It’s supposed to be for better or for worse. Lately it’s just been better if you’re a red state that refuses to invest in education and worse if you’re a blue state that actually generates money from your educated and well-paid citizens. Enough is enough.

Can you imagine the increase in American literacy rates and decrease in emissions?

Because the former is legal, and the latter can be handwaved away.

While I like the comparison, that’s giving Theoden over there a lot of credit.

As with most people in that position, they’ve been fucking over people for so long that they’re terrified of someone turning the tables on them. Hence gathering ungodly amounts of wealth and insulating themselves from the world.

That was fucking insane. I remember being dumbfounded to learn that the clearance agency had fired all of the investigators from that contractor, only for a new contractor to rehire them all and win the contract to process clearances again. Horrorshow.

In my experience, if you’re white, male, and have a semblance of your shit together, you’ll be done in 6 months or less. I’ve seen minorities stuck in the process for years, despite having the squeaky-cleanest of records. (On the flip side, I heard a rumor that someone in the building recently got their reinvestigation processed successfully despite having recently received their 3rd DUI…) The exception to that is if you’re in the military, as the government will have a record of anything you’ve ever done, and if you’re an officer then you probably already have a clearance to begin with.

Ostensibly because the presidential election is the one that they really cared about this time around.

Remember that her brand of conservative is always projecting. She assumes that everyone is as compromised as she and Gaetz and the rest of the merry band of morons is.

Now? Yes. I’m tired of the moral high ground.