It wasn’t any secret or speculation that he was getting primaried. Kelli Ward announced she was going to challenge for his seat back in 2016, pretty much right after she lost against McCain. Trump praised her last year, she shot up in polls, and Flake saw the writing on the wall.

I’m one year older than Stephen Miller (but at least 2 decades younger looking) and I had a wide assortment of glue sticks at my disposal in my much poorer, rural elementary school. Glue sticks aren’t some new phenomenon

I wonder if his back hurts from dragging the definition of adulthood from 18 to 22 by himself, and if he’ll be able to drag it back to 18 when someone not wealthy and privileged commits a crime.

That....isn’t typical. Unless his entire circle of friends consists of pornstars

It’s a bit more commonplace slang than just something a bunch of 80s kids said...

McConnell, oddly, has one of the lowest approval ratings of any sitting senator in his home state. But as others say, the R next to his name keeps him safe from serious election challenges. The only real danger that could ever happen to him is if another Republican candidate primaried him

*will never believe until the next accuser of a liberal figure

I stand corrected!

All I see everytime I see a picture of him is Stevie from Eastbound and Down

At the time he was in high school/freshmen year of college, the legal drinking age was only 18

I think some of it is that the whole Republican party has seen how things have worked for Trump- zero apologies for anything, plow through unpopular events and ignore the dissent- and decided that in today’s short attention age this is the winning tactic. To withdraw his name would be to admit weakness unnecessarily…

This is the latest piece of evidence for me that Amy Chua and her husband, who I’m sure are indeed brilliant Yale law professor, are insufferable rich assholes who can’t take off the blinders to realize that a bootstrap mentality isn’t the great sole equalizer to all of society’s questions.

I get that, but why is she the only one who doesn’t have an anglo name? Unless they were originally going for a Jr naming convention and ditched it with Eric

Of the three older trump kids, I’ve always been kind of curious why Ivanka was the only one who got an overtly Czech name

Yeah, I heard that detail later on. I guess it’s every aunt/cousin/neighbor/church member/grocery store employee that had met him for 10 minutes in those years?

Wait- how do you dig up 65 female members of your graduating class from 30+ years earlier that fast? I’m closer to my 10th than my 20th and I doubt I could recall that many women in my class

It is ok! But as someone only a few years older than you, I was just really surprised she’s tumbled out of pop awareness!

Wait, you know who these people are but not Mary Lou Retton?

The thing that drives me crazy is that he clings to the illusion that we all can’t tell he is balding. And it’s all because he has tried to engineer his entire life down to running for president. He knows that Eisenhower was the last bald president we elected, and he just can’t let it go

Vonnegut was a...complicated guy. Someone who went through a lot of trauma for the first few decades of his life, and one of those people who loved humanity but hated people. There are a lot of unfriendly anecdotes out there about things he said/behaved towards people, particularly in some of his later years and…