Hannah, I’m disappointed in the clickbait title. Claiming these agencies “did not present evidence” is not merely misleading but untrue. You are spreading same sort of misinformation that drives clicks for conspiracy bloggers and Fox News.

There is not much reason for Democrats NOT to shut down the government over this. The GOP never had to pay for doing this, maybe they won’t either. It will still be a long way from the midterms.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, the Republicans are already backpeddling on the whole ACA thing. They’ll probably change a few things, and in 2018 they’ll just take credit for the whole bill.

“Maybe we the people should spend the next 4 years figuring out how to get someone into office that is different yet morally qualified to hold the position.” We tried that. You guys attacked her and we got this bullshit that is Trup.

You must not be gay, black, hispanic or muslim, or care about anyone who is. If you…

You’re right, but I think she also missed an opportunity to fire up the democratic base by not doubling down on it. There was probably a tiny sliver of voters who were offended by the deplorables comment but who were swayed by what seemed like genuine contrition about it from Clinton.

My biggest takeaway was simply that the majority of his supporters are uninformed. From the confused individual who said they don’t think Christians should be forced to pay for other people’s abortions, to the Dad who mistakenly believed HRC wanted to take all of his guns away, to the person who believed building a…

I find myself most angry with the first group. There the ones that are closest to me in that I am frustrated by a lot of the history of politics. I am a life long Democrat but I understand reasons why I can’t say “we’re the good guys” because of historic missteps and shady characters . (See today’s article about…

I think there’s a 4th class of people that idolize Trump - there’s a certain wish fulfillment. Take Trump vs Bill Gates. Both men are fantastically wealthy. Joe the Plumber from Scranton does not want to be Bill Gates. He doesn’t fantasize about that. But he DOES want to be Trump. Here’s a guy that talks like…

A lot of times the reasons people brush off accusations racism/sexism/whatever is because people don’t think they could be racist or sexist or whatever, and refuse to even entertain the possibility - it’s a lack of self-reflection, not a lack of actual validity in the accusation.

I’ve always loved the conservative retort being “you don’t tolerate my intolerance ergo you’re not intolerant!” There’s no reason to, say, tolerate bigotry. Or racism. Or sexism. Those things should not be tolerated.

Yeah, if anything these responses show that people just don’t vote with their brain, they vote with their feels. People “feel” that Hillary is corrupt ; people “feel” that Turmp is going to “Make America Great Again”; people “feel” that both sides are equally as bad.

Hmmm, I wasn’t insulting her. I like her, I just don’t think that all of the people who TOTALLY wanted to vote for her in 2016 actually will if she does run.

If you believe all that garbage about HRC you’re as big a rube as those who voted for him. You bought the right wing propaganda hook, line, and sinker. The fact that the DNC pushed for an actual Democrat as opposed to an independent should shock no one, unless they’re stupid. It became clear early on that the Bernie…

If you listen to the full statement in context, she was absolutely talking about the third group and the third group alone. But that’s not how Trump and his supporters spun it.

All of these emails really reinforce my belief that there were three types of Trump voters. 1) The “fuck you” vote, which encompasses the anti-PC sentiments, the “blow up the system” sentiments, and the “he’s not a politician” sentiments. Basically, people who felt, for various reasons, that the system either wasn’t…

I voted for him because I felt that he would do an absolutely terrible job and would alienate the republican base so badly that it had no choice but to face facts and accept that conservative economic models do not help them.

There is no record of votes? In all honesty, is it possible that they did this so that Trump and the rest of the GOP could come out against it and make them look ethical?

Pick a goddess and let’s make it happen.

I feel like this has just been a really really long dare for one of us to figure out how to make feminism a religion

I’m sure it didn’t make the timing cutoff, but Madeleine’s Becoming Ugly essay deserves a spot on here too. That hit me (as I’m sure with most everyone who read it) right in my core in a way few pieces of writing have.