I hate that "at least the unarmed black man didn't get shot" is the best we can hope for in situations like this.

It takes one to pull the trigger and three others to lie to investigators that he was afraid for his life.

You’re totally right, but he WILL lose the support of the greedy fucks who don’t believe that shit and voted for him to get richer. They are counting their pennies and if the economy makes them have to sell their 2nd yacht at a loss, they’ll know who to blame. That said it only makes a difference if Trump has a…

The right wing has spent decades building their own fake news channels, fake universities to give fake degrees to the fake news anchors for those channels, and churned out tons of politicians to point at the fake channels and anchors to parrot the points they need.

  That first part has to be sarcasm. 

That’s what these assholes thrive on. Their support base is too fucking stupid to accept simple explanations for everything.

We could be in the deepest economic depression in history and, as long as Trump tweets out that the US economy is doing the best ever, a good 45% of Americans would believe it. And, Fox News will parrot that that talking point and evidence to the otherwise is just liberal fake news trying to make Trump look bad. 

“Having an underwater approval rating does not mean the state is going to vote for a Democrat.” 

What all these polls don’t capture is the fact that Trump will absolutely cheat as much as he needs to in order to win. Texas trending badly? Send border patrol to the blue-leaning polling places to “protect” the polls - i.e. suppress hispanic turnout. Michigan not going the right way? Suggest that there is an Islamic…

Having an underwater approval rating does not mean the state is going to vote for a Democrat.

Not to mention that polls can’t catch the effects of election fraud. Republicans have shown themselves quite willing to just outright cheat so that should be expected.

These polls never seem to catch the people who would rather slit their own throats than allow Non White and non-straight people to make progress. Everyone needs to stay alert because this race is still getting started.

If they cross-polled these same respondents with the question, How many people think America’s problems are due to blacks and other racial minorities, “the gay agenda,” immigrants, and “political correctness,” the resulting numbers would show where Trump’s appeal is invincible. As long as that very large number of…

Just wait till the Russians crank things up... getting complacent is how we got trump in the first place 

Never underestimate the ability of his puppeteers to lie, cheat and steal elections. And not give a damn if they are accused of it.

Remember Georgetown back in the 80s? They’d fall behind in the first half and then in the second half they’d start pressing, taking advantage of their deep bench to just wear you down and eventually beat you. That’s the GOP. They have a huge war chest and they’ll come up with something ridiculous on the Democratic…

Trump has already made clear that a trade agreement with the newly-divorced UK begins with American health care companies privatising and carving up the NHS. After that, well, what won’t we force them to accept? Our farmers need markets, so maybe we insist that the British now import a fuckton of soy beans. Our…

The stock market is about what investors expect in the future. GDP is about what the economy did last quarter.

Last time this topic came up in these parts I had the gall to suggest that in any sport there’s a certain push and pull between the values of “entertainment” and “fairness,” and that we absolutely need to sacrifice some fairness to retain entertainment because, fundamentally, that’s what this is about — entertaining…

Neither Sterling, Jesus, or Dendoncker reacted to the goals with the sheepishness of someone who knows they’d gotten away with something. Neither West Ham’s or Leicester’s defenders turned to remonstrate with the referees for failing to flag the offside/handball.