He doesn’t strike me as someone who is particularly concerned with details. If he don’t like it, he don’t need to understand it.

I thought the modern day version of the Ku Klux Klan was the Ku Klux Klan, mainly because they are.

One thing to take away from this story (aside from the fact that he is clearly a homophobe, which in 2019 is just pretty sad) is that he clearly has ZERO idea what “socialism” is and is willing to use that as a catch-all term to describe groups/ideologies he’s scared of/wants to discriminate against.

“The LGBTQ [sic] is a modern day version of the Ku Klux Klan,” Porterfield said, “without wearing hoods with their antics of hate.”

They do not protect gays. There are many gays they persecute if they do not line up with their social ideology.

I’m not wasting time with any trenchant analysis. She’s a dummy who married a bigger dummy with money. Her ignorance mixed with casual cruelty isn’t a bug it’s a feature.

If the Senate wasn’t so skewed to land owners over random citizens, I’d agree with you. But the way it’s currently constituted, folks who happen to live in lightly populated states have an insanely disproportionate effect on what kinds of bills can get passed. At all. Making this worse by allowing a subset of those…

Agreed. Strom Thurmond was a racist shitbag, but at least he was willing to literally stand in front of the entire nation for 24 hours and defend his racist convictions for all to see.  Now it’s all just procedurally done and it gets lost in  the rapidity of the news cycle who exactly it was that decided to deny a…

I’m cool with filibusters if someone actually has to stand up and filibuster.

What makes something that got 60 votes less likely to be overturned once the opposing party takes control of the Senate than something that passed with 51 votes? Because while the ACA passed with 60 votes, it can be repealed with less than that.

Still waiting to see what the response to that very real problem is.

That’s the spirit.

As long as this country is constantly swinging back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, the filibuster is a necessary and good thing to have.

Counterpoint: Making sure legislation can pass that 60 vote threshold makes it more likely that the legislation will survive over the long term and not simply get overturned the moment the other party can leverage their way back into a majority. Just because broad consensus doesn’t move the wheels of progress as fast…

Fuck the filibuster—kill the Senate.

Has there ever been any extensive polling done on eliminating the filibuster before? I’d be curious to see what most people who aren’t poisoned by actually paying attention to this shit actually feels about it.

I think Anna Faris is thanking her lucky stars she escaped this shitshow. 

Chris Pratt, his animal abandonment, homophobia church, and his bullshit nice-guy persona that, mark my words, is hiding a monster, can all go choke to death on a bag of assorted donkey dicks.

Pratt seems like a Nice Guy, and it’s clear he has good intentions, but Evangelicals are The Worst. Following the doctrine* prevents you from being a genuinely good person 90% of the time.

Remember how there was a Dark Tower movie