But like, wasn’t she a Fox contributor in her former role?

As much as i like Carney’s speeches and how he has stood up to trump so far, there are surely more deserving recipients.

yeah. After everyone has food, shelter, healthcare, education, and safety, we can buckle down and solve this worrisome “which washroom” issue.

At dinner, my kids and I discuss the Beatitudes

I tore an optic nerve rolling my eyes. Even Jesus himself probably gave it a rest at mealtime.

This just happened to Hungary’s Trump, Viktor Orban. Before the election, everyone said an ouster of Orban was unrealistic.

Personally, I think the USA is no longer a democracy and that the game is over. Americans meekly put rings through their noses and tied themselves to a fascist dictatorship. After all that tough-guy cosplay with the guns and ‘don’t tread on me’ and ‘muh freedumb!!’, it turns out Americans are either fascists or little bitches.

However, I would be thrilled to be proven wrong.

What the hell else could be the point of winning control of Congress? Putting trump in a cell is the last hope for American democracy (if any such hope exists).

For him, it is the final battle. He is one bad election away from jail and he is on track to lose. Decent Americans (yes, they exist) just need to show up this time.

It’s such an absurd bogeyman. Politicians have been talking about instituting public healthcare in the USA my entire life, and it still hasn’t happened. I have never heard a single American politician promoting Sharia Law, but republicans act like this shit is coming any day now unless we act fast.

By the way: I have no idea what shariah law actually entails because I don’t care because I don’t have to because it is not happening. 50 years after half of all politicians in the USA start demanding it I may bother to look up the details.

Republicans are so woke

Sounds nice. I would like to get good and stoned and look at contrails too.

By the way - why does he call them chem trails? the “chem” is water vapour

They didn’t say it was ok, just that Trump might be able to do it. Trump is able to do lots of things that are stupid and wrong.

Given time, Trump will destroy everything that was ever good about the USA. But I don’t think rich people will care. Being rich in a poor country means the rich people actually have MORE power because human life is so cheap it is disposable. The rich and powerful don’t care if the US economy is destroyed as long as they are still rich afterward.

If that is their intention, I can dig it. I thought it was straight-up ridicule.

I love the candour: “just stop grifting until your power is insuperable. Then, by all means, grift, grift, grift!”

Why would this deserve an Ig Nobel prize? The implications of this study are important and highly relevant to the social predicament that western societies face. This is science getting directly to the root of the problem with humanity. If we want to hand out prizes ridiculing useless science, maybe consider baldness treatments etc. (hats already exist).

I wonder if he will be that casual when it happens to Usha and his kids.

Harder, but not impossible. I canceled apple music, Amazon prime, Netfilx, audible, and Youtube premium. The hardest thing to replace has been audible, but I go to the library more.

Edit: i also canceled NYTimes for the Guardian and the Atlantic for the Walrus.

Keep in mind that is exactly what I thought when Trump announced his candidacy in 2015.

Yeah, similarities abound. I don’t know what everyone else is talking about.

In a single year, Trump attacked Venezuela and Iran (among others), starved people in Cuba, and threatened longtime allies with invasion. His military is murdering people in the caribbean for the crime of looking suspicious. His paramilitary is rounding up people on the basis of race and putting them in concentration camps deliberately designed for cruelty (remember him gloating about alligator auschwitz?). He uses vile and dehumanizing language to describe anyone who doesn’t fit a narrow gender binary. He threatens reporters and uses his thugs to deplatform critics of his regime. He has overseen the erasure of any accomplishment achieved by people of colour from american history.

It’s like Trump is absolutely dominating an “Act Like Hitler” contest and stupid americans fall over themselves to say “you can’t compare him to Hitler” because it’s 1939, not 1945 yet.

Good. Anything that diminishes American power is a positive.