Mortgages won’t be paid, cars won’t be purchased, groceries will go unsold. We’re all connected. Fortunately the lawyers, accountants and auctioneers on the liquidation side will still be able to keep their European vacations, vacation homes and skyboxes at the stadiums. Phew!

And that’s just directly. Tens of thousands more will be affected by lagging toy sales. Truck drivers, sales people, suppliers and manufacturers will also be out of work.

I’ve studied US political history a fair amount and I don’t recall any sort of “Cabinet Secretary Musical Chairs” to this extent. Holy shit - he is just cycling people through the various departments until they inevitably get shit-canned.

Y’know, when you follow up the statement that 33,000 people are going to lose their jobs with a bunch of shitty “comedy”, you kind of come across as an asshole.

If I was fired over Twitter, I would just go int work the next day like nothing happened. Tell it to my face, coward.

Every fucking time one of these assholes complains about obstructing judges I want to punch Mitch McConnell in his smug doughy face

A large section of the Old Left have always had a secret love for the Bear.

In other good news, Donald Trump’s favourite British christo-fascists, Britain First has been banned from Facebook for spreading racial hatred. The ban also applies to the former political party’s two leaders Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen who are spending a lot of time recently touring the courts and prisons of the…

This is almost a worse idea than having Shaq lob bricks at the students from 15 feet away.

To those who would say we are overreacting, I would ask, have you ever discriminated against at any point in your life? I have.

“I don’t think” and “I don’t know” describe you very well. You had enough confidence in your ignorance of the law to say not once, but twice, that harassment wasn’t illegal. If you want to engage in conversation, my suggestion is to know what you’re talking about prior to engagement, rather than doubling down on being…

He’s not wrong. Let’s expand on this logic and make every person in the United States a cop—mass shooting will end because would-be mass shooters will simply arrest themselves.

Asked how he came by this wisdom, Shaq said he’d consulted his inner policeman.

He’s not entirely wrong. Police departments all over the country are underfunded and severely understaffed. Not enough qualified candidates are applying (can’t imagine why!) and the money isn’t there to hire them even if they do. Some states have police officers serving in high schools, some don’t. People are…

I realize this is damning with faint praise, but this is slightly less stupid than anything literally any Republican officeholders have said on the matter.

Shaqtin’ A Fool(ishly naive confidence in the police state)

Dr. Shaquille O’Neal. His doctorate in education makes him, in theory, an informed voice on this. [Shrug emoji]

I used to want kids. Now, I do not. There is no way I would ever send a child to an American school. I will move back to the UK and raise kids there. Fuck this shit. This is the stupidest shit.

Forgive me, I’m not as smart as most people on here so I’m going to do my best to express myself, but you know what’s really shitty? The way curriculum is designed. For instance, in Texas, we have TEKS that are what the state says my students will be tested on. Who comes up with these TEKS? Cuz I’ll tell you, they’re…

This is a disgusting, if deeply unsurprising, story. There seem to be a rash of stories in the last few years about intense anti-Black bias in American fire departments. Is it any wonder that a profession dominated by white men and a culture that glorifies male bravado is increasingly revealed to be intrinsically…