It's very different from what this sounds like, but you might like "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad"—both the short story and the movie.

Sideshow Bob?

On the plus side, I've had one or two of Trefil's books for years now, unread, and need to purge my shelves.

He knows that quote in large part because Buzz Lightyear is named after him. A brief amount of Googling suggests Aldrin loves that.

In Marvel 2099 Doom was actually a pretty awesome president (before being overthrown by the corporations).

"how do you sink lower?"

Trump has a long history of talking about "good genes", etc. Here he is on Oprah in '88 talking about having the right genes.

"And I mean you can't honestly tell me that if a white guy left the show, regardless of circumstances, the spokesperson would go out of their way to shoehorn foreign phrases into their official statement."

Doesn't matter because Congress is controlled by Republicans, but Trump is inching more and more to a full confession.

I've always assumed a lot of graffiti is supposed to be obvious. Not something I actually know anything about though.

That's ruff.

Working on it!

At least they're not sexist appearance-based attacks though. It's always important to insult who you want to insult and not catch anyone in the crossfire (which is why fat-based attacks are generally not okay).

On the other hand, it's not like Republicans portray war heroes like John Kerry as effeminate. /s

Thomas is also, as usual, being disingenuous. For instance, Goldwater in The Conscience of a Conservative talks about using nukes. He repeated that suggestion on the campaign trail with reference to Vietnam.

It's not even clear to me many of the wealthy want this bill, which is a mess even apart from killing the poor to give money to the rich.

I also suspect precisely because what they have chosen is so obviously bad and evil, they're unlikely to change their minds. There really isn't a graceful way to back out of this awfulness.

Probably not. My congressman John Faso of NY has an amendment which shifts costs from counties to the state. The most probable result is property taxes will go down slightly and I and many others will lose our insurance.

Is it really surprising he's getting worse? I imagine he's overwhelmed, exhausted, and unhappy.

Broke, humiliated, and in jail is how I hope this story ends for Trump and co.