For Clinton, politics are fundamentally about pragmatism, where strategic concessions and horse-trading with Republicans necessarily means sacrificing ideals for the ultimate good of Getting (Some) Things Done.

No, it WAS racist. Conclusively. There are receipts for that shit, more than one. He is a racist. It’s not a discussion. Especially given that using stereotypes to inform what you believe about other races IS LITERALLY RACISM YOU APPLE CORE.

He may have based the meal on a stereotype he believed in...

This is a great example of how racism does not have to come from a place of hatred. Sometimes racism comes from a place of ignorance.

No doubt, train conductors, pilots, bus drivers, fast food workers etc etc all have cameras on them at all times yet the guys with the guns who kill people don’t.

Do these same organizations protest about cameras at retail stores, trained on employee stations, cameras they routinely use to investigate crimes?

Because they’re cruising on their reputation from 10 years ago.

The Google discrimination suit should show that it’s not just older white guys who are the problem, who we have to wait to die and then the new age will arrive. Google’s average age is not old.

We’ve long since closed the casket on “Don’t be evil.” I understand everyone has one’s own personal breaking point, but for many it was “Pay your goddamn EU taxes.”

Which is ironic since the memo was alleging the exact reverse.

I’m in Silicon Valley, so I’m going to be following what’s discovered very, very closely. I won’t be able to read the full 18 pages until I get home, but I am intrigued by the specific allegations about job ladders. I didn’t understand this until I heard a…

“Don’t be evil...sexism is fine though, Bro”

Eh, marrying for money is fine. But at some point you have to take responsibility for who you marry. Its clear that Melania, by sticking with Trump, loves money more than morality, ethics, or her adoptive country.

Murphy Brown isn’t remembered as much as it should. A 24 year old I work with didn’t even know what it was! (uglycry)

Pretty funny how the congregation is all ‘Let’s do good!’, and as soon as they’re associated with a critical, but controversial, topic, it’s ‘Eh, not that good.’. As a collective force, they could put additional weight behind their leader and his fight, but that would be, you know, uncomfortable. Best to focus on…

Not entirely disagreeing, but (some) churches were also integral to the civil rights movement, and (some) black churches have served to build and strengthen communities for decades or longer.

Churches have historically been a bastion of racism and Judeo-Christian religious texts have long been used to justify racism. I have tremendous respect for Lee IV but I think he would’ve been less shocked if he had fully absorbed the ugly history of the intersection of Christianity and racism in the US.

Hey, guess what, Donny? If you resign now, you may be able to keep them! You can then move to Saudi Arabia and live with your dictator buddies as long as you’d like!

Donnie is gonna be pissed when he finds out that he is not allowed to keep the gifts:

This show is getting so good. Pence AND Miller pulled into the obstruction-of-justice dragnet.... Trump’s scummy lawyer Cohen & that scummy Sater crook schmoozing Moscow real estate deals and Putin hookups with Drumpf.... You can hear the click-click-click of Mueller fitting the pieces neatly together.

La La Land was just a Hollywood circle jerk and it was bound to attract Oscar nods. Adams should have won that Oscar but Sci Fi doesn’t merit serious award consideration outside of editing awards for bullshit reasons.