Sodastream is a pain, which is a shame. It’s just not a convenient system, and unless you’re really committed to using it, it’s got high potential to become a dust collector in your kitchen.

Right? This was my first thought this morning (in a long train of increasingly gin-soaked and despairing thoughts): that the DNC has so effectively cleared out its junior leagues to make way for Hillary’s coronation that now they have nobody to pick up the mantle and start fighting come January. I can’t think of a…

Liz is going to get a lot of buzz. And she seems to really get under Donny’s skin, which will be very important. My only thing is her age. She’ll be 71 in 2020, which is younger than Donald will be but...for fuck’s sake. Can we not find anyone in their fifties? Maybe Barack rides again? He can’t serve more than two…

Clinton and her campaign were responsible for their own great campaigning during the primaries, and they won. Clinton and her campaign were also responsible for their own campaigning during the general.

I’ll offer this ray of hope. Probably won’t get out of the greys, but it’s worth saying.

I meant in the parties. I mean, sure, we got a small handful but it seems clear the Democrats, the majority of them at least, want to be Republican by another name. Just not as batshit insane as the actual Republicans.

Tsk. As if there’s a left anymore. The Democrats are fucking Republicans, the Republicans are fucking, I don’t know... Greece’s New Dawn or whatever.

Absolutely true, and it’s been irritating me to no end. I also voted for Hillary, and like Chappelle, I also don’t feel good about it. Part of the reason why is that her propaganda machine has the people who should be on my side, acting like irrational Tea Party nutters with…

They are real problems, and I’m glad that she will be elected so we the people can hold her accountable and make her change. The main difference between Hillary and the Orange Menace is that Hillary listens and learns. She practices and she improves. I think she will be, policy-wise, essentially Obama 2.0 and I am…

This. 100% Forced pleasantries suck.

I think Trader Joe’s though is an extreme example though like when you go there the cashiers are way too happy and always talk to you, it’s weird and feels extremely forced sometimes where as if you go to another grocery store you may get a hi and thanks but that’s about it... I…

In my experience as a New Yorker, the “happy customer service rep” culture is this invasive part of gentrifying culture, imported by Starbucks sometime in the 1990's. I can remember that Carnegie Deli —the most New York of New York institutions— used to make sure to give service-with-a-snarl as a matter of the…

I’ve definitely noticed that. Also, that you see the same people working there, year after year. Costco knows how to run things.

I don’t expect any candidate to be perfect, but I do think it’s funny that you call it a Chicken Little Act when it was in fact the greatest financial crisis the world had seen in over 70 years. Chicken Little implies it wasn’t a big deal. It was a huge a deal. The effects of which are still being felt today.

Ever shop at Costco? There’s a reason why their workers are affable and content, they are paid a living wage with health care benefits. It shouldn’t be a difficult concept to grasp, but many retailers in America fall short.

DNC corruption will always be ignored and accepted because “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE?”

Working retail in the US in the late 90s, I mastered a phone voice so neutral and bland that it was frequently mistaken for a recording...as a shit head punk rock theater kid, I took this as a social commentary/performance art victory. It’s sad how much of my early 20s was spent drunk or high off my ass roleplaying…

Even silent cashiers are too much for me in the UK: I adore the wholesale takeup of self-service checkout.

I remember coming across customer service workers in Paris who actually messed with tourists who didn’t speak French (my fave was a waiter who pretended not to understand my American flatmate’s request for mayo when it’s the same damn word in French).

This brings back memories of one of my first years of teaching when I worked at a fancy private school that charged the parents plenty and paid their employees peanuts. This one mother complained to the principal that “the teachers didn’t smile enough in the morning”. Generally I always greet my students with a smile…

I think you can say both are. The GOP is a dumpster fire, but there is a ton of aggravation at the DNC and their support for Hillary during the primaries.