He made every actor he works with do hundreds of takes of each scene.

Being smug is all Canadians seem to do nowadays.

I think for the positions that require Senate confirmation, there will be pushback from Republicans. Already Rand Paul and John McCain are telling him not to even bother putting Giuliani up for a cabinet position like he wants to.

“I didn’t realize it was actually lymphoma”

I loved it too. The music was great as well-I bought the end credits music (called “Kangaru” as soon as I got home). I went in knowing what was going to happen because I had already read the (wonderful) short story it was based on-”Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang. There is a free version available on the web…

“Anyway, this makes me wonder if the Dems or even the Repubs will have the courage to nominate a woman for decades to come.”

“If you live in foreclosure land, with you life in ruins due to the financial crisis, or the only source of employment was put out of business by free market economics and with no hope in sight, why the fuck would you vote for Goldman Sachs’ paid speaker? Solidarity you might say? Fuck off they’ll say back, these…

There are more than five black churches in the United States of America. There are also black newspapers, black radio stations, black television outlets, black magazines all over this nation. There are black universities too. There are Latino newspapers and media outlets all over the place as well. He and his…

“Unlike Hillary, he at least was liked and respected.”

“The Democratic Party needs to do more than say they are progressive and stand for the working class, they need to act on it, and that has been sorely lacking for years.”

“If this was done, Congress would lose it and refuse to work with Clinton, on anything. Even if the Supreme Court upheld the legal challenge to this decision. It would be a disaster.”

“The assumption is that Trump was elected because white people, embraced his racist policies. I do not believe that. I know many Trump voters and I wouldn’t consider any of them racist. He was elected because a segment of the population has been left behind by globalization and they stood up and shouted, “ENOUGH!” I…

Ohio is going red rapidly. I am worried about his re-election in two years.

This. 100% this. At this point things are so dire and so tilted in the GOP’s favor that we must, *must* count on Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake, Dean Heller, Lindsay Graham, and maybe even John McCain to occasionally vote with Democrats to water down or block some of the most onerous proposals…

I think they should consider Harry Reid if he’s open to it-he’s free to do it now, he’s a fighter, and he knows how to build and maintain an impressive political machine. He also has been good at encouraging and building up women and POC candidates in Nevada.

“I’d be fine with this. After all, it’s literally why the Electoral College was created in the first place: to guard against the rise of a populist demagog.”

Sigh...which is why they are saying “most”. “Most” means roughly the same thing as “not all”.

Same here. I couldnt read her thank you email, I cannot read the postmortems, etc. And I will never be able to. Seeing this picture of her smiling lifts me up a little bit.

At this point I do want large cities determining policy for the rest of the country.

Except he won middle class and upper middle class white people too. And a majority of white women. So this was dwelling in the hearts and minds of *most* white Americans, regardless of income or gender.