“The problem is that they’re being underpaid, and they’re not likely to get firefighting work once they’re out.”

Not to be snarky, but isn’t that how this works? For decades, the Far Right has chipped away at the public good, forcing Democrats to edge closer to center (and into the shallow Right) to stay viable. Perhaps Medicare-for-all isn’t a winner this go-around, but it’ll get a lot of public support, making funding…

She’s thinking like a rich white woman.

Yeah, this is not complicated stuff. Articulate your values — values substantively different from those of the Republican party, which to be fair would require Dems to have substantively different values (hmm maybe that’s the rub here?) — and stand up for them.

Embrace single payer, work for fairness in taxation, demand defense cuts, banking regulation, monopoly protections, campaign finance reform, union rights, voting rights, equality and protection for all citizens, immigration reform, demilitarization of the police, demilitarization of foreign policy, and for fuck’s sake…

They agree on plenty of shit though. Like tax cuts for corporations, keeping monopolies on telecomms in tact, defunding public education in favor of charters and making sure they all get a raise.

I’d also like white supremacists to suddenly realize the ills of racism, and for all wasps to magically transform into unicorns that shit gold coins.

It would have been cool to ask why the ladies who made G.L.O.W. possible weren’t aware of the show’s existence or given any kind of compensation.

Your reply ignores all realities of governance. Kim Jung Un is not crazy, his rational goal is to stay in power. Therefore, a preemptive nuclear strike from North Korea to the US serves no purpose (neither does a preemptive strike from North Korea to anywhere else), unless his regime is already falling. If the…

Jezebel’s increasing worry that North Korea is going to nuke California absolutely ignores the laws of physics. North Korea has had the ability to nuke South Korea and Japan for close to a decade, but every North Korea missile launch nowadays is suddenly worthy of an article.

We’re a hell of a lot more likely to launch an unprovoked attack on North Korea than the other way around

The House of Representatives—including a congressman who supposedly represents me—celebrated after passing a bill that condemns to death thousands ore more people with treatable illnesses.

Basically they send their kids to a school in a VERY wealthy area of Upper West Side Manhattan, and its considered prime real estate because its blocks away from museums, etc. The city wants to move the school, and put it closer to a housing project, which would mean that you’d have a more diverse student body. Her…

Counterpoint: she and her husband are doing some pretty fucked up things re: the charter school their kids go to.

“Could Tax Reform Under President Trump Actually Help Working Moms?”

Don’t bring Metta World Peace into this.

How the fuck has intervention worked out in Iraq? Or Afghanistan? Or Libya?

Right now, Dems = right wing, Repubs = lunatic fringe. If you want left, you gotta go elsewhere.