Thanks for blogging on the first Sunday of the last year of the Trump presidency.

A troll (or maybe just an ignorant person?) commented:

Two additional things.

Florida is a nice place (really good alligators) and it doesn’t deserve the terrible Republican politicians it ends up with.

Fantastic even more people whose lives are being made more difficult by Trump. His voters must be so proud of themselves

Yeah lots of federal employees are in this odd situation wherein they’re not fired, by any means, but they’re either not working or they’re working without pay.

At least one of the federal employees I know got to apply for unemployment yesterday. Here’s hoping that the shutdown ends sooner than later.

My heart has yet to fuck any mothers.

I liked her opinion that being called a child by a commenter was a sexist attack. That was a great opinion.

Double plusgood comment here.

One of my strongest hopes for 2020 is that the Green Party gets its collective head out of its collective butt and nominates anyone but Jill. Even if she doesn’t get in legal trouble between now and 2020 it should be obvious she’s too compromised to be an actual candidate.

As you’re saying, the impeachment (or 25th Amendment) process critically relies on Republican cooperation. I continue to think that the Republican Party is still trying to figure out (by looking at polling numbers, tea leaves, whatever) whether it’s electorally smarter to turn on Trump and hope that America likes Mike…

I was not saying that every Democratic Party candidate needs Wall St. funding to win. I was saying that a Democratic Presidential (... I forgot to include that word, my bad) candidate who completely rejected any financial contributions from the 1% would probably have a difficult time winning the general election. I…

You’re telling Libby that ... there’s no point in her publicly complaining about a candidate who allows themselves to be bought by Wall Street.

Do bananas or tomatoes help prevent scurvy? Asking for a Leaver.

::reads about the bill::
Yeah okay most of this sounds good I wonder what the potential problem is.
::reads that the Senate Majority Leader doesn’t like the bill::
Okay maybe the House and the Senate can figure out some kind of compromise here.
::remembers that the Senate Majority Leader is not interested in any form of…

I look forward to another weekend of the last year of the Trump presidency.

This thread feels like one where the George Washington appreciator would show up to remind us that George Washington was great.

I’m unsure what your comment has to do with my thread but I’m not a recommended commenter on Splinter so I just reply to everyone.

IIRC she became a naturalized US citizen so she can now vote. I might be mistaken here.