The actual issue is that the ND legislature has, for 10 years, continually cut taxes to out of state energy companies, primarily oil extraction, and what they did collect they put into very hard to access trust funds. Now that oil prices are down and production of new wells has largely stopped, the state has a fake…

Kushner was a customer at Harvard, where his father paid his 2.5 million admission ticket. Had he been bright enough to get accepted on his own merits as a student he would understand this thing called semantics.

Nope, I think the White House is trying to throw him under the bus and he’s trying to save himself. The White House already tried to distance themselves from him and look at the latest headline from the National Enquirer (whose owner is good friends with Trump)

In the ideal world, the revenue generating people would help finance programs that support the other people that don’t make as much money that are valuable to those who participate. But in our reality, if certain people are sucking resources and money from society, what is the justification for continuing to keep…

Either you’re a university administrator here to troll, or you missed the shit out of your calling in life.

I couldn’t believe that fucknut Kushner called us customers.

Didn’t you hear? We’re running government like a business now! Trump is the almighty CEO, congressmen are his workers, and we the voters are just the constantly shafted consumers.

It sucks that we even have to make that distinction!

Yep, my feeling about Bush was that while I didn’t agree with his politics, I did believe those politics were the result of sincerely held beliefs, and that he’s likely a decent human being.

That one made me laugh too, which I truly appreciate. It gave me a brief respite from the extraordinary stress I’m under every day that I wake up and see Trump is still president.

“take off ur cardigan... take off ur second cardigan”

I don’t want to read too much into things, but a lot of W’s recent comments and such make it feel like he’s aware that he really fucked up? I mean, even at the time it felt like he didn’t really want to be there, and that’s part of why he let the scum around him take the lead. I mean, as soon as he was done, he…

Bush was very slightly in over his head, but continued to learn, admitted mistakes and despite the fact I disagreed with him on almost everything he probably had the good of the country first in his mind.

From a personality perspective, Bush has always been incredibly affable, and politically speaking, some of the things he did were downright liberal. Granted, many other things were either very conservative or just deeply dumb but, yeah, it’s all relative.

Dubya sans Cheney sounds like a dream tbh.

Baylor has committed yet another unforgivable atrocity: causing me to side with the Texas legislature.

Growing up in the WH and the vile treatment she received from the press and others while doing so.

I’d imagine that growing up in the White House would disillusion you from politics at a pretty early age.

Somebody called him Shouty Spice the other day and it was so fitting.