I defenestrated him, Oliver only ribbed him.

Right, so I can't help but notice that all the Aaron Sorkin liberals always fail to mention that Putin intervened only after after a US-backed coup attempt and that it was an obviously-defensive move on his part because he didn't want US nukes at his borders. It's almost like our interventions keep making things worse.

They *have* to have some kind of forensic psychiatrist on their team, giving advice about Trump, right? I swear they consulted some experts and that's right when Liz Warren started baiting him.

Yeah, super sad. I mean, it was so obvious, like, "if she spoke she'd start crying like I certainly would." I thought that as soon as I first noticed she wasn't going to speak.

The Russian thing is so weird. Clintonites really are Cold Warriors. Clinton's obsession with super-provocative Eastward NATO expansion puts the human species at risk by making a nuclear exchange way more likely- that's way worse to me than Trump's creepy admiration for Putin.

Yeah, people forget that a lot of anti-empire, anti-capitalist Leftists saw New-Deal liberal Sanders as a compromise candidate they could work with and see 3rd-Way Interventionist Neoliberal Clinton as beyond the pale. I mean, if one is really concerned about Palestinian people then it's not like Clinton and Sanders…

OK, so you're saying it should be part of the argument to the public about why she doesn't deserve their votes. That's fair. I don't think it'd be a make-or-break issue for most voters, but it's part of the picture.

Right, so to me "she fucked that up" is not the same as "she should lose all security clearance for life." But I think you're right that the population sees this as another example of elite impunity.

The nuance there is easy to lose - I personally think it's a serious problem -and also- that she should not be "locked up" for it -and also- if a lower-level State Dept employee had done the same thing they would have been prosecuted, -but also- they shouldn't be.

So many of our problems are bipartisan and I don't think people should stop criticizing any specific policy that hurts people. But I think the effect and insight of comedians and pundits in general is vastly over-rated. I mean, the pundits had this as Jeb v Clinton - both Trump and Sanders were totally dismissed.…

Watching that man speak at the convention gave me so many layers of sadness.

Every righteous person knows that Hamilton, like all Founding Fathers, was a monster.

"Also Hamilton was strongly anti-slavery so addressing it would only make him look better……"

The number of tantrums thrown by Clintonites is vastly disproportionate to the actual number of Bernie-or-Busters. *Before* the convention, polls were showing 85-90% of Sanders' supporters planned to vote Clinton. By contrast, in the days before the 2008 Dem convention, 47% of Clinton primary supporters planned to…

According to exit polls, 300,000 registered Florida Democrats voted for George W Bush in 2000. Nader got 97,000 total votes in Florida. Yet Democrats still desperately try to blame Nader for the Iraq war. Which is stunning on two levels - 1) Democrats, not Greens, lost the 2000 election, and 2) the current Democrat…

I misread the name as Edward Snowden at first and I thought that sounded pretty cool but also pretty difficult just from a practical standpoint.

It's still not always about what gets said, though - often about who says it.
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"Those who own the country ought to govern it."
—John "Jam-Master" Jay

The Disney-fication of MLK is something to behold. In August 1966, he had a 66% "unfavorable" rating in national polls.

So… you're arguing that Fox News, Limbaugh, and your right-wing cousins are correct, then? It's such a typical mealy-mouthed centrist response to give credence and weight to the incorrect things that rightwing crazies say because … balance, or something