One of the younger cousins shouts "Osama Bin Laden" and everyone under 35 laughs. It made my Christmas getting to insert that little red pill under the radar!
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This makes me happy. It pisses me off how so many people don't know the difference between a representative and a senator, how many senators there are per state (2 per state = 100 total), how many total representatives (435 + the non-voters like DC and the other territories), what the 3 branches of government are, why it matters, how long a senator serves per term versus a representative, and all of the other stuff I thought was standard knowledge. That's not even including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the amendments, and all of the other founding documents.
I would say it is baffling, but I know it is on purpose so the government doesn't have to worry about the generations after Gen X (and some millennials) knowing that what the government is doing is wrong and illegal. I saw a trivia game show the other night where one of the questions was "How many US Senators are there?" and they got it wrong. How the hell did they even pass the qualifying test just to get on the show? They of course knew every pop culture question though...
Yeah, my wife can't socialize with these other women trapped in the matrix. Most of them all got the shots and gave us crap about not also getting injected. They certainly know what's going on with the latest show on Netflix, meanwhile we've never even had a subscription.
My middle boy was in that same civics class when Turkey got hit with that massive earthquake in 2023. My boy asked the mostly asleep teacher if he knew what HAARP was. The teacher didn't but said he'd look into it.
👆 Proud dad moment. 😉