The constant calls from Sandernistas that Warren should have run for president or should be chosen as VP frustrate me.

Why would Warren give a shit about Trump’s response to her? Why would she feel the need to bait him into saying something offensive or stupid when he’s clearly going to do that anyway? Warren isn’t trying to get Trump to respond because she doesn’t care what he has to say. She’s trying to get the democratic base fired…

It’s intentional. She wants him to come at her, and the way to accomplish that is to use his language. I don’t know why she’s doing it today - maybe because she wants him to shit the bed in his AIPAC speech? Maybe because after tomorrow Hillary will have this locked up and Warren is trying to deflect some of the fire…

No one on his side is listening to her, but HE is. He can’t help himself. Whenever a relatively high-profile woman takes a shot at him, he HAS to respond. No doubt Warren watched him go after Megyn Kelly all weekend and is trying to bait him into a direct response.

this is Warren as a young woman:

She’s baiting him and I think it’s smart. The biggest threat to the progressive agenda (of which she is one of the leading champions) is apathy or complacency among the base. He’ll hit her back- likely in a sexist, misogynist way- and Democrats who might otherwise not be thrilled with Clinton as the nominee will rally…

She's not engaging Trump at all. She's attempting to rally democratic voters to show up to the polls to vote against him. She knows no one on his side is listening to her.

No doubt that Warren’s statements will elicit even louder “sighs” of regret from the relatively narrow segment of the Democratic electorate who wish that she was running.

This is interesting. Warren has clearly decided to engage Trump on his own terms, which I’m sure is calculated, but I don’t understand the timing. Maybe she’s trying to rattle him in advance of his AIPAC speech? Or maybe she just sees this as a particularly vulnerable moment for him - he’s taking a lot of friendly…

I think if she'd jumped in to the ring early I doubt Bernie would have even run at all. If he manages to pull a hat trick and get the nomination, she ought to be at the top of his short list for Veep candidates. She'd likely decline but he still ought to ask anyway. If Hillary seals the deal, it wouldn't be bad idea…

Please do not insult GI Joe action figures.

knows he’s a loser. His insecurities are on parade: petty bullying, attacks on women, cheap racism, flagrant narcissism.

Wouldn’t we all. :(

Damn straight. I feel awful for the author that she had to go through all this. But we DID win an awful lot. But the demise of Playboy has little to do with feminism. Sad to say - I wish it did. It would mean more men were feminists - which would benefit them almost as much as it does the women they love.

Yeah. It’s the free porn.

Yeah, I don't accept that idea either. I wish it was feminism but it was really more market-influenced, as you point out.

I was born in 1973. My mom had two kids and two dead beat ex husbands. We were sent to live with relatives a lot. She didn’t finish high school, she was in too much of a hurry to get out of her house and she eloped. When I was young she worked a a waitress often as a cocktail waitress when things were we only have…

And I don’t accept that feminism was a direct cause of Playboy ceasing to feature nudes. I think the decision had a lot more to do with the changes brought by the internet in the form of free porn, customizable to just about any taste and kink. How could Playboy compete with that?

Last year, in the span of one (1) bus stop, I saw a guy leave a bar, puke, fall in his puke, stand up, slip in his puke, and fall back down again. I think he was asleep in it by the time I left.