Before any change can occur, somebody has to at least be willing to imagine a world in which things are not as they are now. When assholes like Pelosi say shit like “that just isn’t going to happen” in regards to X, they presume that there is no room for ambition in the political process, which is an entirely…

Oh yes, I know it’s such a tedious opinion that Hillary didn’t have adequate in-party competition from the collective braintrust of Lincoln Chafee, Jim Webb, and Martin O’Malley, three out-of-office, back-bench nobodies. I really should give those dudes more respect as 2016 primary challengers. Primo competition from…

No, but most people at least have some idea of who they might favor at this point, and it’s hard to see where Beto fits into that calculus right now.

So in other words, you’ve become a reactionary crank in your middle age. Fun!

I mean, I can’t help but agree with the sentiment. In the abstract, the arguments presented in this piece are excellent, but whenever it crosses my mind that we’re talking about glorified blogging, the ideas lose a bit of their edge. Part of the reason why the labor situation in media is so shitty is because the…

Naturally, you won’t think it qualifies because you apparently disagree with it. But who really gives a shit what you think in the first place?

I’ve said it before into the Kinja void, but I would literally vote for a shoe or a chicken if they were given the Dem nomination.

This guy legitimately fucking sucks. We get that you are bored with your life Beto, a lot of us are, but just hurry up and go become the cool hip youth pastor you so desperately want to be.

Trump has forever and eternally destroyed the idea of being too inexperienced to run for president.

But I’d be happy with either of them as the ultimate nominee, because I DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN AN ACTUAL FASCIST DICTATORSHIP.

wine moms and wine moms in training, judging by my social media

If my comment doesn’t describe you, then it wasn’t meant for you. I’m talking about people who speak out one side of their mouth about primaries being the time when it’s okay to debate relative merits and demerits of candidates, and then once the primary actually fucking begins, they try to clamp down on that shit. If…

Who fucking cares? I’m not here to defend the honor of the Splinter writers. One thing worth mentioning, though, is that they are individuals. This idea that they share all opinions in common is bizarre.

I’m a pragmatic leftist who understands that you have to vote for the best option of the ones you are given. The purity progressivism on constant display on this site is how we’re going to lose 2020.

I don’t think it was common knowledge that rich people actually committed fraud to get their kids into elite universities, no. We all knew about legacy admissions, and kids conveniently being accepted if they didn’t have atrocious SAT scores and their parents donated to put new wings on academic buildings, etc. These…

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…