Yeah, that’s their privilege talking. Too Topical for some people means everyday reality for others.

“I kind of pooh-poohed the experience stuff when I first got here,” explained one White House official, “But this shit is hard.”

The saving grace of this Administration is that nobody who’s remotely competent wants to come anywhere near this shitshow, so the damage they can do is limited on the domestic front. Unfortunately, the orange toddler still has the nuclear football.

generally manipulate Trump by explaining how his actions will play out in the press rather than how they’ll affect the world.

You are absolutely right about Estelle (the blonde). She is super intense live.

We did have an interesting conversation about whether the original work was predictive, or if society cycled back to what fueled the book’s fears

Two options: lock him the fuck up or give him immunity so he rolls on trump. Anything else is unacceptable.

If someone ever makes a movie/TV adaptation of The Parable of the Talents, I can’t wait until people get pissed that the president in the novel has almost the same campaign slogan as Trump (though his character was inspired by Ronald Reagan).

How is pranking these assholes hurting victims?

If I was American, I’d be calling to report that ICE was asking for my documents outside a courthouse.

I was watching with my boyfriend and at one point noticed he was looking something up on his phone - he let out a deflated sigh. “What?” “I was looking up what point after the election they started making this, and now I can’t get angry.” 

Alien day being on 4/26 is goddamn stupid. It should fall on the 426th day of the year, dummies.

“It’s a rape fantasy”? God knows sexualizing rape is a depressingly common trope, but I’m having troubling imagining how anyone could confuse the cold, clinical rapes in The Handmaid’s Tale with erotica.

What’s with everyone using the “shitty family camera from the 90s” filter all of the sudden?

Heh. Heidi Sorenson is also the name of a Playboy Playmate from July 1981.

My stepdaughter just had prom- I was mostly surprised by how all of the girls wore super short tight dresses- not what I would imagine to be prom like. She goes to a catholic school and they had no issues or requirements so I guess it greatly varies by area. All the girls also wore belly baring dresses to homecoming…

Scientology is a cult. That fact that you’re unable to make the distinction between a religion and a cult pretty much destroys the credibility of your argument.

You dismiss that length of time like its a pretty inconsequential factor. That length of time allows a religion to spread far beyond its region of origin taking on often radically different interpretations and expressions. Scientology is still, because of its age and size, pretty localized to the United States and the…

Well, okay, quick thought experiment: what’s the difference apart from the length of time that they’ve been around? Like what really distinguishes any of the major religions from scientology?

Islam doesnt extort thousands of thousands of dollars, doesnt hold personal secrets as leverage, dont force families to ostracize other family members....