Both of those counties went for Clinton by 10% in 2016.

That would be a meaningful addition if a) the average crossover rate from prmary to general wasn’t 10% and b) more than 25% of Clinton voters in the 2008 primary hadn’t voted for McCain.

in north carolina whole counties don’t have their own dmv office any more, they consolidated them with neighboring counties and only operate the satellite offices one day a month. unsurprisingly all of the counties without their own dmv office happen to be 40%+ black

oh gawker comments section, never change

It’s stated pretty clearly in the article- the people leaving negative reviews in response to a political act taken by a business do so under the belief that market forces will change that businesses’ behavior either on a personal level or by harming said business. And that they have the power to invoke those forces…

hahahahahahahaha

Again you completely misread what I said in service of having this bizarre argument inside your own mind.

You say you don’t want to defend similar policies and practices of previous administrations, yet you choose to do just that by pretending the awfulness of the Trump administration is sui generis.

I’m not downplaying anything and I’m not sure how you got that from what I wrote.

Nope it should definitely be $15 (well really above $20 accounting for productivity gains over the past several decades) in Alabama and Mississippi. Making some sort of bullshit two tier system where shithole states have a federally mandated lower wage just puts downward pressure on wages all around, hurting workers…

Honestly if the shoe’s on the other foot and the two dozen no-hope centrist dems wind up defeating each other in the primary, the reaction from their supporters is going to be infinitely worse since they actually expect their candidate to be handed the nomination, as happened with Clinton supporters in ‘08 when at…

Nobody’s arguing that the Trump administration isn’t objectively terrible, just against the notion that it’s somehow a radical departure from previous administrations or that the current various shitshows don’t have roots in existing policies. This has to be pointed out if there’s to be any hope of actually fixing…

About the only thing in that list you can credibly say didn’t happen under Obama was abandoning US territories after “national” disasters, and to a lesser extent fewer overtly corrupt cabinet officials. He fast-tracked oil pipelines through sovereign tribal lands, oversaw the expansion of ICE deportations and secret…

Yep. The best encapsulation of this was that sign at the original hashtag resist pussy hat rally that said something to the effect of “If Hillary was president we’d all be at brunch right now.”

I for one wish her the best as she returns to her forest home to forage for berries and nuts and maybe some trout from the rivers to prepare for hibernation

the dnc didn’t screw clinton on the michigan and florida delegate counts in 08. their respective state parties chose to schedule their primaries early knowing they’d be penalized with a reduced delegate count, and every campaign except clinton’s took their name off the ballots

Our debt:gdp ratio is a fraction of the rest of the G7 nations. We have tons of leeway for more deficit spending, and frankly it’s an avoidable tragedy we’re not taking advantage of it.

Except Obama was elected with the highest turnout in decades. People did vote, and this still happened.

she shouldn’t be fired over this stuff but she should be made a ready source of public ridicule and mockery because she’s a thomas friedman-style idiot with zero self-awareness

because it’s really funny that she’s a 14 year old shithead edgelord in a middle aged black lady’s body