The general election “victory” of Donald Trump gave the 2016 electors their strongest case ever to be faithless electors. The entire dang point of the electors is that they are supposed to keep an incompetent person from assuming office. Most of them utterly failed which either indicates
1 we should dramatically change…

He is so anti-Palestinian he would state, on multiple occasions, that a Palestinian gave the idea of the Holocaust to Hitler. Not necessarily all of the blame, but the blame for the idea.

I had never heard of this claim before (or if I had I forgotten about it) and so for those following along... On more than one occasion Netanyahu has made the claim that Amin al-Husseini proposed the actual literal genocide of Jews rather than ethnically cleansing them from Nazi-controlled Europe by expelling them.…

That suggests something of a reversal: Game Of Thrones isn’t just telling the rest of Martin’s story before he can finish it himself; the show is doing it better

Liz Cheney is attending! Liz Cheney is well known for her stand against anti-Semitism oh wait that’s only if it’s anti-Semitism in her own opinion

Congratulations on meeting Andrew Yang.

Either, I guess. If I believe this website she has a net worth of an estimated $3M, which makes me all the more curious why she would agree to work for figurative Satan.

Donna Brazile believes strongly in black Santa?

How big of a paycheck would you have to get to work for Fox News Channel? Like not just merely appear on it once as its subject of anger for one program, but show up repeatedly on the channel?

This is a valid point. I was being very inclusive of my definition of “the US Left” to include basically everyone that is not in the Right. Bit too inclusive.

On most of the political matters that I want the US federal government to do something about, the Republican Party has basically abandoned any attempt to do anything positive and the Democratic Party is the only real actual pathway to progress. Like, to choose just one thing, moving to a post-carbon energy economy,…

“most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out.”

Right. If we accept the flawed narrative that Fleischer gave, then he is basically saying that Western foreign intelligence agencies were completely incapable of correctly determining whether Iraq did or did not have WMD. That’s not a “good” thing: that narrative would very vividly show that these agencies should have…

Tucker Carlson’s thoughts on beauty pageants!

This is a true statement; the US (and, to be as fair as possible, basically any country ever?) has not properly invested in healing the people who were injured in the service of its military aims.

I will only believe that the US Left actually grew up once we abandon the belief that the US has a unilateral ‘right’ to just bomb whoever we want. It seemed like the only lessons that the Obama Administration learned from GWBush’s Iraq Failure was that US foreign policy should avoid large-scale invasions. That’s a…

My 20 year old brain in 2002 reasoned that either Iraq had WMD (and so sending in US troops to fight a war there would result in US troops getting exposed to biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons) or Iraq did not (and so sending in US troops to fight a war there would be based on lies). The latter turned out to be…

Huh. After I posted my comment, two more toxic people decided to share their comments. It’s unfortunate that Offspring has to deal with toxic commenters.

Uh oh

Having lived in Canada I’ve watched the parliamentary democracy that happens there, and it is similar to what you stated here. Except that “the lower house” is this really big igloo.