It's been a while that if you took real stories about the GOP and re-wrote them as fictional events by fictional characters everyone would think they're too cartoonishly evil and stupid to suspend disbelief.

I wanted to be a writer and I used to outline story ideas with characters that I thought were "crazy but believable" but as I went through life I realized that there is no way I can even imagine some of the real characters I meet.

Even just trying to write dialog from my dad's point of view gave me a headache. And my mom, Jesus, forget it. I could write a book about her behaviour and TONE IT DOWN and people would say it was just totally unrealistic garbage.

People are fucked up.

I didn't really understand how much until I was away from them for a while.

I hate to say it, Meerkat, but your post is intriguing and I would sort of want to hear details about your parents.

I got some fucking stories to tell. Real life is definitely stranger than fiction.

The little people being evil or stupid is believable.

Something about 'controlling the fates of millions of people'-type positions makes us have higher expectations.

"Something about 'controlling the fates of millions of people'-type positions makes us have higher expectations."


That's how they get us.

I mean, I haven't heard him speak to his base so clearly, directly and concisely in months.

He's just the orange, bloated gift that keeps on giving. We should await the future with bated breath!