Easy to believe this guy ignored someone who passed out in the Oval Office. He did ignore a guest at a Mar-a-Lago event who fell off the stage and split his head open and complained about the blood staining his marble floor. The lack of empathy is on-brand.

When you’re feeling hopeless, as I sometimes do, it’s important to remember that mass submission is a necessary component of tyranny, and small acts of resistance are still acts of rebellion.

I’ll take things Nazis say for 1000, Alex.

Infotainment masquerading as news has brainwashed and radicalized millions of Americans who grew up under the Fairness Doctrine and can’t tell the difference.

I have no idea how people look at him and don’t see this. I have no idea how people listen to him and don’t hear a a narcissistic bullshit artist. I have no idea how people look at his actions and not see a criminal.

The drowning person is the most dangerous to rescuers right before they go under.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

This is unhinged by any standard.

It’s not that hard to understand the idea that fascism is repugnant and should not be tolerated by civil society.

Some evidence that being adjacent to a colossal piece of shit can really suck the soul out of a person.

Back to the Future is closer to the end of World War 2 than to the present day. Aaand…I’m old.

Empathy is one of the most important human characteristics. Lack of, or complete, gleeful disregard of empathy is a symptom of a fundamentally damaged individual.

Just do what you can. Find your lane.

What can I say. Woe to those who peaked in high school.

Wow. News flash.

If you haven’t already, consider quitting Facebook. I did in the spring. I’d been on the site for 17 years. There was a definite, discernible boost to my emotional wellbeing. You might miss some people and their updates, but the benefits absolutely outweigh the costs.

This is why we can’t have anything nice anymore.

This the kind of shit that, not only keeps me up at night, but wakes me up feeling sick in the morning.

Again, just don’t be a dick.

I could have been chilling with my wife and daughter at home, but we’ve got the most repellent man ever in the White House and his idiot wannabe fascists running around.

My sign for tomorrow

I’m just sick. One of my students-a sweet, kind freshman came to my office yesterday. Through the sobs she told me how her brother, a 22 year old dreamer, brought to this country from Guatemala when he was a child, was abducted by three men on his way to work. They don’t know where he is.

It’s an ideology not an organization. These people want a bogeyman, and bogeymen are fictional.

“The specter of Portland “burning” is dim-witted MAGA propaganda.”

Masked secret police arresting journalists and peaceful workers. Bombing Venezuelan boats. Sitting by while Gaza is razed to the ground. Kowtowing to Putin while undermining our NATO allies. Yeah, sounds like he would have been a great candidate.

He’s disregarded his base at this point because he really doesn’t need them anymore. Be wary of his remaining supporters in the administration. The drowning man is always the most dangerous to others before he goes down.

Thank goodness it’s only an “entertainment” channel, not a propaganda outlet that has systematically brainwashed a massive segment of the population.

This is you, right? These empty ghouls have no concept of hypocrisy.

I don’t know about you, but if a middle aged doofus in a gaiter mask, Dollar Tree sunglasses, ill-fitting Walmart polo, white New Balance sneakers, and a Temu police vest tries to “detain” me, it might work because ill be overcome by incredulity that someone let him leave the house like that.

The words “terminal phase” keep going through my head this morning.

This regime is composed of the most try-hard, small dick energy motherfuckers on the planet.

At the intersection of prose and poetry.

Once they decided they could live with Sandy Hook, the gun debate was over in the United States.

I’ve thought about how strange it would be if someone in their seventies was hired as principal of my high school. That age would likely take them out of the hiring pool for a number of valid reasons, yet we routinely elect people in that demographic to positions of authority and power.

This is one of the more troubling actions by this clownish administration. On its face, it’s criminally irresponsible to put all of these people in the same place at the same time to get a pep talk from a wonk like Hegseth. I hope that’s all it amounts to. thehill.com/policy/defen...

Just stand your ground.

The difference between him and a carnival barker is that the carnival barker actually works for hours on end and makes sense when he talks. He even makes carnival barkers look bad.

Every accusation is an admission.

Part of my meditation routine is visualizing him getting hit in the face with a cast iron frying pan, à la Tom and Jerry. It’s soothing.

Or at least pro-fascist.

It’s dicks all the way down.

I feel like the frog in the slowly heating pan analogy, except that instead of ignoring the present circumstances, I’ve been nervous watching a thermometer.

These people, who have been pretty quiet today, are ghouls.

Sorry in advance from the red, white, and blue meth lab downstairs.

I am so sick of how this D list tabloid celebrity from my childhood has dominated the national scene for longer than the Vietnam War went on. It has lasted over twice as long as the goddamned confederacy.

This is beyond asinine.

So Musk really just kind of fucked off a disappeared from the public sphere. Golly, I wonder why.

A system reliant upon actual laws and those willing to uphold them is necessary for the survival of the United States. Norms will not suffice.

Imagine living your whole life to a point where millions of people speculate hopefully about your death. It almost makes me feel sorry for him. Almost…