Yeah, the right-sizing for being responsive ends up at head nodding from those who are primed to believe the speaker, or at “dissolve any government above the community level” for being pointless.

No, being able to later reasonably point out that it’s the individual state governor’s faults, and that they at the federal level expected them to do better for their own people, is what they’re counting on.

Must you send onion cutting ninjas to my desk?

yep

It’s... ridiculous that my first thought was, at least he wasn’t jailed for three years first, like at least this other guy.

Knowing rote answers and not really believing them to be literally true is... kind of what some schools of religious teaching are all about, so it’s not much of a stretch to think that there are those that will do the same for other schools and classes.

Ayup

Except for Twintelle, for some reason...

... I guess it’s more violent games and/or TV-MA stuff now?

Assisting in isolating image... hopefully this works properly.

K-Drama!

Hey now, when did martial artist/master get dropped from the list? Did that start with Kung Fu? I bet it started with Kung Fu...

So accused shoplifters should also be subject to psychiatric holds for suicide watch? It’s not like the one charge will go away if one doesn’t immediately try to kick them out of the country. Due process, yay!

Yep, they hire the children and family members of the one or two children they pick up out of poverty and enroll into their charter schools.

That fig leaf covers just enough for you, great.

This... sounds like she was romanticizing indentured servitude?

For the audience that makes it to that point, the next line of faux-reasoning to be fed in is that those people take and keep low paying jobs, keeping wages down, since otherwise those jobs would increase their pay to attract the currently unemployed citizens. That is, that they hold the job prevents the invisible…

Different question, who’s going to execute their declaration? Does that mean the gatekeepers at the voting booths can selectively send a person down to town hall to get a notarized document, or refuse to elaborate on what executing a declaration means?

I don’t know if he was shocked by the response. His resignation letter sounds a bit more like he was disappointed in some section of his flock, and an admonition and reminder to them all.