I was at the garage today (and ended up having to buy a whole new set of tires- yay) and CNN was on. I seriously forgot how annoying it was to hear 45's voice. I usually just read the transcripts of whatever dumb thing he has said- but it was on the TV in the waiting room and I couldn’t avoid it. So much yelling and…

dating in New York as a 30-something executive in private equity

Benedict Beckeld, the Brooklyn writer in his late 30s

I’m HOH, so much that living in the hearing world is so difficult sometimes that I don’t want to get out of bed. I was mainstreamed to read lips only. No sign. Thanks parents and teachers! I was raised to please your hearing world. I am sitting here with tears streaming down my eyes right now reading some of the…

This perfectly encapsulates the GOP supporters voting against their own interests. “Well sure but I’m one of the good [women/immigrants/gay people/Muslims/etc] so obviously they aren’t talking about me when they explicitly say they want to harm my specific group.”

“I did it for the economy. We needed a change.”

I feel bad for him. But her? Screw that. She should have listened to him more carefully, or, you know, not drunk the Kool-Aid and done some research. The only good thing to come of this is that maybe, just maybe, people like this will turn on him in 2020.

Why not mince the categories and let everyone, no matter their gender identity, compete against one another?

Right? I swear to god, every single time I hear the term “My Tax Dollars” I cringe because you know it’s about to be horrible.

Poor in mid-west or Appalachia? The world is out to get you and you just need some protection from the big bad coastal elites and we should really do something about the opioid abuse in your community.

Yeah I’m so sick of people defending them: ‘oh they were economically anxious’. You don’t vote in favor of someone who openly despises people of color, women and poor people and then get to claim that you did it out of self preservation. Vote with the common good in mind, not just your own selfish needs. We’re in a…

“We don’t know how much of a factor race plays in the sudden reversal of public opinion...”

1st paragraph jobs: We must preserve these industries!

I love how “working-class” is a term to mean white and employed in manufacturing, repair services, energy production, agricultural production, or police and emergency services. God bless those people. They’re the salt of the earth.

My sister is at home a lot right now, and she’s confirmed that, yes, a few minutes before I usually get home from work, my cat climbs out of wherever he’s been napping and goes to wait by the door for me. It fills me with joy every day.

aw. my cats love me so much, it’s always so obvious. they always sit next to me (or on top of me), wherever i go in the house. they follow me everywhere too and wait for me outside the bathroom. i don’t know if they know when i’m coming home, but every day as i pull up to the house after work, they’re in the window…

I don’t understand why ‘going to bed hella early’ was a category and ‘sleeping in until the afternoon on the weekends’ wasn’t one. When you’re an adult, you can stay in bed forever without anyone giving you shit about it.

I am a capitalist tool who can have more vacations with or without booze if I got a raise.

lol “gave up his billionaire lifestyle.”

Is there a reason they only interviewed people in their 70s and 80s?