also true

The NSA doesn’t seem to think so...

Huh, I actually never knew much about where the grief stage idea came from or how it got discredited! Cool!

YEP, right there with you

I’m still researching. As far as I can tell, a legal determination of incapacity is made by a court. The determination can be contested by the individual or a family member, and if that happens the court can retain a mental health professional and consider their decisions before making a final ruling. “Partial…

I mean, is there really that much of a difference between a heavily-sedated schnauzer and Ben Carson?...

I looked this up because I was just too curious: I mean seriously, what happens if he just goes full-on batshit crazy during this process? If he honestly is so functionally unable to do the job within the bounds laid out by the constitution that he’d be considered legally incapable?

Serious question: how crazy goddamned awful would he have to be at this before somebody stepped in and did something? Like, I assume if he nominates a six-year-old for the Supreme Court, names a heavily-sedated schnauzer as Secretary of Education, or makes a can of cranberry sauce the new head of his transition team,…

I mean, the election of Trump was already a plague of frogs, so are we just, like, doing the plagues out of order this time? If so, I agree with the folks that just want to skip straight to “fiery hail” #GiantMeteor2016

like maybe they did the leap years wrong or something?

Bay area? Just heard that one on the radio last night...

It’s a freeze-frame partway through of:

well, trying to listen to them, reason win them, pander to them, or compromise with them sure as hell didn’t work this time around, so fuck, why not try it?

BRING OREGON AND WASHINGTON WITH YOU!! We’ve got flannel and good coffee and orcas and mountains and rain; we’ll be your Canada!

I woke up heartbroken this morning but was holding it together until my mind drifted to my niece, my nephew, my little baby cousins, my coworker’s brilliant and energetic queer teenage Hispanic daughter. I don’t even have kids and the suddenly crash of “oh my god, what do we tell these children? what did we just do to…

I’m an academic and I have lost a job to a staggeringly less qualified man at least four times. Quantifiable provable cases. We’re talking “I’ve published 12 first author papers with 1000 citations and he has published 2 papers with 20 citations“, “I have won multiple research and teaching prizes and have X years of…

yeah, and I’m still on some combination of denial/bargaining: “but...popular vote! such tiny margins in some states! what if we just have a record number of faithless electors? maybe if jill stein waves a magical fairy wand and moves all her votes to hillary we can walk this back! The UK just might have saved…

No number of stars can sufficiently express my approval of how thoroughly you are spreading this quote around Jezebel today, but here’s one to get started with :)