Counterpoint - the popularity of the Duggars, the tenet that “go forth and multiply” leads a culture to squeeze out other cultures if the population growth rate is higher, that children are miraculous presents from the ghost of Santa Claus...

Was is this girl?

Credits are for after you’ve already paid, so the upper-middle-income families, for sure. Actual middle and lower-middle, not so much, or at least with the pressures of the type found in the “being poor is expensive” category. Rebates vs. coupons.

I haven’t heard the “an armed society is a polite society” in awhile on national messaging... I wonder when that conflation died down. I do still hear it from specific individuals locally from time to time, hollow though it rings with the increased exposure of mass and not-so-mass shootings.

TBF, it should be confirmed that he was Christian. Seems highly likely, but should still be confirmed.

Those asian genes?

Can’t just assume she’s incompetent and evil.

I’d wager heavily on the latter, having met a few empowered narcissists, and those that deem that they succeed through failure.

Gotta provide jobs for the base somehow...

Call Sammo now!

I don’t know, I’m not inclined to believe that a majority of cold war era people are more afraid of the Russian bogeyman than the brown/sand skinned bogeyman at this point. Or to connect the loss of international standing with not keeping up with progress.

Where’s the cheese to go with this wine?

I was mildly surprised that there wasn’t any projection about extreme vetting of Bannon’s cabinet picks so far being too much regulation, preventing his cabinet from being properly formed, and getting any of the real work done.

If it turns out that that chunk of Rosneft was involved, that would make it a helluva D.

Is Chaffetz still stonewalling a House investigation?

Kinda looks like an off-label Putin clone...

AOT,K?

She is, also, unfortunately losing some of her popularity in MA... hopefully she’ll bounce back soon.

Also not applicable to the other three senators that read the rest of the letter right after she was told to sit down... wonder what the difference was there?