I’ve accidentally done this, with a friend I was meeting up with at the time. Nothing makes you want a hole to open up and swallow you hole more than sending a screenshot of a conversation to the person you were talking about. It wasn’t even anything particularly bad, just so cringey

What is the saying in Spanish? 

Exactly, and from when Pelosi was Speaker:

He really is the closest we have to another Obama, in terms of his ability to inspire people, especially people that aren’t the usual Democratic base.  

The Trump base (though they weren’t called that yet, it’s essentially the same group of people) did protest when a (black) Democrat was elected President. It was called the Tea Party, and it wasn’t even a decade ago.

Not only has he slashed the budget for the U.S. Forest Service almost in half between 2019 and 2016, nearly 60% of the forests in California are under federal management in the first place. The State of California is responsible for about 2% of the total.

Also, nearly 60% of the forests in California are federally managed in the first place, while the state is in charge of around 2% of them. Trump also cut the budget for the U.S. Forest Service to $4.77 billion in 2019, down from $7.1 billion in 2016, so it’s extra stupid.

The GOP has been capitalizing on racism since at least the southern strategy, they’ve just now gone all in on being the party of racists. They used to at least pretend it was about supply side economics or cutting taxes, but as it exists in its current form with Trump as the leader, it is going to be nonstop white…

I don’t know much about the politics or whatever of Vermont, but I do know that a lot of white people live there. For those more knowledgeable than me, do you think this has always been a part of his overall electoral strategy? I’m not trying to demonize Bernie and say his entire career exists because he is good at…

When I checked the weather on my phone this morning, the forecast for the day in San Francisco was just smoke

Yeah, the only people potentially driving the other way would be firefighters, and hopefully they use their sirens

(White) Boomers enjoyed some of the largest public investments known to man in infrastructure, education, Social Security/Medicare, and workforce development that greatly improved mortality rates, while generating wealth and prosperity that will be passed down for generations. Then they decided they didn’t like paying…

Wow, I never knew that happened. Talk about a bullet dodged.

That’s the rub. Ironically, electing Democrats in more traditionally red places might make it more attractive for liberals to move to those places, especially as housing costs keep going up in places like California, which would make it easier to elect more Democrats. Personally, I’d be happier about being relocated…

The best analogy I’ve heard is that they’re raptors testing the fences

They think it gave them a boost in the midterms so it was all worth it, no matter the damage to Ford, other women, and the country at large.

To a depressingly large segment of the population, speaking out about sexual assault is worthy of more punishment than committing sexual assault when the perpetrator is a wealthy and powerful white man.

I don’t know how it works if a candidate has already conceded, but it might go to a recount https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-ne-ron-desantis-andrew-gillum-recount-20181107-story.html

ESPECIALLY in a midterm year like this one

I’m admittedly out of the loop, did Bono do that?