Unfortunately, I expect this to all get worse, especially if she does win the general. There’s a lot of white male anxiety tied up in Trump and Sanders, and I worry about how it’s going to manifest itself if it gets soundly rejected by the electorate.

He has the pallor of someone who has spent entirely too much time doing “research” on YouTube.

It’s not even like he’s being asked to recite the relevant sections of law from memory. He doesn’t know whether he has any legal authority to accomplish his main objective or who would undertake it.

Oh God, it’s Reagan’s second term all over again!

Ugh, Mailer. I had forgotten about that ass, and was mad that you reminded me until I also remembered he’s dead.

I’ve used front loaders for fifteen years. If the clothes come out dripping wet, either the machine was overloaded or it’s broken. I feel like there’s been so much trauma over readjusting fellow Americans from top loaders to front loaders and managing their insane expectations (I won’t know it’s clean unless it sits…

I feel bad for James, who used to be an entertaining voice in Gawker comments, but has become humorless and doctrinaire in the last half year. His trying desperately to spread discredited right-wing attacks on Clinton from the nineties indicates a full-blown case of Clinton Derangement Syndrome.

I am more than happy to debate and discuss with foreign commenters, by all means. But I will not be lectured to by them as if I am a child. Canada chose Harper over and over. Europe is descending into violent rabid right-wing nationalism everywhere, and it wasn’t exactly an immigrant-assimilation utopia before. I am…

This is the one-way train to Crazytown right fucking here. Biden played his role as the defender of The System against Anita Hill. He was wasn’t called the Senator from MBNA for nothing. And yet, if you’re young and stupid and think Gawker or Wonkette hold all truth, you’re in love with him simply because he can cry…

Thank god Hillary didn’t abandon urban America at its lowest point, move to the crunchy white hinterland, and start writing rape-themed explorations of “what the other sex wants.” We’d never hear the end of it!

I believe the commenter you’re replying to (Vanessa...) mentioned she was Canadian in a previous comment, and gloated about how well-informed about American politics she is.

Those Miller Lite ads on Gawker mobile serve no purpose but to build negative brand equity. They make the site a pain in the ass to use, and while I wouldn’t have bought Miller Lite before, I now feel like encouraging people I see drinking it to switch to something else.

My dad was on a jury in suburban Philadelphia last year (with other white boomers as the other jurors) and this is almost exactly the definition they gave.

I heard that interview. They were talking to Orrin Hatch, who was basically gloating about how no Obama nominee could get confirmed. And how Kagan and Sotomayor are liberal ideologues, but Scalia (who mainstreamed a crazy right wing fringe method of reading the constitution) was a scholar and a giant.

Yes, I also worry that he will start to believe his own branding and refuse to work against a Republican candidate in the general so as not to compromise his fearless integrity (fearlessness being relative after camping out in preposterously safe seats in Vermont for decade upon decade.) He seems more reasonable than…

This is the problem, and the design of the campaign has encouraged it. I’ve yet to encounter a single person supporting Clinton (even in the wilds of Gawker commentdom) who wasn’t also ready to vote for Sanders if he conjured the nomination. Bernie people, though, are split (generously) in half, and his most vocal…

The problem is that the person you're engaging with doesn't really give a shit about the number of debates. He wants to torch Clinton, or flay her, or masturbate while asphyxiating her. The question about debates is a means to an end, which is why his reasoning keeps shifting based on whether it'll hurt Clinton or…

The problem with Bernie acolytes is that they love the idea of vague anecdotal praise for their candidate (grassroots momentum!), but insist on rigorous quantitative analysis when anyone hints at suggesting their boy is, in fact, a politician playing the same game as everyone else.

I know these types of sales are not uncommon in France, but they’re very rare here. I have a hard time believing that an American buyer (or a foreign one used to relatively straightforward American real estate transactions) could exercise the patience necessary to wait out a former owner’s death.

Ugh so he’s a self-important suburban lawyer who referenced Infinite Jest in his handle? That is so much worse than if he was a MILF hunter!