Insane.

I wish I still had them. My dad threw them in the trash in a huff one day when I was away at school, because he was trying to navigate some government phone tree, and couldn’t “press 1" for whatever. I was so pissed. Those things are worth a few hundred dollars now, and they’re certainly not making them anymore. We…

Good God. I literally shuddered when I opened that picture. Could he be any fucking creepier?

I always wanted one like that! It’s like a feminine version of the ones we had- lighter and more curvilinear. I can’t find a picture of the style we had with the fancy fittings, but they were boxier and more squat, like this one:

I’m not even sure how you’d explain it- everything now is cheap and rounded and flimsy and plastic and softer than the human scull...

They’ve used both, and since that name is actually more logical/less on-the-nose racist, sure!

Right? When I was a kid in the 80's, we had two big-ass bakelite rotary phones from the late 40's; a black and brass one, and a cream and chrome one. Aside from being beautiful machines, and being super-satisfying to use, at 20 lbs a piece, they doubled as deadly weapons; ergonomically designed to hoist by the fingers…

Well, evidently they had an unused landline connection available at Mar-A-Lago the “Southern White House”.

Not really;

Well, it certainly depends on your citizenship status; this Mexican woman in Texas mistakenly thought she could vote, and got 8 years, which will probably be followed by deportation;

FB wants clicks, and fake news = clicks. Their policy against it and the tools users have to combat it are just for show.

In Florida they try children as adults for some felonies. Including life sentences.

What really sucks is that Florida is one of the states where committing a felony will get you permanently barred from voting. Logic would dictate that this wouldn’t qualify, but then again FLORIDA.

during his time as governor, Pence enabled the worst HIV outbreak in Indiana’s history. At its height, the state was facing 20 new cases of the virus each week, while Pence sat back and dithered about the morality of needle exchanges.

I think that might be a harder sell

I’m not ungreying you, dipshit. The subject was brought up by FOX and Trump to scaremonger to Americans, to excuse xenophobia and racist travel bans, and Canada’s rates of refugee acceptance and immigration, while much higher, are far closer to those of the U.S. than are Sweden’s. I know that isn’t convenient for…

Oh I’m definitely not disputing that, to be clear. It’s (unsurprisingly) crass in addition to probably not being allowed.

Not only did he not get any loving, he got his picture taken! The indignity of it all.

Ya, the thing is, if you come here to complain that the excerpt I cited doesn’t disprove the precise point you want to make, you should probably read the rest of the article I linked, which does. Dismissed.

I’m not even allowed to say McConnell’s name in front of my husband- it riles him right up and he needs to drink. He hates him even more than Trump, because Trump is a fucking fool, whereas Mitch is a snake. I tend to agree with him on that, though usually i have more than enough contempt to go around.