I think at the end of the 2020 election cycle we’ll all realize the real hero was the coronavirus all along (at least based on the most at-risk demo anyway).

What even IS “deep” but a way to discredit people who you consider frivolous?

What can you do? Youth music is... for youths after all. It’s good to know that someone who is so (seemingly at least) thoughtful is as popular as she is.

This is a remarkably generous and understanding take (taking the guy’s youth into account to contextualize his wrong online conduct). And yet when someone is discovered to have said wrong-ass shit when they were in their mid-teens (so not even a grown ass adult man, as Agnew was), or teens today are caught saying…

The real question here is what the limits are on the applicable insurance policies and coverages. There is no law or legal principle that would let a plaintiff get at a defendant’s personal funds without exhausting any applicable insurance. I’m assuming that if basically everyone knew Weinstein was a monster, they…

How can you seriously consider the most influential voting bloc to NOT be the bloc that continually manages to capture the White House, and maintains a hold on both the Senate and SCOTUS without having to muster a majority of the electorate to their side?

Will this thing actually run any software? Or rather, is there any software for this thing? 

Black people stand to lose more than anyone from adverse political change, so it seems in particularly poor taste to give black voters a hard time for choosing whomever. Beyond the fact that they’re beyond reproach with regard to having some ulterior political motive (i.e., unlike some folks, it’s not like black…

If you read the actual Complaint, he’s not alleged to have sexually assaulted or raped anyone. Sexual discrimination and sexual harassment are the only two counts with a sexual animus, the rest are fraud, breach of contract, unjust enrichment—i.e., boilerlplate commercial lit stuff.

Fortunately, Franco isn’t (as yet at least) accused of actually sexually assaulting or raping anyone. Taken as true, it doesn’t seem like any of the allegations amount to criminally actionable behavior. Seems like he’s somewhere around the Louie C.K.-end of the spectrum (though Louie arguably committed sexual assault…

Braydon and Karen were explicitly okay with Cory Booker. I think this has more to do with the perception of Lynch as a jock goofball than with his race.

She’s either lying or stupid if she doesn’t think a big part of her draw for the network is that she materially contributed (or fucking originated) the irresponsible and false ‘HRC stole the 2016 nomination’ meme.

Cf. People showing up for Bernie in a big way four years ago moved the Overton Window enough that Medicare-for-all is now a major part of the political conversation in this country; multiple candidates for the Dem nomination adopted Bernie’s talking points; there is a popular, albeit small (but growing) faction within…

This is basically an indictment of all polling, top to bottom, because there’s no way to interrogate the accuracy of the poll. If a pollster says there’s a 99.9% chance of X, but then ~X happens, it’s not their poll—this was just the 0.01% that just happened to come to pass. The Nate Silver defense.

If the Weather Channel still exists, someone must be paying for ad revenue, which means someone must be watching. Let them.

It’s nowhere near as harmful. Sportscenter isn’t freaking the shit out of boomers en masse and making them think there’s a white genocide slowly afoot. Sports-related culture war stuff aside (which is the minority of that coverage), sports coverage just doesn’t come close to being as damaging as “the news”.

And even then, Twitter is better at breaking stories with quick takes than cable is.

I think we need to also keep in mind that the House and Senate are both in play, so POTUS aside, we are in a position to play hardball with SCOTUS picks if we can edge Republicans out in the Senate. However, that means we need to take into consideration who will be the best candidate for down-the-ballot races.

Are these the polls that had HRC winning in 2016?

I’d like to just nuke all of cable news. Headline news included. You can keep sports and weather. The rest needs to gtfo.