Merkel strikes me as a better example but I see where you’re going. The UK survived years of Thatcher without their bollocks freezing and falling off!

This meme defines timeless.

I’m hazy on the details, but I recall a Congresswoman being publicly chastised for saying “vagina” on the House floor, when the men were deciding how much bodily autonomy women can be trusted with.

All you lack is high heels!

yes.

masterful final sentence!

I live in a mountain resort town in NM, and I’m watching these plague rat classmates of my Kansas youth sneak in and out of town. They’re entitled to a vacation, their money is good, their state is no fun any more because 25% positivity, so they’ll come stink up my joint that did so well until now. ...Also, as ever,…

BDE. Ariana said. He’s also charming in that “Please don’t kick me” way of pups who piddle indoors.

The lesson of the Trump administration. It was never “economically challenged”. That was code for “racist”.

it is. I think this was Rust Belt. He sucked us into reading it by the timing, we were half a nation flailing. We needed to be told who had done this. He pointed the right direction but got some nuance wrong! I’ve learned a lot about privilege this 4 years. His take is just cringe-y now.

I read it, and then I read another book called Dreamland by Sam Quinones. It examines the opiate problems from a New Mexican/Mexican standpoint, they’ve had this problem a v long time. When I learned how the Jalisco boys simply observed streams of white kids in line at methadone clinics and applied their business model…

They’re a dying breed but SE KS had hillbillies into the 2000s. I don’t know what they called themselves but they were snakeroot digging, river clam harvesting, pot growing, game-poaching outlaws that were always working and never had a “job”.

Good point with the classism. Yes, poor people will generally follow the paycheck, never found at a polling place! Do you also think middle-class whites are indoctrinated to think our votes matter, hence our voting at higher rates? I was raised to believe my little spot in this democracy mattered, and that with…

Creative outlet? Her body is a machine, and she built it for performing. 

Excellent writing, horrific scenarios. Why can’t she and Kevin and the kids live in a compound in Malibu? With separate houses, separate driveways, but the beach as neutral ground? And hire a keeper for her that helps her live her best life, and a keeper for the keeper and a keeper for the cash...bc I don’t trust…

If you want to be the dude who becomes history, and not work too hard, it is imperative you surround yourself with trustworthy point people. Then trust them! Bush had venal masters, and also his point ppl were afraid to tell him Hurricane Katrina was a thing. Failure of leadership 101. I’m sure you know all this! My…

Turns out I’m immature and real tired of losing. *cue joyous yodel* Now all the people who have called me sheeple have bounced from facebook. They went where they can be spoonfed propaganda, parler, the new refuge of terrified suburbanites. Oh, and Rudy wound up at 4 Seasons 4 Grifters. Aye, ‘tis a wonderful week!

And pride in being ignorant! It’s a problem.

A ruble’s a ruble, I’ve been predicting it too!

What he paid Stormy won’t keep Melania for 3 months!