I too, feel that Emma did not take enough drugs in this essay.

I resent the fact that my little poor country in Central America, can declare elections as national holidays and are held always on sundays, provide free public transportation for the day, and offer free sandwiches and coffee in polling places. America needs to do better.

But also, that’s not a topiary.

The more you report on this, Joanna, the more it deepens my suspicions that this is just another aspect of something Ta-Nehisi Coates used to talk about when he did investigative journalism on police.

Ok but like $40 an hour to monitor someone’s Facebook?? Still.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair

Seems to be a trend, with the GOP, to enjoy the fruits of pop culture, while somehow lacking any awareness of the meaning of what they watch, read, or listen to. Like when Paul Ryan cited Rage Against The Machine as one of his favourite bands (and Tom Morello fired back that Paul Ryan was a part of the very machine…

I don’t think that Ted Cruz understands of the point of anything...

Ted obviously has never seen the episode.

Lisa is the best, so thanks, I guess?

So, Democrats are the smart ones who care about the world and want to make it a better place, while Republicans are (pick one) fat, lazy and arrogant; trouble-making trolls; married women who put up with fat, lazy anti-intellectual husbands because they married them; or, have mentality of an 18-month old.

What about his use of Scientology slaves? Or using Scientology spies to perpetually follow his partners? Or the situation from which Katie Holmes had to literally covertly escape under cover of darkness?

It’s almost as though predatory men understand social power and deliberately prey on people with less power while presenting a polite public face to those with enough social capital to present a problematic target for their predations as a cover. Almost.

Pretty sure Melania’s the one who keeps the medicine cabinet stocked with Viagra, the porn stars on speed dial, and calls for the staff to strip the bed and boil the sheets afterwards.

From a friend who is far more eloquent than I:

Aside: I truly love that there are so many different commenters here, and we can learn what the processes are actually like.

Jen Richards wrote this less than a year ago.

Jesus Chris! Our genius leader, ladies and gentlemen. Holy fuck, I mean, I know Trump is an idiot but the linguistic expert they bring on puts it in brutally blunt terms