OMG. This is so true. My lovely mother watches MSNBC 20 hours a day.

The arrogance, the rampant racism, the holier than thou attitude

and a complete inability to accept blame or that she was wrong about something

This is the non-sequitir content I come to Deadspin for

Boomers never learned how to deal with TV availability 24/7 just like they never learned to deal with the internet and social media and always being plugged in. They went from 3 channels that were only on some of the time to being completely soaked in information at every moment.

Do you remember the USofA after 9/11/01? People were legitimately freaking out that the third biggest shopping mall in [insert small town] was going to be destroyed at any moment. We started torturing people and tapping every phone in the universe because they were coming for us!

The last time I went to my parents’ house they had Faux News on and Jesse Waters came on. This was the day after the Mueller Report came out. Three lies in the first minute. I said so and my dad said “maybe so, but he’s entertaining.” My dad is the more highly educated (M.D.) and rational of my parents which is scary.…

That conservatives blamed Obama for the great recession, despite basically all evidence to the contrary.

+2 Henries 

What exactly did you mean by 'catastrophic damage to the economy (and that was a black guys fault)'

He meant “aides.” A cure for aides like John Bolton.

I don’t think the Republicans in charge are really worried about it, because they figure they have enough money and power to insulate themselves and their families from whatever disaster ensues, and that’s all they care about.

“11 stressed-out journalists named Ben.”

“resplendent candyfloss Kangol of hair” was masterful

Trump: “I may have to go for an extra term.”

My whole hypothesis on Trump or just conservatives self-immolating in general is that the country has been (relatively) peaceful and prosperous for decades at this point and conservatives have lost all sense of fear that this country can really be harmed. Most of the demographic of people in charge haven’t experienced…

Why is the president talking about AIDS? STICK TO SPORTS!

“Youppi-shaped torso” FTW 

Same but:

JFC man, this title. I can’t stop laughing.