Create such a low bar of expectation that anything is seen as an improvement and/or solid. I recall trump being praised for merely saying words during the debates.

Your assessment is correct. However, that does not mean that him or his cronies can operate free from criticism, and with this particular clown car, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

No shit. Manhattan College is in the fucking Bronx.

On a serious note, the more sports people who talk about Spicer and the administration’s lying (let’s call it what it is, lamestream media), the less it can be ignored and explained away by Trump’s base.

+1 bindle

They will not ever, ever accept any responsibility for this.

fart every time you leave your desk.

My coworkers are cracking themselves up about the Obamas stealing the furniture, cause, you know, black people...

I’m sure he’ll say, “we had the biggest crowds ever!!” But deep down it kills him that the crowds are small, just like it kills him that he is perceived as an illegitimate president.

What was it Robert Frost said? “Good fences make good neighbors unless your neighbor is black in which case fuck that guy,” I think it was.

They figured out a way to monetize internet trolls, it’s kind of genius really.

Well, it must be tough realizing your whole life has been a lie, huh?

So ironic that the candidate least suited to address these issues was the only one smart enough to campaign on them.

You may be right. It’s not accurate, since under Obama economic inequality and employment insecurity lessened, but that’s what he was trying to tap into.

I think it’s *possible* that the United States’ deep history of creative, subversive speech and civil disobedience makes *some* sort of difference in how the dismantling of democracy plays out. On the other hand, working against that is the tendency for us to take these rights and institutions for granted (see: not…

“Write a note to yourself about what you would never do. And when you come to the line, don’t cross it.”

Schilling is the perfect encapsulation of the modern GOP.

I guess basketball fans will just have to settle for watching them play basketball.

In Soviet Russia Defense Hardens You.

It’s fine, because the Celtics got Kelly Olynyk in the same draft as the Greek Freak. And Kelly can hit jump shots and is tall. Everything is fine. Yup.