I love how the GOP keeps saying the ACA is in a death spiral. It’s not (according to the CBO), but Republicans did everything they could to kill it:

I know I should be used to it by now, but I’m STILL struggling with the fact that they KNOW he lost by three million votes - mainly in the influential money centers on the coasts - and just do. not. give. a. single. shit. To listen to them, americans are just CLAMORING for the Heritage Foundation’s wildest wet dreams…

I’m so sure Tomi is more liberal than she leads us on. I don’t think she buys even 50% of what she says.

This tracks with what my classmates would have said in law school. You know, the ones who told me that I was “taking the place of someone more worthy” because I was a single mom.

People above have (rightly) called you out for the heartless tone of this post, but allow me to just mention the holes in your analogy. If you’ve robbed a bank, then obviously the police would like you to face justice. If, however, you’re also the sole witness to a murder, then quite often the police will refrain from…

The excuses are really more for themselves than for the cops. There’s some part of these people, deep down, that understands the systemic bigotry that leads to these killings and is terrified of the fact that they just don’t care. It’s an existential crisis at the realization that they’re only half a step away from…

The Daily Beast reported back in September that Bharara’s office was investigating money laundering within the Russian government.

Is it? Given the stuff they were likely to be ordered to prosecute, it seems like a wash at worst.

I mentioned this on another thread, but this so-called bill devotes 6 pages to kicking people off medicaid if they win they lottery. It goes into an absurd amount of specifics of the types of lottery winnings, how much lottery winning disqualifies you, how the state can ‘intercept’ your lottery winnings to recover…

The president is “not somebody who sits around and waits. He takes action and gets things done,” deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the Washington Post. “That’s one of the reasons that he is president today, and Hillary Clinton isn’t.”

The reactionary right has a long tradition of using liberal principles and institutions to create access for themselves—and then turning around and slamming the door on everybody else. They’ve done this with everything from their political takeover of legislatures across the country, to the little games they play with…

People have explain the hate to you and you are saying, ‘but I still don’t get it, I feel differently’. So stop typing and start critically thinking.

You know what’s insane?

That’s not actually true. Basically all of the Russia scandals take place against the backdrop of the election—as they should. So while people aren’t still framing the discussion around a foreign adversarial power working to influence a US presidential election through a vast misinformation campaign and espionage and…

The amount of projection from right wingnuts is so excruciatingly painful. The reason they won’t take any of this seriously is because they KNOW they were losing their shit over Obama for no damn reason so they think it is the same now.

Some of that is unfair as he was handed an economy that was on fire and needed urgent attention but some of that is legitimate as the reason the Democrats weren’t able to take advantage of some pretty strong populist support for really holding Wall Street’s feet to the fire after they almost destroyed the economy was…

I guess to understand it you’d have to look at what happens with Democrats actually in power vs. their stated platform.

No, all opposing parties do not say their primary goal is to make the president fail. Trump is a very special case because he’s blatantly unqualified, is neglecting important departments of government, has known ties to a dangerous foreign power, and is promoting white supremacy. What McConnell did with Obama—a…