It doesn’t matter because that’s not true. Even with less than ideal metrics like polling the trendlines are clear enough. 

One of the weird parts about this; until recently Nielsen was largely seen as one of the more competent and non-partisan actors in the administration. She had a pretty generic “Republican policy wonk” background. But the Trump administration has completely destroyed her, and she can’t claim it was all outside her…

Ah hell, no it was the right person but I thought there was a “yeah” at the beginning signifying I was agreeing with an expanding on your comment. For all I know I imagined typing it, but I meant it to be there. My bad. Long day.

I think “don’t vote for a far-right reactionary for a lifetime appointment” is a pretty reasonable line, hardly a purity test. Gorsuch claimed to be a moderate and is far-right. They don’t even have the excuse of falling for that again. Kavanaugh is nakedly partisan in a way even Gorsuch wasn’t. 

He’s been caught exaggerating a few times. Not caught in a lie is true, but he’s been walking right up to the line. Given the situation, that’s a dangerous habit. It’s not like the bad-faith hordes of right-wing commentators need a good reason to discredit you to the public, they’ll take any half-assed reason they…

Not that you need to be Nostradamus to predict it, but they’re already talking about a vote this week. Meaning Thursday after the hearing or Friday, a day after. No time to do due diligence. 

Avenatti is an ambitious grandstander and I don’t trust him one bit. I hope he’s not overselling this, because if he is he’ll fuel the far-right post-fact garbage. No one should ever forgive him if he lets his ego get in the way of justice for victims. 

Online prepper communities go from practical (people who like the idea of growing more food locally, emergency water filters, etc) to the conspiratorial. The former I pretty solidly enjoy and would love to undertake someday. It can be simple stuff, landscape with more perennials and with ones that have food value.…

Yes, but most reporting about polls isn’t. The people who know how to accurately deal with the results and try and balance out various methodological flaws and sampling issues aren’t the ones who present the polls to the public most of the time.

I think a lot of them are one person, to be honest. Way too many identical comments under different accounts using nearly identical word-choice and speech patterns. 

That’s more of a magazine article, not really any academic heft there, and we’re not far enough in to track long term effects. I might just ignore Trump entirely and stick with policy recommendations for US policy in Central Asia. 

I’ve dismissed literally 200 comments from brand-new troll accounts, all of them effectively identical. I get the feeling it’s one super worthless troll contributing most of this garbage. 

If it makes you feel better, this monumental jackass has ruined months of my research for an academic conference paper by going from “I like China and Xi” to “let’s toss out billions in pointless tariffs cause I don’t like the news lately”. So you’re definitely not alone.

This is a distraction dump, just like a ton of other news today hoping to bury the Kavanaugh issues and the lingering Manafort stories. This is a way to give ammunition to his friendly state-loving media to back up his dishonesty. 

So did an awful lot of other incompetent, bigoted, awful human beings. The idea that we should ignore what an worthless pseudo-intellectual he is because “he went to Harvard” only shows how pathetic the logic of his fans is.

There’s an article that’s been linked at least three times in this thread I wish all you worthless brand new troll accounts would read. But that would require you to be acting in good faith, and we all know you aren’t. 

My mother is well aware I curse, and well aware where I learned it. Put the brakes on your misogyny there greyface.

So, mildly serious answer, there is no actual legal definition of “domestic terrorism” under US law. So that’s why. The only legal definition of terrorism in the US is the FTO list, the Foreign Terror Organization list controlled by the State Dept. There’s no list for domestic groups, and there’s no political will for…

If anyone finds out what piece of shit is pulling all these brand new troll accounts out of the greys, make sure to let the site know. 

He literally supports ethnic cleansing you absolute toolshed.