Yep. When I read about this, my first thought was “nothing will change after this. 50 people dead and no gun laws will be changed and things will just keep going.”

If concert goers were able to carry heavy ordnance, such as high explosive rocket propelled grenade launchers, they would’ve been able to fire back at the building and the tragedy could’ve been averted.

Unless some rich people died, no point in even bringing this up cause nada going to happen.

Remember, now isn’t the time to discuss gun control. Especially when terrorists do the killing.

Poor Marie Antoinette, to be compared to that arsehole...

Oh, I disagree. The Army (the Seabees) and the Navy (the USS Comfort) should have been dispatched immediately to take care of infrastructure damage from the hurricane. Aid could then have been brought in, if necessary, that was sponsored by private groups. But it’s of little use if the Federal Government doesn’t do…

Talk about a “let them eat cake” moment.

I’m glad that there’s some great people out there helping the relief effort. But it’s *not* a substitute for the federal government.

Honestly if you look at his firm supporters they seem to be in one of two camps: Racists (of any degree from I’m not racist but...to Nazi Skinhead with Swastikas tattooed on his face) or The white rural poor who act like abuse victims almost. They keep going back even though it hurts them and they make constant…

You know it’s bad when he actually makes Kim Jong-un appear to have a redeeming quality, for a minute.

So true. I had a pair of them. All that work presenting themselves as the personification of righteous perfection made them miserable and bitter in the end. The world was a constant disappointment to them.

When my mother died I was assigned the asshole role. It was the pre-widespread internet usage era so my sister, who handled most of it, gave out my phone number and I dealt with the prickly relatives. “Oh, hello, Uncle X! Yes, that’s where the wake and funeral is going to be. Sorry you can’t make it. No of course…

I didn’t quite realize how to sum up my feelings about America until I read your comment. As a veteran I weep for our country because a lot of us are terrible people apparently and I defended that in a way. Ugh, I honestly feel sick...

God, that prayer describes how my dad handles any sort of argument or criticism so perfectly that I am yet again wondering if he isn’t a narcissist. Are there milder forms of narcissism?! Because he definitely isn’t as bad as some of the stories I hear from other people with narcissistic parents, but he absolutely is…

You have to believe that the country is fundamentally better than what we’re seeing now. Otherwise you fall into despair, which is a living Hell, and the concept that informs a lot of Existentialist and, for that matter, Jesuit thought. I don’t believe in an afterlife but I do believe that we are put on Earth to…

America is much more racist and awful than I ever thought possible. That’s what tears me up more than anything about Trump. Every passing day that his approval rating isn’t hovering around zero is another day that I’m reminded there are millions and millions of awful fucking people in my country.

Yep yep yep. A while ago I described my narcissist mother to someone as ‘[...] basically like if one of your parents was Donald Trump’. 

Thank you. And then, when my Mom passed, they kept their plans to go out of town and skipped her funeral. After first nagging my husband constantly to see when the wake and funeral would be held and if possible, could it be this weekend so we can still make our trip?

That is my Mother-in-Law! As my own beloved Mom was dying, my MIL asked me, “do you know how hard this is on me??” and...she and my FIL went to support group meetings for people who had a loved one dying of this disease. While my husband and I were busy taking care of my Dad, my dying Mom and my four little kids and…