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People are complicated. Love is not.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

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Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

The revolution will be supervised.

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When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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  2. 2.

    ThresherK

    For those of you with a few extra pounds, their athleisure pants come with plenty of lebensraum.

  8. 8.

    Ohio Mom

    I think I get it: red (well, maroon), white and navy with stars. Where are the stripes?

    I have flag socks and a hat, I wear them to watch the Fourth of July parade and to anti-Trump rallies.

  10. 10.

    laura

    Mr. Cole, I think your headline needs adjusting – should read as Fascist Grifting.
    And thank goodness there’s now an overpriced option for stretch pants that I can unsafely and insanely stash a weapon in.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    I’m not a dedicated follower of fashion so I could be missing something here. But just what distinguishes this stuff from Tommy Hilfiger or Ralph Lauren or Abercrombie & Fitch or any of them other brands?

  17. 17.

    dr. bloor

    @Amir Khalid: They probably paid factory workers in Asia even less than Hilfiger, et al. Also, those other brands are built to survive more than two trips to the washing machine.

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    Oh FFS. I think I had some Wonder Woman pajamas with stars on them when I was in first grade.

  23. 23.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Amir Khalid: White stars on a blue background, vaguely suggestive of the American flag and hence it’s your patriotic duty to Der Orangführer to buy them rather than those other heathen designs.

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    You’re not making it up!

    They seek him here, they seek him there —
    Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!
    Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?
    That demn’d elusive Pimpernel!

  28. 28.

    Spanky

    Scanning Ms. Laksmi’s twitter feed, “Motley Shrews” caught my eye.

    ETA: “Eva Braun and the Bunkerettes”, also too.

  36. 36.

    Mai naem mobile

    From the headline I thought you were talking about Ivanka getting another six trademarks from China the same time her daddy was ordering US companies to stop doing business with China. You couldn’t make this shit up.

  37. 37.

    Yarrow

    Wonder when they start showing up at T.J. Maxx. I bet shoppers there would be all, “WTF? Why do these yoga pants have this weird pocket?”

  40. 40.

    oatler.

    @SiubhanDuinne: They seek him here, they seek him there —
    Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!
    Is he in heaven? Is he in… well!
    That demn’d elusive Pimpernel!

    Bowdlerized it for you per the David Niven film version.

  45. 45.

    Yarrow

    @Frankensteinbeck: With modern facial recognition software and social media, it sure seems like it would be easy to find out who the models are. I wonder if they’re supporters of this kind of product or just there to do a job.

  47. 47.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @realbtl: Amir knows his music! He did even before the for the girl and her gang (I haven’t been around enough to keep up with the count).

    @Amir Khalid: I saw an old guitar player pal in (a band and its progeny I saw a lot in college/grad school and we’ve stayed in touch)at a house concert last week. He played much more on acoustic than his strat. For a surprise >55 birthday gift I’m getting him a cool capo.

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @oatler.:

    Ah, thanks! Never saw the Niven version. Cut my teeth on Leslie Howard/Merle Oberon, and I remember seeing a surprisingly enjoyable (TV miniseries, I think) remake with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.

    But to tell the truth, any of those might have employed the Bowdlerised language, and my own mind substituted the obvious rhyme! Would need to watch them again to be certain.

  50. 50.

    Mandalay

    Here’s a real bargain for those running low on T-shirts….

    Gillibrand has resorted to hawking T-shirts to anyone willing to chip in $1 to get her on the debate stage.

    “Time is running out to get a FREE Gillibrand 2020 t-shirt if you donate $1 toward securing Kirsten’s spot on the September debate stage,” said the candidate in one of several fundraising e-mails this month promoting the offer.

    “Offer valid only for supporters who make their first-ever donation to Gillibrand 2020,” she noted in the fine print.

    The shirt — a USA-based, union-made, cotton/polyester blend — retails for $30 on the candidate’s campaign store.

    And a former staffer had this recommendation…

    “I don’t know that anyone even wants to see her on the debate stage. Everyone I have talked to finds her performative and obnoxious,” said a former senior staffer in Gillibrand’s Senate office.

  59. 59.

    david

    Wait until the first injury/death takes place due to gun nuts finding out that cheap spandex can’t properly holster weapons.

    Tami may not realize it, but she just bankrupted herself with this little scheme.

  62. 62.

    Miss Bianca

    @SiubhanDuinne: There was a 1999 TV version starring Richard E. Grant and Elizabeth McGovern as Sir Percy and Lady Blakeney that was just OK except for the guy who played Chauvelin, oh, my word, he was dead sexy. Martin Shaw. I think that was the beginning of my idea to sketch out a sort of reverse-Pimpernel, where the revolutionaries were actually the heroes. Still in process. ; )

  67. 67.

    Anya

    I got a Twitter suspension for saying whoever wears that gets a choice to get in the ass in reply to

  70. 70.

    jonas

    @sdhays: His staff rushed to “clarify” that his second thoughts were about going so EASY on China.

    They don’t even try to pretend they’re not wearing clownshoes anymore. They’re just owning the humiliation like bosses.

  71. 71.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Raven: He’s a dessicated follower of fascism…

    (ETA: RIffing of course on the classic Kinks cut:

    They seek him here, they seek him there
    His clothes are loud, but never square
    It will make or break him so he’s got to buy the best
    ‘Cause he’s a dedicated follower of fashion

    Ca’t post the link in an edit, damnitall – but Google & ye shall find…)

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