What scandals, though? She used a sub-optimal records management strategy with her emails, which was the same strategy used by the last two Republican Secretaries of State. Trump had a recording where he boasted about sexually assaulting women. I don’t understand what planet people live on that Hillary has been…

But... but.... he’s the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency! Nobody has higher cholesterol test scores than him, believe me.

When it became clear Trump was going to win, a commentator on the CBC explained that there are no conflict of interest laws that apply to the president, because no one ever thought they’d need them, and he fully expects Trump will spend the next four years cutting ribbons at Trump resorts all over the world as foreign…

No, it’s going to be just like Reagan, who also had no interest or willingness in putting in the work required to be president. Except the people Trump has surrounded himself with, who will be the ones actually making decisions, are just as incompetent as Trump, and much scarier than the advisors Reagan had actually…

Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate because she’s a woman and we live in a horribly misogynist society.

I don’t even think they’re that self-deluded. I mean, Nixon described their bullshit as “dirty tricks,” so obviously at some point they recognized their behaviour is not something most people would consider okay.

I’m in Canada. I’ve seen leases that require tenants have their oil tanks filled before November 1 to prevent pipes from freezing. Not having heat is not an option this far north.

Where I vote (not in the US) the barriers are much larger - they go over the average person’s head - and much further apart. There is absolutely no way anyone could ever do what Erik and Trump are doing in the images. That’s really strange to me.

It appears to me that even before Trump started his presidential run he was heading into a downward spiral, business-wise. As his boondoggles and bankruptcies made it increasingly difficult for him to raise capital for real estate development, he moved almost entirely into licensing. And those deals ranged from…

Welcome to the modern Republican Party. They gave up trying to convince the majority of the population that their regressive policies are a good idea long ago, and instead have resorted to gerrymandering, widespread voter suppression, and absurd misinformation campaigns as their only viable paths to victory.

For how official and uptight Royal Communications usually are, that release might as well be a shirtless picture of Harry captioned “come at me bro - I will FUCK you up!” You know the royal PR people sent that one under duress- that is not their M.O. at all. So good on Harry for making them do it, and straight out…

My cousin went to rehab for weed because his parents were crazy and overprotective. He was so embarrassed, and the laughingstock of the rehab. But I do know that in some very uncommon cases it can cause serious problems. My uncle would get so paranoid when he smoked weed that he once jumped not just out, but THROUGH,…

The tradition was started by a minister, but kept going by the sailors who are the ones who drink it. They’re essentially buying rounds for one another in a really roundabout way.

Now go outside and spit.

I get so eyeroll-y at people with so much money and such large houses that they are obviously at a loss what to do with all of the space and cash. My first apartment we fell into a really cheap four bedroom place for the two of us and we ended up with a Bike Room just for bicycles and bicycle repair because we didn’t…

Yeah, someone who has a “gift wrapping room” in her house criticizing someone else’s frivolous spending is the definition of a pot/kettle, throwing rocks in glass houses situation.

My partner is a middle-class, white, heteosexual, cis-gendered man who was raised in a patriarchal evangelical Christan household. While he is about 100 times more progressive than one would expect, given his background, he’s nevertheless really struggled to recognize the depths of his own privilege (you know, a lot…

I don’t think it’s a myth, necessarily. Some sociopaths are very charming. Ted Bundy, for instance. Even thinking of the Canadian context, Paul Bernardo was apparently pretty suave, and Russel Williams managed to get to the rank of colonel in the military without anyone suspecting there was anything wrong with him. It…

I grew up in a reasonably poor, very thrifty family. When I started grad school I shared an office with a woman whose family, while not super wealthy, were reasonably well off (she went to private school, spent every summer at her grandmother’s in France). While I was initially envious of her background, and how much…

I thought it was pretty well-established he was a pothead, but beyond crazy religious parents of teenagers, I’ve never heard anyone describe smoking pot as “substance abuse issues.” Similarly, I know lots of people who have had pothead husbands, and none of them divorced them for it. But I know a ton of people who…