Bush broke the world. Clinton was okay with that. She was okay with Wall Street breaking the world AGAIN.

Has no one noticed there is not one proven concrete instance of “Russia” doing much of anything, or at least anything effective, vis a vis “attacking our elections?”

YES.

The lowering-the-bar effects of the past election continue. In any sane world, Kushner, Pence, Kelly, DeVos, Pruitt (and on and on) would be notable for being monstrous, unacceptable selections for public service.

Good piece.

For some of them it feels like it’s just a way to stand out by lowering the bar into the sub-basement. “Best at small scale public speaking, for a racist.” “Not that stupid looking, among racists.” That sort of thing. An under-utilized brand, because of course it’s the worst brand. But still.

Should somebody tell the wanna-Nazis that them announcing they like or not like something could only possibly nudge opinion in the opposite direction?

Oh it’s costing us. We may not see the concrete numbers for a while, but our influence and respect around the world has plummeted in ways that will hurt us for a long, long time.

This is how a certain class of “businessmen” talk about world affairs and economics and culture when they get together. They’re confident they understand everything because they made a killing in toasters or fertilizer or whatever, and they pass around the Fountainhead DVDs and laugh and shake their heads at the silly…

It’s not Brazile’s doing — she’s just trying to be relevant after being caught — wait for it — cheating for Hillary herself.

Student debt (which is bullshit, but doctors and lawyers would file bankruptcy daily if it was dischargeable). Physical harm. Fraud.

Oh bullshit, and bullshit on the rest of the commentators heaving and sweating about Tesla’s supposedly impending collapse, which people have claimed is moments away for what — 10 years now? Jesus, you all sound like Brock Yates mewling that he’d never drive a “golf cart” or whatever until Car and Driver thankfully…

Hi there. Whitey-Mc-my-opinion-is-neither-wanted-nor-needed-here-which-is-totally-fine-by-me, with I think a good-faith inquiry? I never try to comment here, but have come looking here and there to read, as you do. Leave me gray or zap my posts to oblivion if you want, but I have been baffled by this theme since the…

My brand-new Echo Plus is doing pretty well playing “spooky sounds” tonight, but when I ask for “Halloween playlist,” sometimes she plays one, and sometimes she loudly reads some wire story about NASA.

“Oui-hee-hee”

I know, right? As I was driving past the local politburo on my way to the nationalized gas station in my government-built car, I was just thinking about how all those those (largely Jewish) actors and playwrights are responsible for the huge amount of Communism we have in America today.

Kinda sounded like you did. And you definitely equated vastly more rational concerns about GMOs to anti-vax mythology, which is just as flippantly reductive and wrong.

I mean, it didn’t offend me, but it did seem a weird choice. I wonder if there was a promotional consideration, or if there is some other, more interesting story behind it?

I always did kind of think it was a shit song (America the Beautiful is much better) and it’s not surprise a songwriter of that time period would be racist, but that is pretty shocking.

Funny because Seinfeld is an artist I can’t enjoy anymore based on what I perceive about him as a person. Maybe he had a hard time judging Cosby because he’s a bit of a sexual predator himself, having “dated” a 17-yr-old when he was 39 and famous.