She’s a horrid woman. One of those life size Japanese sex dolls that have been so much in the news of late (because the world has apparently actually recently arrived in Hell, in a handbasket) would do a better job of representing the interests of ordinary Americans than this hyperprivileged trust fund brat.

I read a report saying the other “spouses,” including Angela Merkel’s husband, had a perfectly lovely time going off and doing museums or teas or whatever it is spouses do.

It didn’t say anything about “his own people,” who are, in point of fact, Americans. The guy was actually born in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York, a city in the state of the same name, part of the United States of America. “His own people” are us, whether or not we choose to acknowledge the fact.

This last year has forced me to question most of my assumptions about the country, but the really painful part has been realizing how blinded I have been for most of my life by my own privilege. So this is a pretty numb and indifferent Fourth: no parades this year, no flag, no sentimental revisionism. This America…

It’s the old Terri Schiavo gambit, road-tested, tried-and-true. Republicans may even be able to work up the death-threats-for-life crowd like they did with Schiavo, a widespread Republican tactic that not only left her husband in fear of his life but resulted in many of her caregivers being advised by security…

It’s all such a game for these people. And one knows it’s just a game, so one shouldn’t get unduly exercised about what my granny would have called the fuck-all shit, piss, and corruption.

The NRA is almost openly advocating violence against educators, journalists, and dissidents, so yeah: this is the coming thing on the dark money right.

Too true.

What a revolting country the US has become.

The real story continues to be how the right’s propaganda apparatus is blowing smoke on Donald’s behalf, and how the entire Republican political establishment is lining up to support this old loon no matter how much damage he does to the country and potentially to the world, just so long as they can get him to sign…

There’s have been a time when I’d have argued with you vociferously, insisted these people were fringe outliers with no impact on actual public behavior, that Loesch is a dirty little opportunist desperate to get her name in print, and that in a free society this just isn’t the way.

Even the poorest of these Republican politicians (“poor” being a relative term) has more money than most of us will ever dream of. Their kids have access to posh schools and to internships. They have enough money to pay for most of their basic health care out of pocket, and in any case, as long as they “serve” in…

This is what happens to a country that has been savaging its own infrastructure for nearly 40 years—ever since the miracle of Reaganomics was birthed—in order to justify tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich.

No. She will never go away.

Women who have looked deep into those lifeless, soulless eyes have never climaxed again, with anyone. Or alone. He’s the Medusa of sex.

You’re right, and if there is any kind of pendulum swing, any vast correction, it will come about because of the sheer unhinged damage the dark money crowd is hell bent on doing to what had been a moderately functional semi-democracy. Like the song says, “freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” The…

The judicial branch has well and truly fallen—in addition to stealing that one Supreme Court seat, old Mitch also stole more than a hundred seats on the federal appellate bench, and the billionaires get to fill them all. 

This.

In the US, you at least have to steal a handful of cigarillos before you’re subject to summary execution in the street.

The burden of these interactions should be on law enforcement, but oh well.