...who was only quasi-saved by his children being ever so slightly more competent than him...

“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…

It’s Troll Central whenever this topic seems to come up. And you are sure right — study and after study shows that Americans pay 1/3 more than others for doctor’s fees, 1/3 more than others for drugs, and 1/3 more than others for hospital care.  1/3 of everything we spend every year is a lot of damn money!  Very…

“The head of the organization was not involved in this illegal activity, only everyone beneath him, all of whom are under his direct oversight.”

Once I own my house (I’ll have it paid off in less than 9 years) I’ll feel much better. It was my wife that straightened me out and I will owe her an eternal debt of gratitude. I never want to have six-figure debt again. Ever.

That’s the one thing that has always struck me, above all others, about this particular shutdown.

“Democracts won’t come to the table!”

Followed immediately by, “But they will have to give us 100% of what we want, or they can fuck off!”

That’s not how negotiation works. You give to get—at some point, something within the…

corset-wearers generally lived longer than the average life expectancy for the time periods.

One disagreement, on the battery being full. There is a limit to the rate at which the generator can absorb kinetic energy, but it need not put it in the battery. One can always dump the excess energy into a resistor bank.

Whether it’s legal or not doesn’t mean he can’t get away with it. McConnell and other Republicans are happy to play defense. Even Mitt Romney has said he’d vote for the wall. Like Flake before him, he’s for everything on the president’s agenda, he just wishes the president would be so gosh darn less impolite about it.…

To be fair, a good portion of people in the country don’t seem to know what happened during the Civil War, what it was about, who won, or that it’s over.

I get where you’re coming from - it’s like people being outraged about the vulgar language Trump used when he said “grab em by the pussy” when what they should be focusing on is the whole “sexual assault aspect”. While legally dubious, the real issue here is the power differential between a fan and the artist they…

There was a BBC doc on “Trump one year on” a while ago and it seems he just finds these people at parties in his shitty Florida mansion. One of the interviewees was this “small business owner” who was just yet another daddy’s girl trust fund kid of that exact description who never spent a day at work and instead spent…

I am really beginning to wonder, where does Trump find all of these completely unqualified blonde women?

You get instagram likes. Every “like” releases a small amount of dopamine and serotonin in your brain, which makes you feel good for a brief moment. When those chemicals are gone, you can experience feelings of emptiness and malaise. So you go hunting for your next fix. They're chasing the dragon.

Put yourself in the shoes of a guy with a family who's found an apartment he can afford on a paycheck-to-paycheck income. At the time he signs the lease, his car is dent-free. He takes the gamble that he can keep it that way, but a hit-and-run in the Costco lot means he's lost the bet. And now he's subject to an…

You can write anything you want on a piece of paper and have someone sign it. That does not make it legal, enforceable or even protect you from legal repercussions from trying to enforce it.

The anti-Pelosi fight was, from the start, organized and messaged by the Blue-Dogs (who are basically just less-explicitly-racist Republicans). That’s why the progressives were the very first members to peel away and circle back to her.

I respectfully disagree and would invite you to fuck off good chap. Property management companies have a high tendency to be fucking pieces of shit. I give them zero credibility in this situation.

Yah, fuck you. People like you enable the economically strong to punish the weak for arbitrary bullshit like this.

“How can Republicans allow this to continue and stay silent?”