It's funny because it's how democracy dies and rots and peels away to reveal an ossified oligarchic skeleton that we all kind of knew was growing inside our republic but couldn't really be bothered to do anything about because man isn't politics kind of boring and don't politicians always seem to disappoint you? …

Oh, well now that they know that the vast majority of their constituents hate the bill and the policy position underlying it, surely these elected representatives will change their ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

If we want to be pedantic, I guess it's a term of art for what you do to a pump in order to get whatever is moving the liquid completely submerged so that the pump can efficiently move liquid (the exact hydrodynamic reason for submersion varies by pump design). It's a metaphoric idiom in economics, which compares the…

He's really "running roughshod" over the Democrats. Have you heard that before? I think Trump coined it. He's really giving them "short shrift." Another Trumpism. Sounds catchy, right? And he totally knows what "shrift" means. That's how he came up with it. Short shrift. Tell your friends.

I'm enjoying the show, but Sam really, truly is the absolute worst.

Yeah, I mean you prime other pumps, too, but I sincerely doubt that Trump has ever once "primed a pump" in his life, or that he could even describe the process. It's such an asinine thing to claim. It's like something out of Archer, but not as clever.

Trump is so goddamn dumb: "priming the pump" is a metaphor. It's using a phrase invented to describe an activity done to an actual water pump to describe the abstract effect of government investment on an economy. You couldn't "invent" the phrase for the economy, because if you invented it it would have no meaning.

Gilead was inspired by the American Religious Right of the 1980s, which was very vocal about "traditional family values" and the "sanctity of marriage" and similar slogans. It wouldn't do to go full polygamist, like the Mormons, nor to allow divorce, like the heathen liberals they overthrew, and so they needed a way…

In the book, handmaids are issued to men of sufficient status whose wives are unable to bear children. It is also dogma in book-Gilead (haven't watched the show yet) that no men are sterile—failure to conceive means the wife is sterile. As in many polygynous societies, excess males are disposed of in order to free…

How fitting that Orange County is all for Trump.

I do, but if the White House tries to spin this later as "Comey was fireably incompetent for failing to recommend charges," they're going to have to do even more contortions than otherwise based on the DoJ memos.

If that were true he wouldn't be so sensitive about his tiny, baby-like hands.

Honestly all of the terrible choices already guessed are better than actually-pretty-likely-nominee Erik Prince of Blackwater fame.

The letter doesn't directly reference it, but the White House press release attaches the two DoJ memos recommending termination. One is Sessions' (mentioned in the letter), which punts more or less entirely to Deputy AG Rosenstein's, which is poorly written and mush-brained, but pretty clearly says that it was…

I mean, Stallone never really stopped lifting, but it was still notable when he really "got back into shape" for Rocky Balboa. "Got back into shape" of course is a euphemism for "did heroic amounts of bull shark testosterone and harder anabolic steroids," so the comparison here to cocaine is pretty direct.

This is probably the correct answer.

This is a true fact. Also, the only lower body exercise he gets is skipping leg day, so he has the same solid foundation and level of usefulness as the legislation he slimes through in the dead of night.

That's okay, you're doing your part. For what it's worth, Adam Smith was anti-slavery on both moral and economic grounds and did not own slaves himself as far as I know (fascinated to see a source, if you disagree), so you can overcome your knee-jerk inability to concentrate on Thomas Jefferson's thoughts by going to…

…and that's why we have a Republican House, Senate and President. Well done.

Interestingly, the Founding Fathers, whom poseurs like Paul Ryan pretend to venerate and study, were extremely concerned about the dangers of concentrated wealth. They called it "incompatible with democracy," and proposed all kinds of (now) radical sounding solutions.