If you just dropped one of my siblings into my job, the learning curve would be so severe that things would be done incorrectly and inefficiently for months. The same goes for me in one of theirs. The senate just needs a warm body?

The American economic system is completely antithetical to the real needs of average citizens. The middle class is a lie that was told to people to keep them from wholeheartedly embracing communism, and it has been slowly eroded since communism’s fall.

I have to keep telling my daughter and my students that this is a really abnormal time in our history. The kids get it.

Unless if that dude was Dee Snyder…

“Patriotism is about widening the circle of liberty, dignity and opportunity so that more people can fully participate in the promise of this country.”

This toxic dingleberry ruins everything.

Racists are cowards in every generation.

I don’t feel like is celebrating anything. The storms rolling through northern Illinois now are an apt metaphor for how I feel about today.

For fifty years…

I wonder what kinds of thoughts are pinging around inside of this man’s head.

We have to have the will to leverage the power of the government and the taxes we pay to help everyone, not build 80-100 million dollar fighter jets in the age of asymmetric warfare.

Which of these two people would most people want to hang out with?

I know about a million people who would happily volunteer.

So was my relationship with my brother. Trump poisons everything.

That was sane. Now is crazy

We don’t need to convince or coddle or win over hatred, and we don’t need to outdo it either. We need to outnumber it. We need to outlast it. We need to outlove it. We need to outvote it.

It’ll take a whole term just to get the tacky gold crap and the old-man smell out of the Oval Office.

Say what you will regarding Hunter Biden, but the man makes numerous intelligent and nuanced points.

Not in my wildest dreams would I have believed this tabloid bozo would come to dominate the global narrative for more than a decade. I’m so sick of him.

Watching the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, I’m reminded of what we were and what we can be again…and crying a little. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

I’m sure they didn’t see that coming.

The most important word in “bread and circuses” is “bread.”

Any time these phrases come out of his rancid anus-mouth, this is what they mean.

Try to imagine another world leader behaving in the manner that this man has. It’s nearly inconceivable. I don’t believe that he has normalized this kind of behavior across the board; he’s just made it normal for him. He’s the president of lowered expectations.

Reporters need to go gloves-off and just start verbally demolishing him.

“Any decent person can be good when people are watching. The real test is what you do when nobody’s keeping score. That’s where character lives.”

Jesus. Can we just skip ahead to the part where he just takes the dirt nap? The suspense is driving me nuts.

“But Pulte has done one thing that Trump has really, really liked: He has gone after Trump’s enemies with ferocity, tenacity, and an utter lack of shame.”

Every time he’s off the radar for a few days, I quietly get my hopes up for the big day.

Not much of a difference here.

His blissful unawareness is our misery.

This is just a goddamned embarrassment.

Decades begin and end, not by calendar dates, but by when the cultural zeitgeist shifts. Since 2015, the cultural tone has been set by this buffoon and his gang of cretins. It will shift when he’s gone, and that can’t happen soon enough.

Blue shell the 1% all day.

Probably wouldn’t go for Eric, either. Now, Ivanka…

God. I can’t wait until this era of corruption ends.

I was walking the dog, and I saw these hanging on houses in the neighborhood-all the colors washed out and a single bold stripe. I know what they’re supposed to mean. I thought about how, if I’d traveled from 30 years in the past, I’d think we’d been taken over by a foreign power.

Why would you want to? Just gross, crass, and tasteless, like the women taking selfies at Auschwitz.

Uhh…nope. It’s not. Not even close.

“This fund is not compensation. It is not reconciliation. It is not justice. It is a standing infrastructure for rewarding political violence on Trump’s behalf.”

Rolling into this month like the last car standing in a demolition derby.

I look forward to his legacy collapsing and being utterly erased from public in my lifetime.

If you’re ever feeling low just remember…

In any sane time, this would be a scandal, something that would ruin everyone involved. Now, it’s a joke.

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

Irony has been declared dead numerous times over the past decade, but I think this is it.

The gaslighting by this regime is absolutely infuriating. Credit card spending going through the roof on gasoline and groceries is a terrible economic indicator. Also, Kevin should be pictured next to the definition of ‘backpfeifengesicht’

These are the “mudsills”, the people who are thought of as inanimate objects by the ruling class, who flourish because of their labor and the labor of their families. They would vote against their own socioeconomic interests in order to stay one rung above people of color.

My thought on the moment is that he’s just a useful idiot being kept around, his information carefully curated, his health and cognitive decline managed by teams of professionals, in order to make obscene amounts of money for the world’s worst people, the human consequences be damned.