I’ve long noted that at least 50% of Splinter comments (I’d wager it’s a solid majority, actually) are from people who hate-read the site. You can tell from the way Splinter is branded (“the truth hurts”), as well as from the house writing style, that the site is far more about goading centrists into negative…

It’s almost like...the point of a primary is to address both the pluses and minuses of the people running for the most powerful position in our country?

So, who exactly is going to support Beto (at least from the outset) in 2020? Sanders supporters aren’t going over to him. And from what I can tell, Hillary dead-enders are mostly lining up behind Warren (who appeals to those wanting a not-Bernie progressive) or Harris (who appeals to those wanting black Hillary). To…

But he’s not wrong about buying a building versus bribing some people.

If Mamet can’t see the difference between a university admitting it accepts people as “legacy” students, and parents straight-up having ringers take SATs for their kids and/or have their kids’ heads photoshopped onto other people’s bodies in order to manufacture false student athletics associations, then that’s just a…

You guys know that people didn’t just learn that Michael Jackson was a pedophile, right? It’s been a pretty mainstream opinion for literal decades at this point. Like, his music is great, and will continue to be great, and people will continue to like and enjoy it, but he was a pedophile. This is not new information.

Because the claim that an obviously political thing isn’t political is stupid.

Don’t worry, it’s cool if you don’t have any actual values. We’ll save you from yourself by electing someone who gives a shit about things other than simply beating Trump.

Does everybody else remember when people were sitting around with straight faces, arguing that Ronda Rousey just may be a more dominant professional athlete than Serena Williams?

Depending on what a person goes to community college for, you can qualify for some pretty baller-ass, middle-class jobs. It ain’t a joke.

This shit with Huffman and Loughlin was outright fraud, with SATs being taken by ringers, heads being photoshopped onto other athletes’ bodies, etc. It isn’t the same thing, and I don’t think it does us any good to be like, “Yeah, but this other thing” about it. We all know of the existence of legacy cases, etc.…

What “bargain”? If I think candidates are shit because the initiatives by and large don’t appeal to me, then I don’t see why I should vote for them. They have a responsibility to earn my vote. That’s all that matters here. Yet people who bitch about non-voters so frequently only focus attention on the voters…

2.) An Ivy League degree listed on a resume might get an interview faster than other institutions, but the interview itself will quickly put the lie to the idea that the applicant was a star student (assuming they weren’t, of course).

Yea would be cool if they read Splinter. Yea votes are earned not owed blah blah, we can shit in one hand and wish in the other, whats gonna fill up faster? There are real life consequences to this shit and the politicians get theirs regardless.

Yeah, I’m surprised he didn’t combine the two. “Classless thug” is a race-baiting classic.

Your message should go to the politicians who fail to energize these voters, then. Votes are earned, not owed.

Oh please. Westbrook didn’t approach the dude randomly at threaten to beat he and his wife up. The guy, and eventually his wife, said nasty, out-of-bounds shit to Westbrook, and he snapped back verbally in the moment. Westbrook is right that the players are expected to take the worst kinds of verbal abuse from folks…

Always worth mentioning that “classless” == “ni**er” with these types.

If Joe runs, he has to wait for the last possible moment to get in. He leads the polls now, but getting in will mean he has to speak more and that surely will drive his numbers down. Make no mistake, I like Joe, but he is prone to “gaffes” that will be picked apart at nauseam.

I’m not advocating it. I’m saying that, as usual, it didn’t happen where it mattered. CA was always going to go to Hillary. I’m sure plenty of people there didn’t vote out of pure laziness.