The Calvinball conservatism embraced by Trump and his Supreme Court might be super popular with the sickos in the GOP base, but it is wildly unpopular with the 70% of voters who do not fit that description.

It's good news that the court is not going to be reconsidering Obergefell this term...but the emphasis in that sentence should fall on THIS TERM. There is absolutely no reason to believe that this court won't change its mind in the future, just as they did with Roe.

I ultimately gave it 3 1/2 points for its historic value, and while I generally agree with you that it could have been better, in its era, I think it was progressive. At that point, "bury your gays" was still recent.

I think, for its time, it was still a good movie, because at that moment, any positive representation was good. I watched it on Saturday, and while I didn't think it was super, I thought it was a good look and a positive view at a point where homophobia was a lot more commonplace.

I think that even if the deal is problematic, the decision to end the shutdown is correct, because Democrats eventually need to end the shutdown, especially with Christmas coming. I think, Thanksgiving & Christmas with closed national museums would be bad, and the anger wouldn't be only on the GOP

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And again, not to say the cause isn’t righteous or correct. It is. Just that the pressure from ordinary folks whose lives are being upended is getting higher.

Basically, just because the politics seem to be the way they are now doesn’t mean they’ll be that way forever, or even for another week or another day. A lot of Feds are going on their second full missed paycheck now. That’s a lot of people getting desperate.

3b) “I refuse to vote for the GOP proposal to strip away your health care” is compelling in some sense but like at some point Trolley Problem dynamics can tilt the other way too.

2b) politics seems with Dems right now but the longer this goes on and the more the pain spreads and cascades, the more tenuous that is

3a) Would it be worth saying fuck it and trying to hold out past republicans, in either a political or a human cost way? I don’t know!

1b) Not clear right now that there *is* a bill that the house and senate can get to agreement on, at least not quickly.

2a) I’d be disappointed at what feels like a cave, but I also feel like people are really underrating the pressure they’re feeling to end the shutdown

I wasn't saying the deal isn't there, I was specifically referring to the fact that NPR and NBC were not reporting it as he said.

No, they don't, I just checked them.