also central IL resident and Cubs fan. Every year when we sucked and the Cards finally lost in the playoffs the first thing they’d say was about the Cubs. All they ever talked about, was the Cubs. Then these same people had the gall to complain that we celebrated in 2016.

Do you not see the difference between admitting he’s been bad and questioning his effort? No one is saying Fowler doesn’t suck; the problem is his GM is publicly accusing him of dogging it without any proof and couching it with this “some people are saying” bullshit.

NOTE: The Cardinals and the Cubs are supposedly rivals but no one outside of St. Louis gives half a shit

This season feels like a Nats fan found a monkey’s paw and wished that the team wouldn’t lose in the first round of the playoffs again.

It’s true that these idiots’ rhetoric is making the left look very smart by comparison and really driving home that the only choice is between socialism and barbarism, but what are they doing materially other than standing in the way of progress?

If you can use “we” to describe this collection of jackasses, you deserve to be ridiculed.

Yeah man it’s almost like when you utilize critical thought to make a point based on history in hopes of a good-faith engagement, people...engage you! And you can have an actual conversation! Even if you disagree! You could always try it out if the whole “hectoring asshole you can’t communicate with because they’re…

Its usually an issue pushed by conservative groups but I’m thinking only a Constitutional Convention can right the wrongs of our founding. It is literally a document written to guarantee power stays in the hands of upper-class white men above a certain age. No matter how many amendments are made it can’t change the…

I never understood why centrists/moderates get to be the pragmatic ones, as if compromising with everyone (which, despite what they might say, usually means capitulating to the right) necessarily makes the result good. Usually, it seems to me, they’re ultimately just applying patches to the status quo. Perhaps the…

The entire second part of my comment was a response to his comment!

It’s not that moderates aren’t worth working with. It’s that moderates continually give the hard right every single thing it wants, no matter what the moderates’ alleged principles actually are or what they told the left to bring them on board in the first place. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me every single…

It’s more like decades of American political discourse alternating between milquetoast center-left reformism and hard-right extremism (which along the way produced such bipartisan efforts as the Iraq War, deregulation, and destruction of the social safety net) led to Trump, who isn’t the aberration he’s made out to be…

Word. For the last 25 years or so, it’s not where the far-right gazillionaires and the wealthy center-left wannabe do-gooders have disagreed that has wreaked so much misery on the rest of us, it’s where they’ve come together. The Iraq War, privatizing public education, deregulating the finance sector and shredding…

Patriots and Pragmatists.

If nothing else, I think you’re proof positive that we’re fucking doomed

Part of it is if you want Democrats to continue being (or start depending on your perspective) different then you have to give them criticism when they act like Republicans. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything”

There have been some very bad vibes as of late from the DNC and many established democrats who have been floating further right. And its this reason we have to treat these guys like Republicans and vote them out in primaries. Except the DNC funds these asshats like there’s no tomorrow... God we’re in so much fucking…

In this comment, you said “When you work for someone they’re investing in you” but in your first comment you criticize the kid for saying,

You’re never going to be rich. So you can stop defending them.