If you can stomach it, this Politico piece on how Trump’s base in PA feels about him now is worth reading just to illustrate how disconnected from reality these people are. It’s worse than even the caricatures of them suggest. There are plenty of jaw-dropping passages, but this one jumped out at me.

I want to give the person who screamed “open concept sucks” at the property brothers a medal. I have already told my spouse, when it comes time to house buying, I hate open concept with a fiery passion. I want a huge kitchen. Massive. The size of my fucking apartment right now. And I want doors and walls around it so…

Man, if anywhere was going to have a magical bulletproof blanket of thoughts and prayers, it’d be a church on Sunday morning. I’m starting to get the sense that maybe those thoughts and prayers aren’t working as intended.

outcast “coalitions” of two to four male lions don’t get to have sex with females until their take over a pride.

I hope someone sues his ass for every last dollar. Make his last years as miserable as he made so many people. Sorry, Michelle, but I’m tired of going high

I’m an adult now with a good life, but I was a child with a mother like the women in these stories. She was stripped of her parental rights by a Midwestern state in the early 90s. I don’t know how much you all know about the Midwest, but for my home state to decide that a woman was not fit to parent, her behavior had…

It’s almost as if Trump’s real competency is not negotiating great deals, it’s convincing people that he can.

Maybe men and women shouldn’t have children during this time if it’s such a grueling schedule. Life isn’t fair, choices have to be made.

“You look at everything all over the world today and how women are dressing and what they are asking by just presenting themselves the way they do. What are they asking for? Trouble.”

Her deodorant was(!) my go to for at least 15 years. Bye bye DKNything. I cannot with these “sudden Stepfords”

Anyone who thinks coal is coming back is an idiot. It was the same over here after Thatcher closed down the pits in the 80s. The miners and NUM all spoke that coal could still work in the UK but we shut down the last deep-pit last year because it was uncompetitive.

It’s a shame he’s best known for the bandage dress. Don’t get me wrong—I liked it in it’s time, and even wore one to my bachelorette party years ago. But he was a master at both tailoring and draping. His designs really celebrated the female form. Do yourself a favor and Google his full name, then scroll through his…

I know I’m meant to be horrified by this government overreach, but sofar I haven’t read a story in which I would want the officials to act substantially differently. Could they be nicer? Sure. But do you really want an official investigating a baby with an unexplainable skull fracture to drop it? “Oh well! This 7…

Why do people perpetrate online hoaxes? Why do people shoot from a 32 story building? Why do people vote for Trump? Why do people throw a kitten out of a moving car (my foster cat)? Why do people abuse loved ones? Why do people drive PT Cruisers? I just don’t know anymore. People are crazy, that’s all I got.

We’ve informally reached out to a few people who work in TV news who confirm there isn’t a specific hard break until the end of the hour. This break occurred during the show’s first half.

I totally would if I could filter by salary, and salary range was clearly stated in every profile. Also helpful, if I could exclude certain companies and phrases like “independent business consultant”.

“They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort.”

Yeah, nothing about Trump’s own actions surprise me anymore, he’s shown himself too many times for any of us to be surprised by it (appalled, sure, just not surprised). But I remain absolutely fucking baffled at how millions of Americans have accepted this and continue to accept this.