Clearly the reason all the officially racist ‘sewing circles’ out there just love Trump to death. Because he’s soooo not racist. They must all be confused.

I never gave the possibility of his anger much thought, but that’s an interesting point. You don’t get very far in the flipping business by being ever so easy to get along with. Cost and time are always creeping up to bite you in the ass. Your subs are always saying, ‘money now, work later’. Any holdup puts your neck…

Isn’t it interesting how the conspiracy wing of the Republican party constantly say the Dems are criminally inept. Can’t run a lemonade stand let alone corral a wayward economy. But somehow they manage to construct these world-spanning, technology-defying schemes? Ones where no one is ever caught. No one ever talks.…

Yup. The point here for Harris was to simply not blow it. I think she did better than that, but politically speaking the debate equated to two bald men arguing over a comb. It won’t really hurt either party and the audience was just there in case one of them was dumb enough to stick the comb in their eye.

I would bet on another ‘preliminary report’ out of Durham’s office that also somehow tries to tie it all back to Hunter Biden.  And maybe throw in Hillary, because why the fuck not.

When I heard he wanted to go home on Monday, I told my wife, “Watch, now actually getting COVID is going to be the Republican badge of courage.” True to form. He has constantly been presented with the ability to do the right thing, over and over again. For 3 seconds put someone else first, maybe by accident. And…

And then throw in the prospect of a now Biden corrected DOJ. And they actually go after Trump and family for the crimes, and cover-ups, they’ve committed. How much of that could his supporters stomach before there was blood in the streets? And no matter what happens on the policy front or in popular discourse, how…

I understand your point and it’s a fair point of rhetoric, but I think your wrong. Cult-hood is not a simple matter of ‘scale’. We need to be careful on how we apply labels like cult. Separate out the difference between a high level philosophical argument, from the application of the ideas to real, living people. The…

You make some fine points. I always assumed it was a transactional relationship, but the notion that there’s more to it makes sense. I remember seeing an article on some site in this ‘family’ of sites and it mentioned a common behavior of nearly all cults. At some point the leader will make an absolutely outlandish…

That desire to ‘purify’ the base and the candidates has only ever led to tears for us Dems. The republican’s managed to actually achieve the same goal, but by going the other way round. They found an actual grass-roots movement, the Tea Party, and coopted it. The Tea Party managed to drive nearly every moderate out of…

True. Nicer kitchens do not increase a home’s assessment. Increases to the assessment usually come from increasing square footage, adding bedrooms, finishing basements, adding apartments, bathrooms, and new (large) outbuildings. Sometimes pulling a building permit will bring your home to the attention of the tax…

I’ve entered those Dream Home giveaways BECAUSE there’s a cash payout option. I don’t want someone else’s house. Yes, they’re designed to the nth degree. They’re pretty and have cool stuff. But I can take the nearly $1,000,000.00 payout, get myself a really nice place, in my area, for $200k cash. AND buy some rental…

Bad news for everyone.  The Hatch Act is enforced at the discretion of the chief executive.

I do not think he was or is capable of that. His very political existence is, getting too mad to function like a human being. No need to ever expect that from him.

Of course all he had to do was behave in a functional manner. And of course he failed to. Because his point has never been to actually accomplish anything for the country or the American people. It has been to elevate himself. The chaos caused by his laughable ‘response’ does certainly do that. The chaos is the actual…

This is the precise reason the Republicans got rid of the 2/3 vote requirement. And precisely why it existed in the first place. This is how a soon to be minority holds on to non-representative power.

I did not see the exchange on TV but just reading the description in the article made me tear up with joy.  That is a rare emotion today. God Bless that women indeed!

It’s interesting how ‘higher standard’ has been subverted in the last few decades. It used to mean that if you were given authority and power, and you abused it your punishment was more severe. And the standard you had to meet was in fact higher than it was for everyone else. Now it means your accuser needs to meet a…

Every other cop in the room, doing nothing at all, looking like they’re just watching a slightly uncomfortable snit between a teen and a parent IS THE PROBLEM. The aggressor already knows he can count on their silence. He would never have reacted like that if he didn’t already know.  No doubt through countless…

Thanks! I just had it stuffed.