My god, Giuliani is everywhere in this fiasco. It’s almost comical how ineffectual he is at this. Digging up dirt should be done quietly, certainly with nothing in writing. This drunken stupid fuck is using a bullhorn and a jackhammer.

it is unfortunate that Warren is wearing out our nation’s critical young stud reserves

What kind of an asshole would choose to vote for Bernie first, but then have Biden (instead of Warren) second? Or have Warren first, but Biden (instead of Bernie) second?

Hoo Boy. The Boomer Signal is flashing above gotham. Get ready to be (at best) sea lioned to death by a legion of Doo-wop loving, hippie to yuppie without hitching a step latent racist #NotAllBoomers.

Why was he chosen to be the moderator in the first place? Brilliant journalist and all, he’s still a dude pushing 80. His entire generation is part of the problem.

I was just thinking that prison somehow seems to agree with him. But then that’s probably because he’s not wearing ludicrously expensive clothes that still look like shit and shellacking his hair down with dye and gel.

Wow, Manafort looks a lot better with grey hair than that dye job.

Dean Baquet is the worst NYT executive editor since Jill Abramson. 

Given a choice between trusting the Trump administration over the CIA, I will go with the CIA. 

I’m going to skip. This stuff scares me, based on his vindictiveness and craziness. I mean, Andrew McCabe has been indicted. Trump’s lawlessness has gone largely unchecked, and since he now has his toady, Bill Barr, in charge of the FBI and the CIA, it gets more and more scary..

I think the problem with people like he, and Romney before him, is that they still literally cannot see the staff working these meals.

Pictured: Whistle

a recording of his remarks passed along by an attendee.

Exactly. There are a lot of voters (many of my friends are these types of voters) that think about people like themselves when the topic of “struggle” or “income inequality” come up. They’re not thinking of the homeless man sleeping under the bus shelter or the single mom waiting in line at the food bank. They think…

I think the most powerful indictment I can muster against the Christian Right is that the more power they acquire, the more sincerely I wish that this country followed Jesus’ teachings. I don’t necessarily know how I feel about religion, but in the words of Winston from Ghostbusters, I love Jesus’ style.

It could get some Republicans on board too, truly the last bipartisan issue 

it rules so much that the thing that got moderate democrats to move was “wait, trump’s declared open season on fake jobs for our idiot kids? we must act NOW, gentlemen”

the theory’s basic premise is that human beings generally operate under the assumption that the people we are interacting with are being honest.

Like most sensible people, I haven’t read Gladwell in 10+ years, but find myself wondering: Is he a genuinely lazy and unclear thinker, or is he an intelligent opportunist who knows there is money to be made by appealing to lazy, unclear thinkers?

It’s not about being loyal to a stranger, it’s contrarianism as performative intellectualism.