Eh. To me the joke of phrase always seemed to be the procedural politeness it’s used with while being delivered ruthlessly - and not even usually with Apu as the butt of the joke (think when Skinner talks about his asinine “Billy and the Cloneasaurus” book and Apu shuts him down). I also think it’s a stretch to think…

That might very well be how he feels, but    I think we have to assume PR factors at least a little into his decision to speak to it when he did. The association with the controversy posed a risk to his career. 

The Hardwick one bothered me too. Obviously his (alleged) behavior, but also the dismissive attitude towards it from so many people. If that sounded like normal relationship behavior to some, I hope those people stop dating. And it was baffling because Hardwick is so clearly lacking in any irreplaceable talent, so…

The stories I’ve seen are not anonymous or on forums. But you do you. 

The Clintons are pretty well implicated. It’s not as absurd a notion as you’re treating it.

Friend of a friend in the industry wrote a blog a while back about witnessing sexual harassment by him on the set of Master of None (not to read too much into it, but I thought it was interesting that his girlfriend from the first season made a vague tweet after the Babe story implying that she saw this coming). There…

There are other stories floating around and some are worse than the one that made the rounds via Babe. If they are to be believed, yes, he is a predator. 

He supported Trump, so something coming out about him genuinely wouldn’t shock me. 

I admittedly don’t watch Doctor Who, I just sort of assume their writers are mostly liberal like most shows. So in that sense it’s a little shocking that the creators of South Park (a show I do love, but nonetheless has pretty terrible politics a lot of the time) were instantly able to correctly assess the moral…

Hiccups in live viewing doesn’t seem to be the issue. It’s completely unavailable now on the HBO and Amazon Prime services. 

It’s pretty sad that libertarian South Park got this issue dead-right and Doctor Who couldn’t. Jesus.

“but Warren has the details to show practical application of progressive policy (something the Blessed AOC and St. Bernie lack).”

I think you have this exactly the opposite. Bear in mind I do like Warren and if she was nominated I would gladly vote for her (even being in a safe state where it doesn’t matter). But what…

He put a “pause” on it before his presidential run, but before that he took a lot of money from them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/live-updates/general-election/fact-checking-the-first-democratic-debate/booker-and-corporate-pace-donations/?utm_term=.f3caadf3c7e9

He expanded a lot of Bush’s worst policies and abuses, including ramping up deportations/raids, the war on journalists and whistleblowers, unaccountable assassinations, etc. And it was always evident of course that part of the danger of doing this is that he would probably be succeeded by a Republican, and possibly…

Oh I agree. Just saying I think AOC was pragmatically crediting those particular answers and not necessarily backing his candidacy as a whole. With Warren and Sanders on separate nights, I think she had to find a way to compliment some of the others so she wasn’t just naming one person and having that be misread as an…

Also, as an addition to what I said: Cheri Bustos is in some ways exactly the type of weak Democrat who needs challenging - if not literally in a primary, then at the very least by colleagues like AOC who can maybe gradually force her to stop taking the coward’s way out on issues like Medicare for All and raising the…

She knocked out the guy who essentially ran the Queens Democratic Party and made a significant swath of the New York party completely useless. Simply electing Democrats is sort of pointless if they don’t actually stand for anything, which a hell of a lot of them don’t (or basically stand for center-right policies). In…

I kind of agree (speaking as his constituent, too), but FWIW I think she is speaking solely of his responses on criminal justice reform which were mostly solid enough. AOC has been pretty clear in interviews that it’s going to come down to Warren or Bernie for her. 

Lol Daily Kos, that’s pretty much just centrist lib central at this point. And Splinter (which I like and am not insulting) isn’t exactly super mainstream. How about MSNBC? Huffington Post? Bill Maher?

That’s the stuff I meant by “super mainstream,” and it all spent about eight years sucking Obama’s dick on a daily…

The thing though is that the party IS split up into factions. And while you may not think of some of the more anodyne centrist/moderate candidates like Harris, Buttigieg, Beto, whatever as being factional candidates, they are. I can only speak for myself ultimately, but I can absolutely say that I don’t see my…