If you assume that every D in power within the party is more-or-less a Reaganite Republican, and that’s probably/easily half of the party flat out, the idea that they can flip modern WMRs has a sort of tunnel-vision logic. They flipped parties and are doing well for themselves, the idea that voters may have…

Sherman definitely wanted to see it through, was fully intent on rounding up the (rich) civilian backers of the Confederacy for trial and punishment (at least those who were smart enough to surrender peacefully). But Lincoln stopped him, ostensibly to end the horrific bloodshed. In return for his magnanimity, those…

“What kind of a debased moron wants to be a fucking serf, seriously?”

Assuming she lied under oath, throw the fucking book at her and lock her the fuck up. If only as an example of how this whole lying bullshitter game plays out for the not-rich.

Someone paid her a bunch of money to push this lie, so call her bluff, toss her in the clink, that someone will pardon her, and it will be all…

“Our findings suggest this program, which is roughly 30 years old, isn’t actually contributing to public safety,” Tom Clark, a professor of political science at Emory and co-author of the study, told ABC News.

If you want to get crazy fancy, you roll it into one set of spices, mix it all up, then roll it in another set of crusty flavorin’s

Right, the purpose of first registering the vehicle “in” Vermont is to get the bus reclassified as an RV without jumping through bureaucratic hoops to qualify the bus in-state as an RV. Most, if not all, states will honor the existing statuses/classifications of a registration/title from another state. Even if said…

Britannia is a pretty fun show, though, so I created the internal justification that, as it is set during the second Roman invasion of the Isles, it stands to reason that enough of the population involved on both sides could theoretically bee conversant enough in some sort of Lingua Franca, most likely Latin. And then…

Sure, it might have been a novelty if every written clue you found looked like gibberish scribblings to you and you had to take it to some learned monk or something to find out what it says but... that could also have gotten old real fast.

Well, for context, the only people writing historical records at the time were conveniently the people being impacted by the víking of víkingr (basically Scandinavian freemen, people not directly owing fealty to a specific king, though eventually even the kings got down with organizing some raiding). Mostly the…

Almost like it’s a franchise and that’s the fucking point.

What if instead of a warrior, you were a skald? What if poetry and storytelling were your main means of interacting with the world, rather than violence? But then, since this would still be an Assassin’s Creed game, you could also use your unassuming role as a means of getting close to assassination targets? I think…

I don’t think the great hwhite Northern states count as the heartland, do they? I always considered the heartland the flat, dust-bowl states around the middle like Kansass, Nebrasska, Missouri (ass), and Oklahomass.

Truth, in the US, working class means “white people with careers in a trades profession” like plumbers and miners. Not people in any non-”professional” job. But, to be fair, this is also true of pretty much every western democracy.

Seriously, the entire fiction of the “heartland” being some sort of exemplar of “American” in complete disregard of the historical fact of those people’s abject lack of positive contributions to our democracy is at best disingenuous and closer to a flat out lie. Maybe it was originally meant to be tongue-in-cheek and…

Why go as far as the EC? Point blank, the US Senate is easily the second least democratic institution we have. The first being the entirety of the Judicial.

They think that sitting Repubicans will keep giving a shit about the Trump admin’s garbage policies and that the Repubican rank-and-file think about China, like, at all. It’s pretty pathetic.

Mine’s split between witnessing the US Supreme Court pick our president in 2000, flat out unconstitutional bullshit, and the passing of the PATRIOT Act, yet more unconstitutional bullshit. Non-specifically; the rise of the NRA’s self-serving revision of a flawed interpretation of the 2nd for the sole purpose of…

It still blows my mind that, with the facts we (America) already had and which the average “Joe” already had accepted and processed, GWB/Cheney was still able to bully the American people (via Congress) into a completely unjustified invasion of Iraq. Like, sure, within my lifetime (45 years), the federal government…

For real, it’s my opinion that the prosecution responsible for these huge fuck ups should at the very least be disbarred, fined a huge enough chunk of change, and publicly have their name dragged through the mud. Ideally they’d get charged with whatever crimes they’ve committed to obscure, manipulate, or outright…