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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

I have been teaching kids with interference of clueless administrators for decades. I will continue to teach kids. F her.

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

What, no French Club??!!

That's where all the cool chicks hung out in my High School.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I think you mean Freedom Club.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

"English Only"

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Pisto75666's avatar

"Like many a Trump nominee, McMahon seems to have no idea what’s happening in the administration she wants to join."

To be fair she didn't seem to have any idea what was happening (ie: the hush money payoffs her ex-husband was using company money for) in her marriage so....that tracks.

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DemoCat's avatar

It’s cute how the GOP pick out a single sentence or phrase uttered by MLK Jr. to appropriate his virtue and dignity instead of simply denouncing him as a dangerous radical threatening the white status quo as the FBI did when he was alive. Better to pretend he actually enjoyed segregation and oppression. If only he were here now.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

"Dogs are cool."

~ Adolph Hitler

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

The followup to that response should always be, "Can you give us another quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. that is particularly meaningful to you?

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Dina's avatar

Unfair question! It's like asking trump about his favorite bible quotes ON AIR!

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Judge Mental's avatar

The right is dark and full of terrorists.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. Oh, Linda Mac, if you had any integrity whatsoever (you don't), you'd withdraw your name from consideration for a position about which you know less than nothing.

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Bupkus231's avatar

IOW, Linda McMahon doesn't have a clue about what she's supposed to do as Secretary of Education. Well, that fits just about every FFOTUS nominee so far. One wonders if she'll introduce "Royal Rumble" type contests to determine which teachers get to teach.

This confirmation hearing has the stink of kayfabe ( see - I do know some pro wrestling lingo )

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Always Be Ithacating's avatar

Tell me if this is offensive and I'll delete it, but I cannot see Linda MacMahon without thinking of Pansy 'Mammy" Yokum.

https://harveycomicsdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/Li%27l_Abner#Main_characters

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

"We have met the enemy, and he is Mammy."

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Gammarae's avatar

why are these appointees not being asked if they've done any advance homework about the department they're about to lead WHICH AFFECTS MOST AMERICANS???

they just get away with scratching their heads quizzically.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

They have had a lifetime of getting by without real qualifications or accomplishments. You expect them to swot up now?

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SethTriggs's avatar

Holy fuck these hearings are a waste of time because there's no disincentive for a Republican nominee to lie. All they have to do is mouth words and then once put in (because of their unreconstructed majority) they can just wild out.

Bless Murphy for trying. But again we all know what's going to happen, and we know the job of these potted plants is to destroy the agencies they are in charge of so the benefactors of the unreconstructed party can profit, and their supporters can wild out with the discrimination they seek to visit upon minorities.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Potted plants LIBELZ!!!1!!!!11!!!!!!!

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Lie lie lie, get confirmed, do the opposite. Just like the Supreme Court nominees.

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ShrillKitty's avatar

Now that's just unfairly inaccurate.

It's lie, lie, lie, take money, get confirmed, take money, do the opposite, take money.

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

I didn’t realize when you take a test you could just dodge the questions

MCAT question 1 - What would you do for a patient with a collapsed lung?

Me - Sorry I can’t answer a hypothetical question like that.

Nailed it!

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Tommy Mo's avatar

Not to brag or anything, but that’s how I did so well on the MCAT and got in to medikul skool.

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ShrillKitty's avatar

It's weird how every question on the bar exam is a legal hypothetical and yet the correct answer to every legal hypothetical at a confirmation hearing is "I can't answer hypotheticals"

I can't believe I spent all that time and money on bar exam prep when the answer was so easy

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Shit, I wish I'd known that in my anatomy exam

"Draw a labelled sagittal cross-section of the male pelvis at the midpoint" (this was a real question)

answer: due to congenital differentiators in human anatomy this question is moot

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

(Raises hand)

"Um...professor? I left my sagittal out overnight and the dog ate it."

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Alternative Dog's avatar

OT: I see there is an effort underway to organize nationwide protests on President's Day, February 17th. Think I'll head down to the Capitol building in Sacramento to hang out with like-minded folks.

https://bsky.app/profile/humanguy23.bsky.social/post/3li5r3gqjqc2f

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VaselineHabits's avatar

Also heard about a boycott on the 28th... not sure since I'll just be "boycotting everything" broke

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notaten's avatar

I remember in 8th grade we had New Mexico history. On the first day of class the teacher explained that some of our ancestors did things we should be proud of and some ancestors did things we think are wrong, but since none of us were alive to change anything at that time we should not feel bad or responsible if some of our ancestors were not people we are proud of now. And everyone understood what he was saying.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

Yes. We do not have to achieve an erection over EVERY little bit of our history.

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Alternative Dog's avatar

That's far too rational for the modern GOP.

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

I did not think it would be possible to do worse than DeVos, but, as usual, yambo proves me wrong.

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Angryoldman's avatar

Never, ever assume that Trump has peaked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfpPArfDTGw

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Whilst I hate to belabor a point the FACT remains that there is no bottom here.

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

I always thought of infinity as the expanding wonder of the Universe, but apparently it is the black hole of GQP ethics.

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UVB-76's avatar

I have accepted that while intellect has its limits, dumbass is bottomless, as in there is no fucking bottom. Idiocy is a virus.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Einstein said the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.

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Androgenous AF's avatar

And uneducated is a virtue...

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Randy Bender's avatar

This is the zombie apocalypse.

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UVB-76's avatar

Anyone here drink AG1 (just saw an ad)? Does it cause you to fart flames?

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

All I know is that it is GREEN so obviously healthy. It could be green sawdust you add water to, but if I drink it in public people will know that I'm healthy.

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UVB-76's avatar

So Lucky Charms count, right?

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eppe's avatar
Feb 14Edited

Just the four-leaf clovers. You have to pick out the pink hearts first.

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Richard S's avatar

Don't forget the rainbows!

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LP's avatar

Rainbows are ILLEGAL now

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UVB-76's avatar

Katy asks Ravi is we're living in a new world dear. Honey let me tell you.

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

Katy can fuck a duck. I remember her fawning over him during the convention. She called him Serene. She loves having John Kasich on her show. Can't stand her.

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UVB-76's avatar

Giver her a break, she's so lonely.

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