I wasn’t suggesting that the US send troops to Nigeria, but it is common sense and generally mass understood knowledge that the United States military is the preeminent one in the world. And it should be, we spend $597ish billion annually on our military while Nigeria spends $2.3 billion. That isn’t necessarily a…

Not to mention, there are specific building accounts for this purpose. Corporate clients can’t donate to candidates individually but can give money to general Party and a building fund doesn’t even have the same pesky donation limits. They could donate money that could only be used for physical space and bills paid…

Very true. Most in NCGOP staffing are though. In my young dumb college phase, I left to serve as (some sort of) director there (left out to protect anonymity). Even then as a more libertarian angled douchebro, I was openly accused of not being real republican in staff meetings for positions on abortion, gay marriage,…

Knowing the person behind that Twitter account, nah. Not really.

For the record, this wasn’t the NCGOP headquarters. That is in Raleigh. This was the Orange County headquarters. Two counties over and home to UNC Chapel Hill.

You really don’t understand how the US military could be more competent than that of Nigeria?

Interestingly, my sister’s boyfriend (black guy) hates the term African-American. He is liberal and works in music production, but has always told me that he feels like the term alienates him as an other. As a white American, I’m usually just called American. As a black American, he is hyphenated - something other…

I love the Golden Bear, but those two stats alone don’t tell the story. Tiger had 10 seasons winning 5 or more tourneys (Jack had 7). Tiger made 142 consecutive cuts to Jack’s 105. More overall tour wins, player of the year bunch of times and Tiger has overall winning % of around 25% compared to Jack’s 12%. There is…

You’re not supposed to just draw a gun though. It can only be pulled in a situation where you are in fear for your life or of bodily harm imminently. You can go to jail for brandishing a weapon before it is necessary to use it. I remember in my own concealed carry class, one of the video examples was of a man getting…

Sorry you’ve had to deal with this too. There really is never any excuse.

Yeah, that was disgusting. I didn’t think much of “Bushy” there. It was also the most transparent form of pandering to Trump which is why I thought Billy Bush was trying hard to “play along” as he later said. It might even be more insidious if they weren’t “bros” but instead the patriarchal and rape culture that we…

Yeah, better to remove yourself from the situation if that is all that is possible. And he did play into it more than necessary. I don’t think he deserves full exoneration. But I know plenty of friends who have told me about times they have been in a situation that they felt uncomfortable with at the time and thought…

Of course you don’t. And that’s where I said he should be criticized. But I am asking if this is really so far removed from the everyday workplace realities we all have seen or know exists? I have never heard anything like that despite being in politics and now the law (two groups of assholes), but I still know it…

As much as I hate Trump, I have to give him this one. Back when I used to hate myself and worked in electoral politics, you would see these types of leaks after competing camps had to merge (on the same side). So it’s probably not that Trump is failing spectacularly at vetting new people, but as an outsider coming in,…

Billy Bush definitely screwed up, but wasn’t it one of the authors here or on the Concourse who basically pointed out the show was Access Hollywood? The whole premise is to be cozy and a positive PR stop for various media figures so it would be detrimental to the show if they were icy toward their guests and…

I was a little concerned with the lack of my fellow tailgaters early, but it was great to see such a crowd show up.

This is basically the literary equivalent of CNN saying both sides are equally bad. No. You even admit your argument is invalid. You admit it is hypocritical (different standard than you expect others to hold on Polanski). This reads like one of Rachel’s Review Weekly xoJane posts from Merlan’s article earlier.

Just to…

If only we were all as esteemed and cultured as the great gongliboatman.

Oh, boo! I take back my support. Everyone knows the real barbecue is from NC. Eastern style specifically with a vinegar base. None of that tomato sacrilege. You might as well have just used SC’s mustard!

Voting for Jill Stein over Hillary would be sexist? I agree that it is of utmost importance to keep Trump out of the office, but you don’t attract any new voters to your candidate for needlessly calling them sexist. There are legitimate reasons that someone could not like Hillary Clinton.