Bannon is one ugly ballsak. (Normally I eschew cracks about people’s looks, but what with Drumpf’s approach to women, I’m not holding back.) That rosacea splotch of a nose, the pudge, the jowls, the eyebags, the liver spots; the swollen sausagefingers and the thin gray stubble that signal middle-aged organs in bad…

What dynasty?

She’s one of those older generation women who believe big strong men are needed to keep her safe

Thank you — I knew nothing about this.

Why express her courage in masculine terms? As another poster wrote: Pussy power!

The refusal to grant DC proper representation is INSANE. My sympathies to you.

HerezA, you can’t make blanket statements like that, because the cost of living varies radically thruout the nation. The cost of living in DC is extremely high; as another poster wrote, 30K there is like 15K elsewhere.

You’re absolutely right — but I think you’re not taking into account the intense frustration that results from the right’s refusal to engage in fact-based conversations. Their refusal to face facts about every issue — fair taxation; appropriate financial regulation; climate change; the economic benefits for the…

I think the point is, we all know that courtesy is crucial — but rage right now is intense because the stakes are so high. We’re facing the eradication of 50 years of civil-rights progress and the continuation of 10+ years of GOP-created economic devastation: continued stagnation of wages, continuation of record-high…

$30K might sound decent, but not with DC rents — $1500 or more even if you have apt.-mates (forget about living alone on that salary). And public transport is expensive, and food is more expensive there than in the surrounding burbs — it’s a nightmare on $30K. Someone close to me worked in DC but commuted 3 hours/day…

I don’t feel sorry for them. Anyone who thinks that marketing could ever be a good career choice deserves whatever quagmire sucks her/him in. No one forces someone to be a corporate pimp for a living, and people with a conscience don’t choose pimp-y professions.

You’re absolutely not overthinking this. The only element you omitted was that these machinations might be unconscious rather than conscious (or half-y half-y), but your insights are tremendous. “Sly” — yes. (My theory is that Drumpf et al. are behaving as badly as possible in order to provoke open rebellion so they…

She’s a hyper-devout rich American whose religious convictions and corporate soul-less-ness (go, Amway! go, Blackwater!) inform her belief that there’s basically only one way to salvation and to a more-perfect union. Lefties understand the complexity and diversity of the human experience and realize that a…

So when the fuck will Roberts et al. be disgraced for Citizens United and slink off in ignominy and poverty (like “Justice” Taney)? ... Thanks for the post; Keith O. is helping me hang on to some shred of sanity.

Wonderful posts (well, horrifying, but extremely informative and thus helpful, plus some great, er, sardonicity). Thanks.

I think Inhofe doesn’t see it as selling out — not at all. He’s Capt. Climate-Change-Denier, and DeVos is just as wingnutty as he is; I bet he thinks her views on public education (Scrap it!) are solid.

But Inhofe is a conservative wingnut, and they don’t believe in government as the provider of virtually any service. DeVos is hyper-religious and she believes in privatizing education — manna from heaven to the wingnuts. Remember, underfunded public schools churn out citizens who can’t absorb and analyze information;…

She has a strong background in advocating for the privatization of education — that’s why they want her. She luvs vouchers. Buh-bye, already-slashed-to-bits funding for public education .... hello, millions more Americans who cannot reason and thus will be easily manipulated by the GOP. 

present tense is perfectly appropriate when talking about a present increase in recognition

More like “caca-stocracy” (pardon my 4th-grade humor — just responding in a way Drumpf can relate to).