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    Secretary of Education - that would be Linda McMahon: politician, business executive, and former professional wrestling promoter.

    Jesus Fucking Christ no wonder the world laughs at us. “You want I should teach dem skools a lesson, boss?”

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    Bro how out of touch with your colleagues do you have to be to not know it’s AI. Have you literally never heard someone around you talk about it? No one on TV? You’ve never said it aloud to someone who corrected you?

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      Apparently she started out saying AI, then switched to A1 mid-statement. Might have been corrected privately before, but it only partially took.

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    Considering Vince McMahon didn’t know what a burrito was, I’m not particularly surprised.

    Madigan told PWTorch editor Wade Keller: "It’s one of these stories that always repeats itself. I think the idea was they were trying to work an angle with Big Show and - like Andre (the Giant), here’s a guy who is so physically big and physically imposing - what can you do to get over on Big Show? And how are you going to do it?

    "I think they were going to poison Big Show and give him a spiked burrito. The whole concept was: ‘We’re going to spike his food, spike the burrito, you cut to a vignette before that showing him eating it, and then he passes out in the ring.’ So, Vince goes, ‘Burrito?! Who the hell knows what a burrito is?’ It was such a far concept. And everyone in the room goes, ‘Well, we know what a burrito is.’ And Vince goes, ‘Well, where the hell have I been?’

    “But, the funny thing is, Wade, every day at noon, Vince’s secretary would walk into the office - the writing room - with a burrito. It was a steak-wrap cut in half. And he would put ketchup on it. Every day, he was eating a burrito and not knowing what it was. But, that’s the idea - when you’re in a bubble and in a business where you’re ostracized from society, it’s you and them, that’s it. Everyone else is an outsider, so things like that do make sense in the confines of the wrestling world.”

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    People seem to be missing the one positive piece of news here: She’s literate!

    The only person who would make this mistake is someone who read “AI” in an ambiguous font. I know it’s a low bar, but this means that the secretary of education is able to read.

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    The law firm I work for has been tracking his EO’s, and we’ve had to put a disclaimer on our pages this week because WH office staff keep putting the wrong articles under the wrong URL’s and we don’t want our clients to think it’s us making these stupid mistakes.

    He’s literally just hiring his stupid pals and firing competent workers.

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    Linda McMahon, part of the McMahon crime family accused of sex trafficking and other such crimes.

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      Who has an obvious cuckold and exhibitionism kink which she displayed in front of the world and recorded it.

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          Yes, kinks done nonconsensually that involve a child audience, where the kink itself involves ageplay, should be shamed 100%. Kinks that lead to the dismantling of our government deserve shame.

          Just like the straight politicians who fuck men and make being gay illegal should be shamed. These aren’t the actions of gay men btw, they are the actions of straight men (per them) who repress their sexuality. Straight cis men (and women) who repress their sexuality make up the majority of MAGA because that’s what a ton of MAGA is inherently about. The entire MAGA party is about sexual repression and enacting their kinks compulsively and nonconsensually.

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            I am not accepting a word of that without some evidence and to be honest I don’t care enough to read anything you come up with.

            Take care.

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                Maybe lead with the evidence instead of being self righteous next time if you want a good faith conversation.

                Have fun with your civil war 'merica.

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                  What I referenced is well known. That you didn’t know and couldn’t nicely ask for a link says more about your intellectual narcissism and beliefs than anything.

                  Further, I curse you to live as you treat others. May your country have a civil war too. May you experience everything you callously celebrate in others. Have fun with your curse.

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    She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.

    She has the job because she’s on their side.

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      We have the wife of the world’s most famous pro wrestling promoter, who someone gave the title of Secretary of Education. You may ask why the the wife of the world’s most famous pro wrestling promoter is Secretary of Education. As in, that is a question that may be asked.

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        Trump was also deeply involved in WWF, which also happened to be an entertainment venture which pioneered the idea of wide-scale, public cognitive dissonance for profit.

        It was frustrating for some of us when we were kids and we were yelling at our friends that “professional wrestling” wasn’t real and they didn’t believe it, they wanted with all their heart to believe in the storylines and dumb drama, because it was engaging to that part of some people’s brains which desperately needs to follow narratives to make sense of the world. It seemed fucking insane that people would believe that a real sport could have people with swords and black-magic, we were like “What is wrong with this person that they can’t reason through this??”

        But we let it go, because it was “harmless.” It was just a silly show, what harm could it be if some people really wanted to believe in it?

        But we should have all taken notice of that specific phenomenon because it’s a profound window in the human condition and how far along we really are in evolution. We’re not a rational, reasonable species, we’re animals that formed brains during a million years or so of ice-ages and desperate survival. Our brains are designed to tell stories to explain what we feel, and the brain will readily, greedily latch onto a provided story. The brain is not reasonable or logical, it’s just a story-telling device. And we’re not at all immune to cognitive dissonance no matter how intelligent we are. There are countless people who believe one thing and know another and it doesn’t interfere with their reasoning or life at all.

        If we’re not taking control of the stories being consumed, the stories consume us. We might all feel a lot smarter than people who get sucked into WWF or MAGA, but we’re also vulnerable to emotional appeals, fear and hate. I’ve seen plenty of it masked with progressive values, but far more rationalized. We need to be on better guard, we need to understand the nature of our actual enemy. It’s people pulling puppet strings with stories and emotions and it CAN be countered.

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      Not really. We have a random, completely unqualified person cosplaying the role of SoE. Basically their job is to do nothing except impede any sort of progress. We have one of these in every department now thanks to King Cheeto.