I guess three things: (1) The people who are primarily responsible for Trump are the people who voted for him. I’m beyond tired of listening to people blaming the left for the greed and selfishness of the right. (2) The dems having taken the popular vote by, is it up to 2 million now, ought to be seen as an…

Self care. Do what takes care of you, and if that means not attempting to choke down food while you choke on injustice and rage and being mocked for it, stay the fuck home. Any blowback can be rerouted into a splendid little example about the differences between choosing for one’s own good and choosing for the good of…

I read that you think that because her policies would help middle class families more than poor ones. You are correct that the policies I cited are not aimed at the communities who have been relegated to the disability roles and effectively removed from the employment rosters. Those communities would be helped by…

Do tell. Please.

I live in one of those areas, and if the GOP’s only articulable policy proposals didn’t include things like reinstating child abuse, I think we could have a prooductive conversation about which side would do more. The APA couldn’t be more clear on the inefficacy and dangers of conversion therapy, but that hardly…

There are tiers of responsibility- the nonvoters and the airy-fairy idealists demonstrably did not help. But the primary reason this happened is because 50 million people voted for that garbage fire. Whether they did because they put party ahead of country or liked a campaign whose most articulate statement was “no…

(A) Chief bigot supporters are not this poor, rough-and-tumble, humble batch of white working class. Their median income is higher than the national average. Almost half of people earning $250K+/yr voted for that POS. The only strong correlate amongst Chief Bigot supporters is a high level of racial resentment,…

Thanks for this. I need to see reason and compassion in action.

Dude, right? I have fucking had it with all these Dems saying this is all our fault for whatever cockamemy hypothetical they can construct. It’s like listening to a DV victim figure out where they went wrong to get hit. N. O. This whole thing has a very clear, straight forward causality, and it’s that 50 million of…

I had a shift at my cafe last night- it was almost only white dudes who even dared show their faces. I did my best to give the impression to each and every one that I’d as soon throw their drink at them as make it. Pretty much resolved on keeping that up until I get fired, get the fuck out of WI, and/or can rev up the…

Dude has talked about turning NATO into an extortion racket. WTAF Republicans? Global stability through allied interests backed with US arms has been your literal schtick for 50 years.

There’s some bullshit up here but we’re holding it down in the rust belt, and between us and NV the firewall is holding.

Thank you for the link! I’m helping GOTV in WI, and that knot in the bottom of my stomach just eased a little.

He was already in the black when he first responded to me. Otherwise I’d have dismissed.

And I think that allowing a religious organization qua employer dictate the morality of its employees is a bad idea. The withheld moneys don’t have to come from Medicare funds, it could be loss of tax-exempt status for medical properties and profits. Which brings me back to the state run option. We are already paying…

Or the Feds could do what they’ve been doing to strong arm states for years and make the money contingent on the facilities providing standard gynecological services as recommended by the OB-GYN council. Or we could agree that healthcare is a good that is not best produced by a market mechanism (which I sorta suspect…

After moving to WI, signing up for health insurance luckily contained a subtle warning away from the plans run by the diocese here. Why are our tax dollars funding this madness?

Any chance revoking those facilities’ federal subsidies might dissuade them from continuing?

Is what Kendall doing cultural appropriation? No. Is what she doing taking work away from people who have spent years suffering and starving to be able to do the same thing publicly, yes. Which is why I pressed the black belt example.

Right? I’m fine with this not being on par with cultural appropriation. But as an academic, I am highly sympathetic to people who have spent decades of their lives training for and then accepting years of shitty treatment in the hopes of attaining a position in their field. Someone masquerading as a PhD isn’t ok. And…