I can’t help but feel like this is glossing over the reality that there are vastly different audiences and what the Billboard Top 100 factors into their rankings means TSwift is going to be on top not because she is white, but because she has a larger audience. Sorry, it isn’t some proxy battle or anything.

These shows will be very popular in red states and, literally, no place else.

Exactly my point. If you have a price, you can be bought, and it’s relatively easy to talk someone down once they’ve established the fact that they can be bought.

but there is the curve... if enough votes are captured, your vote value would drop to zero.

I will read the rest of the post in a moment.

I hope the Democrats are smart enough to realize he could turn on them at any time.

Plus when it comes to keeping every single member in your caucus in lockstep, Pelosi has WAY more pull than Ryan within her party. Ryan is losing respect fast while Pelosi is only gaining more.

You don’t become rich by spending a lot of money.

What disturbs me most of all in this is that the White House, through Sarah Huckabee Sanders, deigned to comment on this—and more specifically, that they effectively called for Ms. Hill to be fired.

The last time I checked, the First Amendment exists specifically to protect citizens against government retribution for…

I think it is a fair question and your point is well-taken. It’s not Twitter’s responsibility to fix racism, but they don’t have to carry water either.

More useless, unverifiable, anonymous rumors.

This. If you think he’s guilty and therefore lying about this then that’s one thing (which would also demand actual proof not just blind items and rumors). But you can’t say he’s totally refusing to address it when his straight-forward denial is in the same freaking article.

Yeah, I didn’t get the headline either. Since he is saying he didn’t do it, he discussed it, and there isn’t a lot more you would expect him to say.

Jezebel likes to pretend this never happened.

The woman who first told the story as a blind item has said it was not Louis CK. Another comic, Doug Stanhope, came forward and said it was him, not Louis CK. So why is he still being tarred with this brush? I’m sure he’s not without faults, but it’s been pretty much verified that this isn’t one of them.

Isn’t him saying...

“So it’s not real? “No.” he responded. “They’re rumors, that’s all that is.””

One requires work and know-how. The other is cute and ready to use out of the box (which is itself a cute throwback to original packaging). And official. Not that hard to explain.

Artificial scarcity is a real bitch.

Wait, SWAT took this realistically enough to shoot a man who supposedly was going to murder innocents, but used rubber bullets when they raided his home? I don’t know how I feel about this without knowing their effectiveness. It could(?) cut down on casualties during raids, and I’m thankful they did it here. Still…