Just replying in case other people saw this and are wondering about it: the report of a White House one was mistaken. Secret Service debunked and report was corrected or retracted.

Yeah, absolutely. The most effective Democratic presidents (FDR, LBJ) have been some real pragmatic bastards.

Oh man, that chart... just flashed aaaallll the way back to high school econ. Ouch, my brain.

If this Presidency does nothing else, it is certainly lowering the value of an MBA.

That’s bad!

Here’s some background research on Democratic Senate Candidate Jacky Rosen that would have been helpful for this article. It took me about 15 minutes to put it all together and type up this comment. I used Wikipedia, so this is not up to journalistic standards, but it’s probably accurate enough for blog-commenter…

It became the Onion so gradually we never noticed.

The part that always gets me is that some folks will go on, and on, and on, and on, and on about all the problems they perceive with the current administration... and then say “BUT I HAVE NO INSPIRATION TO VOTE.”

I don’t know if the voter data backs me up on this, but I feel like those who were never old enough to vote during George W Bush’s administration(s) - so, say, people born in 1990 or after, i.e. those currently 28 or younger, largely only came into political awareness after George W Bush was gone. So they never had…

I haven’t been on Splinter a ton, but from what I’ve seen the valuable content is primarily in the comments. We get, like, research, and reasoned opinions, and all that stuff down here.

Have just added this meme to my folder. Thank you, kind internet stranger.

Goddamn. I had blocked his name out of my memory. There goes years of expensive therapy.

Who says one nut must exercise global hegemony over a single sport?

If Ford wants to recoup some of their losses on the tariffs, I just found them $32,000 they can hold back on going into 2020:

“Trade wars are easy to win,” says man who somehow failed to make money in the casino business.

That is good stuff. All the way back in 2007, dang!

I am 100% not googling this. Can you explain please?

I came to hype this game too! I had the privilege of getting to know Jabari Weathers a little bit through their work on 7th Sea, and then followed the trail to Bluebeard’s Bride and its tarot cards. Haven’t had an opportunity to play it yet but it looks EXCELLENT.

Garnish my celery!?!?

Go crazy?