This is going to sound totally disingenuous and self-serving with the benefit of a week of hindsight and their blowout of the Dolphins, but this happens every year. I told my dad before Sunday’s game that I expected a 37-3 Patriots win, and I was pretty damn close.

It establishes a scary precedent for them. Frankly, I’ve come to suspect that there may not be that many white, male, highly conservative judges who are comfortable asserting control over women’s reproductive choices and haven’t taken that to its more physical conclusion at some point. It’s a sort of praxis, as the…

He did, until he didn’t. He also came in with some much deeper issues than Gordon, who just really seems to enjoy drinking and smoking weed.

Also, people should have to take a standardized test before being allowed to use the internet.

I was going to include some more links, but I think I already crammed enough into that post. But if there’s anything I’ve cited that you think is inaccurate or want additional proof for, let me know and I’ll be happy to dig some up. :)

To your first point: hear, hear. :) I really enjoy actual debates where both sides hope they can learn something from the other, and I’d be happy to try to explain my positions a bit further.

As opposed to you, right? You are the voice of both reason and the state of the art of political science?

No, I don’t believe in any of those ridiculous things you’ve attributed to me.

YOU LOOK GOOD IN DRESS! YOU LOOK BETTER ON FLOOR!

and he is installing conservative judges that will serve for years

I mean, I used to follow a lot of these people on Twitter. I’ve seen firsthand how they view the world, and what they think of ideas like comity and compromise. I’ve seen the anger, and I’ve even read a couple of the books they recommended. Many seem to think the French Revolution was an awesome time and we should be…

I see the whole thing sort of like a hostage negotiation, in that one side cares about the lives of the hostages, and the other side is just in it for themselves. It’s hard being the one who actually cares about the hostages: you’re at a major negotiating disadvantage. But if you decide you also don’t care about the…

I don’t think they were propping her up in this article. It was a very middle-of-the-road piece that did a good job of describing her antics in a way that will probably reinforce whatever you already thought of them.

Wait, you’re calling me defensive?

For my part, I’m tired of people (I don’t necessarily mean you) coming in without much of an understanding of establishment politics and assuming everyone involved is an idiot, and that everything that’s wrong is a result of incompetence, and not the fact that it’s actually really hard to get anything done, especially…

It’s just my observation from having conversed with you. You seem like a genuine, good, well-meaning person, but you’ve done nothing but pile on the US the whole time. While some of your criticism is fair, you’re missing the larger point, which is that I think the basis you’re using for comparison is a fictitious…

That is an incredibly reductive argument, to the point of being almost useless. It ignores the context in which each ran, not to mention issues of race, political specifics, and dozens if not hundreds of other factors.

Hillary ran on basically the same platform Obama did, and essentially sold herself as a third Obama term. So I’m not sure what argument you’re trying to make, either. But at least I can express that opinion without being insulting.

Because I don’t get the impression you’re trying to make it better. You’re just endlessly listing off grievances, and you seem resigned to the fact that we’re evil and irredeemable. What’s the point in doing that, absent a plan to remedy it? What’s the use in wallowing in it? And where’s your perspective? You talk…

He found a massive loophole that he was singularly equipped to abuse, because yes, he has a way with rubes, and absolutely no sense of shame in exploiting it.