“I believe and the president believes firmly

Just your reminder that literally every other country in the developed world provides insurance to the vast majority of its citizens. Every other major capitalist nation on this planet provides government-run insurance to its citizens, and they pay far less than we do (we spend the most in the world on healthcare per…

That headline is the entirety of what is wrong with the worldview of the Republicans. Not everything is about money. the ACA was about getting people insured so they could get medical treatment. The poor, the elderly, the homeless, no one could be denied. No one could be turned away. Healthcare for a cough before it…

These fucking goons are being deliberately dishonest about how insurance works, and about how principles of economics don’t apply to all things successfully, healthcare and education being two of those things. We make everyone get car insurance and home insurance, that’s how it works. Can I pay my taxes à la carte,…

The bible was not written by God or Jesus himself, but “followers” that could have perceived their “messages” incorrectly.

He was aiming for ‘viscous’.

Every time I say something like that to my conservative family members I’m told not to take their political posts personally. Uh, you just insulted a group I’m a part of, how else am I supposed to take it?

You could power China for a year by burning all the straw men I’ve seen on FB since the election.

I think an argument could be made that the fact that Trump exists means God doesn’t.

God doesn’t exists, next question.

“Oh,” said Bette, “something fatal, I hope.”

Please start writing the script for the feud with the waiters, pretty please?

One of my favorite movies.

They can do evey single season of this show as a feud between Joan Crawford and a different person or entity. Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, her children, the Pepsi Cola board, waiters who brought her less than 90 proof vodka.

The conservative guy might distrust me, and a handful of them would love to shoot me, but at least they’re willing to hire me, since our group has a very low unemployment rate.

That asshat lives in my neighborhood and every time I see him he has the pinched look on his face of someone who just stepped in dog shit. Which he may have done, because Capitol Hill is basically a giant dog toilet.

My decision to subscribe to the Washington Post rather than the Times last month was mainly because Charles Krauthammer was the only Post columnist I loathed as much as Friedman and Douthat, and I’d rather put up with Kathleen Parker than Maureen Dowd and David Brooks.

I had one job that I didn’t want to leave, but it didn’t matter to my employer.

Obligatory:

Somewhere, people are having sex without Ross Douthat’s permission. And he will funnel his rage over this situation into milquetoast bleating about morals and sin and be so very concerned.

***Kind of stole the tenor of this joke from Charlie Pierce***