Also there was Jim McGreevey, democratic governor of NJ, who did not push homophobic policies while he was closeted AFAIK.

They should just fan out to every mid-price restaurant in the city, order food, and then declare every dish to be “kickin” or “solid” or “righteous” while offering the server a fist bump.

None of them can ever, ever, ever just say what they mean

ridiculing them on national TV will do the opposite of changing harts and minds

Right, and some of the swing states went to Trump with very small margins, which would make a reasonable person wonder how many thousands of votes *were* influenced by online russian troll crap, the emails theft, and possibly other elements of skullduggery that we haven’t even detected. When your margin of victory is…

Yeah, you could argue that with the electoral college your individual vote only matters if you live in a swing state. Otherwise, a political party can ignore you or even actively screw you (see, for example, the Republican tax plan) and it costs them nothing.

Actually it was a fucking joke. Glad there are 8 million people in this joint, cuz it means we will probably never meet.

Do you not know what it means to call something “pedestrian”? Read a book maybe.

I find that Juno can be 5-10 minutes slower for a pickup, since fewer drivers are doing it, but the drivers tend to be happy that you used it - they’ll ask you how long you’ve been on the app etc.

Nah.

Yeah if you are in the outer boroughs you are either still doing “car service” or you’ve migrated to the app-driven equivalent. An app is going to be better because you get some idea of when the driver will actually roll up and it handles payment. I’m a Juno man myself (b/c supposedly they are more driver-friendly.)

NYC is a pedestrian city.

Reminds me of the bit in Chewed Up where, after playing with the N-word for a while he turns to the common slur for gay men. He claims that when he was younger it just meant “an annoying person” to him, which sets up a call-back later where the punch-line is “quit being an F- and suck that dick!”

Yeah, sometimes that self-deprecating stuff doesn’t really go that far. Like, for me the example is Mike Doughty’s Book of Drugs. In it he descibes himself doing absolutely terrible things, but i still can’t forgive him for being such a bitter shit about so many other people. The parts where he makes himself look like…

Yep, when pushed by the times he explicitly denied it, said something like “no, its just rumors.”

Gay being Gay, if you will.

It’s not his first name, Talese is his first name. The world calls him Gay Talese to distinguish between him and Talese Richardson from accounting.

I want to take that ACLU letter out back behind the High School and get it pregnant.

I’m not sure it’s the simplicity that people liked, though, as much as the aggressiveness. He was willing to insult all of his opponents very directly, in a way that politicians just don’t normally do. Create a plain-speaking clone of Trump and edit out anything jerky and what have you got? Even Reagan was famous for…

Really it just gets tiring...