Hey. I'm not down with this. It makes Cruz sound kinda bad-ass and important by association, and that man is the human version of plasticine.

Yeah, as if a few short decades of being absolutely abhorrent in the public eye is enough to base an opinion on!

Like I said, I'm just jealous of your workplace experiences. And think it's freakin' awesome that you'd take a stand to that guy at a age when most guys wouldn't want to rock the boat or be a "pussy" or something.

Not where I work anymore, but where I have worked.
And there was an HR department.

Flattering? Not really, no, at all.

Yup; if he's excelled in the first debate and was up in the polls, this would have the same importance as all the other "turning points"; nothing at all.

You know, when the GOP picks a candidate, they're not picking their best people…

I can easily see. Very easily.
I mean how many Brexit votes came from people who had:
- no actual fucking clue what they were voting for
- no true information about what it would mean
- no real desire for Brexit, just a deep desire to claim "told ya so" when the country stayed in the EU and think didn't instantly turn…

Oh not only do I have no sympathy, but I'm pretty happy about it. I think their plan would have been to find a fresh-faced, possibly non-old-white-man candidate and act as though they'd changed, all while doing the same old things behind the scenes.

Do you often feel a bit numbed by the low level harassment though? We were discussing it last night and it was kind of amazing how many women just kind of tune out the times when colleagues in past and present jobs talked about the appearance and fuckability of a woman at work, or openly discussed which staff members…

But I think most women who feel how I do know that it's not all men. I'm lucky enough now to work with the coolest dudes I've ever met, and I'm sure as hell that none of them have ever discussed the ease with which they could sexually assault women, or that kind of nonsense. And I think if someone on the team did,…

He SHOULD be, yes please. It's not okay. and not because women need to be "protected" or "revered" or some shit. We're not unicorns. We just want to be treated like human beings.

Yeah I'm seeing a ton of that.
TRUMP SAYS BAD THINGS, HILLARY DOES BAD THINGS, etc.

To be fair, I'm quite sure a lot of GOP higher-ups entirely planned on a new path this year. It just got torpedoed. I think it was mostly that the GOP thought ignoring the whole Trump sideshow, and hoping if no attention was paid that it would go away, was the ticket.
Why else wouldn't they have found and used this…

Just out of curiosity, are you male or female? What age range?
(this isn't a gotcha attempt, I'm just jealous).

I dunno.
I do think that most men fall into one of two categories:
1 - guys who say what Trump says (and act like Trump does) towards women
2 - guys who see other guys act like that and either giggle along ("He's the boss! What can I do?") or don't do anything about it. Which isn't as bad as 1, but isn't really helpful.

Wouldn't many people from Mexico be considered people of color based on the pretty standard meaning of "non-white people"?

Of all the candidates, sure. But did we really need one at all?

Not EVERYDAY, jeez.

Usually…