The media, particularly the left-leaning media, could not be happier about Trump being president. It guarantees a steady source of material. On top of that, the opportunities for wailing and gnashing teeth in righteous indignation are also endless.

The children of now-defunct Gawker learned zero from their parent site’s demise.

What seems to get lost in these things is that, while anger is a justified response, actions taken as a result of that anger are in no way guaranteed to be justified (or productive toward desired outcomes).

1. Agreed, it remains to be seen. If I was at a roulette table where the options were red as “Trump makes GOP more of a mess”, black as “Trump makes GOP less of a mess”, with the little green slots being “GOP is in the same state in 2020", I would put a bet on red. Just as likely as black, but hell, I like red.

The GOP is paying a price. Trump is neither a republican or a conservative (there are more checkboxes than simply “liberal” and “conservative”). Trump is a self-serving maniac who believes in nothing but himself. The party is already so divided that they can’t even agree to dismantle the ACA, which more than enough of…

I posted the appended stuff as a reply to the author of this article, but I have no idea if it will ever see the light of day (either due to ideological differences, or the crazy volume of comments that are probably awaiting approval). At least it has a chance of being seen here, and I think that it is important that…

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Well, I mean if you want to be right about Trump voters never considering your views, then using words like Trumptard and calling them idiots is a pretty good way of making sure of it. These people exist, they vote, and they are not going to magically disappear. The options are to turn them around or keep pushing them…

Sort of. Wall Street was working hard toward building that bubble for decades, across multiple administrations. Both parties are hopelessly corrupt and working almost entirely for the benefit of Wall Street and other corporate interests. Corporate America is the only political party in this country, and we are…

I don’t know what the answer is, but constantly berating and belittling Trump supporters is not the way to win them over

Jezebel bums me out. It used to be a lot better a couple of years ago, and I regularly found interesting articles on there that actually did open my (white male) mind to the struggles that women face in their daily lives. The quality of the editorial copy there started tanking hard around the time that Thiel/Hogan…

Cartire isn’t saying that people should or cannot be offended. They are saying that people are increasingly unable to have adult discussions about a subject if it brings up ideas, right or wrong, that are considered taboo by the current conventional wisdom. Your post’s argument boils down to “well if XYZ is offensive,…

the author will soon be discovered and will have his career destroyed, and deservedly so

If the electorate hungers for an alpha-male type, then I do not think that Mr. Z has much of a chance.

You raise a good point that people everywhere dislike because it is the uncomfortable reality. What is “caring?” People equate “caring” to “I feel bad about XYZ.” No, that is not caring. Caring is actually doing something with your time, money and/or energy. “Feeling sad” for someone else isn’t caring, it is just…

I agree 100%, with “option B” as the preferred path in the last paragraph. The difficulty with both options is the exact determination of “how much” wealth was extracted, over how long and who, specifically, pays. That isn’t to say that it shouldn’t be done, but it might be too complex of a task to ever actually…

It’s long, but this lecture is one of the most eye-opening things I ever heard. Basically, from a global sustainability standpoint, our priorities are completely upside down. Not that I want them to be flipped, because it would suck for everyone that is alive, but it’s really sort of a pickle we are in.

Nationalism isn’t really unique to America either, though. There are clueless hillbillies everywhere who think that they have the best way of life and that everyone else is hopelessly stupid for being different. America seems to hog the spotlight, I will give you that. If there is one thing that we export too much of,…

A star for you. I get the feeling that a lot of the loudest proponents of the idea that white people are inherently evil have never traveled at all. Everyone has the capacity for evil, and those that claim that they don’t are the most dangerous of all. Most progressives are in fact trying very hard to work toward an…

Since you have now stated a clear lack of interest in conversing, I respect that, so you won’t hear any more from me.