I really hope he has. It truly would be a tragedy if he hasn’t.

That is actually true. I worry that Trump/Bannon/Chtulu are going to deflect any criticism against them or the fallout from any of their failures to Congress. Not that I like the Republicans in Congress, but there are at least some people there who have like, read the Constitution and stuff. To the extent that this at…

I mean it was “important” and “progressive” in the sense that Hollywood saw fit to make bland boring Oscar baity films about gay people too! It wasn’t “bad” it was just meh. #progress

But a vote for anyone but Clinton is useless. If Trump falls below 269, then the House gets to vote and there’s no way they aren’t voting for Trump.

Yeah, I really don’t get this whole “Hamilton Electors” movement, although I think to a certain extent they were borderline #NeverHillary Bernie Bro types. Even if they succeed at their crazy plan, if they really think the House is going to vote for anyone besides Trump, they are insane. The only way Trump doesn’t get…

That’s sort of how I felt. I’m gay and while it was nice to see an LGBT themed movie outside of like New Queer Cinema that wasn’t complete trash, I thought Brokeback Mountain was overwrought and overrated. It’s just so nakedly Oscar-baity.

I don’t know, about A. I think it did so well precisely because it appealed to well-meaning liberal white “allies” (aka most of the Academy) who thought it was so “brave” and “real” when it was actually didactic and weirdly racist (and not in the reverse racism way, but like in actually racist in its perspective and…

Like anyone, especially Lindy, gives a shit.

“Here’s hoping Banks will also surround herself with a team comprised of women, gender non-conforming people, and people of color. And as the Mary Sue notes, Banks’s Pitch Perfect films, love them though I do, foreground white women, relegating their few women of color and queer characters to the margins.”

You probably would if your claim was more about how the laws unduly burden your constitutional right to obtain an abortion. But if your claim is a religious freedom claim, you can’t get standing until your religious freedom was actually violated.

First of all, typically when laws are found to violate religious freedom, they are struck down entirely. For example, after Hobby Lobby, the government could no longer require insurance companies to provide the types of birth control that Hobby Lobby objected to (granted, most insurance companies still do, because…

That’s not really Texas’s fault or the Satanist church’s fault. In order to file a lawsuit you have to have standing to do so. You typically can’t, as a private citizen, sue the government over a law until that law has actually effected you in a manner that fits the basis for your claim. If their claim was more along…

I agree with you almost completely, but with regards to the minimum wage part of your argument, Clinton was absolutely right that we can’t go straight to $15 everywhere. Given that the current minimum wage is like $8 AT MOST, increasing the minimum wage to $12.50 alone would be a huge victory, especially in swaths of…

He just wanted to get VP lessons from Aaron Burr, duh

True, but, given that ICE and USCIS under Obama deported pretty much as many undocumented immigrants as they were financially capable of, if the Republicans really wanted to deport more they could have given those agencies more money.

Well given that Trump can’t really deport any more people per year than Obama did (which was still a horrific amount) without Congress increasing the budgets of ICE and USCIS, this is actually something Ryan can rein Trump in on. If there’s one thing Republicans in Congress hate more than brown people and foreigners,…

How the fuck does he think he’s going to do that? We literally don’t have the budget for it, and as evil as congressional Republicans are, they hate giving money to the federal government even more than they hate immigrants...

It helped that, unlike the fucknuggets that rule the Republican Party now (including Trump, but pretty much since the rise of the Tea Party), George W. Bush had the common decency to set an example of tolerance and respect for Muslim-Americans immediately after the attacks. Never before could I possibly imagine…

It’s time like this I’m so glad I live in NY (one of the rare ones) where booze is delivered.

Seriously, I briefly was like what if he gets arrested or impeached something as we find out all the messed up shit he did? And then I realized that would mean Mike Pence would be President. I guess if it happened before the Electoral College voted, we could get some faithless electors to vote for Hillary?