If you want to get on, let’s say the Supreme Court, you better do better than just mid-tier Ivy League.

Thank you for this.

That is the first and last time I’ve laughed at Larry the Cable Guy.

You. I like you. My pedants group meets bimonthly on Thursdays. I leave it to you to decide whether we meet six or 26 times annually.

That’s the central issue: a lot of these people at the top do work hard, and they do overcome obstacles, and they are fairly bright. And our society does say, over and over and over again, that it rewards hard work, and grit, and intelligence. Which makes it really, really easy for them to justify their position on…

In my callow youth, I was damned and determined to prove that the old adage, “it’s not what you know, but who you know” was false. I deliberately avoided pursuing opportunities which would have smacked of me getting a particular gig due to “connections” (not family, because my family is dirt poor, but connections…

We must pretend we have a meritocracy or else discussions about taxes, social programs, etc. would hinge on their effectiveness, not some vague moral argument about who “earned” it.

Sheesh. What is it like to be Reince Priebus? Your parents give you the middle finger on the day you’re born and somehow, incredibly, it’s all downhill from there.

against that pair? i’ll take my chances.

Donald Trump is not happy. Ivanka Trump is not happy. Jared Kushner is not happy. No amount of money, power, or celebrity will ever make any of them happy.

That makes me happy.

Never forget.

Not buying it either. I don’t go on vacations when I’m miserable or come out and oppose a bill that will further disenfranchise the middle class. Let’s switch places if you’re so miserable, Ivanka.

He looks ok in his profile picture at least:

they’ll have their money and their good looks, but the respect of virtually no one.

By now, the three Trump kids must be really jealous of the way that their sister, what’s her face, has gotten to stay relatively inconspicuous.

I agree. The real takeaway, again, is that these people have everything and are miserable as fuck. That Trump’s followers—especially Evangelicals—still find these people delightful is truly pathetic.

i don’t buy they are truly miserable. Did you see their golf pics from vacay?

Being a paragon of virtue is overrated.

I agree with Trump making MAGMA. Make magma flow all over the world until it is nothing but a burnt husk. Let the magma burn away all signs of man. Curse the magma as it marches across our lands. Watch the magma consume those that anger it, those that disobey it. This is the future we deserve.

It makes me happy that they are unhappy. I don’t care if that makes me a shitty person.