I’m not gonna pretend the ACA was anything close to perfect...but 8 years of planning, and the best alternative they can come up with is crappy insurance that isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on? Seriously? Why don’t they just come out and say that the new plan is for you to just get sick and die unless you can pay…

Jeff Bezos either has some kind of delusion about being a pharaoh, or is slowly becoming a James Bond villain. Possibly both.

Ugh. We don’t even need the Russians to make our political discourse completely dysfunctional. We’ve got enough crazy right here at home to do that all on our own.

Executive Decision - the only movie featuring Steven Seagal that didn’t feel like being punched in the brain for an hour and a half.

In a perfect world, this would be an ideal solution. In the real world, it’d likely result in outright civil war.

Under Obama: Because there are enough Democratic lawmakers who are either bought and paid for by the NRA or who are moderates from purple states that they still had minimal chance to move the needle on the gun issue. Plus, they blew all their political capital getting the ACA through.

Unfortunately, that means having to listen to my neighbors blather on about how endangered white people are, how glad they are to have Limbaugh and Hannity speaking up for them, and how the Trumpeter is making America great again.

If he came out and said,”Screw it, let’s just give them all green cards tomorrow and consider it a closed issue,” I could at least consider that a good-faith attempt at compromise. But to create a second-class form of citizenship? That’s just insulting to the idea of citizenship and a dog-whistle back to the days of…

Oye beltalowda!

I suppose it beats their Plan A, which was just asking, “are you a psy-ops specialist employed by a hostile non-US entity or an independent contractor engaged in a simar capacity?” when selling the ad space.

You hit the nail on the head. Legislating access is a nightmare between NRA money and gun-humper protests. But if you can change the economics of it all by squeezing the smaller manufacturers out of business and narrowing the larger ones into effectively being military and law enforcement contractors, that actually…

It’s a step in the right direction, but keeping these weapons out of the hands of 18-20 year olds isn’t going to do much when there are already so many in circulation.

I get that more should have been done by the FBI, but prior to the commission of an actual crime, I don’t know that they would have been able to do much more than inconvenience the shooter. Maybe, if he was clinically insane and deemed to be a threat to himself or others, they could have Baker Act’ed him. But if it…

Seeing as how System Shock 3 is already in the works by another developer, this was always going to be an uphill battle. Kinda bummed that it’s on ice, but not exactly surprised.

Perfect for your baby pet alligator. Or to haunt your nightmares.

It looks like a crash couch from the ships on The Expanse.

Big pharma has zero interest in seeing cannabis legalized because it grows out of the fucking ground with little more than some water and sunshine, and works reasonably well with no genetic modifications so far.

Ajit Pai has pissed me off pretty bad, but not quite bad enough to wish him actually dead.

More students have been killed in school shootings in the past year than service members have died in combat in Afghanistan in that timeframe.

That’s a pretty small sub-set of churchgoers. Most of those fuckers vote straight-down-the-ticket Republican and would gladly start a second War Between The States if some librul pinko commie came for their guns.