This is bad, but I find myself wishing that Trump’s hiding-in-the-bunker time had ended the same way as that of a certain other infamous leader...

Never heard a better description of Evangelicals. Anyone who doubts it need only watch Jesus Camp.

“Slowly & in-total-command walk …”

Waddles is the living embodiment of every single Christian “sin”. All of them. He is and always has been completely amoral, the only “code” he lives by is “me first”.

Your commentary is always spot on, but that last paragraph hit the nail on the head. Sweet gentle Jesus. 

I expect that’s true. I’m just curious to know how long it was before he was asking about such things (you know he was).

Also, seething rage at this.

He’d have more credibility if he was holding up a Big Mac. At least that’s something he actually believes in.

You don’t understand. The problem isn’t that Trump is cynically peddling snake oil to rubes. The problem is that this is the Jesus these people believe in:

As always, Waddles automatically assumes literally everything is all about him and nothing else. Everything he did and said yesterday was in direct response to the stories about him hiding in the bunker.

Police have looting the lives of black people for........ Well since the inception of “law enforcement” in this country.

The anti-Christ.

Yep. By saying it was *A* Bible, he casually admitted it was just a meaningless prop to keep suckering the dimwits in further supporting him. The contempt he has for his own supporters is so blatant, it’s staggering. If he’s only learned one thing in his life, it’s how to sell the snake oil.

Scottsdale Fashion Square is a luxury shopping mall. It has a concierge. Cartier, Jimmy Choo, a Peloton store, Montblanc (the fancy pens), Tory Burch and so on. Arizona has been no stranger to mass protests, seeing as how we had years of anti SB-1070 protests in the early 2000s when tens of thousands of people marched,…

I also grew up in the 80's and my mom preferred to buy all of our school clothes at Penny’s. I one time asked her why we never went to Sears, she had no real answer, other than in her perception Penny’s was nicer and Sears was for appliances. I grew up middle class, so for sure Penny’s was the indulgence. It was the…

Most people in younger generations do not want their “mother’s” ... anything when it comes to personal expression. They don’t want their mother’s house, they don’t want their mother’s fashion, they don’t want their mother’s dishes... and so on. People think of Millennials as these silly youngsters that like avocado…

which is flat-lining because the middle class itself is at death’s door

I grew up in the Rust Belt in the 80s, and our mall had Sears at one end and JC Penny’s at the other. Funny thinking back on it, but the perception always seemed to be that JC Penny’s was “fancy Sears” (although this was in a very economically depressed area).  But then a buddy of mine worked for them in high school,…

1. They had already trained their customers to expect discounts

The faltering of 2011 is an interesting case-study in behavioral economics. They made products cheaper overall, yet people preferred the higher-priced items so they could get the rush of getting a discount. Makes no damn sense, especially because retailers like Walmart and Target rarely have coupons or (Significant) sa…