I said it before and I’ll say it again. Unless you are ok with risking someone getting shot, DO NOT CALL THE POLICE. It’s a sad thing to say, but that’s where we are today. They are not there to protect citizens, they are not equipped to handle situations that do not involve lethal force, and they are most certainly…

The comments and reactions by some of the most ardent Sanders supporters here have been embarrassing to read

A couple things can be true:

What available data? Because the things I’ve seen indicate lower rates of fatalities from most of the common alternatives, including the ones you mentioned.

Or you know the simplest answer: in Top Gun, the final battle took place in the Indian Ocean in 1986. So he got his own tour patch to put in place rather than wearing his father’s.

this is getting weird, man.

Führer Fünfundvierzig knows only hate, lies, and greed. And that is a reflection of everyone that voted for him and still supports him to this day. This is the greater issue - 45 is transitory. Those people, that 37% +/- 5% are the true threat we face.

I definitely don’t think Congressional Republicans have anything meaningful to contribute to climate bills, ones called the “Green New Deal” or otherwise, but I also don’t think we can pass robust legislation on the basis of a slim majority without it being brittle as hell.

The statement in her quote is wrong, and I hope that her actual position is the more nuanced explanation she gave, as a follow up. The idea that a society which creates billionaires is immoral is simply untrue. But it’s not, at all, untrue to say that a society which fails some people, while others are billionaires,…

Now now, Samantha— if you were a REAL Splinter writer, you would’ve finished off this piece with a complaint about how Pelosi and Schumer are nothing but Republicans in disguise, and how they didn’t push back at Nielsen’s lies forcefully enough. *lolz* I’m shocked; this piece ALMOST acknowledged the fact that there’s…

Scalding Take: Insisting on dividing the party into “Leftists” and “Centrists”—as if either term is an insult—is a big part of the division you think people are “screaming” about.

But, hey, let’s keep making it about an us-vs-them situation when the real foe is not only clearly defined, but absolutely loves watching us…

Does giving Trump money for his stupid, racist wall somehow dissolve the federal legislature?

Are we gonna talk about how Nancy Pelosi gave no fucks about Trump’s bs or does that hurt your soul too much to admit she’s maybe not going to just hand over wall money?

Well, of course Trump will take the blame, because for him, it’s not blame. It would be credit, seeing as the people he cares about would love a federal government shutdown. Trump will take the trade of a shutdown all day long.

And Trump demonstrates what benefits there are to having blind loyalty. He wasn’t wrong when he said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get cheered for it.

If you can give me a plan that would actually work and stand up to Constitutional scrutiny, then I’ll gladly entertain a nation without the Electoral College.

It’s not “too hard” to repeal the Electoral College. It’s “impossible.”

But hey, he listened to a whole handful of episodes, so he was clearly informed enough to pass his snide, self-congratulatory judgement on it.

Vietor is the only one with a serious Discourse Fetish, and it’s because he mostly does foreign policy, where the parties are admittedly pretty indistinguishable. That’s a real problem with US government in general, and it makes sense that a Splinter writer would go after them for that, but of course they go after the…

I legit don’t understand what’s new about this. Why is this the last straw for these people?  I’m not asking rhetorically, I really have no idea how to comprehend that Sean Hannity, who has been Sean Hannity-ing for many, many years, pissed off his co-workers by Sean Hannity-ing last night.