And yet, somehow, the Rethuglicans would find a way to discredit her. Remember John Kerry?

I agree he wants to be a dictator, but it’s not that he’s consciously trying to transform the US into an autocracy, it’s that he’s a petulant, shit-for-brains man baby who has no idea what the Presidency actually entails and has spent his entire life being coddled and indulged.

Exactly what I’m saying. You busted your ass to build a business, you want it to survive your control - which means putting itin the hands of a capable successor, whomever that may be.

It’s really not. Also, there’s all sorts of finance options. Anyway, doesn’t sound like this owner availed himself OF the option of putting his daughter in place to be successful (assuming the accuracy of the OP’s statement, which there’s no point in disbelieving since this is all anonymous/hypothetical), since she…

Well, OP didn’t say that. Also, transferring ownership to his daughter doesn’t sound like the best succession planning. Plenty of business owners with idiot offspring sell the company, including to worthy employees they know will continue the brand. The owner seems short-sighted.

Point of order: the British Royal Family is as Greek as they are British... i.e., ethnically/culturally not at all. The Greek royal family was a bunch of inbred Germans. We don’t claim them.

So much this. Energize and mobilize your base, rather than try to pander to win retrograde morons who aren’t going to vote for you anyway.

*are human nature. Whoops.

Sigh... probably fucking never. Tribalism and fear and hatred of the “other” is human nature. I mean, maybe we’ll EVENTUALLY be able to do away with the confederacy bullshit (if the US survives that long), but it will be replaced by something else.

That’s not alarming, it’s fucking fantastic. The goal of a terrorist is to incite terror. If the general reaction is “fuck, I’m going to be late to work,” the terrorist has failed. We want terrorists to fail.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, but I’d be wary of the no true Scotsman fallacy.

There are plenty of areas of Brooklyn where the same shitty, ignorant, racist attitudes are prevalent.

Because, like most Republicans, he’s a divisive and opportunistic shithead, who wants to imply that it was a politically-motivated assault by one of us violent libs.

I agree that we shouldn’t all get too excited just yet, but the difference here is that Mueller is (hopefully) going to be procuring several indictments before he even makes a run at Trump ... you’d have to think (hope) SOMEONE will flip.

good lord, hadn’t thought of this, but that is depressingly accurate.

This is all beautifully said, but I’m not sure there’s an established causal link between Chad pulling out and the four soldiers killed in Niger. If we want to make it his Benghazi, though (i.e. bullshit that we pin on him regardless of facts), I am 100% ok with that.

Oh, he knows you can delete tweets.

Does dementia impact IQ test results? I doubt he cracks 100, tbh.

The USMNT failing to qualify is perfectly appropriate. What was supposed to happen (or should have happened) didn’t (failing to qualify/Trump winning), highlighting massive systemic deficiencies (electoral college and the repeated breaching of uncodified norms by DJT/shitty talent development).

Shit, if all Muslims are responsible for the acts of a few terrorists, it would stand to reason the law-abiding gun owners would be pissed when one of their own goes rogue.