My first thought (if the political ranks are drained) would be someone with military experience, and that immediately takes me to Tammy Duckworth. She’s in a similar position as Obama was, is a fucking war hero and cyborg, and probably has the will for it. But she’s not the orator that Obama is, so far as I know, and…

This is my biggest worry about the next presidential election? Who do the Democrats have? Obama made his debut opening for Kerry at the convention, but the DNC did such a thorough job clearing the deck for Hillary’s coronation (and I do believe that this arrogance, real or perceived, was part of what did them in),…

As an expat living in Perverted Yurp where fucking everyone cuts their weed with tobacco and ruins it, because nobody has any clue what grade of herb they’re getting, I can attest to this. First time I smoked a whole joint of pure green, everyone around me was stunned because nobody here can handle it. Ugh. Philistines…

Nevermind four years. You’re despondent over the election, like every decent non-racist American? Good, then mark your calendar: September 6th 2018 is when you register, and Nov. 6, 2018 is when you vote. Go mark it — go write it down in your calendar app — right now.

I’ve been wondering lately if maybe one way out of the shithole the Democrats are in right now would be to finally start taking action to capture government at the local level. Republicans control two thirds of the state legislatures, I don’t know how many governorships, and shitloads of other local stuff. Once there,…

Simple. The Russian elections in recent years have been widely regarded as a sham, undermining his legitimacy (which, along with his poorly-thought-out dick-waving in the Crimea, trade embargoes, and his own bad managing of the Russian economy, have led Russia to the brink of collapse), which infuriates him. His only…

My only hope in these our fallen times is that the incoming administration will be so spectacularly incompetent, so riven with petty rivalries and vindictiveness, so completely uninterested in any of the necessities of statecraft, that they simply won’t be able to do that much damage. Our best hope lies in every awful…

Thank you for the tip. I sent KIND an email; hopefully something good will come of it.

Good heavens, thank you (and cslos below) so much for giving me some encouraging and empowering advice. You’re right. My own writing is deeply antithetical to his, so it will be particularly satisfying to use the platform he’s given me to repudiate everything in which he apparently believes.

So, it turns out that the guy who has been (rather generously) paying me to do translation work for him is a condescending mansplaining anti-feminist. He’s old, and not well informed about politics in the US (I reside in Perverted Yurp, which is how I can make money translating into English), but a lot of the stuff…

Lemme pile on to the “abruptly estranged from biological family” thread-jacking.

Also, I have a very strong suspicion that this gif is going to be coming in very handy the next few months (heaven help us, years), so here it is for your pleasure/use:

My consolation in these (our fallen) times is a comfortingly motivational article by Cracked’s David Wong. The summation:

Well! That was cathartic!

Right? This was my first thought this morning (in a long train of increasingly gin-soaked and despairing thoughts): that the DNC has so effectively cleared out its junior leagues to make way for Hillary’s coronation that now they have nobody to pick up the mantle and start fighting come January. I can’t think of a…

Then I guess you forgot the part where W was giving an interview and gleefully mocked the pleas for mercy from a woman he had condemned to die. It was such a repugnant display of sociopathy that it shocked Tucker Fucking Carlson:

Perverted Yurp. Fulbright Grant that turned into an academic residency and will eventually be permanent-resident status. Got out right before the 2008 Crash, and seeing just how much ugliness bubbled up after Obama got elected made me vow never to return.

Since this seems to be the thread for people turning up their noses in disgust at those other people who for some reason never thought that America might revert back to its racist fascist capitalistic roots, I give you Ken Layne — beating heart and soul of Wonkette, and political voice of Gawker before Gawker was…

what makes you say that? Current split is 54-46. Dems need to flip four seats, and right now it looks like five are likely (fingers crossed for Nevada staying blue!). If we’re fortunate, then we’ll even get 51-49.

I can’t remember where it was (my gut says it was an article in The Onion) that described something along the lines of “Americans watching prologue montage of post-apocalyptic dystopian movie unfold in real life.” Like, this is the part they show right before the narrator says “and then everything collapsed, the old…