Agree. We have a turn-in TDI and I feel like the settlement was in good faith, so why not be nice about it? People are getting a useful amount of money. Grab the floor mats if you want, but stripping it just looks childish. I won’t blame VW if they push back on this idea.

So much for the hope that Trump is “post ideological.” He doesn’t understand ideology and can’t articulate one, but he sure seems determined to have ideological extremists run the country.

No one hates liberal Democrats more than conservative Democrats.

Or, maybe next time someone will field a candidate whose most appealing attribute is not “not being Donald Trump.”

The Presidency is nothing like running a business. For starters, a business is selfish, looking only to make money. A President owes a duty to the collective good of the citizens. Something we can already see Trump does not understand. If anything, business tycoons are less qualified, because their entire mindset is…

I believe Trump is the first with zero experience in either government OR the military.

Of course it’s not “the will of the people.” The popular vote did not elect Trump, not by a long shot. The idea of the EC is to tweak the democratic process. If we don’t agree with it, that’s fine, but as it stands it offsets weighted voting with the power of electors to shun a wildly unqualified candidate.

The EC is not a person from whom we need a favor. It’s a legal mechanism crafted to work in a certain way, and part of that mechanism is that it’s supposed to allow electors to prevent a horribly unqualified person from sweeping into power despite geographically weighted voting.

Wait just a minute now. We either have an Electoral College, or we don’t. A lot of people think we should modify or eliminate it for a more truly “democratic” process, and that’s fine, but you work with the system you have, not the one you wish you had.

The M.C. Turing Test?

It’s bad out there. I recently sold a car privately, and got a fair a amount of scammy-sounding offers from CL. One spooky one claimed he needed to immediately drive several hundred miles “to a funeral” so could I meet him somewhere TODAY to take several thousand dollars in cash?

There’s been enough weird crap with electronic voting that we should be doing some form of auditing anyway. Ohio always seems crooked for Republicans — the look on Karl Rove’s face last time sure looked like someone who thought he knew the results ahead of time.

Watch last year’s Black Mirror Christmas special with Jon Hamm., especially “Part II.” Maybe with a friend. :\

I dislike Hillary as much as any Democrat I know, but I see a pretty leap to reach the conclusion that Hillary “almost” committed a felony or put the nation at risk with her email. Of all the things she may or may not have done, why would anyone be most offended by that? She took her cues from not one, but two…

People who secretly resent nods to cultural sensitivity have trouble understanding context. They think it’s hypocrisy to differentiate between people condemning the actual use of some offensive term to seriously discussing its use because they think the argument is that “words” are inherently good or bad, rather than…

I’m so tired of the “you must be ruthless to survive” ethos of this show. No sliver of hope or collective endeavor (outside of fighting) ever succeeds; it’s the cruelest and most violent strategies that work.

A lot of pop culture right now seems to be reflecting fear of ourselves or elements of society taking on godlike powers over others.

1. “Jost was not ribbing his viewers with the idea that Hillary Clinton lost because Democrats focus too much on the intricacies of identity—which would have been fine, we can laugh at ourselves”

No, but the fact that no more of them voted for Trump (less actually) than for prior Republicans suggests that there was no special level of racism or stupidity responsible for Trump.

In the end, a ham sandwich could have beaten Trump, and we put up the most disliked Democrat to ever run.