From the Royal baby article:

I wish I had a dollar for every “Keep the Goddamned gubmint out of my business” MAGA voter who is now going to screaming at for help at the top of their lungs and demanding to know when the government is going to give them money so they can rebuild.

I will probably be headed down there in a week for disaster relief. But I want to post this excerpt from Newsweek and Bob Reich (in 2015!), which encapsulates my feelings entirely:

I want to say fuck Texas, but then I think of all the people in the areas hardest hit who likely had nothing to do with our country’s current destruction. Meanwhile, Professor Swan’s paternal family (from whom he is now more or less permanently estranged) are safe and comfortable in their all-white exclusive inland…

Can I feel sympathy for the people affected by Harvey in Texas while still openly hating Texas? Because that’s how I feel.

“We’e worked really hard to prepare for this hurricane...” except for doing literally anything to stem climate change’s impending annihilation of the gulf coast

[Googles Blake Farenthold]

It’s like the police who do these dangerous high-speed chases because they saw a guy roll through a stop sign or something... the harm (to an individual or the public) is nowhere close enough to justify the violation of rights or the risk to an individual or others.

They must’ve had a permit - no?

I’m sure there are many sides to this story. Many sides

I don’t know who he is, but he looks like all three Hansons melded into one.

I haven’t even gotten thru the first few minutes of the video and he’s already talking out of his ass. “I could have built it for $4 or $5 million dollars..” Does he seriously even know how a highway is built? Even IF you could just build one without a single permit, it still costs over $1 million dollars a mile to…

Donny boy thought it would be a jolly jape to run for the highest office, lose, and get another book deal with the by line “Donald Trump Former Presidential Candidate) out of it. Then he won.

Now everything he touches turns to shit before his very eyes; almost like Midas, but you know with shit instead of gold...so…

It’s only been 7 months. This seriously needs to stop. And to all of the people claiming that Trump is the lesser of two evils or that he and Hillary were the same....

Me, in response to this headline:

The way the GOP treats women is awful. I’m not really able to work up much sympathy for Delgado, though. Yes, she’s a single mother and America doesn’t do single mothers any favors (although I’ll bet she’s better positioned than most to handle it). I mean, she was sleeping with a married man, and although that makes…

It’s absolutely fair to say that when the one coming up short was an active participant in normalizing Trump and is still giving weak statements today. If Fallon wanted to stay out of politics, he would stay out of politics. He doesn’t get to have candidates on his show, goof around with maniacs who have built their…

This would be a fair response in another situation. Not when things are this bad.

I watch Meyers’s monologue and “A Closer Look” every night, along with Colbert’s monologue/opening segment. Between the two of them, they are keeping me somewhat sane. Meyers really did an extraordinary job with this segment, though - above and beyond the usual. His insight is piercing, the writing sharp, the…