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This is my concern as well. Anything that can be used to help the democrats will also inevitably be used against them, and in the most bad faith way possible.

Since Pence is the tie-breaker, they could even afford a third waffler, but either way, this is the correct take. Appointing/nominating judges (not just on the Supreme Court—Trump has nominated a bunch of federal judges as well) is one of the few areas where Trump will allow himself to be led by the party, since…

Sadly, I think you’re right. Something else to consider is that these statements from Murkowski and Collins could be simple posturing precisely because they know their two votes can’t and won’t affect the final outcome. They get to claim a principled stance, but without actually preventing the party from achieving its…

In addition to what other commenters have said about Rob Reiner’s progressive credentials, just a week ago, he and the surviving cast of The Princess Bride (minus Fred Savage and Malcolm Storry) livestreamed a table read of the screenplay (plus a Q&A after) to raise funds for Wisconsin Democrats. So that tweet isn’t…

I wasn’t comparing Palin and Harris in terms of suitability for office—I’m speculating that Trump (and/or his campaign managers) is hoping he can get one of the things that tanked the McCain campaign (objection to the vice presidential nominee and concern that she may indeed become president due to the age of her…

With Harris, Trump simply sees Obama 2.0 and it scares the fuck outta him because she will erase his house of cards ‘legacy’ really, really quickly.

Exactly. There are lots of ways—big and small—that the pandemic is negatively affecting people, and everyone is allowed to feel sad about whatever the specific impacts on them are. It’s simply a matter of knowing your audience. If the worst thing the pandemic has done to you involves having to change or cancel plans,…

Reading the New York Times article, I was struck by the number of registered dietitians who are involved in some way. There are so may fad diets and diet products, but I think this is the first I’ve seen that involved actual dietitians (as opposed to doctors or self-proclaimed “nutritionists”). I’m extremely curious…

That level of complacency—both from the candidate and the party operatives—is depressing. This whole debacle is, among other things, a case study in why robust primaries are necessary, and not “tearing the party apart” or “giving fodder to the other party in the general election”. If the incumbent had done his…

For me, it’s more that I wonder what Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump Jr. have in common that she could be attracted to both and have both find her attractive as well. As others in this thread noted, she’s probably drawn to inherited wealth and proximity to power. It also seems that she likes men who enjoy overtly…

It always boggles my mind when I remember that she was once married to Gavin Newsom.

But how could she tell on you without also telling on herself? It seems like whatever trouble you could be in for comparing her house to hell, it would be worse for her since she was the one who first introduced the word hell into your exchange.

It was acknowledged (albeit neither directly nor well) after his Twitter meltdown. However, your point still stands that this site has always been problematic and I wanted to add that its…let’s call them complicated feelings about Taylor Swift go back a long was as well.

What’s funny is that they even cite NAMI in the text of the article, which has the bizarre implication that this site (or this author, at least) thinks their research is credible, but not the recommendations for reporters that result from that research.

Did you ever read The Toast? I think it might have been your thing: The Pitch Meeting for Wishbone, The Pitch Meeting for Ghostwriter, and I’ll also throw in The Pitch Meeting for Animaniacs.

I wondered this myself—it sounds like she just bounced around the US while she was on the run, which doesn’t seem like a great plan for avoiding arrest and prosecution. Surely someone she knows could have gotten her on a yacht out of the US and to a country where she could get a flight to France? Or just taken her…

According to the Guardian:

I wondered if the source was sending a message to Maxwell along the lines of, “You’d better not flip on Andrew.” I have no idea what sort of leverage Prince Andrew might have (or think he has), especially now. The best I can guess is that he could lean on the Tory government to revoke Maxwell’s British citizenship…

Exactly this. You and your kids might fall out, your children might predecease you (every parent’s nightmare), or some other scenario that prevents them from looking after you in your old age. The people who promote this line of thought don’t seem to understand that just because they accepted the implied inter-generati…