I don’t understand why there hasn’t been more of a response to his remarks (that I’ve seen anyway). I was appalled when he said it, but it seems like people are either ignoring it or trying to explain it away.

It’s a portmanteau for “boring moron”

Aw, they saved you some!

You’re completely delusional. Once he got his tiny hands on that money it would never see a pocket other than his. Anyway, I’m sure that there are more than a few that would be happy to continue doing the job without pay, as long as they can keep swaggering around in their jackboots.

They had some pretty decent painkillers available - Opium, morphine, laudanum, cocaine, ether, chloroform. Aspirin too, technically, but that was pretty late in the game if we’re staying Victorian.

We shouldn’t have let her back in the country after her visit with Trumplestiltskin

We had to give up entirely on affording a house. There are ROOMS for rent at $1200 here. This used to be a low COL area until COVID. We had low infection rates so a ton of people moved here and we don’t have the infrastructure to support them. We’ve been priced out of what living space we did have and since there’s still the illusion it’s cheap to live here, it’s almost impossible to get a living wage.