Agreed, brother. Fuck patriotism. When your country has gone batshit crazy and actively threatens the well-being of you and your countrymen, gtfo and take as many loved ones and likeminded souls with you. Anyone know the feasibility of getting a boat up Lake Michigan to Ontario? Seems like an option.

Wow. I mean, I share your dismay and fear of our current situation, but saying that this is all due to Russian hacking and not because our sane but flawed (terribly and irredeemably flawed) candidate failed us and because half of our country a) has been utterly brainwashed by decades of right wing propaganda (most…

Well, I’ll give it to you. I’ve been using Tangerine Pinochet for a bit, but the portmanteau is way better. So thanks!

Ooh, good! How about Tangerinochet?

Gyros so clever! Actually, I tried really hard, but Greek puns are Ares onably hard thing to come up with. +1 for the effort.

It might have been different back in Steinbeck’s day (I know, the attribution is disputed), but as long as we have enough money to put food on the table and afford the latest diversion, we seem to be pretty ok just voting our racial resentments.

Not Nazi, but uniquely American. As John Oliver put it on an episode of the Bugle, “Every American thinks of themselves as a temporarily embarrassed jet ski owner.” Which probably gets to the core of it better than the original quote.

Cut him some slack. Some nights you just don’t have What It Takes.

You should check with Boogie, Man.

No. I’m going to Draw the Line at Aerosmith references.

He’s the hero America needs right now, but not the one it deserves...

We should have been asking that during the primaries.

I think Alex is on a strong bender, which is how I’m trying to handle my racist uncle (and the rest of my conservative family).

She whose name we will never speak again sucked sooooo fucking hard, but not even in the same universe as this aspiring tyrant. Also, not sure what freedoms you thought she was going to take away. Higher taxes? Sure, but progressive taxation means you’ll never be taxed into the poorhouse. Reasonable gun laws? I don’t…

Then it was a shitty business plan. Shut it down.

That’s fair. And I’d hope that what you say is true. That doesn’t sound exactly like what’s happening here, though. But then again, recent events have me a bit more, uh, pessimistic than I would otherwise be.

Not the point, Randy. The point is that these employees are getting fucked by their management, who walks away Scott free. That’s the American way, and it’s fucked up. Organize. Demand fair treatment. If the enterprise is unviable, fine, but it shouldn’t be made viable at the expense of only the workers and for the…

Which is sort of my point, and the author’s. Had they organized, they might not be getting fucked.

And, as is our way, the employees suffer the consequences while management lines their pockets.

I mean, yeah, missed opportunity there. Thanks for the hockey assist.