We need Karl Pilkington to fill that role.

Especially since the officer corps is sick of all of his shit, and the enlisted are not at all pleased with, among other things, the decision to abandon the Kurds to their fate in Syria for no other reason than that he just wanted to wash his hands of the situation and let Erdoğan do whatever the fuck he wanted.

Because Republicans are primary concerned with the fact that when people see government doing things to help people, they start expecting it to do so more often. Doing things in a rational way like you say doesn’t matter one bit; they need to keep to the narrative that government is never the solution to economic…

Neither could Nixon. Or Eisenhower.

Funny how, even though “both sides” are supposedly becoming more extreme, most Democratic presidents since FDR could almost certainly be nominated by their party again, while practically no Republicans could be.

Famous, Wealthy Man with Opposing Viewpoint Gains Further Fame, Wealth by Asserting It Impossible to Have Opposing Viewpoint

I don’t see the nickname as racist. The logo, on the other hand... yuck. Otherwise, it strikes me more as appropriation, and incredibly lazy appropriation at that – can’t even be bothered to steal the name of a specific tribe.

Part of me likes “Indians” because it’s a constant reminder that Christopher Columbus was a…

I think at the moment, male chauvinism and antifeminism are far more powerful motivators for the reactionary right than racism, or at the very least it is the dominant theme in their rhetoric. Not that they aren’t racist, but the most vitriolic stuff in mainstream discourse (if you want to call it that) among the…

“Defund the police” was and is an idiotic slogan that never should have been embraced by activists who are serious about making real changes.

The slogan has become more important than the goals that it was supposed to describe. Just stop fucking using it. If it has to be explained every single time it’s mentioned, then…

They used to rule the world and now lament the fact that they don’t even have one lousy brown person to have absolute authority over.

They’re a rather pathetic bunch, really.

(Just in case it isn’t clear, I’m referring only to the “just plain twats”.)

There was also an incredibly stupid row a little while back when Home Alone 2 was presented on TV (I don’t remember the network) with that bit removed. Obviously, that pivotal scene was axed due to political bias and not because movies on TV are cut to fit into timeslots between ad breaks literally all the time and…

Adding a few seats to the court will work in the short term, but what’s needed is election reform—as well as greater limits on the president’s power.

Of course, to do all that, we need the mother of all blue waves. Republicans will never consent to relinquishing their grasp on minority rule by abolishing the electoral…

Yeah, I’d been saying for a while that Gorsuch wouldn’t countenance intervention in the election (provided it wasn’t razor-thin like Florida 2000), even if Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh were to go along. When RBG died, that assessment didn’t change much. It’s important to keep in mind that these aren’t Trump picks;…

Here in RI, where Trump lost by 20 points like everyone knew he would, there were some protestors demanding a recount shortly after the major outlets started calling the election for Biden. Like... come on, guys. Seriously? Trump probably doesn’t even know where Rhode Island is, but the second anyone were to tell him…

Many people have told me this was the best decision ever made by a president. And these were people—government people, healthcare people, right?—who were telling me before, “no, you can’t do that, it’s crazy”. And they saw what happened and they know they were wrong. They won’t come out in public and say it, but they…

That’s because you are fucked up.

Well, it doesn’t say anything about other people “stealing” your dibs, just noting that the city won’t remove it until 48 hours after the end of the emergency. The only way I’d even consider respecting a space saver is if the person noted a (reasonable) time frame they expect to need the space again.

Public streets…

I’m sure White people aren’t, but not for any reason that speaks to our awareness of the deeper underlying issues. The death rates are high for American Indians and Latino/as, too. Most White people probably think they’re all drinking and crack-smoking themselves to death and COVID-19 is just pushing them over the…

There is. From the CDC site, the case rate for “Black or African, Non-Hispanic persons” is given as 1.4× the rate of “White, Non-Hispanic persons”. There’s also the hospitalization rate: for Black people, it’s 3.7×, which is a bit less than the rate for “American Indian or Alaskan Native, Non-Hispanic persons” at 4.0×…

Nah, republicanism is very uncommon in the UK, and for the life of me, I don’t understand why. The question of how to divest the state from the Crown in a way that is not overly punitive to the royal family is a fair concern, but it doesn’t seem insurmountable to me.

Honestly (and I’m saying this with no expertise…

It continues to astound me how unpopular republicanism (and disestablishmentarianism) is in the United Kingdom. If I lived there, I’d be quite happy to see Elizabeth II be the last monarch. That will also dispense with the peerage and allow either the formation of a relevant upper house or at least the abolition of…