“... something which definitely would have escalated the situation had the troll been an actual constituent struggling with mental illness.”

I’m ready for him to go full Sovereign Citizen any moment now. Something about the fringe on the flag and how his name in all caps is a different legal entity than his name with just initial capital letters.

One of my colleagues from the Poli Sci department had a student bring in an article by Ben Shapiro, citing it as absolute proof that the President had done nothing wrong.

To my colleague’s immense credit, they managed not to laugh at the student, and instead asked them where Shapiro was getting his information, upon…

Yeah, if the Republicans don’t get their shit together and do something about this, we really need to dismantle the system of winner take all elections and go to a proportional system.  Because if anything, Trump’s presidency has shown us so far that the two party system created by SMDP representation is a disaster…

Trump also doesn’t appear understand that you don’t need a confession to convict someone of a crime. Like a lot of idiots steeped in television’s legal dramas, Trump probably believes you can’t convict based on “circumstantial evidence.” No, dumbass, you can absolutely convict someone based on circumstantial evidence.…

Trump—like every armchair lawyer that ever vomited a profound legal opinion into the ether of the Internet—does not seem to understand that it is not necessary to say “I am committing a specific, actionable crime at this moment, and this is the word or phrase used to describe that crime” in order to commit a crime.

If…

Well, sure. There was the money but also its sources. I would guess trump came in with some seriously doctored books that even then only showed relatively modest money and any guarantees or other financial backing were from some sketchy foreign organizations.

Probably because Trump does not have nearly enough money that he says he does. If you get outbid by Jon Bon Jovi for the Buffalo Bills, something is seriously amiss. 

Oh no, we could. And it’s not that the box itself was brown, it’s that the Chex shown on the box were brown. And part of that is why we were so angry at him. At no point did it say Chocolate Chex on the box. 

At the end of the day, though, there can be only one . . .

It was a group that Trump was too scummy for, but Jimmy Haslam wasn’t too scummy for. Really says a lot about the entire sordid enterprise.

Ya this is not the flex they think it is.

I can’t tell if the hair is fake or the face is fake.

I sent $55. Hit that shit 10% harder, Miz Warren. 

For food based SNL sketches I have to give a shout out to Totinos with Kristen Stewart. A commercial for pizza rolls turns into a smoking hot existential lesbian conundrum with Vanessa Bayer speaking French and smiling through her tears.

I like that basically every Jamboroo now begins with a lengthy screed on why football is fucking awful.

Yeah, no shit. Now we’re all paying for him being blackballed from the "Greatest Grifter's Club in America." 

I guess it’s his commercial, but the nickname strikes me as pejorative:

Professional sports in the US, where billionaires can cry pauper and fuck over the taxpayers into funding their stadiums (while collecting all profits) and be seen as victims when players hold out for more money. No wonder Trump wanted to be an NFL owner so bad. 

When I was about 21, I would bring my 16 year old brother up to the house I was staying in, and me and my roommates would get him drunk and stoned and all that fun stuff. One night, we had gotten super baked and he was insisting that a box of Chex we had was chocolate, because “they were brown on the box”, despite…