The two “Valley” orgs seem to be competing for the title of “Most Deluded Valley”:
Silicon opens the bidding with an announcement that on 2 August, THEY will be announcing the beginning of world clearing.
Wonder what all those other orgs that are telling people that they ARE Clearing the Planet think about this? Isn’t every “ideal org” already clearing the planet for real? And so is Flag with Sooper Power…. These guys are a day (decade?) late and a lot of dollars short.
But running neck and neck with them in the crazy stakes is the “valley girls” Valley:
These guys have a lock on how GAG II has made building Ideal Orgs faster and more certain than ever….
Would LOVE to hear their rationale for this. All existing public put back in the microwave to be warmed over on Student Hat, Purif and Objectives just doesn’t seem to be going so well. And it’s strange that since GAG II there haven’t been any new Ideal Orgs other than Taiwan — which had been announced 10 years ago and was fully funded by the IAS. Must be talking about the “ideal’ AO’s? Though only two of them are done… And their public are just not getting the message about GAG II at all.
But then the Silicons fired another shot with this:
She is entering this into the annual Shermanspeak Writer’s of The Future competition in the category of most cliches in a single paragraph. Her opener is a doozie.
But then she goes on with some theory about body, mind and spirit that is a new take, AND she coins a new noun in scientologyspeak: “the renovations Fundraise”. They also apparently have the “floor planning Fundraise” both of which come after the “building Fundraise.” Her third paragraph is simply unintelligible.
She has also coined a new verb: “do your next status” which sounds pretty cool.
This is tough to top, but I think the Valley Girls may have pulled it off for this episode with this:
I just think it is hard to top that opening line. It’s a masterpiece. Super Theta Valley Ideal Illusionists. You have to admit that it fits well with this illusory ideal org.
But then the cherry on top is the reference to the Super Rockstar Goddess-OT Princess Warrior Royal Governor (aka Bart Simpson). I made up something like this as a joke in one of my earlier posts, but it was not as good as this.
We will turn this into a regular series.
I think Bart Simpson won this round.
Who is going to win the Wacky Race Of The Valleys? The Silicons or the Valley Girls?
Kool Aid Brigade I meant, maybe I should re do the SH LOL
According to the kool Aid briage the GAT II training is” WOW 10 TIMES FASTER”
So When I did the Student Hat it was a two course of Fdn Hours each week which was evenings and weekends times 2
Total of 33 hours this means they do the course in 3.3 hours?
The tapes are longer than that and these pricks have to listen to them twice.
As usual the sums do not add up so they still do not know how to study as basic arithmetic is still out.
Score after the first round:
Illusionist Warriors 1, Fundraise 0
“She is entering this into the annual Shermanspeak Writer’s of The Future competition in the category of most cliches in a single paragraph.”
I would like to obtain tickets to the awards dinner. Can you hook me up?
And I just thought of another Morgue – Buffalo, which has also apparently learned nothing. They’re probably blaming themselves too.
I keep injecting what are essentially my own explanations and excuses into this situation because Its tough for me to confront how beaten down these people are, but I have to stop that. The answer is not complicated. They really are very far down, that’s all.
I want, I really want, the Super Theta Valley Ideal Delusionists to make their fundraising targets FAST so that their new building gets renovated or whatever very quickly, so that it opens very quickly. And I want the stats pushed successfully so that there are plenty of staff when it opens so that Pottymouth really has something about which He can brag at the appropriate event. I want Valley to achieve everything they say they want, everything COB told them at the MV that they need to achieve, and VERYquickly. Let them have a huge win on this, I say.
Then, when the place opens, with all of their conditional and operating targets fully met, and all the stat-pushed-created staff in place, then, when no new people come in – Div 6 is empty, and Div 2 has some people redoing their Purifs or Objectives, and there are a few on GAT II auditor training, but the org is actually limping, because there is no new blood – THEN these Delusionists will (I would assume) HAVE TO wonder, “Wassup with this?” We did everything right! We did what COB said to do! Where IS everyone? What seems to be the trouble here?”
See, these idiots – so long as they don’t have an Ideal Org, so long as the org isn’t renovated, so long as they don’t have enough staff, so long as they don’t have this, or don’t have that, so long as they don’t HAVE something they’re told by COB they MUST have, then not having whatever it is they don’t have IS their excuse for an empty org. And, of course, all of us here know that these are wrong whys.
So I want them to have everything they want, everything they think they must have FAST because the sooner they get these things and STILL don’t make Clears and Releases and STILL don’t train auditors, is the sooner they’ll cognite that perhaps some other factors need to be addressed and handled before their big, beautiful new org can get down and actually fullfill its purpose of being an auditing and training factory. That’s when they’ll start querying and searching for answers outside of The Bubble. (LIke, for example, that Corporate Scientology’s PR is toxic.)
That’s my theory, anyway. Maybe I’m being naive. Maybe the staff will still blame themselves even after doing everything “right”. Sigh.
Hmmm…
Unfortunately, just down the road, the Pasadena Illusionists have sort of disproven this theory.
True. I doubt that Craig & Sally learned anything from the Pas Org that is down the hill from where they live…
I hear you, Mike. And so has the Ideal Morgue in my area. Oh, well…
Aquamarine -I feel your pain, but I believe Mike and others are quite right. Darkness and empty rooms followed the achievement of Ideal status in Pasadena and nothing changed. The delusions simply moved from one room to another, but never left.
I believe what drives the kool-aid drinkers is something much deeper than new tables and chairs. Scientology registers with beings at a fundamental level. Somewhere beyond hope or need of change and continues to resonate with them as long as there is some aspect of the original subject still remaining – even if it’s just symbols. It takes something this fundamental to keep Reality at bay; to keep people believing when all objects of that belief have been proved false.
No, even the Valley Org reduced to ashes and burning embers will still enthrall some.
Something of equal import has to happen to them to offset their original passion or love for the subject. Something that proves to them that Scientology – and all its potential – is really dead within that Church. Then their eyes will open, an empty hollow feeling will grow in the pit of their stomachs and Reality will collide with their delusions, shattering them for good.
Odd
Also, I hope I didn’t offend anyone by sharing my own opinions on organized religion. Didn’t Frank Sinatra say, “I’m for whatever gets you thru the nite.” That’s my viewpoint on religion and philosophy.
I would like to originate that as amusing as it is to me to read stuff like this, it also make me kind of paranoid from a PR standpoint of being linked in any way to the Corporate Church of Scientology. Actually, it is an incentive for me to come out so that its on the internet for anyone to see if they do a search on me; “People, please know that I may have been fooled for a while, I admit that, but for some years I have had NOTHING to do with this group.”
Honestly, I wince now at the concept of anyone linking me to people who speak and act this way and soon I am going to need my own version of a D/A pack, because when I joined up with this group it wasn’t because I wanted or needed a religion.
I’ve always disliked and mistrusted organized religion. Some of them do very good work for poor people and so forth and that’s fine and I would even contribute to those works but I still wouldn’t want to be officially connected. Organized religion is fine for anyone who benefits from it but every last one of them, at best, embarrassing and at worst, harming under the guise of help.
I’m into workable philosophies that can be applied to improve conditions in life, and I don’t care where they are from. I can cherry pick from the Bible, the Koran, the Talmud, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Tao, the Secret, and definitely the various works of L.Ron Hubbard. If it works, if it can be applied, I’m good to go!
Well, I have obviously gone far afield on this comment with Mike’s indulgence and will now return to the topic at hand.
Aquamarine, I feel the same. I don’t EVER allow my name to appear alongside anything to do with Scn on the internet. It could be detrimental financially to me to be linked with that insanity. I let the “church” know about 10 years ago how I felt about the scam. I also communicated to most of the Scn’ers I was then in contact with my position.
Oops, I should add that the Executive Directive essentially forbade the little odds and end donos, like for a Sunday Brunch, some reference books, etc.
Yes, well, thank goodness management stopped the ruthless misappropriation of parishioner money.
Gotta figure out ways to open up them money coffers. The fundraising game really trickled down to ridiculousness circa 2007. It took all of two years to start figuring out they needed to unify the various zones to get at that money. Once we used to be able to ask parishioners for donos for little odds and ends needed that just didn’t get covered in FP in our org. We could justifiably do this because of the good will we generated taking care of people. Can you believe there was once an issue that was an Executive Directive that forbade unapproved fund raising, around 2010 or so?!?
So, the game is now to take that “good will” and make a business with it. Sick, really.
“…our Super Rockstar Goddess-OT Princess Warrior Royal Governor’s team…”
Is someone at Valley Org stealing your material, Mike?
And maybe just give up on the central files thing. Such a major waste of time. Do they think they’ll find prospects they don’t know about? 99% of those names are useless anyway. It’s really about time to just start a brand new computer data base. ( Not that it will help today). Really. We don’t need telexes and rooms of file folders anymore. Besides, it’s such an unhealthy activity. So many cobwebs and mold. Save it for Halloween. Be pretty scary. Blindfold some folks, play scary music, and have them walk through the file folders room.
The Valley Girls won me over with the “MATCH GAME” concept of throwing your money away “with verve!”. I was reaching for my wallet on that one.
It’s so funny. Especially when LRH says “no fundraising, solve it with Scientology”, and “give no importance to buildings”. But I guess Miscavige knows better. I suppose if Nancy Cartwright was to become aware of these things, that she would probably self combust. Or weave a labyrinth of justifications to not-is it.
Just browsed through a bunch of your posts Mr. Rinder. Haven’t been “in” for a long time and it is simply mind blowing how these “OT’s” are deluding themselves into thinking that there is something worthwhile happening vis-a-vis Scn or “OT”. These numbskulls (OT’s) are less able than 90% of the “wogs” I deal with in business. Funny in a kind of slo-mo, train wreck sort of way…
Thanks for the informative blogging.
I think the fact that a) both Kathy and Kathie have the same hairstyles from when I remember them and b) the infamous CF Filing Backlog project is still not a done after four decades and c) they are still using paper files for storage systems pretty much says all you need to know why the aroma of decaying desperation reeks off the page.
All I can say is Wow! Eyes wide open and mouth agape. What the flying fuck are these ladies smoking? Years ago, I had a friend who I played JV football with. He disappeared off my radar for a while and about 18 months and 300 hits of acid later, I met him again, standing on the corner of 71st Street in Boro Park, Brooklyn. He looked great, seemed happy — until you starting talking to him. It was like conversing with the Cat in the Hat and the Tasmanian Devil, all rolled into one. Individually all the words seemed correct, strung together, nothing but gibberish.
That experience showed me that the human mind is a delicate instrument and to fuck with it indiscriminately, is evil. These women, despite their demeanor, their words of “enthusiasm and good intentions” are actually quite evil.
They are deliberately disguising malevolent deeds and intentions in pretty pony words and thinking all is well in Oz. It ain’t Dorothy.
What’s the old adage — the road to hell is paved with good intentions. A wonderful play on words.
There’s a small, dark and disturbingly rank corner of Hell reserved for IAS regges and evil minions such as these. Where the Devil holds court and can be found administering all the “pleasures’ himself. Nothing but the best for those who do it so well.
Odd
The 2.8 millions so far raised have already been spent in lawyers to calm the cascade of lawsuits on the Church.
It never ceases to amaze me the delusion these members have been falling into without knowing that they are really being duped and ripped off. The shock will be huge once they realize the truth of the matter. And then they will be speechless.
I see why a threat of disconnection is a real one for these people. All of their friends are sucked up in the do-loop of scientology. They have no outside friends.
If they come in contact with anyone outside, their zeal and enthusiasm for dissemination would require them to try to sell the cult. Wouldn’t it be ‘counter intention’ to keep quiet about their so-called ‘religion’? Aren’t they supposed to be trolling for potential selectees?
Anyone not in the cult would accurately decide they are nuts and wouldn’t have anything to do with them.
Don’t these idiots ever look around the room and realize they just see fewer and fewer of the same old faces?
“Don’t these idiots ever look around the room and realize they just see fewer and fewer of the same old faces?”
No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. …
I’m completely at a loss to understand how they get even one new person to join at this point.
Ok, so you build an endless nr. of Big Buildings, then you play around with the Central Files till somebody says it’s done, then you Staff it up with people who have no life of their own, and THEN What???
Bridge progress?
I have my doubts, but it seems very busy, and very lucrative for some somebodies.
Seems like a LOT of prep for a simple, “THIS IS THE SESSION !”
But, of course, it’s the”Beginning of World Clearing” !!!
GAG II has been out about 8 months, I think.
Didn’t DM tell all his people that it was the new beginning of massive growth?
From the desperate tone of most of the information, (actually it is just word soup) coming out of the bubble, it doesn’t look like they have any expansion – quite the opposite in fact. It is interesting watching the fail from the outside. I wonder how and when the bubble will collapse – one big bang, or just go quietly into the night.
With Nancy giving so much money, her next step is to be declared SP.
Only if she runs out or refuses to give.
Or whines about it and someone overhears it. That will likely only cost a few intensives of sec checking and then…………… a few hundred thousand in amends!
I’ll bet you OSA goons can’t wait for her so start in with the BIs. Why don’t you drop a one liner like “I can’t believe she is making the poor Valley public pony up with their own money …..she has enough she should just pay for the Morgue ( I mean Org, I know you guys wouldn’t slip up like that) and be done with it.”
We know you losers are thinking about it, why don’t you grow a pair and say it?
Very funny – and will quite probably happen sooner or later!
Dear Kathie and Kathy – your B for “Bold” Team will shortly be (if not already) the B for “Broke” Team. To add insult to that injury, even if you get that building up to COB’s specs, you are not going to get the public to come in because the Church has a terrible reputation. The obstacle to your aims is not the lack of a building. Its the lack of credibility. The Church’s PR flaps are in screaming affluence.Try to think why that might be.
Well, that “Try to think…” is an optimistic one, way beyond…
I especially like the 1200+ seats available for the police, firemen, clergy etc. that are knocking down their door! Poor, deluded Valley Girls.
Yeah, I spotted that too – the only time the firemen will be knocking down the doors of the Valley Org is when they’re putting out the fire Miscavige started in order to collect the insurance money on the place.
I vote for Marliese. Truly world class gibberish.
All this money inflow and NO PRODUCTION (as in zero, nil, fart city,etc)
equals a bubble. News Flash , Bubbles “POP”
IAS and Idle Orgs donations scams makes the South Sea Bubble look like something from the washing up of dishes.I wonder if they will ever appear in history books in the same way that the South Sea Bubble does?
World clearing ? What a pile of daveshit. Wake the fuck-up Valley and grow a pair!
Lens-flare over a planet is a badly over-used effect in Scientology publications. They even used it when they were trying to fake an Anonymous video.
Substitute the word “Ideal” with “Extinct” and you have a more realistic message.
Clearing the Planet was once something I appreciated .. thought that learning Scientology would be a way to the wish .. learned then that postulating an enemy is the wrong way .. did not like that .. my critics on the works of LRH made me than also an enemy .. my critics to staff too ..
My critic was, that I had always to think like LRH .. and further, that nobody will ever reach the targets of Clear and OT which such stuff as presentet as a solution ..
If everybody on this planet would say at the same second ”Yes” or ”No” or ”fuck” or whatever .. it would clear the planet suddenly .. agreement .. but the church forces agreement to stuff which is simply untrue ..
Same ol´ endless begging for money and giving nothing in exchange. Do these people never feel embarrassed or ashamed of having been reduced to simple beggars by their Church of Scientology? “Clearing the planet” by begging. What a joke! Regular people out in the real world shake their heads in disbelief, when they hear stuff like this.
It just goes to show how utterly naive, gullible and STUPID even intelligent people become after x number of years in Scientology.
My God am I glad I´m OUT and no longer have to put up with receiving crap like this together with the endless phone calls consisting of nothing but more begging and telling me what to do!
I am so thankful for the assholes who ripped me off and made me finally wake up and smell the coffee and start thinking for myself. I cannot even begin to explain the relief I feel being out of that insane asylum. The strange thing is, while I was in, I had no idea that that was how i really felt. I think I stopped feeling and thinking altogether and mostly just chirped along with all the other birds in the choir. I had become someone who I am not! I had turned into an uncritical pleaser – and THAT is what Scientology lives off!
Spot on Birgit! I had a similar severe reality adjustment and the event was so contrary to my values it snapped me out of it right then and there. For that I owe a thank you to the perps who pulled it off. And I had the opportunity to thank them for it in person. When I did so they thought I was being 1.1! I was so far away from that tone, having embraced the freedom that comes when you finally throw off the mental shackles that you attach to your analytical mind when you buy into Daveshit, that it was like the ep of the best OT level imaginable.
I KNEW I WAS FREE OF THEM! THANK YOUs GO OUT TO:
Jasmin Arrellano – Flag MAA
Kathy True – OSA Bot
Mike Sutter – Daves Boy
Marion Pouw – Daves Girl
Russ McKevitt – Prisonwinds Lackey
Samantha – Freewinds MAA
Lori Daniells – Ex SO and Ex sister-in-law
Rod Daniells – Ex SO and ex brother-in law
Adam Daniells – Ex SO Cl IX – ex nephew
The IAS Staff & Crew and all the perps that tag along for the scraps
A special thanks to the feckless Howard the Coward Becker and
Dave the dildo Miscaviage ….for being who you are.
There are a few others but this covers the key thank yous that are in order as part of my Sunday morning ‘back to reality’ show which I put on for myself! Cheers to all you apostates out there. The Cult is standing in waste deep shit (you know the variety) and the tide is coming in!
Cheers Cooper. Love your stuff.
Ditto Coop….cheers!!
Love the read here, Cooper. There are reasons/persons to be thankful (for).
There’s a distinct lack of exclamation marks. Are these rubes low-toned or just sensitive to the mockery of the critic community?
Dear fellow readers,
unbeknownst to all of you, a “Mission into Ideal Orgs” has been sent out.
Under a keyboard of a sleeping S.O. Elite member a vital piece of lost LEH Tech has been re-re-discovered.
As you know per the hidden verbal data line, LRH once stated somewhere, somehow:
“…You own the earth. You the Scientologists are the ones the planet obeys…”
In a superconfidential supersecret GAG III piloting, the following “Super Ideal Havingness Process” has been put to a harsh one-time-only test.
The rest of us in RTC wants to be understood literally on that
(the other other one never came back from this mission…)
1. Go into an “Ideal Org” of your choosing
2. Run this GAG III Super Ideal Havingness process on yourselv(es):
“Look around and find what Ideal Org you could have today?”
3. Repeat command until YOU KNOW YOU OWN THAT PLACE…
(all applicable definitions of “own” apply)
You think it is being kidded here?
NO! I does increase havingness and
YOU CAN REALLY HAVE AN IDEAL ORG FOR YOURSELF NOWADAYS!
(…ok, ok…the CF you will have to share with the rest… but otherwise it can all be yours!)
PS: And when leaving the Ideal Org please do it with style and IN-PR!
PPS: PLEEAASSEE DO IT! GET YOUR CONFRONT UP AND LISTEN TO THE STAFF IN THE ORG.
GET YOUR BASIC COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS INTO USE – YOU WILL HELP THEM BY LISTENING.
IT’S HEARTBREAKING WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE NOWADAYS BY SIMPLY LISTENING TO YOUR
FELLOW HUMAN BEING. AND PLEEAASSEE ACKNOWLEDGE APPROPRIATELY. PLEASE DO IT.
PSSSSST, GAT 3 lost tech is T.V. Evangelism,
So give your money now, phone lines are open and celebrities are
waiting for your calls.
Dianeticist – “One who set out to use more than 10% of his mind.”
Scientologists – “One who realized that there is Nothing in the first place.”
Ideal Org Blahblahblah – “One who is less than a Dianeticist and Scientologist combined.”
I find it amazing that the blurb in the brochure/email or whatever it is is talking about having 279 seats for students amongst other similar numbers-related blurb. It would undoubtedly be nice for them to actually have the number of students that will sit on these seats but they don’t exist as the Church has decimated its own field with the donations and other scams let alone the out-tech in the HGCs and course supervision. And the students would only really be there as potential marks for the IAS Regges, in reality (“auditing”, “auditors” – we just want patronized patrons!) Be great to have a photo of their current Academy and how many students are (really) in it – 4 if they are “lucky”? But – AFAIK their field is decimated. We see a classic case here of “altered importance”. I wonder if INT Management has actually read the Data Series or – had “auditing”, you know – that “thing we used to do decades ago but is now old hat”.
No mention of the wins of pcs and preots. No mention of well trained auditors. No mention of their bridge accomplishments, only silver humanitarians. Don’t bother auditing anyone or word clearing a bogged student, that’s way too much work. These people are utterly and completely off the aims and original purposes of Scn. They should be ashamed of themselves for the continued financial rape of the public.
Oh, Hallie Jane, wins of PCs & pre-OTs? Well trained auditors? Bridge Accomplishments? Auditing? Training? Wording Clearing? Seriously, what are you smoking? That is sooooo 1980s!!! Get with the program, HJ, or get to Ethics.
Soooooo sorry OSD!!!!!!! I’ll get my check book out and save myself by paying for my forgiveness and earning “Miraculous Plutoniumness” status. I’ll glow in the dark and others will wilt in my presence. (smokin’ hot) I might even understand Shermanspeak and Daveshit at that point because you know how you make case gain from giving your money away. I’m so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An “all ideal Los Angeles ” ….. one reels with tense excitement and euphoric rapture at just the thought itself as skid row dissolves into bright new condos for the poor and the gangs give up their guns in brothethood…. it’s like a new Disneyland being built in Iraq ….. (San Francisco on the other hand has ALWAYS been ideal by the way …. except for the high rents of course …)
So they are like zombies for miscavige…in the valley?
Is one of them from the door knob fundraiser?
They sure do love their numbers don’t they? 279 chairs? That’s quite an exact number. What I want to know is how many bowling pins have been knocked down in the fundraising thus far and how many doors and door knobs have been funded. With the money her Rockstar Princess Governor has given I expect there to be a solid gold door somewhere with the initials NC engraved into them.
What the heck is WRONG with Bay Area Scientologists??? I just KNOW there are some who still have positive bank balances and/or equity in their home they can borrow against or some free space on a credit card or two … so come ON you out ethics slackers …. I wanna see EVERY freakin’ last dime you got put on gettin’ this clearing thing started … and I mean NOW!!!
No donations, no Central Files project… It’s all becoming, ehrm, clear.
Poor saps. When will they wake up?
Everything said, written, or recorded from these poor lost souls has a give me more money now to save the planet bent to it. No details, just a lot of convoluted made up words and self -impressing number of exclamation points., Kinda pathetic in this day and age of technology, to be honest. And is it me, or is all that’s left of the cult, white, middle classed, house wives from Pomona? I mean Really! come on! Clearing the planet, should they all not at least be bi-lingual and a little more, shall I say, “slicker”?
I’ll take a quarter ounce of whatever they’ve benn smoking please
Reality is sure on the blink again in the bubble.
Looks like Der Leader put the hammer down on the two felines from the Valley at the MV event. And Nancy will be relieved of a cool 6 mil during this process if the rest of the plebes can cough up their fair share. Leave some for your purif Nancy cause sure as hell you’ll be doin it yet again!
Well, wish I could be there for the fun but I’ll be fishin!
Hey there Valley Girls……
Now, enough is enough, OK? I’ve like had it up to here, OK? So like, Barf out!
Gag II me with a spoon! Get the Picture?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Cr2ulBGGo
Gag II with a spoon! Excellent!
Jesus Christ almighty. Stuff like this use to be considered J&D. Now it’s command intention.
I agree with all you saiid above
And also noticed the file sorting – “from zero to 100 miles per hour immediately”
How many pleas for help on this project have been announced throughout the years?
Maybe if they weren’t so focused on the money they would have them done …
Especially since , well, what else are they doing with their down time since actual services aren’t being delivered?
And I say services as a never in
But also speak as someone who worked in businesses for whom up to date files and therefore information was crucial ….crucial enough that they HAD to be kept up to date moment by moment (especially in the NHS medical services (yes a Brit here)
Zero to 100 mph
Weren’t they declaring how much they were winning ( on file sorting) and how much fun they were having doing them before?
But now it is zero
Doesn’t WISE/ABLE (I get lost in the acronyms still, as a never in) have the solution for that?
Why isn’t it being applied?
Especially since they don’t have much raw meat coming through the doors?
Oh geez! The reference to The Governor…they are now a parody of the parody! Too funny. And this is the exact, out of valence, hoopla that always made me ask, “what is wrong with me that I can not even fake that crap?”
So glad I found the answer to that question.
Why is she called the Royal Governor? I never understood that one
I always thought it was a jokey non-de-plume which they had to use because Nancy C wasn’t too keen at reminding the whole world that she’s a member of exactly the kind of organisation _The Simpsons_ mercilessly skewered in the “Movementarian” episode. But Nancy really doesn’t seem shy about being a Kool-Aid drinker in her recent fundraising propaganda, so I just don’t understand it.