This time around, the Republicans are defending more seats than the Democrats, so the map looks better than it did in 2018. Last year we faced some of the worst Senate odds of the last century, so it’s actually a miracle that we didn’t lose more seats than we did, even amidst the very real blue wave that did…

Yeah, the only hope in the near-to-medium-term to achieve reforms like this would probably be a constitutional convention. Unfortunately, the only people calling for a convention are a bunch of far-right nutjobs from red states, who want to do things like pass a balanced budget amendment (little more than an excuse to…

He was responding to a Chris Hayes tweet that compared “Russiagate skeptics” to, essentially, white moderates in the Civil War era who professed to oppose both slavery and abolitionists. So: a clumsy, poorly-punctuated tweet responding to a clumsy, poorly-worded tweet that Glenn didn’t bother to @ so people would have…

The meth kind of fucks with their ability to pass the drug test, y’know?

KINJA’D! That sucks, though, and is a primary reason why I now write most of my comments in a word processor first. This is the only website on the Internet that regularly manages to freeze and crash my browser tabs.

I don’t think we should have to wait potential years for the most powerful politician in America to leave office if they’re found to be corrupt, giving them ample time to fuck everything up on their way out, attempt a coup to avoid jail, etc. But please allow me to direct you to my comments on Lifehacker about…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we desperately need a parliamentary system. This can quite easily be done in a way that will preserve our super-special sense of “American exceptionalism”:

And how did that Clinton impeachment thing go for the Republicans, exactly? They didn’t even come close to obtaining enough guilty votes for removal. If anything, the whole affair actually increased Bill’s popularity in the long run. That’s because most people saw it as the politically-motivated farce that it was, a…

Again, that would absolutely be warranted in theory, but in the minds of most of the public and an overwhelming majority of sitting U.S. Senators, his other crimes don’t rise to the level of seriousness necessary to remove a president from office—a process which, as you surely know, has been successful precisely zero…

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that impeachment isn’t the right move. That would only have been in the cards had the investigation turned up damning, smoking-gun evidence of actual collusion. They didn’t find that, and I don’t think a weak finding of potential obstruction is enough either. Hell, even if they h…

As of last year, I’ve got health insurance with a deductible under $1000 for the first time in my life. It’s really “decent” coverage overall, as these things go, but I’d still trade that shit for a Medicare card in a hot second. What scares me the most, personally, is surprise balance billing. All of the local…

Hey, at least he didn’t get EIGHT FUCKING YEARS, right?

New York! It’s the greatest city in the world!

It’s funny because she’s completely dead inside.

Yeah, the economy is one of two things (the other being racism) gluing his base together right now. Mark my words, though: there is no way we get to November 2020 without entering a significant, noticeable economic slowdown, if not an outright recession. That’s why he’s spinning HARD on the Federal Reserve’s interest…

You see this kind of apology all the time in court, though. Defendants are forced to apologize, either as a condition of their guilty plea, or as a last-ditch effort to win some leniency from the judge before sentencing. For instance, Allison Mack’s apology from the article earlier today:

Yeah, except he’s not a fucking centrist. He has explicitly rejected the “split the difference” politics of Bill Clinton et. al, and advocates forcefully for a whole range of progressive causes and policies. He just does so in a way that people perceive as moderate, which is a huge part of his appeal.

Uh... yeah, that’s actually an acceptable response in my book. At the time, in early 2015, there was a difference between “All Lives Matter” and “all lives matter”, a distinction that has since been erased by conservative chuds relentlessly using the phrase in bad faith. The man was speaking to an audience in Indiana,…

What people always miss about this shit is that a new civil war wouldn’t be fought between the “north” and the “south”. It would be fought between rural areas and urban areas, with few exceptions. It’s also unlikely to be fought by conventional standing armies—paramilitary groups and terrorists would stand in for…

Why, whatever could be cringeworthy about a fine photograph like this?