https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

A glow that encourages the organs of anyone nearby to slowly, painfully turn to liquid.

Fine, but I didn’t say actively involved, you did.

If you meant to say “started a war”, you should have said that.

How do you define actively involved in war?

We were actively involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

He assumes he’s the smartest person in the world, so he thinks people are absolutely, incredibly dumb.

Andrew Johnson should have been convicted when he was impeached.

If voting still works, and I hope it does, the other thing people need to do is run.

School board. Town Council. County government. State government. Friggin’ dog catcher.

We need real people. People who have worked and struggled. However, as you said…

the limited capacity of the overworked, underpaid average American citizen.

I’m not sure how anyone could manage it.

I suspect if they tried, the OSCE monitors wouldn’t be allowed to enter the US.

No telling who they are apathetic about voting for.

If they are too dumb to know they should vote, perhaps we should let them be.

Sitting here reading this wondering what kind of shithead thinks cats are killing children. Is it the “cats steal your breath” bullshit again?

Then I read on. Oh “cars” not “cats”.

Ok… Is it a butt plug made out of tacos, a butt plug in a taco, or a butt plug for when you’re having tacos?

It looks like the only age group that didn’t increase support for Trump in 2024 compared to 2016 was 65+.

Am I reading that right?

Because the flirting is working?

Like a male bird showing off an ornate and colorful tail to attract a mate, the male nerd demonstrates his earning potential by being excessively nerdy.

People around here acting like being a nerd doesn’t attract women.

I like to listen to Christmas music in season. I don’t start until after Thanksgiving is over, and I end on midnight of Christmas day.

I listen pretty much all day everywhere. At home, at work, in the car.

People have complained.

I explain that I spend all year wanting to murder everyone around me, and listening to Christmas music reminds me of a time when I didn’t believe everyone deserved to be murdered. It’s an annual mood reset that takes me back to a child-like baseline of kumbaya bullshit where everyone can be kind and love each other.

It doesn’t always work. There have been years when the ignorance and cruelty interfere with the reset and I stop the music and embrace the hate.

Those are not good years.

Listening to a month of Christmas music seems a small price to pay.

Take the shoes off. Steal some orange safety fencing from a construction site, wrap it around the body with a couple cinder blocks. Secure with heavy duty cable ties. Dump in deep water.

Otherwise, just make friends with a pig farmer.

Failing to convict Andrew Johnson during his impeachment was a double-whammy.

It prevented the U.S. from holding the southern traitors accountable, and it emboldened future presidents.

We desperately need to remove a president through impeachment, if only to prove to future presidents that it can happen. However, since it didn’t happen for Trump, it probably never will.

If the Republican party had ranked choice voting for the primary, Trump wouldn’t have had a chance.

During the primaries, my far, far right wing father said if it was between Trump and Bernie in 2016, he would have voted for Bernie. He knew Trump was a piece of shit.

At the time he was a single issue voter. Just gun rights. That’s all that mattered.

The DNC didn’t understand how hated Hilary is on the right or how motivated they would be to see anything win rather than her. Once it was Trump vs Hillary, my dad was a hard core MAGA idiot.

After Trump was elected, my dad was still a single issue voter, but the issue became 100% just Trump.

Dad won’t be voting in the mid terms this time around. If he does, it means someone committed a felony.

One of those basement apartment windows where the bottom of the window is at the level of the sidewalk.

I find myself right between “you suck because you drive a truck” and “you suck because you don’t drive a real truck”

I have a Honda Ridgeline. It’s the smallest thing I’ve driven that I am comfortable in. We also have a Honda Civic, which is fun to drive for short trips but being wedged inside it gets painful for me.

We’re probably going to get rid of the Civic. We had it mostly for the kids to drive, but they are all grown up and have their own cars now, so we can’t justify the expense of keeping it around for no one to drive (my wife doesn’t drive anymore for medical reasons).

When my previous Ridgeline was totaled (stopped for a school bus dropping off kids - the guy behind me didn’t), I ended up driving the Civic for a couple months. It was unpleasant driving in Philadelphia.

It’s nothing new. I drove a VW rabbit in Philly in the early 90’s when I was in college, and noticed how everyone just drove like you didn’t matter. When the VW was being worked on, I borrowed my dad’s suburban, and all the other drivers suddenly became polite. When everyone drives like a bully, I understand the desire to go bigger.

They might rip him or blast him.