“Well! Now that men are having a problem with this, we really should work on it! We’ll get right on that just as soon as we can figure out a way to exclude women from the benefits of any reform.” —policymakers, probably

I’ll bet money that this asshole’s offer to “sit down” with the victims to “sort this out” would just end up as sea-lioning, so fuck all that noise.

This is something the GOP figured out decades ago, to the detriment of our national politics: your principles don’t mean shit if you never win. The Democrats have no power right now, because they (as the opposition party) will take the blame for any shutdown or other form of “obstruction,” even for things the American…

The part of all this that keeps me up is this: even if That Asshole gets impeached, and the Vice gets indicted, along with Ryan and Nunes and all the rest: primary season for 2020 starts in, like, 18 months? Who do the Democrats have right now that’s in a position to mount a presidential run? Anybody?

Not just possible. It’s a known fact that Mueller’s team is sharing information with the NYAG.

Yeah, civil forfeiture is a bitch. Good thing the KKKeebler Elf just strengthened those laws last year!

obligatory:

That’s a short-term indicator that means nothing in the context of, like, all the decades of hiring and wage discrimination.

As they say: when you’re accustomed to hegemony, equality feels like oppression.

I, who in the manner of a good and proper nerd/snob do not know what sportsball is, am very disappointed that the “final four” in question is a tournament bracket, and not the much more interesting “which four members of the President’s administration will be the last ones left as federal marshals kick down the doors…

functional illiteracy combined with early-stage dementia. I’m told the signature has gotten considerably worse the last year.

Fun (?) Fact: the Mardi Gras Indians are the descendants of a long history of cultural exchange between Native and African Americans. Bey had some dancing in the video for Formation. Not saying that lady at Coachella wasn’t up to some fuckery, but there is a legitimate history (of which, again, that lady at Coachella…

Wait, what? Holy shit, that was the best part of Cracked before they sold out last December, and yee-haw, it’s back on Youtube as its own thing! Hurrah!

Everything Trump Touches Dies.

Having thought more of it, I can’t see any course of action that doesn’t end in ruin for May and her government. If they pursue aggressive sanctions, they will get no help from anybody, it will make the coming post-Brexit recession worse, and her government will get blamed for all the economic misery. But if they do…

In other news, House Intelligence Committee Republicans have announced NO COLLUSION, NO COLLUSION, YOU’RE THE COLLUSION, and will apparently be wrapping up its Russia investigation over the objections of Democrats.

Well, given that Russian money-laundering investment is a major part of the London financial market, which is itself the sole, thin thread by which the English economy is hanging, and that the UK just spent the last year shitting on the EU’s doorstep, and that That Asshole in the White House isn’t going to do jack…

men … females

I love this phrase. Can I steal it?

Is this the shitty-exes thread?