Seriously. Can we even agree that Biden fucking sucked? Okay, yeah, he was the likeable cool gramps who people for some reason thought actually resembled the Onion's purposefully ridiculous caricature of him. He was also the guy who wrote the original version of the Patriot Act, was instrumental in the '94 crime bill,…

He's not really progressive, more like center-right. Of course he would be better than Pence, but that's not a high bar. The Democrats picked a guy who was pretty right wing on foreign policy, essentially right wing on trade and labor issues, and even pretty questionable on abortion of all things (at the time he was…

Hey remember when the Clinton campaign picked this guy even though he supported the Hyde amendment and was objectively terrible on trade and economics issues? Good times, good times.

He's now been on the national stage for quite a while and is currently polling as the most popular politician in America. Like, by far. I wouldn't have even necessarily believed you if you told me a year ago that that would happen, but it has. And trust me, the GOP has had plenty of time to pick him apart (the Clinton…

This is just a side note, but as much as I hate Trump I love the fact that he is turning the youth of America into active socialists. Silver linings, I suppose.

The show is written and presented from her editorial point of view. She herself has said this over and over, even expressing past frustration over having had to conform herself to Jon Stewart's editorial voice in the past by contrast. Yes, she is a performer and to some extent she is adopting a persona while on stage…

It was also terrible. They pushed the "terrorist watch list" as a way of blocking gun violence even though it's demonstrably ineffective for the purpose and basically just an unconstitutional excuse to profile Arabs even as it stands. (Not just me saying this; check out the ACLU's stance sometime.) Oddly enough, The…

Okay, so for the record I think Bernie & co. were probably wrong to back Heath Mello. (If nothing else, it's bad PR for them and if the party there is going to nominate a candidate who is sketchy on choice, it's sort of the party's burden to bear and not theirs.) HOWEVER. People are acting like the endorsement came…

The way I think about this is: if this were a 2010-ish Daily Show segment, how would Jones or Bee have covered it in a field piece? And I just know they would have portrayed all those parents as bigots (not wrongfully, necessarily) and lambasted the kind of excuses they used (we're not racist, we're just worried about…

No human beings are perfect, but "don't actively work to keep your school segregated" is a pretty low bar for humanity. And Jones and Bee's whole schtick is posing as woke truth tellers (and I liked them on The Daily Show! Honestly!) so it's extra bad for them to be this nakedly hypocritical. Combine this with the…

Yeah I'm still convinced he was subtweeting them. Or at the very least, I'm SURE that it came up in the writer's room, and someone decided that it was worth doing even though Bee and Jones would likely see it or hear about it afterward.

As I understand it all the teachers from the existing school were going to travel to the new one actually. It was essentially going to be the same school; the issue is that it was ALREADY overcrowded where it was because it was sharing what was supposed to be temporary space with another separate school, so they were…

I both read the full context and listened to the full audio, and I'd go so far as to say that she clearly wasn't joking. I mean, yes, it was meant to be a funny anecdote, but it wasn't even a tone-deaf attempt at satire or sarcasm or whatever. It was in the context of a larger conversation about the need to step away…

The Rikers thing is pretty close and those were her own words

Yeah those are annoying af

Because you decided to vomit your shitty opinion on a public forum?

Your whole point was that if the U.S. stops funding Israel it will have blood on its hands because Israelis will be "slaughtered," no? So how does the same not apply in every other violent conflict around the globe? You need to be consistent. Do we have the same responsibilities to those other countries that you…

I'm simply following your own logic. If not providing funding to Israel so they can prevent themselves from "being slaughtered" or whatever would be inherently wrong on our part, then it logically has to follow that the same would have to apply to every other country on earth that faces any threat. By the same token,…

There are a ton of reasons that this is a horrendously bad take, but maybe the most central is the implicit assumption that it's the responsibility of the United States (and its taxpayers) to make sure people in every single country in the world are safe at all times. That's totally illogical, it's impossible, and in…

Speaking as an American, I would be totally fine with a concentrated international effort to choke the United States culturally and economically, whether led by artists or whoever else. Frankly it would be for the good of the world and probably even for the better of the United States in the long run. I think the same…