I keep repeating to myself that this is the excesses of late stage capitalism.

I put away 20% of my income into savings per year and I’m still like ‘it’s not ennnnouuuuughhhh’.

Don’t lose focus. The MOAB isn’t that big of a deal: it’s a large conventional weapon, but it’s not materially different from ten 2,000-pound bombs bundled together. The attempted rollback of National Monument (not Park) designations made under the Antiquities Act will be in litigation for years, and this…

How is pranking these assholes hurting victims?

If I was American, I’d be calling to report that ICE was asking for my documents outside a courthouse.

Maybe he’s no longer able to cut all those sweet deals because 1) that’s not how the American presidency works, 2) cutting fabulous real estate deals wasn’t too tough in the days when New York was a shit sandwich of crime and urban flight, and 3) he’s now a bloviating, senile old fart who probably has to have someone…

And I bet a lot of people could have gotten a lot out of her story if she just chose to be honest about it from the beginning. Identifying with another culture is fine. It makes perfect sense she felt more accepted by the black community. So just be that, be a white person who feels accepted by the black community,…

I don’t think she is being accused of being a white supremacist, so much as she is a product of institutionalized white supremacy, whether she is aware of it or not. I think the back story you’ve referenced here actually reenforces that assertion.

Reading this article about that book (“Shattered”) on Wapo makes me physically ill. This part, in particular, is just devastating:

They’re not going to make children... they’re going to make cheshire cats

Yep. Traditionally, it was practiced by elder women of the community. Or midwives. Likewise, in Cameroon, the practice of “breast-ironing” (which is exactly what it sounds like, and doesn’t actually work) to reduce the size of a girl’s developing anatomy was typically performed by mothers on their daughters. Or…

Yes. I think that outrage at the whole Trump thing...everything...is coming out in some really sick ways. I personally don’t care about what she did before, and however she made her money is not something I would want to judge. What pisses me off is how the Republicans would never tolerate the same things of a…

The lawyers were told to leave the settlement check on the nightstand.

I think it reflects the kind of conversations that are going on behind the scenes with Bannon et al. Assad is worse that Hitler! Because Assad went after innocent people! Spicy isn’t making this shit up.

I agree. While Spicer certainly had a brain fart, it might not have forgetting the existence of the gas chambers. It might have been forgetting that German Jews were Hitler’s “own people”. This mistake is very much in line with the Trump administration’s ideology that only certain kinds of Americans are the people…

The vibe I get from this phrase is that to Spicer, it’s fine to use chemical weapons on your people as long as they are, you know, THOSE people and confined away from everyone else. It’s not ok to just drop chemical weapons into any old town willy-nilly.

It’s the “his own people” that’s most telling. At a subconscious, gut-belief level, Spicer doesn’t consider Jewish Germans and Austrians to be Germans and Austrians, i.e. Hitler’s people. He considers them wholly Other in a way that is analogous to Hitler’s own Othering of Jews, gays, Communists, dissenters, etc.

I agree and had a similar situation happen to me. Only it involved the chastity belt I made my GF wear. She dumped me for a locksmith.

Or he’s not interested in women and so he’ll happily have dinner with any dude. That’s also why if there’s alcohol he needs his wife by his side. To stop him from getting drunk and eatin’ up all the dick in the room.

I can see why he does this. If there’s going to be jizz with Mike Pence’s meal, by god, it’s gonna be snuck IN his food, like the lord intended.