As a Chicagoan, I concur wholeheartedly. Granted, the city looks very different from the Chicago of that era, but still... Also every Chicagoan is required by city law to watch The Blues Brothers at least once every year and must be able to quote lines from the movie if stopped randomly on the street... True story!

Constance Wu is a badass. Doing the thing your conscience tells you is right even if it could hurt you (career-wise, in this case) is honorable and beautiful and I am really impressed by her speaking up. I also agree with her re: Casey Affleck. What a turd.

How nice would it have been to have woken up today with an alternative President instead?

What I find the most bizarre is the way that he reportedly brings a crowd of staffers and interns along with him to stand along the side to applaud and laugh at everything he says, even when the actual crowd he’s addressing is completely silent.

You’re reading the same transcript I’m reading.

It’s a painful juxtaposition, seeing the stars honoring dead Americans whose names and deeds must remain anonymous as the backdrop to a President who won’t stop talking about himself.

You KNOW this is going to get to him.

The CIA have been one of the darkest, most deceitful, most dangerous aspects of the US govt since its inception and have directly/indirectly led us into some of our worst major catastrophes.

The per capita cost to educate a special needs child is often two or three times that of gen-ed students. If the federal mandate were removed, I’m sure most states would cheerfully continue to provide that crucial (and it IS crucial) funding. And I say this as a high school SpEd teacher.

On the education of kids with special needs:

Also, the Obamas had offered to leave the playground at the White House for, you know, Trump’s ten-year-old kid and bunch of grandkids... and he said no.

It’s horseshit. You can be a watchdog without being present at the fucking coronation.

He did tweet about the significance of the holiday (whether or not he actually understands it is highly suspect):

Serious question. Do you think Trump’s ever been to a museum (you know to actually look at the exhibits, not to attend a fundraising dinner)?

Who took over Trumpster twitter?? It’s way too coherent for him.

Glad to see the incoming administration is taking clear steps to cut the biggest overblown segments of the US budget:

I can’t read this shit anymore. It’s seriously giving me a panic attack and just makes me sick. I hope his time doing whatever treats him and his family and his friends as poorly as he is treating everyone else.

The guys on your facebook who are very very upset about all the money we spend on foreign aid but don’t know anything beyond that, they’re now in charge of the country.

Awesome.

The headlines just keep getting worse as we get closer to his inauguration. It’s utterly heartless to cut aid to Africa.