All Sanders had to do was bring up banning bump stocks, or talk about the president wanting to take guns away from the mentally ill. Literally the absolute bare minimum of anything even resembling gun control.

It would follow standard English orthography, but I’m sure you know there are countless exceptions to the rules “governing” the language. I think “‘repellent’ was the adjective and ‘repellant’ was the noun” is nearly always how people use them, but at least according to dictionary.com, repellant can also be the…

if you’re referring to “repellant,” it’s probably used less often than than “repellent,” but still acceptable spelling of the word today:

I may be nitpicking, but I’m guessing he doesn’t jerk it to the swimsuit issue or any other pics of scantily-clad or naked people, he jerks it to torture and other wartime atrocities; human suffering is what gets him off.

ooh, a deep cut - nice!

This is... irony.
Or sarcasm.
Or tongue-in-cheek humor.
Or snark.
Some element of the intersection or union of the sets A = irony, B = sarcasm, C = tongue-in-cheek humor, and D = snark.

I’ve never read it either (probably shouldn’t admit that) but I really should one of these days.

If laissez-faire capitalism is some magical, mystical place where the government has no involvement in the economy, then a) the United States from its inception was not laissez-faire, and b) no other country in human history ever has been, either.

yeah, that’s not clear to me either. my impression was that we’re not buying any oil from Iran due to sanctions (same as your impression?), but based on what i read i’m still not 100% certain.

Probably shouldn’t surprise me, but apparently the Burnt Ketchup Steak Administration even sucks at accepting bribes.

...I suspect that Iran and the U.S. still don’t do a lot of business together...

...you do need to be enrolled in an income-based plan to qualify for PSLF

nothing could possibly be worse than this

Hey SCREW YOU MAN! Usually Bat Boy is positively radiant - the paparazzi just caught him at a vulnerable moment, that’s all.

I... don’t really know how to take this, so I guess I’ll take it more or less at face value.

damn you guys, get a room!

yeah, that becomes clearer and clearer every day

From a legal standpoint, maybe, but on a PR level I still think he shit the bed. For starters, you don’t ever refer to a client as “funneling” money to anyone for any reason whatsoever; you pick a less sinister term for the same act.

So you think it’s intentional? Would be an interesting divergence from the usual pattern, which has been his lackeys kissing his ass in public and calling him an idiot in private.