That’s absolutely it. My very first boss out of undergrad was about Trump’s vintage, and he once straight-up told me—after I’d corrected his idiotic use of quotation marks for the hundredth time—that he likes using them because they show emphasis. I don’t think I ever convinced him otherwise, I just changed them…

“Obama would have attacked Iran because he was weak and a bad negotiator. I, on the other hand, will attack Iran because I’m weak, a bad negotiator, and because I’ve run out of other ways to distract the people from my giant list of blatant crimes and need to wag the dog as conspicuously as possible.”

I work from home for a global company, so this sort of stuff is really critical for me. If I don’t put boundaries up, I’ll be getting phone calls and emails and meeting invites at all hours. And sometimes, that’s unavoidable. But I was very up-front with my direct superior and my colleagues from day one. Between the…

Yeah, exactly this. We’ve been coasting on the accomplishments of our grandparents for decades, while our society, culture, government, and infrastructure rots around us. We’re a nation of fat, stupid, lazy, entitled jackasses who don’t have the intelligence, education, or motivation to compete anymore.

Yeah, the scorpions really annoyed me. On so many levels. First, two different giant crossbows mounted on ships bobbing in the water landed two shots on a fast-moving target hundreds of yards away... I mean, come on now. (And let’s not even get into the question of how neither dragon saw or smelled the ships from…

Nah, it’s worse than that. The GOP has learned how to have its cake and eat it too when it comes to illegal immigration.

Christ, thank you. When our little dude was an infant, I had a panic attack when I came across reporting similar to this, but when I dug deeper, the numbers didn’t bear it out. At all.

I just find it unfortunate that people have a favorite show or hobby, rather than a personality of their own.

Just a real dearth of dignity and self-respect, all the way around.

Aww. Post deleted by author. Wanted to look at the other pics of the underside. The lowered suspension and the subwoofer aren’t my cups of tea, but the fact that he included pictures of the suspension makes me have more faith that he knew what he was doing. And just in general it’s a well-presented ad, and though…

Yeah, it really is a painful reminder of how far things have fallen that she’s such a hero. I absolutely do not mean to put her down by saying that: she is awesome. But so many of the things for which she’s lauded are just... things that all of our elected officials should be doing. But we expect so little out of…

I mean, fuck it. This whole season has been the equivalent of the showrunners shouting “we’re not really interested in finishing this anymore” through a megaphone, so they may as well be intellectually honest about it and end it the same way Python ended Holy Grail.

Sweet, another “Trump inner circle exposed as moron” story. Are we all ready for the usual news cycle around this? A couple of days of more quotes about how dumb he is, followed by Trump tweeting that it’s all fake news and Jared’s super-smart, followed by enough pressure being put on a couple of the people mentioned…

Yeah, half-assed is a good way to put it. It just feels unearned. Like, we spent seven years going through a slog of unraveling incredibly complicated interweaving plots and some really compelling character development that, while having plenty of twists and surprises, justified itself pretty well (some bits of the…

“Yeah, sure, this will harm you economically, but be thankful we haven’t killed you outright.”

This is the thing that so many people don’t get. I was talking with a buddy’s father a few weeks ago, a rural guy who’s spent most of his life working in factories. He’s conservative but not a Trump guy—honestly don’t know how he voted in 2016, but I know he’s not a fan.

That crossed my mind too, particularly as in the second shot of the horse you see it’s covered in blood, which calls to mind the horse of the second rider of the Apocalypse (war)... But even if that’s what they were going for, some sort of allusion to either all four riders or death specifically, then it still makes…

You know what? I was kind of OK with it up until that fucking white horse.

Preach. Seriously, when did the right become so comfortable celebrating these kinds of fucking cockpuppies?

I mean... I want to disagree with you, but I don’t really. I thought Trump was going to pull the GOP down, but when he didn’t, and instead the GOP just kind of realigned reality with Trump... it gets harder and harder to see.