what if that trans student had ignored him and ended up dead at the hands of one of his minions instead of transfering schools? yeah, you’re definitely arguing from a perspective of privilege. it’s easy to tell people to ignore him when you’re not the one whose safety is literally being threatened by him.

because you are arguing from a point of safety—it’s easy for you to say “ignore his rhetoric” when you’re not a target of his rhetoric like that trans student was. his “rhetoric” is hate speech that puts real people’s lives in danger--there is NO GOOD REASON to allow that.

his sicked his last audience on a trans student of the university, who then had to transfer out of that school for their own safety. letting him speak puts real human beings in real danger.

You can clutch your pearls all you like over his “brand” but I’ll keep concerning myself with the physical safety of real human beings. When he’s already being given an audience, just turning away is too little too late.

It’s absurd! The same people who said they would oppose Obama from the beginning now say Trump has a mandate to do whatever he wants! I guess Obama should have lost the popular vote by 3 million, it gives you a mandate!!

Maddening that the Benghazi! people are the same ones complaining about a lack of transparency here.

The use of the “but they were wrong about the WMDs!” argument might be the scariest thing about this whole issue for me. The very people who insisted that it was unamerican to question the invasion of Iraq are now using that invasion (based, as you said, on partisan manipulation of classified intelligence) to…

The intel community being wrong about Iraq WMDs is going to be the new McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit thing isn’t it? By which I mean it’s a shibboleth that identifies the invoker as someone who knows absolutely nothing about what they’re talking about.

Absolutely. They don’t disclose all their evidence because that evidence is highly classified. If their sources were public knowledge, it wouldn’t really be covert intelligence, would it?

Those are not equally likely because you are a know-nothing with your fingers in your ears and eyes closed shut.

I literally just told you the reason to not present evidence is that high value assets would be exposed and their lives in danger. You can believe whatever you want but if you truly believe the FBI, CIA, and NSA got together and spun a huge lie well, maybe they are dumping the chemtrails over my house too.

There are many reasons to not present much of the evidence. Much of it can be surmised by what level of confidence each agency gave it. NSA can only give moderate confidence because of the way NSA gathers its evidence. The FBI and CIA almost certainly have human assets at high reaches of the government and their lives…

Honey, sorry, that’s bullshit. You are acting like Trump is a normal person, just a republican or a conservative. You know as well as I do that people would not be losing their shit had a decent and honorable person been elected. Like Rubio or Kacish. I may criticize their political positions or policies, but not…

Or, maybe, Democrats are actually capable of being nuanced about things, and liked Wikileaks when it was publicly committing itself to being neutral and non-partisan. And then Assange was put under investigation for rape and his history of egotism and egomania came to light, and Wikileaks started leaking things like…

You can pretty much count on a Republican supermajority in 2018. This is because more democratic seats are up for reelection than republican ones, and voting rights are going to continue to be dismantled, etc. plus voter apathy in the center and on the left is strong in midterm elections. And Democrats/the left simply…

Dems are not going to win the senate. To many of them are up in 2018. The best they can hope for is to not lose any seats.

There’s shitty governments and then there’s this. I’m doing all the things. Volunteering, boosting the signals, talking to people, giving money to causes. But every single fucking day there’s new doom and gloom to worry about. I can work for change and still be scared shitless.

😱 what a terrible accusation. You can’t just go after a mans character like that. He’s probably only murder or something.

Zipster, have you ever in your life been bullied by a serious of micro aggressions that build up over a long period of time into an explosive rage? Because if not, then you’re vastly unqualified to comment on this article. Obviously a single slap on her ass didn’t cause her to lash out. It was a series of continued…

It’s totally ok to grab a woman anywhere they want but stay away from their precious balls. That’s just crossing a line. This article reminded me of things boys would do to my friends and I and only now looking back I get angry. Back then all I felt was fear.