I think they should both be held legally accountable for their crimes, in Trump’s case both for his sexual crimes and his war crimes that he’s already committed in office thus far. Thanks for writing!

Well I haven’t dropped any bombs on wedding parties. So there’s that!

Hey dipshit. It’s possible to think Trump is a monster (who, incidentally, has continued the same war criminality that Bush and Obama engaged in) and still hold Democrats accountable for their own failings. Put down those Al Franken books from 15 years ago and drop the partisan bullshit. Not everyone who thinks Obama…

Ah tagging out, the act of someone who knows they don’t really have an actual argument.

In fairness I would say that to some extent it was less the actual “left” as much as liberals, and yes there is a difference. But....yeah.

“Progressive” has an actual definition and supporting imperialism and extrajudicial killing (which is a war crime, even by our own laws) doesn’t fit into it. That’s the issue. I’m not talking about getting into someone’s head. If someone says that they support extrajudicial killing, I believe them. I’m not pretending…

First of all you’re incredibly dense if you think that the weapon itself is the issue so much as the general principle of murdering civilians for no good reason. If we were talking about him using cruise missiles (which he also used of course) or some other method the point would be the exact same.
And I’m old enough…

A couple things:

The amazing and sad thing is the percentage of people who immediately assume that my criticizing Obama (for one of the few things about him Republicans were generally totally fine with) somehow means I’m a Trump supporter or something, for the same mentioned retarded partisanship reasons. It’s depressing, but so so…

Eh that’s not exactly true. He had affairs with some much younger employees and even interns. I certainly wouldn’t conflate it with Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey or even Aziz Ansari, but it was at least a problematic power differential. I don’t think Letterman is (necessarily) a monster because of it but it was…

If we’re talking about voting that’s arguably true, but remember the origin of this conversation was that Obama is going to appear on an interview with Letterman (which let’s be honest, almost surely is going to be softball and syncophantic) that no one is obligated to watch. In that context there’s not a “lesser…

I’ll be honest: I really don’t give a shit what his intentions were. Maybe in his heart he thought he was being super extra careful about civilians. Based on things that have been, you know, actually reported about it (as opposed to things you and I would LIKE to think about him) I don’t particularly buy that. There’s…

I can accept moral failings. If Obama, I don’t know, had an extramarital affair or something I wouldn’t give a shit. It wouldn’t be good but it would be his own business and who cares. All humans have moral failings, sure.

Why would I prefer that? You realize Trump is continuing the same policy, right? I think both of them should face legal consequences for war crimes.

Oh just the affairs. I mean, I think the reason it was brought up by someone else was that it was arguably an abuse of power (having affairs with very young staffers, where there is an obvious power differential problem there) which to be honest has made me a bit queasier about him than I would like to be. But no,…

I can think of leaders certainly, maybe not many governmental ones. I mean he is also interviewing Malala Yousafzai (who, incidentally, once criticized Obama for his use of drone strikes...to his face) and I would certainly consider her a leader and genuinely admirable person.

If the question is “come voting time, do…

It’s just a simplified term used as code for the larger issue (unaccountable murder, often of civilians). But I think you know this and are just being purposefully dense.

To be honest the first episode being an interview with President Drone Strikes kind of puts me off that show, even putting aside Letterman’s failings as a person.

I actually like Tyson. I mean I wouldn’t say I’m a hardcore fan or anything, but I always liked his appearances on The Daily Show (and associated shows) and my GF and I went to the planetarium at the Museum of Natural History here in NYC once in part because it is narrated by him and we thought that was cool.

I’ve read that they see it as one of those films that could ultimately be successful over a sustained period via word of mouth even if the start of its run is a little weaker than hoped. (And they are probably factoring in that it had the misfortune of opening when The Last Jedi was still going strong and Jumanji…