My brother’s custody case was evaluated by a social worker. She was a stone-cold, no-nonsense badass and I have an intellectual crush on her. I wonder if all guardian ad litem types are like that.

Does she not know about that whole thing where pogroms happened in Soviet Russia or. Yeah she doesn’t know that. OK.

I believe it was a cartoon owl who said that when you’re wearing rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.

Right now I’m getting paid to write salesy copy about setting up overseas tax shelters (I really, really need the income, otherwise I wouldn’t do it).

A lot of people are stupid. A lot of Republicans think “illegals” are going out to vote in droves. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t audit our vote. Stein is also stupid, and she’s not calling for that. I feel bad for the rubes she duped, but so it goes. That money would have been better spent on Foster Campbell’s campaign,…

It has to have happened before then, right? I’m not super boned up on my presidential history but it seems like one of this unwritten traditions that the president is untouchable. Nixon getting impeached seems almost like a fluke in hindsight.

This isn’t a “let’s give him a chance” head in the sand bullshit statement, and I know this goes against the narrative here, but: we don’t actually know that yet.

“I dare you. Try me.” - the concept of closing your computer and going for a walk, to you

I knew someone in college who said this about W. Bush. It’s not going to happen. It wasn’t then and it isn’t now. Nixon is pretty much our only example of a U.S. president actually getting in trouble for something, and that’s ancient history as far as the current system is concerned.

It would be if he’s the kind of person who makes plans. Which he isn’t. I mean this is still a really scary situation, but not because he’ll (word salad translation). It’s scary because there’s no “fullness” or clarity to things that don’t exist. He doesn’t know what he’ll do and neither does anyone else.

Otters drown baby seals for fun. After doing...other stuff. Many animals know how to hurt each other for sport.

Fair point. I don’t want to act like tiny hands is just a normal president, cause he’s not. So maybe that alone makes this bout of buyer’s remorse different. Tiny hands is “making deals” like that’s what the president does - it’s not what the president does. It’s what tiny hands does as a business man.

Can someone make me knitted sweater with Santa Larry’s face on it

He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Fortunately he seems like a thoughtful person who wants to be kind, so perhaps some of the comments in this thread will allow him (and others) to understand the depth of his ignorance on this issue.

That makes sense. I do think, though, that it’s important to remember that in a crisis, many people forget what they “should” do. I’m generally disturbed when a person’s reaction to a tragic/traumatizing event is extrapolated as evidence of something else. Like a man who comes home and finds that his wife has been…

So what is that big picture? I don’t see how your hot take here isn’t just elaborate victim blaming. Cops aren’t the ones who just experienced life-changing trauma. People act in unpredictable ways when they’ve been assaulted. Cops know this. They should take victims seriously. Period. It absolutely should not hurt…

Police aren’t the best at responding to rape reports. You don’t know what this girl’s experience with police has been in the past. It’s not like 100% of cops hear a woman report a rape and immediately spring into action, taking every word she says as the truth. She might have had a bad experience with police at…

If he accepted that reality, he’d probably have to accept a lot of other realities he’s not willing to contend with. Just a guess. Denial seems kind of like an all-or-nothing thing.

I mean...these people are idiots. Obviously. But is this really that unusual? I think most people understand that politicians don’t typically get to do everything they say they’ll do.

Why is this so hard for people to understand. The fact that someone’s a shitty person doesn’t “make it OK” to make fun of the things about them they actually don’t have control over. There’s plenty of substantive stuff to roast this creep for. The way he looks doesn’t matter at all.