I work a civil service job in NYS and he is loathed. But the alternative, on his first go-round at least, was Carl fucking Paladino.

If he doesn’t clean up his act soon, he’s flirting with a multi-game suspension.

He’s no longer draining the swamp. He’s just setting up his new cabinet HQ there.

This is a pretty good example of what I was bitching about in a thread last week (or two weeks ago or God who knows every day is the same day all over again) - the negative consequences of having spent decades imbibing the false lesson that political cynicism approximates sophistication.

It might be an aside, but assuming you’re referring to the NPR interview with Rachael Martin, this is exactly how Trump got elected: a captured media wants to be buddy-buddy with the powerful and decides that access is more important than journalism.

Newt Gingrich was on the radio this morning saying that the phrase “drain the swamp” is no longer in use with Trump. It was just something that sounded good to crowds to get elected.

“Drain the swamp” means different things to Trump voters than it does others. People on the left keep thinking “his voters will turn on him once they see how he’s staffing his administration with political and financial elites.”

I can’t believe anyone would buy her protests. She has literally let her son run a white supremacist organization out of her properties, and only when she’s finally finding out that maybe it’s not good to be blatantly racist and xenophobic in the fucking hospitality business wants to pretend she knows nothing about…

How many times did we hear his supproters say Trump’s main qualification was that he’s made a lot of money so he must know how to run the country and make it “great” again? Yup, what you said...

“ . . . people who have made the attainment of money, rather than the attainment of ideals, the defining purpose of their lives. It’s hard to imagine that this is what all those Trump voters who wanted to stick it to the establishment were looking for.”

It seems that, with most quarterbacks at least, there is zero room for judgment. How many times have we seen a defender get a personal foul when, in an attempt to swat down a pass, he grazes a quarterback’s head? Bad things seem to happen most often when a player’s head bounces off the ground or when there’s…

Agreed. A wayward hand to a QB helmet is almost always flagged, even when he’s a runner. Forcible must mean if QB=Newton

This is certainly the first time I’ve ever heard “forcible” as a reason to not flag clear helmet-to-helmet contact by a defender, let alone clear helmet-to-helmet contact by a defender in a context where the QB has already given himself up and can’t be hit at all. Or heard that word at all in an NFL context really.

The way we treat prisoners in this country is shameful.

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I’ve never really understood why opponents of the death penalty don’t first attempt to resolve the issue of prison conditions.

This is precisely why I gave up straightening my naturally 4C hair. EVERYTHING made my hair break off. If I used the “lite” perm, there were no actual changes to my hair structure. “Regular” or “Bone Straight” would effectively straighten my hair, but would also weaken it to the point of falling out. Wash and…

Biologist here. We can respond to this. These trees offer more to the planet than younger trees (more CO2 absorption, deeper roots, more biodiversity etc) and it takes hundreds of years to replace them. Make a quick call to your representatives demanding protection for older forests. (Planting new trees in cities is…

Hey, I know people keep calling this guy Elite, but he gets into all sorts of trouble when he gets out of the pocket.

Bullshit. People are buying small cars. Just not GM cars. Funny how Subaru and Honda can make cars here and make a profit. GM should have been shuttered. The fact they went back to relying on SUVs and trucks to save them after all this is bullshit. I came from a GM loyal family, no more.