As someone who works there, they are slow-walking every nominee that they can — especially judges. Each time they are invoking the maximum amount of debate (literally just a clock running in the background) between motion and cloture vote and between cloture vote and final vote. Blue slips are disregarded because the…

Because she could not win. When they polled her against every GOP candidate vs. Manchin, she lost overwhelmingly. It’s West Virginia, not Vermont. If you look at the polling in W VA they are feeling optimistic about Trump and the economy, they support his tariffs, and they support zero tolerance at the border because…

Uhhhhhhhh...they did introduce legislation, my dude.

Times like this is why I will forever be so fucking ANGRY at the so-called “progressives” who aggressively shat on Cory Booker right after he testified against Jeff Sessions (during the latter’s confirmation hearing for Attorney General) simply because Booker voted no on a prescription drug amendment. Even though…

Yeah, I agree. I mean, the Republican party platform is primarily based on selling government dysfunction. If Democrats try to derail whatever, the Republicans will just point to it to validate their claims. The GOP is doing everything they can to sabotage the system. They’re trying to roll back decades of progressive…

But...again, with all due respect, this seems like a naive take how politics actually works.

“Refuse to vote on ANY appointees from the Trump administration and punish Joe Manchin when he tries to play both sides.”

This is horseshit, though. While Manchin and the more conservative Ds are dipshits; they are our dipshits. Most Democrats actually believe in government and are trying to keep things together under the watch of the most WILLFULLY IGNORANT electorate in history. You think if they begin to obstruct that Republicans…

The Democrats didn’t roll over on Gorsuch. They tried to filibuster him. But three Democrats broke ranks and voted to confirm him, after the Republicans broke the filibuster on judicial nominees. To say the Democrats “rolled over on Gorsuch”...like, it’s just not true. It is factually not the thing that actually…

The Dems actually did block Gorsuch forcein the GOP to change the filibuster policy allowing Gorsuch to get in with a simple majority. It was a rare moment of backbone.

This is the shorter version of the rant I just went on.

This feels utterly tone-deaf given what’s going on and where we are, right now.

*rubs temples*

Yeah but he dislocated his shoulder pointing at which kid he wanted the nanny to feed.

I’m a woman and super excited that I just hit my 200lb squat goal about 2 months earlier than expected. I’ve never been athletic or strong my entire life (I’m 31) but since starting strength training seriously about a year and a half ago the improvement has been amazing. It’s great to have an external measure of…

“Not bad for a 40 year old dad of 5 who sits at a desk all week.”

Michael, the actual bill moves the regulatory line from $50b to $250b in the still highly regulated category.

Yeah, but how far can you punt a footb—ah, fuck, nevermind.

Yeah, but you don’t get to use the Billionaire’s Son Multiplier of 0.3 to adjust your times.

I’ve done Murph a couple times (no vest), and I think my best time ever was around 55 minutes. For comparison, I can run a mile in 5:30, two miles at 13:00 without feeling particularly winded, rock climb regularly at V4s pushing to V5s, and oh yeah, I played in the fucking NFL.