The fact is, the anti-Semitic stuff he said, specifically, has led to repeated, violent attacks on Jewish people by individuals who buy into this crap. The guy who shot up that kosher supermarket in Jersey City? He believed this stuff. The guy in Monsey who stabbed five people at a Chanukah party? Ditto. Anti-Semitic…

Oh, he’s already making noises about challenging the current governor, Janet Mills, in 2022, because apparently the term limits laws only bar him from serving more than two consecutive terms, but he can come back from the fucking grave and haunt us some more after four years elapse. I can only hope that ranked-choice…

To be honest, my first thought when she lost her job was to wonder whether she’d be out of status for whatever type of visa she’s on. Although if she’s got a green card, her ability to stay is less tied to staying in a specific job with a specific company.

My wife was saying last night that this is looking more like the last days of the Ceausescu regime.

I know the deal with the whole boogaloo thing, but I hadn’t heard about the Hawaiian print. We really just can’t have anything nice, can we?

Wait, they’ve stolen fucking Hawaiian print now?

Yeah, that, too. They’re all around awful. It sucks, because I live overseas and move fairly often (every 1-3 years for the last ten years), so I have a ton of friends and family with whom I’m trying to stay in touch, and Facebook is the single best way to do that, which means that I can’t just delete my account and…

You know what Facebook’s response to EVERY single one of these reports? NONE of that violated their Community Standards. Not even the “news” saying that COVID-19 never happened. Apparently, that’s a valid “opinion” to have.

Well, as of today, her Twitter has gone private. I don’t know how she could have been surprised at the dragging she received for an article that was more or less begging for people to savage her. Why anyone would write something that tone deaf and insipid, let alone publish it, I do not know (I mean, I do know,…

Well, exactly. Which is one more reason why I’m increasingly skeptical about this whole thing, particularly now that we’ve established that the original complaint apparently didn’t mention sexual harassment or assault at all.

Can confirm. My (blonde) mother came to visit me when I lived in southern China, and we went to some local sights that don’t attract a ton of foreign tourists, and everyone and their mother was wanting to talk to her, take her picture, all of that stuff. It always seemed weird to me that you’d get it so often in…

Yeah, as someone else said, Guangzhou has a pretty significant African community- a ton of people who are transient, going back and forth between China and their home countries to ship goods back and forth, and then more permanent residents who are doing business between the manufacturing industries in the greater…

This is where they lose me with the demands to go through his personal papers. What are they looking for and/or expecting to find? A memo on Biden’s letterhead saying, “Boy oh boy, that Tara Reade is a hot piece of ass, and I can’t wait to sexually assault her in the Capitol building on [date]?” Because that seems...…

I’m living in Europe right now and have no intention of returning to the States any time soon. My European in-laws are watching this stuff with alarm and utter disbelief, and I’m right there with them. It scares me to have family who are still over there.

My first election was also 2000, and damn if this retrospective didn’t manage to both bring back some terrible memories and also make me long for those halcyon days when I believed that the election of Dubya in 2000 was the worst it could get. Ah, the naïveté of youth. 

Right? Donald Trump claimed that he has “total authority,” just froze WHO funding for the next 60 to 90 days and is having progressively more insane meltdowns at each daily press conference, but sure, let’s have article after article after article about how Biden is a boring shill and not nearly as cool as “Peepaw…

The UK, which has a growing outbreak that officials believe to be growing much faster than previously recorded, is still on the fly list, as is Iran who have an uncontrolled mass outbreak.

Older Millennial here (born in ‘82, so a cusper)- I was all-in for Warren, and that’s who I voted for yesterday. I find it infuriating that all over Twitter and my Facebook feed, I’m seeing angry Bernie supporters claiming some kind of dark conspiracy when the real truth is that a) a lot of them apparently just didn’t…

“... there is likely an on-site unrecognized and wildly under appreciated cleaning staff that will unfortunately do their best to keep things appropriately clean so that the guy who doesn’t think can continue to do so without so much as a sniffle.”

That’s kind of where I was. Besides, I lived in China for two years. Huawei (and thus the Chinese government) has every last scintilla of my data at this point, anyway. It’s not that I don’t care, and I get why some people would be disturbed enough to give this a miss, but in my case, I guess it just feels like the…