This is way, way more sinister than that. Rallies provide Trump the opportunity to speak directly to supporters without the press acting as an intermediary (and the fact-checking that comes along with it). It’s part of the autocrat’s playbook.

This is fucking huge. Now imagine what the GOP would be doing if it was President Clinton under active investigation for this. They’d be crawling over their own children to investigate her.

You think Jezebel buys Lyft ads? You don’t know how advertising works.

Nothing wrong with it, I just thought you were being a bit melodramatic. I really only saw one or two of them, buried deep in a thread that was mostly on a better level, but fine, my observations are not relevant to your opinion. (I do get to have my own, though.)

There’s a relatively low proportion of comments like that in what I’m seeing. Let’s not be melodramatic here.

I would kill myself before moving to Saudi Arabia. And the rest of the world is racist, sorry to break it to you. And America is amazing because we don’t integrate. We have fucking tacos, pizzas, burgers, chinese, thai, italian food all in the same moderate size city. We have musical influence from a dozen different…

This is a microcosm/macrocosm perspective issue.

It certainly sucks to be denied opportunities because a given demographic enclave wants to keep its area “pure,” but you are experiencing in a particular neighborhood what persons of racial and ethnic backgrounds other than Anglo-European (and I’m not even getting into…

The issue isn’t the nation being aggressed against. This issue is bolded up their that he’s stated that this is a “white nation”, while just before saying he explicitly doesn’t believe that.

Does he clarify how he thinks middle-eastern aren’t supposed to enter America, while he is THE SON OF ONE?

“People looking at this think I’m some kind of explicit ethno-nationalist, but I’m not,”

You can’t want to be in the club, and report on the club, at the same time.

The “They are a nice person” thing needs to die a firey death. I am so sick of people who lie, cheat, steal, and try to undermine American democracy getting the “they are nice when you meet them” line (Sean Spicer and Jeff Sessions seem to get this a lot). Like, yea, most people attempt to be at least somewhat…

When I think shareable entree the first thing that pops into my mind is definitely steak.

It’s like watching a talented judo practitioner go many rounds with simple facts, and, despite all odds, remain standing. 

This paragraph though:

He is trying to build his career, he is not setting policy on CNN. He is walking a very weak line period.

Ha! It’ll be fun watching them realize that hard-working folks also get a lot of government benefits, especially when it comes to healthcare, and they’re about to lose it all. I do take comfort in the fact that many of those that voted for Trump are the ones about to suffer most.

Nah pretty sure we’ll be reminiscing about when we still had electricity and most of our limbs.

His job is as a talking head he is not involved in policy he bloviates on TV. There is a spectrum between bending over backwards to be nice to assholes and straight up telling them to fuck off. Van Jones is not succeeding in finding that middle ground at all.