necessary for what? to keep losing elections? this money hasn’t helped them.

I uh don’t think you fully grasped the point of the article

Whelp, if Hilary hadn’t used her considerable media connections to Pied Piper Trump as a serious candidate, and if she hadn’t also had a certified pussy-grabber like Weinstein pulling the levers on her campaign through strategic “suggestions” like “silencing” Sanders on his civil rights record, while getting the clout…

That’s part of it, but also police departments in particular have a deeper problem. Sympathy to far-right groups or members joining the PD “undercover” to infiltrate them. There’s been a conscious effort by far-right groups from militias to white supremacists to put friends in law enforcement.

Tillerson is an empty suit and a charlatan. I’m not here for this ridiculous attempt to lionize him simply because Trump is being mean to him. He’s willfully gutted the State dept, given political appointees all the power and shut out professionals, hides from the press, and is a willing participant in Trump’s…

I keep pointing out, and this is something that The President should know (Obama, and even Shrub, did) that in NK the leader’s position depends on him appearing tough and getting the last word in on an argument. If he doesn’t manage either of those, then he’s dead in a ditch somewhere at the hands of his political…

I’m comment tanking.

Trump is stupid, lazy, and insane, but proof of his animal cunning and instinct for leveraging the ugliest cracks in US society is in how his NFL tweets inflamed his horrible racist base, all to increase his own popularity with them. There is a memorable Al Sharpton comment in this article about Trump’s sorry history…

Here’s how that worked: “Go to the mansion and you’ll be able to model and maybe you’ll get a career or a centerfold. It’s opportunity! You’ll be a star, maybe!” That would be the Modeling Agency, aka procurer. How do I know this? I modeled in the late 80s and 90s in Chicago. the number of times I was told to show up…

I’d laugh my ass off if EVERY player kneeled, every game. Let’s see him suspended the entire season over this.

I’m going to go with “reflect that they understand the actual reason for the protest and not mug for the camera.” That might’ve been better.

The most damning thing that could be said about Trump might be that his moral compass is so broken we’re now desperately looking to the NFL for some sign of a moral compass

or if your job decided to start forcing people to stand for the national anthem in 2009 even though the “company” had been around since 1920 and only started doing it when they got a bunch of money from the the Department of Defense and the National Guard and they aren’t paying you to do it and it isn’t in your…

You’re forgetting that the undocumented got DACA in the first place by yelling, embarrassing Democrats and chaining themselves to the White House gates to get the attention of a President who was deporting them in record numbers. Whether this is the best move, they are suspicious of the Democrats with valid, history…

And where is your contempt for the people who actually committed the fucking war crimes? I don’t understand. What exactly is the middle ground? Chelsea Manning is on equal ground as war criminals who continue to be invited to Harvard? That is such bullshit.

Also, the claim that NK won’t say what it wants and is acting purely on its leader’s crazy-ass impulses is such a malicious lie the US media and government keep telling its citizens. NK has been very clear about its demands - for the US military to stop the annual military exercises in the South, to shut down its…

That’s all the vast majority of young black men in America have as a way out, and by starting tackle football at age 6 (I personally talked with one young man in my neighborhood who looked dazed at the playground) that is all they’re going to be able to do that has more earning potential than making or serving fast…

This. The man went to school for football, and that’s what Texas gave him. Now he can’t play football, and he has nothing else to fall back on.

And what’s wrong with meaningless PR stunts? That’s -all- the Republicans did the past 6 years and now they have the House, Senate AND Presidency.