Sorry to be a pedant, but China is letting its currency *weaken* as a weapon in the trade war (this makes Chinese exports cheaper). If you're the kind of ding dong, like Trump, who thinks "high US dollar = success" you could try to claim this as a win. So Trump's tweet shows a seven year old's understanding of…

Speaking as a foreigner, to be fair, people elsewhere are looking at the US and wondering what is going on with your mental health situation.

I don’t understand why calling for gun control after mass shootings is “politicising the tragedy”, which of course we should never do, while calling for video games control after mass shootings is... ok?

Oh hey, Alex Jones. Seriously, it was just an offhand comment. Calm your shit for once in your life.

“Imagine MoveOn running an ad calling a Democrat a MAGA chud; you can’t.”

Contrary to Gaetz’s view, I’d suggest it’s actually more like returning to your hotel room full of cheap whisky and ill-earned bravado, passing out fully dressed, then waking at midday with an ice pick stabbing away behind your eye, wet trousers and a crippling sense of shame... only to find the complimentary…

Well it’s not working so far, is it? “Calling out” people for racism that they don’t and won’t recognise might make you feel better but it’s becoming increasingly clear that that’s more or less all it does.

I’m not saying it’s the answer. I’m saying how to respond is a difficult problem and calling people racist in the hope that’s they’ll somehow realise and change their viewpoint isn’t the answer either.

Thank you for this. It’s been on my mind for a while and you put it excellently.

Tell that to a deck of cards.

“Nobodies [sic] writing articles about keeping kids away from pools”

Two choices:

I'm missing the bit where Pelosi was racist.

I missed the bit where Nancy Pelosi has been racist towards members of her caucus, for one thing. I mean, you can believe she has been insufficiently supportive of the left flank of her coalition but if you’re comparing what she’s done to “go back to your own country” you’re either stupid or you’re trolling.

Trump launches a vile, racist attack on Democratic representatives. First comment attacks Nancy Pelosi. Divide and conquer, and welcome to fucking Splinter 2019.

It goes to show that the defining characteristic of the Trump presidency so far has been how goddamn lucky the motherfucker has been. He’s created a few problems of his own of course, but in general he’s inherited a fantastically benign economy and centuries of inherited national privilege, and had no major exogenous…

Apparently she was banned by Uber Eats for demanding that her orders not be delivered by Muslims.

The Hills Have Lies

I don’t think you’ll find many people who are entirely comfortable with western powers’ relationship with the Saudi regime. I’m curious about how you get from “I don’t like how we behave towards Saudi Arabia” to “there are no grounds to complain about the president of the US palling around with another vile dictator”.

That wasn’t the point you were making though, dummy. You were saying that if someone thinks experience in federal politics is an important qualification for presidency they must by definition think the most experienced candidate is the best. That’s moronically stupid on every conceivable level.