I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we’re already having a Constitutional crisis. We have a Senate that has refused to act on a Supreme Court vacancy, we have a president-elect who may or may not have won the election fair-and-square, but most definitely lost the popular vote by at least 2.5 million votes, and…

Not to defend Stein, but just to be objective you could make this argument for those who left the tops of their tickets blank, or those who stayed home, or those who voted for Trump, all of which represent larger groups than Stein voters.

The only good thing to come of Jill Stein’s inanity is that she continues to push Donald Trump to rail against the election process and continue to prove how unhinged he is.

And I will never get over this.

Enjoy the (relatively) good vibes you are receiving now, Jill. On January 21, 2017 you will return to being a shitty footnote to this shitty election.

Allotting EVs by percentage of popular vote within states doesn’t solve the problem that the smallest states are highly overrepresented while the largest are underrepresented. Every vote in WY would still be worth more than 3 in CA.

I don’t see how this ends well in a Court in which John Roberts is chief justice and a man like Samuel Alito even exists at all. Kennedy is a coward, and Thomas is a tool, and who knows what an aging and increasingly curiously petulant Stephen Breyer is going to do?

Another fun thing related to this: WaPo is reporting that Trump’s team deliberately set up the call and it was not a simple congratulatory call, but a signal of a shift towards dealing with China. Either that or Trump’s team is covering to make him look less inept (whynotboth.gif etc etc).

But...but...give him a chance!

Why would China ask us about building that complex? It doesn’t directly affect us. They and Japan are the ones who claim the area that it’s in.

What a colossal fucking half-wit!

YES. The vet groups that showed up are fucking amazing.

Hell yes, and don’t forget the veterans groups, each led by a Native American woman vet, who showed up to protect the water defenders. Now that is fucking American. Fuck these corporate, fossil fuel, fuck-the-environment bastards.

Everyone in my family is so happy to hear this. Our reservation stands with Standing Rock.

So, Austria rejected a far-right candidate and DAPL is stopped. It’s a good day! Let’s hope the results of the Italian referendum continue the pattern...and that this is a turning point after this no-good shitty year! (Louisiana senate seat; recounts and/or faithless electors, pleaseohplease!)

What I think of is Gone Girl. In one scene Ben Affleck’s character is supposed to wear a Yankees cap. Affleck doesn’t like the Yankees. He refused. Production shut down for four days while the director got on the phone with Affleck’s lawyers and agents and whatnot trying to get an actor to wear a hat. And that…

There is a strange obsession from some film directors to get “real” emotions from their actors on set. Ridley Scott did it with the chestburster scene in Alien, Kubrick with Shelley Duvall on the set of The Shining, and clearly Bertolucci did it with this film. Now those first two examples are far less egregious than…

That’s the part that enrages and baffles me the most (aside from everything else, I honestly can’t decide). You literally hire actors to pretend to feel emotion. There is no reason to force them to actually feel it. There is no fucking reason to make a woman really feel like she’s going to get raped. Talk to her like…

If she objects in the moment, she’s called unprofessional and is still pressured into doing it.