The New York Times reports that scientists postulate the existence of a parallel universe where time runs backwards, created during the Big Bang. If true, this offers a plausible explanation for Trump and the Republican Party.

Fires: Well, I guess we're already wearing masks anyway. And we're stuck most of the day inside.

Sears Tower: It's not like anyone's at work. More buildings should do this.

There really is nothing Trump won't do to cause more harm and fuck people over just because he can (because no one is stopping him). He is truly the most despicable piece of shit there is walking around on two feet. Putin likes to get rid of his failed assets. I'm waiting already. Been waiting.

Next time a cop says he's gonna write me a ticket for 67 in a school zone I am going to accuse him of "retaliation."

Lemme guess. The CIC may make statements that appear nonfactual on the surface.

Yer better than that, Nat.

The Senate is capable of multitasking, blip. I for one, want to see Hunter and his dad face the music for how Hunter got such a overwhelming lucrative job being the VP son.

trumpfy's Projectioning 'skills'
are on a par with his Nepotism
meanwhile his Base eats it up like
there's NO Tomorrow and for the lot
of them just dying to Emulate him there
won't be. See: The Revenge of COVID-IXX
coming Soon to a cemetery/cremetorium/mausoleum
refrigerated (hopefully) semi truck near You.

Give everyone $2000 a month and Medicare. Remove the two biggest fears of every person in the USA: how am I going to pay rent and buy groceries, and what happens when I get sick?

No one worried about the BoA bailout. No one asked how we were going to pay for Afghanistan.

We can do this, too.

@16: "We get the government we deserve"

Such a canard. We get the government because of politics. The 'deserve' has always been a tangential projection, but somehow seems clever to some.

Trump won the presidency by a combination of:
1 - He didn't want to win, it was all for publicity.
2 - His opponent had major issues.
3 - The electorate was thirsting for a change.

So if you want to milk "deserve" out of that perfect storm, go ahead. But it's still a projection of your personal opinion.

But it certainly is politics.

@23 I never thought I'd agree with you on anything, but that's very well-stated.

What a weird day. North Korea supports the WHO and now this. I should go buy a lottery ticket.

@15,

Why do you keep whining that antifa isn't taking up your pet cause? It seems pretty obvious that they don't believe it meets their (highly subjective) criteria for taking action. If you're so oppressed, get off your own fatass and start a movement you lazy fuck.

Great comment @25. Yet another way our founders screwed the pooch. Oh, and great comments on the whole on this thread by blip.

@25 - Very well stated!

Group hug everyone, you too GermanSausage.

We get the government we deserve? I don't think so!

We get the government that is bought and paid for by corporations and obscenely wealthy people (thanks to Citizen United).

We get the government that is ensured thanks to voter suppression and the Electoral College (which exists solely to ensure that the president is not chosen by the popular vote, because if that were the case Hillary Clinton would be president).

We get the government that for decades now has been ruled by wealthy people who do not give one fuck about the people in this country (you know, the people they supposedly represent and work for), I mean they refuse to raise the federal minimum wage and in the same breath complain about how they can't possible live on their six figure salaries and are therefore FORCED take money from special interest groups just to survive!

We get the government that repeatedly and endlessly makes life worse by every possible metric for the hundreds of millions of people who live in this country, while also repeatedly and endlessly enriching themselves and perverting the rule of law in every possible way.

This country has never been what it has pretended to be. The government has never represented the people (not the people who aren't white, not the people who aren't male, not the people who aren't wealthy, not the people who do all of the labor, not the people who they consider of no value - children, sick, disabled, elderly, poor, uneducated, not born here, etc. etc. etc.)

If this country required that every single person eligible to vote had to vote (no option) and that all voting was done by mail and all votes were counted (so popular vote mattered more than the rigged vote), politician were paid civil servant wages, were not allowed to take money from special interests, were required to run campaigns based on facts and truths and with x amount of public dollars ONLY, and were limited to very specific short term limits of no more than 4 years, we might begin to come close to having the government we deserve.

We don't have the government we deserve. We have the government created by those who stole it, bought it, corrupted it, perverted it, and keep it working for them and them alone.

@ 25,

It’s not just our system of government—though I’ll definitely be pissing all over the graves of the Founding Fuckers for cursing us with the democratic world’s worst “system” if I ever make it back to the East Coast.

Just look at the relentless, depraved shitheads our eCONomic and business cultures reward at the top: insatiably greedy Wall $treet kleptocrats and nation-ruining sociopathic CEOs/tech bros. Our worst citizens are always in charge.

We have to completely restructure our society if we’re going to survive, starting with a new group of leaders at the top. The current crop of Plantation America’s 1% rulers have to go, and at this point it’s questionable whether the United States will even exist in it’s current form if the Fed completely loses control of the situation, which seems likely given the oblivious incompetence of all involved.

@32: When you start with "We have to completely restructure our society", I don't think you've learned the lessons of the 19th and 20th centuries.

I wonder what that barbershop owner's Marine bros would say about him using the US flag as a fucking haircut bib.

The problem is that all of us are getting the government that a minority faction of idiots deserve. And speaking of a minority faction of idiots, it is likely a blessing (on aesthetic grounds) that the participants in "Topless Jeep Weekend" were not actually topless.

Amy N, thank you. Now that you are here (or in Moscow, or wherever you are), we are no longer limited to hating on just Trump.

Cut the power and water to this assholes barber shop. Throw the owner in jail for public endangerment. Let him spend money fighting it in court. Why is this even an issue?

@35: So noted! Better than being dysfunctional and stupid.

So evidently, as related to me recently by a former National Guardsmen, the 89-day (or less) deployment thing is very common. Very rarely would there be a national emergency that should require a full 90-day+ deployment, and it would be hugely expensive if most, or even some, NG deployments resulted in the full benefits package. So it's not unusual in a general way. However, there are situations that might occur in which it would be called for, like, oh...during a once-a-century worldwide pandemic, for instance. So it's another case of Trump just faking it, not paying attention to what's actually happening.

@39 if we have the resources to waste trillions on wars and bailing out corporations then we have the resources to help people, citizens or not.

You say people should immigrate "the right way." Trump is eliminating the "right ways." Its not illegal to come to the border and seek amnesty, yet he is preventing it. He is deporting people without hearings. Those that are in detention are being abused. Anyone who would justify this is a monster.

@42 if I were a totalitarian I would have said drag him out of the barbershop and put a bullet in his head without a trial.

@25- well Blip, it isn't as simple as good governance vs poor governance.
The real tension comes from the fact that one man's good governance is another man's over-governance.
And the way that this generally breaks down is that the right prefers to believe in a sentimentalized, simpler world, a pre-lapsarian state located in some prior time when 'good government' didn't require such a large percentage of our income.
Whereas the left acknowledges that modernity requires us to manage vastly complex, overlapping systems that all rely on their own unique protocols.
For the left, 'good government' means effective management in accordance with best practices, sound science and core values.
For the right 'good government' means abandonment of core values, historic obligations, vulnerable populations and a nihilistic approach to management.
We are watching this play out in the response to CV-19.
"fuck you. we don't care about the science. We don't care about the CDC. We don't care about our institutions. Leave us alone. We want to make money."

The only reason we have undocumented immigration from Mexico and Latin America is that it's been kept nearly impossible for people to immigrate LEGALLY from those countries.

"Lifeboat" aside-and an exception need to be made on that for countries where people have fled due to U.S. military and economic intervention; we owe SOMETHING to the people of those countries for the harm our leaders have done them in the name of corporate profits-isn't it time fo for us to do the sensible thing, the honest thing, and accept that immigration to the U.S. from countries to our south is something we should always have accepted as inevitable and natural and just as legitimate as immigration from the British Isles and Northern Europe?

BTW, if you are of one of the groups of white people who arrived in North America prior to 1789-and you and I both are-you are descended from not only undocumented humans, but undocumented humans who often behaved far worse towards those already here than anybody from Mexico or Central America have ever been towards those who-totally missing the irony-call themselves "Real Americans".

As to family separations: what part of "you don't punish children for what their parents did" do you not understand?

Spent my adult working years in Texas (oddly enough given today's story, born in Midland, MI), and the behavior and appearance on display in the video is pretty standard issue Texan.

@51: Define "our choices"?

When you're talking about politics you can't use "our" unless you qualify it by its subgroups.

@47: Once again, you start off well but slip quickly into partisan generalizations.

@43: Indeed I am in my lovely home and garden.

@55
We did - the Gang of Eight passed immigration reform in 2013 in the Senate, with a veto-proof majority. The House wouldn't touch it, as Boehner didn't want a GOP vs tea party fight in the House. As a sign of how far the U S A has fallen in the last few years, this sort of co-operation on a sensitive issue seems unimaginable.

I’m just glad nobody is seriously discussing any punishment for employers who hire illegal immigrants because that would work and nobody wants that.

@61 -- the Ownership Class could just as easily have you drawn and quartered just for bringing it up but likely won't because of all their Benevolence. That their psychophants are OK with this (all the drawing and quartering) (not all the benevolencing) just means they're all gonna be Billionaires someday soon too just watch them.

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60: If Hillary were president, she would be assured of re-nomination and the Bloomberg would not even have entered the race.

@64: "Bloomberg", not "the Bloomberg".