You’ve got to hand it to Spirit, the company that specialized in those Halloween costume pop-up stores. They’re pretty good at taking a meme or popular phenomenon and turning it into a mass-producing costume in almost no time at all.
Now it’s Yandy’s turn — they’re the “sexy costume” people — to make the “Sexy Mike Pence” costume, despite the phrase being a contradiction in terms. Remember “Sexy Ken Bone” from the previous election?
In case you don’t know who the guy on the left is, what the expression “Drinking the Kool-Aid” means, or where the expression comes from, this Wikipedia entry will help.
It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, where the holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October. As a Canadian transplant, a generally grateful person, and one who never turns down a good holiday, I celebrate both Thanksgivings.
One thing I’m grateful for is being able to live on a corner lot on a lush tree-lined street in a delightfully quirky neighborhood in a sub-tropical paradise.
Here are some photos I took earlier in our front yard this morning, as the rain gave way to a sunshine break, just in time for my daily 10K bike ride.
Thanks to Jeannie Cool for the find!
I’m based in Tampa, and every conversation I have with friends, family, and associates from outside the U.S. begins with them asking if I’m all right, what with everything going on here.
Thanks to Douglas King for the find!
This meme is the gift that keeps giving.
To quote Jonathan Chait’s article in New York magazine, titled Republican Senator Blurts Out That He Hates Democracy:
Four years ago, I wrote a long essay describing this view and its ascent within the Republican party over decades. Its thesis, that the GOP is slowly evolving into an authoritarian party, has been amply borne out by the Trump era.
From the perspective of the right, Trump’s assault on democracy has advanced the cause of freedom and liberty, on net. His regressive tax cuts and deregulation have returned property to their rightful owners. Republicans believe that the political system must retain, and ideally expand, its counter-majoritarian features: restrictive ballot-access rules that restrict the franchise to the most “worthy” citizens, gerrymandered maps that allow the white rural minority to exercise control, a Senate that disproportionately represents white and Republican voters, and a Supreme Court that believes the Republican economic program is written into the Constitution.