGE is CONTAGIOUS!
Great article!
People like THIS WOMAN are exactly WHY Trump won a resounding victory!
I truly hope she educates herself out of her upside-down and inside-out thinking.
This woman shouldn’t be allowed anywhere that children are let alone overseeing their education. She is mentally insane!
Unfortunately, there are many more school board members in Maine who think just like this unhinged moron.
Isn’t that special. A gold star for licking the boots of her master. Keep up the good work and there’s a $1.00 off coupon for your aids meds next month.
If this person isn’t removed by the board then law enforcement must find her statements criminal. She is advocating for abuse to minors. Thought that was a crime? People like her must be publicly shamed and brought out to all. Sick woman. Get her some help
I just read a piece from the Energy INFO Agency stating in 2024 that rate payers in Maine saved 21 million on there electric Bills due to Renewables . They Failed to mention that the public policy charge on Maine rate payers adds up to 225 million a year. Wake up Mainers and file a suit against this as it is a tax on every rate payer. When a potato processing plant in Washburn ,Maine . There public policy charge is $57,513 per month , $690,156 per year. How can Maine compete in this Janet Mills directed Money grab ! She is discusting
I bet she isn’t from West Gardiner…..
We should all be concerned that the majority of candidates for public office in Maine are lunatic lefties !
How do we motivate intelligent patriots to run successful campaigns against the lunatic lefties ?
How do we motivate all critical thinkers to get out and vote against the lunatic lefties ?
She needs SEVERAL more Covid shots. Several dozen a week should help.
This Sweat HOG needs a mental health exam…Also some counseling on impulse control( Over Eating )
i bet it is shocking how many school board members dont even have kids…. they have no skin in the game but seem to play for life… they should be investigated, their personal lives… boy scouts, the church, all had sexual predators at the top, with no kids, using their postiion to cover it up….
She needs to be Blue Papered into Riverview. She is a danger to society. Put the meds to ‘er!
Mentally unbalanced alphabet people are a danger to society.
My question is why is she still a school board member
The best way to describe this kind of drone and drones like her is NPC. For the old people its Non-Playing-Character. A term used by gamers for binary, generated character who is programed to react to a certain stimulation by their controllers. Just say NPC, we’ll know what your talking about.
If you are within 200 feet of this lunatic in the grocery store DON’T Sneeze .
She might run you over in the parking lot when you leave the store .
This woman is very obviously dangerous and should be put on a “ Watch List “ .
Gardiner needs to dismiss her from the school board today .
She’s NUTS .
It’s my understanding a school board member has to be recalled. Get busy people!
Why hasn’t she been sued for slander and character defamation?
And they call me a Fascist??? What do you call it when the fascists accuse the fascist?
This bloomin’ idiot needs a checkup from the neck up!!!
I looked her up on the school board site and they’ve removed her picture
The biggest question is: How many times has this nut be elected to this school board? If the citizens of Gardiner elect her again, they are the nuts.
Holy sh$t this person is completely off the rails
Wonder if she’s married?? I don’t think she would have any kids as she’d probably abort them. If she’s “married,” it’s probably to some ugly bull dyke.
What a nutjob.
Ah, yes, this woman from Gardiner is a prime example of leftist thinking. Even less extreme leftists still have twisted thinking. She’s a stereotype democrat! Dem compassion is especially reserved for folks who don’t ever intend to be responsible for their lives. How did we get here? Well, we decided that we needed a bigger, more protective state government to care for those who cultivate their victimhood. As a state we keep voting for democrats who believe in victimhood as a right for a place at the government banquet. So here we are with a huge state government that intrudes into the nooks and crannies of everyone’s life and politicians who can’t say no to spending endlessly. Now we have a “shortfall”. Will we cut spending? Probably not, because dems don’t think in those terms. We’ll just increase fees, taxes and resort to shameful speeches against those who “need to pay their fair share”. Maine behaves in the same way that our national government has behaved until very recently. It’s a disease that needs curing! Politics in Maine is a total rip-off. The choice will be pay more or move away. It appears that many other states are getting their houses in order. Maine may be “last in the nation”.
This COW actually equated the confederate and NAZI flags with the Stars and Stripes. 🙁 This COW wants Trump-supporting parents to be “forcibly shut down.”
FORCIBLY SHUT DOWN
Liberals parents may think they are safe but may I remind you of the words of Martin Niemöller:
” First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
We always hear that can’t happen here. It can and WILL happen here, if we let it.
Sadly these lunatics are more common than one might expect.
Wow… O’Brien needs a warm white jacket that ties in the back and and her own rubber room. Makes you wonder how this moron got hired in the first place.
She’s the type of individual that still wears a mask and will be the first in line to repeatedly get the ‘jab’ and demand that you and your kids do, too. It’s seems something in that ‘experimental pharmaceutical’ she crows about turns on the idiot gene in some. A lot of these braggarts that proudly post their, “I got my Covid-19 vaccine. We can do this!” photos, end up being on the ‘Died Suddenly’ social media pages, eventually.
Darwin awards for this one. SMH
This utter fool comforts me in that my kids are grown and would simply ignore her rhetorical manure pile, and my grandchildren are not.