Bertrand Russell was a legend. His only failing was that he didn’t offer visitors a cup of tea, because he couldn’t find his teapot.

Those particular people cannot be reached - they do not want to be reached. The best thing to do is ignore them, stop trying to find ways to connect with them (because that only results in having to steer closer to the alt-right) and focus on issues. We can hope that they finally recognise their mistake through the…

Oh, thank you so much. This is an excellent, useful find.

..........Judith Martin (Miss Manners) says that Polite Society’s Ultimate Weapon is “The Cut”: “Sir (Madam), I do not know you”........and you move on...........

No. 2016 was about Gerrymandering, Disinformation, and Hillary being a bad candidate (sorry, everyone, it’s true, and I’m not a Bernie or Bust person or anything).

What a goddamn master of the English language! Wow.

Jesus, Bertrand Russell dropped the mic on that guy. Just about sums up my attitude too. Go Bertrand. He and Frederick Douglass need to go have a long talk with Trump.

I’ve seen that. There are times where that’s the only appropriate response. You can’t engage with people whose entire worldview is based on a rejection of what you want to engage them for.

Footnote: the letter is to Oswald Mosley, who was the subject of Elvis Costello’s song “Less than Zero.”

If you can stomach it, this Politico piece on how Trump’s base in PA feels about him now is worth reading just to illustrate how disconnected from reality these people are. It’s worse than even the caricatures of them suggest. There are plenty of jaw-dropping passages, but this one jumped out at me.

I thought you hated all Democrats?

Thank you for that. There are few laughs these days, but that’s a good one. Hope you recover.

From joy?

Thank goodness you came back to life!

To paraphrase Mortal Dictata:

This entire conversation has been full of people who don’t and won’t play vanilla WoW casting aspersions about the experience in its entirety.

Thoughts and prayers...

Really curious to see what patch they’re going to use(speculation is 1.12) and if they really are going to leave all of the broken and overpowered talents/classes alone. Pvp is going to be a blast.

The highlight of the upcoming impeachment will be the perp walk of all of these assholes out of the White House holding their shit in a cardboard box, knowing full well they will never get within 2,000 feet of the place (or any actual power) ever again.

I follow Ben Rhodes and a few of Obama’s advisors on twitter. I can only imagine how they must feel about the current occupants of their offices.