Finally read mellowstupid’s 7-months after release review of The Last Jedi and it was the same take as I’d read three zillion times already on the internet.

“If Johnson has nothing to hide, why do anything at all?”

I’ve been thinking about the idea that the press corps should just boycott the briefings in solidarity...but the problem is that Trump would love it and it would do nobody any good.  Instead, the rest of the press corps just needs to actually do their jobs and stop being so damned polite.  They need to push and push…

And I don’t want my grandkids growing up in a theocratic totalitarian corporate fascist dystopian industrial wasteland police state. So... where do we go from here?

Go figure - the Democratic candidate is rational and focused on actual solutions to actual problems, and the Republican candidate is Yosemite Sam.

i’ve been arguing for people to call “obamacare” the “affordable care act” when writing about it since day fucking one.

people that dont want it, hate obama, so they dont want obamacare. but they want the ACA because they’re losing their toes and teeth.

Of course, our shitty system works just fine for Meghan McCain. She’s earned her money the old fashioned way; she inherited it.

The fear of socialism is coming from a primal fear for Meg. Higher taxes (on the rich) would mean she actually has to work for a living not just flitting through life as John McCain’s daughter.

Same thing happens with guns. As soon as someone uses the word clip to mean magazine or some other minor pedantic error the gun nuts defelct and declare themselves the victor in that conversation.

“I can’t imagine why anyone would call themselves queer and carry all of the negative connotations that are historically attached to being Queer. Why not just call yourself a lifetime bachelor and sit in the corner and quietly, very quietly, push the gay agenda. Seems like a self-own”

I don’t give a fuck about anything that McCain has to say. “Our shitty systems work just fine” is a tentpole GOP tenet that people are turning away from as they realize that our shittiness cannot coexist with the myth of our “greatness.”

Trump handing $12 billion of taxpayers money over to help farmers affected by Trump’s derelict tariffs IS SOCIALISM AND WELFARE.

Notice how McCain and other concern trolls in the media will focus almost entirely on the label and not the substance. When substance is brought up, they will deflect as quickly as possible to the label, and to Venezuela, and to anything other than the actual policies and ideas being proposed.

The real and only difference is that Roseanne sincerely, utterly believes everything she wrote, since none of it was framed as a joke at all.

Fuck Mike Cernovich, fuck Jack Posobiec, and fuck all the alt-right trolls who are pushing their agenda.

There was this horrible kid on second grade that got my gameboy while I was on the bathroom, and DELETED MY POKEMON RED SAVE FILE!

He could be economically anxious. Or part of America’s forgotten middle class. Maybe he’s a victim of the opiod crisis. Or involuntarily celibate. But really I’m sure he was polite to his neighbors and a fan of country music.

The healthcare thing puzzles me. I look at what I pay in premiums, deductibles, and copays while making sure I go to an in-network provider and figure there has to be a better way. People seem to be ok paying large amounts of money to an insurance company but not the government. If everybody was insured, the costs…

It wasn’t a waffle, it was an honest admittance that she’s still learning about the complexities involved. If she’s “mentored” by senior Dems and comes down on the other side, then it’s more disappointing as a sign she might do the same on other issues, but for now it’s a push.

They are scared shitless of her and I am loving every minute of it.