…WE HAVE BEEN INTO HOUSES WHERE THE CHILDREN HAD MANY TOYS AND BROUGHT THEM EVEN MORE TOYS, AND IN

Inktober day 1: Nightvale themed crows

Dracula 1x01 - The Rules of the Beast

Trump Has Told Over 10,000 Lies As President

Donald Trump, the spoiled and entitled little rich-kid who grew up to be a serial bankrupt, a malignant narcissist, and a pathological liar. A petulant man-child, untethered from reality, whose monstrous ego compels him to tell the most outrageous lies to aggrandize himself.

And they are outrageous lies. Donald Trump is a ‘stable genius’. He knows more about war than any general (despite being a draft-dodger). He knows more about law than lawyers, more about science than scientists, more about economics than economists, and more about foreign policy than any foreign policy expert. He’s the greatest businessman the world has ever seen. The greatest American President in history. He’s told us all of this and much more. He says it over and over, as if repetition might somehow make it true.

In reality Trump is a deeply damaged, weak, narcissistic mess of character flaws so desperate for admiration that he makes these childish boasts to cover up his well-documented ignorance and failures. Whether he actually believes what he says is debatable. That he expects anyone else to is delusional. It might be pathetically touching if he weren’t such a horrible human being. It would indeed be richly comical if he weren’t in a position of power. The Orange Emperor has no clothes, and his naked incompetence is plain to see for everyone but his kool-aid drinking Maga cult followers..

But this isn’t just another diatribe against America’s worst president ever. Let’s give credit where it’s due. Finally, after a lifetime of never being good at anything Trump IS now officially the best at something. The greatest. Number one. He stands head and shoulders above every presidential predecessor in this one respect and nothing else. Nobody even comes close to him. What is he so great at ? Well, Donald Trump is the biggest LIAR ever to occupy the Whitehouse. 

And what lies they are ! There’s nothing remotely subtle or clever about them. Most are embarrassingly childish and clumsy. They are easily fact-checked and exposed. Bizarrely, though, when called out on lying he doesn’t correct his lie and apologize as any normal person would. He doubles-down and either repeats the lie or adds even bigger lies to support it. Those who have followed Trump’s career over decades say he has never been any different. 

Fortunately, for those outside of his Maga cult and for future historians, the Washington Post has been carefully fact-checking and recording Trump’s lies since he became President. This week marked a shameful milestone. Trump officially passed the 10,000 lie mark. Yes, this utter disgrace of a man has publicly lied to the American people more than 10,000 times since taking office.

And make no mistake, he’s getting worse. During his first 601 days in office pathological liar Trump made 5,000 false and misleading statements however his lying has dramatically accelerated since then, with almost 23 lies every day in the seven-month period beginning in late October during midterm elections.

Just recently, between April 25 and April 27, Trump made a staggering 171 false or misleading statements—more than any similar period in his first five months in Washington. If he goes on at this rate, he’s on track to tell a mind-blowing 35,000+ lies by the end of his first term. Of course, as he becomes increasingly deranged that number could be even more ! He may get to the point where nothing he says is ever true ! He is already past the point where we must assume everything he says is a lie until proven otherwise.

It’s a sobering thought (if two years of Trump has driven you to the bottle). Yes, Donald Trump might be the worst president America has ever had. Sorry. Strike that. Not ‘might be’. He is. Unarguably. He’s a crooked, self-serving, borderline psychopath who manages to tick the boxes of racism, islamophobia, misogyny, and white-nationalism, as well as sheer dumb ignorance and incompetence. It’s quite a toolbox he brought to the Presidency.

But at last (and at least) Trump has achieved what he has pursued so desperately since childhood. He is exceptional at something. He’s finally officially great at something rather than nothing. The thing is LYING. Once again, he has told over 10,000 lies to the American people since taking office. Take a moment to let that sink in. The scale of his mendacity is staggering. Nothing compares. 

So well done Donald. Take a bow. You’re the undisputed greatest at telling dumb lies. Don’t rest on your laurels, though. The sky is the limit, although the gullibility of some of your followers apparently has no limit. The rest of us have faith that you can make it to 35,000 lies before the 2020 election. Go for it. We’re all watching you. 

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(cartoon by Steve Sack)

When you are making Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest look like the best mother ever.

I mean, you know things are fucked if even the RNC thought it was too racist for air.

Atreus:  So… why’d you want to name me Atreus?  I know it can’t be for a god. Kratos:… Hah!  No.  He was a soldier.  A Spartan. Atreus:  A great warrior? Kratos:  All Spartans are great warriors.  We train from birth.  Our lives were discipline, duty, battle, and death.  Life was grim, and we greeted it grimly.   Atreus:   Hmmhmm.. Kratos:  But Atreus of Sparta was unlike the rest of us.  He wore a smile even in the worst of times.  He was… happy.  He inspired us to hope..  that though we were machines of war, yet there was humanity in us.   Goodness.  When the day came for him to lay down his life in battle, his sacrifice saved countless others, and turned the tide in our favor.  I carried him home on his shield, and buried him with all the honors of Spartan custom.  His memory was a comfort in dark times.

“He wore a smile even in the worst of times.   He inspired us to hope .. “

Kratos named his son for these qualities, for happiness and hope, and his newborn son’s infant smile, as a promise of hope that Kratos could be human and hide his monstrous past.

and now that we know Atreus was named Loki by the giants, Loki who smiles even in the worst of times

i dont really like country but i do love those country songs where the women murder their abusers

More fun facts about ancient Celtic marriage laws: There were no laws against interclass or interracial marriage, no laws against open homosexual relationships (although they weren’t considered ‘marriages’ since the definition of a marriage was ‘couple with child’), no requirement for women to take their husband’s names or give up their property, but comedians couldn’t get married

favorite presidential kid? probably alice roosevelt.

-her mother died two days after she was born and on the same day her maternal grandmother also died. teddy was so sad that he left his newborn daughter with his sister anna for two years and could never bring himself to say his wife’s name so alice who was named after her mother had to be called “lee”, her middle name.

-when teddy remarried, alice’s stepmom edith made it clear that she thought alice’s mom had been beautiful but dumb. when alice’s parents couldn’t handle her anymore, they sent her to her aunt anna’s. according to alice, “If auntie Bye had been a man, she would have been president”. alice claimed to feel one-sixth as loved as her five half-siblings.

-then alice got polio which at the time could kill, not to mention cripple. her stepmom put her through an uncompromising regimen of nightly forced wearing of torturous leg braces and shoes, which left alice with no trace of the disability and able to run up stairs and touch her nose with her toe well into her 80s.

-alice’s dad and stepmom tried to send her to a conservative girls’ school but alice wrote home, “If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will”.

-when teddy became president in 1901, alice became an instant celebrity and fashion icon at age 17. she did scandalous things like smoking cigarettes in public, riding in cars with men, staying out late partying, keeping a pet snake (called emily spinach) in the white house, and placing bets with a bookie. 

-she even had a color - alice blue - and a song - alice blue gown - named after her. the press called her princess alice.

-during an imperial cruise to japan, alice jumped into a pool fully dressed and coaxed a congressman in to join her.

-one time a white house visitor commented on alice’s frequent interruptions in the oval office, usually with political advice. after the third interruption, teddy explained, “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both”.

-in february 1906, alice married congressman nicholas longworth and was the social event of the season. it was attended by more than a thousand guests and thousands gathered outside hoping for a glance of princess alice. she wore a blue wedding dress and cut the wedding cake with a sword.

-alice publicly supported her dad’s 1912 presidential candidate while her husband supported president taft. alice appeared on stage in her husband’s own district with her dad’s vp candidate. longworth lost by 105 votes and alice joked that she was worth at least 100 votes (meaning she was the reason he lost).

-alice’s campaign against her husband caused a friction in their marriage and longworth was known to be carrying on many affairs. it was also generally accepted knowledge in dc that alice had a long, ongoing affair with senator william borah, who by alice’s own admission was the father of her daughter, paulina. alice had a wicked sense of humor and had initially wanted to name her daughter deborah (as in de Borah).

-after the death of her daughter paulina in 1957, alice fought for and won custody of her granddaughter joanna. 

-in the 1950s, alice’s health began to fail her and she broke a hip. she also discovered she was suffering from breast cancer and had to have two mastectomies. in 1960, alice was diagnosed with emphysema. 

-alice was also a champion of rights for african-americans. one day, in 1965, alice’s african-american chauffeur and good friend, turner, was driving her to an appointment. turner pulled out in front of a taxi and the driver yelled at him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” turner stayed calm but alice told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”

-after many years of ill health, alice died of emphysema and pneumonia at age 96, outliving all five of her younger half-siblings.

-her most famous quote was, “If you haven’t got anything good to say about anybody, come sit next to me”. 

-when senator joseph mccarthy joked at a party, “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she replied, “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not”. 

-she told president lyndon b. johnson that she wore wide-brimmed hats so he couldn’t kiss her.

-when a kkk member dressed in full costume asked her to trust his word, she said, “I never trust a man under sheets”.

so in summary, alice roosevelt longworth was badass.

this is her:

here’s little alice

more of teen/young adult alice

alice with her daughter paulina

alice as a grand old lady