Let me be 100% clear. Betsy DeVos is a fucking Ghoul and an incompetent bitch and deserves 1000xs more derision than she receives on a daily basis.She worked tirelessly to gut Public Education in WI. She has worked equally fervently to gut the Dept. of Education and it’s system of protections against discrimination.

Tom Hanks’ niceness always seemed 50% genuine, 50% calculated and amplified to me. It just rings a bit false, not an act or anything but he’s trying too hard. Gimme a DeVito any day instead.

Fun interview, but nothing is going to convince me to pay any amount of money to see Dumbo. Looks terrible.

It is deeply disgusting and alarming to me how closely the language of this administration parallels that of a codependent family with an alcoholic head. “Don’t fuck things up!” is code for “Don’t make dad mad by asserting yourself at all, or he’ll take it out on us!”

Daily reminder that Trump was not exonerated.

It fits in perfectly with his base who love to complain about free loaders taking everything from the government without giving anything back as they do everything they personally can to actually avoid paying taxes while taking as much as they can from the government, because they deserve to do it, not those filthy…

This is also deeply hypocritical on a larger level. Conservatives are constantly railing against perceived federal overreach. Donald Trump ran as the “law and order” candidate and on the principle that we should let local law enforcement “do their jobs” (read: hurt black people and Latinos at their discretion). One of…

One man, a private citizen, made a possibly false police report that might have been a crime. He copped a plea. Big fucking deal.

“Purely tribal” huh?

Trump’s entire brand has always relied on obfuscation and misdirection. He’s super-wealthy, but you can’t look at his accounting books, because that’s personal. He’s super-successful in business, but don’t bring up his bankrupting of casinos and real estate developments—that’s off-limits.

Same basic thing applies here.…

This is because Trump’s base wants to watch him abuse a black guy. Colin Kaepernick has lost his sheen, and here’s a new one. Trump is swinging the DOJ around like a cudgel (or wants to pretend he is). Regardless of what you think about the outcome of the judge’s decision to drop charges, it is pretty easy to see why…

Usually, important politicians wade in when someone has been treated unjustly. I’m sure the Chicago PD (the “injured party” here) will be just fine. Going out of your way to try to punish someone for a low level crime is the M.O. of simple-minded dictators.

oh yeah, multiple police shootings and no charges or acquittals - no reaction

this is like the alt-right ideal narrative: there is no such thing as racism against minorities, but racism against whites is totally real and we should be focusing on that.

Did anyone expect him to get serious jail time for this? All he did was file a false police report, that’s a fine at the most.

I really wish this whole clusterfuck would just go away, because absolutely everything about is feeding into the conspiratorial conservative nutjob blogospace.

“...we, as prosecutors, use our discretion in a way that restores the victim, but causes minimal harm to the defendant in the long term.”

Nothing to feel bad for. She’s has literally every opportunity to become a functional adult that know their words from the day she was born. That she feels such disdain for knowing stuff while taking the spot of a person who can spell...and study, and go to class, makes her supremely gross. 

I also make that sound when I see her but my intent is more contempt than sympathy. It’s sickening that someone with alllll the resources and access to great education can’t even write with proper punctuation or grammar. I would agree that it’s not entirely her fault... her parents completely failed her while she was…

I want to feel a bit sorry but I can’t. I am not an especially cruel person, but I survive precariously on disability, which has affected the level of sympathy I can summon up toward the mega rich...especially beautiful young women who will never face a real hurdle in their lives, at least not because the money can’t…