Today is Festivus, the made-up holiday popularized by “Seinfeld” back in the ’90s, the centerpiece of which is the Airing of the Grievances. Compiling a full list would take all day, so why bother when a scroll through the archives would suffice? Here at Delaware Liberal, every day is Festivus, and airing our grievances is always in season.
So let me start off by not griping: Donald Trump serves a useful function for me. Identifying asshole conservatives I don’t yet know about so I can get a jump on disliking them. Today, for example, the stubby presidential fingers tweeted out support for Rep. Ron DeSantis in Florida’s GOP gubernatorial primary. I never heard his name before but I disliked him immediately upon learning that he accompanied Trump on his rally for Roy Moore.
The tax heist isn’t the only method by which the Trump Conspiracy oligarchs intend to steal from the poor. The Department of Labor has proposed, under the guise of giving waiters and waitresses the “freedom” to share tips with dishwashers and other kitchen workers, a rule change allowing employers to claim a share of the tips. The Economic Policy Institute calculates this would cost America’s food servers nearly $6 billion. An economist from EPI explains.
Alert the outrage police: Princess Michael of Kent was caught wearing a piece of racist jewelry to a royal affair attended by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Is the “blackamoor” brooch racist? Check it out at the link.
There’s an absurd trope out there holding out MSNBC as a leftist counterweight to Fox News. An actual leftist counterweight wouldn’t be owned by a metastasizing corporation despised by consumers, and it wouldn’t give out Christmas presents like the one Joan Walsh got: Merry Christmas, you’re fired!