The eventual approval of a conservative justice was a forgone conclusion. Whether or not to make the process so toxic and hateful that would shatter the reputation and personal life of any nominee that wasn’t an absolute fucking saint was still in the Democrats’ hands.

Yeah...unless you luck into your dream job, I’m pretty sure that definition of “burnout” is pretty much just the description of life as an adult.

It would thrill me to no end if Mackenzie Bezos used ~$1b of her $37b divorce settlement to pay off Floridian ex-cons’ fines/fees/judgements and likely flip Florida into a blue state. She wouldn’t miss it, and it would do a lot of people a lot of good.

Let’s be honest - nobody’s voting for Biden for his policy chops. I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if his environmental policy was slapped together by a couple of interns over the Memorial Day weekend, and I’d be even less surprised if Uncle Joe asked the prettier of the two to sit on his lap and go over the executive…

Biden’s still got way too much baggage and “creepy uncle” factor for him to be my choice in the primary...but at least this makes me feel a little less discouraged about having to vote for him if (or more likely, when) the Democratic machine picks him as the 2020 candidate.

At 25 cups of coffee a day, the sleep deprivation will kill you long before any cardiovascular issues catch up with you. 

“I was an artillery officer, and we fired hundreds of rounds into Fallujah, killed probably hundreds of civilians, if not scores, if not hundreds of civilians,” Hunter says. “Probably killed women and children, if there were any left in the city when we invaded. So do I get judged, too?”

We so need it for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. 

I’m pretty sure Sandy Hook was the point of no return for the issue of gun violence. If a couple dozen little kids getting gunned down in their own elementary school doesn’t lead the country to collectively admit that we have a problem and make changes to keep it from happening again...absolutely nothing will.

Yeah, 2020 isn’t going to be about selling undecided/independent voters on your technical qualifications and your watered down version of moderately progressive ideas. Even if you wanted to, there aren’t enough of those voters in swing states to make that strategy worthwhile.

Booker is toast at this point. He’s just adrift in the chaos, and would be better served by bowing out gracefully.

That’s part of the problem...there’s so much ambiguous, contradictory random stuff in the Bible that it can be interpreted to mean just about anything you want it to say. It’s basically the world’s biggest guided free association test.

I am actually more shocked and horrified at how not shocked and horrified I am this point in this seemingly endless stream of mass shootings than I am about any one of the past few mass shootings themselves.

I suppose at that point, you just have to look at other issues where they may differ, accept that you’re stuck between two evils and pick the lesser of them. Taking your ball and going home in disgust will only leave proportionately more votes for the greater evil. 

I hadn’t priced out modern edibles - that’s pretty damn cheap. Admittedly, last time I partook, the only “edible” available was just a box of brownie mix that you threw an eighth into.

You’ve got a point on the averages. Though, I’m not sure their calculations also account for the increased revenue from people crossing the border from Indiana and Ohio specifically cheaper legal weed, either.

You’re right in that it would make staying a productive, motivated citizen more challenging. But I suppose it’s just weird to see pricing like that; only marginally more than what it was like 25 years ago, when my budget as a high school kid was a fraction of what it is today.

That’s the sense I was getting (with about a 10 year differential in there). Looks like supply is booming and the risk premium is shrinking. 

$2500 a year may be a pretty generous entertainment budget for your average Michiganite, but is it really all *that* much weed (especially for a whole year)? Either the price hasn’t kept up with inflation since my misspent youth or people up there are kind of lightweights.

My fear is that America’s creepy uncle is demoralizing enough to keep the Democratic base from getting fully energized, not compelling enough to sell centrist independents who have yet to get personally burned by Trump and still scary enough to the Republican base that they turn out in droves to stop him.