…Are we sure this is new? I could swear this has been out for some time. Unless they were doing a marketing campaign *really* far in advance.

Middle class people who saw their insurance premiums go up under the ACA don't care about poor people with no insurance at all. That's what's wrong with them - a basic lack of empathy.

Right, thank you. I knew I was forgetting a major detail - the Third Temple was it.

Not all of those are verified, but the two news reports by themselves are pretty terrifying.

One of the few good things about having to register a Disqus account was getting to block them again.

Taking all the caveats about the veracity of exit polling as read, it seems the poorest voters didn't vote for Trump anyway. My guess is that's because, despite this ongoing narrative about the white working class and its pain, the poorest people in the country remain people of colour. And as per usual, neither the…

Just as an aside, I am so sick of people wanting to be "inspired" by their president. Great rhetoric and the ability to govern are not the same thing. Sure it's awesome when they meet up, but governing a country as large and diverse as the US requires making actual tough decisions and balancing priorities. People who…

I mean, the other side is already there (warning that this first link contains a lot of blood):

Heh. Unfortunately, it's worse than expecting them to convert - the evangelicals expect them to die. Not being a Christian myself, I'm unclear on where exactly this belief comes from, but I think it's somewhere in Revelations.

Yes.

Sadly, a good number of those stats have been the case at least since Bush/Kerry (not the gay marriage one, for sure, but most of the rest). Hasn't made enough of a difference yet.

Similar to Peter Cook's observation about how the Weimar cabaret culture stopped Hitler in his tracks.

Not to mention the fantasy that they'd have elected the first Jewish president in American history. There'd have been a lot more six-sided stars being retweeted, that's for damn sure.

Racism and sexism are real reasons. Pretending they're not is part of the problem.

I took comfort in the idea of them dying off in 2004. I no longer have that comfort because they are teaching their children their values.

As the saying goes, it can be two things. Obviously progressives would have preferred Warren to Clinton, and of course everyone who ardently supported Clinton would have done the same for Warren (except possibly Lloyd Blankfein and his ilk). But Warren's not been on the political scene anywhere near as long as Hillary…

It's their BFF because everyone of the Jewish faith needs to be in Israel for the second coming. I know someone who worked for a group in Israel trying to repatriate the Jewish diaspora, and the organization was backed by American evangelicals.

He looks eerily like the way President Snow from the Hunger Games looked in my head while I was reading the books.

I don't think it's an unrealistic standard at all. Having some thought for how your vote is going to affect the country is the entire fucking point. A vote is not a personal brand, it's not a Facebook status, it's not a Twitter bio. It is an act of civic duty and responsibility, and a whole bunch of people abdicated…

I had that feeling watching the returns. I decided it was time to go to bed at that point.