Yes, as much as I hate the whole narrative of people being treated like “special snowflakes” I think we maybe made a wrong turn when it stopped being okay to fail children in school or otherwise impose consequences to being lazy and unengaged (resulting in stupidity).

Absolutely, and it’s interesting to watch Trump floundering not knowing what to do without putting his favorite child in charge of things.

He doesn’t know either. In many ways he reminds me of my late grandmother, who suffered brain damage after a major stroke/brain surgery and had a weird sort of amnesia reminiscent of the main character in Memento. She could change her opinion about something five times in one day, and would trail off mid-sentence and…

I’m pretty sure the only reason it wasn’t a Trump-Trump ticket is that Ivanka isn’t old enough to run for VP. You need to be 35, and she is 34. And then the only reason she isn’t Chief of Staff or appointed to the cabinet is because that’s illegal under anti-nepotism laws.

Trump’s new National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was caught twice leaking classified intel (once to the Pakistani government) and reprimanded, but not charged. Trump’s supporters don’t care so long as the person leaking the classified info is a man and a Republican.

Since words apparently don’t mean things anymore, yes, that is exactly what I meant.

Don’t forget Trump Sr. giving illegal off-the-books loans to keep Donald’s casinos afloat by buying millions of chips with no intentions of using them or cashing them in.

You lose money running a casino when you insist on gold-plating everything.

It’s a sixty year lease. This makes it profitable for the first four years, max.

My favorite “relatable” Trump moment was when he claimed in a deposition that he was self-made, and only received a very small loan from his father when he started out in business. Asked to clarify the amount of the very small loan, he replied “9 million dollars.” Yup. Just like the time I borrowed $300 from my…

I’m pretty sure she’s on vacation, which is well-deserved given the amount of anti-semitic, misogynist hate mail she’s been receiving from the economically anxious.

Those “martyrs” are still pretty uncommon. I can’t count the number of times I’ve read/heard accounts from abortion providers where people who are constantly protesting outside their clinic will show up one week to get an abortion, or with their daughter to get an abortion, with a long line of reasons why they are a…

Probably she sold her soul when working for the NRA, Michelle Bachman, Todd Akin, or Pence, and being doomed to be the “Trump whisperer” is paying her due. She’s been soulless for a LONG time.

As far as I can tell, the main goal of gold digging is to find someone who will provide you with a low-hassle, well-funded lifestyle. That guy running for president and forcing you to give political speeches and putting you under the microscope due to his actions is not exactly low-hassle. I doubt when Melania married…

Hopefully a multivitamin or, at the very least, the stomach contents of the fish for some variety, because eating only one variety of fish from one particular geographical area is a recipe for eventual malnutrition.

Every couple I’ve known who did this ostentatious public performance of TRUE-LOVE-FOREVER were on the edge of divorce. It’s frequently an elaborate cover for infidelity.

You’re probably right, but I do think that some sane people who happen to be Republicans for some reason have tried to work with the Trump administration out of a sense of service and duty. Because no matter what you think of Romney, and I don’t have a terribly high opinion of him, he’s ten times better than anyone…

The Trumps were threatening a lawsuit in the same way that people used to threaten to sue me when I did hotel reservations and the dates people wanted were sold out, or too expensive, or I couldn’t guarantee the bed size they wanted. There is a certain class of people in the US who threaten, willy nilly, to sue every…

Don’t use Melania Trump as a standard for anything other than the perils of gold-digging.

By the standards of politics in the 1980s, he was an absolute idiot. The Tea Party movement etc. has lowered that bar significantly, and for today he’s probably just average intelligence level for high level Republican politicians. Probably above average, actually. But he was shockingly stupid in that era. His time…