I’d also add: you know what else makes “the troops” feel like shit? Watching the US spend billions on Erik Goatfucker Prince’s unaccountable private mercenaries, while our actual troops get fuck-all for support, either on or off the battlefield.

Sometimes I wanna carry around a flyswatter for all the motherfuckers trying to touch my hair, like:

The rot goes very very deep. One of the things the Manafort/Cohen trials have pointed out is that their crimes aren’t notable at all. The US is full of corrupt-as-fuck fixers and con men, siphoning billions out of the US economy, and the government largely lets it slide. This isn’t even a recent phenomenon: even…

“Countermand” no. “Dive-tackle and physically disable as Marshals are kicking down the Oval Office door” yes.

Also, as a vegan, I can testify that vegans poop a whole lot. Twice a day is usually the minimum; three is average, four sometimes, and if I’m good about keeping up with my running, five. It’s, uh, somewhat tiring, and there isn’t a toilet paper in the world that can help you at that frequency, but the upside (?) is…

Fun German EV story! So, the Post Office is in the process of converting its fleet to EVs, and they wanted to commission an automaker to do it on contract. No automaker here accepted the specs, saying it wasn’t possible to make what the Post wanted.

Also, too:

Well, the optimistic side of this dreary picture is actually that the US is not full of ignorant, bigoted fucks. It’s that the vagaries of the US political system has ensured that the ignorant, bigoted fucks living out in the boondocks have a vastly outsized influence over the political direction of the country. The…

Also, too: the 2020 Census -- the one that decides congressional districts and the Electoral College for the next decade -- is going to be run by the Congress that gets elected this November. So in case you didn’t already have enough reasons to get your and your friends’ lazy asses off the couch to vote in a couple…

The two-senators-per-state rule is part of the Constitution, so the only way to change it would be with an amendment. How likely do you think it to be that all those tumbleweed states give up their lock on US governance?

Yeah, she “believed” McConnell on all the votes gutting the ACA, so I really don’t see any reason for hope.

Remember when the Bush administration put reactionary toady Samuel Alito on the bench, and we all lamented the sorry state to which our judiciary had fallen?

She says she was told that it would be bad for her mental health and that she wouldn’t win.

or a tumblr blog.

As Yr Wonket pointed out yesterday, by 2040 70% of the country will live in just 15 states, meaning that just 30% of the US population, in all those tumbleweed states slowly being populated by white supremacists (lookin’ at you, “North Idaho”), will control 70 senators. Never mind getting past a filibuster; by that…

Of course he’s in North Idaho, a festering cesspit of white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

I once heard someone on some TV show say, “everything is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”

The problem is, for the low-information voters that make up the majority of the electorate, party affiliation matters far more than any issues, unless something really drastic happens. And things just haven’t gotten bad enough for all the I-got-mine people to start feeling it. Sure, you read about plant closings, and…

You know how Roseanne, when it first came out, was groundbreaking for showing the working classes as normal people, with stories worth telling? Shameless was like that, except without having what turned out to be a racist old asshole as its central character.

“S.B. said the audience was mostly white, with lots of couples. Both women say the set was awkward, but the first woman was particularly upset by it. “It was an all-male set to begin with. Then, it’s sort of exacerbated by [C.K.’s] presence,” she said. “If someone had heckled him, I think they would’ve been heckled…