Well, Palpatine did convince the people to give him power by claiming a religious organization and its members wanted to overthrow the government. And then went on to establish a ruling group composed of mainly old white dudes.

I have a couple of Pokemon on my XY games that I modded through that QR code hack from a year or so ago. I’ve been able to use them in online battles in those games, but I wonder if something would happen if I moved them to Moon.

I’ve wondered about that. At what point does mocking “alternative facts” turn it into a meaningless joke that gets brushed off like another meme run its course, distracting people from the real shit going on?

There was a quote I read a while back that said something like, “the easiest way to make someone feel like they don’t belong is to not have anyone who looks like them.”

“Being liked is like being beautiful—if you have to tell people you are, you’re not.”

“Perhaps not the most educated or informed people,” he added, after a moment.

Hey now, that’s just boys being boys. Who hasn’t set fire to something in a locker room before?

I think I heard that interview. It was either before or after another coal related story where they talked about the “black lung” disease that the coal workers were being diagnosed with, and how because “a sick worker is a fired worker”/because the companies fudge how sick employees are recorded, hundreds if not…

I take a little bit of joy in knowing damn near everyone on his team had plans for November 9th that got fucked out the window right out from under them.

Don’t forget their charmingly dorky commercials with the Spurs.

That’s what I always thought the line was.

Too bad he didn’t lead with that.

He certainly sounds level-headed when he’s allowed to speak freely. Too bad he either hides it as to not upset his fans, or it’s not spotlighted because he’s a convenient scapegoat.

There was a video going around after the most recent college football championship. An Alabama fan was standing next to his TV watching the final play, where his team lost at the last second to Clemson. In a fit of rage, he punched his TV, cracking the screen. He then took a few steps back, folded his arms in a huff,…

And people think it’s coincidence that it’s the Republicans who gut school funding and support skewed, rewritten history textbooks.

There are assholes on both sides. Everyone knows that. And that excuses the right’s actions? “They think we’re ignorant, Bible-thumping intolerant hicks, so let’s act like it?”

A friend of mine once asked me why Obama forced the ACA onto the American people if he knew it was gonna be so shitty. I didn’t have an educated response, so I mumbled something about “I think it was good at the beginning, but then Republicans blocked it and hacked at it until it was a hollow shell of its former self,…

Reminds me of a quote I see every now and then on my FB: