Five Jokes: 5-1-2024
Online FAFSA Glitch Update, NYPD, An Environmentalist Win, The Reclassification Of Weed, and Republican/Democrat Stats
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The education secretary said the new FAFSA application form — which was plagued by delays and glitches this year — should work fine for students applying next year — despite reports of him muttering, “If there is one…”
New York police arrested dozens of people on two campuses Tuesday night. By the looks of this photo, they did so by improvising to the suggestion: “Ants that just discovered a slice of cake.”
In Chile, a businessman agreed to sell the “Yosemite of South America” to his adversaries — local environmentalists. So… safe to say the their covert plan to “wear suits to the meeting this time,” panned out.
The Biden administration is moving to reclassify marijuana. That’s right, marijuana now has a fancy hat!
Finally…
According to an NPR poll, Democrats fear fascism, while Republicans worry about a lack of values. And according to the free algorithm I plugged that information into to sound smart at a dinner party, the only solution is someone called The Monopoly They/Them.
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