In this day and age, they’ll keep the majority of their base no matter what. But both parties have people who generally vote for them, but aren’t loyal to the party. And there are still some swing voters left. If 5% of their base left them, plus those non-loyal Republican voters, plus the swing voters, they would lose…

I guess. The thing is, usually I understand the Republicans. I don’t agree with them, but I understand the calculations they are making. Repealing Obamacare a million times when they knew it wouldn’t go through was dumb, but it made sense to appease their base. The way they bash it is generally full of lies and…

But even they know blaming the Democrats isn’t going to work. Once you change it, you own it. They have already started laying the ground work for that by saying they have to do it because Obamacare is dying (even though it isn’t) and that’s not really working for them. Honestly, I think their best option is try to…

I don’t think the backlash will necessarily stop it. If they decide to pass it, they’ll pass it. But if they incur a terrible backlash, they will lose seats. The special elections we’ve seen have already shifted way to the left. The guy in Montana won, but the race shifted 13 points from last fall. Every Republican…

Do me a favor and google “2010 midterm election.” Obamacare hurt the Democrats. It has become more popular since, but at the time it was deeply unpopular and the Democrats lost the House. This will be worse. Rather than vague fears of how the healthcare bill might affect costs, there will be millions of people who…

Yeah, that does seem to be what they thought in the House, but now we saw how that worked out. Clearly the backlash from when they did it was much worse than the backlash they got when the initial bill fell apart. This seems to be collective insanity to me.

But the CBO report disagrees with that. It was 23 million people losing health insurance in ten years, but still 14 million by the end of next year. If only a third of those are Republican voters and only a fifth of them change their vote, that would be a massive electoral disaster for them. It’d be about a million…

Even then, Mitch McConnell isn’t looking to go become a lobbyist. His only real goal is keeping the Senate. This can only hurt that. Even if the bill wasn’t as bad as it is, the process would make it unpopular. And he had the benefit of seeing Paul Ryan pull exactly the same shit and it did not work out for him. It…

This is the thing I have not understood about this the whole time, both with the House’s bill and now the Senate’s. Clearly they are still going to get the backlash. The idea that they are going to be saved by keeping it a secret is kind of the opposite of the truth. Even Republicans are concerned about the fact that…

Perhaps my favorite thing that John Oliver ever said was when he described Congress as “534 people who hate Ted Cruz... And Ted Cruz.”

Me too. I loved this series so much, but the ending of the third game really hurt my opinion of the series. And this one was a giant step forward as far as the actual combat and leveling system, but the story was just dull. I never finished it, and I’m not even curious enough to see what happened.

Except, most of the issues were just polish, and a lot of that was fixed. And I’m not sure they actually developed this for five years. I don’t know when they started.

In the long run, it definitely would have been the better idea. The Mass Effect name was worth a lot more before this launched than it is now. Whatever side you were on, the ME3 ending controversy hurt the brand. It couldn’t take a bad launch, and that’s why the series is on ice for the time being.

Yeah, I don’t see why not just write “the n-word.” Were I writing it, I would have certainly gone that way.

Yeah, this is the problem with acting the way Trump does. He expects absolute loyalty, but he doesn’t give any loyalty in return. He wants good advice, but he won’t actually take it if he doesn’t want to, and he’ll find a way to blame someone else when everything goes wrong. This is not an environment that people want…

I think it’s moving about as fast as it possibly could. He’s got at least two investigations into his campaign going in the Republican controlled House and at least two in the Republican controlled Senate, plus his own deputy AG appointed a special counsel to do a criminal investigation. I have rarely defended the…

I’m torn on how one should use this in news coverage. On the one hand, I don’t think there is anything especially wrong with a reporter writing the word itself, as they are just accurately reporting what someone said. On the other hand, as a white person, I don’t use the word at all. In text or speech, I will refer to…

Yeah, that was way too early. Sony itself seems to go very, very early, as do Sony-aligned games. They tell you about the games for years before they come out.

That second one seems terrible to me. I’m not arguing with you that that is probably what they think, but it leads to some disasters.

Yeah, that’s my big issue. If you don’t announce a release date, the game doesn’t officially get delayed and no one is disappointed. The public doesn’t care if you miss the release window that was your internal goal. Just don’t announce that stuff years ahead of time.