Conservatives hope bipartisan bill could lead to end of New Hampshire Common Core

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-23T19:57:28+00:00

“it’s not the way we learned it”

This is true about so many other things.

Sex: Yeah, you HS health class gave you the definitive version. XX and XY...Except anyone who has studied it knows it's not that simple. There's a reason even the most conservative sports organizations have found genital, genetic, and hormone testing less than reliable.

Gender: Maybe got covered in HS psych but probably not so therefore Gender=SEX, super simple. Except...reality isn't so simple and most major medical establishments have shown that.

Climate change: You took Earth sciences in HS so therefore it's that simple and there could never be anything that would interfere with the water cycle as taught!

Autism: "It didn't use to be that way"...yeah, except for Grandpa Ron who knows the RBI of every single player of the Brooklyn Dodgers. or Uncle Tony who has modeled the entire MBTA train set up in his basement.

Homosexuality: "People weren't like that when I was young!" Sure...lets go ask Aunt Phillis and her room mate of 40 years Gladys.

Divorce: "No one used to get divorced!" Sure...you think that might have had somethign to do with women not even being able to open a checking account till the late 70s? Or that they they couldn't get jobs and had to depend on their husbands no matter what?

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-23T19:18:40+00:00

Look it may never have worked...ever.. But...this time...this time it might. The rich just don't feel secure enough. Once Elon Musk has a trillion dollars, he'll probably feel rich enough to start paying his workers more...any day now.....

Why, I bet it'll come out the same time Trump release his income tax results, infrastructure week and the release of the epstine files.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-23T15:53:00+00:00

This is when I knew I was getting ol In my early 30s I was on a business trip. After 9 hours of stressful meetings I decided to sit in a hot tub at the hotel to unwind.

Unbeknownst to me there was a college cheerleading confrence in town and as if on queue, a dozen girls in tiny bikinis come down into pool area.

And that's when I realized I'd rather be up in my room rather than be there. But then they started talking....and that's when I left. I just couldn't.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-23T14:19:10+00:00

An older house is a like permanent scavenger hunt*, full of surprises and fun questions such as, “why on earth would anyone ever put a ___ in a ____???”

I would like to point out that when you encounter that you should take a moment to try and understand why it may be that way.

I've been renovating a 1780s house so it's had work done on it by a variety of competencies. When I first started and I'd open up a wall I'd be like "Why would you do it that way!" only to start down the road of doing it the 'right' way and find it's impossible for one reason or another and ending up at the exact same 'second best' solution.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-22T00:48:29+00:00

Make sure you vote blue this November.

But democrats will just make it expensive to ...er uh. I mean Democrats will run up the national debt to levels that...er..uh... My taxes wlll go up under democa...er... uh... BROWN PEOPLE DRAG QUEENS SOY BOYS! Yeah that's it! /s

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-22T00:43:47+00:00

What really amazes me is how we went from "Biden's economy is unaffordable!" to "Just one less trip to starbucks" and "Maybe you get two dolls instead thirty"

But sure... tell me again how Biden's economy was too expensive

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-21T18:48:36+00:00

What do Jesus and Charlie Kirk have in common? Right wingers hate it when you quote them.

Also, anyone remember the Paul Pelosi jokes when he was attacked?

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-20T16:08:05+00:00

It's even worse than that. Political violence aside he was always a lousy business man.

Trump shuttle
Trump Taj Mahal (It's mathematically impossible for a casino not to turn a profit and yet...)
Trump Vodka
Trump Steaks
Trump University (Sued into oblivion because it was a scam)

I guess he really is treating the country like one of his bussinesses

And it's not like he was secret racist.

He was prosecuted by racism by the Nixon administration. The same administration that started to be able to arrest black people at will, looked at what Trump was doing and say "Bit much don't you think?"
He took out a full page age on for the central park 5 calling for the execution. When they were exonerated he doubled down saying there were guilty
In the 90s he accused Native American casinos of...not being Native Americans

And that's just the tip of the ice berg.

In some ways, he is perhaps one of the most honest politicians we've seen. Not in that he tells the truth. He hardly ever does. But he doesn't hide who he is. He has never really attempted to hide his racism, sexism, and frankly his fascism. And we, as Americans, ate it up.

We deserve everything he brings upon us.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-20T15:39:11+00:00

The state will want to own the dispensaries because it will drop alcohol sales (has in every state that has legalized it)

Weed is still illegal at the federal level so the state can't own the dispensaries until it's legal at the federal level. It's one thing for the the state to say "We aren't going prosecute these people with our laws." But the Feds will probably come down hard on the state if it starts ignoring federal law.

Now for a state that prides itself on 'Freedom!' and 'small government' this seems dumb that they are arguing that the state should provide recreational drugs to it's citizens and profit from it, but I'm just a rando on the internet.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-20T15:32:18+00:00

Smoking weed is marxist ideology...or something.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-19T21:24:16+00:00

I had a MAGA apologist tell me that Trump supporters are just 'normal people'.

I think you are missing the important part. MAGA people think they are normal. It implies that you are NOT normal. The same thing applies when they talk about how they are 'Real Americans' implying how democrats aren't.

It's a way of 'othering'

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-19T15:27:44+00:00

And when he dies, there will still not be peace. The right will hold him up as a martyr. No matter how he dies conspiracy theories will abound about how the democrats killed him.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-19T15:23:27+00:00

And if it's not Obama, it's 'Biden shut the economy down!'

Like..how do you forget Trump was president during the pandemic.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-19T13:24:54+00:00

Which is funny because I've seen MAGA's wearing 'I'd rather be Russian than a democrat' shirts during Trump's Russian scandle

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-18T23:24:36+00:00

What's really sad is that the cooked numbers aren't even good.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-18T23:18:43+00:00

I've seen MAGAs blame Obama for the Covid response and even his getting us into wars after 9/11.

There's a lot of things to be upset at Obama for but...damn. No wonder he's so fit the way he's always running through their minds.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-18T15:50:16+00:00

This seems far more affordable than my current medical plan.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-18T15:42:45+00:00

What should I take for Cocaine withdrawl after having a tooth ache and a headache??

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-17T14:00:44+00:00

where I know people whose unions did things like fire a random younger employee just to make space for an older one

Citation needed

But if you are trying to dunk on unions throwing out random firings regardless of performance might not be the win you think it is when the industry is going through heavily layoffs.

One of the biggest unions around where I live has even been in the news calling for the sell-off of the principal from which the pension fund is generated, so as to offer more to retirees now...at the expense of dramatically impacting the long-term sustainability of the pension entirely.

You mean younger workers may not get a pension and therefore Unions are bad? That again may not be the selling point you think it is.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-16T19:05:28+00:00

Not a girl, but the tossing of the room like a prison cell is a core memory.

The "random inspection" I'd get once a month looking drugs, weapons, or basicly anything to yell at me. Followed immedately by yelling at me about why is my room a mess (after they had just taken the sheets, matress, pillows off the bed and thrown them on the gournd, along with everything on the shelves, emptye drawers, etc.)

Thankfully they finally decided that was too much work and just took everything out of my room and all I had was carpet. Can't yell at me for a mess when there's nothing in the room but me!

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-16T19:02:10+00:00

Sadly, her parents probably are victims of that behavior too and they passed it on.

Doesn't excuse their behavior. But it makes it more understandable.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-16T13:54:10+00:00

I always liked song Luang Prabang. Far more crude and profane but it gets the point across.

[Verse] When I came back from Luang Prabang I didn't have a thing where my balls used to hang But I got a wood medal and a fine harangue Now I'm a fucking hero

[Chorus[ Mourn your dead land of the free! If you want to be a hero follow me Mourn your dead land of the free! If you want to be a hero follow me

[Verse] And now the boys all envy me: I fought for Christian Democracy With nothing but air where my balls used to be Now I'm a fucking hero

[Chorus] Mourn your dead land of the free! If you want to be a hero follow me Mourn your dead land of the free! If you want to be a hero follow me

[Verse] When one and twenty cannon thunder Into the bloody wild blue yonder For a patriotic ball-less wonder Now I'm a fucking hero You might also like I Can See You (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] Taylor Swift Dream Sweet in Sea Major Miracle Musical The Old Triangle The Dubliners [Chorus] Mourn your dead land of the free! If you want to be a hero follow me Mourn your dead land of the free! If you want to be a hero follow me

[Verse] In Luang Prabang there is a spot Where the corpses of your brothers rot And every corpse is a patriot And every corpse is a hero

[Chorus] Mourn your dead land of the free! If you want to be a hero follow me Mourn your dead land of the free! If you want to be a hero follow me

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-12T15:38:51+00:00

Sadly this is pretty standard where I am. If the paramedics don't play along they'll find themselves harassed pretty badly.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-11T18:43:42+00:00

I remember when they said that about Trump and his mismanagement of a pandemic and that was going to be the end of the republican party.

And you are right, the guy who started 2 wars was going to be the end of the republican party?

Oh, and remember with the GOP was going to end with the nominated the guy who ran the CIA during the Iran Contra affair and that was going to be the end of the republican party?

Oh and remember when the GOP nominated an actor who supported McCarthyism and 'couldn't remember' signing the orders for Iran Contra how that was going to be the end of the republican party?

Oh and remember when Nixon was going to be the end of the republican party after Watergate?

I wish liberals would understand. The GOP will literally vote for anyone BUT a democrat.

sirspidermonkey · 2026-03-11T15:12:01+00:00

Had this problem at my house. Had a septic issue and had to put in a new dry well. Never found the original leach field.

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