It is. You haven’t lost money in the stock market until you sell and realize the loss. If you’re contributing money to your 401k (and you should if you have the option) then this shouldn’t bother you at all. If you’re near retirement, you’re ideally in more conservative investments than stocks.

The nihilist in me wants to laugh at all the imaginary values going up and down, up and down.

And one mantra I like to repeat:

My memory is so fucking gone to forget to forget it’s an Article 1 rule. That or my high school in MD was using leftover History books from Texas

The filibuster is simply an internal Senate rule. The 2/3 vote for conviction and removal from office is explicitly stated in the Constitution. No way to change that short of an amendment. 

Demographic shifts mean that the 75 million people living in California will be represented by exactly the same numbers of Senators as Wyoming. We are going to need the filibuster soon enough. 

There is zero doubt in my mind that, with the Mueller investigation closing in on him and his children, and his shitbag sycophants in the house like Devin Nunes and Gym Jordan unable to protect him anymore, Trump is going to utterly implode in the not too distant future.

The SECDEF quitting because he disagreed with the president on so many things is definitely a bad sign.

If Democrats ever take back the Senate, they should probably eliminate the filibuster as an option for their opponents

If Democrats ever take back the Senate, they should probably eliminate the filibuster as an option for their opponents

I’m really kind of terrified of what the next couple of years will bring. Hell, the next couple of months.

If only there was some mechanism by which we could have avoided Donald Trump being the one to choose Supreme Court justices when there is a vacancy. Ah well!

Any time that was suggested the “fuck you, she can serve as long as she wants!” comments would start flying.

You should absolutely hold it against her. She shouldn’t get a pass just because she is otherwise delightful and bad ass.

I agree with you 100%

Don’t worry, Notorious RGB got this.

Mr Mueller, is that a subpoena in your pocket or are you happy to see me?

When ivanka gets out of prison after her dad has been years dead, does she realize what a fuck us he was?

Oh, right after Putin mentioned Afghanistan too.

This is exactly right.