Not as much, but still a chunk ...

Indeed! As I was reading this article I noticed that many of the interactions referenced took place on Twitter and thought: “well, there’s at least half the problem right there ...”

If a reporter’s job is not “learn what powerful people are talking about in secret, and then share it with everybody else,” then I sincerely do not know what the fuck it is ...

Legally, perhaps. But then, legally, federal funding of abortions has been illegal since 1976 and that still hasn’t stopped the defunding efforts. The only way this *might* possibly work is to spin-off the abortion-providing services into a completely renamed, non-fund-sharing, entirely separate entity.

That’s an excellent idea! Note that PP didn’t appear on the default list of charities ( there were only five or six on that list). Instead, use “search all charities” to find the PP branch you wish to support.

Because the government will no longer work anyway if democracy is dead. There will be no rebuilding of programs, no more restoring rights, no replacement of agencies.

This calls for the Democrats to become as radical as the Republicans have been, but for altruistic reasons, not selfish ones.

Back in the day, since I live in the DC area, I always thought that when the civil defense sirens went off, I’d just buck the trend and head down to the Mall with a lounge chair and a pitcher of Mai Tai’s and party at ground zero. If you’re gonna go, better to do it having fun rather than sitting in a car stuck on 66…

The main problem the Democrats face — and have faced since the advent of Newt Gingrich — is they actually believe that government can work to do good; whereas the republicans have increasingly viewed government as “the problem” and something to be whittled-down to barest minimum. So for Republicans, sitting on their…

I guess it’s the same ... “rationale” ... for putting The Martian in the same category last year, despite it being neither a musical nor a comedy ...

The point is that if the electoral college was intended to protect against an incompetent demagogue, this is the best realistic chance for it to perform that function.

A) the fact that people are grousing about faithless electors now is proof enough that the electoral college was not designed as a check against popular yet unqualified candidates.

The EC exists to preserve a measure of franchise for the smaller states in Federal elections and to provide a check on a popular yet unqualified candidates attaining the Presidency (and, at the time, the Vice Presidency). You’re correctly describing one of the reasons the system was created (as a bargain with…

This situation is *exactly* the reason the Founders created the Electoral College in the first place. And honestly, if a candidate as manifestly unqualified as Trump doesn’t trigger the EC into action, then it basically has no reason to continue to exist ...

but even through a generous reading, there are few non-robots left to give a shit about.

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I have a 4K monitor and even with that a quick glance would lead one to believe she’s topless.

Decided it’s not worth it — nothing to see here ;-)