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

Have you been to Times Square? Traveling there by car is even more idiotic than trying to walk through it. Attempting to drive through Times Square is unforgivably stupid.

Yeah, I’m not sure what’s worse. Tourists who think it’s the highlight of the city (and sometimes the only place they visit besides the WTC site or the Statue of Liberty), or New Yorkers who complain about how much they miss the old Times Square because it was “gritty” and “real”.

Maybe she dumped him because he was the type of person who would take someone to Times Square on a date.

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.