Because the appearance of impropriety in a woman is more of a threat than actual evidence of impropriety in a man. This is known.

Good. Let this serve as a reminder that women have always, always fought. Vikings had shield maidens and Shaka Zulu had his all-female body guard. Women dressed as men to join the fight. They take up arms and become rebels and guerillas. In Russia they become bombers and tankers and snipers. In feudal Japan they…

I got lost in your story and thought you were hoping the barista pulled through.

No, it is just more evidence that all the training in the world does not prepare you for real life situations despite what certain gun nerds think.

Getting that much money from Wall Street folks for speaking an hour at a time is basically de facto corruption. Third Way politics is corporatism with a liberal social veneer, and corporatism is nothing if not government corruption.

Agreed. #notalllibertarians, but lots.

The problem with Libertarianism is that so few of its adherents actually understand it.

I am thoroughly convinced that 90% of people who want to vote for Johnson are not even a little familiar with the majority of the Libertarian platform. Or they willfully ignore it.

Ironically, Zeppo was the funniest.

Incidentally, Leppo was the least funny Marx brother.

Dude, that is deep. What is Aleppo? Why is Trump? Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear? Someone needs to be asking the hard questions.

The Libertarian presidential candidate is clueless about certain fairly basic facts? Why am I not surprised. I am mildly surprised that his ignorance extends beyond economics and basic human nature.

Gary Johnson has somehow, in the span of about 10 seconds, stolen the crown of leading bullshit artist right off of the Republican nominee’s head.

wtf is this 2016 bullshit.

*facepalm*

No, I realize you think you were kidding. But it is fairly obvious that you actually don’t recognize the difference, which is why you are claiming that was a clearly positive statement about how our criminal justice system “is,” was a normative statement about what our ideals “should be.” So I figured I would educate…

So are you admitting that, taken at face value, the statement means what I say it means? And, taken a step further, that that meaning is objectively wrong?

A normative statement is a statement that describes the way things should or should not be. It is a statement of the writer’s judgment of the way things should be. A normative statement would read like this:

“I told you I might have said “exclusively” had I truly considered that someone would go on at length presuming I believed punishment was not a feature of the American justice system.”

“If my original statement was unclear, then I certainly believe I’ve clarified it by now.”