Me too. Additionally, people will point to stuff like Mama Medicine and say, “Well, some people seem to like it and they don’t seem to be hurting anyone, so what’s the problem?” The problem is that it lines the pockets of snake oil salesmen and contributes to a society that can neither assess the empirical evidence…

Gotcha. And now I understand why her change of heart* makes sense.

I get that, but if she’s up against another democrat (likely de León, though, like you, I prefer Hartson) in November, it seems like she’s risking alienating voters who might otherwise default to her in the hopes of gaining followers from the left wing of the party. I may be overgeneralizing from my opinions and those…

This is a weird thing for her to flip on. In 2016, Californians voted on whether or not to repeal the death penalty, and voted 53%-47% to keep it. In that same election, they also voted 51%-49% to limit the amount of time people on death row had to appeal their convictions. I suppose pro-death penalty democrats might…

I think it probably started with the religious right (of which she and her awful father are members) and their bullshit persecution complex. When the rest of the party saw how effective it was at deflecting criticism and reframing public discourse, they picked it up as well.

I remember seeing it suggested that a lot of the horror stories we hear about people being awful about weddings stem from people trying to hold a far more formal event than they’re accustomed to. As a result, they end up out of their depth and try to make up rules (“the present has to cover the cost of the dinner”,…

Ironically it was another Douglas High School survivor Kyle Kashuv who offered the most grounded counter-argument on “Face the Nation.”

The quote from the transcript says,

I agree it’s fucked up. I’m not condoning it. I wish healthcare in the US were a basic right and made available to all people instead of using the current system involving employers and private health insurance. Then the archdiocese (and any other employer or organization) would not have this kind of leverage on her.…

I agree with you that both the nuns and the archdiocese come across as assholes. I have trouble sympathizing with the nuns for getting fucked over—they know Catholic doctrine better than most of us. They’ve been well aware of the church’s hierarchy and their place in it for decades. They were apparently fine with it…

They don’t think it’s a viable option as birth control. The goal is not to get teens to stop having babies, it’s to get them to stop having sex out of wedlock. For the girls that don’t adhere to this wisdom, a baby is the just consequence of their whorish ways. If it makes them more dependent on the community for help…

I assume the Trump organization wasn’t dumb enough to act as the medium themselves.

Agreed. I’d steer clear of anyone who can stomach as much Steve Bannon as Wolff apparently did during the information-gathering stage of writing his book.

That’s awful. However, you shouldn’t blame yourself for falling victim to predatory landlords and the fecklessness of whatever systems the city has in place to fight them. It should be the landlord’s responsibility to tell the truth, not your responsibility to catch them if and when they don’t.

There’s already a name for “testilying”: perjury. And this problem will start to go away once people start being fired and prosecuted for it.

“The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city [New York City] declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.”

I saw them as a final “fuck you” to the administration. He’s on his way out, so what does he have to lose? It’ll also be a way of establishing distance between himself and all the people caught up in the Mueller probe. He may not be able to get the stink of being part of the Trump administration off of himself…

I don’t buy that Trump wants them out, either. If he said that he did, I’m betting it was some sort of weird mind-game/placation/loyalty test to Kelly or whatever staffer it was who heard it.

Yeah. I have no idea what the motivation behind making it was, and I don’t think I want to.

Yep. In her Forbes 30 under 30 interview, and in this weird fan(?) video (which includes music and part of the Forbes interview). For the latter video, I’ve linked to 42 seconds in, where I think the baby voice is particularly pronounced.