Gov Christie's bizarro world

In a New York Times story about New Jersey, where the state supreme court has to order the governor to stop screwing over poor people so much, I found this line:

Gov. Chris Christie, whose efforts to rein in school spending and teachers’ salaries have ... helped establish him as a leader in national education circles.

Slashing education funding and teacher salaries makes one a leader in education circles? Welcome to bizarro world.

Senate keeps tax breaks for the world's most profitable companies

Today our sorry excuse for a legislative body, the US Senate, blocked a bill to repeal $2 billion in tax cuts for Big Oil corporations. This move is despite an analysis, mentioned in the article, indicating that the move would not raise prices at the gas pump. It's also despite the fact that the GOP especially is insisting that we need massive budget cuts and is totally fine with doing that on the backs of the poor and middle class.

Yeah, guess which party blocked the bill? They can't let their hugely profitable corporate buddies bear any costs, but screwing over most of the actual citizens of our country is fine. Welcome to the GOP.

How the media tried to string us along about Trump

This article shows just how pathetic our media is:
Was he ever serious? How Trump strung the country along, again

Myself and so many other people knew that Trump's supposed flirtation with a presidential run was bullshit. We talked in various forums about how it was certainly a publicity stunt and there's no way he was going to actually run.

Yet despite how obvious this fact was, the media went on and on about him, breathlessly covering his every utterance as though he were a serious presidential contender. Polling results indicate that many Republicans took him seriously and actually supported his run, but let's put the blame where it belongs. They took him seriously because so much of the media took him seriously, idiotically giving Trump all the attention he wanted and more. Attention, after all, was the whole point.