“Anyone who voted for Sanders in the primary and then didn’t vote for Clinton was never voting for her under any circumstances — certainly not anything policy changes could have affected.”

That’s one possibility. Another other possibility is that she would have done significantly worse—in Virginia, with Latinos, etc.—without Kaine on the ticket. In other words, maybe she was a lot worse than Obama, and Kaine got her back to a bit worse than Obama with those groups, or maybe she was always a bit worse…

We’re on the same side of both of those issues. I am also pro-choice, and anti-death penalty.

Yep, that’s what it comes down to: Any argument about the Wizards’ talent/potential/upside necessarily begins (after John Wall) with Beal. And Beal basically gives you all the career-destroying injury issues of Brandon Roy with maybe 60% of the talent.

FBI says something that paints my team’s candidate in an unfavorable light: “They’re a bunch of untrustworthy partisan schmucks!”

Or, you know, Clinton was just that much worse than Obama.

In fairness, that’s precisely the position politicians are supposed to take in a secular democracy.

African-American turnout was down, what, 16%? Surely some of that is the result of voter suppression, but not most. Trump did better with Hispanic voters than Romney. 53% of white women voted for Trump.

Losing the electoral college (the thing that, you know, actually decides the election and always has), to Donald Fucking Trump, is an absolute, unmitigated disaster. What else would you call it?

Yes, I’m sure your relentless condescension to, and dismissal of, Sanders supporters played no role in the outcome of the election. You assumed you could win without making any effort to build a coalition, to welcome people with whom you disagreed deeply, but still had obvious potential common ground in opposing Trump.

Yeah, the Pelicans probably belong on that list. Tim Frazier can ball, though. And Jrue Holiday and Tyreke Evans are legitimate NBA starters for the 20 games/season a piece they’re healthy.

Deeply confused by the implication that the Wizards are “rich in talent,” or have been in recent memory. John Wall is a star, but his prime is being wasted. If you drop the best player from every team, who in the NBA is worse than Washington? Maybe Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Sacramento? And two of those teams have…

Look, I’m sure whatever you had to say here was worthwhile, but DAMN SON, tl;dr.

I would argue that >99% of people who know who Fredette is know that he’s Mormon, because his only relevance as an athlete came while he was at BYU (where, in fairness, he was a total badass). I’m not sure how many new fans he’s winning as a reserve guard in the Chinese league.

So because some homophobes call Odell Beckham gay, we should be sure to call Derrick Rose gay, too?

I’m sure you’re right that some people would spin it that way, but I’d hope it would be a minority. It would take some serious suspension of logic to argue abortion isn’t a political issue in this country.

Personally attacked on DS? I doubt it. They spend so much space here mocking the idea of “clubhouse distractions” I think that would ring pretty hollow.

I really don’t think so. Would they attack the subject of his protest? Yeah, absolutely. But the act itself? You’ve gotta have a deeply misguided sense of the Bill of Rights and what makes this country legitimately exceptional to think there’s something inherently wrong with kneeling respectfully during the anthem as…

Thought exercise: Suppose a few years back when he was in the league, Tim Tebow knelt during the national anthem to protest the state-sanctioned mass murder of unborn fetuses in the U.S.