Oh no that’s true. That’s what sets him apart from other presidents. If you don’t think so you might want to reread some of his remarks after leaving the presidency. For instance he’s freely admitted that the ACA was a mistake predicated on the mistaken belief that the Republicans were acting in good faith and that he…

The point is that Obama was an exception and not the norm. The presidency is virtually never that scrupulous or dignified which is why it’s asinine and stupid to compare any given presidency to him. Like I said, he’s not a meaningful point of comparison while Bill Clinton, who had a number of clear similarities,…

Because you didn’t ask a question worth answering.

You realize that the are a looming symbol of institutional support that does discourage grassroots candidates by design, yes?

So what you’re saying is that publicly pledging support for the person you will support at the convention isn’t the same as committing, you might change tack depending on the primary despite the fact that the superdelegate system was established in order to override democratic primaries...

When a third of the delegates necessary to secure a nomination are able to commit to a candidate before primary voting even begins, that gives a substantial psychological advantage to the establishment candidate and creates the illusion that they’ve already won which does have a substantial effect on the primaries.…

While none of his games feature anything as graphic as the deathcam shots featured in the reel, the Fallout clips are just gibs. Which, uh, he made multiple games that included gibs. On top of that, Deus Ex games feature suicide bombing, lynching, torture, summary execution, etc.

So, what you’re saying is that making the Invisible Primary not only visible, but binding, doesn’t have an effect on how people vote in primaries and caucuses? That’s... a very stupid thing to believe.

Well, it depends on how you look at it. I mean a lot’s happened in the news, but once you cut through the hysteria, things are moving slower than ever.

Sure, George W Bush might have constantly mispoke and given his underlings profane nicknames and he proposed a costly nonsensical border wall and an illegal war, but he’s not Trump.

See I’d buy that if the two behaved similarly while in the White House but Obama’s timorous and cowardly west wing LARPing isn’t really comparable. Trump’s sort of a return to norms, to Bush II, Clinton, Reagan, etc.

Do you uh, do you know how often the US elects new presidents?

Well, all of that did come later in his Presidency than we’re at in Trump’s.

Bill Clinton’s a better point of comparison than Obama, really. Infidelity, probable rape, foreign intervention that (probably) didn’t actually sway the election...

Yeah, again, a big problem. But less of a problem than trying to imply that the impact of the financial crisis wasn’t racialized, which was and is the DLC/DCCC tack.

Sure do, via Operations Holdings.

Yeah, that’s a bit of a blind spot on his part and it’s something he needed to improve on. But at least he didn’t publicly shit-talk intersectionality during the primary so...

My FAVE thing is how whenever anyone mentions the poor or the working class they automatically assume that the poor and the working class are straight, white men.

The problem is that people are looking to the powers that be to ask those questions. They’re always going to be beholden to a donor class and a professional class which are subject to the iron law of institutions.

The Unification Church is a cult/New Religious Movement based out of South Korea which seems to largely exist in order to enrich the children of Sun Myung Moon. Several of his kids are heavily invested in firearms and one of them is the CEO of a manufacturing firm that makes firearms. The key to their success is that…