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I dunno, lack of long-term experience seems to be less important these days. I don't know that it would be a deal-breaker for Warren. I just think the US is better off having people like her writing the laws rather than signing them.

That's pretty much what I've always considered them to be.

Thank you. I do honestly feel sorry for them - quite aside from the awfulness of their day-to-day lives, they feel like they've been sold a bill of goods, and that's never a nice feeling. The post-war expansion set up expectations that life would continue to get exponentially better, and it hasn't. I don't know if

It's been said many times, many ways: if I were American I'd want Warren right where she is, pushing the president leftward. Sanders too. And another two dozen in the Senate and god knows how many in the House.

The fact that it was the Democratic convention with the "America is great!" flag waving and the Republican one that was all despair is just one of the many, many weird things about this particular election. Dogs and cats, living together! Total anarchy!

She does, but I think he recognizes that Trump would still be worse. The interview he did with the New Republic didn't contain what I'd call a full-throated endorsement, but he said he thinks it'll be easier to push her in the right direction that it would be for Trump. Who knows if he's right - and some of his

I'm unclear why you think she didn't do anything in the moment. The letter says she took the guy's hand off her daughter's arm and said "Don't touch my child." These appear to be the things you are advocating for.

Sure, but lots of people on the left hate her too. And the right's hatred of her definitely pre-dates Breitbart, if not Fox. It basically feels like people have hated her since the baking cookies remark she made back during the first national campaign.

Well, in a sense it is racist that these are just now becoming vote-able issues, because it's now happening to white people. Folks who in the 80s wouldn't have lifted a finger to help blacks in inner cities - and sure as shit didn't want to pay more taxes for it - now want the government to fix things for them. Well,

He isn't for sale to Wall Street because Wall Street won't touch him. He'd happily take their money if it was on offer.

I wonder if some of it is left-over resentment from Bill signing NAFTA - the original FTA was (supposedly) good for Canadian workers and NAFTA "sent all our jobs to Mexico."

If I were American, the continued right to abortion access would be the number 2 reason I'd hold my nose and vote for Hillary (number 1 being, of course, that Trump is awful). So I do kind of understand that point of view, even if I disagree entirely with where they stand on it.

1. You may not "hate" her, but a lot of people do. I don't believe it's just a vocal minority of Trump supporters - there are a shitload of people to the left of her who hate her just as much.

Blame is one thing. Blind hatred is another.

Fair points, both of them. Hatred still seems a bit of an extreme reaction, to me, unless one has enough hate in one's heart for almost the entire US Congress. Which, I suppose, is not impossible.

I just don't understand where that hatred comes from.

Yeah, I never got the idea that Doc was cowardly. Like ever. In his way, he's as unafraid of death as Hickok is - not because he can protect himself from it, but because he sees himself as having nothing to lose.

Interesting. I don't know that Trixie sees him that way, I think she just likes to give people shit when she can.

1. I don't think you understand what "framing" means. It says right in the email that the "offensive shit is verbatim." You can't frame someone with his own deeds, any more than you can libel him, as the NYT pointed out.

"Lemon of Troy" is always in my Top 3