Clarity, in a medium in which facts need to be communicated in the least confusing way possible, is important. Stop reflexively accusing people of bigotry.

Goal differential stats are useless, and this is a perfect example. It doesn’t matter if you lose a game 7-0 provided you win more games, even if they are by 1 goal.

Yes it appears that, by definition, anyone who works in the government at the same time that Trump does is a bad person and hence contributes to the length of this list. So much for being saved by the bureaucracy or good people trying to stop Trump from doing bad things.

Indeed, but if we don’t learn from the mistakes of 2016 we will lose in 2018, 2020, and beyond. Just saying if Cory Booker ends up being the nominee in 2020 over Elizabeth Warren, keep the bigger picture in mind.

You bring up an important point: It’s not as if Jill Stein was some consummate genius and if only she had the opportunity that’d be great or something. Jill Stein showed herself to be a moron and a conspiracy theorist who had little basic knowledge of the functions of government.

Sure, I mean this was a legit assumption. Was there actual data collected showing what Johnson voters’ “second choice candidate” would be?

> But, I have to wonder what these voters will think about Russia meddeling / benefiting / owning Trump?

Agreed. I certainly wouldn’t argue in favor of their values. But *given that those are their values*, they made the logical choice with the options they had. Sounds weird to say...

Yep, absolutely. I don’t think anyone can reasonably argue that she didn’t make terrible strategic errors. I do actually have sympathy for the folks toward the middle of the spectrum who may not have voted because they honestly believed no candidate was in their interest (e.g. autoworkers in MI who were neglected by…

> lawsuits and investigations-a-go-go

I believe FiveThirtyEight did an analysis on this and concluded that it wasn’t quite the Ralph Nader situation of the 2000's. i.e. you’d need to be generous to Clinton in assuming how many Stein voters would have voted for Clinton vs staying home (and they assumed the Gary Johnson vote was split down the middle). So…

Not shaming Democrats who voted for her. I’m also not shaming Democrats to who didn’t vote for her and are okay with Trump (if any such Democrats exist).

Let’s not forget about the so-called liberals who decided the couldn’t (just couldn’t!) vote for Hillary Clinton because she was “just as bad” as her opponent. On specific points like this (budget, travel ban, gutting the EPA, education, clean water regulations, handing intelligence to Russia) I wonder if they truly…

“We want to win congressional elections... Let’s talk to the guy who has already done this”

You keep talking about “compromise” with “moderate Republicans” as being some sort of egregious moral failure. A disqualification for a politician. How dare we reach across the aisle and work with our political opponents. This just smacks of litmus/purity test politics that infected the Republican party and is now…

Did the journalist criticize “black athletes” for being immature or did he criticize “Michael Bennett, who happens to be black” for being immature? Unless I’m misreading I don’t see any evidence of the former, making this a misleading headline.

> Dummy should have known what was about to happen when he put away his phone and freed his hand.

Getting cut is not a breach of contract; it is a possible outcome of the contract. That’s why there is guaranteed money and nonguaranteed money. All parties know this at the time of signing. This is not stiffing.

Yeah, I don’t understand the criticism either. It is a legal contract, and those are the rules. I don’t think the players association would be cool with teams stiffing players for so much as a dime (and they shouldn’t be), so why are there hard feelings here?

Why in the hell should she retire? If you don’t like her then vote for her opponent. “You are not leftist enough and rather than proving that in an election I’d prefer that you not even run”