Agreed. I think the media genuinely despises Trump on one hand, and sees the constant “negative” attention they give him as something that can’t help but move the needle at some point. Many of them think they’re living in a new Watergate moment, and believe that their legacies will be made when Trump is finally…

Question: do you think that impeachment will result in Trump being removed from office? If so, then that’s a fine reason to be for impeachment, obviously. And if I agreed that impeachment would result in his ouster, I would support it, too. But I don’t think that an impeachment would actually succeed at this goal, and…

Hope I am wrong but when I am not remind all those liberals that didnt vote that not voting has consequences too. For those liberals that protest voted against Hillary, etc., yeah you can continue to f*$# off.

I thought he could win the presidency, but wouldn’t have bet on it. However, I definitely saw, long before it became obvious, that he was going to win the GOP nomination. The sort of inverted effect the media had on him, compared to how it would have affected a traditional political candidate, was almost immediately…

Anyone who thinks they have a ironclad grasp on how this will shake out should have already put their money on Trump winning in ‘16, and be sitting fat and happy on a beach somewhere.

There is no “only correct answer”.

So, since I don’t live in a trendy city, can someone please confirm whether people actually ride these scooters in real life? This still doesn’t seem like an actual thing, to me.

The only correct answer re: impeachment is one that addresses it as a strategic issue, first and foremost.

After reading these comments, I just feel like it needs to be said: there is never, ever, ever a time for snobbery when it comes to pizza. This is peasant food. All pizza (except CiCi’s ... I have to break my own rule for that shit) is more or less okay, at the very least.

Exactly. Literally nobody is going to be like, “Oh shit, I was totally ready to support the #BernieRevolution until I heard his stance on felons voting, guess I’m gonna vote for Trump now.”

Sanders actually has a value system underlying his views. Anyone who would be so shocked by his view on the voting rights of felons was never going to vote for him in the first place.

You’re correct, but just on a universal level, all people, not just reporters, tend to bitch about those that make their jobs harder to do. So the media’s reaction to being stonewalled by Russ is understandable in that sense.

“Media” includes the things where people learn who Russell Westbrook is in the first place. Like ESPN, or the local paper, or the local TV station, or SI. It includes the actual broadcasts of the games.

There is no amount of explaining that makes someone being “too prepared” to be the goddamn president negative.

A commenter on Splinter calling out your traditionally sexist double-standard logic is not the same as her campaign trying to guilt people into liking her.

It’s stunning how Warren can talk about how she’ll pay for one of her plans with a 2% tax on the ultra-wealthy, and people are like “So much detail!” But when Sanders talks about how he’ll pay for something with a market speculation tax (and has been doing so since 2016), he’s somehow nothing but a shouting head…

Yes, it strikes me as a sign of desperation for Warren to rely so heavily on a scatter-fire of issue papers this early in the campaign to increase her numbers. I like her, but it really seems like each one is designed to be put up on the fridge and shown to the neighbors when they come over for dinner. Issues are…

Yeah, I mean, my whole thing is like, if you’ve been able to pay off your loans, mazel tov to you! That’s no excuse to let people currently saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in debt be stuck in the same position you were until you got paid off. We have to look at the big picture of what this would mean for our…

I think Warren’s attempt to appear to be the most “issue-based” candidate in freaking April 2019 is both admirable and illustrative of her rather desperate position in the current pack. It seems like the narrative her team is trying to spin is, “Where’s everyone else on X? We’ve got a plan for that!” It’s like, whoa,…

Jesus Christ, I cannot fucking stand it when companies use the term “associates” when they really mean “employees.” It’s so obvious that they’re trying to use language to distance themselves from the responsibilities implied by an employer/employee relationship.