All of this. Also factor in that a COVID diagnosis robs him of one of the only things he loves in his job: holding big public rallies. He’s going to be quarantined for at least a week (it should be two, but unless his symptoms are keeping him bedridden I doubt they can keep him down that long), and there are only 32…

“Hia base DOESN’T CARE whether the ‘chyna plague’ is real or not, or if masks are effective or not. This will not change a single Trump voter’s intention of voting Republican across the ticket.”

Nah. A COVID diagnosis means he’s stopped from doing his favorite thing for a week or more: holding big public rallies. That’s way more important to him than skipping another debate, which honestly I don’t agree that he even wants to do as he does not have it in him to be self aware enough to realize he’ll keep…

I agree.  I think this is legit as there’s more downsides to a COVID diagnosis than him participating in another debate.

Is there really anything about the current Tex Cruz that really can only be explained by stupidity though? I don’t think anything he’s done since 2016 says dumb so much as craven. It’s not a lack of intelligence that causes people in the GOP to how to Trump, it’s a mixture of political expediency and fear of the…

Also with oil and gas companies, it’s often more expensive to cut off production than it is to keep working because of what you have to do with the wells.  That’s also a big part of why production didn’t slow as the oil market cratered last spring and they were basically paying people to take it off their hands…

Even a company with savings would likely have to lay off employees in this situation. You may run a company, but I highly doubt it’s so big that all of your employee base could cumulatively rival a small city. The scale of the problem makes it much trickier to deal with, especially since we’re not talking about 3…

I’m actually wondering if he meant to write Van Jones instead of Chris Wallace? Jones does work for CNN and Stephen called him a good girlfriend to Jared Kushner, which is an apt description these days.

As I said above, my own personal experience has made the idea that you ditch or accept people entirely based on their politics a pretty silly idea. That’s the sort of privilege afforded to people where people who share your politics are relatively abundant. We don’t know where she lives or what her personal…

Pretty sure Ina and Jeffrey are longtime Democratic donors and I think Jeffrey has worked in at least one Democratic administrations. Also he was a business partner of former Jezebel staffer Joanna Rothkopf’s dad who is a Democratic Washington insider type.

God election night is going to be such a shit show. I have no idea what I’m going to do. After 2016, I vowed to never watch election returns again because I don’t ever want to repeat experiencing the drip drip drip of traumatic news that we had in 2016. Pre-covid I had thought I’d just go see a movie, go out for…

Weirdly, I was far too depressed to drink on election night in 2016.  I had plenty of booze on hand to either celebrate or commiserate with, but as the night wore on I couldn’t drink or even eat my feelings.  I was just too distressed.

Where do you live? Is it somewhere actually important? Also, have you considered calling off the wedding? If the answer to the first two questions is “somewhere unlikely to decide the fate of the election, so no not important” just give yourself the permission to stop trying to convince him to change his vote. It’s…

That may be so, but obviously not one with enough power that he could have gotten her salary approved without taking it out of his own compensation.

The Boseman story is equally heartwarming and infuriating. It’s great that he was the kind of guy who would step up for their castmate, but it should not be the actors themselves who have to make sure that their costars get paid fairly. The studio could have afforded it and it’s obvious her asking price wasn’t…

He’s paid slightly more than that. The Times said he’s paid $0 in fed in come taxes in 10 of the 17 years that have record for and in two of the years he did pay (2016 & 2017) he paid $750. I don’t think they’re said how much he paid in those other 5 years, but I assume it’s another comically low number.

Great rapid response ad from the Biden campaign.

400 million is about the same size as what he’s said to have inherited from his dad. I wouldn’t be surprised if his net worth (assets and all, not just his cash on hand) is completely in the red.

I’ve spent the last two hours reading Twitter off on and on.  The Trumpers in the replies have all just been sticking to the idea that we just don’t understand the tax code and therefore can’t judge.  As if there were any acceptable reason for someone able to live as in the type of luxury Trump does and not have to…

It’s gross that there’s so little effort on the behalf of city governments to incentivize the build of reasonably priced housing. I get that most developers will always choose to build luxury housing if they have their choice as that’s where the profit margin is highest, but it’s in the city’s interest to have a more…