That was my first reaction. Thousands of lives is just rounding error at this point.

Yes-the pace at which this madness is occurring actually seems to be accelerating. All of my predicted worst case scenarios have long been surpassed. I have no idea where this ends or how many lives will be destroyed by then.

He’s setting himself up to not take responsibility for what happens. This guy is casually signing off on large scale death and destruction and he won’t take responsibility for any of it. He’s the god damn Commander in Chief and he has no problem sending people to die as long as he can claim it was someone else’s…

He would have no idea what to do if Twitter shut him down because his only move is to take to Twitter. He would implode.

The big secret is that there’s really very little downside to graduating from Hot Club to unwoman club. It just means that dudes leave you the hell alone when you’re trying to go about your business. And as someone who enjoys solo travel, it’s a godsend.

I hope someone up there in the White House has at least casually glanced at the Geneva Convention, and also maybe skimmed through some history about the inevitable, bloody failure of trying to stand back and use conventional weapons against, well, I can’t really say insurgents because there are so many groups and some…

He’s at best a 2 out of 10. Would not eat.

No-those people are here. All up in this thread with the usual nonsense about how if you don’t want a beat down, do as the man tells you, whether you’re right or wrong.

This had nothing to do with overbooking. Overbooking is dealt with before boarding. This was an error of logistics that was handled in the worst way possible. If they had simply booked the airline personnel on space positive, vouchers would have been offered of increasing value until enough volunteers were found. In…

This is not an overbooking situation. Overbooking takes place due to the fact that a certain percentage of passengers will not show up for a flight. Ground crew know in advance if a flight is overbooked for the number of passengers that have arrived and up the “bribe” as needed to get enough volunteers. They would…

Well in addition, the ‘guilty or not guilty’ determination is made prior to the sentencing. The standard is ‘beyond a reasonable doubt.’ Is the system supposed to create a whole new layer where the verdict and sentencing are combined to say “this person is extra, super, totally guilty and must be killed” as opposed to…

That’s crazy talk. You could kill someone like that!

I too enjoyed being able to wear t-shirts in January and have a Ph.D. in an unrelated social science and would like to testify before Congress.

I could have stared at this for hours and had no idea whether it was horrifying or some jolly good satire if commenters hadn’t made a note of it below. I wish it were the satire one.

We are also winning in incarceration rates. It just keeps getting better.

Oh I agree with you, I think we’re just using different definitions of ‘care.’ I was thinking of not caring more as indifference rather than hostility. I agree with you that they are actively hostile. I think this is a point where the US has really diverged from other democracies. Somehow we got stuck on the notion…

Yeah, sorry if that wasn’t clear. I think they care a lot, just in the wrong direction.

I’m preparing myself for an extremely awkward conversation with my dentist when I take off my pants at my next checkup.

Any amount of cheese is too much cheese.

I agree with you. I’d be willing to believe that Bannon has some control over when or which tweets are allowed to go out (and what news Trump reads) but if Trump were some sort of strategic mastermind he would not have his office leaking like it is and he wouldn’t have his nominees being caught in blatant lies. Even…