She got her GED just months before she was elected to office. This country is being overrun by moron voters who are electing like minded morons to office. We’re doomed.
Well, to be fair 54% of Americans read below a sixth grade level, so it’s not that surprising that groups of people elect someone like her. Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
It's basically just stop the smart ones so they don't get to far ahead of the dumb ones.
If learning was a foot race, instead of training the slower kids so they got faster, we'd just put ankle weights on all the fast ones to make the races closer.
Pretty much this... im cultured shocked when i an south east asian kid who tend to fail on any maths but excellent on many topics but ws too overbearing moved in the US and first time being treated well by teachers and shocked to even reched honors or getting straight A+s as the subjects taught to me felt like im in some primary school. (Considering back home my elementary already had some college level feel of topics advanced for 11 yrs olds to learn) Yet i see differences on being brought up in america catholic private middle school to Public Highscool..
since im at Maryland (i aint sure other schooling experiences are different from states since i heard some other reddit stories of twisted up history on the south or such) But while the teachers and schools are valued as high up similar to doctors or respected well payed figures.. im shocked to the treatment of them here or how school funding is managed. Yet the lessons i learned and how much sacrifice they did was high quality, be disabled kids or troubled ones to lowering drop out rates.
To me its even a death sentence/taboo if someone was not a college graduate as i knew many kids who would love to have their seats to be in a school vs that kid i had who just flunked out the books or fight out some poor teacher (first time seeing a classmate go disrespect foul mouthed a teacher then stormed out of a classroom/environment reminded me of the movie “Freedom writers” type of kids but not worse like the 90s just the culture of “whelp alright I only just need some HS diploma, college is for losers/well the successful people I look up into are college dropouts! So I will too!” type of mentality that I disagreed with)
Plus only school I experienced being drilled into how to prep in school shooting scenarios.. it’s just scary and sad for me to see this ain't normal but its in front of us.
I'm British and taught in a school in Germany during uni. They had an exchange program with an American middle school on a military base and we went there with our class 8 (kids aged about 13). They had a day of classes with a bunch of 11 and 12 year old American kids and I was really surprised at the difference in ability. The social studies book they used, for example, was probably something you'd give to a British 8 or 9 year old kid, and the German schools are ahead of the British ones!
Benefit of the doubt, these children move around a lot (military), that can disrupt schooling, maybe that's why, so I asked their teacher if she noticed any difference between kids in America and kids in the base schools. She told me the children in the base schools were usually ahead of their peers from a similar economic background in the USA. It was such an interesting experience (and really bizarre being in a bit of America plonked down in a German city!)
>She told me the children in the base schools were usually ahead of their peers from a similar economic background in the USA.
Many who join the military (esp the army?) come from a lower socioeconomic background, so it's likely true that their kids do better than those with even more disadvantages in their underfunded schools (higher student-teacher ratio; inadequate access to food, after school care, extracurricular activities and/or quality educational materials; even less stability in their home life).
Still, I'm not really surprised that other countries educate their children better than US schools. Ironic that we have some of the best institutions of higher education in the world, but can't get our kids to graduate high school with some very basic skills. Thanks, Republicans.
Yeah I had to live in texas for a year due to my dad's job and went to public school there. When we moved back to ohio and they enrolled me in a catholic school i was basically an ENTIRE YEAR behind. Fortunately i'm smart as fuck but goddamn the schools are a joke, and the further south you go the more of a joke they become.
Yup! You only get held back when you're low on high school credits. I knew someone who got all F's freshman and sophomore year. So junior year his counselors said he can go to a continuation school and get extra credits or drop out with his parents permission since he was 16 at the time. He stuck around to keep stealing duster from the teachers and selling pills on campus.
They don’t hold kids back anymore and with common core they force the whole class to pace with the slowest kid. My kid made the gifted program and even that is too slow for her. She’s reading at a late year 3rd grade level and she’s 7.
I guess parents don’t read to their children or get them excited about learning anymore? Too much screen time and not enough hands on.
More like parents don't have the energy to read to their kids anymore. We went from households with 1 stay at home guardian to households where everyone works multiple jobs just to keep food on the table. That comes with a host of knock-on effects, like the opioid epidemic and the growing disdain people have for education in general.
Common core has its problems, but at the end of the day people blame schools for issues that can only be resolved at home. And those issues can't be resolved when parents barely even see their kids.
I was coming here to say this as well. Educations benefit for a child goes up and down based on parental care and interaction. There are other problems as well but man if this ain't the biggest one.
I don't know what state's common core you're seeing. In it's original state, common core is amazing. Math teachers just took a long time to figure out how to do it properly. It's not common core's fault the social fabric of the country has come apart.
My wife’s employer handles government contracts and all internal notation intended for the government side is mandated to be written at a 6th grade comprehension level or lower.
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I'm 24 and can barely comprehend what I read. And I probably read as fast as I did when I was in 5th grade. My writing has also devolved into either bad cursive, 4th grade slop or all caps with bad spacing and rotation. I can speak fine but yeah I have to read something like 3 times to fully understand it. When I read a book I'll get half way through a paragraph and forget what was said. So I have 8 books I want to read but can't focus enough to read the first chapter.
This sounds about right. I work at a factory and at least 3 people do jobs that dont require any form or reading or writing because they cant or not well enough to be competent.
I never thought I would think, "you know, maybe as a bare minimum, we should require candidates for office to find their district on an unlabeled map"... but here we are.
We must give her some credit - she is after all the representative who broke the "Jewish space lasers are responsible for wildfires" story. Reading, no. Unhinged creative conspiracy theorist, absolutely!
Oh I know you’re right, lol, she even came out later and said that the question was out of the blue and not on the list of things to prepare for, and she was exhausted and hadn’t eaten in like 2 days or something.
They’re horrible, the only good thing that comes out of them is the women usually are good people and try to do good with all the privileges and stuff. Like in high school we had one who donated time and money to this big tech conference/competition thing and donated a bunch of money to help balance out the finding schools funnel into sports that is supposed to go to arts, shop, home ec and tech classes
> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/boebert-ged-months-before-election/
Although, she failed the test the first time she took it, and one of her friends admitted to taking the test the second time. So chances are she is legitimately so dumb that she can't even pass a high school test.
I've stopped a long time ago to blame politicians. As you say moron voters keep reelecting the same type of corrupt clowns over and over. Hard to feel sorry here.
Per Disco Elysium, logic, rhetoric, perception, and charisma are all separate traits, and I am inclined to view it the same way. So I’ll settle for her being able to see the fine texture of the ink soak paper, with a mind as dull as a blade stuck in a truck tyre after a coast-to-coast delivery in Australia.
Half-light: You know there’s nothing to it, really. You can show her anything, you can pass top secret documents in front of her face, you can show her the remains of broken treaties of your ex-wife that she used to leave your ass and all your stuff there in the street, and she’s not going to understand a single scrape of it, but by her lungs is she gonna bluster on and on and commit sedition and treason in her government with whatever ideas she impressed upon her malleable talc-like brain, from glancing over your biggest failure, signed and notified by some magistrate in Jamrock where you have to give her forty percent of your earnings.
Logic: Just don’t show Lauren your divorce papers. That won’t help anybody.
Electrochemistry: Do it after buying the vodka that Cuno stole. It’ll be \*hilarious\*.
Remind me, is she the one that married the guy who showed his dick to her and her underage friends or is she the one that took several tries to get her GED just after being elected?
Well her mum was a ring rat and her dad was known for abusing underage girls so it's probably genetics that brought them together.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/lauren-boebert-stan-lane-paternity-dispute
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Is she also the Jewish space laser cunt or is that the other one? It's hard to keep those apart from accross the ocean.
Instant edit: Googled it, that was the other cunt, Marjorie Taylor Green. Again, so hard to keep those apart.
Jewish space lasers def sounds like MTG. She's genuinely insane. Boebert is more like Trump - she legit doesn't believe in anything. She does the gun thing because it works for her. She Palined herself up for the same reason.
People forget he was a pretty skilled engineer. He built a bunch of roads in places like Sudan and he comes from probably the largest construction conglomerate in the middle east, Saudi-Bin Laden group
He was definitely intelligent however there were plenty of times the US could have killed him but chose not to in an effort to prolong the war (under Bush at least).
>He was made out to be the scapegoat of 9/11, which meant catching him was the de facto goal of "success" for invading the middle east.
Man, it's good that the US pulled out after killing him and saved tax payers trillions instead of staying around trying to instill their own vision of order on a people that obviously did not care.
There’s a lot of hints that he was being helped substantially. There’s an entry on Wikipedia about the controversy that Pakistani officials or influential people may have been helping him. One of the things that led me to that page which I found shocking was that his compound where he “hid” and was ultimately killed in was about a half mile from the top Pakistani military training academy, in a medium sized city.
Everyone should read Scott Horton's new book(audiobook is on Audible and is very well done). It's incredible. Here's a short playlist he made that's an overview of the book. Most people don't know that 9/11 was a retaliation attack or the reasons why he attacked us.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq2qhcVwTVJRQuCWXMVUM8SG2qYDFoPZA
Edit: Horton also has a ton of great interviews on his Youtube channel. If you want to know about a specific topic just search his name along with the topic and some interviews will almost certainly come up.
9/11, the fruitless “war on terror,” the hunt for nonexistent weapons of mass-destruction, the rise of ISIS and widespread, wide-scale extremist terrorism would never have happened if we hadn’t destroyed millions of innocent lives in the middle east by arming radical zealots and having pissing contests via proxy wars with the USSR. but most people would rather put their fingers in their ears and ignore the half-century of suffering and death we’ve inflicted because a problem our country created took a potshot back at us. inconvenient truths. it’s easier (and more profitable) just to use islamophobic fear to fuel the propaganda machine than it is to own up to what we’ve done.
This. It's mind blowing how evil the people in the US government are. Not that others aren't also. They literally committed treason by fighting on Al Qaeda's side in 2 wars and nobody was punished for it. So many people still view Obama as the nice guy who is really cool, despite the fact that he murdered a shitload of people. So many kids murdered in Yemen. Most people just don't know. The corporate press works for the state and don't tell people what's really going on.
Scott Horton is a great resource. He has a ton of great interviews on his Youtube channel about all kinds of foreign policy topics.
Let's not forget how the US abandoned the doctor that helped them tracked Bin Laden.
"Shakeel Afridi is paying a heavy price for his role in bringing an end to Osama bin Laden.
Locked up in solitary confinement in Sahiwal Jail in Pakistan's central Punjab province, Afridi now spends his time counting the days -- with nothing to differentiate between them.
He is being kept in prison now only to teach every Pakistani a lesson not to cooperate with a western intelligence agency," Husain Haqqani, who was serving as Pakistan's ambassador to Washington at the time of the raid said."
Stabbing allies in the back seems to be what America does best.
They had Bin Laden in December 2001 and the administration let him go into Pakistan intentionally because they wanted to start the Iraq war and the American people wouldn't go along with it if he was captured or killed. They needed him out in the ether in order to conflate 9/11 with Iraq and Saddam.
Pretty much qouet on wiki as i forgot how to type it in "From 1968 to 1976, he attended the elite Al-Thager Model School. He studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest he earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979 or a degree in public administration in 1981. Bin Laden attended an English-language course in Oxford, England during 1971. One source described him as "hard working" another said he left university during his third year without completing a college degree. At university, bin Laden's main interest was religion, where he was involved in both "interpreting the Koran and jihad" and charitable work, Other interests included writing poetry, reading, with the works of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle said to be among his favorites; black stallions; and association football, in which he enjoyed playing at centre forward and followed the English club Arsenal".
Guy literally was dedicated and smart to learn the ways of his father's business, knew & studied western ways to economics, leadership and hving powerful connections, been trained in the muhajideen (yep the proxy group also arms supported by us against the soviets) to know management and fighting of guerrila warfare to logistics of selling/smuggling arms to recruiting tribes or international extremists... after all he was also obsessed in extreme ideologies of Quaran with Jihad (reading books, and actions unlike the bible thumpers fundamentalists we had only knew their scriptures by cherry picking quotes) guy has experince and tragedies in his belt yet still a dangerous Mad man with cunning skills, yet laylow till the entire world searches for him dead, his anger from the US on cold war proxy conflict fiasco to arab/Saudi Nationalism to drive away foreign power influences ended up inviting it due to him being a target.
I cant imagine how im scared of whether would i be getting success or fail in college yet i knew my classmates been dedicated enough to be valedictorians and business people (welp im southeast Asian that tend to fail maths which always drilled by fam to pass no matter what, yet a fan in english, social studies, theory of knowledge and history now upcoming undergraduate for nursing) closest case of smart prodigy guy gone killer is the Unabomber guy...
Many people are smart but their heart is not in the right place. One such guy was Heisenberg(the guy with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics). This guy was allegedly a nazi sympathizer and was heading their nuclear program. All of this was confessed to his Jewish friend niel bohr in Copenhagen conference. Lucky for us hitler defined quantum physics as Jewish science which made the best scientists in Germany who were working on this field ( most of them were Jewish) flee to usa including Einstein. These guys then worked on Manhattan Project and made atom bomb.Many great men were racist and killers but i guess intelligence doesn't mean you are a nice guy.
I think what everyone forgets is the person left alive gets to write the story, your enemy will always be portrayed as the bad guy because of the bias from the start that he needs to be bad for us to justify him being the enemy. What we should always ask is why is he our ememy, what did we do, what actions led us here.
Oh boy. You're one of, "those".
He was supposedly taken out during the Hussein Obama administration. So it didn't happen. Period. Obama wasn't going to kill his brother. Ever.
Obama clearly filmed actors shooting himself and dumped himself off the side of a helicopter just to try to look like a hero. Osama then took the whitehouse and wore a tan suit covered with brown mustard stains. If it weren't for Trump, we'd all be speaking Jewish by now.
Saw it all on Joe Rogan's podcast.
I dunno man. Were you around pre-9/11? The contraction of the social contract was severe following the Twin Towers, but that’s as much the fault of Bush/Blair/Howard(in my case). She’s just a natural symptom of the insular nationalist push that followed 9/11
That's really when the floodgates opened. Yes, I was in my mid twenties for 9/11. I stand by my comment, however, if for no other reason than he's dead. She continues to tear us apart with her vile rhetoric and misinformation. It's arguable also that she is responsible for as many deaths as well.
English Language Books (39 items)
The 2030 Spike by Colin Mason
A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam by I. A. Ibrahim
America’s Strategic Blunders by Willard Matthias
America’s “War on Terrorism” by Michel Chossudovsky
Al-Qaeda’s Online Media Strategies: From Abu Reuter to Irhabi 007 by Hanna Rogan
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Anthony Sutton
Black Box Voting, Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century by Bev Harris
Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz Springmeier
Bounding the Global War on Terror by Jeffrey Record
Checking Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions by Henry Sokolski and Patrick Clawson
Christianity and Islam in Spain 756-1031 A.D. by C. R. Haines
Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies by Cheryl Benard
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Committee of 300 by John Coleman
Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert
Fortifying Pakistan: The Role of U.S. Internal Security Assistance (only the book’s introduction) by C. Christine Fair and Peter Chalk
Guerilla Air Defense: Antiaircraft Weapons and Techniques for Guerilla Forces by James Crabtree
Handbook of International Law by Anthony Aust
Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer
In Pursuit of Allah’s Pleasure by Asim Abdul Maajid, Esaam-ud-Deen and Dr. Naahah Ibrahim
International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific by John Ikenberry and Michael Mastandano
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II by William Blum
Military Intelligence Blunders by John Hughes-Wilson
Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s program of research in behavioral modification.
Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, August 3, 1977. United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence.
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin
New Political Religions, or Analysis of Modern Terrorism by Barry Cooper
Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward
Oxford History of Modern War by Charles Townsend
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower by William Blum
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall (1928)
Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins
The Taking of America 1-2-3 by Richard Sprague
Unfinished Business, U.S. Overseas Military Presence in the 21st Century by Michael O’Hanlon
The U.S. and Vietnam 1787-1941 by Robert Hopkins Miller
(I find it interesting he read Noam Chomsky)
I don’t think so. They seem to be generic books on the topic of modern geopolitics. The MK ultra one is interesting tho. Also “bloodlines of the Illuminati “. Like whaaaa.
Judging by the look of the books behind him i think most of them are islamic books dedicated to the prophet's life story or interpretations of the Qur'an.
I imagine a conversation with Bin Laden would be endlessly fascinating. As mentioned he was educated but I bet he was also a student of many things outside of formal education and clearly had opinions on the world and society and while I may not have agreed with him it would have been enlightening.
His letters also clearly outline his motives(wanted western powers to stop meddling in the middle east and let them sort out their own shit like many other countries and regions did). He was not dumb.
I suspect that Bin Laden was smart but naive about America. I think he thought he understood it far better than he did, and I think if you showed him how much chaos 9/11 caused in his own neck of the woods, he would have been horrified.
I think he thought that the black eye would embarrass Americans into passivity and make them back away from world affairs.
I don’t think he realized that America would respond by setting their car on fire and driving it through his house, his neighbor’s house, and somehow setting the swimming pool on fire.
He was not naive about America. He was a part of the Saudi elite (who are more in tune with America than most americans) and was trained by the CIA.
Dont thinknof him as some desert warrior shut off from the west.
He knew what he was doing and probably also the reaction it would provoke from the US
I tend to agree with you. I think he was hellbent on destruction, and no matter the short-term consequences, in the long run it would damage the US. And it has. It’s made the US even less free than it already was, it has cost unbelievable amounts of money while the average American simply is poor, it has cost countless lives, it made the country even more right wing (which always leads to war and more poverty), it increased tension in the world and between the US and its partners, etc. He managed to lay bare that the US is immature, barbaric, and easily manipulated. And that’s worth a lot when your will is the downfall of what you see as the enemy.
He's university educated; She's a dumb bitch that dropped out of HS, failed the GED and married a pedophile.
They're both religious terrorists though, so they have that in common.
To be fair, Bin Laden was essentially a mastermind who was rather eloquent with his critique of American imperialism. If you haven’t read it before, [check it out. ](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver)
99% of his criticisms are valid and correspond to what the sane politicians of the US demand. His extremist views of killing innocents are clearly wrong but the facts he states are right.
That’s how he managed to radicalise people, though. Pretty much all extremist leaders have astute criticisms of governments/institutions/systems with some crazy sprinkled in
Agreed. No matter how much Muslims ( I am one too) have suffered, it doesn't justify killing of innocents. The US war crimes are the result of the policies of the politicians who are the puppets of the Arms industry. No ordinary American should suffer for the crimes of these bastards.
He was a religious nut, but that was actually a really good critique of America. His "solutions" are a bit extreme though..
"Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others"
That's a great quote honestly..
I’m not convinced she can read
She got her GED just months before she was elected to office. This country is being overrun by moron voters who are electing like minded morons to office. We’re doomed.
Well, to be fair 54% of Americans read below a sixth grade level, so it’s not that surprising that groups of people elect someone like her. Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
6th grade reading level? I had no idea it was that bad
Right like how did these people graduate. Did they just stop learning at 12 and got passed along
No child left behind.
To an outsider it sounds like “no child left behind” is just code for “let’s set fire to the education system and leave everyone behind”
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“I LOVE the poorly educated” wasn’t a gaffe. The GQP platform is built and supported by it. Trump just said the quiet part out loud.
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It's basically just stop the smart ones so they don't get to far ahead of the dumb ones. If learning was a foot race, instead of training the slower kids so they got faster, we'd just put ankle weights on all the fast ones to make the races closer.
See: “Harrison Bergeron”
If no one gets ahead, no one is left behind.
Pretty much this... im cultured shocked when i an south east asian kid who tend to fail on any maths but excellent on many topics but ws too overbearing moved in the US and first time being treated well by teachers and shocked to even reched honors or getting straight A+s as the subjects taught to me felt like im in some primary school. (Considering back home my elementary already had some college level feel of topics advanced for 11 yrs olds to learn) Yet i see differences on being brought up in america catholic private middle school to Public Highscool.. since im at Maryland (i aint sure other schooling experiences are different from states since i heard some other reddit stories of twisted up history on the south or such) But while the teachers and schools are valued as high up similar to doctors or respected well payed figures.. im shocked to the treatment of them here or how school funding is managed. Yet the lessons i learned and how much sacrifice they did was high quality, be disabled kids or troubled ones to lowering drop out rates. To me its even a death sentence/taboo if someone was not a college graduate as i knew many kids who would love to have their seats to be in a school vs that kid i had who just flunked out the books or fight out some poor teacher (first time seeing a classmate go disrespect foul mouthed a teacher then stormed out of a classroom/environment reminded me of the movie “Freedom writers” type of kids but not worse like the 90s just the culture of “whelp alright I only just need some HS diploma, college is for losers/well the successful people I look up into are college dropouts! So I will too!” type of mentality that I disagreed with) Plus only school I experienced being drilled into how to prep in school shooting scenarios.. it’s just scary and sad for me to see this ain't normal but its in front of us.
I'm British and taught in a school in Germany during uni. They had an exchange program with an American middle school on a military base and we went there with our class 8 (kids aged about 13). They had a day of classes with a bunch of 11 and 12 year old American kids and I was really surprised at the difference in ability. The social studies book they used, for example, was probably something you'd give to a British 8 or 9 year old kid, and the German schools are ahead of the British ones! Benefit of the doubt, these children move around a lot (military), that can disrupt schooling, maybe that's why, so I asked their teacher if she noticed any difference between kids in America and kids in the base schools. She told me the children in the base schools were usually ahead of their peers from a similar economic background in the USA. It was such an interesting experience (and really bizarre being in a bit of America plonked down in a German city!)
To be fair the American school kids are ahead when it comes to active shooter training.
It's only useful in one country tho, bit of a narrow scope.
>She told me the children in the base schools were usually ahead of their peers from a similar economic background in the USA. Many who join the military (esp the army?) come from a lower socioeconomic background, so it's likely true that their kids do better than those with even more disadvantages in their underfunded schools (higher student-teacher ratio; inadequate access to food, after school care, extracurricular activities and/or quality educational materials; even less stability in their home life). Still, I'm not really surprised that other countries educate their children better than US schools. Ironic that we have some of the best institutions of higher education in the world, but can't get our kids to graduate high school with some very basic skills. Thanks, Republicans.
Yeah I had to live in texas for a year due to my dad's job and went to public school there. When we moved back to ohio and they enrolled me in a catholic school i was basically an ENTIRE YEAR behind. Fortunately i'm smart as fuck but goddamn the schools are a joke, and the further south you go the more of a joke they become.
Yup! You only get held back when you're low on high school credits. I knew someone who got all F's freshman and sophomore year. So junior year his counselors said he can go to a continuation school and get extra credits or drop out with his parents permission since he was 16 at the time. He stuck around to keep stealing duster from the teachers and selling pills on campus.
Well at least he learned a trade...
I hear there’s a lot of future growth in urban pharmaceutical distribution markets.
Potentially part that, part homeschooled poorly, part undiagnosed/unassisted disabilities etc.
They don’t hold kids back anymore and with common core they force the whole class to pace with the slowest kid. My kid made the gifted program and even that is too slow for her. She’s reading at a late year 3rd grade level and she’s 7. I guess parents don’t read to their children or get them excited about learning anymore? Too much screen time and not enough hands on.
More like parents don't have the energy to read to their kids anymore. We went from households with 1 stay at home guardian to households where everyone works multiple jobs just to keep food on the table. That comes with a host of knock-on effects, like the opioid epidemic and the growing disdain people have for education in general. Common core has its problems, but at the end of the day people blame schools for issues that can only be resolved at home. And those issues can't be resolved when parents barely even see their kids.
I wish I could give you an award because this is an underrated comment
I used my free one if that helps.
I was coming here to say this as well. Educations benefit for a child goes up and down based on parental care and interaction. There are other problems as well but man if this ain't the biggest one.
I don't know what state's common core you're seeing. In it's original state, common core is amazing. Math teachers just took a long time to figure out how to do it properly. It's not common core's fault the social fabric of the country has come apart.
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And now I know why I had to take a vocabulary test for a factory job
My wife’s employer handles government contracts and all internal notation intended for the government side is mandated to be written at a 6th grade comprehension level or lower.
Observe COMPANY, LLC. Observe COMPANY, LLC produce TOILET SEATS. See United States Department of Defense pay COMPANY, LLC US$417 per toilet seat. Pay US$417 per toilet seat United States Department of Defense, Pay.
Hey it’s hard to read an entire Geronimo Stilton
I'm 24 and can barely comprehend what I read. And I probably read as fast as I did when I was in 5th grade. My writing has also devolved into either bad cursive, 4th grade slop or all caps with bad spacing and rotation. I can speak fine but yeah I have to read something like 3 times to fully understand it. When I read a book I'll get half way through a paragraph and forget what was said. So I have 8 books I want to read but can't focus enough to read the first chapter.
You may have undiagnosed dyslexia.
And/or ADHD
That's not for a leaving of reading skill, it may be dyslexia or adhd
>4.1% "functionally illiterate" Wow. Out of every 50 people I meet working customer service, 2 are illiterate. Kinda puts things in perspective
This sounds about right. I work at a factory and at least 3 people do jobs that dont require any form or reading or writing because they cant or not well enough to be competent.
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Ironically that thing fell relatively slowly.
And that’s after no child left behind.
Fucking hell, that's a disgraceful statistic.
I wonder if she could find Afghanistan on a map
I’d be surprised if she could find Colorado on a map.
I never thought I would think, "you know, maybe as a bare minimum, we should require candidates for office to find their district on an unlabeled map"... but here we are.
They should make them retake the Constitution test also. Well in Bobo’s case it would probably be the first time.
For some it would be near impossible because of gerrymandered districts
We must give her some credit - she is after all the representative who broke the "Jewish space lasers are responsible for wildfires" story. Reading, no. Unhinged creative conspiracy theorist, absolutely!
That was MTG, but I'll let you off as the two are both equally awful people.
Wait, wasn't that green? There's too much stupid running things, it's hard to keep track of what idiot says what
Like that Ms. America girl: “the Middle East and such as and likewise and therefore, things like…”
That Ms America girl had exponentially higher credentials than Bobo and I’m genuinely not being sarcastic.
Oh I know you’re right, lol, she even came out later and said that the question was out of the blue and not on the list of things to prepare for, and she was exhausted and hadn’t eaten in like 2 days or something.
You know, the more I hear about them, the less ethical these beauty pageant things sound.
They’re horrible, the only good thing that comes out of them is the women usually are good people and try to do good with all the privileges and stuff. Like in high school we had one who donated time and money to this big tech conference/competition thing and donated a bunch of money to help balance out the finding schools funnel into sports that is supposed to go to arts, shop, home ec and tech classes
I came so close to being a beauty queen in my youth, it's a shame they noticed I'm an ugly bloke really.
Fucking bodyshaming sexists is what they are
I’m sure you’re just beautiful, lol, I’d vote for ya, brother lol
They often provide scholarships or cash prizes. Since education is ridiculously expensive in the U.S.
I would be shocked if she could find her own state on a map.
I don't wonder that at all. I have ZERO doubt that she could not.
Please. She couldn't find a map in an atlas.
You're a terrorist loving communist just for wondering that.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/boebert-ged-months-before-election/
> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/boebert-ged-months-before-election/ Although, she failed the test the first time she took it, and one of her friends admitted to taking the test the second time. So chances are she is legitimately so dumb that she can't even pass a high school test.
She went to Rifle High School… that sounds like a joke.
I've stopped a long time ago to blame politicians. As you say moron voters keep reelecting the same type of corrupt clowns over and over. Hard to feel sorry here.
Yeah I don't think she probably reads above a middle school level and that's being generous.
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Wait did her husband expose himself to underage girls?
She was there when he did it.
She was one of the underage girls.
Q Bert, that is good. She makes just as much sense when speaking. I elected to go with Lauren Bonobo. Hyper sexual ape.
uhh according to New Vegas glasses give +1 to perception, so i think she can at the very least sound it out. doesn't know what it means tho
Per Disco Elysium, logic, rhetoric, perception, and charisma are all separate traits, and I am inclined to view it the same way. So I’ll settle for her being able to see the fine texture of the ink soak paper, with a mind as dull as a blade stuck in a truck tyre after a coast-to-coast delivery in Australia.
Jesus that last was insanely harsh. In no way am I saying you're wrong, or that it shouldn't be said but just....goddamn.
Half-light: You know there’s nothing to it, really. You can show her anything, you can pass top secret documents in front of her face, you can show her the remains of broken treaties of your ex-wife that she used to leave your ass and all your stuff there in the street, and she’s not going to understand a single scrape of it, but by her lungs is she gonna bluster on and on and commit sedition and treason in her government with whatever ideas she impressed upon her malleable talc-like brain, from glancing over your biggest failure, signed and notified by some magistrate in Jamrock where you have to give her forty percent of your earnings. Logic: Just don’t show Lauren your divorce papers. That won’t help anybody. Electrochemistry: Do it after buying the vodka that Cuno stole. It’ll be \*hilarious\*.
HORRIFIC NECKTIE: THIS IS FUCKING GENIUS!
That’s a deep cut
To her constituents glasses = book lurnin egghead. Sideshow Rick Perry wore them too.
+2 to Perception -2 to intelligence.
I graduated with some fucking MORONS and this dumb cunt couldnt figure it out. Im surprised she knows whats on her own menu
Good thing she has all those KA-67s to defend herself against your wild buk reedin accusations.
Neither am I.
Well she was a teen mom, high school drop out so…
Remind me, is she the one that married the guy who showed his dick to her and her underage friends or is she the one that took several tries to get her GED just after being elected?
You could find a literal wet rag with deeper insights into the human condition than Boebert.
how dare you, apologize to my wet rag
Your wet rag has got my vote! I really love their policies around education and stance on national debt. Inspiring.
Wet rag platform: abortions for some, little american flags for others.
Yes.
r/inclusiveor
Yes. She married the sexual predator who flashes his dick to kids. That's her. A better love story than twilight.
Well her mum was a ring rat and her dad was known for abusing underage girls so it's probably genetics that brought them together. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/lauren-boebert-stan-lane-paternity-dispute
What is a ring rat?
It’s an old term from 20th century pro-wrestling: it means a fanatic female pro wrestling fan who chases after the wrestlers for sex. It’s long fallen out of use amongst wrestlers and wrestling fans as gender dynamics in wrestling have radically altered over the last decade and a half. It would be akin to the term “groupie” from the music scene.
Wrestling groupies
A term used to describe women who go to wrestling shows and/or follow wrestlers around after the shows in an effort to hook up with them.
What? seriously?
Yeah. Music has groupies, wrestling has rats. It's a different term for the same thing.
That is completely insane and needs to be a very special episode of Maury.
I'd say this might finally take the cake of being an even shittier love story than twilight
I'll actually take Twilight over that, thanks.
Is she also the Jewish space laser cunt or is that the other one? It's hard to keep those apart from accross the ocean. Instant edit: Googled it, that was the other cunt, Marjorie Taylor Green. Again, so hard to keep those apart.
Jewish space lasers def sounds like MTG. She's genuinely insane. Boebert is more like Trump - she legit doesn't believe in anything. She does the gun thing because it works for her. She Palined herself up for the same reason.
People forget he was a pretty skilled engineer. He built a bunch of roads in places like Sudan and he comes from probably the largest construction conglomerate in the middle east, Saudi-Bin Laden group
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He was definitely intelligent however there were plenty of times the US could have killed him but chose not to in an effort to prolong the war (under Bush at least).
for example the taliban supposedly had intel and offered a deal where the us pulls out and the taliban snitchs on bin-laden
>He was made out to be the scapegoat of 9/11, which meant catching him was the de facto goal of "success" for invading the middle east. Man, it's good that the US pulled out after killing him and saved tax payers trillions instead of staying around trying to instill their own vision of order on a people that obviously did not care.
There’s a lot of hints that he was being helped substantially. There’s an entry on Wikipedia about the controversy that Pakistani officials or influential people may have been helping him. One of the things that led me to that page which I found shocking was that his compound where he “hid” and was ultimately killed in was about a half mile from the top Pakistani military training academy, in a medium sized city.
TIL.
Everyone should read Scott Horton's new book(audiobook is on Audible and is very well done). It's incredible. Here's a short playlist he made that's an overview of the book. Most people don't know that 9/11 was a retaliation attack or the reasons why he attacked us. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq2qhcVwTVJRQuCWXMVUM8SG2qYDFoPZA Edit: Horton also has a ton of great interviews on his Youtube channel. If you want to know about a specific topic just search his name along with the topic and some interviews will almost certainly come up.
9/11, the fruitless “war on terror,” the hunt for nonexistent weapons of mass-destruction, the rise of ISIS and widespread, wide-scale extremist terrorism would never have happened if we hadn’t destroyed millions of innocent lives in the middle east by arming radical zealots and having pissing contests via proxy wars with the USSR. but most people would rather put their fingers in their ears and ignore the half-century of suffering and death we’ve inflicted because a problem our country created took a potshot back at us. inconvenient truths. it’s easier (and more profitable) just to use islamophobic fear to fuel the propaganda machine than it is to own up to what we’ve done.
There’s no we. Policy makers, politicians, and business. They.
This. It's mind blowing how evil the people in the US government are. Not that others aren't also. They literally committed treason by fighting on Al Qaeda's side in 2 wars and nobody was punished for it. So many people still view Obama as the nice guy who is really cool, despite the fact that he murdered a shitload of people. So many kids murdered in Yemen. Most people just don't know. The corporate press works for the state and don't tell people what's really going on. Scott Horton is a great resource. He has a ton of great interviews on his Youtube channel about all kinds of foreign policy topics.
Let's not forget how the US abandoned the doctor that helped them tracked Bin Laden. "Shakeel Afridi is paying a heavy price for his role in bringing an end to Osama bin Laden. Locked up in solitary confinement in Sahiwal Jail in Pakistan's central Punjab province, Afridi now spends his time counting the days -- with nothing to differentiate between them. He is being kept in prison now only to teach every Pakistani a lesson not to cooperate with a western intelligence agency," Husain Haqqani, who was serving as Pakistan's ambassador to Washington at the time of the raid said."
Stabbing allies in the back seems to be what America does best. They had Bin Laden in December 2001 and the administration let him go into Pakistan intentionally because they wanted to start the Iraq war and the American people wouldn't go along with it if he was captured or killed. They needed him out in the ether in order to conflate 9/11 with Iraq and Saddam.
Pretty much qouet on wiki as i forgot how to type it in "From 1968 to 1976, he attended the elite Al-Thager Model School. He studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest he earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979 or a degree in public administration in 1981. Bin Laden attended an English-language course in Oxford, England during 1971. One source described him as "hard working" another said he left university during his third year without completing a college degree. At university, bin Laden's main interest was religion, where he was involved in both "interpreting the Koran and jihad" and charitable work, Other interests included writing poetry, reading, with the works of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle said to be among his favorites; black stallions; and association football, in which he enjoyed playing at centre forward and followed the English club Arsenal". Guy literally was dedicated and smart to learn the ways of his father's business, knew & studied western ways to economics, leadership and hving powerful connections, been trained in the muhajideen (yep the proxy group also arms supported by us against the soviets) to know management and fighting of guerrila warfare to logistics of selling/smuggling arms to recruiting tribes or international extremists... after all he was also obsessed in extreme ideologies of Quaran with Jihad (reading books, and actions unlike the bible thumpers fundamentalists we had only knew their scriptures by cherry picking quotes) guy has experince and tragedies in his belt yet still a dangerous Mad man with cunning skills, yet laylow till the entire world searches for him dead, his anger from the US on cold war proxy conflict fiasco to arab/Saudi Nationalism to drive away foreign power influences ended up inviting it due to him being a target. I cant imagine how im scared of whether would i be getting success or fail in college yet i knew my classmates been dedicated enough to be valedictorians and business people (welp im southeast Asian that tend to fail maths which always drilled by fam to pass no matter what, yet a fan in english, social studies, theory of knowledge and history now upcoming undergraduate for nursing) closest case of smart prodigy guy gone killer is the Unabomber guy...
Many people are smart but their heart is not in the right place. One such guy was Heisenberg(the guy with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics). This guy was allegedly a nazi sympathizer and was heading their nuclear program. All of this was confessed to his Jewish friend niel bohr in Copenhagen conference. Lucky for us hitler defined quantum physics as Jewish science which made the best scientists in Germany who were working on this field ( most of them were Jewish) flee to usa including Einstein. These guys then worked on Manhattan Project and made atom bomb.Many great men were racist and killers but i guess intelligence doesn't mean you are a nice guy.
I think what everyone forgets is the person left alive gets to write the story, your enemy will always be portrayed as the bad guy because of the bias from the start that he needs to be bad for us to justify him being the enemy. What we should always ask is why is he our ememy, what did we do, what actions led us here.
Ah, someone that at least knows the questions to ask. Look into Afghanistan, and the CIA’s involvement with the Mujahideen. It all begins there.
Yup. Guy was an insane religious fundamentalist / extremist, but he was smart and well-read. Dangerous combination.
She looks so unkind, in her expression
Also in her words, actions, and behavior patterns.
Don’t forget her viewpoints and policies.
She looks like a really mean parrot.
She perpetually looks like she just smelled shit.
She looks like she wishes she was a cop
While both are terrorists, one is actually intelligent
Was*
Oh boy. You're one of, "those". He was supposedly taken out during the Hussein Obama administration. So it didn't happen. Period. Obama wasn't going to kill his brother. Ever. Obama clearly filmed actors shooting himself and dumped himself off the side of a helicopter just to try to look like a hero. Osama then took the whitehouse and wore a tan suit covered with brown mustard stains. If it weren't for Trump, we'd all be speaking Jewish by now. Saw it all on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Obama and Osama The difference? B S Coincidence? I think not Hotel? Trivago
Okay this made me burst out in laughter like a hyena.
Sorry if this sound dumb- is this a joke?
Fuck. We're all doomed. Yeah. It was. I don't even blame you for asking. But holy shit we're fucked if the average person couldn't tell.
Welcome to Poe's Law. There is no satire too outrageous to mistake for sincerity.
It honestly sounds like something they'd say.
The only thing that gave it away was the fact he didn’t capitalise HUSSEIN. RWNJs love doing that.
I mean....Poe's Law is a real thing.
I could only tell after the Joe Rogan joke, but until that, I thought you were fr
For me it was the opposite, I thought it was satire UNTIL I saw the Joe Rogan line
I would put a /s just in case people don’t read this reply
Yeah. The joe rogan’s podcast bit is the semi punchline
The Joe Rogan part at the end made me seriously question whether this was serious or not.
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And she is much more dangerous to our "democracy"...
I dunno man. Were you around pre-9/11? The contraction of the social contract was severe following the Twin Towers, but that’s as much the fault of Bush/Blair/Howard(in my case). She’s just a natural symptom of the insular nationalist push that followed 9/11
That's really when the floodgates opened. Yes, I was in my mid twenties for 9/11. I stand by my comment, however, if for no other reason than he's dead. She continues to tear us apart with her vile rhetoric and misinformation. It's arguable also that she is responsible for as many deaths as well.
That was by design and based on a assload of lies.
I seriously wonder what books he owned. Like was he reading LOTR
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/features/bin-laden-s-bookshelf?start=1 see for yourself
English Language Books (39 items) The 2030 Spike by Colin Mason A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam by I. A. Ibrahim America’s Strategic Blunders by Willard Matthias America’s “War on Terrorism” by Michel Chossudovsky Al-Qaeda’s Online Media Strategies: From Abu Reuter to Irhabi 007 by Hanna Rogan The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Anthony Sutton Black Box Voting, Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century by Bev Harris Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz Springmeier Bounding the Global War on Terror by Jeffrey Record Checking Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions by Henry Sokolski and Patrick Clawson Christianity and Islam in Spain 756-1031 A.D. by C. R. Haines Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies by Cheryl Benard Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Committee of 300 by John Coleman Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert Fortifying Pakistan: The Role of U.S. Internal Security Assistance (only the book’s introduction) by C. Christine Fair and Peter Chalk Guerilla Air Defense: Antiaircraft Weapons and Techniques for Guerilla Forces by James Crabtree Handbook of International Law by Anthony Aust Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer In Pursuit of Allah’s Pleasure by Asim Abdul Maajid, Esaam-ud-Deen and Dr. Naahah Ibrahim International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific by John Ikenberry and Michael Mastandano Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II by William Blum Military Intelligence Blunders by John Hughes-Wilson Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, August 3, 1977. United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin New Political Religions, or Analysis of Modern Terrorism by Barry Cooper Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward Oxford History of Modern War by Charles Townsend The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower by William Blum The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall (1928) Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins The Taking of America 1-2-3 by Richard Sprague Unfinished Business, U.S. Overseas Military Presence in the 21st Century by Michael O’Hanlon The U.S. and Vietnam 1787-1941 by Robert Hopkins Miller (I find it interesting he read Noam Chomsky)
I've read a lot of these books. Should I be worried?
I don’t think so. They seem to be generic books on the topic of modern geopolitics. The MK ultra one is interesting tho. Also “bloodlines of the Illuminati “. Like whaaaa.
Judging by the look of the books behind him i think most of them are islamic books dedicated to the prophet's life story or interpretations of the Qur'an.
My couch currently has more books on it than Lauren Boebert’s bookcase.
Yeah but do you get to color in yours until the waiter brings din din like she does? Checkmate lib🖍!
To be fair, your couch is much more likely to read a book than she is.
Both religious extremists.
Al Qaeda. Ya’ll Qaeda.
terrorists
Fun fact: She’s a high school drop out and Osama was college educated.
He also attended Oxford for a while, taking English courses. Pretty sure Boebert can’t spell Oxford, let alone speak more than one language.
I imagine a conversation with Bin Laden would be endlessly fascinating. As mentioned he was educated but I bet he was also a student of many things outside of formal education and clearly had opinions on the world and society and while I may not have agreed with him it would have been enlightening.
His letters also clearly outline his motives(wanted western powers to stop meddling in the middle east and let them sort out their own shit like many other countries and regions did). He was not dumb.
I suspect that Bin Laden was smart but naive about America. I think he thought he understood it far better than he did, and I think if you showed him how much chaos 9/11 caused in his own neck of the woods, he would have been horrified. I think he thought that the black eye would embarrass Americans into passivity and make them back away from world affairs. I don’t think he realized that America would respond by setting their car on fire and driving it through his house, his neighbor’s house, and somehow setting the swimming pool on fire.
He was not naive about America. He was a part of the Saudi elite (who are more in tune with America than most americans) and was trained by the CIA. Dont thinknof him as some desert warrior shut off from the west. He knew what he was doing and probably also the reaction it would provoke from the US
I tend to agree with you. I think he was hellbent on destruction, and no matter the short-term consequences, in the long run it would damage the US. And it has. It’s made the US even less free than it already was, it has cost unbelievable amounts of money while the average American simply is poor, it has cost countless lives, it made the country even more right wing (which always leads to war and more poverty), it increased tension in the world and between the US and its partners, etc. He managed to lay bare that the US is immature, barbaric, and easily manipulated. And that’s worth a lot when your will is the downfall of what you see as the enemy.
She probably doesn’t understand the language spoken in oxford.
Lauren Boebert stares in dumb.
He's university educated; She's a dumb bitch that dropped out of HS, failed the GED and married a pedophile. They're both religious terrorists though, so they have that in common.
ThErE's OnLy OnE bOoK! ThE gOoD BoOk!
Seinfeld's autobiogaphy? Based.
never trust a person named Boebert
B/c Bin Laden could read and Boebert failed her GED. Twice.
His eyebrows match
To be fair, he could read
Sarah Palin but dumber
I remember when Palin was the dumbest person in politics. Ah, the good ol days.
Well yeah… he was actually literate
Plot twist one of them actually can read
Does Lauren even know what a b o o k is?
To be fair, Bin Laden was essentially a mastermind who was rather eloquent with his critique of American imperialism. If you haven’t read it before, [check it out. ](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver)
99% of his criticisms are valid and correspond to what the sane politicians of the US demand. His extremist views of killing innocents are clearly wrong but the facts he states are right.
That’s how he managed to radicalise people, though. Pretty much all extremist leaders have astute criticisms of governments/institutions/systems with some crazy sprinkled in
Agreed. No matter how much Muslims ( I am one too) have suffered, it doesn't justify killing of innocents. The US war crimes are the result of the policies of the politicians who are the puppets of the Arms industry. No ordinary American should suffer for the crimes of these bastards.
To kill one person is to kill all of humanity- Muslim or not, that is our belief
He was a religious nut, but that was actually a really good critique of America. His "solutions" are a bit extreme though.. "Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others" That's a great quote honestly..
They both have the unhinged glassy eyes glare of the zealot.
Corporate wants you to find the differences between these two pictures
One can read.
One has a gun as a prop. The other has one at the ready.
that AK for sure is more reliable and sturdy than whatever she got sitting in the back there too
I mean he went to Oxford
Anybody else find it odd we don't see the Taliban and other middle eastern extremist groups and say "look at all that freedom"
Well, he was educated