lost highway

What's crazy is in terms of controversy/outrage per day, the Trump administration has already lapped the last five presidents. Bush seems almost mild now. It's like the beginning of the end of Nixon, already.

I just donated to the ACLU. Feels like the right thing to do. Hopefully many others with deeper pockets have also.

One of whom was an interpreter who works for our military in Iraq. Here's an odd thought. Could Trump become so politically toxic that GOP members of the house and Senate dust off their old obstructionist tools and start doing what they do best: nothing. A rep from a moderate right district is going to start scoring points for opposing him.

I'm not sure apathy is expressed in all capitals. You've created a paradox here.

New Pornos is confirmed. April 7. Cloud Nothings just released a new one. There are good things in 2017 in spite of all this political garbage.

Exactly- trade war!

Yeah, it's been a rush of bullshit. We no longer take refugees from muslim countries. Other ones are okay though. He posted something vague about getting to work on a wall today. I live in an underground bunker and have received several pigeons with notes about the collapse of our society.

Exactly. If we scatter the idea of truth on unimportant things then we've set a precedent when we talk about important things.

1. Trump cares enough to lie. 2. The rest of us care that the president is lying.

Yeah, it was well written. Do you think it bothered people who do agree politically?

There's a great Louis C.K. bit about the time he played one of his casinos. Trump came out on the floor where all the slot machines are and kind of shmoozed with the old ladies giving him all of their money. Then Louie ended up on the elevator with him and observed he was the most miserable, sad looking person he'd ever seen. He was in his golden castle surrounded by people who believe he's a big deal, shoveling money into his slots and he's just wretched. Louie said he figures he had a "president sized hole" inside of him. I thought that was quite astute. We all know the psychology of peo

So Trump's new press secretary Spicer had a shit fit with the media for reporting how few people came to the inauguration, especially in comparison to the Obama inauguration (and I imagine that they don't love being dwarfed by the women's march). He nit picked the difference in the conditions on the mall making things look different. Then he cited public transit data showing how many more people. From reliable sources his data is crazy inaccurate. My wife and I were debating. I said Trump is already damaging his standing by even talking about this crap, let alone lying. My wife says peop

Yeah. Cops expected 30,000 here. Latest estimate was 200,000. Today was a big day for feminism. I've seen pictures of rallys in Barcelona and London as well as Los Angeles.

My wife and daughter are marching at the capital building in Denver.

Pretty Mess is the best Crimpshrine song ever, or maybe tied with Fucked Up Kid. Glad to see another fan on here. Samiam- Capsized The Bridge She Found You Don't Break Me Dull (mine's closer to a greatest hits)(also I get to see them for the first time in 15 years this spring)

Yeah, I think that informed some of my view there. I'm very much interested in learning from the past and moving on with that knowledge. Yet at this point I'm pretty weary of picking through the ashes of the Clinton candidacy. I was a Bernie supporter, and then a Clinton apologist for many months. Having to justify her to my fellow uppity liberals got really tiring. I'm just sort of glad to be over that conversation. If the left is vetting candidates really hard now, that's good. We'll never have a perfect candidate, but at least it will be someone with less suspicion than Hillary.

I couldn't even watch the entirety of the clips people were posting, it just kept making me feel embarrassed.

I totally see your point in the "pick your battles" and "let's stick together against the real crap" type of lens. I think there is a danger of progressives dividing themselves over issues we don't even have the luxury of moving the dial on right now. That said, I also see a need to cultivate a progressive political figure over the next 4 years who's far removed from corporate interests- a non-swamp figure to use the horrific parlance of our times. The fact that Booker is on record for receiving six figures in donations from big pharma and he voted this way is troubling. The swift retributio

I can say that I reacted negatively before reading everything about it. I saw Bernie was for it, and it was cheap drugs so I downed on Booker after seeing a meme. This is the kind of thing many of us could do better on, but it's tiring. I guarantee most of the people I work with don't know anything about the story, yet I jumped to conclusions too rashly. Being informed is a pain in the ass. (Not that Booker is off the hook with me).

I'd be just as stoked on a Here's to Shutting Up sound as Majesty Shredding. Win-win! I saw they leaked a new Ride song, I need to track it down and check it out. *or was that Slowdive?

That's a hell of a list. Hayden is underappreciated. I'm always hungry for more YLT. I wonder if Superchunk is going to continue their streak of no nonsense punk records or if they'll sprawl out a little more like their mid-period stuff.

Those two and Jason Isbell write circles around the fools on the radio yet they don't get that level of attention..... which pretty much makes country music like every other genre in the industry.

I dig Sturgill. I think the songs are a little better on Metamodern, but the overall production of A Sailor's Guide is cool.