So...isn’t the secret service’s job to vet people who get near the President?

This isn’t about changing minds, it’s about affecting turnout.

It wasn’t the resume. I mean, nobody who met with her was ignorant about who she was or where she was coming from. They wanted to hire a White House veteran like her, met with her, and waived off. But it was something about her, personally, that turned these firms off.

I think there are lots of people out there who might want to hire someone associated with Trump. Plenty of former Trumpers have found some amount of after-WH success in consulting or lobbying. Even Spicer got a book deal and a Harvard fellowship.

Rian Johnson did it the best way you could.

If Clinton resigned, nothing would have changed. We still would have gotten George W., maybe with a slightly larger victory margin as the voter-enthusiasm gap would have widened in favor of Republicans. But from then on, everything would have played out basically as it did.

QAnon has to explain why these people are walking free, despite the fact that the defender of all things good and holy, Donald Trump, is in the White House. To deal with this dissonance, Q disciples believe that all of these supposed child rapists and murderers have actually already been arrested by Trump. They are…

do you think that had Kelly stayed in active duty and had to lead men into battle due to Trump’s tweet that he would stand behind having men & women die for the fucker?

I think he’s more comfortable being an ineffective Chief of Staff than he is in seeing someone else that Trump might pick in the role.

Agreed. The one slender reed of respectability that otherwise reprehensible mansplainers, menninists, MRAs and incels have is that men do face some legitimate gender-based problems that are under-appreciated and under-addressed by society. This includes everything from the stigma men face about addressing their own…

In my experience, the single most significant factor in whether you’re going to like a beer is whether you like the brewery. Good breweries seem to pretty consistently make good beers of any style. While just-OK breweries seem to be the same sort of just-OK about everything.

The level of delusion that has to accompany “if the military ever decided to turn on the citizenry (and given that it’s an all-volunteer force, and I’ve been part of it, I find that extremely unlikely—most soldiers would not be willing to kill their own without goddamn good reason), I could defend my kith and kin…

I can even understand the Jar-Jar hate, and distinguish it in large part from the hate over Rose.

Are they finding it’s a useful and powerful tool? Are they?

But you know who does have that much to print untraceable guns? Any drug cartel. Now they don’t need to buy weapons from a manufacturer, they can just make them in a warehouse, right next to where they cut their coke.

Why isn’t the proper analogy VR? To quote the seminal movie The Lawnmower Man:

I’m sure large scale organized criminals will pony up the 100k for a printer. If they can produce untraceable guns in the comfort of their own “home” in mass quantities, I’m sure it would be considered a necessary business expense.

Don’t be worried about today’s 3D printers. Worry about the ones in five to 10 years, which absolutely will be capable of more complex fabrication with much sturdier materials.

Well, what if all five shots connected and killed five people? How would you feel then?