Russians get to come in and fuck up whatever they want in this country and it never comes back to them.

The beauty of big, open-ended investigations is that you find all kinds of shit you never even thought of — the Clinton server bullshit came out of the Clinton Benghazi bullshit, and Republicans rode that to the literal end of the world. With Trump we’ve got investigation for financial crimes, obstruction of justice,…

An uncensored Bing search brought me a rare cross-section image of the deep state spear:

The difference now is that the people with power over him have an interest in destroying him. In the past, the people he’s screwed have been either powerless or equally criminal, so they’ve had to let it go. Now he’s personally offended the entire FBI and the special counsel investigating him and the Deputy AG in…

But the tip...is Robert Mueller? This fantasy is fuckin baroque.

An unanswerable argument!

To be fair, most teenagers’ texts are.

Manipulating someone to do something self-destructive is super common for teens, though. I feel like we’re talking about degree, not kind, of behavior here, which gives me pause about declaring the girl irredeemable.

Or the ones who’ve seen vast oceans of misogynist online harassment — threats, abuse, calls for suicide — be totally ignore because words aren’t actions. It’s easy to feel cynical and say Fuck This when vicious messages are suddenly criminal when a girl sends them to a boy.

The “wicked feminine wiles” angle makes me pretty uncomfortable, too. Literally the oldest story in the book is a woman talking a man into killing himself; this is something we’re primed to see.

legally culpable, because young white woman?

When I dropped Zoloft cold, I felt about half-drunk for a month. I was in a really supportive, low-stress place, so it was actually pretty fun, but I was not a useful person.

You know, for someone dedicated to the norm of positive, comity-based engagement you seem pretty free with impugning the motives of your interlocutor. That’s kinda...uncivil.

Sorry, I can’t agree with your premise that conservatives are gutting the ACA in order to give tax cuts to the rich.

The ACA has roughly double the support of the GOP, triple that of the AHCA. People like what Democrats offer them; they liked the components of the ACA at the time, they just hated Democrats.

When the last sick person is strangled with the guts of the last poor, then we will have a truly free market.

Yes! And they’re not just trashing the ACA, they’re also taking a big chunk out of Medicaid from its pre-ACA levels. That money is also going to rich people.

It will help cynical deniers of reality gain power, so at least someone benefits.

It’s pretty crazy that the GOP has gone so far off the deep end they’re now arguing that private insurance ought not to exist. Straight 100% death cult.

People are ends in themselves. The fact that they don’t recognize this is why conservatives have so much trouble with natural selection.