If Pence is a Democrat he is playing a long long long long con.

My apologies that at least one Kinja troll found this article and chose to comment on it. I wish Offspring the best of luck in keeping the comments clean.

legitimate election results

I think that if Elizabeth Warren was a white man that she would be the top contender in a lot of the polling.

... but she’s not. So. There’s always going to be a part of the Democratic Party that is more critical of her than they are of white men.

You’re hecking right. Half of legislative political power is in the ability to get legislation passed and the other half is in the power to stop anyone else from getting legislation passed. The HFC was fairly successful in the second half; for all intents and purposes the US House stopped making any form of…

Big tent my tits. The left hate white people, specifically straight white cis men.

One of the biggest issues facing The Left is that it simultaneously wants to be a Big Tent kind of organization and it wants to achieve political success. It’s tough to do both; one of the reasons why the House Freedom Caucus is so successful is because it has rigid demands on who can join it and can therefore act in…

the rapid response number that we have for ICE sightings

This is a good article about Pokémon.

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In countries outside of the US: people running for office get murdered.

In the US: people running for office/in office have credible threats against them that are (usually) stopped by law enforcement agencies. The situations wherein the threats are not stopped can result in politicians getting shot, sometimes fatally.

B…

Second nominee for comment of the day.

Comment of the day material right here.

Also can’t tell if your comment is serious.

Brave of you to be honest with us.

What makes taking any risk brave?

Thank you for agreeing, glad we could reach a consensus.

It is possible for evil people to display good traits. That does not make the people less evil, nor the trait less good.

Can’t tell if your comment is serious? For one thing, the risks of running for office are much greater than the risks of writing a blog.

Intriguing hypothesis, thank you for sharing.