I think perhaps the most chilling part of this comes from the Norfolk Daily News link (included above), and the shifts in terms and age (emphasis mine):

“[Y]ou will never win a general election with this nonsense” In fairness, they’re not exactly trying to take office by actually winning the elections

To expand on your point, it might also be more accurate to view this more in terms gains and blowblack, with 2 from Reconstruction, 1 from the Civil Rights Era, and 1 from the ‘90s rise of Black cultural representation. While the jump in numbers (still well short of population) in the past couple decades could be…

In fairness, she did finally receive her GED at 34, “after completing a four-course review”.

I believe the standard christian mark up is 10% and your soul, although I understand the prosperity preacher wing offers a money back guarantee (unfortunately, you only can only receive funds from Jesus, and he works in mysterious ways).

“I wanna give him the benefit of the doubt” ...and that totally normal, even commendable, instinct is why “reasonable” Republicans scare me

Well, I’ve argued quite a few things in this thread, but I suppose the simplest distillation is, I think AnimaniacSpirits is way more correct than you:

No shame, it’s a bit of a deep cut: That is the 69th governor of Ohio, and 2016 “reasonable” Republican presidential candidate, John Kasich (his campaign trail eating became a whole thing). I thought my montage needed to end with something that both scared and amused me, and if there was any chance one could get…

I’m pretty sure the New York Times ran several pieces on what a disaster for Biden it was that Trump is senile, and at least one about how if Biden was really for unity he’d go senile too.

“I’m the candidate the far left fears the most,” Scott said.

I’m not sure how to parse that last comment, but here’s one of the times I recently said replacing Feinstein in the Senate doesn’t replace her vote on the committee [1] and the link I used to back that up [2]. Here’s AnimaniacSpirits emphatically making the same point [3], with a different source backing the assertion…

[Another repost of https://jezebel.com/1849541490] Not just that, but their insistence that hospitals should legally be allowed a “conscience” that allows them to deny otherwise approved care.

“No one watches Fox to have their worldview challenged.” ...and they stop on the rare occasions it happens [1], and Fox Executives “respect” their viewers enough not to allow it [2].

While your sentiment is spot on, it doesn’t seem likely, if the hyperemesis gravidarum diagnosis is accurate, that checking out of the hospital significantly increased the likelihood of bad outcomes for that asshole or her pregnancy.

You (and Jezebel before you) classified manhandling as “absolutely normative/vanilla hetero sex” (and I don’t see a quote or anything else attributing this idea to Bilson). I’ve been raising this categorization as an issue, and you keep steam rolling right past it.

You’re absolutely correct that, with a national story, most people won’t gain a lot from including the district number, but having a style that visually reinforces the difference between the two chambers remains helpful for less informed readers, and as state legislators are listed with another distinct notation, you…

I believe “prudish stupidity” were your words (incidentally, so were “absolutely normative/vanilla hetero sex”), which, perhaps unsurprisingly, were the ones to which I was responding. I don’t see how it is unclear that I am advocating simply for only engaging in rough or aggressive behaviors during sex after first…

As I understand them, Bilson’s comments are also great self-advocacy. That said, given that 1 in 4 women have reported scary sexual situations [1], I don’t think it’s “prudish stupidity” to advocate for establishing boundaries and consent, do you?

...and aren’t we just wasting SERE training money if we house veterans?

In fairness, Fox is also rooting for the House Republicans’ Debt Ceiling “Compromise” that would save veterans from 30 million outpatient visits and streamline 81,000 jobs from the Veterans Health Administration dropping their reliance on wellness visits, cancer screenings, mental health services, and substance use…