Wasn’t Sanders essentially saying that we must work to make sure that the police are actually held accountable for their actions, but the reality is that any perceived resistance or “attitude” on the part of a black person will be considered justification for a police officer murdering them in the meantime; while…

Yes, I was joking.

Permission to express doubt or acknowledge that there may be some kind of gray area only comes into play when the bad actor is someone on your own team. Everyone does it, but no one will admit to it.

Questions of legality aside, the prevailing argument has been that the power dynamic makes it impossible for a subordinate to truly consent to a relationship. Does that not apply when the boss is a woman and the employee is a man?

Misogyny, for sure, but I haven’t seen anything so far that could reasonably be labelled as “biphobia.” Perhaps I’ve missed something, but I think that the conservative media would be conducting themselves in the exact same way if she’d been involved with two different men. They love putting Dems in the position of…

He also has Republican state legislators who have been working on disenfranchising likely Dem voters for years.

People tried to make Ivanka the “good” one, too, but they’re both just as bad as the rest of them.

It may not have been who we are at one time, but a House member yelling “You lie” at Obama changed the rules of the game, and Trump attacking anyone who criticizes him using his Twitter account flushed the rules right down the toilet.

...or maybe they knew exactly what they were doing?!?

It’s been a while since he appeared at an event outside of his self-esteem rallies.

They’re just grasping at straws to keep themselves from having to acknowledge that the man is incredibly unpopular.

They also serve the purpose of maximizing the number of comments.

It can be a really fine line. I’m often wrong about it, these days.

You are correct.

Sigh. Yes.

The only decent announcer right now is Tony Romo. Everyone else makes me want to watch the game on mute.

Could Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris really *get* gay men’s issues, though?

Stepping up doesn’t count if anyone knows that you did it.

He’s not refusing to take any credit for breaking the story. If he wanted to be a good ally, then he’d never speak about what happened to him. He would also use his privilege to get all of the victims book deals so that they could tell their own stories, and never speak of that, either.

I’d say that he’s a little more than tangentially involved, but ok.