Heaven forbid!

That makes sense. We we’re obviously talking past each other.

She got a Whipple and was very sick for awhile. It’s an older woman from church so I don’t know all the details.

It cleverly cross references penalties in other laws.

Also, not everyone who disagrees with you was a die hard Clinton fan. Lots of people didn’t especially love Clinton AND have serious reservations about Bernie.

Only if those things matter in that they have a tangible effect. You seem to value style over substance.

Actually, it doesn’t. Mansplaining requires an inability to grasp even with evidence that the woman is an acknowledged expect. It’s arguing with a woman about what she *actually* meant in her own article because it’s inconceivable she could understand her own article better than you can.

I read you link. Your definition of getting things done is very different from mine.

Exactly! It’s also not explaining while being condescending. It’s a pretty specific phenomenon that deserves it’s own word

Literally everyone who has ever spoken on the House or Senate floor has clips of themselves speaking to an empty room. That’s kind of how it works.

Seriously, stop it. Just stop it.

Well, it was at a major teaching hospital, so I’m pretty confident.

Not a McCain fan, but he was occasionally able to reign in his party on torture in ways few others could.

On the other hand someone I know pretty miraculously survived pancreatic cancer. It’s been years. Sometimes it happens.

It’s the difference between when a Senate where you at least *act* like your colleagues are probably decent people who want good things for Americans even if they are wrong about how to get there in every possible way, and a Senate where you *act* like your colleagues are some kind of Hilter/Satan mash-up who don’t…

Probably. McCain was old school Senate like Kennedy. Those bonds are close. Many of them had respect for each other as people even when they think they are wrong about everything. When Sen. Wellstone died suddenly some of his ideological foes were clearly too shaken up to talk to reporters. A couple of fairly…

That’s because at no point did you address my actual comment. You are just making stuff up.

By refusing to alternate a status quo that puts black women last. I suggest you do a little reading on the massive inequity created and enforced by a bunch of supposedly race neutral policies.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Seriously, none. My biggest problem with Bernie Sanders is that he’s accomplished nothing in his Congressional career. Nothing. Because it has to be 100% what Bernie wants, no questions or criticism allowed. That’s not how leading works. That’s not how politics works.

Currently, there is a supplemental pension benefit that federal employees who retire before they are old enough to collect social security can get to essentially make up for the lack of social security. For regular desk workers like me it’s probably difficult to defend. But for law enforcement officers, fire fighters…