This is similar to how when Roman generals got a triumph celebrated for them, a slave would stand behind them saying "remember, you are mortal". In this case, the page would say "remember, you are a corrupt douchebag who is only in this position because you can somehow smile for sixteen hours straight".

or how many neglected to read it for its substance

All of them neglected to read it. I think senators and congresscritters should have to take a test to prove they read a bill before being allowed to vote on it.

Billionaires don't have countries, they have money. Nothing for them to even cheat on.

I grew up in Ohio in the '70s. The first snowfall was usually in late September. The ground was completely covered in snow in October and you didn't see grass again until some time in April. The snow wasn't completely gone until May and the giant mounds of plowed snow usually lasted into June. More than six months of serious Winter every year, nothing like that happening today.

You're overestimating some of us oldsters here. I work with people who are mostly in their 60s and 70s, and they can almost in the same sentence claim that 1) summers are hotter and winters are warmer than they used to be, and that 2) climate change is a hoax.

Yeah, my parents' obsession with politics made it hard to relax around them (they despised trump with a passion but could not stop talking about him). But at least they weren't conservatives -- that shit would have broken me.

My mom pays $255 a month for cable TV just so she can watch MS Now. I've tried to change her account so she can pay less, but no package other than the "every fucking channel there is" package has MS Now.

If the "news" agency successfully argues in court that it's an entertainment channel and that no rational person would consider it to be actual news, is it even news?

It would technically be self-harm, and in his case I'm all for it.

Also contact your state senators.

Sigh. I live in Pennsylvania.

There's a house in my neighborhood that doesn't even have stairs leading to the front door. Like, the door is three feet in the air, no way to actually use it for anything except breaking your ankle while drinking at night.

It is a good way to keep the Jehovah's Witness and the Mormons at bay, to be fair.

Somehow Lowe's only has these things in pressure-treated lumber. So I made my own for my stairs in my basement using regular lumber. And then my basement flooded.