I’m not talking about Trump voters either; they’re lost causes who wander in a mental fog from which they’ll never emerge. I’m talking about your standard issue low-information voter who unfortunately decides our elections but doesn’t bother to track what happens in DC because he doesn’t really care as long as his…

Said one person commenting on a Splinter thread to another (i.e., we’re clearly invested in the details of this). Just try explaining a scandal that involves a secret whistleblower, Ukraine, a fired prosecutor, military aid, and Joe Biden’s son to some guy in Pennsylvania who doesn’t pay attention to the news but…

And herein lies the problem with hanging impeachment on only this event: It requires an explainer. It’s inscrutable and complicated and obtuse, which means most people won’t bother to try to understand it (much as most people tuned out the details of the Mueller investigation), and guarantees it won’t stick with much…

Two and a half years of constant lawbreaking and corruption, and she wants to brush it all under the rug quickly like the rest of it never happened. Why am I not surprised?

It’s not in the exact same situation as Greece was - I was using Greece as an example to illustrate the point that major economic disruptions aren’t limited to one country... they have contagion effects. That’s why the EU hasn’t just told the UK not to let the door hit it on the way out... they know that there will be…

The effects were contained because they didn’t actually default on most of their debt.

While America is catching up on things it should have done awhile ago, put Bush and Cheney on trial.

Leave it to the Democrats to ignore all the blatant lawbreaking, racism, corruption, and authoritarianism to hang impeachment on the most inscrutable and complicated scandal possible that absolutely no one outside the Beltway will understand or care about.

I wonder if there’s a running count of the number of times he’s been treated “very unfairly” in his words.

And like he said he’ll allow his staff and cabinet members to respond to subpoenas and testify, just as soon as he removes his assertion of executive privilege telling them not to do so.

Exactly. After all the authoritarianism, the corruption, the racism, and the criminality, the straw that finally breaks the camel’s back is an inscrutable and complicated scandal that no one outside the Beltway will understand. It figures that Democrats would find the one way to go after him that will only end up…

Awkward day for Nancy Chamberlain.

Yes, because many poor people in the UK would suffer while also severely damaging the global economy. Remember a few years ago when everyone thought a Greek debt default would lead to a global economic collapse? The British economy is 13x that size.

It must be nice to live in a country with an independent Supreme Court that doesn’t just act as a rubber stamp for the executive.

Complaining about the length of the process is a real 180 for Splinter from last time, when the (inaccurate) argument was that the DNC moved to end the process too quickly in Clinton’s favor. I don’t take Klobuchar or John Delaney seriously either, but viability and also-ran status is for the voters to decide, and…

The headline is literally a complaint about how long the primary is lasting. Inherent in that complaint is the implied desire for it to end more quickly.

Amazed Krueger made it through an entire Bernie post without calling him Big Papa or something.

There’s no consistency or editorial philosophy to this site whatsoever other than an addiction to Bernie Sanders and a constant idealized pining for the glory days of Gawker.

What the hell is the rush to end a primary when the first votes aren’t cast for five more months? Wasn’t it Splinter’s contention that the DNC tried to end the primary too early last time and didn’t give Bernie a fair shake? Why do we need to start the interminable death march toward the general election now when it’s…

Not a fan of Biden in the least. I’m still waiting for you to make a single point based on evidence or reasoned argument or anything substantive in the least. I appear to be expecting too much, but I’ve learned that Splinter comments are pretty much like landing on Shelter Island.