This is the best takedown I can imagine being made of all the phony, manufactured outrage over Joker.

And I guarantee you, of those who oppose it, few are doing so for professional reasons.

I’ve done accounting for a doctor’s office and I can guarantee you that if receiving payment meant one envelope with a single check and an itemized statement that came at a regularly expected time after treatment, most doctors would be ecstatic.

The healthcare industry in general would be crazy not to support M4A, considering that it would greatly streamline one of the more maddening and needless parts of the process by which they get paid. Everyone in the industry who has to sort out all the different kinds of insurance coverage fucking hates doing it. It…

NEUTRAL: I don’t rely on any of my safety features. They are just nice to have, in addition to ordinary defensive driving measures. This is particularly the case with something like Rear Cross Traffic Alert, where you really do often legitimately end up in the situation of being parked between two large, tall vehicles…

Shelving recipe components together by type—be it cuisine, culture, or common usage—is how you get better cross-selling. That’s why peanut butter, jelly, and bread are virtually always on the same aisle, for an example.

Let’s not go galaxy-brain here. The complete answer is “no.”

Nobody actually believes this shit.

Great, but then you don’t get to posture like you have actual standards.

Is this the part where you pretend you won’t be giddily walrus-clapping for Biden in the general, just like you did with Hillary?

And yet, after I finished the demo, I walked into a nearby bathroom, stared into a mirror, and asked myself “Did it work? Do I care?”

Who that needs convincing do you really imagine will be convinced by this? Trump will not be convicted, because the votes simply don’t exist for it, and then he’ll just say, “I wasn’t convicted, they tried to impeach me and I won,” and everyone who isn’t already on-board with whichever Dem gets the nomination will be…

The pay gap argument makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in Hollywood. Actors are already guaranteed equal pay by their union. What these A-list types are complaining about is compensation above and beyond those guarantees. This compensation is secured through negotiations carried out by the actors’ representatives.…

Sounds like she needs to take time off from social media not because she faces harassment, but because it strips her of the normal human instinct to do her research before launching implicit accusations of insensitivity at people. Sanders had other obligations. He didn’t deserve to be pilloried for not being able to…

Bet he’s regretting giving money to Gillibrand’s campaign now, huh?

Of course they think it’s a bad idea to release the numbers. That’s what I’m saying. The numbers would demonstrate that the votes of 50-something party leaders massively outweighed the votes of the entire rank-and-file. Obviously they would find that embarrassing, and many members would likely find it outrageous.

The fact that they released the numbers in 2015, but refuse to release them now. Why would it suddenly become a problem to simply make the numbers transparent and public? And it’s weird that, having released the splits in the past, they would, for some unknown reason, have stripped the organization of the ability to…

The leadership votes in 2015 did not overturn the will of the rank-and-file members, as most certainly happened here. That’s the problem. The totals were released before. Why not now? Because they almost certainly reveal a truth that the WFP would rightly consider embarrassing. This is why it’s all the more absurd…

I think it’s embarrassing that they won’t release the vote totals, almost certainly because it would show the votes of 50-something “leadership” members being counted as though they were equal to the votes of tens of thousands of rank-and-file party members, and effectively overturning their support for Sanders. The…

The response from WFP is 100% misdirection. They begin by pointing out how diverse the leadership is, as though that somehow makes it impossible for the leadership to have massively outsized influence on the the outcomes of party votes. Then they lean on the fact that they’re receiving harassment, as though this…