If Lee Ermey were still alive, there would be a 100% chance he’d get the nomination if this falls apart. As-is, it’s only a 50% chance.

I’ve driven over the speed limit and changed lanes without signalling (several times this week!). I’ve smoked pot (back when it was illegal even for white college kids). I’ve consumed alcohol before I was 21. I disobeyed an order from a police officer telling me to disperse. Etc. Chances are pretty good that you have…

I think it’s a mistake to think that Trump is not bringing something different to the forefront of our country, though. We simply haven’t had someone like him as President before. Ever.

If institutional racism plays such a big part of whether you get shot or not, how come less than 1% of any racial population gets shot by police per year?

One of the most important things I’ve learned for dealing with people is that mental illness and being a generally shitty person are not mutually exclusive. Some folks got both going on, and trying to sort out which is motivating a particular action in what measure is a fool’s errand.

You did a very neat job of avoiding the actual point, my friend. As I pointed out, that distinction between “law abiding” and something else is a powerful one, serving to excuse and rationalize any number of things. If you don’t think that institutional racism plays a part in how that line is drawn in a lot of cases,…

Ok, smartguy, if Kanye is an asshole, why would Kim Kardashian have married him, hmmm? Checkmate.

Garbage people have always run things, more or less, but I do think we’re seeing something new(ish) in the kind of garbage people like Kanye, Adams, etc. who are emboldened by the reality of the Trump world we live in now. Fame equals importance. “Winning” means you are right. Anything that enrages your enemies is not…

I think I was asking whether any chains had done so.

Law-abiding citizens of all colors have nothing to worry about regarding get shot by cops.

Every Black Lives Matter critic is secretly an attention whore? What kind of blanket dismissal is that?

First of all, injecting the phrase “race traitors” to argue against is neither honest nor useful.

An American multi-millionaire who is as ensconced in the world of celebrity as the pinnacle of human achievement as it is possible to be.

I guess my question is whether anyone has actually tried it, other than people speculating on the internet.

He’s also a bit of a feckless turd. Hitching your wagon to one such as him comes at a cost.

It does make you wonder what he could have done without being held back by Merchant, though, doesn’t it?

Comey is making making this Comey vs. Trump. Trump will win that fight in the public eye every time. Comey motivates Trump’s base, fuels their fantasies of persecution by the Deep State, and keeps the discussion mired in 2016.

Perhaps we just interpreted things differently, but I saw the moral implication of treating these sentient beings as something less than human to be used at our discretion as being one of the central themes of WW.

Maybe that’s the case—I was just wondering if anyone had actually tried it, rather than us just speculating.

I get that—I’m just wondering if any theater chain has tried to to make it by selling 100 boxes of candy at, say, $2 apiece rather than 35 boxes of candy at $6.