This. I started EVE in 2008, with a hisec mining corp whose original directors just used it to skim taxes off of noobs. When they bailed I took over, as the corp transitioned to nullsec industry. We grew a lot, and then I burned out and took a 4-year hiatus. Came back in 2016, joined back with my old crew and lived…

Only Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders can save us from this morass! #DemocratsinDisarray etc etc

Not for nothing, iirc AOC got her start on Bernie’s campaign. So if some solid new-blood politicians come out of his 2016 run, he’ll have done the nation a great service and can retire with dignity to the repose of private life.

Someone on Yr Wonket described her rather aptly as performing the absolutely necessary party function of bomb-thrower. Thing is, she’s not just being a douchebag troll, but is throwing actual solid policy back at them, and it’s devastating. *swoon*

I love AOC, and this whole week makes me love her more (but, like, in a platonic way, because I sure as shit am not going to go creeping on her). She’s handling it really well.¹

She’s been reading magazines like “Cap’n Billie’s Whiz-Bang,” and sayin’ stuff like, “so’s yer old man”! The horror!

minor quibble: paygo is already law, and that law states that if the budget isn’t at least revenue-neutral, then the OMB — namely, That Asshole’s toady Mick Mulvaney — has liberty to make cuts unilaterally. What do you think will get cut out of the budget, first and every time?

meh. I prefer the original variant:

It’s the same grade-A bullshit the GOP has been selling since the 80s: pass huge tax cuts based on supply-side economic doctrine, despite that this has never, in any economy anywhere in the last century, led to broadly shared, sustained prosperity or concomitant revenue increases; then, when deficits explode like they…

Unfriend those people and invite better people to your Thanksgiving dinner. 

How, exactly, does one take or sieze power by staying home and not voting in midterms on the self-defeating claim that “both parties are the same anyway”? That is what we’re talking about, remember? That’s the behavior I’m criticizing.

Since her kids are learning Chinese, I’m assuming that’s a Běnmìngnián, which you wear in the years that share the calendar animal with your birth year in Chinese astrology. It’s assumed that the return of your birth-year animal’s year is inauspicious, and this is to ward off misfortune.

… and, to round out a truly horrible 2018, here’s video of the Maricopa County Concentration Camp Detention Facility, operated by the same subcontractor that operates a bunch of these, showing the guards physically assaulting children:

I really am trying my best to stay hopeful. But whoo boy, these last dozen years or so since the 2016 election have really worn on me.

So what’s the over-under on this? Either the courts revisit that lawsuit and Scientology starts facing a bunch more similar ones, which they will litigate aggressively, vindictively, and ceaselessly until they win; or, the courts accept the argument, and an abusive cult that kept women as sex slaves is allowed to…

Once I got out of the US, and could start seeing it with some analytical remove, I became more and more convinced that the Civil War never really ended. It wasn’t a surrender so much as an armistice, and the South still regards itself largely as a rebellion held in check under duress. They haven’t renounced the…

Won’t happen, though. While That Asshole is incredibly fucking stupid, the screaming heads on Fox will call him a cuck and a sell out if he gives Dreamers anything. They already tried that tactic, and it failed.

Welp, I guess if staying home and letting the GOP take power is giving you more of what you want, then keep on doing it. 

Here’s how it works: you go out and vote for Democrats, in every election (both midterm and general) or the GOP takes state houses and fucks over minority voters and gerrymanders voting districts to death, they control the Senate and with it the judiciary, and the country is screwed.

You don’t understand that “Democrats need to work to win in rural states, and stop writing them off as unreachable, or we’re fucked long-term” and “Democrats need to stop being complacent about midterms because Republicans benefit from low turnout and that’s how we lost the Senate and thus are losing the judiciary for…