A few years ago, maybe 2013 or 14, Secretary Hillary Clinton came to my work (not Wall Street, tech company) for a fireside chat and to promote her book. She talked at length about her experience as SOS, and one thing she discussed was how much “small offenses” matter to so many leaders and countries around the world,…

Look on the bright side, maybe they’ll keep him!

Don’t give him any ideas!

He has no fucking clue what politics and diplomatic protocols are. Whats next he will visit North Korea ???

You show me a billionaire who became a billionaire a) ethically b) on his or her own merit c) WITHOUT SOME RIDICULOUS SCAM THAT DEFRAUDED MANY MANY PEOPLE (hi, Theranos!) d) who don’t have an outrageous amount of lucky things go their way, then we can talk

This was, indeed, needlessly pedantic. It’s understood that when people say “the right to drive” that the mean the ability to earn the privilege of driving.

Yeah, you don’t see people hating on Mark Cuban or Howard Schultz or Bill Gates for a reason.

I was about to write almost verbatim what you said. I was gonna write, “There’s nothing inherently wrong with being a billionaire, the problem is with how they became billionaires.” 

There’s nothing inherently wrong with being a billionaire. The problem is that it’s getting harder and harder to be a billionaire without sacrificing principles and ethics.

From what I understand, the AfD could pull upwards of 20% in the elections.

I agree with you completely. I’ve been arguing about this with liberal friends in the northeast for years now... they have no idea how terrible public education is basically anywhere outside of bougie coastal suburbs. I graduated from public school in Indiana with classmates that couldn’t read, and almost none who had…

I’ve found it’s helpful to start small, and always in a non-confrontational manner. There’s actually sound neuroscience behind this- if people feel attacked, they go into fight or flight mode and just shut down. So go small and go calm. When I’m done doing that, I like to say, “Well, it’s something to think about,”…

I like to call it the melted doll look.

Okay, this is petty and off-topic, but HOLY FUCK CAN THESE PEOPLE LEARN TO PUT ON THEIR FUCKING EYELASHES!! God, better to have your piddly little god-given lashes than one half drooping off making you look all drugged up. Kelly-Ann Conway also had an issue with this recently and it was all I could see. One was coming…

What can be done to combat this kind of thinking? I have immediate family members that just flatly refuse to grapple with facts-- when they’re confronted with them, they just say, “I don’t believe that”. It feels like democracy hangs on us figuring out a way to bring these people back into the realm of reality, but I…

You left out that it was basically a rally to pat himself on the back for being awesome. Not “for” anything, just that. Just to go out and get people cheering for him again.

Same guy that harassed Obama for campaigning for Clinton in the final weeks by saying he should be back in Washington doing work.

Well Donald,…

Waiting to see Lewandowski condemn Wikileaks for releasing illegally obtained emails...

A question for the group: is Lewandowski the purest example of failing upwards that currently exists?

Agreed. The people that think we’ll get over this stuff in four years have their heads in the sand.

I watched some of Trump’s address to a crowd in Ohio last night, and the best way to describe it is a cult. I watched ~7 minutes and among the highlights: