. . . Just like the 50s, except for the high tax rates on corporations and millionaires, strong unions, and a GOP platform that wasn’t batshit crazy, of course. Just the being able to oppress/terrorize/make fun of: women, black people, immigrants, people from other religions, the disabled, gay people . . . basically…

That’s the thing a lot of people don’t understand... it’s not a difference of political opinion anymore, it’s an issue of common human decency. And the republicans have shown that they have none - almost every hill they make a stand on is genuinely about keeping the downtrodden down under the boot of the…

I am both going to agree with and profoundly contradict you here: Ballot Stuffing and Election Rigging Through Vote Manufacturing Is Extremely Rare. Voter Fraud and Election Rigging Is Extremely Common and Indeed Has Been a Factor In Every Single Election Since the Civil War. Suppression of black turnout through poll…

true - more than half the country saw right through him.

Because no one believed Howard Dean when he talked about the fifty state strategy? This shit is why there needs to be a huge shakeup in the DNC leadership.

James Comey being chief among them.

After seeing the numbers, I honestly think that the biggest issue was fake news - half as many people saw fake news as real news, and believed it at equivalent rates, according to a recent story. The fake news were outlandish things like an FBI agent investigating Hillary’s e-mails being involved in a suspicious…

Yep. Californians do not dig this math-

There is this really virulent strain of thought right now that she made some huge mistake, which is crazy when you look at how things turned out. This country was simply in a mood that no one who usually studies this stuff caught. It wouldn’t have mattered if it were Bernie or anyone else.

You mean by someone who undoubtedly won the primary by millions of votes even not including the super delegates?

She campaigned until she quite literally collapsed. She was in Ohio and Pennsylvania until the bitter, bitter end. What do you all want? Other than that she grow a dick.

Yep. I’m from East Oakland. My dad and brothers still live there. I am so sad these people lost their lives. I cannot, however, mourn from the perspective of ‘rising rents made this happen.’ Tech some, pay to play some, but all of it is 100% Gentrification. This neighborhood was predominantly Black since the 70s. Now…

I do blame the people running the space. It’s not lack of affordable housing that makes you only construct the one staircase out of wooden pallets. As fucking artists some of whom worked in metal and certainly have the capability of mixing and using concrete and building better exits and staircases, it was not lack of…

This wasn’t an “empty space repurposed,” this was a firetrap “artist’s colony” operated by a damn sociopath. I agree with your larger point but you’re picking a flimsy-ass spot to make it.

You’re talking about Derick Ion Almena, right? He wasn’t the landlord—he was the master tenant. I haven’t seen any mention of who actually owned the building; it probably was some Chinese investor who’d seen it once driving by.

Craft thread!

I do recall that during the TARP bailout discussions in the fall of 2008, Dubya was involving both Obama and McCain in pre-election discussions and planning, and largely deferring to Obama after the election. That might’ve been largely about Dubya’s disinterest in running the country, though. He was too busy shopping…

This is the season where we jumped the shark isn’t it.

Can they bring in Heather Locklear or Rob Lowe? #seasonsavers

Yeah, we used to say “buy ocean-front property, because they’re not making it anymore.” But now, yay, they are!