She withdrew it. Probably terrified.

Seconding Duckworth for sure. I’d also throw Al Franken in there, maybe Tammy Baldwin.

You’ve managed to find someone who’s both a Washington insider and at the same time totally politically inexperienced. What an astoundingly bad idea.

I don’t know. Bribery is one thing, but blackmail? He’d have to be ashamed of things. I think it would be like trying to blackmail a housecat. He doesn’t understand why he should be ashamed of doing whatever he did and he really doesn’t care.

They also had discrete geography. The red and blue states the map shows are really more of a patchwork; how do you secede when your zone of control looks like Swiss cheese with urban area sized holes? Even in the south and west there’s places like Atlanta, Austin, Denver that aren’t going to want to come along.

Wouldn’t that be ironic for the Blue Lives Matter crowd?

Composure for days. I think half the reason Putin’s so into not having her as our president is he doesn’t think he can intimidate her, and he probably doesn’t have that problem a lot.

The facial hair really works on him.

They have citizen vigilante groups. No capes or batmobiles, just gutsy campesinos.

Nah, what we should do is to turn the whole thing into a martial arts tournament Mortal Kombat style. Will the presidency be won by Sifu Silk Tiger’s yin-infused three finger strikes or Sensei Diamond Lotus’ flying jeet kune do kicks?

Re 3, it shouldn’t be hard to have the cars electronically talk to each other and share data to get information on obscured surroundings in a way that human drivers can’t match.

Minnesota here. Uhhh...have you been here lately? Most of the people live in a few, very liberal, very diverse cities, with new immigrants coming all the time. The Mini Apple has a huge Somali contingent that’s not thrilled about the anti-Muslim rhetoric, and a lot of Saint Paul is heavily Southeast Asian; the…

It’s space, there is no down.

Probably ideal if you’re going to be stuck in a floating tin can with a bunch of military dudes and few if any women for six months at a shot.

If he was a giant sloth that would be epic

It would have been much more interesting if Gaston was the one getting sexed in the castle by a big brute. Don’t you think?

Her forehead looks off. Is this a shoop or am I trippin?

I find this curious. Like, consider how many white folks are into Wicca or Asatru or some other kind of paganism. It’s not clear to me why similar phenomena haven’t taken root in the black community with regards to traditional West African religions.

When I first moved up to Canada for grad school, I was skeptical of this idea, but I’ve really come around to thinking it might be the way to go. This kind of speech doesn’t prop up a democracy; it destabilizes it. We are the only Western, developed nation to have not figured that out.

I think he’s pointing out that he was arrested without the police feeling a need to shoot him, in comparison to many nonwhites.