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Nah, they’ll find some mental gymnastic explanation of why redistricting is A-OK for a red state but not for a blue one.
December 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Nah, they’ll find some mental gymnastic explanation of why redistricting is A-OK for a red state but not for a blue one.
Hope this works out for the league, but have misgivings (especially given how bad TV ratings have been under the Apple regime) about competing with MLB playoffs and pretty much the entire seasons of NFL, NBA, and NHL. Also, great to play in Dallas or LA in winter, not so great in Montreal or Boston.
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Hope this works out for the league, but have misgivings (especially given how bad TV ratings have been under the Apple regime) about competing with MLB playoffs and pretty much the entire seasons of NFL, NBA, and NHL. Also, great to play in Dallas or LA in winter, not so great in Montreal or Boston.
Too bad I already had a personal grudge against my alma mater so I won’t be able to cut off donations in protest of its capitulation.
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Too bad I already had a personal grudge against my alma mater so I won’t be able to cut off donations in protest of its capitulation.
Was literally scream-emailing at Sinema and Manchin to allow the majority to do exactly these things in 2021
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Was literally scream-emailing at Sinema and Manchin to allow the majority to do exactly these things in 2021
How about improving public transportation and not designing every road for motorists first, everyone else second?
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
How about improving public transportation and not designing every road for motorists first, everyone else second?
DC statehood is on the long list of missed opportunities for Congress in 2021-23. Thanks Manchin, thanks Sinema.
October 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
DC statehood is on the long list of missed opportunities for Congress in 2021-23. Thanks Manchin, thanks Sinema.
Pope Pius XI balked at the word "socialist" in the Nazi party name, initially hesitating to give the Catholic German Centre Party his OK to get behind Hitler in the 1932 election (sadly, Pius consistently tolerated fascism as preferable to godless communism). Per usual, Musk's BS is 1930s vintage.
September 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Pope Pius XI balked at the word "socialist" in the Nazi party name, initially hesitating to give the Catholic German Centre Party his OK to get behind Hitler in the 1932 election (sadly, Pius consistently tolerated fascism as preferable to godless communism). Per usual, Musk's BS is 1930s vintage.
Too bad it doesn't matter. The ultraconservatives have the numbers, probably for the next couple of decades, and apparently not enough Americans knew or cared about the damage they're doing to our country to be bothered to show up to vote against the guy who put Kavanaugh on the bench to begin with.
September 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Too bad it doesn't matter. The ultraconservatives have the numbers, probably for the next couple of decades, and apparently not enough Americans knew or cared about the damage they're doing to our country to be bothered to show up to vote against the guy who put Kavanaugh on the bench to begin with.
Famously, autocrats don't really care about their approval rating, and are far more concerned with maintaining the level on the other side of Machiavelli's fear/love metric. Hence sending troops on the streets.
September 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Famously, autocrats don't really care about their approval rating, and are far more concerned with maintaining the level on the other side of Machiavelli's fear/love metric. Hence sending troops on the streets.
How wrong do you have to be about something before even Rand “Obama Won Because He Hypnotized The Electorate” Paul calls you out on it? This wrong apparently.
September 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
How wrong do you have to be about something before even Rand “Obama Won Because He Hypnotized The Electorate” Paul calls you out on it? This wrong apparently.
The time for folks to have spoken out (and yes, many did, but not en masse) was before RFK fils was confirmed. Not that this or anything else would have convinced enough GOP Senators (including the four medical doctors within their ranks) to defy their master, but now too little, too late.
September 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The time for folks to have spoken out (and yes, many did, but not en masse) was before RFK fils was confirmed. Not that this or anything else would have convinced enough GOP Senators (including the four medical doctors within their ranks) to defy their master, but now too little, too late.
I know the Islamophobia is the key element of original bigot’s post here, but egad man, “bone-petite”? Spell check first before attempting to taunt someone!
September 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I know the Islamophobia is the key element of original bigot’s post here, but egad man, “bone-petite”? Spell check first before attempting to taunt someone!
What a better timeline we’d all be in if we had Vice President or President Sanders from ‘17 on.
September 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
What a better timeline we’d all be in if we had Vice President or President Sanders from ‘17 on.
Who except literally everyone could have predicted that this would be the result?
September 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Who except literally everyone could have predicted that this would be the result?
Clearly someone was taking a swing at that punchable face and missed?
August 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Clearly someone was taking a swing at that punchable face and missed?
This has been in the works for decades. Voter suppression is back in red states due to SCOTUS’s hit on the Voting Rights Act; first agenda item in purple states where GOP won in 2010 was gerrymandering a permanent majority. As elsewhere, MAGA’s just an extreme version of earlier Republican strategy.
August 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This has been in the works for decades. Voter suppression is back in red states due to SCOTUS’s hit on the Voting Rights Act; first agenda item in purple states where GOP won in 2010 was gerrymandering a permanent majority. As elsewhere, MAGA’s just an extreme version of earlier Republican strategy.
Bari Weiss is an excellent illustration of the principle that whenever you convince yourself that every other journalist is an ideological hack, you become an ideological hack yourself very quickly.
August 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Bari Weiss is an excellent illustration of the principle that whenever you convince yourself that every other journalist is an ideological hack, you become an ideological hack yourself very quickly.
Not sure what current the criteria for admission to heaven are, but I'd venture that needlessly sending millions of people to their graves by defunding USAID and PEPFAR doesn't look very good on your celestial transcript.
August 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Not sure what current the criteria for admission to heaven are, but I'd venture that needlessly sending millions of people to their graves by defunding USAID and PEPFAR doesn't look very good on your celestial transcript.
I guess J. K. has no problem with trans so long as it's fats we're talking about? But seriously, no thank you Krispy Kreme.
August 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I guess J. K. has no problem with trans so long as it's fats we're talking about? But seriously, no thank you Krispy Kreme.
50 or 51 could do it if you control the House too. 2021-2023 was a tragic missed opportunity to rebalance the court, ban gerrymandering, ensure voter/abortion rights, etc. etc. There’s a special place in hell for Sinema & Manchin whose intransigence prevented action on these & other critical issues.
August 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
50 or 51 could do it if you control the House too. 2021-2023 was a tragic missed opportunity to rebalance the court, ban gerrymandering, ensure voter/abortion rights, etc. etc. There’s a special place in hell for Sinema & Manchin whose intransigence prevented action on these & other critical issues.
Not an irrational response. I for one tend to avoid countries where there’s a non-negligible chance that I may be thrown into a dungeon on arrival or really any time during my stay.
July 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Not an irrational response. I for one tend to avoid countries where there’s a non-negligible chance that I may be thrown into a dungeon on arrival or really any time during my stay.