It didn’t start with Obama. There’s a whole philosophy that comes out of the Gilded Age about how rich people are rich because they are good and therefore deserve to be rich.

Most of them are quite driven. Whether that’s completely rational or not is up for debate. I have an uncle who worked as a high end electrical engineer for GE - commercial power plants, nuclear submarine power plants, that kind of thing. Eventually he went out on his own as a consultant. And one day he complained to…

I said this in another thread a few days ago but.... rich people don’t think like normal people. For us, money is necessary for what we need to support our family and friends, or obtain some degree of security, or provide a degree of comfort. Those sorts of things. Rich people never think about that because they’ve…

I am constantly being reminded of that quote,

I think for people like you and me, money is just a means to an end (security, food, vacations, rent, booze, what-have-you), while to a subset of people, money is a thing unto itself, with intrinsic value. It functions as a measure of success rather than just a byproduct, particularly as these people regard their…

Would you prefer hatorade? My regular drink of choice for coping is a mojito, but sometimes you just want your lips to pucker while you get wasted, just to really hammer in how sour this whole human experience thing is.

I’m sure they’ll all be placing their enormous wealth in blind trusts run by their children or spouses, as a further gesture of their impartiality and commitment to country over profits. What do you mean that’s not a blind trust? Hush now, you don’t understand business and words don’t mean anything any more anyway.

Great wealth doesn’t just equal success. It equals virtue.

They are literally psychopathic control freaks.

“What do all men with power want?

Some are truly generous. But my favorite part of the competition is when they pretend to give a lot away, but they still wouldn’t do so at the risk of not coming out with more at the end of the year than less.

“Not a puppet, no puppet. You’re the puppet”

Don’t forget that each and every one of these people, much like Trump himself, are being appointed because they’ve become rich and successful by brilliantly gaming the system, but now because of the good in their hearts and their love of this country, they’re going to sacrifice their own personal wealth and privilege…

In Donnie’s mind (and his supporters and the GOP) great wealth = success. This is why they’re a bunch of unhappy, evil bastards.

And let’s not forget that because these people were such underhanded, freeloading con-men, the taxpayers picked up the bill for the kid to go to rehab.

His “police stuff.” Not only is everybody in this family apparently six fucking years old, the entire law enforcement community around them seems happy to keep letting them get away with infractions large and small.

Allow me to mansplain: on Tinder he wouldn’t be able to hedge rejection with the woman’s fear or threat of getting a traffic ticket... On Tinder women have the right to reject someone with little consequence and that’s just not fair to him!!!!

That’s not egg...

I asked one of my idiot family members the same question, and all they could croak was “but... Benghazi.” When I pressed, nothing. Shocker.

he’s a vampire? The sparkly kind or the Buffy kind?