Counterpoint: America’s Funniest Home Videos is awesome, it’s the greatest diplomatic tool the US ever has and should be nationalized. It’s every household’s favorite show back in Beirut alongside Friends.

Meanwhile...

Yes! I’m so embarrassed.

There’s this one scene in the Big Short where Winston from New Girl is bragging about selling mortgages to people with bad/no credit like newly-arrived immigrants and strippers. Steve Carrell walks away with his trading partners and asks why he’d be confessing to something so blatantly immoral and one of his partners…

This morning, I woke up dreading the chemistry final I didn’t study at all for. I’ve been out of college for 6 years lol. My dad tells me he’s had similar nightmares but it was about a random course he supposedly forgot to drop. Anyone ever have anything similar?

I love how Jimmy Carter is building houses at the age of 92 (after collapsing due to dehydration) at the same time this guy needs a break from being President.

This is the kind of thing I imagine Mubarak or Khamenei would do. So ridiculous.

Have any book recommendations? My sister recommended American War by Omar el-Akkad. I really wish I could enjoy it if I didn’t think this could be a plausible future.

We’re so effing screwed:

Any woman who voluntarily joined this White House can go fuck themselves.

Please don’t run for President, Rahm.

lol you white men can’t even express your emotions to one another for fear of seeming gay and you’re going to hold hands now? Good luck.

This. Any might I add to all the Americans who are not used to having a buffoon as your leader: don’t allow him or his followers to define your identity as an American. Egyptians, Turks, Lebanese, Libyans, Palestinians... we’re all used to having tyrants as our leaders but we continue to be proud of where we’re from.…

I hope everyone has a great 4th of July. We had a community celebration here. There were so many American flags it felt like a reverse Trump rally. They had pony rides and small animals to pet:

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

This is such a weird and scary time.

This shit makes me so livid.

We have a carnival & BBQ arranged in our community: bouncy castles, face painting, henna, a ferris wheel, fireworks in the end... nothing fancy. But the guests of honor are immigrants from the banned countries who are celebrating their first 4th of July.

Remember when we were all very little and our mommy and daddy told us we need to go into Afghanistan, stop the terrorists and “liberate” the Afghan women? Good times!