And she wasn’t even at the top for insider trading in Congress.

Life is pain.

That is a very important detail I dropped. Thanks for adding it.

Kimmel said something like,“Melania has the glow of an expectant widow” and, after someone translated it for Melania, she got angry. Then the winger snowflake brigade started their bitching and whining. Oh yeah, and the head of the FCC made another threat to broadcasters licenses if they keep not toeing the party line.

A livable wage is now considered a far left issue? Jesus christ things have gotten bad.

There are always doomsayers saying raising the minimum wage will do <insert economic doomsday opinion>. And over and over it’s shown to not have that effect. What it does in improve the lives of millions of people.

I thought “Sharting” but you could be right.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future starts with a very similar setting.

I first read about it years ago and you captured my reaction perfectly.

comin’ straight from the underground

That would be so hilarious. People would be drinking beer and laughing at the story 100 years later.

They signed up to be mercenaries. I don’t feel sorry for them in particular.