they haven't got the slightest plan to fix any of this, and at some point the airport situation compounds enough that even if the shutdown ends and we get back to regular ATC staffing it's going to take weeks to unfuck things

holidays are going to be a nightmare this year and it's one guy's fault

The electoral college makes me, suburbanite in Pennsylvania, one of the most important people in the country, while making tens of millions of people unworthy of any consideration whatsoever from a Presidential contender. A truly horrible, unfair, unjustifiable, inexcusable system.

Third way views politics as an end in itself. Winning seats is the point. They don’t see those seats as a means to solving any actual problems, because they buy into the neoliberal philosophy that government can’t make anything better—all it can do is stay out of the way and not make things worse