It’s almost as if smoke-filled rooms aren’t the worst idea anymore

At the same time, though, like...screw the Constitution.

This is the last I’ll say because I fell like I’m debating the number of dancing angels on the head of a pin, which is silly on my part because I largely agree with most people here that she mainly lost because she came across as a smarmy waffler who ran a bad campaign, and also faced racist structural challenges.

I’m not saying it was the controlling or even the most influential factor, but the primary order inhibited her ability to calm self-fulfilling fears about “electability” in subsequent states. I just think her only real hope was to build a national brand that could pick up momentum before she ran out of cash, and she…

Fuckin’ primary order, man. Screws the whole thing up.

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The first part of what you wrote is a great point that a lot of us overlook, which is that as a demographic, old people tend to vote consistently, whereas young people, not so much. But I’m pretty agnostic on your second prediction because due to the recent expansion of the practical political spectrum, I think we’re…

AFAICT the Biden fans pose a bigger threat of taking their toys and going home, or even (ugh) taking them to the opposing sandbox.

Yeah. The parliamentary system argument is pretty much the only part I find somewhat convincing. The counterfactual argument for the other two parts relies on the Brits not acting as shitty as we did with a whole bunch of capitalist incentives to do so.

And federalism! Federalism sucks ass.

My favorite annual hot take:

TBH part of me hopes Mayor Pete wins just so I can observe particular people on the comment board admit they’ll vote for him.

And it sure seems that two of Pugh’s close allies—her “longtime aide Gary Brown Jr. and Roslyn Wedington, the director of a nonprofit Pugh championed,” in the words of the Baltimore Sun—have squealed, as the DOJ revealed both have pled guilty to separate charges related to the investigation into Pugh.

One thing I’ve been wondering is if the rich would have to cut a check or if they can pay in kind, like with equities. If you want to start growing a sovereign wealth fund to pay for stuff, I could see the benefit of the latter.

I think that speaks to the stakes as well as the nature of the wrongdoing. Which, to be honest, is generally OK by me. If Hill were, say, a senator in a swing state whose seat would be filled by a Republican governor, I think any left-liberal calling for her resignation should get their head examined. It’s bad enough…

Should’ve read the firmwide email regarding your mobile apps before pulling the trigger on that iOS upgrade, 3PO.

On my bad days I think about how cool it would be for a Democratic president to declare martial law, then declare the senate illegitimate, then start working very deferentially with a Democratic House as an advisory council with strong. There are only about 9 billion problems with this idea, but the sanctity of our…

A perennial pretender from South Bend? Somebody get that boy an exclusive TV contract with NBC!

Private elementary and high schools are bad too.

Nationalize all college and ban private schools.