Honestly, that’s a dumb smart kid thought!

I think my stupidest belief/point of confusion was that I just didn’t understand that the UK and America were…not the same country. I didn’t get why we spoke the same language and why they had a Queen and we didn’t.

[through teeth gritted so hard you can hear them snapping from three floors away] oops, welcome to the resistance

There’s a lot to be said here, but it’s pretty remarkable how many “I regret my vote” stories there have been. Certainly more than any election in my lifetime, as far as I can tell.

Christ, 150,000,000 chickens euthanized in the last three years in the U.S. along. Mind boggling.

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

I’d never heard of this story until this (excellent) article; how had you heard of it?