Let’s hope this is the moment in which he says: “wow, nobody wants me to do this. Not even the people who I corral into canned pressers. I should do some serious introspection and instead use my money for things other than a vanity project, and enact meaningful change in the world.”

I agree. Billionaires should pay more in taxes. Only my solution is for it to be mandatory and as opposed to calling him an asshole, failure would mean his ass goes to prison for tax evasion.

White woman pulls a typical White woman move, more news at 11.

I am absolutely okay with being linguistically objectified for much less than a billion dollars.

Has to be in cash though and not shitty Starbucks gift cards. 

They get enough respect, they’re fine and they'll continue to be fine no matter what they're called. 

If Schultz pays me $ 1,000 I’ll promise never to call him an egotistical fuckface or any other bad names and won’t hurt his feelings anymore. I’m sure other folks can be convinced of similar arrangements.

Linguistic objectification is often a preliminary step toward making others seem less human or less deserving of respect. 

Because broadband over power lines is not good.

“Write the best, most sweeping legislation you can. Show the jobs it will create. Show the cheap and plentiful energy it will create. Marry it with a broadband for all bill by putting fiber optic wire up along with all of the new electrical transmission lines. As a matter of fact, bury these lines so they are not…

Wednesday: “Yeah Nancy Pelosi is fucking amazing the way she owned Trump last night during the SOTU, on top of how she destroyed him during the shutdown. Thank God she’s on our side.”

I can deal with asshole so long as said asshole is competent. I mean, everyone has an asshole, and sometimes they let it do the talking. But as long as everything else that needs to be done is done and she isn’t maliciously capricious, I’d probably just shrug it off.

We just had a president named Barack Hussein Obama.  Like, tell me you’re kidding.

She has one of the highest turn over rates in Congress. That cannot be ignored. People work hard to get those jobs. They don’t just give them up easily.

There are two ways to make yourself feel non-partisan:

This doesn’t surprise me one bit and I think it’s more the norm than people realize.

Fair enough; you’re not wrong.

Sometimes you have to clap back just to get them to shut up.

Dude, I just had an exchange with a friend of a friend on FB. People were bringing up Trump’s moral failings, and then came the “whatabout Clinton?”

Yeah! Stupid libruls! Republicans were always super enthusiastic to Obama’s speeches!