Then point them to all of the pictures of him wearing expensive suit and tie with a hard hat. “Watch Trump pretend to be a regular worker. I’d bet money that he eats his big macs on a crystal plate with a knife and fork.”

“Look at how phony he is. You can see from how he talked in the 80s that he doesn’t make these kinds of mistakes. He thinks you’re so dumb that you’ll fall for this ‘regular guy’ act. Trump has never been a regular guy. When he’s alone with his fellow billionaires, he reverts to being a prep school snob.”

Eh. I don’t know. We all come to the limits of our own ignorance at some point. While I appreciate being told when I’m wrong, the experience is embarrassing. If it happened a lot, it’s possible that I’d start to resent the people telling me rather than appreciating the intervention. While I don’t think that elites…

I think there’s a subtle difference in what he’s doing. He’s not applauding ignorance. He’s baiting elites into mocking his misspellings and grammatical errors, misspellings and grammatical errors that his base might also make. He’s getting on the right side of elite contempt to stimulate his base’s sense of…

See I feel like Tig is the perfect First Lady. She’d be ambivalent and introverted. My experience of being a rabbi’s husband is that people let shit slip that they would never tell the rabbi; and then you go home, put the kids to bed and say, “What the fuck just happened?” The President’s spouse must be like that on…

Yeah. A normal person would be like, “I think if this keeps going, people will all act professionally on set, and no one has to feel uncomfortable. It helps everyone. I mean, it’s not the same thing, but I’ve had actors and actresses come on to me thinking it was part of the deal of working and getting ahead. I wasn’t…

Oh. Thank goodness! I was so worried for everyone involved.

I find I can’t stop watching this gif, and I’m simultaneously nauseated by how abusive it is.

“Primarily we want to thank mothers for arming us during WWII and helping us in bringing about a native American genocide.”

The idea of having a fox in my home makes me so nervous that I’m literally a bit nauseated right now.

My daughter has been like, “The Amazon training program should be it’s own show. That’s what people (we) want to watch. Who’s moving up?Who’s good with horses? How do you choose commanders? I’m interested in that.”

The amount of alcohol in that story, he might have been blacked out for some of it. That’s obviously no excuse, but you’re talking about a lot of levels of denial and lying.

Especially an older woman who labored highly competently in moderate obscurity: Barbara Underwood.

I’m pretty happy whenever they get hit. They’re shits even if I agree with their politics.

Also, this: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/upshot/more-consensus-on-coffees-benefits-than-you-might-think.html. Observational studies, but if it were substantially harmful, it would show up in the data. Instead, peak coffee is 5 cups (40 oz total) a day.

Preet?

Yeah. This is yet another totally unsurprising one. I met Schneiderman during his first state Senate race (the one against Rosie O’Donnell’s brother), and he struck me as a vain sleaze, still better than the O’Donnell brother though.

Holy shit. I’m just reading about it now. The Haitian government was paying off that debt from 1825 to 1893, but it didn’t pay the final interest on the debt until 1947. This means that the US government supervised and enforced the interest payments during it’s 19 year occupation (an occupation that included large…

By no means to contradict, more of a fun (grotesque?) fact, after Haiti’s 1804 slave rebellion, southern states passed laws that made freeing slaves substantially more difficult and required the vast majority of freed slaves to leave slave states. It’s part of the reason Washington freed his slaves (pre-1804) after he…

Though Cuomo is fantastic at announcing liberal policies while simultaneously pushing the terrible status quo. E.g., announcing free college the same day they bury bail bond reform. I dislike him intensely.