Well with that impeccable logic I guess I’m pursuaded.

Whether or not her driving was reckless largely depends on the conditions. I certainly have driven close to that speed for the duration of road trips routinely and she was out in the middle of nowhere. Our highway system is actually designed for speeds significantly in excess of the posted limits.

Well my dad used to say that when l was growing up but Indiana Utah and Oklahoma have them.

Well that was sort of the double meaning of the comment.

Anyone who knows anything about St. Louis will tell you that Ferguson is one of the least racists parts of it...

So... that’s not how public companies work. Musk has a fiduciary obligation to go around saying the company will soon be insolvent. Lehman Brothers, AIG, Bear Sterns?  Do you remember nothing, those companies were actually insolvent and their CEO’s still din’t say they were.  Why?  Because making such an announcement…

P.S. I just figured out you were referring to statement that women are oppressed by the dictates of their religion as concern trolling.

...wait...what?... aren’t you the person who just said “If you can’t stomach that, you’re advocating for either ideology-based fascism or genocide.” which one of us is throwing nazis at the problem.

No. We makes our own shits now.

Your argument is just as dogmatic and prejudicial as any religion, and just as dismissable by historical evidence.

Well I do of course believe that religion is deeply deleterious to our society. They are, of course, hurting people. And my intolerance of the religious is not different than my intolerance of those who don’t understand probability or genetics or fail to grasp any number of concepts which effect public policy.

To me…

That is true, I don’t respect their decision. I think it’s ridiculous. But outside of the occasional internet comment I don’t presume to go around telling other people how to live their lives. I happen to think, or fear, when I see a woman in full burqa that she is being oppressed. I’m not out here screaming at them…

I would like to say that I took me like until the age of 30 to figure out why objectification was a bad thing.

Of course they are. Also by the chastity, not being allowed to be ordained, the concept of original sin and the idea of an invisible man watching them from the sky. I mean if you’re referring to Orthodox nuns, they literally call the head of their church the Patriarch.... the Catholics did as well until 2005.

Anyway,…

Well... I instinctively tend to react negatively to any sort of religious obligation. If she were a christian and wanted to do this I would be like “get the fuck out of here with that bullshit”. When I am in public and see a woman in the full burqa I tend to think she is being oppressed either against her will or has…

ok, but he was made to feel that way by malcontents in his own party. Presumably the objective of those opposing Pelosi would be to make her feel similarly. 

a disaster for who? the people who wanted him out got what they wanted I guess.  I don’t like Paul Ryan but there are many people who do.

their party is in control of the White House, Senate, House and Supreme Court.
I don’t think the party leadership has been clinging to power by not developing new talent. They’ve clung to “power” because they’ve been out of power since 2010.
I don’t think there’s any actual evidence that the current leadership will…

I mean... I don’t care for Paul Ryan but I don’t care for the platform of the republican party.  They seem to like him well enough. 

that is an entirely separate issue. the question was whether or not simply expressing disapproval was sufficient to torpedo a speakership. in the recent past, yes, that has been sufficient.