This. I get that the stories I read oftentimes highlight the most extreme (aka stupid, biased, fear-based) proposed legislation, but it’s not like these guys are spending most of their days reading to the blind and making sandwiches for homeless veterans.

That’s part of why I’m extremely leery of the desperate attempts to monkey with the electoral college. If successful this time around, you will see the tactic again, it will be the GOP rolling it out, and it will be bad.

No there are probably some backwards countries in the world where the populace is ignorant enough to believe that their uber Capitalist country is socialist. Or that a pizzeria is the center of a child slavery ring. Or that it’s feasible to build a wall along the Mexican border. Or that the Pope endorsed the TV con…

Exactly. And polite society also doesn’t equal enlightened society. Yes as a whole we have been progressing but it’s fragile. The dark ages came after the fall of Rome. History doesn’t always go in one direction. It looks like a stock market graphs. If we act like progress is inevitable we do nothing to make it…

People say this but what makes you think it’s coming to an end? From just demographics? What happens when latinos become “white”?

Well, I think the crazy thing about all of this is that we didn’t lose. The majority of the public (not even counting those who weren’t allowed to participate politically) has rejected the Republican ideology. The real problem is that we are no longer functioning like a democracy, because what is good for a majority…

*cough* the nuclear option *cough*

Johnson was also credited with referring to an early political opponent as a “pig fucker.” His campaign manager told him to knock it off, and Johnson replied he only want the other guy to deny it.

Unpaid bills you say? It’s a Trump endeavor isn’t it, admit it?

The GOP is still in its’ last throes, trying to hold onto every shred of power possible. They may gloat and cheer and bash and commit hate crimes, but the party WILL come to an end. Question is, will all of this corruption be enough to sink THAT ship?

all of their checks were postdated with faraway future.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”- President Lyndon B. Johnson

totally agreed - this is no longer about policy, its about ideology.

Republicans have become a disease.

Hey, I’ll have you know I’m very forceful and authoritative when I give instructions for choking me and stepping on my face thank you very much.

LOOK AT VANILLA MISSIONARY MAN OVER HERE EH

Videogames arent for fish.

Betas? You mean submissives? Or masochists?

Exactly. And that’s why I come to jalopnik.com and autotrader.com and own too many cars and plan vacations around car museums and car racing and my favorite number is 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2.

Sure. It’s wrong. Supporting a neo Nazi is wrong because neo Nazism is wrong. I shouldn’t have to explain to a twelve year old Russian knobend all the ways neo Nazism is wrong, or why it’s more than just “a different opinion” from anything resembling democracy, or the usual neoliberal version of it practiced in the…