The inspiration for this scene was the following line:

“Is your name Penny Stock? Because I want to pump and then dump you so hard!”

Come enjoy the hottest place in existence!

What as good day for results!

Great point. But I think it’s even more than that. Not only do they want kids uneducated, they don’t want them to be happy or well-adjusted. They want an legion of angry, resentful, miserable, malleable subordinates.

A teacher who is passionate about her job and wants all her students to feel welcome? Can’t have that! /s

In a time when teachers are overworked, underpaid, and under-appreciated, what a stupid decision to try to drive them away and crush their morale. I feel bad for the kids stuck in such backward districts. But this teacher (and others like her) deserves better than all this Idaho bullshit.

The secret sauce is that most of them always were bigoted assholes. They just pretended not to be because that wasn’t socially acceptable. But showing their wretched true selves is cool under the new administration, so they are.

Thots and pears.

I suspect there are a lot of faces that were eaten by leopards in that room.

It’s time for new parties to rise from the festering corpses of both the Democrat and the Republican parties. A new Democrat party that isn’t filled with fucking cowards. And a new Republican party that isn’t filled with psychopathic sycophants.

Even better, have it quote RATM: “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!”

This threatens to be a bigger brain drain than just elite University-level scientists. I know of several US IT professionals who are in the process of getting European citizenship through parent and grandparent eligibility. And some of these are moderate conservatives, not just liberals. There’s a lot of unease at least on the coasts.

I’m weighing up moving back to the UK myself. After over two decades I had never felt the need to even consider this before now. Hopefully it won’t come to that, not least because it would mean uprooting my entire family, it works be a big headache, and because I know the UK isn’t a bed of roses right now either. But the way shit is rapidly unraveling here in the US, I might not have a choice in a few years.

I’m not sure, but probably. I know there was a guy who was in a maximum security prison and often put in solitary confinement for long stretches who said in an interview that he learned to go into a meditative state and project himself into fully immersive scenes of his own creation. And he could do that for hours on end and at will.

Ahh okay. Thanks.

What happened around the middle of February that caused that slight but sharp drop-off?

What a good guy. And a very talented actor too.

Isn’t driving around in one of those poorly-made death trap vehicles enough then?..

…Nah, probably not.

Fits in perfectly with the Tesla brand then, doesn’t it.

Can we switch JD with Nate? Nate sounds like he is much closer to presidential material than his dipshit, couch-fucking joke of a cousin.

Musk calls it a “massive cyber attack”.

I call it “systemic infrastructure and personnel losses caused by the malignant narcissistic man-child who is running the company into the ground”.

Given the context, no I don’t think you are being aloof. They both knew what they were doing, and no amount of toadying up to you can make up for that.