The Prosperity Gospel/Just World Hypothesis is very popular with their base, and they’ve deliberately played to that and encouraged it. If bad things happen to you, it’s because you’re a bad person who deserved it.

“Fuck you I got mine” is a core GOP value.

According to Republicans, these are all just people who made poor life choices and expect others to pay for it.

She’s just so expressive in general...I love her weirdo characters because they’re always so layered and grounded in their own bizarre reality. I’ve watched this sketch so many times and it never gets old — her gestures, her voice, her eye rolls. “Shut up, Sue...We all hate you. So much.”

Oh, I’m not judging the kids, they’re kids. I’m judging the parents for making “Daddy is a winner” such a key aspect of the family identity, to the point that the kids apparently need to hear that Daddy let the other team win because he feels sorry for them.

I mean, Tom and Gisele are insufferable and I’m sure the little apples will not fall far from the tree.

Look, I’m sure I’m just wrong about this because I don’t “get” the sport fandom, but why the fuck are your kids so broken up about the loss? It’s a game, there will be a winner and a loser, and it doesn’t have to be a big dramatic deal, and you shouldn’t have to hold your family’s dignity together with the patronizing…

Agree. She earned that money, every cent of it. The last time I bought cookies I insisted on the girls handling my transaction, and both they and their moms acted like I was being unreasonable and rude for taking them away from their phones and their moms away from, I guess their small business? I almost felt bad for…

Girl scouts park in front of all the local grocery stores around here. Usually without any girls in sight. Not to mention the cubicle sales without any girls present. Just give her her dues. She actually did something rather than the super moms that usually do it for the kid.

Woot! Go Marie! We’ve been working hard to get her out there, and Dan is feeling the pressure. We have no use for a Dem who votes with Republicans 50% of the time.

I am tired of men defining real rape as “the level which I haven’t done to a woman”. The rape definition changes and doesn’t get believed because these men feel guilty as fuck because they knew in their hearts they’ve crossed lines and boundaries. Tarantino sits at home at night and lies to himself he’s not a rapist…

They tried to keep Roy Moore off the ballot, too, and then doubled and tripled down on “he only sexually assaulted some girls, it’s not like anything gay happened!” If he gets the nomination, the GOP can’t help but support a(nother) literal Nazi.

He didn’t rape a 13-year-old. It was statutory rape...he had sex with a minor. That’s not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you’re talking about violent, throwing them down—it’s like one of the most violent crimes in the world. You can’t throw the word rape around. It’s like throwing the word ‘racist’ around.…

Gloria Steinem tweeted that she was out campaigning for Marie today. I want her to win so badly. FYI she has a transgender teen daughter.

To be even more clear here, the Republican Party in Illinois has been dealing with this idiot for years and managing to keep him off of their ballots. This year he managed to claw his way in, partially because the Illinois 3rd is an incredibly safe Democratic seat that no actual Republican wanted to lose by 40 points…

You’re not the only one, Doc. It’s been a long, terrible last year, but we as a nation finally have a shining spark of hope. Thank you, Eagles, for finally putting the Pats in a spot they couldn’t cheat their way out of. (I do understand that the Pats have outplayed and outcoached plenty of teams legitimately. That…

I didn’t say it was - I think it bears watching because cutting out for profit insurance companies can’t be all bad. Having your employer somehow involved IS concerning if it’s beyond fiscal.

If it works and saves them money it might be adopted by more large companies. Cutting out the for profit insurance companies is the key to why this might be significant (IF that’s what they intend - like the article states - they are frustratingly vague). Many people seem to be missing the not-for-profit angle. That a…

It’s literally self-insurance, which they already do. They’re just combining their pools. It’s not a futuristic way to disrupt your health carrier.

If these three (two of whom I do not trust at all) manage to establish a not-for-profit system for their employees it can’t help but be of interest to all of us.