I do think a lot of her critics are unintentionally feeding into her sense of self-importance by attributing to her vast power to shape people’s opinions.

“He did not have to run for re-election.”

There are things to like about the books. Unlike about her 

She’s a bigot. When your bigotry alienates people who used to respect you, the only people left are other bigots. The bigotry of the other bigots reinforces and intensifies your bigotry. That’s basically how racist Facebook uncles are born.

Ah the never ending game of asshole or idiot!

The right has learned in this century that they do not need to convert more voters to their guy, they just need to get the left to abandon theirs. With Hillary they targeted the white male democrats and it worked. This time I think the target has been white women. I am surprised in my own life how many liberal white…

as apt as ever

The decision has to happen before the convention in order to get on the ballot in Ohio.

“Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the transphobes!”

Man if there’s one thing you can say for JK Rowling it’s that she doesn’t rest on her laurels. Nope, she’s out there showing her whole ass all day every day.

I used to think she was just misinformed but the obsessiveness and paranoia points to her having major mental health problems now.

I think it’s arrogant to presume most people don’t realize this. Trump is such a malignant danger that I would vote for a Pet Rock before I did anything that would give him a chance at the office again, but that doesn’t mean not recognizing what we’re being offered essentially is that Pet Rock, and that it actively…

Because we’re still not psychologically, emotionally, or (it turns out) institutionally equipped to imagine a true existential threat to democracy and the rule of law--particularly when one party (arguably both parties) and the media are colluding to frame this election as business-as-usual.

Seriously. My only problem with The Iron Claw, an otherwise decent movie, was how old Zac looked. 

The problem with every single one of the examples you posted is that Trump and his tens of millions of “never voting for anybody else” cultists were not on the side of the loser. None of those people had anything approaching that level of never-wavering support.

If you don’t believe Biden is diminished, you either haven’t been paying attention or you are in denial.  You also would have to reject everything that’s known about gerontology.

“Why is this so fucking hard for too many people to see?”

It’s a symptom of much peace and too much prosperity for too long. Americans think nothing can really go TOO wrong, because it never has in our lifetimes and we’re always on top and we always win.

The rest of the trip was in silence, while I was wondering exactly how f-ing stupid 50% of Americans are.

Yep. When a society coasts on a nebulous definition of exceptionalism, and does not even *attempt* to understand or quantify how any of our “exceptionalism” happened, you get this.