I’m not as progressive as they are, but I wouldn’t really care about them if it weren’t for this sort of posturing being contrasted with them being held out as something truly new and special.  

I do, which is why I know that politicians who refer to amorphous “theys” when talking like this are a dime a dozen.

Naw.  

Which, while being true, sort of belies the image that these ladies have projected of themselves or representing something vastly different and superior to existing politicians.

I think we have a beef with almost anyone here because there’s a lack of courage. It seems like we’re all radical because we deeply care about the people we represent and we want to throw down for them

It’s to the mutual benefit of everyone involved to have foreign investment in an economy.

“working for their own benefit” Because the Venezuelan people have definitely benefitted from the choice to scare off FDI in their petroleum industry.

Wait, I’m confused ... did Shalala actually call for an out-and-out military intervention by the U.S. in Venezuela? Or did she just say that Maduro must go?

Oh good grief.  Are we trying to give the word “sexism” a herniated disk or a prolapsed anus, here?   

Because it’s laughably stupid to think two guys who were on said hit list won’t give it adequate coverage at CNN.

I feel like focusing on whether you believe the victims or not is a secondary issue here. The issue here is moreso in the era of social media and the current phase of our culture wars, we are overly eager to turn belief and sympathy into instantaneous action.

Stop.

That very inequality is what is driving the fascism, loss of democracy and organized government, and failure to address the climate crisis and other pressing world problems right now.

I’d actually ignore them and call the administration’s bluff rather than peremptorily suing.

Did we ever come down with a firm decision on whether Baracka is Tomato? But regardless, I wonder how well Baracka would do if he tried to make the jump over to Jezebel. He strikes me as something of a BobbySerious type of BernieBro who maybe isn’t exactly the best when it comes to the ladies.

I mean, I think I believe you, but another theory I sometimes float out there is that you’re the misbegotten science experiment of some 4 chan nerds who dumped years of Kinja commenter logs into a deep learning AI computer and programmed it to troll Kinja.

Hahaha! Sometimes I think that particular theory is bananas and the people who spout it have gone from wearing their tinfoil hats to eating them.

Oh I assume the Kinjaverse will live on, though in a reduced fashion but Splinter ...  not so much. I also suspect the editoral bent of those websites that survive is going to be reeled in from the wing a bit. I can’t imagine Tomatoface hangs around at that point.

To use a wrestling analogy Sipowitz, you’ve being hanging around Kinja since a time when it was more like we were a part of the WWE. Things are different in 2019 though, and now we’re sitting here watching a Badlands Regional Wrestling league that mostly holds it’s matches in middle school gymnasiums across the…

Whenever GMG is sold, and Splinter likely winds up ... well ... yeah .... I think there’s going to be a group of commenters who suddenly find themselves asking what the point of living is.