I think the “if the vote was secret” was the operative phrase there. Obviously none of them would vote against it if they knew Trump’s base of simpering morons would know they voted against dear leader.

This. Absolutely this. We need to call Trump a “liar” left and right, absolutely. But that doesn’t mean we should ignore the actual gaslighting he and his administration are doing, because that shit is insanely fucked up.

God, I wish I could fully enjoy this. I wish I could revel in this utter stupidity and incompetence and absurdity. I wish I could just bathe in the schadenfreude without that pessimistic voice in the back of my head staring out the window distractedly and softly whispering, “none of this matters, you know.”

Yup. Goes hand in hand with the “he can’t be a racist, I’ve never once seen him walking down the street shouting the n-word while wearing a hood and holding a burning cross!” mentality that the far right has.

I’m so tired of watching Trump run through the narcissist’s prayer on every fucking news cycle.

This is why I never update my iPhones until the x.1 version drops. Not that every major update is borked, but god damn... enough of them are that it’s worth waiting. At the very least wait a few days and check the news. And if, say, you read stories about how Apple’s fastracking the x.1 version even before the major…

I used to think Malcolm Gladwell was a rich man’s Tom Friedman: someone who got way too famous for being way too proud of saying things that are far too obvious. Gladwell operates a level above Friedman in tone and language and occasionally insight, but the end result is largely the same.

Yep, the power button. Just like you can double-tap it to trigger Apple Pay, you can triple-tap it to trigger whatever you’ve set as your accessibility shortcut.

So this is different from all the other times Trump dipships publicly confirmed that impeachable offenses had taken place... how?

I mean, ok? But we’re several years into them doing this, they’ve had enough rope to hang themselves and half the country with already, and nothing’s happened. They’ve already actively perjured themselves. Nothing’s happened. That’s part of why I don’t think this does need to keep happening.

Eh. In the first place, if you’re not frustrated with this shit, you don’t have a pulse. There’s a difference between being frustrated and disconnecting.

Yeah, this is part of it. CNN and Trump scratch each other’s backs. I’m convinced Trump rails on CNN specifically because he knows they’ll continue to cover him breathlessly as long as he does so (and because his crowds eat it up). I’m not saying there’s some shady conspiracy here, but CNN exists to make money for…

Christ. I’m so bored with this. It’s like the shittiest possible remake of Groundhog Day. Every day, it’s the exact same thing. “CNN gave crazy Trump asshole some airtime, and guess what? They behaved like a crazy asshole.” Then we all gasp and drop our monocles into our china teacups and get outraged. Then we write…

I can read my phone well enough to scan texts/emails/short articles/etc in full sunlight, but yeah... I wouldn’t try to read a book in full sunlight on my iPhone. That’s what my ancient Kindle is for :)

My pleasure! I can’t even remember how I stumbled across this originally, but I found it to be a big help.

In certain instances where you’re reading a lot of text or what-have-you, a workaround you might find useful would be to set up your accessibility shortcut to “reduce white point.”

Camerota’s admirable efforts notwithstanding, there’s a larger problem here: what is the value of giving a huge liar a national platform to tell more lies?

I’m convinced NFL announcers use 20 words when one will do purely to fill all that dead air. Without these jackasses bloviating constantly, NFL broadcasts are just two and a half hours of replays and commercials wedges between 15 minutes of action. Trying to add gravitas via needless verbosity is just another way they…

Ha! I didn’t get into FMA until after the manga was finished, and I read the manga before either anime. And I watched Brotherhood before I watched the original. So, to me, Brotherhood’s always been “the original” just because it followed the manga which was the story I was familiar with, and it was the first one I…

It’s seriously an indictment of our system that these utter failures just keep coming back around. There is no level of failure that prevents a Republican from popping back up as a bit player in a later administration or a pundit or some other godforsaken role.