This the guy whose Kansas voter repression law and trial behavior was so egregious, the presiding judge ordered him to re-take basic Law Classes:

pretty crazy, right?

Kobach is not stupid. He’s cruel.

Whenever someone brings up a college degree as a measure of intelligence I always point to Trump and Duhbya. They both have college degrees and are two of the dumbest fucking people that have ever existed.

I said this last week, but the groupthink around this show was MUCH smarter than any of the show’s creators, including GRRM. It was bound to disappoint. I know the author’s been put on a pedestal as a genius that D&D have let down, but his genius extends to world-making and character building, not to plot, as far as I…

The last season and finale of Game of Thrones really sucked.  

Perhaps the true iron throne was the friends we made along way. 

At this point, that might be for the best

wHAt iS gAWker gONNa sAY whEn SOmeONe doeS thIS to oMAr!!!?1

Ahhh yes. The giant American blind spot that the sun itself cannot pierce.

It’s really fuckin weird, especially considering our own extremely recent history of meddling in Russian politics, from seeding the coup that overthrew the USSR to bolstering Yeltsin’s reelection (which in turn set the stage for Putin).

The McCarthyism in his comments is breathtaking.

Uh oh.

The Democratic party is not actually a membership organization - the people who vote Democrat are not actually in the Democratic party. I can send you further information to back this up if you like. In our system of government, a political party (Democrat or Republican) does not consist of its membership. It’s…

Answering a question with a question is usually a sign of evasiveness.

I get where you’re coming from, but I ultimately don’t think the battle to organize within the Democratic Party itself is a particularly worthwhile one. To the extent that the party is capable of changing, it’s by degree, not kind, and there has never existed in its entire history a time when it was open to supporting …

Hey, sure thing. I’m not voting for a creepy, racist, sexist, imperialist, anti-worker oligarch whether they’ve got a D next to their name or an R. 

Hi. I’m not a Democrat. I am not registered as a Democrat. I have never made a monetary contribution to a Democrat. Still, according to your logic (I vote in Dem primaries and, often, for Dems in the general), I’m a part of the Party. How does that parse, exactly? The party is a corporate body that makes decisions…

“The Party” refers (obviously, I’d think!) to the bureaucratic/organizational/corporate body of the Democratic Party, not its voters — for example, I’m not a Democrat, but still voted in the Dem primaries (and organized for them in the general), as is legal in many states.

Thing is, the Democratic Party is worthy of all that distaste and more. It’s an electoral vehicle (an exceedingly poor one at that) and nothing more; no reason to treat it otherwise. Use it when it makes sense, abandon it when it doesn’t — the party apparatus has shown not just ambivalence but outright hostility…