This is a really interesting question. I hope you crosspost it elsewhere so it gets the coverage it deserves.

It might. Nancy Reagan did a 180 on HIV when one of her friends developed AIDS.

Dear god, what was the worst?

Price gouging and usury weren’t enough. Now they want protection money.

I never did like the “bullseye womprat” logic.

Yep, it was the API thing that finally did it for me, but looking back, I should have seen it coming after all of the other stuff.

You know what? I was thinking of CBS. Sorry, ABC.

Hasn’t ABC been toeing the line recently? Are we sure they’re just not broadcasting what might be an embarrassing disaster?

I, too, am waiting for the other shoe to drop.

This is the demographic that put Linda McMahon in charge of the Department of Education. While that might not have a direct bearing on this situation, I feel like it speaks volumes about intent. They’re “laying the smackdown” on education as an obscene, tribalistic, conflict fantasy. I doubt the legislators actually care how this goes. The point is that it’s a story they can show their base, so that their supporters feel like their group is winning. It’s a perspective fundamentally detached from the nature of education in a functioning society, which is fundamentally collaborative.

I think you’re right that they’re breaking stuff. They’re also effectively selling tickets to watch the drama.

Exactly. They’ve failed to prove more than a handful of cases in the entire country, which is less than citizens illegally voting, that number including a few politicians. If we’re going to start nailing people to the wall, perhaps we should start from the top.

My house had all these unused calories, so I set it on fire. Now it’s getting warmer than I would like.

As an example, a roustabout’s shift, usually goes from Trump O’clock to Trump O’clock. When that child collapses, the next one covers the remainder of the shift.

All 8 of them will be “Trumpday.”

Is that you, Tim Burton?

I would have guessed Shyamalan, but a Tarantino interpretation of The Sixth Sense would be interesting.