I think that’s closer to the truth than any of us should find comfortable...personally I think that he represents a difference in kind rather than degree but a good part of that is the callous indifference & naked short-term self-interest used to be something those sorts of people were smart enough to keep under the…

true in a sense...but if everyone decided they didn’t need to because it’s covered then we’d be in trouble...so in another sense yours does count in a way that blue votes in strongly red states don’t...& we sure as hell want those folks to get out & make with the voting...

you’re not wrong...but I’d argue it doesn’t matter whether the swing is from R to D or from independent to D or from abstaining to D...which generally require different arguments to be deployed...& of those three categories it is not clear to me that the first (which is apparently estimated to top out at 4% of the…

I’ve seen both Chump45 & Dolt45 a bunch & tended to think the play on the name wasn’t worth sacrificing the alcoholic source reference...

signing up to the International Criminal Court might be a start if people want to start throwing the Hague about like it’s where the buck stops...

in my experience pessimists come in two flavors...there’s the ones that are cynical due to being essentially optimists who are consistently disappointed and are often worth paying attention to...

nor for nothing but as I understand it the principal difference is that impeachment proceedings have judicial rather than merely legislative weight behind them...so the penalties for lying & obfuscation during compelled testimony would work differently...

I’d say there’s more to it than just the corporate angle...there’s the “decorum” & process & precedent & horse trading & all that good stuff that's bread & butter to career politicians...she’s what used to be called “Establishment” in some parts of the world...

as I understand it they’re also increasingly only pretending to be an international news organization...

both...the answer is both...

my, what a coincidence...

just don't...you know full well killing off this pathetic persona of yours would be the real boon...

I think it’s simpler than that...he only talks to his flock & it’s an article of faith for them that to not support him is to be un-american...ergo any process that potentially ends with him in the big house instead of the white house must logically be a coup of some sort...

“listen to the internet” means “read the bot output on twitter or any of the alt-right websites”...

if Broadway could do it for Jerry Springer I’m betting you could Hamilton the shit out of the alleged administration...

I’d go further than that...all the bites are left in that apple...& a whole bushel more besides...

more years ago than I care to remember I camped in Yellowstone & while sifting through my belongings on the first night for all the items on the bear-box list I had an interesting chat to a park ranger about why I was hunting for toothpaste & deodorant & other not-food stuff...they told me a bunch of stories about…

he literally is...CAPS LOCK & all...

iirc it was claimed that women couldn’t play even the female roles in Noh theatre in part because by being women their ability to “act” as women was compromised whereas the men who specialised in such roles could achieve a more perfect portrayal because for them it was entirely a matter of their skill, which they…

to be fair downward mobility is still entirely achievable...why do you think old man baby is pissing his diapers on a daily basis...?