Being a first gen American immigrant, I can leave this country I grew up in more easily, I think, than if my family had generations here. To me, intellectually at least, country is more a choice that you make to find the best life, like buying a house in the best neighborhood. Emotionally, this is a moot point because…

I don't know what Mimi Leder is up to presently, but she did some fine work on the short-lived Almost Human, and Deep Impact is a good movie, better than you know what.

Another way he is the exact opposite of Barack Obama: our former president famously did not watch pundit cable news, much less setting policy by it, and he did not let the considerable, unprecedented hate he experienced those 8 years visibly get to him, while it only took a few days to get to Trump.

All good too. To your point about Trump having plebeian tastes: the cliche you've heard is that Trump is a poor person's idea of a rich person. Though with food, you can just get addicted to what you try, no matter if it's of a lower socioeconomic status.

Ha! Yes, that moral reckoning will come for her someday, like Death in Samarra.

In this case, my definition of snacks is manufactured, processed units of food in a bag. Sure, if we expand the def to include anything we put together, a lot of things are great, including yours. Thanks!

Now I'm curious as to what Kellyanne's favorite snack is and what she reads.

No, I'm not grossly wealthy, just gross, and the boss wants to be that all by himself.

Pithy!

The Trump-Lays Fireside Chats.

Hey, piss off. Potato chips are the king of the snacks. KING! Bow down! What, you gonna say pretzels are better? ARE YOU?

They're not mutually exclusive: you can love both potato chips and books. Look at me! I love jalapeno kettle chips and Don DeLillo novels.

Fun fact: Despite being a lover of history, I actually haven't properly studied up on the Nixon administration, and am therefore faking it. How am I doing?

True, but even Nixon did some centrist and liberal things and didn't erode democratic norms and civil society as much as Trump is expected to do.

As far as I know, previous presidents weren't this authoritarian, insecure, prone to believing outright non-factual things and conspiracy theories, this ignorant of government, and with this much power to change this country based on their fevered imaginings. We seem to be in a new era, boys and girls.

Actually, I was going for Republicans only care about deficits when they can be used as cudgel to attack Democrats. But I'm sure you already knew that, so sorry for explaining it.

You might be giving people too little credit. Politically informed people also know the trivial stuff about those in power; they're not mutually exclusive areas of knowledge. But you are right that the media has a real danger of abdicating its responsibility, of falling into a Trump tweet instead of examining a Trump…

Channel flipped to Charlie Rose tonight. Hugh Hewitt. I thought, "Let's see what he says." Rose asked if there's a replacement for the ACA. Hewitt said Price has one. Will it work? "There's going to be some deficits." At which point a reflexive "Fuck You!" escaped my lips and I turned it off.

Her snub is even more egregious considering Arrival is nominated for best picture, director, adapted screenplay, editing, cinematography, production design, sound editing, sound mixing, while Florence Foster Jenkins is not nominated for any those things (replace adapted with original screenplay), and the only other…

I meant to say that too. It's a vicious cycle that helps the GOP—policies that economically hurt Americans, who have to work so much that they can't follow the news needed to vote to change their condition and so they're influenced by the simple messaging the GOP is good at.