Makeitstop

Shot in the dark, they're doing keto in the saddest way possible.

Her argument is that they are just cutting waste. Healthcare for people who are unemployed is apparently waste. You only get healthcare if you are working a shitty low paying job for someone who got a tax cut.

It's like my dad always used to say: "The day I can't do my job drunk is the day I hand in my badge and gun."

So, you need to be working a job that pays like shit and doesn't provide healthcare, thus subsidizing the shittiest employers.

Or you need to prove you are disabled. Which of course probably requires supporting medical evidence. Which would require access to healthcare.

Oh, and even if you have an obvious disability, we're gonna make it as hard as possible to apply for disability benefits.

Justified by the idea that somehow having access to a doctor enables people to sit on the couch and play video games all day.

Just admit that you (at best) don't care if poor people suffer and die as long as it benefits you and your donors in some small way.

Which is just about enough to pay for Trump's birthday parade.

Reality is steadily moving past The Onion and into The Twilight Zone.

Chiana and Scorpius on Farscape were both intended to be guest characters, each for a single episode, Both instantly became main characters, with the latter replacing the main villain for the series. And then he did it again when they retconned Harvey into existence.

Babylon 5 has a few really good ones,* including a very early role for Bryan Cranston. But Wayne Alexander as the inquisitor is particularly notable. There's layers to the character and the performance really rises to meet the challenge. He perfectly balances a character that is cold, heartless and monstrous while having a surprising amount of humanity. In his performance you can see the idealist and the cynic, the zealot and the apathetic, cruel but without malice, a man who is totally devoted to his his mission who would like nothing more than to fail. His last line is understated and it should seem like an afterthought but it's only because of the performance and the writing that it can work so well because we're so invested in this character, and suddenly all the pieces fall into place.

* Walter Koenig as Bester needs to be mentioned but I believe he was always meant to be a recurring character.

Just wait, before you know it Russia will be our biggest trading partner, with their chief export being all the shit we were buying from China but now with a cut lining Putin’s pocket.

As disgusting as it is, he's a lot more likely to make progress with some narrowly constructed flattery than with overt criticism no matter how well deserved.

Trump is a narcissistic manbaby who would do damn near anything just to satisfy his own ego. It makes him particularly vulnerable to manipulation, and at the same time it makes it virtually impossible for him to take criticism without throwing a tantrum and doubling down on whatever shitty thing he's doing.

Don't worry, we're cutting education and removing child labor laws for that very reason.

I miss the little mob money laundering pizza place that I went to as a kid. Absolutely amazing pizza. Never the same after the feds shut down the drug trafficking ring behind it all and deported the owner.

On the flip side, there's a local pizza place where I currently live that's fucking terrible. Some of the worst pizza I've ever had. It made me wonder how they could stay in business. Then I found out that name of the business happened to also be the name of the local mafia family.

Clearly this someone who has never had to deal with an aggressive rooster.