There’s something eerily like the Borgias in all this…

Advertising 101: White background and accoutrement is a textbook sign of “we come from an industry that is very, very messy and we’re trying to pull a fast one on you.”

The shoulder pad silhouette was both masculine and feminine. It was a definite move toward androgyny in formalwear: after women made it into positions of power, but before gender studies has really taken, so fashion was geared to projecting an all-purpose “power suit.”

It’s not so much the basic reaction that gets me, it’s the twitchiness of it. Trump strikes me as incredibly tweaked out and perpetually overreacting to everything. Look at his (small) fingers in that GIF: he’s tapping the table multiple times as he wheels himself back. His reactions have reactions!

I think it’s a definite that the SCOTUS becomes more liberal on certain social issues (choice, etc.) —that’s just the passage of time and the lack of a fervent writer of reactionary opinions like Scalia.

You wouldn’t necessarily have to go to that extreme. Trump’s been rumored to have a pep pill habit (which explains the jumpiness and 3AM Twitter binges), and stimulants of all sorts --stuff as mild as decongestants even— can mess with the small capillaries in the nose and irritate them.

The most irritating attempt at summarizing the Obama administration by the Right has been the attempt to somehow insinuate that race relations went into the toilet because of Obama rather than because of the very deliberate choice to racialize the debate.

Trump looks like one of those guys who has about a dozen, “In days of old / when knights were bold...” dirty limmericks memorized as excuses for his conduct.

I don’t know that it was tone policing, so much as the Obama family knew very early on (as in, 2004, during the Senate run) that they were under the microscope. Remember that Barack Obama essentially owes his entire career to one colossal opportunity: Jack Ryan (who otherwise was an ideal blue state Republican)…

Realistically, the GOP hasn’t had a shot at “winning” the presidency since (I believe) the RNC became a clown show. They only had a shot by demanding party unity as a precondition of the center’s support of Senate and House candidates, and then hoping Clinton would shoot herself in the foot. That’s all collapsed.

Two things: politics is largely economics through obscured language, and that “economy” is derived from the Greek for “household.”

The really bizarre thing is that Bill Clinton left office in January 2001 with historically good ratings. Gallup had him at a 66% job approval rating by the time he left office, and barely 30% disapproval.

The real question is, how the fuck are memes even a medium you would want to control?

I’ll say this: Obama as president has been a damn good comforter-of-the-afflicted. But he has not been a good scold. When Obama needed to tell America about black people’s individual pain, or how insane it is that he’s had to watch mass shootings break out, he’s been on the money. But every time he says something to…

The thing about Budd Dwyer was that he was cleared in the corruption scandal that was going around at the time. The suicide was likely a perverse stop-loss measure --his family was suffering the effects of mounting legal costs, but he died in office, so his family was taken care of.

I was just feeling a late 90's mood!

Personally, I don’t want to watch the debate. It’s got the smell of a very bad trap for Hillary —the expectations game can damage the frontrunner very badly. Plus it’s got the open mic thing going, it just seems like it could backfire horribly.