Thanks. Short of quitting my job, I’m honestly not sure what to do anymore. They do not respond to logic or reason, so my attempts to present facts are pretty much useless at this point. The longer Trump is in office the more they seem to be emboldened by him, and as a result every day someone brings him up and rants…

It’s the sunk cost fallacy smacking into the Dunning-Kruger Effect at about ninety miles an hour.

Honestly, Uncle Joe seems like the kind of guy who would have been friends with half the maintenance staff and absolutely could have called in a favor do something like that.

she used to be my best friend & greatest ally

I was all set to complain about the headline’s use of the word “literally,” before discovering that no, they meant it, he is actually literally stumbling around in the dark, jesus christ.

Yes. These people believe changing your mind, backing down from a challenge or compromising is a sign of weakness. The “manly” thing to do when confronted with a failure is to double down and insist that it wasn’t only not a failure, it was a huge success, and you’re just hating on it because you didn’t do it yourself…

Kind of hoping Obama left a tiger behind one of those mystery doors.

I am in the same boat. I actually had to walk out of work on Friday (it was lunchtime, so it’s not like I just up and left) because of the way some of my coworkers were acting. One actually stood up and raised his voice, yelling about how Trump was elected and the liberal protesters need to get over it, etc. Another…

My guess is that they believe that little glitches are going to happen, and they really like the take-charge, move-fast, kick-ass-and-take-names, screw-the-world, build-the-wall, screw-the-muslins, burn-the-house-down, take-back-the-supreme-court, love-them-librul-tears, drill-baby-drill, bible-bible-bible approach…

No. It’s primal primate tribalism. They love the fact that he pisses off the other tribe/team (the libruhls). They will happily pursue the death of a nation as long as it makes them feel like they got over on their perceived enemies—the libtards... or whatever.

And that’s exactly why they say things like “we won get over it”— they think it’s sports, it’s just a contest, the game has no real world consequences, it’s not really connected to the actual fate of the country.

My mom is a hardcore Trump supporter (which has been really emotionally hard for me—I don’t know who the fuck raised me anymore, she used to be my best friend & greatest ally) and she has definitely doubled down on her support. I think it’s definitely pride. They are seeing more and more that they were duped, that…

In college a no-so-smart kid wreaked revenge on her roommate, a smart-but-snooty EE undergrad by putting a small piece of clear tape into the bottom of a lamp socket. The EE to be tried replacing the bulb and fiddled with the lamp a while before declaring she was going to take it home to her engineer dad on the…

In a lot of people’s heads, political parties are nothing more than sports teams. They will stay with their team no matter what. One of the players gets caught in a scandal? Defend him/her to the death. Team makes some bad calls? Eh, who doesn’t? It doesn’t matter. They picked their team and it is forever and always…

Yes! That bit about him having to cancel the Milwaukee event due to protests is really important. He’s stuck in a house that’s too big even for him, and it’s too quiet, and he can never shake the feeling that his friends are governmenting without him. He misses the circus.

*is now invested in this thread due to fantastic references. +1 for errybody.

In the United States, we’ve been primed to believe that wealth comes from hard work and intelligence. Since Trump is wealthy, this line of thought goes, he must be pretty smart. And, he’s saying the things his supporters “are all thinkings”. Isn’t that what we kept being told during the campaign? “He says what I’m…

So, our democracy is Westley in this scenario? Hopefully being miraculously revived after being tortured to death.

God I hope he’s as miserable as we all think he is. I also hope he lives for many more years, and has to live with the shame he’s brought on our country and on his stupid family name. I hope people still protest him and mock him long after his inevitable impeachment. I hope this fucker pays for the damage he’s done.

Every word of that article is straight up amazing. Donald Trump is trapped in a Being There remake of his own making.