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Merry Christmas to me. I was pretty freaking naïve as to how confusing, time-consuming, and exhausting the hiring process works. The teacher shortage is real enough but there's no need at all for Social Studies teachers in Florida. Believe me, I tried. I got certified to teach Social Studies but those jobs get filled quickly. IT was when I got certified to teach math... BOOM! ... immediately ... that's when not just the emails and phone calls were returned, but headhunters appeared. Lions aside, 2023 has been a total sh*t year for me. For most of it, I took a job driving a wheelchair access van because it came with a vehicle. Strap people in and take them to doctors appointments or therapy mostly, but also grocery stores or the bank or the movies. It didn't pay much and I continue to not be getting any help since my wife's green card application has been held up for 11 months and counting. When I'd finally saved enough to buy a car, I switched to substitute teaching, which I can only do in Michigan, Florida has the program to put veterans into classrooms and is why I'm moving there. Been living with my sister, getting government assistance - so thank you taxpayers. I despise relying on the system and I wouldn't need it if they'd just process my wife's green card, who is anxious to get to work. She's a shoo-in once they get to her application, she entered legally, she's been married to a US citizen for seventeen years, and has three American citizen children, but the backlog is incredible. I'm rather proud of my kids. The three are all straight A students, including amazingly my son, who has turned everything around after being wrecked and confidence destroyed in the Chinese school system. He's also on the JV wrestling team. His sisters had thrived in the Chinese pressure cooker system which has now put them light years ahead of their peers (except in English), the youngest is only now getting on par in English. My oldest has already surpassed her classmates in English too, let alone everything else, she's loaded up with AP classes despite only being in 10th grade. She's absolutely amazing across everything: academics, art, sports, (looks too). So, anyway, when school re-opens again after the Christmas/New Year holiday, I'll be in the western Florida panhandle, teaching eighth grade math.

My life is weird in many ways. I don't have a lot to be thankful for, l have lost more than most could bear.....more than any good man should. I struggle to find meaning in it all. There are things that keep me going....things that I cling to that keep me sane. Those are the lifesavers. There are other things though. Little things. Things that put a smile on my face or make me laugh...intangible things that make the difference between a bad day & a good day This place, believe it or not, is one of those things. Whether I'm just reading or responding, there is a comfort that this place exists. As effed up as that sounds....getting your a$$ handed to you when you are down by a group of internet misfits or jumping on a douchenozzel just to feel good.....can get you over the hump. I don't know, maybe it's the anonymity in it all. Whatever it is, I'm glad it's there. I wish all of you a merry Christmas & happy holiday.....and fock off.....

There’s nothing finer on this planet and then some good old fashion cyber bullying. I am personally glad you’re here for it. Now go fock yourself.

Is there a single issue that the leftist bastards propose which does not involve the destruction of the family and individual rights and the advancement of a more powerful unchecked centralized authority. Concentration of power in the hands if the elites is all they care about.

Gotta love liberals. Biden puts millions of black men in prison with the Crime Bill... Trump basically gets them all out by passing the Criminal Reform Act, then Biden pardons them all (even though they're not in jail anymore), and he's the hero. That's ignorance right there. Democrat is racist, does nothing until his acts are remedied, and he gets applauded!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I fundamentally disagree with the politics of so many of you guys here but you seem like good people nonetheless (most of you anyhow- there are a couple of folks I kind of dislike, but that’s a pretty small number.) So here’s wishing everyone of you and your families a merry Christmas and good holiday season and happy New Year. Hope everyone stays healthy and that your lives are good.

Wordle 919 4/6 🟨 🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Two yellow vowels. That's all I was working with. Amazingly, despite this, when I started to actually look for the word, it came to me rather quickly.

Ha. I mentioned a death pool on fbg once and got a suspension

I don't want to get too specific because what happened between Rusty and HT has me spooked, but I'll be tucked just under Alabama and voting to re-elect Matt Gaetz come November. ------ Florida's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida, covering the state's western Panhandle. It includes all of Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa counties, and portions of Walton county. The district is anchored in Pensacola and also includes the large military bedroom communities and tourist destinations of Navarre and Fort Walton Beach and stretches along the Emerald Coast.

Over the years, Putin has made some poignant and reasonable assessments of the situation in the west, actually lamenting the decline and us not living up to our ideals and moral standards. I found them to be remarkable accurate. Obviously, I could never warm to him though for various reasons: lack of democratic reform, he'd been in a couple of smaller border wars, assassinated dissenters in western countries, and friends with some sh*tty international players. Really, he's an astute observer with an outsider's take of our situation with really amazing insights that resonate. The man is an autocratic despot but he really hits themes that are compelling and to me, him and his mentor/colleague/spiritual Sherpa Alexander Dugan really hit like the 2020s version of Alexis de Tocqueville, if you're familiar. I'm trying to find a youtube video but it's difficult to locate. What I'm looking for is maybe 5+ years old and everything I search for is in the last two.

Ten years ago, I thought I was a centrist. Now, I'm far right and all these looney toons leftwingers are claiming the centrist mantle. OK then, color me far right, I don't care. The left labels everything and everbody that disagrees with them far right, alt-right, racist, Nazi, homophobe, whatever. Slap me with those too. Those words, like "women," "justice," and others have all been hijacked by cultural lunatics and no longer mean what they meant ten years ago. They can label me with whatever they want. Yeah, keep telling us we're all Adolph Hitler, Richard Spencer, and David Duke fans over here and fock right off.

We’re glad you’re here. I feel the exact same about your thoughts as do many others here. ️

Merry Christmas Nomad and hang in there, there is still joy out there for you to find.

Any time, probably wouldn't be a lot different if he was in the game from the looks of things

Merry Christmas. It’s a shame we have FBG immigrants here now, I wish them all a shittry new year

Merry Christmas, brother

You know I love you brother, but stop doing parlays. How many have you hit 3 out of 4 and been screwed? 3 out of 4 straight plays equals profit.

What your wallet little baby Jesus!

Father Trump is seeing squissy is very naughty. Very naughty

FU to people who start complaining about their players before halftime. Those folks deserve 0s from said players.

It seems like Putin had Crimea before this latest invasion, didn’t he? And it hasn’t helped him much. It amazes me that so many conservative/maga types want to admire Putin as some sort of genius. You guys are constantly rooting for him, want him to succeed. I just don’t get it. The guy is a stone blood killer. Why on Earth would you cheer for someone like that? Reminds me of all the leftists in my youth that kissed Fidel Castro’s ass all the time. All these socialist types, like Maxine Waters and Bernie Sanders, would take these trips to Havana and tell Fidel how brilliant he was. It was really nauseating and embarrassing. This is the same thing.

Nope and even some Republicans are saying there is no there there.

You’re so full of sh!t. It’s not a game and has never been a game to me. I firmly believe that more open immigration is what’s best for this country. But we’re facing an emergency.

Pct of black votes for democrats last three elections : 97, 93, 90. This is why the democrats need to bring in illegals. They have to replace the voters they are losing. And suppress wages on behalf of the corporations and oligarchs that own them.

Merry XMas! I hope Geeks spend a happy and healthy holiday with their friends and family.