FairySlayer

Heh, I just re-watched a video from just before the general election in 2016 asking if it was even possible that Trump or Hillary could become the worst U.S. president ever. After listing several other asshole presidents they argued that GWB would probably hold that title forever. It all seems so quaint now. Also I guess SNL needs to make a new episode of “The X Presidents” too.

Actually Nixon had just enough shame and/or intelligence to resign before the debate for his impeachment began. The only other U.S. presidents to actually be impeached were Johnson and Clinton (and there have been a bunch of judges, a senator and a cabinet member). I guess Trump really wanted to be able to say that he was the most-impeached person ever. Winning?

Actually Nixon had just enough shame and/or intelligence to resign before the debate for his impeachment began. The only other U.S. presidents to actually be impeached were Johnson and Clinton (and there have been a bunch of judges, a senator and a cabinet member). I guess Trump really wanted to be able to say that he was the most-impeached person ever. Winning?

Heh, I just re-watched a video from just before the general election in 2016 asking if it was even possible that Trump or Hillary could become the worst U.S. president ever. After listing several other asshole presidents they argued that GWB would probably hold that title forever. It all seems so quaint now. Also I guess SNL needs to make a new episode of “The X Presidents” too.

Trump even makes Tricky Dick look good. At least he was only impeached once.

Heh, I just re-watched a video from just before the general election in 2016 asking if it was even possible that Trump or Hillary could become the worst U.S. president ever. After listing several other asshole presidents they argued that GWB would probably hold that title forever. It all seems so quaint now. Also I guess SNL needs to make a new episode of “The X Presidents” too.

Heh, I just re-watched a video from just before the general election in 2016 asking if it was even possible that Trump or Hillary could become the worst U.S. president ever. After listing several other asshole presidents they argued that GWB would probably hold that title forever. It all seems so quaint now. Also I guess SNL needs to make a new episode of “The X Presidents” too.

Right?! Man...

Amazing really, how bad Trump had to be to make Dubya seem not terrible. I mean, George Junior’s VP straight up shot a dude in the face and laughed it off, and that whole shitshow of hoping Halliburton and Bechtel and the rest would know a damn thing about rebuilding a country.

While I agree about the proximate cause of the attack that they need to be removed and punished, the truth is that Trump is merely the painful symptom of what's been destroying the U.S. for decades, not the cause. As Krystal Ball says, "The ugly truth is that Trump is as American as apple pie."
So why is half the country so angry that they're willing to believe terrible things and blindly follow an absurdly blatant liar and criminal? Many ordinary people are angry, and it's been festering for decades. From where they're sitting, the politicians and corporations have been steadily destroying their lives and the lives of their children just to make an extra buck. The spectacular failures of the pandemic response at every level of government does not help with that anger either. And sadly Trump and many other bad actors are very good at using that anger.
Meanwhile most news outlets have found it more profitable to keep people ignorant and polarized, ever fearful that either the bad brown man or the bad orange man is coming for us… while it's actually an entrenched corrupt system that’s slowly killing us from the inside.
Unless we fix the many underlying problems in America we'll only be seeing more and more of this violence all around the country.
(And the preppers are laughing their asses off right about now.)

While I agree about the proximate cause of the attack that they need to be removed and punished, the truth is that Trump is merely the painful symptom of what's been destroying the U.S. for decades, not the cause. As Krystal Ball says, "The ugly truth is that Trump is as American as apple pie."
So why is half the country so angry that they're willing to believe terrible things and blindly follow an absurdly blatant liar and criminal? Many ordinary people are angry, and it's been festering for decades. From where they're sitting, the politicians and corporations have been steadily destroying their lives and the lives of their children just to make an extra buck. The spectacular failures of the pandemic response at every level of government does not help with that anger either. And sadly Trump and many other bad actors are very good at using that anger.
Meanwhile most news outlets have found it more profitable to keep people ignorant and polarized, ever fearful that either the bad brown man or the bad orange man is coming for us… while it's actually an entrenched corrupt system that’s slowly killing us from the inside.
Unless we fix the many underlying problems in America we'll only be seeing more and more of this violence all around the country.
(And the preppers are laughing their asses off right about now.)

Fascists storm the capitol to try and keep their autocrat in charge and the next day are saying “no, it was the anti-fascists” Christ, the doublethink.

I was beside myself as it all unfolded. And because I live in a more conservative region I know I’m going to go to work today and see people still unashamedly wearing their maga crap and I’m going to have to be polite and courteous to these people or I lose my job. The worst part is I’ve actually seen some people wearing QAnon shirts and the like. 
 

I am horrified and appalled by today’s insurrection, by the attempted coup encouraged by the person most prominently charged with defending our Constitution. I can’t think of any way to make it more abundantly clear that Trump does not love this country, or its people. He loves only himself.
It is neither an empty gesture nor an act of vengeance to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office. He has demonstrated today, with utmost clarity, the utter contempt in which he holds his sacred trust to America.

I’d meant to pick up some tongs, but instead handed stuff out with a ladle as I froze my butt off outside. (Though in fairness, the ladle was also good for smacking hands when people tried to reach into the bowl.) Though most kids on the side street stop before they get to our buildings… for various reasons.
Anyway, if 2021 continues like 2020 then next year the kids will be in camouflaged hazmat suits and combat gear when they come to your door demanding water, canned goods, and all the toilet paper they used on your house in years past.

I’d meant to pick up some tongs, but instead handed stuff out with a ladle as I froze my butt off outside. (Though in fairness, the ladle was also good for smacking hands when people tried to reach into the bowl.) Though most kids on the side street stop before they get to our buildings… for various reasons.
Anyway, if 2021 continues like 2020 then next year the kids will be in camouflaged hazmat suits and combat gear when they come to your door demanding water, canned goods, and all the toilet paper they used on your house in years past.

I’d meant to pick up some tongs, but instead handed stuff out with a ladle as I froze my butt off outside. (Though in fairness, the ladle was also good for smacking hands when people tried to reach into the bowl.) Though most kids on the side street stop before they get to our buildings… for various reasons.
Anyway, if 2021 continues like 2020 then next year the kids will be in camouflaged hazmat suits and combat gear when they come to your door demanding water, canned goods, and all the toilet paper they used on your house in years past.

I got 15 people this year. there was a kid dressed up as the ‘stay puft’ from ghostbusters! i froze my butt of but it was worth it

> ‘Hotel Pijpslet’
Google didin’t give me any useful definition results, but of those few it did I can’t help but feel I’ve been added to a government watchlist…

> ‘Hotel Pijpslet’
Google didin’t give me any useful definition results, but of those few it did I can’t help but feel I’ve been added to a government watchlist…

Your phone knows how stressed you are and wants you to legally get some herbal remedy.

> ‘Hotel Pijpslet’
Google didin’t give me any useful definition results, but of those few it did I can’t help but feel I’ve been added to a government watchlist…

Your phone knows how stressed you are and wants you to legally get some herbal remedy.

> ‘Hotel Pijpslet’
Google didin’t give me any useful definition results, but of those few it did I can’t help but feel I’ve been added to a government watchlist…

“So the phone booked you for amsterdam?”
“That’s right.”
“And this deluxe package for ‘Hotel Pijpslet’?”
“Haha, butt dialing am I right?”