i’m pretty sure there’s some law of institutions that they never willingly give up their power. That they will lose on their own terms rather than win after an internal shakeup. I honestly hope it happens, but it’s not happening now, and the worst of all worlds is where we get 8 years of Russophobia then another…

the hot takes are piping hot for sure, but I understand, support, and personally feel all the leftist despair about the DNC, because it proved again that the Democrats will choose the third way over populism. I had real hope that the silver lining in all this was a reformed, less cloistered Democratic establishment.…

can we not make Trump into such a monster that we forget that mainstream Republicans still want to gut all social programs so that private equity guys get tax relief? That the Ayn Rand true believers would gladly replace the ACA with The Running Man? Don’t move the overton window for them. GWB is the furthest thing…

if trump remains this stymied and bumbling, I would take 8 years of Trump to finally kill off the neoliberal democratic establishment. It’s the only thing that can truly kill the atavistic republican party. Otherwise I fear we’re just forever just kicking this can down the road, trading off between the eat the poor…

third option. We’re all the victims of our brain chemistry, and Sandusky’s kid is acutely obviously so. But just because he’s really unlucky doesn’t mean that he isn’t very dangerous. I don’t agree with Sam Harris on everything, but I think his take on capital punishment is dead on. We should have more sympathy for…

do you think the patriots aren’t coached to do some version of this exact thing? Inhuman or not, I would bet they are.

If someone stops the clock for a twisted ankle, I doubt BB is happy. It’s probably ridiculous, but running a football team like it’s Seal Team 6 is why the pats are the best team in modern sports…

If all that is standing between you and full-on embrace of an idiotic, horrible ideology is getting hit with an egg, you were already there

True, but Kevin Durant has spent his entire career playing stupid hero ball. It’s why OKC could never get over the hump, and it’s why everyone in the above clip is frustrated. Kevin Durant wants to win—everyone wants to win—but that hero shot bullshit is the worst. If GS doesnt play ball movement basketball for four…

I understand the inclination to contextualize Castro, but I also know that entire urge comes from my perspective as an American. It comes from having a larger personal stake in exposing the inconsistencies in American Conservative propaganda than I actually do in the lives of Cubans.

Even if the Cuban Ex-pats are…

Man, someone needs to rescue these poor bodybuilders. Forced into lives of vanity lifting.

Comeon dude. This guy just flipped out because he thought he was the most bronze or something

I think posse was definitely chosen to belittle his “business partners,” but I think it has to do with age/status, not race.

I saw Melo telling the media about how he’d be upset if fill talked about his group like that. Melo said (paraphrasing) “I’d be upset if he talked about my cr- well, I dont want to say crew...”
I…

Horseshit enthusiasm myth? She lost 8 million votes compared to 2012. 10 million compared to 2008. That’s a fuckload. Trump got roughly the same as Romney, who got roughly the same as McCain. There wasn’t a swell of conservatism. They pretty much tied.

They pretty much tied, but the Democratic vote was way down. There…

First, I’m hard-pressed to believe minority support wasn’t a referendum on Trump rather than unique support for Clinton.

I’m from NJ, and Corey Booker kind of sucks

I think you’re right that bernie wouldve lost the primary even without DNC influence(though it would’ve been closer). That doesn’t mean he wasn’t the better candidate, doesn’t mean he didn’t presage where the party is heading, doesn’t mean he couldn’t have beaten Trump*.

give me a break. No one was gonna freak out about one thing he wrote 50 years ago. They would’ve cared for one news-cycle and moved on. Trump literally said “grab them by the pussies” or something every three days. You would’ve needed an actual ongoing FBI investigation to take heat off that

the “rest of the country” went red anyway. Hillary won pretty much zero swing states. So i guess Bernie loses by *more* in Florida and Alabama. That is irrelevant. Bernie would’ve held the coasts and given a better chance in the rust belt, which was probably the only path to victory. Hillary lost states that had been…

“all those salty white male tears” - response to bernie fans in the primary

well the white males had their fucking say in the end, huh

Ok racism, but Obama still won. Yes, Bernie would’ve lost some support, but what true blue democrats are refusing to reckon with—what they’ve refused to admit this whole time—is that Hillary was a terrible candidate, who was as hated in swing states as any major politician in america. It was a complete rejection of…

Guns or no guns, the real enemy of horror is a lack of stakes.