C.K. was a pioneer in direct-to-consumer sales via the internet. I wonder if he isn’t going to try to monetize this piece of shit.

Agree with all points but this one:

No, no it isn’t. And each American from eldest to youngest is directly responsible for what is wrought in these final days. It is simply sad that when time comes to reap the whirlwind sowed by the rich and powerful, it will be those without power or voice that will be required to kneel and be shot... or work to death…

Anytime you start making projections that are based on conjecture, or require proof that she can’t possibly have, pretty much... for instance, presuming Trump wants to resign, presuming that he’s receiving direct word from the Kremlin, presuming that he takes orders from anyone, etc.

Are there ties? Yes. Has Trump received loans from Russian sources? Most likely. Do those sources have ties to Putin? Yes. That’s still not the same as Putin (by which I presume you to mean the Kremlin) directly bankrolling Trump. I’m sorry, but he’s not the Manchurian Candidate. He’s just not. He’s dangerous and ugly…

I think that the application of Occam’s Razor causes this to come up way short. A lot of wishful thinking and a few too many leaps of faith, and far too many steps that require too many people to do just the exactly correct thing. While I’m generally on board with most conspiracies involving Russia (based on personal…

Agreed, I was thinking, it was mostly because they were unionized. Thanks to our parents and grandparents buying into all that Reagan talk, they fucked over their kids and grandkids. Ironically, thanks to their actions, the GOP is fucking them over by cutting medicaid and medicare.

There are no serfs? What would you call people who work full-time and can’t afford rent or three nutritious meals a day?

There are serfs and there are campesinos here, you just choose not to see them or refuse to recognize them.

“I am engaged to a great guy with many wonderful qualities,”

Thank you. Thank you for standing up and (metaphorically) making noise. You are one of the good people making sure that the GOP *has* to be faced with their own lies and bullshit.

I’m a writer not a fighter. I have no idea why they saw me as such a threat, except the truth hurts I guess. Especially when you’re stripping away healthcare from very sick people to give tax breaks to billionaires.

I was threatened before the event even started. I was just sitting there in my seat, after eating many delicious churros (hats off to the organizers for that - they were good). That’s when security guy “Bob” — who refused to tell me his name despite me asking again and again — told me not to make a disturbance and…

He is just so, so, so fucking stupid. There really aren’t any other words for it. He is just colossally, monumentally stupid.

See, it’s comments like this that lead us all to lament that there’s no Flag category for () It’s Stupid.

As Ana Marie Cox says often on her podcast, the GOP very alarmingly acts like a party that doesn’t need to win elections.

Think it’s all part of the plan. They’re trying to manufacture a future deficit crisis which they’ll then “fix” by slashing government services left and right.

It’s also possible the House will vote on the Senate bill as is. This is riskier for the Republicans, because there are some very fundamental differences between the House’s version and the Senate version and there are House Republicans who might reject it. However, it’s possible they all want it to pass so…

Yet GOP senators blatantly ignored their constituents

That homonym is just too convenient.