US Law was built up based on the assumption that anyone winning the presidency is going to be a reasonable and ethical person who wants to do what is best for the country. Almost every modern president with kids goes through the same scenario after being elected: They say, “for my kids’ sake, they’re going to finish…

She’s actually kind of worse than her father. He’s obviously all sorts of horrible, but he doesn’t try to hide it. As much as he lies about almost everything, he’s very open about the kind of person he is. Ivanka, on the other hand, manages to project this genteel, reasonable veneer, and tries to convince people that…

The problem with the analysis that Melania is only with Trump to get her US citizenship is that she has been a citizen for 11 years now and hasn’t divorced him.

Precisely - the fact that, as this article and his repeated, endless appeals indicate - his parents have spent an absurd amount of money, including trial consultants who would have manufactured his nerd makeover, to try to buy an innocent verdict in this case. And also that, while nerdy guys can be sex offenders,…

My partner is a progressive non-religious guy who was raised in an incredibly religious Baptist family (like Bible study every night after supper, in addition to Church three times a week level religious). I cannot count the number of rants I’ve heard about what a colossal asshole Paul was. I was raised atheist and…

I bought a really nice juicer second hand for $60.

Are these people unaware that juice is a product readily available in stores?

The problem is that, not only are guys who think they can “have anyone they want” delusional, they also tend to think that they are doing people a big favor when they express their willingness to date them and, in my experience, they get incredibly angry if you turn them down.

It really wouldn’t be so bad if he’d been forced into bankruptcy by some corrupt fucker, but from everything I’ve read, he earned that shit by insisting everything be crystal and covered in gold leaf.

Oh god, please don’t mistake the above for something meant to be reassuring. He definitely hates being president, and I’m quite sure the only reason he hasn’t quit yet, citing “obstructionism” and “witch hunts” and “the deep state” is that he’s making so much money off the presidency with his constant vacations to…

He actually doesn’t own any stocks, he had to sell them all when people (temporarily) insisted on forcing him to follow through on his word to self-finance his campaign, and donate money to veterans. Josh Marshall actually laid the whole situation out pretty convincingly in a post suggesting the reason Trump won’t…

Someone should ask Eric if he has access to his dad’s tax returns. He not only does not seem to understand what the fuck is going on at any given moment, but he also seems very happy to give reporters whatever they want. For instance highly ill-advised interviews about current events. I do feel a bit sorry for the…

I figured Trump would see this as a potential to fleece new donors and try to prevent any legitimately free tickets from being given out. Sounds about right.

Yes. I mean, if they’re going to be what they are, they might as well own it and stop with all of the gaslighting pretending they’re reasonable and we’re all the problem.

I hope, third option, that Trump refuses to do it because, it’s the weekend, and he has pretending-not-to-be-golfing to do, and the Kushners won’t do it, because they’re Jewish and that would be super weird, so instead it’s left up to Erik and Don Jr. (who has, like, five kids), who would no doubt behave super…

I absolutely love train travel, but if you need to ask why people don’t like trains, you’ve never lived in close proximity with a train line. You think the NIMBY is bad with wind turbines, try throwing the noise of trains in to the mix.

I’m dealing with PTSD as well, although luckily doing a lot better these days. I had to stop playing Minesweeper and Tetris because I found them too addictive. I think the main thing is they occupy the part of the brain that otherwise would be getting triggered and imagining threats. That said, I can’t handle most…

Worth noting that 97 million dollar figure is likely for the entire Obama family, since they usually vacationed together, and that 24 million dollar figure is an estimate for Trump only. And that his children have continued to jetset all over the country/world with their respective security teams. So once you factor…

I used to work at a call center that received calls from all over the world. You always could tell the Americans within 2 minutes of the call beginning because Americans are generally really unpleasant. I’ve actually worked in a few call centers outside of the US and in every one there was, I shit you not, a section…

It does strike me that perhaps airlines have reached the point of diminishing returns with their overbooking profits, if air travel is ceasing to be a reliable and predictable option for professional people.