do writers pick their own headlines now? 

“slightly”

read your own link. in every election people whose candidates lose the primary vote for the other party. this idea that sanders supporters were uniquely “spiteful” in terms of voting for the opposite party doesn’t hold water. they did so less than half as often as clinton supporters did in 2008:

i saw them in 2013 at barclays opening for kanye (when it should have been the other way around) and tip killed it. 

and she is very obviously more qualified than biden or sanders. 

1. i will 100% back the democratic nominee. i just don’t see how it makes any sense for the nominee to be visibly senescent.

“I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running to be the president of the United States to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for.”

“how to pay for something is a bullshit republican talking point”

“the numbers say that Democratic voters are, more than anything, scared to death of Trump winning re-election, and see Biden as the safest means to defeat him.”

sub-40 person who voted for bernie in 2016 here: she was very clearly the most qualified (d) candidate with the best policies. the fact that the field has been whittled down to biden and sanders is an absolute fucking travesty and speak very poorly of (a) the party as an institution, (2) our primary voters, (d) our…

if you were a cameroonian speaking french i suspect people would have (a) not recognized it was french and (b) berated you for speaking a foreign language.

in a world where the police shoot innocent unarmed people and suffer no consequences, i am skeptical that much in the way of discipline will result here. if people were punished, though, it would almost be more scandalous: you get in trouble for shooting photos of a dead celebrity, but not for shooting bullets and…

found the guy who hates washing his hands. 

yeah, if we win the white house and the senate then impeaching thomas for conflicts of interest should be one of the first steps taken.

when people complain about cyclists as a traffic scofflaw problem in the context of car-centric america, i often recall the words of dave barry:

“no, it’s not okay to recline”

“he’s every bit as much a sociopath as Donald Trump is on a personal level”

what’s the plan? prosperity without growth: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth

oh ffs, could we please not have a left/liberal circular firing squad for once?

dear ashley,