one of my favorite recent galling ironies is the idiot who tries to shit down the truth and critical thinking as “negativity.”

Who would have thought Seth Meyers would emerge as the hard-hitting late-night personality?

“here is Joseph Fiennes, brother of Ralph, also known as “the hotter one,” as Michael Jackson ...”

Yeah... the horror we all feel looking at that still from the show is pretty much exactly the horror we all felt looking at actual pictures of him at the end of his life, right? I kinda want to put this in the *shrug* category.

By 2001 Michael jackson had much more in common physically with a white man than any black man due to all the surgeries...this seems like manufactured outrage

WHY WOULD SENSUALITY EVER BE USED TO DESCRIBE A PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION THAT’S NOT A THING EVEN WHEN WE AREN’T SWEARING IN THE GROSSEST MAN ALIVE.

She’s definitely had smug asshole going on since the filing.

This is all I have for today.

Probably about half of ambassadors are appointees connected somehow to the president (but not necessarily wealthy) and half are career foreign service who got appointed due to their decades of dedicated service to our nation. Sounds like Trump is recalling all of them.

I would like to clarify: as @RamJamming has pointed out— most Ambassadors are middle class civil servants. Case-in-point, my own father. Basically we had the resources of your local high school principal. A nice job but hardly rich. I can’t even imagine what this would have done to us. This would have been devastating…

THIS. I was an international relations major who did a couple of internships in related fields. I didn’t end up going into the Foreign Service or working for the State Department but I currently have a couple of friends and a cousin who is part of the Foreign Service. Yes, a few of the cushier ambassadorships to…

You don’t understand correctly. About 70% of US ambassadors are career state department employees. They are not all wealthy crony political appointees, despite what you might have heard. I was lucky enough to meet the ambassador to Cameroon, and was blown away by his diplomatic credentials. To assume you could find…

You’re right about McCain, but I still blame him for teaming up with Sarah Palin, a decision which I feel catalyzed the process that eventually made President Trump possible.

“No one chooses to go to London over Paris because we have living royals in situ.”

If you think royalty is not part of the mystique for visitors from all lands to England, you’re mistaken.

Expanding the number of rooms and venues tourists could be herded through would not offset the money generated by occasions like a living Queen’s birthday, birth of heirs, etc.

Believe it or not, I’m actually in favour of retaining the present system, at least as long as the Queen and or Charles are monarchs (William is a lazy idiot). I just want people to understand that the money is ours, not theirs.

Honestly, her old lizard bones are the only bit of continuity left in the world.

Are you arguing against them living in the palace, or against Britain having a monarchy at all? Because if it’s the latter, I’ve actually seen arguments for constitutional monarchies being more stable than other political systems, with the monarch’s lack of democratic legitimacy being paradoxically useful (http://www.v…

Yes, they are. The Queen “owns” the Crown Estate “in right of the Crown.” That means that she owns it on behalf of the British people. By contrast, the Duke of Westminster, who is one of the largest landowners in the U.K. and worth billions, owns his land outright. This distinction is not semantic, it is a crucial…