My parents are both independents (Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Kerry, Obama, Obama) and have both decided to vote straight down the ticket as Democrats this year. What set my mother off in particular was the failure of the Senate to have a hearing on Garland; she is an attorney and takes this stuff…

Chexism?

What really gets me about the Obama enthusiasts-turned-Clinton haters (many of them Bernie supporters) is that Clinton basically promises to be a continuation of Obama’s administration in terms of Supreme Court picks, healthcare, women’s rights, etc. For this reason, I really don’t understand why people who were so…

Precisely. Hillary is a very-competent behind-the-scenes person. She will be in a position to actually swing deals as POTUS. I suspect that the House will start off with the BS above but it will be quickly quelled as Hillary starts to dangle the proverbial carrot to get things back on track.

it’s just a picture of legs that cuts to an image of a man standing in a burning house and he has a goat head and his eyes are the black of the void and then it cuts back to an image of legs with paint on them and then it’s the goat headed man and he’s closer to the foreground and I can smell sulfur and then it cuts…

Did anyone else imagine this set in period-accurate 19th-century England with Ice Cube as Oliver?

Yeah I would have appreciated a NSFW tag.

Do you understand that there are options other than “compromise some of our priorities when voting for a candidate in the two party system” and “one political ideology runs everything”? Do you understand that most of the world operates in ways other than either of these options? Do you understand that even the United…

When you were a kid, did you feel like you could say no to that question? I sure didn’t.

These are the same people who think president Trump can fix everything by decree. This analogy won’t work by someone who doesn’t understand the branches of government and has never heard of the power of the purse.

This is exactly how to explain Benghazi to people, in the mythical scenario where you could have a chance of changing a person’s mind.

Uhhhh, because your kids expect to get something when you die- most other relatives don’t, particularly distant ones.I don’t even know all the names of my cousins and their kids and nieces and nephews.

Preach it, brother. I generally agree with Hamilton on a number of things, but his idiotic insistence that the Senate needs to be abolished is stupid beyond comprehension. If he wants to see a real 2nd Civil War, trying to abolish the Senate would do exactly that.

This is the correct comment. It’s like HamNo either a) chose not to think critically or b) remember 6th grade civics that discussed why the government was set up as it is.

honestly, from my brief foray into working for a company selling to finance dudes in NYC, this isn’t out of the ordinary to schmooze...

Guess they’re just going to have to find some... new kids.

Reactionary populism.

The devout Catholics I know tend to be single-issue voters on abortion.

My 96 year old grandma has dementia. She repeats herself every five minutes. She asks the same questions over and over. She mixes up people and when things happened in time.

for some people, i don’t think it’s “hiding” i think it’s just their (valid) opinion that they don’t want one that is feminine looking. that’s not inherently sexist, anymore than females wanting better character representation in gaming.