He also chucks down Big Macs like no one’s business.

Here’s what Donald farted into the wind on his media platform: “Many calls and meetings now taking place. I do a lot, and never get credit for anything, but that’s OK, the PEOPLE understand.”

It infuriates me that Israel attacked Iran first and they’re still messaging this as ‘premeditated murder’ on the part of the Iranians.

It’s very simple.

Any time you set something down, keep this thought in the back of your mind: If you can put it down, you can put it away.

I don’t have many happy memories of my father growing up. All he knew his entire life was hard work and he leaned into that, because his dad died when he was eleven. I am grateful to him for a few things he did that made a major impact on my life:

• He and my mom got my eyes fixed when I was four years old, before which I was legally blind.
• He put the first $1000 I ever saw in my hand to pay a college tuition bill so I wouldn’t have to quit.
• He made sure I had everything I needed growing up in terms of material needs.

But there are a wealth of shitty memories too. He was drunk for most of my childhood and adolescence and verbally abusive. There were times he’d show up to my baseball or soccer practices and games and beer cans would be falling out of his truck. (Never had an adult intervene there, though.)

Most annoyingly, he and my mom have “borrowed” my car for a year to work for DoorDash. They’re too old now to get jobs anywhere else and have to survive.

The best thing I can say about him now is that I know he regrets all of it. On the rare occasions I have him over he always has a gift of some sort. It’s usually something small, because they’re very poor. Last time it was a container of oatmeal. It’s his way of saying sorry, because his stoic, 1940’s and 1950’s upbringing produced a man who doesn’t know how to actually say he’s sorry.

High thread-count sheets.

You are objectively wrong.

They have solved homelessness, minus approximately 1,000 willfully homeless people. (Though I like to think of them as Nomads.)

Fair points.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, just that unemployment means something very different in more extreme capitalist countries. :)

Oof.

Doesn’t Finland have UBI though? They’ve also basically solved homelessness.

Oh, to live in a country where THIS is the most pressing legislative priority.

I’m jealous.

Sorry to say, but no idea.

We used separate applications for seven years (Jabber for IM and Asana for ticket management), and for me, that’s what I’m stuck with using Teams for, at least until Microsoft drops AI into and it eats itself.

I’m stuck with Teams in my job.

I fucking hate it.

100%

Yes, but that is for good reason: sanitation.

Here in the US, for most, values and political principles are a matter of convenience.

The NRA never cared about tyranny or kids. They only ever cared about not having to wait a day to get their shiny new toy.

Yes.

There are some retailers that put a lot of money into making the experience of shopping enjoyable and more pleasant (Nike, Lulu Lemon, Apple, etc.) and their storefronts thrive.

Walmart, the store you pictured, thrives because they sell cheap.

Okay, Jan.

I won’t even bother entertaining you or them, but just for funsies, go look up who gave Tom Homan his first federal appointment.

You’re welcome to your incorrect interpretation, and I hope you have a pleasant evening.

argue for accelerating the rise of fascism.

Either you’re putting up a straw man or you didn’t read what I wrote correctly.

They have nukes and the Palestinians don’t. That’s how.

It’s not the handful, unfortunately.

The handful has no real power.

The problem is that 49% on each side flip-flop based on whoever’s in power, because their values and opinions are a matter of convenience, and perfectly easy to change with their preferred nightly news broadcast.

Genocide Joe walked so Fascist Donald could run.

Fascism didn’t start in January. It’s been a steady, forty-year march aided and abetted by every president since Carter.