Yes, except I don’t think Trump has the level of cognitive development necessary for planning and the reaction of WHOOOPPPEEE seems to have been more OH NOOOOOOO.... It’s the people around him whose incompetence is so mystifying. I mean, I think you’re talking about Trump. Ryan and McConnell are exactly what they…

I think we’ve all been giving McConnell too much credit. This is just the moment where we learn about the man behind the curtain. Both he and Paul have found it’s a lot easier to get people to not do anything rather than actually govern. It’s the silver lining in this, for me at least. The opposition is not all that…

Or you can live in DC, with all of these assholes not doing their job although that’s worked out well in this case, and never get to vote for a Senator because we don’t have any! Instead, we can vote for a congressperson who is made to sit at the Congressional equivalent of the kids’ table.

Someone must revoke his quotation marks privileges. “Please.”

The lack of strategy is flabbergasting. As much self-flagellation the Democratic Party is doing for HRC running a not-Trump campaign (which I would argue she didn’t do, but that’s another issue), the entire Trump presidency is not-Hillary. There is no plan, no message, no coherent stance on any issue... no one has any…

And that was the brilliance of Obama. He convinced Congresspersons to vote for a bill that they knew would cost them their jobs. Leadership is not convincing people to vote in their own self-interest; it’s convincing them to do the right thing even when it will hurt them. They did the ACA the right fucking way, the…

I’m really wondering if there aren’t at least some Repubs in the House and Senate who aren’t going to start taking a harder line against Trump now that, 1) there is a direct line of collusion and, 2) they’re going to realizing that their useful idiot is actually not useful.

I think the quotes around therapy are important. I’m glad that yours is a happy story, but it is far from conclusive that said therapy did anything to “reverse” an abortion. There is science and then there is human experimentation. Human experimentation is an important part of medical advances, but history has proven…

It’s also that Democrats have actual ideas, with policy and nuance. It doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker or a tweet. That should be an asset, not a liability.

THANK YOU!!! That map kills me in it’s meaninglessness.

People are crazil ready to argue that a one person, one vote system of electing a president is horribly unfair and it’s mind-boggling to me.

Also, once in power, GOP legislatures have quickly whipped out every tactic of voter suppression in their playbook. The methodical level of gerrymandering is stunning. If you disenfranchise as many people as possible in swing states, they lean red.

Did she take the first pill and not the second?

Making sense is not something they’re really invested in.

Unfortunately, I think that abortion advocates of a couple of decades ago gave some real concession to these wackadoodles, in an attempt to find common ground, when they put forth the whole “safe, legal, and rare” rhetoric. They went with the whole idea that every abortion is a tragedy and that every woman who has one…

It’s really something that should be taught at a young age. Statistical literacy isn’t my area of expertise, but I’ve worked in research and my background is biomedical, so I’m able to poke holes and ID weak spots. But there’s huge publishing capability in the “red wine will make you live longer” interpretation of…

He can work with Candice Jackson in the Dept of Education, making college safer for rapists of teenagers. Sorry, alleged rapists - Ms. Jackson is sure 90% of those accusations are false. Although they may be a little old for Kelly.

It’s grading on the curve needed by those who will receive an education under the supervision of Betsy DeVos.

It is! But math is not the forte of most Americans, let alone analysis of polling methodology and statistical analysis. My head gets a little closer to exploding every time I hear someone talk about levels of uncertainty as something implying the authors just have no idea about things, usually climate change...

You can do a lot with statistical modeling. But self-reporting of anything as a form of data is worth taking with a tablespoon of salt, especially when you’re talking about something nebulous like approval.