It’s been 153 since the end of the Civil War and people in the Deep South are still pissed the North won and made them stop owning slaves.

A writer for the Economist had it right, he wondered why we don’t have a system to train people to be politicians. He noted we tend to elect the people with the wrong skill set (i.e. business people). 

*checks the greys, whistles*

1. Getting hit by a bus

25 long form posts about why AOC should get it. 

“Politics”.

So, basically, she worked to mesh together the desires of disparate groups of people and succeeded well enough to get buy in from most of them to move forward.

Her father must be rolling over in his grave.

I really enjoyed Ben Tippett’s coverage of the matches, bring him back again!

Brother bear, I beg you to go through my comment history.

I have always thought Sanders’ POTUS candidacy was a fucking joke, and that his promises of a “REVOLUTION” were hollow as fuck.

But let’s go ahead and conflate understanding the nuances of national-level politics with glad-handing a wannabe revolutionary.  That’s…

I’m curious: Sanders’ initial response appears to be, “Look, maybe not every person coming to the border at the moment has a legitimate claim for asylum, but the situation at the border as-is is pushing us toward comprehensive immigration reform, which can only be a net good in the long run.”

I’m having a really hard…

Vote for the person you agree with. Thank you.

Also, advocate for ranked choice voting.

Before the commenters start going off about “purity tests”, seems like a good time to remind everyone that primaries are meant to pit candidates of similar ideologies against each other to find the best representative for the party. So, participate in that shit.

It’s a perfectly cromulent magazine.

I consider any opposition to Trump in 2020 to be a good thing. If it serves to divide and conquer, have at it Kasich. 

Well it is one of the most backward states in the union. Why is that there seems to be a correlation between how backward a state is and how conservative it is? Heck, it’s almost like there could be causation.

What’s the most insane thing about all this is, despite all of this shit, said racist shitbag will still win because Mississippi.

You take sports too seriously.

Well if Buckeyemike2974 is cool with it...