The pessimist in me doesn’t think she’ll be able to unseat McConnell but she’s sure as shit ain’t doing it by being an AOC, not happening... no way.

And if there’s one thing the last 2 years have taught me, it’s that I should vote exclusively according to my personal vision of a candidate and not how desperately harmed someone will be if my protest vote results in a monster staying in power. I know when kids died in custody last summer—6 of them, if I recall—after…

Unseating McConnell would accomplish one very important step, regardless of whomever defeated him or what party they belonged to - it would mean a new Senate Majority Leader.

Tough choice. On the one hand, Mitch McConnell has been easily the most reprehensible person in politics for the last 10 years. On the other hand, McGrath doesn’t line up 100% with my vision of what I think a liberal should be, so...

She's offering the exact moderate Democratic political profile Kyrsten Sinema just ran on in crimson red Arizona. And won.

They know. They don’t care. They, and by they I mean Splinter, would rather 4 more years of Trump where they can proclaim how right they are, than have a Democrat even a few degrees to the right of them.

Mitch McConnell does not “kind of suck”. Mitch McConnell is the architect of the end of the United States and does what he does solely out of spite. He is the embodiment of hatred and corruption.

Sometimes the writers here come off as living in a bubble. 

Kentucky is red, red, rose red. AOC would probably get less votes in the entire state than she did in her one district. So, I mean, if someone wants to even be potentially maybe able to win office, they won’t exactly be a NY or SF liberal, you know?

I don’t need her to be a leftist dream, I need her to be better than Mitch. It’s a pretty low bar. Campaigning in a way that talks to voters she needs to win over, conservatives who have probably voted red their whole lives (or voted southern democrat when that was still a thing) is smart. 

I know. And for The Heated Exchange, Harris gave him opportunities to defend himself and set himself up for redemption and his instinct was to double down and DEFEND SCHOOL SEGREGATION. Like, no matter your opinion about school busing, those are HORRIBLE instincts. 

As long as you’re white and have money and power, no one gives a shit what you do!

The British tabloids are a goddamn nightmare so, uh, I kinda see his point. And there’s plenty of homophobic people who’d throw a fit about an LGBTQ royal. Just look at all the racist abuse hurled at Meghan Markle :-( And, uh, remember the role of the paparazzi in his mom’s death. 

To the trolls, save your typing. I flag and dismiss with extreme prejudice and I do not engage. I'm not here to debate the humanity of people of color 

You said an absolute word. In so many people eyes a childhood is for white children only. Us folks of color aren’t deserving of the protection, care and innocence that they deny us and actively steal from us. In their perspective our children are no better than the adults and in their minds the adults are no better…

I actually think it’s a good thing that mediocre women’s comedy is getting made. Mediocre men’s comedy has never been in doubt - it’s always been made, it gets ratings, it still sucks, and it is was it is. The problem is we’ve decided that every women’s comedy needs to be Bridesmaids quality. That’s frankly not…

McCain shot back, “Well, my father couldn’t lift me above his head as a child because of his torture wounds.”

Currently most CNN programming is not produced in Atlanta, although it’s headquarters is still nominally there. Much more content is produced in New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles.

Bear with me. I just need to hop on Twitter to complain that Jennifer Lawrence is technically no better than me at falling upstairs, but is getting wildly more press for it than I do.