It wasn’t one staffer. It was one senior staff member who then instructed three lower level staff members to do the same.

Just so I can get the commentariat here straight: the Sanders campaign exploited a screw-up in the database by running and downloading lists of persuadable voters that the Clinton campaign spent thousands of hours identifying, got caught, and had their VAN access shut off while the DNC investigates what data they…

The Clinton campaign has literally nothing to do with this particular issue. NGP VAN is a terrible system that would have been blacklisted years ago if it weren’t a monopoly. That being said, exploiting loopholes and glitches to download opposition data is against the terms of service, and could even be an FEC…

DWS is not in charge of NGP VAN. The DNC, however, gets to pick which candidates it allows VAN access, and the Sanders campaign violated the terms of that agreement. The staff saw an opening to do some shady shit, took it (most people who work on campaigns probably would have done the same), and got caught. Them’s the…

Yes, won’t someone please think of the poor, defenseless billionaires whipping the country into a racist frenzy.

That’s pretty obviously the winner. I love them all, but not even close tbh.

I can’t believe the dedication to this tomato theme. It’s mind boggling.

Jumping on the fluffin bandwagon.

...the one who’s still in power and has maintained power despite a revolution backed by the world’s most powerful militaries and gassing his own citizens? K.

Or 80 at a time, a la Waco. The idea that the American Revolution style of warfare could be effective against a powerful, wealthy, and absurdly well-armed state in the 21st century is laughable.

Pretty sure that could be handled fairly efficiently with your average local SWAT team, let alone the force of the entire US military.

I feel like this shows that underneath all the frothing, anti-Obama rhetoric, Republicans in the Senate are smart, savvy people who understand that 90% of what they’re saying is ludicrous. Not sure if that makes me feel better or worse about the state of the legislature...

I’m really sorry to hear that. My dad was hit head-on by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel - he survived but it punctured three discs in his back and he has constant pain. He was only 22 at the time and I was a baby (also in the car, fucked up my inner ear forever). Guess God had no plan for our dads!

Exactly. The implication of the other side of the “God saved me because he has a plan for me” coin is that people who God didn’t personally save didn’t have value anyway. Makes my skin crawl.

What I find to be gross is using faith to self-aggrandize. Like oh, Ben Carson fell asleep at the wheel and easily could have killed someone due to his shocking negligence, but God had a PLAN because Carson is SO SPECIAL. Way more special than all those murdered Syrian children. It’s a way to take the belief in…

A MILLION STARS FOR THIS REFERENCE! What a great movie.

why does this exist

...how do you figure? What changes from dating to married that now disallows all interaction with your friends? I’m seriously asking. I’ve been dating my partner for six years, in a domestic partnership for 6 months of that, and I still hang out with plenty of people (including of the opposite gender) by myself. And…

DITTO.

FOR. REAL. Is this the shit I have to resort to to get verified on The Slot? JAYSUS.