GWB seems better in retrospect than he did at the time. He was a pretty bad president. But at least he wasn’t odious on a personal level.

“It won’t be THAT bad.”

I laughed. But now I feel dirty.

Counter-example: Joe Manchin, D-WV. Otherwise known as, “Whatever the President wants” Joe. He’s a Republican in all but name. He’ll vote with the Rs for Gorsuch and he’ll get re-elected.

If the Roman Republic had had nuclear weapons and the internet, it wouldn’t have lasted that long. And look what followed shortly after the Republic’s demise: Caligula.

I haven’t seen anyone express this better. Well done!

Actually, the guy who said he selfishly wants the tax cutting and pro-business policies he expects to see, and doesn’t care about the specific statements that Trump made, gave the most cogent reasons I have heard yet for voting for Trump. They may be reprehensible reasons, but at least they’re thought through.

Rob Astorino, not Rob Long. Astorino is the Westchester County Executive, a right-wing radio station executive who (I believe) nobody outside of Westchester had ever heard of. He was being talked up for positions in Trump’s administration, but it seems his star has dimmed.

I read that the Republicans will control 37 of 50 statehouses come January (13 remain majority Democratic). Much scarier than 30 of 50.

“After the meeting, Trump even indicated he would start taking Obama’s advice, saying, ‘I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel’—a major turnaround for a man who once called Obama ‘the most ignorant president in history.’”

Sadly, I agree. These guys aren’t, in the end, interested in principles or ideals, they are interested in winning. Trump won. He owns them all now. The ones who can’t stomach taking Trump’s orders will quit (or will be pressured into retiring).

The major news media (TV and cable news, major newspapers) is hopelessly corrupted by the commercial drive toward ratings over all else. By this, I don’t mean that individual reporters — or even individual news organizations — are corrupt (i.e., taking payoffs or covertly supporting one side over the other). I mean…

Trump is literally talking down to her. Wow!

I agree that the problem is not limited to access to guns. As the gun lobby is fond of pointing out, it’s important to deal with widespread untreated and undertreated mental illness, and for certain domestic and foreign terrorism are problems that will continue to need to be addressed. So let’s deal with all three…

Y’know, lots of people say things like “if it wasn’t a gun that killed these people, it would have been something else.” Really? I have trouble believing that if the same guy entered Pulse with a knife, he could have killed 49 people before being stopped. Even with a car (assuming he could have gotten it into the…

Here’s a fun thing to try: Google “California black male rape mugshot”. See how many images come up. I just did it and found at least a dozen. I guess that sometimes those pictures are not considered to fall within the investigative exception to the open records law.

Your complaint about Captain America: Civil War is that “no one of importance dies ... and someone should have.” Don’t take this the wrong way, but are you a psychopath?

Boy, if I were her, I would take a few weeks off first. She’s going to need the rest to prepare for all that fighting she is planning to do.

I am white, and I understand that our experiences are, in many ways, significantly different. But I also dislike and recoil from movies about slavery because I don’t want to sit and watch Black actors playing roles in which their characters are brutalized on-screen. I don’t think it is about my ignorance or racism, as…

Well, I agree, but that is kind of the point of the piece: the author had a sex act performed upon her that she didn’t want performed and didn’t consent to being performed. That’s why I think it is rape, though probably not legally actionable.