The active vs passive voice is a really great point I’d never been able to frame like that, so thanks!

Exactly. Anyone with the thinnest sliver of good faith would agree that whatever the hoity-toity legal argument by $7,000/h suits, the system wasn’t designed to let a President pardon himself. If in doubt, read the Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu - like the Founding Fathers did.

I mean I see how it could be seen like this, but it’s not like this is the bar to get citizenship. There’s still a regular process with paperwork and a few tests and a lot of waiting - it’s just that there’s also this “exceptional service” fast-track for people who did something that stood out. I understand it has…

I believe the child has already been released to his father. It was a temporary thing while they investigated.

I asked the same question a few years ago on Jezebel and had to get a new kinja account as a result of the backlash.

Oh my god thank you. Obama did his 8 years. In 2016 he basically told you who to vote for, but noooo, you voted for the orange shitbag whose entire platform was about racism, xenophobia, obscurantism, millionaires becoming billionaires, and undoing everything Obama did.

Well that’d be sure not to piss off all the deplorables from Bumfuck, Nowhere.

One day I’ll tell my daughter that the US was the greatest nation on earth when I was her age, and she’ll look at me the same way I look at my dad when he tells me that Great Britain still controlled half the world when he was a kid.

They’re still much higher than, oh, anywhere else on Earth though.

Do Americans implode at the sight of mixed bathrooms? Where I live you occasionally have those, where there *gasp* isn’t a man/woman sign at all and people go into whichever stall isn’t occupied. Amazingly, we haven’t had a revolution in, oh, at least a few years in spite of this astounding example of moral…

“... Is that a trick question?”

Joke’s on me, I misremembered: it was a bottle of 12-year Yamazaki.

I once had an unpaid bill with an ISP. You know the story: you cancel your contract and yet they keep sending you invoices.

Pretty sure America chose in November 2016.

I’ve always been very comfortable with the idea that if heaven is full of guys like this, I’ll happily take hell.

Guess I’ll go buy that bottle of Hibiki I saw last weekend at my local wine dealer then.

Oh, how interesting. Last year I read a French comic called Ces jours qui disparaissent (“The disappearing days”, if you will) by Timothé Le Boucher. It’s about a guy named Lubin. Lubin has a normal life, until one day he wakes up and he realizes he lost a day. So he lives his day and goes to sleep, and when he wakes…

I see you’ve co-opted Trump’s “many people” thing, but many people think you should really rid yourself of this bad habit. Many people know it’s just a transparent way of pulling alternative facts out of your ass.

Having now seen her skit, I can see why people are all up in arms.

Does not being born yet count as a preexisting condition?