They’re almost all subject to the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” fallacy and believe that as soon as their luck turns, they’ll be living in skyscraper penthouses, sipping champagne and delegating tasks to servants. So they support policies that favor the life they’re about to have, not the life they have right…

Wait ... Venezuela has been sliding toward totalitarian hellhole status for well over a decade, and Corbyn has been known to speak in favor of its administration? That’s not a good sign.

You and I have discussed this before - it’s an administration that fundamentally doesn’t see any purpose to diplomacy. “We’re the strongest, most powerful nation. Give us what we want or else,” is their idea of diplomacy. Also, with State being Hillary’s former bailiwick, anything that weakens it is seen as a great…

It seems at times like they’re each formulating their own special, magical questions to ask if/when they get their turn, and not looking for an opportunity to build off someone else’s question. It’s not really a group interview, it’s a series of consecutive one-on-one interviews. I don’t think there’s anything that…

They had 7 or 8 kids (my grandparents’ generation) and each of them had from 5-8 kids (my parents’ generation). So you’re already at 35-64 descendants in two generations. Then there’s my generation, admittedly smaller batches at this point but still probably 2-5 per, so we’re now talking 70-150 or so, and most of my…

Good point. On a statistical basis, the percentage of his statements that register as “true” is so insignificant that it might as well be zero.

I think if he gets to keep his tongue it would actually go worse for him.

There’s a certain poetry to “you little slenderman weasel fucking suck-ass douchebag” that I highly enjoyed.

TV journalists have been terrible. Print journalists have been great. The Washington Post and NY Times seem to have meaningful exposes and analyses every day about this shitshow. But the talking heads are just out of their depth when it comes to serious journalism.

You just know, instinctively somehow, that this is a guy who likes to argue that slavery was actually a humane institution that never should’ve been abolished. And he’s probably given it hundreds of hours of thought and is prepared with all sorts of anecdotes and stats to back his assertion.

Yeah, Acosta fumbled that a bit, I can tell the point he was trying to make but he didn’t quite stick the landing. Though every nation has English speakers, the policy will tend to favor the UK and Australia because they’re English-speaking nations. Acosta shouldn’t have let Miller get away with misconstruing what he…

I bet most Americans have an ancestor who came here not knowing English. There aren’t many who can claim their entire bloodline came straight from the Mayflower. We’re a nation of mutts, and we should be proud of that, at least, if nothing else.

Every nation on Earth has citizens who speak English. To think that Acosta was denying that was deliberately obtuse. What Acosta was trying to say was that an English-only policy will tend to favor immigration from the UK and Australia, since they have much higher percentages of English-speaking natives. I wish Acosta…

Oh, for sure, he’s not going to get 10% of the things he’s said. Even some in the GOP are starting to recoil at the depth of his vileness. I just felt the need to lay out many of the high points of the Trump and/or Pence Administration’s stated goals. In aggregate it’s quite the laundry list of evil.

He did once say that he loved low-information voters, back during the campaign. I’m sure if we dig hard we can find one or two other times he told the truth.

It’s a “Road to Canossa” type of thing, where he thinks it raises his status if he describes it as a phone call placed by the other party. A conversation can’t just happen, people have to have gone to the trouble to reach out to him. Makes him seem more important.

I think most people are, it was just nice to see that she’s still doing well.

Asshole megalomaniac cokeheads and babies are a bad mix. Good premise for a sitcom, though.

My great-grandfather and great-grandmother didn’t speak English when they came to the U.S. Eighty years later, there are probably well over 100 of their descendants living successful, prosperous lives as American citizens, and none of us would be here without the fact that they were welcomed here.

Well if rich white men get their way, people like me will be prevented from saying such things, so there’s hope for their gentle egos.