Donald Trump has done similar things.

Like shilling for Goya products from the Oval Office? Yes that’s totally similar to turning down a raise.

He doesn’t lack mental capacity. He understands that “trump won the 2020 election” means he’s loyal to the trump cartel. He worships Baal but he knows he can’t just say “yeah, I worship Baal”.

The notion of us (the US) winning a real war when we don’t fucking make anything any more is beyond ludicrous. We won WWII (and WWI for that matter) because we made nearly fucking everything at the time. And whatever we didn’t make we could have made if necessary.

Wow, this is a tough one. I can’t decide whether young Spencer Pratt from The Hills had a more punchable face than current Spencer Pratt.

During the 2024 election, Fetterman castigated his fellow Democrats (lol as if Fetterman is really a Democrat) for even mentioning Trump’s felony conviction, saying “we’re supposed to be the party of forgiveness”. The same man who called Trump signs “PA’s state flower”.

It’s true that they’re not political actors. They’re political whores. And they’re not even high-priced whores.

I lived in Louisiana for a few years. I’m a white yankee and I used to dread situations where I’d end up in a room full of white native Louisiana dudes that I didn’t know very well. Absolutely guaranteed that within ten minutes somebody would throw out the N-word and then everybody would be laughing and saying racist shit.

The worst was when I was a member at the local YMCA. Fat old white dudes that worked at the courthouse (like judges and prosecutors) would sit around naked on nasty old leather couches in the locker room literally making jokes about sending innocent black men to Angola prison.

The only reason I can’t say Louisiana is the worst state in the country is that I also lived in Mississippi.

I used to work for a company that wrote the software used by Clerks of Court in Louisiana. It was niche software because Louisiana is the only US state whose legal system is derived from the French, so the companies that write software that can handle all the other states don’t bother accommodating Louisiana. Clerks of Court in most of the LA parishes made $60K to $70K per year (which was actually a pretty astronomical salary there) but they controlled budgets that could afford the $100K per month cost of the software. The owner of the company would wine and dine the Clerks and pay for their house renovations and driveway pavings etc. and vacations and whatnot, and meanwhile he raked in fucking enormous profits (64 parishes X $100K per month, with a team of about 5 programmers). Nobody batted an eye at this shit.

Even in that first case they should have her dragged out there in an orange jumpsuit.

Slight quibble: being quartered means having your top half separated from your bottom half and your left half separated from your right half. The “drawn” part means you’re dragged around the city first. Otherwise you’re 100% correct.

I’m impressed with Springsteen supporting all this despite being a super-wealthy old white guy. But that song is fucking awful.

The folks impacted by the layoffs will receive

There’s nothing I hate more than “folks” being used by corporate heads while they’re fucking you.

For example, in the U.S., they’ll receive paid coverage for 6 months.

Lol the reason he doesn’t mention any other country is that EVERY OTHER COUNTRY HAS FUCKING UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.

There was a good bit of complaining (for whatever that was worth) and W’s approval rating was in the shitter just like trump’s. Along came 9/11 which was definitely just an intelligence failure even though it was the best possible thing that could have happened for Bush.

One of the many forgotten things about November 2000 was that the Supreme Court – before its final ruling awarding the Presidency to Bush – issued an injunction stopping the recount in Florida on the grounds that it would call into question the legitimacy of Bush’s win.

This is why it’s unfair to compare Trump to Hitler: Hitler actual cared about housing (and food) for his people.

Because the last time Congress declared war was 1941, and we have fought a shit ton of wars since then.

Are we going to start polling on things like what the current temperature is outside, too?

My stats prof in college actually used to do this, and the average guess was always within half a degree of the true temperature. Still not worth doing given that thermometers exist, but interesting nevertheless.

I grew up in the '80s with Reagan and Bush. When Clinton won in '92 I breathed a sigh of relief and stopped paying attention to politics, thinking everything was going to be OK for a very long time. November 2000 was a rude shock when it became apparent that the world didn’t work the way I thought it did. Far more of a shock than 9/11 was.

For that matter, even the Clinton era was not what I thought it was at the time – although it was certainly much better than the current era.

which would never happen because I have decency and morals

I would never be in the trump circle of corruption not only because I have decency and morals but also because trump’s type of person is just so fucking awful to be around on a personal level. Those people are just so boring and stupid in addition to being evil. If I knew I was going to have to spend the rest of my life only socializing with them – even if millions of dollars came along with it – I would just kill myself.

GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL

Surely the only people buying tickets are teenagers who want to have sex in an empty theater?