Well I took the “we” in the “as Obama did for many people of my generation (how wrong we were)” to mean she was among the people who he inspired to vote—which she may have been able to do even if she was born in the UK, depending on various factors.

Right, and all the first time voters who rushed out to get him in (like Libby, apparently) also forgot that they had to vote, like, every two years, and so they handed President Not-A-Genie one of the biggest midterm seat losses since the Depression, which sort of makes it hard to accomplish things.

To say nothing of the 2010 midterm, which hamstrung Obama’s legislative power for the rest of his presidency and laid down the base coat of crazy that now shellacs every hall of power in Washington.

Heh, I honestly don’t remember the scene you’re talking about, so it obviously didn’t have the same effect on me, but I buy that even bad Romero can have moments or images that stick with you. Who am I to judge? I still stand by the brilliance of the cold open of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead for the same reason.

So, articles elsewhere are showing promotional stills for Hazel and Cha-Cha (played by Mary J. Blige??), so I’m confused where the story is going here? Ellen Page and her violin seems to indicate they’re going for the first story arc, but those two are introduced in the second. I don’t really see how the two stories…

YMMV of course if you didn’t think the quirk of the first few pages of the first issue was any good, but I found the second volume way, way better than the first, which I had viewed as just sort of a fun gimmick. 

I was gonna say--those last few “living dead” movies were so bad I’m not sure I want to see the stuff he prioritized beneath them.

This is an awful take. Only three Presidents since Hoover have lost a re-election bid at all. So, incumbency is a huge advantage in American politics—duh. But of those losses:

The evidence against you is the mere facts of what happened. Clinton pays unprecedentedly little attention to the Rust Belt, Rust Belt goes Republican for the first time in a generation. Sure, most people who are going to vote are decisive and decided about it by game day, but a) yard signs and ad buys and door…

Sure, and it’s easy to second guess all the calls after the fact. I mean, in August I think I and pretty much everyone else also thought that strategy made sense (although it’s not as if AZ, etc worked out for them). Although, I’d also say that if she couldn’t govern with 270, then 80,000 Midwesterners didn’t deprive…

Instead, 80,000 people in the Midwest fucked it all up. Clinton let Robby Mook pull all their resources out of the Midwest, and then they lost it by 80,000 votes.

This seems like the right take to me. Probably the best comparison to regular sports is boxing, or tennis, or golf, or maybe even pro poker—one of those ones where the money is based in a loosely confederated circuit of competitions, and amateurs or semi-pros who aspire to climb up dedicating their lives to practicing…

You don’t think figuring out the how and why of the 2016 loss is necessary for strategizing wins in 2018 and 2020?

The city I work in (somewhat large and violent) hasn’t had an officer shoot someone in over 3 years

If you can’t swap the gender, race, religion, etc. in your argument and have it still be valid then you aren’t making a valid argument.

I dunno. I’m not wishing for the sort of “civility” (re: shutting the fuck up and letting us do what we want) that FAUX News routinely whines about, but I wonder at what point the gloves came off and we all started screaming at each other all the goddamned time.

And not enough people know this! Moved from SoCal to the Midwest and whenever someone tries to @me with Five Guys > In n’ Out (which happens oddly often), I say “yeah, but did you order it animal style?” I’ve never had someone who says they’re overrated answer “yes” to that.

Came to the comments to see how long it took for people to say In n’ Out is more overrated than Shake Shack, and—well, I wasn’t disappointed because it happened as much and as often as I thought it would. But I’m disappointed that I wasn’t disappointed.

I’m not sure which of these things you think the American left is doing or wants to do? Because OP called Ocasio supporters fascists.

Unless they’re organizing a paramilitary that will round up all those people who slipped up and force them to live out the duration of their brutally short lives in forced labor camps—or at the very least they’re seriously talking about how someone should do that—they’re not much like fascists at all. You seem to be…