And most of these owners joining in protests today gave heavily to Trump and would have continued supporting him if he hadn’t said “boycott”. I believe the players are sincere; most of the owners, opportunistic.

Yep, his reasons are his business. The results are the same: millions will keep their insurance and Medicaid survives. Sure, Trump is going to fuck it by withholding money, but he’s also going to own it.

But if it dies this time, then they can’t bring it back before Sept 30 and it’s dead for good. But I agree a lot of people took their eye off the ball in the early stages, and now it’s a scarily real possibility.

Every American should be embarrassed today. But because his hardcore base is built on people who prize grievance and trolling above anything else, of course not.

100% agree with you on Daou. He’s a more rabid Hillary defender on everything than Lanny Davis.

Yeah, the guy who gave us the ACA, which saved my mom’s life, the Iran Nuclear deal, the Paris Climate accord, the repeal of DADT and the legalization of gay marriage, and two liberal SCOTUS judges. Yeah. Fuck that guy.

He won twice. Maybe you should look at things like gerrymandering and that Democratic voters generally don’t give a fuck about showing up unless it’s a presidential election, whereas Republicans will show up, no matter what. But cute of you to simplify to everything to Thanks Obama.

People don’t want to admit that paying attention to Michigan and Wisconsin doesn’t necessarily mean she would’ve won them. She practically lived in Pennsylvania and still lost that reliably blue state.

I was pretty close to that age and the scene just struck me as...bizarre. I thought it stopped the story entirely, though, if memory serves me, I thought the book had fallen apart by that point, anyway.

Ditto. I always assumed the weird shit he wrote during this period - and the 1000 page lengths - was due mostly to his substance abuse.

The first 300 pages of IT are probably the best KIng’s ever written. The rest of the 1000 page book, however....

So what are the odds Congress just passes DACA again, but under a different name and taking Obama out of the equation, and Trump signs it and takes credit. Because that’s what this is really about, isn’t it? I’m sure Trump couldn’t even tell you what DACA stood for.

Can we just make a list of the things that Republicans claimed would end the world during Obama’s tenure, and now they’re totally chill with, even fighting to preserve? The Iran Nuclear deal, DACA, the ACA.....

The part about rounding up young adults and kids and deporting them in an election year is your first clue this wasn’t well thought out, to no one’s surprise.

“Ignore the pee stains”

When Trump gets beat in 2020, that will probably be the first line in the letter he leaves to the incoming Democrat.

“In addition, I have not become younger. Age does not add enthusiasm.”

Because one person directed The Avengers and the other didn’t?

It’s not a crime if Ryan and McConnell look the other way. And they’re looking the other way.

And August is supposed to be the slow month....