Was that one of those books that the RNC buys all the copies of to make it look like it’s a bestseller?
Looks like they learned from L. Ron Hubbard. Or Mad Magazine’s “New York Times Tactical Buying Squad” from their “Paperback Publisher of the Year” interview.
Not to mention the fact that being a Senator probably makes it a bit easier to find a publisher willing to take on your manuscript.
So a member of the ruling class says the system is set up to benefit the ruling class? I guess he’s honest, at least.
People are saying that what you speak of is merely the way to gain entrance to the facility to participate in the ritual.
Does the ritual itself involve a goat and a straw?
People are saying that you are quite correct!
I can understand someone dropping out of high school. From there, I can understand someone taking the GED. And I can even understand someone failing the GED, once. But then, once they realized the level of difficulty and effort involved, I would expect them to either get themselves in gear, and make a concerted effort to prepare for the test the next time. And I can’t understand how anyone who made an effort to prepare for the GED could fail it. How does one even fail the GED four times? It’s not even stupidity: If she were genuinely just stupid, then she would have special ed accommodations. She’d have to be deliberately tanking it, or something.
She really can be that stupid. Have you had the misfortune of hearing her speak?
Here I’ll let Chelsea Handler comment…
I’m enjoying the picture that sprang immediately to mind on reading this (of Ted Cruz crouched in the back room, sobbing).
In real life Ted is much more likely, if he found himself magically teleported into a Starbucks barista job, to tear off his name badge and angrily demand at full volume “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM???”
But I still like that first mental picture.
Another RepubliQuack backpedaling on birth at conception [at least on his website, down deep, he’s still into owning women’s bodies]. Seems to be sucking him down the drain polling badly. Also, what’s with the spastic haircuts?
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That something, no doubt, is simply never preparing for it.
If Ted Cruz thinks giving people money (stent loan forgiveness) gets votes, why doesn’t he sponsor a bill to forgive all student debt? Promoting universal health care? Other things the majority likes? Then Republicans would get all the votes.
OK, I can even comprehend (not agree with, of course, but comprehend) someone taking the GED test the first time, failing, and concluding “Well that test is just way too hard to be worth it; I’m not wasting any more of my time”. Such a person would, of course, not prepare to take it again… but they also wouldn’t take it again. It still doesn’t explain why any person, or any even vaguely person-like thing, would take and fail the test repeatedly without ever preparing for it.
It’s rather simple, just like how simple the person under discussion is. She believes that she’s smart, smart enough to prove to those America-hating liberal radical communist socialists who created the GED program in the first place that she doesn’t need to prepare for their silly little test. The repeated failures, of course, were not her fault; they were the fault of the aforementioned libs.
As long as there is no squid. Squid+Goat is copyrighted.
Are there any cites for the multiple GED failures? As near as I can tell, that’s just made up, possibly because she took a “four course review” before she passed the GED at 34. She’s still a dim bulb, but I like to keep my facts straight.
I will now share my story of the Kansas written motorcycle test. I moved from Minnesota, where I had a motorcycle endorsement. When I went to get my KS license, they asked if I wanted to get a motorcycle endorsement there, also. I didn’t have a bike or plans to get one, but thought “sure, why not. Plus, I’m an ace test taker and how hard can it be?”.
Hard enough that I failed it, and I think maybe badly (it’s been 35+ years). They said I could retest in a week, and, not one to let some stupid standardized test defeat me, I took the offered pamphlet, went home, scanned for the questions that were on the test (good memory for that sort of thing), went in to retest and the bastards have (at least) two version of the test. Yeah, failed it again. Went home, studied the damn pamphlet and got 100%. Haven’t driven a motorcycle since, but I did move the endorsement over to Missouri when I moved here (no test there, apparently they don’t care).