I assure you, there were plenty of Lost Cause assholes around at the time who could have promulgated that narrative without Lee’s assistance. His death by Union gallows would only have magnified and accelerated their deification of him.

And turned him into even more of a martyr than he already is?

1. ICE was absolutely corrupt during the Obama administration, and well before it. They spent the entire eight years of his presidency chomping at the bit to do exactly what they’re doing now, while actively working to undermine every attempt he made to reign in their fascist tendencies. The only difference today is…

We’re voting on both this year, yes—but we need 67 votes to remove Trump from office, and it is literally impossible for us to do that this year because there aren’t that many Republican seats up for re-election in 2018. We can’t even get to 60, for a supermajority. The absolute best we can do is 58 seats, but I…

That could be true—except for the fact that an economic downturn will almost certainly come before the next presidential election. It would have happened to Hillary, and it will happen to Trump, too. While some of his (well, his party’s, anyway) policies may have provided short-term boosts to the economy, they will…

The answer is probably zero, because there’s a great chance they just stop the briefings altogether. It wouldn’t be much of a leap from “once every 2 months”, would it?

Right? Why do all these people who hate that hellhole so much keep living there?

Ah... sorry for the confusion. I could have been clearer on that point.

I didn’t serve in the military, friendo, and I have never claimed that I did.

Well, that and a bunch of outright lies about his service record in Vietnam, for which no one was ever held accountable in any way.

It’s obviously fucked up to use “female” as a noun. That’s pretty straightforward, I think. That being said—I’ve also noticed that most of the writers on this site and other GMG properties are no longer using “female” as an adjective, either. For instance: this article. This is something I’ve wondered about, in part…

Ah, you see, that’s where you’re wrong. They don’t follow Jesus. They follow Jeezus. A small—but rather important—distinction. 

Our Valencia tomato here in NM got burnt to a crisp during a heatwave a few weeks back. All its leaves shriveled up, turned brown and fell off—we thought it was a goner for sure. But I rigged up a little sun shade with some burlap cloth from the hardware store and started watering it more aggressively, and recently…

Elected judicial seats—as implemented in most of this country, at least— are a terrible idea, because they allow hordes of unqualified, know-nothing fuckwits to become judges on overtly political platforms. I might be OK with a hybrid system like the one my state uses, where the executive nominates judges and the…

You do realize that there are always other candidates and causes on the ballot in a Presidential election than just the executive, don’t you? There are governor’s races, Congressional seats, local positions, ballot initiatives... I failed to even mention it in my comment, but that’s the other reason why it’s so…

No, I’m not going to let them off the hook. They are responsible for this situation, too—and by letting them forget it, we risk the same thing happening in 2018 and 2020. So many of those apathetic non-voter friends and acquaintances I mentioned were fucking appalled when Trump actually won. Some later told me that…

I’m more angry at his shitty attitude than I am at the practical effects of his not voting, which I admit were negligible. But I had numerous conversations with people during the election who espoused the same apathetic viewpoint, and there were far too many takes from lefty commentators and columnists which…

I guess I’m one of the mythical “undecided voters,” in that I am undecided as to whether I will vote at all. There are surely more undecided voters like me than of the other type, those civic-minded numbskulls who populate televised town halls and Frank Luntz focus groups because they are positive they will vote, but…

Trump used to be pro-choice and pro-gun-control. I don’t think he gives a shit what anyone used to believe about anything, so long as they lick his boots—and almost no one has been a better bootlicker than Jeanine.

Where’s Judge Jeanine’s entry? Because at this point, I’m giving it at least a 50% chance that he nominates her because she says nice things about him on the teavee.