When there’s a particularly finite supply of TV journalism jobs, particularly in most smaller markets, a TV journalist does not actually hold a great deal of agency.

CNN’s feedback loop is frustrating and harmful, particularly when they don’t even focus on what is actually horrible and wrong. Santorum suggesting CPR was clearly very, very stupid, but it wasn’t even close to the actual horrible, anti-democratic point he was making.

It’s also shown that it will inhibit other legal minorities from filing census returns as well. This will directly result in undercounting minority communities, which will lead to less Democratic representation.

This change is 100% because asking citizenship status will reduce the legitimate counting of minorities, including many legal citizens, as has been proven by academic studies and numerous experts.

I don’t get how people who are unable to participate in our democracy are able to influence the makeup of the electoral college.

I’ve never heard anybody until now refer to Montana as anything but a western state.

Santorum wasn’t making a good-faith argument. He knew he was full of shit the entire time, and he continued to spew bullshit, and CNN allowed him to continue to spew bullshit.

Here is a great example of toxic American individualism taken to its logical absurd extreme:

Stop using so many ellipses.

Huh? “Some people do one thing and others do this other sorta opposite thing” is not a paradox at all.

So if you watch your diet, it makes you more susceptible to drugs or something ... so, uh, eat junk food and stuff?

I guarantee Trump has never hit anyone outside of his own family.

I think you’re overestimating how much empty space there is on current project premises. Not to mention how much literally obliterating and reconstructing every project in the city from the ground up would cost, considering they’re already $25 billion behind.

A. You would absolutely not live there unless forced to, like every other poor soul sentenced to a residence on Crime Island.

Because the man holding it was black.

You want to exile poor people to their own artificial island? That’s not a real suggestion, that’s the premise of a dystopian sci-fi novel.

I could be wrong, but I got the impression he was being sarcastic. He’s saying that we should be as considerate to DTJ and his family as they are to the families torn apart by their inhumane policies and ICE — meaning we should not be considerate to DTJ and his family.

“What is with this dedication to continuously acting like Donald Trump is the only thing that makes Republicans bad?”

Except Trump would actually fire people to their faces in The Apprentice, something he has yet to do in the White House. Firing someone by tweet when they’re freaking overseas is about as cowardly as it gets.

I was also raised to respect other’s religious beliefs. Thankfully I got over it when I finally accepted that many people’s religious beliefs are really fucking stupid, if not directly malicious toward those that do not share them.