Enlightened Despotist in Name Only

2/3rds of the country. I’m not giving the nonvoters a pass either.

I suspect that, in the eyes of many of his backers, his constantly calling most democrats worthless is his only important “good decision”.

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

Well thank goodness this guy has already ended 8 wars, so can be trusted to handle this wisely. I guess it could be worse.

A small brown and white dog stands in a yard. The caption reads, "Tell Kristi [Noem]. I want her to know it was me."

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Corey Lewandowski to begin affair with Markwayne Mullin

We’ll be greeted as liberators, at least beginning around August.

Mind-blowingly fucking stupid, but also tantamount to an admission that, at least in Trump’s view, the republican base doesn’t care enough about this to pressure every R to vote for it, so he has to try to drum up support from the bigoted base by pretending that it is more explicitly about bigotry

It’s especially a shame because the guy who was the head of TIE was a real fighter.

If you don’t bribe this guy he holds your deliveries up at customs

Why are we bothering with moving goods across the surface of the earth to get them to the US from anywhere near the middle east, when we could simply go *through* the earth, which is a much shorter distance? Explain it to me like I don’t understand basic concepts such as rock, water, or heat.

If you go west from CT, you’ll pass through another state but eventually get to Westmoreland. Keep going west, you’ll enter Westylvania. Go even further west, you’ll be in West Connecticut.

How could I be racist, I have a black friend

So, other side of the world, I run into someone I was best buddies with as a kid, then someone we *both* knew. These events were like 3 hours apart.

First day I was in Rome as a 22 y/o, I randomly bump into my best friend from middle school (in NC). We go for drinks, together run into someone we vaguely recognize. Start talking to him, we remember he’s the cousin of someone we worked at a TCBY with, who *lived on the same street* I did as a kid.

Does anything “read as decadence” more than academics who face no threats to their careers or ability to meet their basic needs telling you that democrats and republicans are the same?

Would the founding fathers have ordered you to be publicly flogged, tarred and feathered, and then hanged for making an argument this dumb? Today, I sat down and concluded: yes.

Susan Collins just gave Donald Trump the green light to take further unilateral military action that could push the United States into another endless war without oversight.

She doesn't have the courage to stand up to the President, even when American lives are on the line.

Sorry I see it got cut off. She calls for dems to “rally around the nominee and win”.

Yeah this tweet doesn’t really sound to me like someone who intends to be unhelpful:

do you think you could drink a 12-ounce can of soda of your choosing every day for a week for 76 million dollars? the catch is that during that week, you’re not allowed to travel to columbus, georgia unless you already had plans to or you just want to

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

please sum up the electoral bench of the contemporary Republican Party

Hello, NY Times expert here! This is not cute or funny, Times White House reporters only do this when extremely stressed

Yes yes, briefly a roadie for Metallica, bunch of assholes.

Jeffrey Lebowski

Yeah there are some I’d like to get rid of. Easiest to do that if we have votes to spare. And most of them are decent to good already.

Nothing gets you accused of being a useless shitlib who is happy with the status quo than saying this, but: [free speech guy] I think the democratic party is mostly fine and we do not need a tea party. We just need more democrats in congress.

Why is there steam coming off of the color changing juice