Yep, and every discussion with them ends with “the Bible says so and that’s that.”

There seems to be a recurring notion among some Christians that just by virtue of believing, any fool notion that pops into their head automatically carries the weight of divine authority.

She’s a white evangelical so she can say whatever she wants and it’s okay.

It’s insane how far we’ve fallen. Obama had to distance himself from Reverend Wright due to a few sermons and we’ve got this woman actively and openly grifting and yelling nonsense and everything’s ignored because it can’t even register on the scandals of the weeks.

I just listened to this Hidden Brain episode. Lasting change really is about making those small tweaks, and removing or creating “friction” in order to persuade yourself to do better.

Agreed.

For many reasons I am not a fan of New Years Resolutions but I do think there are benefits to harnessing the positivity surrounding a new solar cycle, even if for us in N. America its a horrible time to do so. Especially in the northern parts of the continent. But not resolutions, priorities help but how do you…

Either that and/or he wants to be a “wartime president” so that he can argue that we ought not change the leader midstream or some other such shit since (white) people tend to get stupid and jingoistic when told the country is at war; despite the fact that this country hasn’t actually declared war on any goddamn body…

As always, there’s a tweet/video/article for that.

Remember when Trump was incessantly tweeting in 2012 that Obama would go to war with Iran to try to influence the election?

Just a heads up: If you get shitty or mean in these comments I’ll remove them. Go be an asshole somewhere else. 

The only wall we need:

“...he will just say that it is not broken, or already fixed, or that it was always supposed to be that way, or that someone else did it.”

Right. The success he has had wasn’t even his own doing. He passed a giveaway to the rich and got two supreme Court justices because of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. That’s it. He's now what he always would have been without control of Congress: a lame duck without the ability to actually negotiate

One of the thoughts that I’ve hated more than anything over the last 300 million years it feels like Trump has been President, is the amount of credit he gets for being some next level supervillain genius who’s masterfully manipulating the press and his believers.

“He’ll never work any harder at it” is extremely accurate, and I think the 2nd most defining aspect of Trump outside of Adam Serwer’s “the cruelty is the point.” As a lazy procrastinator, I can see so much of my own self-destructive behaviors in the shutdown and other failures. Trump just forgot to tell anyone that he…

Words have failed me for quite a while now, to explain the abyssal mess that President Trump is.  Thank you Mr. Roth.

I like giving credit to Pelosi, but really this was the air line workers (particular the traffic controllers) that steered this to a temporary stop. If this manufactured crisis could somehow revitalize the nearly dead labor movement, it wouldn’t necessarily have been “worth it” but would have produced an interesting…

Buck and Aikman went at least a couple of seconds after the play with no notice that the poor guy’s foot was the wrong way. I'm sitting there saying that looks really bad, please tell me it's a bad camera angle or something.

I’m really glad that Fox decided not to run the replay again after the first time as I screamed in terror when I saw what happened.