Jim Gaines

It's a game of chicken. He's figuring that if he can lie low for a few weeks, Trump will get distracted by something else.

"I don't know what any of those words are."

Also:
- bought/given secondhand;
- bought before a financial crisis;
- bought in installments.
Still practical necessities, still nobody else's business.

Also hilarious to see flabby choad Elon Mush imagining himself as a "hard man."

I had an uncle with dementia who sounded like this. His rants were a mix of things he half-heard on Fox, stuff his buddies told him, and what he just made up. But he'd obsess about them and swear they were true.

No, but she doesn't speak to him anyway.

There is, however, General Butt Naked in Liberia.

Now the student editors can confidently give the administration a big middle finger, but it took close to 30 years to pull off.

My college paper, The Herald at Western KY. U., had a great faculty adviser and business manager who saw this happening elsewhere. So they tightened belts and gathered donations for decades until the paper could get its own off-campus building and own all its equipment.

EWB: Existing While Brown.

This is the fifth-grader trying to bullshit his way through the book report he didn't do.

I'm thinking of a small town near where I used to live. It had a nice ecosystem of all-local shops and restaurants. Then a few big chains moved in by the interstate, culminating in a Buc-ee's; and every one of the local places died. Now the former owners work for the big corps, not themselves.

"Yeah, see, we were just restoring order at your neighbor's house, and we got half a truckload of order left over. We can't take it back to the depot, so we'll give you a special deal - we can spread order on your lawn for only $999.95. That's a bargain!"

Exposure? I thought he was the source.

I mean, for me that'd be a selling point. Free trip to Oregon? Pretty nice!

Must be a pretty slow burn, considering that Portland's still there after years of it.

Please, the proper term is "on the rocks open."

I can't be too mad at them this soon. These people have families to support. I expect most of them are keeping their heads down for a few more paychecks, long enough to find another job.
Now, if there's not an exodus over the next few months, that's a different story.

And when is the last time JD strolled through a public ER to see this?

Illegible thanks to multiple persistent pop-ups.

Mention anything from outside that bubble and you either get a blank stare or "But Obama/Hillary/Biden (something totally made up)."

This is quite true. I have a lot of rural/small-town relatives whose only news sources are:
- Fox and wingnut talk radio;
- People exactly like themselves, who also only get Fox/talk radio; and
- Fundie preachers whose sermons are all whatever was on Fox/talk radio last night.

When do we get HoloDerf?

About 54% of Americans read below a sixth-grade level. This is why his supporters see no problem here.

Some of them, sure. But most are just ... desperate. Desperate enough to believe. Old and sick, can't afford care, prayer didn't work, so they turn to a new faith. And Donald is its for-profit prophet.

After four years under the Taliban, I wonder if that's close to what it looks like again.

Had a fundienut uncle whose variant was that God made fake fossils to fool the wicked. As a teenager I asked him if this meant God was lying to us. He just made angry noises until lunchtime.

And of course "quick to criticize, post(ing) hateful replies, and ... generally lack(ing) humor" has never been a spot-on description of the right.

I thought you stood with Joe Besser.

Vaccines are terrible! They made me get old!