That means we’d have to find some non-horrible people, and even more unlikely, non-horrible people who are competent and who want the job.

You’re missing the theme: coal and excess terribleness. A couple of additional Centralia mine fires meet the requirements nicely. Happily, he’s ignorant and so has no idea such ever happened or is possible.

This is not an issue confined to one place or one ideology. Anywhere in the nation, a rape victim rolls the dice whether when she summons up the unspeakable courage to report the crime to the “proper authorities,” they help her or call her a lying bitch, or worse.

Thank you for the links. It’s always heartening to get a crumb or two of good news in the deluge of the horrific.

Yeah. I had a “ooo, I should knit those!” moment, and then I remembered I was far too exhausted to deal with fiddly patterns. Fun socks canceled due to burgeoning fascism.

I’m not in favor of censoring. I’m not smart enough/egotistical enough, and I’m pretty sure cherry-picking knowledge sped us on our way to our current predicament. Consider it a test for future people: have humans, miraculously recovered the ability to use critical thinking? Great. Here’s a bunch of useful stuff, if…

Yeah, but I am not qualified to curate it. Stuff it all in the closet and let whoever’s left sort it out: Maybe future people will decide all they want from the old world is the lyrics to Hamilton, a O’Reilly book on Python, and everything we know about Vantablack? Or maybe they want trigonometry, the recipe for Cool…

Mystified by the whole mess, and suspecting grave ills at the heart of a culture that could allow this to happen, it seems easier just to write the whole place off as hopeless.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Oh, sweet summer child, don’t try and apply logic. 

Along those lines, how does “patriot” (i.e. “someone who feels strong support for their country”) gel with getting that uptight about specifically protecting the Confederacy (i.e. the group trying to break the hell away from the United States)? If these numbnuts used basic logic, they’d be wailing and gnashing their…

I don’t drink, but I approve this message. (And may well join in the festivities, if I can get past the taste.)

Someone already put “schadenfreude” to a snappy tune, even. “CEOs getting shackled!” is in there.

Thanks for the book recommendation. That looks interesting (and depressing as hell).

Answer: hopefully never.

“Muslim” is not an ethnicity, it’s a religion. Much like you cannot point at a particular skin tone and say, “That’s a Catholic.”

Look a little closer to home before starting in on the Islamophobic, racist statements about who is or is not “barbaric.” “Nice Christian people” have killed a lot of homosexuals right here in the U.S. But I’m sure that’s just what Jesus would’ve wanted.

But, hey, at least if the illogical argument full of weird, obviously group-specific coded language didn’t tip people off, the cartoon frogs are impossible to miss: Hey, look, it’s an asshat. Do not reply to or even breathe too heavily near; the stupid might be contagious.

Having presidential historians speculate about anyone’s mental health is like having museum curators speculate about the airline industry. They could get lucky and be right, but it isn’t their field and they seem an odd choice. Given the deadly serious subject, why weaken your argument by not making use of subject…

If I thought he could read, had any concept of the idea of cause and effect, or could take a wild guess as to what might be in the Constitution, I would speculate that 45 is actually trying to rack up the most E.O.s struck down for being Unconstitutional as part of some sort of bizarro scavenger hunt or as a favor for…